I Wear My Sunglasses at Night

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Off to begin a busy day, but had to post some cute new pictures of Bailey first! Oh, and by the way, she slept 8.5 hours Thursday night, then ate and then slept another 2 hours. Last night she did 8 hours and then ate and has been back asleep for about an hour now. Yay for my girl!

Thursday 13- Time for Some Sappiness

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Thirteen things I love about my baby

1. She is so soft and smells so good (well, unless she has just pooped or spit up, I guess)
2. Her smile, which I get to see more and more each day
3. The way she calms down immediately when I hold her
4. Her fuzzy hair- which is already getting longer.
5. The cute clothes I get to dress her in, and the patience she has for me while I play dress-up with her each morning
6. She is such a good sleeper!
7. Every day she is more interested in the world around her.
8. She is beginning to grab things that are close enough- not yet reaching but she will often grab her dresses and put the hem in her mouth, or grab my arm or my shirt if it is near her while she is eating.
8. I have just discovered that she prefers to take a bath in the big tub with me so she can be held and play a little bit, so it’s fun and relaxing for both of us.
9. The dimples on her knuckles and elbows
10. Her happy and easy-going personality even when she’s sick
11. Her beautiful blue eyes, and the eyelashes that seem to get longer every day. I hope her eyes stay blue like her daddy’s.
12. She is not a picky eater- bottle, breast, various kinds of formula, boobie milk, vitamins in the bottle…
13. I love that she is a girl- I have always dreamed of having my little girl and now she is here!

Hotmail Problems and Bored at Home

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I can get into my account but can’t open any new emails or compose an email… anyone else have Hotmail and have these issues right now?

Oh and by the way, Bailey is still snotty and coughing but acting happy. I feel fine but have no voice. So we are going to spend today at home resting and trying to REALLY get better. Ug. I hate being stuck at home and I have to miss my fun lunch plans with Jen. *Boo*

I have the best of intentions to clean my house today. At least part of the house. Something I haven’t done enough of lately. But now that Bailey is back asleep my guess is that I will waste a lot of time shopping/browsing online and sleeping. I keep finding new websites for free stuff or coupons or free samples to be mailed to our house. Yes, we are even trying Glucerna cereal for free this week. But one of my favorite coupon sites for online shopping is Coupon Chief because I can find codes to save money while shopping online. Not that I spend tons and tons of money or anything like that. I am totally a bargain shopper, and I mostly look for stuff like Target or Kohl’s coupons.

Also I am telling myself that I am going to update Bailey’s baby book today. I have done a good job (I think) of at least getting some hospital pics in and having it updated all the way through like the first month of her life… except I need to add some more family pictures and pictures of our house… and later I need to go up to the library and pick up a book Jonathon needs for a book discussion.

Clearly, my day is going to be terribly exciting.

Wordless Wednesday- Smiles for Daddy

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My Baby is Sick :(

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In lieu of a Wordless Wednesday post today, I’m going to tell you the sad story of my sick baby. Well, if I am up to it later I might do a WW post… but anyway, on to more important things: Bailey has her first cold.

First Jonathon was sick, and then me, and within about a day of me showing Symptoms Bailey was also getting sniffly… so therefore I am convinced she caught it from Jonathon and not me. But that’s neither here nor there. She started out sniffly on Monday night and I called and made her a doctor appt. Her pediatrician is out of town so she was supposed to see someone else in the practice. Well then on Tuesday she seemed fine so I cancelled the appointment. Of course. Only to have her crabby and very congested last night. So I got up this morning and got her an appointment for 11:30 today.

She saw a nurse practitioner in the same office. She said that she has a cold, but thankfully her ears and lungs are clear. She gave us some Pediacare cold med and also told me stuff to do like saline mist/aspirator in her nose before nursing to help her breathe while eating. And sleeping upright as much as possible, and a humidifier in her room. She also said it could take up to two weeks for her to get better at this age! WHAT!?!

Of course my first thought is anger toward Jonathon for bringing sickness into our house. Not that he did it intentionally, but I swear the guy gets sick five times for every one time I do. Normally I don’t even catch what he has. Then I’m frustrated with myself for getting it. ANd I feel bad that Bailey feels bad. She is such a little trooper. She tries to smile and then she’ll cough or her throat will rattle and she will make the cutest little sad face and start whining. Then she’s back to herself again until she remembers she doesn’t feel well.

Does she hate the saline drops and aspirator? Yes she does! I am thinking about discontinuing them as they seem more aggravating than helpful at this point. If she is having trouble eating then I can try them again. For now, she is only nursing on one side but it seems to be enough to keep her happy.

10 Weeks

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I meant to do her ten week post yesterday and the time just slipped away from me. I feel like that’s how her whole life has been so far. It’s just flying by. She is growing so fast. Now she smiles a lot and once in a while we even get a random laugh. She can hold her head up with no problem- no more bobblehead Her favorite things right now are her butterfly mobile above her crib, her band people on her bouncy seat, food, and her daddy’s silly faces.

This is Bailey when she was less than 24 hours old:

Notice how the sleeper is just huge on her. It is hanging several inches off her feet, and her legs kept getting caught in the body section of it. The photographer had to pull it tighter around her for her first pictures so she didn’t look lost inside it!

Now here is Bailey at 10 weeks, in the same sleeper. Not much wiggle room left! My girl is growing like crazy, and she seems so happy and healthy.

After I took this last picture I spent a while trying to get a picture of her smiling… and finally had some success…

Fun Weekend

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This weekend was very busy- Friday night I went out with Faith. Saturday was a baby shower and then dinner with my grandparents. Sunday was church, a diaper shower, and a dinner at The Melting Pot.

Would you like to play on your Baby Einstein mat, Bailey?

Why, yes I would!

I went to a baby shower for my friend Kim in the afternoon. She is due (well, scheduled C-section because the baby is breech) on July 5th. The gender is a surprise- what a patient mommy! Anyway I made a diaper cake for her because Jonathon and I got one at one of our showers and I thought it was really cool. I had a lot of fun making it, so I’ll probably do it again sometime! Here is Kim with the cake. I’m not sure why she looks so brown- I guess issues with my flash or something.

A close-up of my masterpiece:

Grammy and Grampa bought Bailey an Exersaucer last week. Saturday was the first day we really put her in it and let her try it. I know she’s still kind of little for it and she’s not reaching for toys yet. But we put her pickle pillow behind her to support her and she seemed to enjoy sitting there and looking at all the toys for a while. They got the one with the most stuff on it, so it should keep her busy! Thanks again, Mom and Dad



She was so worn out that once she fell asleep and got moved to her bed, she slept through the night until about 20 minutes before my alarm went off for church!

Sunday night we had our weekly date night. This week we went to The Melting Pot, which is one of our favorite restaurants. We had a great time, and Bailey got to go play at Grammy’s house. Everyone was happy about those plans

Girlie Girl Night

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Jen hosted a Girlie Girl Night at her house. There were two other babies there, but Bailey was the only girl. So she stayed up late and hung out with the girls. LOL actually she always stays up late but I can pretend that’s the reason, right? Anyway it was just a fun night of catching up with the girls and doing girlie stuff. We ate lots of snacks, painted our nails, and watched The Notebook. It’s one of my favorite movies, but I have to be in a certain mood to watch it since it’s such a tearjerker. Jonathon and I had just watched it together about a week before Bailey was born, so I didn’t really cry this time- I think I had just seen it too recently or something… but anyway if you haven’t seen it before you need to watch it. WITH your significant other if you have one!

Here are a few picture of Bailey and me getting ready

Did I mention that Jen and Aaron just got back from vacation in the Dominican? We are trying to plan a group vacation for sometime in the near future (okay like maybe next year) so we spent a chunk of our time talking about stuff like cruises, Sandals Resorts, and Crewed Yacht Charters.

Of course we also touched on all of our regular topics such as work and sex as well. Couldn’t be a girls night without that!

Pet food?

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I haven’t heard anything recently about the pet food contamination crisis. We have a cat (fat little thing named Chloe) and although she really pisses me off sometimes, I would be sad if something happened to her. My friend Sarah’s cat, Radar, actually DIED from that cat food when all that was going on. I don’t know specifically what kind… but I know a lot of people were switching to organic dog food and stuff when that was going on. I am curious how many people have switched back to their old kinds of food by now. I kind of considered feeding Chloe something else for a while, but then I remembered how EVERYTHING makes her throw up! So I took my chances… that really sounds bad… but anyway I was so sad for my friend who lost her kitty to that food.

Continued Breastfeeding Progress

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Yesterday I went to the nursing group again- haven’t been in two weeks- and met a new girl with a baby girl named Ava who is a few weeks younger than Bailey. They are having basically the same problems we had early on. It was nice to be “on the other side” and be able to encourage her.

My milk supply seems to be much better now. I took the fenugreek for just a few days but I think that’s what helped. Bailey only had 3 ounces of formula in a 24 hour period yesterday. So far in the last twelve hours she’s only had one ounce, and that was to get her back to sleep this morning after a lazy feeding.

New Celeb Gossip Site

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Speaking of my favorite web sites, I found a new celebrity gossip site. I used to obsessively read People magazine and US Weekly because the family I nannied for (long time ago, not Alison’s family) subscribed to them. Since then I have been totally hooked on the gossip and do my best to keep up. Yesterday in the checkout line at Dierbergs, I was looking at the headlines and realized I was a little out of touch. Jennifer Aniston is adopting? Britney cut ties with her mom? What?

I’m thinking I’ll have to bookmark this one so I can waste even more time sitting in front of my computer. Because I don’t do that enough. Hey, at least it gives me something to do while nursing the baby!

En Route

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My friend- we’ll call her Funny because I’m not sure what alias she is currently using- left for China today to adopt her new baby girl! This has been a long-awaited and dreamed of journey for her family, and I am so happy for her.

Here is her journal leading up to the travel:

http://funnyinchina.blogspot.com

It’s a great blog- very fun and entertaining to read, and also very honest. One of my favorites.

She has also started a new travel blog where she will document their trip:

http://meiinchina.blogspot.com

Stop by and congratulate her if you get a chance!

Wordless Wednesday- Up Close and Personal

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And they call this 0-3 months?

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I know my baby isn’t abnormally small… in fact her weight is now in the 80th percentile and height is like 40th percentile I think. Yet most of her 0-3 month clothes are still huge on her. In the beginning all she would wear was Gerber onesies and sleepers because they ran the smallest. She has more than enough 0-3 month clothes, so I’m glad she can fit into them longer than expected. It seems like most of my friends babies were out of this size by now. But on the other hand, her 3-6 month stuff is even cuter! And more dresses!

Anyway, this is the outfit that inspired this post. A gown given to us at a baby shower, size 0-3 months. I just now tried putting her in it again because it was way too big before. Still has plenty of room. Anyone else think baby sizes are funky?

Pay Per Post Direct

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I have been trying to get more into doing some advertising and stuff like that to make money from my blogs. Now that I am staying home with Bailey, I need the extra cash. It’s pretty easy to do, and it really does pay (through Paypal) and I never get any spam or junk mail from it. With sites like Pay Per Post, you just go on their sites and select the opportunities you are interested in, write about them, and then give them the URL for your post. They check it out and approve your post, and then Paypal you the money.

I have told myself I won’t advertise anything I disagree with or think is dumb. I try to keep stuff in line with what I blog about, but occasionally I get random stuff here and there. I figure if people don’t like me advertising on my blog, they don’t have to read it But I also know that a few people have signed up with Pay Per Post through my blog, so apparently some other people think it’s interesting!

PPP has started a new thing called Pay Per Post Direct. Advertisers can find you on your blog (instead of you looking for them) and then use a link to send you job offers. You can negotiate with them and take assignments that way. Pay Per Post claims to have a lot less “overhead” than other services that do this, because they only charge a 10% fee (5% of which goes to Paypal and credit card services).

I am thinking about attempting to use this at some point in the near future. Another thing on my to-do list is to get my own domain. Not that I don’t love Blogger… ha…