Saturday, July 4, 2009
Cool little story
Check out this link: http://www.breastfeedingmomsunite.com/2009/07/the-princess-and-the-chick-pea-and-the-grape-and-the-walnut/ for a cool little story about breastfeeding!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Amazing Verb Usage!
Here are some sentences that Claire has said that have amazed me:
- I finding book.
- I making dinner. (Playing with play food!)
- Daddy mow grass.
- Mommy take shower.
- I drink white milk.
- I take bath!
- Holly sexy!
- I love you TEDDY BEAR too! (she will say "I love you ............ too" to about anything she likes)
- Mommy garage sale!
- I sleep bath tub. (She wanted to pretend to sleep in the tub! LOL!)
- Daddy fix boat! (Blow-up toy boat had deflated!)
- I want story-time now!
- I want sad baby book. (She is very interested and concerned about books that have pictures of sad people, esp. if they have tears.)
- I want Gobi! (She says "Gobi" for spaghetti. She is getting the G and I sounds.)
- Kiss boo-boo. Fall down.
- Bump head.
- I naked girl! (when naked)
- Our neighborhood! (when we pull into it)
- Terrible, Horrible (at Alexander's expense, if you know the book!)
- I want nummy milky!
- Daddy car all gone!
- Mommy! Phone ringing!
- Mommy! Pizza! (If the doorbell rings! Hmm...maybe we order pizza too much!)
- I want bite chicky!
- I want bite cereal!
- I want bite crunch! (for captain crunch)
- Richie help pedal! (Every time we play on her new trike bike! She remembers!)
- Opa pull wagon! (Again, amazing memory for her little mind!)
- Daddy working?
- I hunggggggggggrrrrrrreeeeeee! (hungry, but always drawn out!)
- Good girl Mommy! Go on potty! (that is always hilarious!)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Daily Sex Helps Improve Fertility
Wow. More sex means "more better" for chances of conception...seems like that would be a no-brainer. All that blood has gone somewhere else. Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1242-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Daily-sex-helps-improve-fertility
Happy 8 Years!
Well here is a photo from the Spring of 1998...we have been together for 12 years, and married for 8.
AHH! Josh's dorm his soph. year of college. This is a photo from a webcam, hence the poor quality!
This is from when I was studying in Germany, and Josh came to visit me. I thought I would include some photos in the post from before we were married.
Josh got a job in Indy, hence, why we ended up here!
Josh at his job. I think we had to bribe him to get this photo:
Here I am about 33 weeks along with Claire:
And with good times, come bad. My car was totalled by a jerk turning left in front of me on my way to school one day. You can see the airbags in the window:
We lived in an apartment complex with this awesome view of this lake:
We started going to the Melting Pot every year for our anniversary:
I shot a gun other than a BB gun for the first time with Josh!
We would spent quite time in parks when we lived in TH. It was calmer than campus life!
Ahh, the joys of playing with camera settings!
This was another house we rented, hence the horrible curtains, but I loved this arched doorway. Here is Josh on his way to an interview in college. I also had to bribe him to get this photo.
Aww, just a couple of college kids at the park!
This is another one of the places we lived, which was above a flower shop. It was my favorite rental ever!
Ahh, this was a new car "Once-Upon-A-Time." It was then smashed by a HUMMER while we were signing papers to get the car I drive now after my Red Dodge was smashed. I only wish I were kidding. It was parked, and fixed, but it was never the same to us. :)
So then Josh adopted his first baby:
We continue to enjoy dressing up for Halloween parties and pretending to do silly things, like bite Snuggles:
I was a "Vampire." I was obsessed with pretending to bite things for pictures this day!
We decided to rehome our Snuggles and Yoda to some college friends, because, although I am more of a cat than dog person, we were *sick* of changing the catbox. And since women are not supposed to change catboxes while pregnant or breastfeeding, and Josh did not want to do it...either...
We have spent a lot of time on the road to visit various family and friends!
We almost died in a little airplane crash. Never again will I fly in a small plane like this! LOL!
I substitute taught for a year. Then I taught English for a year. Then I taught German until having Claire!
We settled into our newly built home. All the dirt shall be ours!
We settled near Indy, and we still enjoy eating downtown often!
We took obsessive amounts of pictures of our new house being built stick by stick!
During college, we spent a lot of time hanging out with my sister Holly, including trick-or-treating ;) LOL. I was a naughty teacher or schoolgirl, your choice! She was a much tamer butterfly.
I told you that I was naughty. I am going to make this so you can't blow it up when you click on it. LOL:
AHH! Josh's dorm his soph. year of college. This is a photo from a webcam, hence the poor quality!
This is from when I was studying in Germany, and Josh came to visit me. I thought I would include some photos in the post from before we were married.
Yesterday, Josh and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. We have done many things in the past 8 years. I highlighted several things that we have done since being married. Of course, there is having sweet baby Claire who is going to be 2 soon! Here she was not quite 2 months:
Josh got a job in Indy, hence, why we ended up here!
Josh at his job. I think we had to bribe him to get this photo:
Here I am about 33 weeks along with Claire:
And with good times, come bad. My car was totalled by a jerk turning left in front of me on my way to school one day. You can see the airbags in the window:
We lived in an apartment complex with this awesome view of this lake:
We started going to the Melting Pot every year for our anniversary:
I shot a gun other than a BB gun for the first time with Josh!
We would spent quite time in parks when we lived in TH. It was calmer than campus life!
Ahh, the joys of playing with camera settings!
This was another house we rented, hence the horrible curtains, but I loved this arched doorway. Here is Josh on his way to an interview in college. I also had to bribe him to get this photo.Aww, just a couple of college kids at the park! This is another one of the places we lived, which was above a flower shop. It was my favorite rental ever!
Ahh, this was a new car "Once-Upon-A-Time." It was then smashed by a HUMMER while we were signing papers to get the car I drive now after my Red Dodge was smashed. I only wish I were kidding. It was parked, and fixed, but it was never the same to us. :)
So then Josh adopted his first baby:
We continue to enjoy dressing up for Halloween parties and pretending to do silly things, like bite Snuggles:
I was a "Vampire." I was obsessed with pretending to bite things for pictures this day!
We decided to rehome our Snuggles and Yoda to some college friends, because, although I am more of a cat than dog person, we were *sick* of changing the catbox. And since women are not supposed to change catboxes while pregnant or breastfeeding, and Josh did not want to do it...either...
We have spent a lot of time on the road to visit various family and friends!
We almost died in a little airplane crash. Never again will I fly in a small plane like this! LOL!
I substitute taught for a year. Then I taught English for a year. Then I taught German until having Claire!
We settled into our newly built home. All the dirt shall be ours!
We settled near Indy, and we still enjoy eating downtown often!
We took obsessive amounts of pictures of our new house being built stick by stick!
During college, we spent a lot of time hanging out with my sister Holly, including trick-or-treating ;) LOL. I was a naughty teacher or schoolgirl, your choice! She was a much tamer butterfly.
I told you that I was naughty. I am going to make this so you can't blow it up when you click on it. LOL:We both graduated from college. I would upload one from my college graduation, but I think we were between digital cameras at that point. And I don't feel like scanning in a paper copy. Here we are in front of the house where we lived behind the tax agency. I think I have all of our apartments represented on here, except the dorms and our first place together.
We did the backpacking around Europe to celebrate college graduation. It was the hottest summer on record. Most of Europe does not have A/C. Oh joy. This is blurry, but it was the only one that showed the bags!
We did the backpacking around Europe to celebrate college graduation. It was the hottest summer on record. Most of Europe does not have A/C. Oh joy. This is blurry, but it was the only one that showed the bags!
We met up with my bro Richie who was doing a HS program in Austria. We also hit up Germany, Amsterdam, France, and met up with my friend Anja....it was a busy 2 weeks!
Josh lost his wedding ring while wakeboarding. I tried very hard not to laugh at him while he looked for it in the lake. I got him a new one a half size smaller!
We went to Vegas and the Grand Canyon in March. Don't go in March. You will freeze your tail off!
We've been to FL several times to see Josh's mom and family as well as enjoyed traveling other places.
Well that's all I have time for! Happy 8 years Josh! Here's too many more! I love you to Infinity and Beyond! You are a great Daddy to Claire. She misses you every day while you are at work. I'm so glad you're mah baby-daddy. I tried to not make this post too much about Claire. Hehe. It was very hard for me! LOL!
We went to Vegas and the Grand Canyon in March. Don't go in March. You will freeze your tail off!
We've been to FL several times to see Josh's mom and family as well as enjoyed traveling other places.
Well that's all I have time for! Happy 8 years Josh! Here's too many more! I love you to Infinity and Beyond! You are a great Daddy to Claire. She misses you every day while you are at work. I'm so glad you're mah baby-daddy. I tried to not make this post too much about Claire. Hehe. It was very hard for me! LOL!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
It gets worse before it gets better!
So I haven't posted for awhile...Claire got sick. Ugh.
I will warn you now. This post will talk about baby poop and barf. So if you get grossed out and do not want to read this (my DAD!) then do not read this post. LOL!
Last Thursday she was fine. We went to story time and played at the library afterwards, etc. She had a few loose stools, but I thought maybe she had been having too much fruit and/or fruit juice for her system...Then Friday morning we went to the Teddy Bear Picnic at the library and swimming at the Community Pool. Well, if already had the runs at this point, we did our part by spreading it around. She did not go poo in the pool, but still... She did have a swim diaper on, but she had more loose stools the rest of the day.
On Saturday, I knew for sure it was "the runs" like I have never seen before, and we went through several outfits. Ugh. During the night between Saturday and Sunday, she vomited in the bed. I was right there, THANK HEAVENS FOR BEDSHARING! I was able to quickly scoop her up to keep her from gagging worse on it and got her to our tub so fast! She threw up two more times in the tub. She was crying of course. This was 2 AM. And I had to give both of us a shower. Josh stripped the bed...ugh. I had messy clothes to strip off of us. So nasty. Well...she also had the runs several times during the night...it was worse than a newborn. It continued with vomiting and the runs Sunday. Luckily by Monday, it was just the runs, no more poops. The runs were the worst Sunday to Monday, with about 7 runs between midnight and 6 am. I felt like I hadn't slept all night. I told Josh he had to stay home to help me. Thankfully he did. He also took Claire for a couple hours in the morning so I could sleep for a solid 2 hours uninterrupted.
Yesterday, we just had about 6 runny stools all day, but none of the outfit leakage like we had before. I have so so so much laundry right now it's not even funny. It's all clean, but just piled sky high waiting to be folded. Want to come over and help? LOL!
So today is Wed. and it's pretty much the first morning she's eaten a substantial breakfast. She also had a mushy poo afterwards...yay! I've never been so happy to see that mushy consistency!!! I am glad that we are still nursing or she probably would've ended up in the hospital with dehydration, or had a bloody butt from the acidity of the stomach acid going right through her without any breastmilk in there to neutralize it. Her butt got a little red but I took her outside in the backyard and let her run around nekkid a few times to "air it out" --nothing like fresh air and sunshine! I am also glad that she never got sick like this before!!! Wow. I can't imagine a younger baby/child going through this! We've made it to almost 2 with only 2 ear infections, herpangina once, and the runs/vomits this once...I wonder if it would be better if we stayed home all day everyday...riiight...I so want to get her out and explore this world!
Anyway, I think Sunday to Monday night was the worst. I can decide if vomiting or the runs is worse. I don't like the vomits as it gets everywhere, esp. at an age where she just vomits anywhere...not in a bowl or trash can even if there is one. I don't like the poops as that is harder on her skin I think, but it stays "more contained" even if it leaks out. So we are on the mend! Now I just need to Google if I should take her out yet, like to the store. She's had one mush stool, so I'm wondering if she's better. It was almost like a breastfed mush stool, but I could tell it was still slightly the runs, but enough about the poops and the barfs...did anyone even read this far? LOL!
I'm glad I didn't take away her immune system (my breastmilk!) and wean her early! She nursed nursed nursed like crazy for a few days there! It could have been a lot worse!
I will warn you now. This post will talk about baby poop and barf. So if you get grossed out and do not want to read this (my DAD!) then do not read this post. LOL!
Last Thursday she was fine. We went to story time and played at the library afterwards, etc. She had a few loose stools, but I thought maybe she had been having too much fruit and/or fruit juice for her system...Then Friday morning we went to the Teddy Bear Picnic at the library and swimming at the Community Pool. Well, if already had the runs at this point, we did our part by spreading it around. She did not go poo in the pool, but still... She did have a swim diaper on, but she had more loose stools the rest of the day.
On Saturday, I knew for sure it was "the runs" like I have never seen before, and we went through several outfits. Ugh. During the night between Saturday and Sunday, she vomited in the bed. I was right there, THANK HEAVENS FOR BEDSHARING! I was able to quickly scoop her up to keep her from gagging worse on it and got her to our tub so fast! She threw up two more times in the tub. She was crying of course. This was 2 AM. And I had to give both of us a shower. Josh stripped the bed...ugh. I had messy clothes to strip off of us. So nasty. Well...she also had the runs several times during the night...it was worse than a newborn. It continued with vomiting and the runs Sunday. Luckily by Monday, it was just the runs, no more poops. The runs were the worst Sunday to Monday, with about 7 runs between midnight and 6 am. I felt like I hadn't slept all night. I told Josh he had to stay home to help me. Thankfully he did. He also took Claire for a couple hours in the morning so I could sleep for a solid 2 hours uninterrupted.
Yesterday, we just had about 6 runny stools all day, but none of the outfit leakage like we had before. I have so so so much laundry right now it's not even funny. It's all clean, but just piled sky high waiting to be folded. Want to come over and help? LOL!
So today is Wed. and it's pretty much the first morning she's eaten a substantial breakfast. She also had a mushy poo afterwards...yay! I've never been so happy to see that mushy consistency!!! I am glad that we are still nursing or she probably would've ended up in the hospital with dehydration, or had a bloody butt from the acidity of the stomach acid going right through her without any breastmilk in there to neutralize it. Her butt got a little red but I took her outside in the backyard and let her run around nekkid a few times to "air it out" --nothing like fresh air and sunshine! I am also glad that she never got sick like this before!!! Wow. I can't imagine a younger baby/child going through this! We've made it to almost 2 with only 2 ear infections, herpangina once, and the runs/vomits this once...I wonder if it would be better if we stayed home all day everyday...riiight...I so want to get her out and explore this world!
Anyway, I think Sunday to Monday night was the worst. I can decide if vomiting or the runs is worse. I don't like the vomits as it gets everywhere, esp. at an age where she just vomits anywhere...not in a bowl or trash can even if there is one. I don't like the poops as that is harder on her skin I think, but it stays "more contained" even if it leaks out. So we are on the mend! Now I just need to Google if I should take her out yet, like to the store. She's had one mush stool, so I'm wondering if she's better. It was almost like a breastfed mush stool, but I could tell it was still slightly the runs, but enough about the poops and the barfs...did anyone even read this far? LOL!
I'm glad I didn't take away her immune system (my breastmilk!) and wean her early! She nursed nursed nursed like crazy for a few days there! It could have been a lot worse!
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