Enjoy the fun pictures that I took and edited of the baby girl today!
Much Love,
Jenny
Thursday, January 14, 2010
We had FUN with Picasa today!
Anna and I had so much fun today doing a photo shoot with blankets and using picasa photo editor- free from google. I am trying to see all that picasa has before updating my photo editing software to Photo Shop 8 that I got for Christmas (when I get the time to upload it; it will get done soon!)
Enjoy the fun pictures that I took and edited of the baby girl today!
Much Love,
Jenny
Enjoy the fun pictures that I took and edited of the baby girl today!
Much Love,
Jenny
ExerSaucer!
HOLY AMAZING! I LOVE my exersaucer!!! Mommy thought I was too little to use it, but during our play date with Cooper, Cooper's mommy said Cooper started using it around my age. So the next day we tried out the exersacuer and it is one of my new favorite toys!!! I love to spin the clear barrel of monkeys on it around and around and love the flip book (even though I get REALLY frustrated with turning the pages that mommy needs to help me). Even though only one foot barely touches the ground, I can move around in it a couple of inches to each side! I am getting to be such a big girl like Cooper!
Love,
Anna
Love,
Anna
Play Date with Cooper Jones
I had another play date with Cooper Jones and we had so much fun! Cooper is a really cool guy- he does the coolest things like play in his exersaucer, play with his feet and roll around like a rolly polly! He also had TONS of things to say out loud to everyone! He is a really good friend who shows me what I will be able to do in a couple of weeks- he is exactly 6 weeks older then me and so smart! I just love being around Cooper- even if he sucks my fingers!!!!!
Love,
Anna
Love,
Anna
My Two Kids...
Anna has always been a great sleeper.... ALWAYS!!! Well that has been true up until the past couple of days. She has started to wake up around 4 am every morning wanting to eat, and since I am a good mother, I feed her. Then she goes back to sleep on her own which is very nice. But then she begins her eating routine of every 3 hours from there. And this really puts a nitch in my old first dual feeding and pumping session at 7 am- it's just way too early and cold to pump at 4! And that is a problem because I need that pumped milk for when I start subbing.....
I guess if it was just Anna and the feeding issue I was dealing with, I wouldn't be complaining because I have always been able to fall asleep really fast. But that's where my other child comes into play.....
Peanut. Peanut has also always been a great sleeper, a great dog, etc.... until last week when he had his seizure. Since then, he has developed a fear of jumping onto and off of our bed and a fear of the upstairs hallway (he pretty much walks up to the top of the stairs and won't go any farther) and has insisted of sleeping in our bed with us. The vet has suggested me using treats to help him "trust" the hallway again and that is going okay. And oh yeah- he also has ALWAYS been petrified of farts- yes farts! So when Anna wakes up, I get out of bed allowing Peanut the opportunity to take over my side faster then I can pick up Anna and get her back into my bed to feed. I usually slide him over just enough for me to fit on the bed, but lately when I slide him over he gets mad and RIGHT when I start feeding Anna he wants me to get him off the bed. TOUGH. And then sometimes during feedings, in between feedings, when she's back in the pack and play the little girl starts with her farts and that is when he loses it! So if the farting is bad (he can stay with us if it's not too loud), I have to get back up, carry him from my bed to the stairs because god forbid he walk down that hallway.... and then I head back to sleep.... or try to... Peanut usually wants back in our room so the bark starts again to let me know that he is now ready to be carried from the steps back to our bed and he cuddles up RIGHT next to my side JUST IN CASE a fart gets him... sometimes I think I should fart REALLY loud so that he becomes scared of me- but then that would be just mean and he's been through A LOT lately.
So, needless to say, that is how I have spent my 4 o'clock hour the last couple of days. My sister in law told me to overfeed her at night(which I feel like I already do) and not to feed her at 4 to see what she does (she said she might be developing a habit of that feeding and we don't want that to happen- our book on her first year says the same thing- you're brilliant Carolyn!!!) and my friend Ashley's son did the same thing at this age so she started feeding him rice cereal at 4 months (we might start that in 9 days when she turns 4 months). We will first try what Carolyn and the book suggested and if that doesn't work, onto what Ashley did. As for Peanut, maybe we can ignore the barking at night as we head up to bed and try to have him sleep downstairs- I don't think the couches fart, but who knows! At least I'm not working or I'd look and feel like a zombie...
Much Love and WOW the patience you need as a mother is amazing,
Jenny
I guess if it was just Anna and the feeding issue I was dealing with, I wouldn't be complaining because I have always been able to fall asleep really fast. But that's where my other child comes into play.....
Peanut. Peanut has also always been a great sleeper, a great dog, etc.... until last week when he had his seizure. Since then, he has developed a fear of jumping onto and off of our bed and a fear of the upstairs hallway (he pretty much walks up to the top of the stairs and won't go any farther) and has insisted of sleeping in our bed with us. The vet has suggested me using treats to help him "trust" the hallway again and that is going okay. And oh yeah- he also has ALWAYS been petrified of farts- yes farts! So when Anna wakes up, I get out of bed allowing Peanut the opportunity to take over my side faster then I can pick up Anna and get her back into my bed to feed. I usually slide him over just enough for me to fit on the bed, but lately when I slide him over he gets mad and RIGHT when I start feeding Anna he wants me to get him off the bed. TOUGH. And then sometimes during feedings, in between feedings, when she's back in the pack and play the little girl starts with her farts and that is when he loses it! So if the farting is bad (he can stay with us if it's not too loud), I have to get back up, carry him from my bed to the stairs because god forbid he walk down that hallway.... and then I head back to sleep.... or try to... Peanut usually wants back in our room so the bark starts again to let me know that he is now ready to be carried from the steps back to our bed and he cuddles up RIGHT next to my side JUST IN CASE a fart gets him... sometimes I think I should fart REALLY loud so that he becomes scared of me- but then that would be just mean and he's been through A LOT lately.
So, needless to say, that is how I have spent my 4 o'clock hour the last couple of days. My sister in law told me to overfeed her at night(which I feel like I already do) and not to feed her at 4 to see what she does (she said she might be developing a habit of that feeding and we don't want that to happen- our book on her first year says the same thing- you're brilliant Carolyn!!!) and my friend Ashley's son did the same thing at this age so she started feeding him rice cereal at 4 months (we might start that in 9 days when she turns 4 months). We will first try what Carolyn and the book suggested and if that doesn't work, onto what Ashley did. As for Peanut, maybe we can ignore the barking at night as we head up to bed and try to have him sleep downstairs- I don't think the couches fart, but who knows! At least I'm not working or I'd look and feel like a zombie...
Much Love and WOW the patience you need as a mother is amazing,
Jenny
Monday, January 11, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
How the BabyBjorn Saved My Sanity....
This is the story of how the Baby Bjorn saved my sanity....
Who: Jenny Stilley
What: Can't clean my home
Where: My Home
When: This afternoon
Why: I have a baby who for some reason today won't take a nap longer than 30 minutes because she wants to be HELD by her mom who would usually hold her but is suffering from Cabin Fever in a DIRTY, DIRTY home.
So, you get the gist- 30 minutes here spent dusting, 30 minutes here spent cleaning one room.... lada lada lada.....
Normally, I would be okay with cleaning one room a day, but with Christmas take down, we had one too many garland needles and WAY TOO many dust balls on our hardwood floors to keep ignoring...... AND add the fact that I have been inside my home for working on 150 hours straight I was beginning to feel dirty. Even after taking my shower today I felt dirty. Only one solution..... CLEAN..... But.... Anna.... doesn't..... want..... me.... to.
And then..... a lightbulb went off in my head... BABYBJORN!!! So I strapped all 13 1/2 pounds (we weighed her last night) of Anna in and away we went dusting, 409ing the kitchen, washing dishes, moping AND vacuuming! 1 hour later, daddy was home to take over and the house is almost completely clean (except for mopping that is happening tomorrow morning.)
Thanks to you Baby Bjorn for saving my sanity and, in the end, cleaning my home. I owe you.....
Much Love,
Jenny
Who: Jenny Stilley
What: Can't clean my home
Where: My Home
When: This afternoon
Why: I have a baby who for some reason today won't take a nap longer than 30 minutes because she wants to be HELD by her mom who would usually hold her but is suffering from Cabin Fever in a DIRTY, DIRTY home.
So, you get the gist- 30 minutes here spent dusting, 30 minutes here spent cleaning one room.... lada lada lada.....
Normally, I would be okay with cleaning one room a day, but with Christmas take down, we had one too many garland needles and WAY TOO many dust balls on our hardwood floors to keep ignoring...... AND add the fact that I have been inside my home for working on 150 hours straight I was beginning to feel dirty. Even after taking my shower today I felt dirty. Only one solution..... CLEAN..... But.... Anna.... doesn't..... want..... me.... to.
And then..... a lightbulb went off in my head... BABYBJORN!!! So I strapped all 13 1/2 pounds (we weighed her last night) of Anna in and away we went dusting, 409ing the kitchen, washing dishes, moping AND vacuuming! 1 hour later, daddy was home to take over and the house is almost completely clean (except for mopping that is happening tomorrow morning.)
Thanks to you Baby Bjorn for saving my sanity and, in the end, cleaning my home. I owe you.....
Much Love,
Jenny
Aunt Anne is BRILLIANT!
So, we all know I have problems with keeping on my socks. Well, Aunt Anne found the solution at Hallmark! I have been wearing these things called sockons for the past week and my socks haven't moved an inch! They are made by a lady in the United Kingdom (mommy says that's far away) and are super comfy. They also look cute! Daddy calls them my arch supporters and mommy gets confused and sometimes she calls them my athletic supporter (after she says it she always giggles to herself!!!!) Thanks Aunt Anne!
Love,
Anna
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