Well now that my super sweet almost 4MONTH! old is soundly sleeping through the night (and in bed by 730), and since my housework is done for the day.. ok its not you know what i just need a break!! Anyways I decided to reflect a little on the past few months and share our latest news. Funny I always look forward to reading other mommy friends blogs and notice they dont always post that often, well clearly now I know why. I havent posted since Emmas one month birthday and She will be 4 months in 10 days.
Well to start with, at emmas two week appt, when she was 12 pounds and 23 in long the Doctors notice some slight potential she might have torticollis. i didnt think or notice much of it until a few weeks ago. it seems to have progressed. For those that dont know what that it, its a condition in babies where they favor turning there head to one side. it can cause flat head and his displasia (sp?) so I began getting nervous. We have an appt to meet with a doctor in 2 weeks.. (thanks government shut down, it took me 2 days just to get that and that was the best they could do..) But like any Momma, naturally im worried. I just want to be normal. I see other babies her age holding her head up so well and sitting in there bumbos and and she just cant yet :( I read up on it and Im doing what I can to help her and it does seem to be helping a little. She favors her right so Im trying to do alot to get her to look to her left or atleast straight ahead. My poor sweet baby!
Aside from that, Emma is doing just wonderful. She can hold her head up decently but it tilts to the side, but she is a littler chunker steadily gaining weight for sure! I get so sad she keeps outgrowing all her clothes and she has so many im lucky she can wear anything more than once! but I just love everything about her. Her eyes will just make you melt. She totally her her daddys eyes but aside from that she is looking more and more like me :) She started laughing a few weeks ago and when you hear it you cant help but smile and laugh too! Im working on getting a video. Also her grip has really strengthened. She can actually hold and play with her toys. She especially loves her spotty, 50 cent claw machine dragon from aunty jane and uncle and and sox the sock monkey from her aunty rachel. She has also gotten really good at grabbing my hair and yanking it. I just cannot wait for Riley to get home and meet her and fall in love with her just as i have. I swear she recognizes his voice from our skype dates.
I sadly have also gone back to work full time. I cried and cried at the thought of it but I know we can live alot more comfortably having the extra income and I can spoil my little princess alot more. I still fear missing any of her firsts and I often find myself at work just looking through all my pictures of her and missing her like crazy but it makes every other moment we spend together so much sweeter. And did I mention for once, things played out in my favor and I found the ABSOLUTE best babysitter on sittercity for military families. She is a retired Navy wife (her husband a retired chief, served 23 years), mother of 3 and grandmother of 2. Emma goes to her house and I just feel like I never have to worry. She sends me pictures of her and except for two half days where her grandson comes, Emma gets one on one care AND I only pay $125 a week! Yes thats $110 dollars a week cheaper then the cheapest daycare where babies literally lay on the floor all day. She is even making emmas halloween costume- the little mermaid and its so cute I could die!!!
so now my days go something like this"
6am wake up (unless emma decides sooner)
get ready for work
feed furbabies
pack lunches, bottles, diaper bag
nurse and change emma
715am drop emma off at daycare
8-4 workd
445pm pick emma up
5pm arive home in time to
nurse emma, feed furbabies,
make dinner, hopefully a little playtime or a walk with teddy
bath, book, bottle, bed by 7/730
then commence all the housework, laundry,
cleaning bottles, prepping lunch, clean, yardwork,
lucky if i can pump and shower and be in bed by 10
..this routine gets old and tiring very fast.. i would like my husband back..
okok im falling asleep here so the next new chapter, for which a titled this about, NO were not pregnant again (impossible and dear god no thank you!!!) Riley got new orders and it looks like we will be pcs'ing (permenant change of station) for the first time. Thats right folks we are off to point mugu california, right outside of malibu. He called me at 11pm at night to tell me when he found out. I think i cried for about 3 days straight once he told and (almost as much as I cried when i found out about bahrain) and some more for another week everytime I thought about it. Like everything else in our crazy hectic like Im reaching the point of acceptance and getting ready to go with the flow. It brings so much to do and I feel like I have even more on my already full plate with him being gone and it makes me wish I didnt start back to work but im working on my supermom skills. so in the words of I love Lucy "CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME" Still have lots to figure out and lots to plan but we have until July 2014 to figure it out. More to come on this later. time for me to finish what I gotta do and sleep a little before my alarm goes off!
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