Busy Busy Week

I always complain about how I have nothing to do, well not anymore. Last night Brad and I went out to Fort Langley for a CD release of the Left. I had a lot of fun, specially because we got to go out by ourselves and didn’t have to worry about being back in time for Sophie’s bed time. My mom is very nice to babysit for us, we’re very thankful to have the extra help.

Tonight we’re going out again, we’re going to see Ratatouille ( I have no idea how to spell that correctly). I am sooooo excited for it. I will write all about our weekend at the end of the weekend. Come back on Sunday for updates

Sophia at the doctors office 

Play Date

Today Sophie had her very first play date. A little while ago I blogged about how I felt that I no longer had anything in common with my friends whom don’t have children, and how being a stay at home mom can get very lonely. Well, since the wonderful world of facebook I have reconnected with some people that I had not seen in some time. The last time that I saw Kim was on our graduation day back in 2001. So yah, 6 years, but it was very comfortable and I had a lot of time catching up. She also has a little girl, Haylee, she’s about 6 weeks older then Sophia, but it’s not too big of a gap so it was nice.

We were supposed to get together with one other girl that we went to high school with, but we couldn’t get a hold of her and hoping that everything is ok. Maybe another time all of will get to go out. I was being a bit of an air head when I headed out this morning and forgot to take my camera with me, so I guess I won’t have any pictures from Sophie’s first play date. oh well, she will have many more to come. I’m looking forward to hanging out with her and our kids playing together. That’s it, that’s what we did today. Yay for a fun day !!!

Weird

I’m having a little trouble understanding what’s going through my little girls head. For some odd reason she has decided that it’s a good idea to wake up in the middle of the night and play. She has done this before, but I have always been able to get her back to sleep. Now she just wants me to hold her, and as much as I love cuddling with Sophie, I don’t love it at 2 am. It’s mommy’s time to sleep, and well it should be her sleep time as well. Weird kid. I wish I knew what to do about that. it’s almost like she has an internal clock that wakes her at the same time every night and tells her that it’s play time. I don’t really have much to complain about her sleep. She is an excellent, napper and goes down for bed easily, it’s the middle of the night waking that it the problem.

Mu husband is kind enough to get up with her in the morning and let me catch up on some sleep, but I wish that I wasn’t so tired in the morning and could spend the morning with my family.

Brad wants to watch Invisible Children with me, so time to go.

Updates

Since I haven’t posted much recently I figured I would today. I don’t really know what came over me, maybe a needed a blog break.

Things have been going well here. I had a wee bit scare last week, and have never been so happy to get my period. It was 9 days late, but it came and that’s all that matters. I think it made me realize how unready I am for another child. I think it would be nice to have kids close together, but right now my sanity is more important. No baby itch here, I’m happy not to have to worry about it anymore.

Sophie has been doing well. She has finally settled into a great napping routine. I can actually get about 3 napping hours out of her. She usually takes a nap at 10am and 2 pm, gives me a break to do some stuff and she is much happier when she is well rested. She still only has one tooth. I thought the other one was going to be there as soon as her first came in, but nothing else is cutting through.

Well I’m wearing one of those wrist bandages right now so typing is really hard. Have a good day:)

Pain

So I’ve had this pain in my wrist for almost a month now. One morning I woke up with my arm being as asleep as you can get, and from there on I have had really annoying pain. You know when you have a huge knot in your back and it’s so irritating, well this is what my wrist has been feeling like for the past month. When I went to see the doctor he just told me to take some anti inflammatory pain killers, but so far they have not been helping. I don’t know what else to do. I guess I can go get an x-ray done, but other than that what can one do?

It’s really hard to hold Sophie because if I twist my arm in any direction then I feel it, and it does not feel nice. It almost wants to lock on me, and that would not be good for many reasons.

Any suggestions? I went to see the doctor again today, so maybe I’ll get some answers on Monday.  Have a good weekend everyone

Still don’t feel like it

Forgive me for my lack of posting lately, but I just haven’t had all that much to write about. That and I have also been preoccupied with something else.

Yesterday my parent, Brad and I took Sophie to Harrison for the day. Since it was so beautiful outside we thought it would be fun to have a lazy day. I’m still loving the sling that I got a few months ago, it’s so handy during nap times. Well, seeing as how I don’t really know what to say and I’m not in the mood to blog I’ll just post some pictures.

Wait, they’re not uploaded yet..Oh well, I’ll do it later.

I’ve been tagged again

 

Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

Spin Me I Pulsate
Becoming Three

Always a Work in Progress!

Mummy Musings

the epic of mom

What were you doing 10 years ago?

I was in Middle School. Hahahaha, that’s almost funny to think about

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Looking fondly at my growing belly. I think I was visiting my family for my first baby shower

Five Snacks You Enjoy

1.) Ice-cream

2.) Fruit

3.) Cheese cake

4.) Coffee stuff

5.) Sesame Snacks

Five Songs That You Know All The Lyrics To

1.) Old Macdonald had a farm

2.)Row row row your boat

3.) Beautiful by James Blunt

4.) Champion Supernova By Oasis

5.) Caring is creepy by the Shins

Five Things You Would Do If You Were a Millionaire

1.) Buy a house!

2.) Travel.

3.) Share with friends and family.

4.) Invest wisely and spend the interest.

5.) Save children from war

Five Bad Habits

1.) grinding my teeth in my sleep

2.) Procrastinating

3.) watching too much TV

4.) Spending too much time surfing the net

5.) Being unproductive
Five Things You Like To Do

1.) Play with, and even just watch, my kid

2.) Visit with friends

3.) taking walks with Sophie and Brad

4.) going swimming

5.) Organize

Five Things You Would Never Wear Again

1.) that’s a tough one. really short tops

2.) Mini skirt

3.) platform shoes

4.) Blue eyeshadow

5.) A LoT of makeup

Five Favorite Toys

1.) Leap frog learning table- Sophie likes it

2.) Exersaucer

3.) my laptop

4.)Brad’s laptop, it’s way better then mine

5.) Games

I am tagging:

1.) http://8minutes.wordpress.com/

2.) http://pluckymama.wordpress.com/

3.) http://babycailyn.wordpress.com/

4.) http://reformattingmybrain.wordpress.com/

5.) http://www.struggleandemerge.com/blog/

First Tooth :)

I was going to blog about this a few days ago (when she actually got her tooth), but I kept forgetting to. Sophie got her first tooth on June 15th. I knew that she had been teething, but the little sharpie took me by surprise. When she was 3 months old I was convinced that she was teething, had all the classic signs. She drooled like a mad dog, chewed on EVERYTHING around her, and had huge red cheeks. Nothing came for months. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the unexplained fevers that she had, well I guess now I have an explanation. It wasn’t a virus like that horribly rude doctor told us, she was cutting a tooth.

I was actually checking her gums and she bit me, those little things are really sharp. I can see her other bottom one is right behind the one that just popped through.

That’s it, I just wanted to share our first tooth excitement. I’ll post a picture later.

Interesting Article

TELL ME ABOUT IT

By Carolyn Hax

Wednesday, May 23, 2007; Page C10

Carolyn:

Best friend has child. Her: exhausted, busy, no time for self, no time for me, etc. Me (no kids): Wow. Sorry. What’d you do today? Her: Park, play group . . .

Okay. I’ve done Internet searches, I’ve talked to parents. I don’t get it. What do stay-at-home moms do all day? Please no lists of library, grocery store, dry cleaners . . . I do all those things, too, and I don’t do them EVERY DAY. I guess what I’m asking is: What is a typical day and why don’t moms have time for a call or e-mail? I work and am away from home nine hours a day (plus a few late work events) and I manage to get it all done. I’m feeling like the kid is an excuse to relax and enjoy — not a bad thing at all — but if so, why won’t my friend tell me the truth? Is this a peeing contest (“My life is so much harder than yours”)? What’s the deal? I’ve got friends with and without kids and all us child-free folks get the same story and have the same questions.

Tacoma, Wash.

Relax and enjoy. You’re funny.

Or you’re lying about having friends with kids.

Or you’re taking them at their word that they actually have kids, because you haven’t personally been in the same room with them.

Internet searches?

I keep wavering between giving you a straight answer and giving my forehead some keyboard. To claim you want to understand, while in the same breath implying that the only logical conclusions are that your mom-friends are either lying or competing with you, is disingenuous indeed.

So, since it’s validation you seem to want, the real answer is what you get. In list form. When you have young kids, your typical day is: constant attention, from getting them out of bed, fed, clean, dressed; to keeping them out of harm’s way; to answering their coos, cries, questions; to having two arms and carrying one kid, one set of car keys, and supplies for even the quickest trips, including the latest-to-be-declared-essential piece of molded plastic gear; to keeping them from unshelving books at the library; to enforcing rest times; to staying one step ahead of them lest they get too hungry, tired or bored, any one of which produces the kind of checkout-line screaming that gets the checkout line shaking its head.

It’s needing 45 minutes to do what takes others 15.

It’s constant vigilance, constant touch, constant use of your voice, constant relegation of your needs to the second tier.

It’s constant scrutiny and second-guessing from family and friends, well-meaning and otherwise. It’s resisting constant temptation to seek short-term relief at everyone’s long-term expense.

It’s doing all this while concurrently teaching virtually everything — language, manners, safety, resourcefulness, discipline, curiosity, creativity. Empathy. Everything.

It’s also a choice, yes. And a joy. But if you spent all day, every day, with this brand of joy, and then, when you got your first 10 minutes to yourself, wanted to be alone with your thoughts instead of calling a good friend, a good friend wouldn’t judge you, complain about you to mutual friends, or marvel how much more productively she uses her time. Either make a sincere effort to understand or keep your snit to yourself.

gym and such

Yesterday I did something that I haven’t done in years, I went to the gym. Yes you heard me, I went to work out. I think I was just as shocked at myself as everyone around me. My body hurts now, but I had a lot of fun there.

Before I was heading there I put Sophia in her exersaucer so that I could get some work done. Somehow she got a hold of a piece of paper and started munching on it. I didn’t think it was a big deal as she loses interest in things pretty quickly. The next thing I see are a bunch of holes in the paper and a huge piece in her mouth. By the time that I got to her she had swallowed that chunk of paper. So much for it not being a big deal, I let my kid eat paper. I guess it really is not that big of a deal, I just have to be more careful now.

Back to my  going to the gym story. I went for a 20/20/20 exercise, which concentrates on butt/thighs/stomach areas. I know that I am skinny and all, but my body doesn’t feel as tight as it did before Sophie so I have to take care of that. I also went to be healthier, as I am incredibly out of shape. It was a good workout, and I wasn’t the only one huffing and puffing by the end, I am proud of myself.

Ohhh Brad is out of the shower, my turn. I love taking showers. Laters……

Sophia by her crib, just after a nap