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I think the title basically sums it up, I have unexplained fatigue. For some odd reason I have been feeling super tired for absolutely no reason. Yesterday I went to bed at 9pm and didn’t wake up until 8 am this morning, an by about 10pm I NEEDED a nap. And the funny thing is, is that this has nothing to do with Sophia. She sleeps 13 hours straight, so I no longer have to wake up at night to feed her, yet I feel like I have been up half the night. I wonder what’s going on???

Yesterday we took Sophie to Harrison Hot Springs beach and it seemed like she had a blast. The first thing she did is crawl straight for the sand. She has this huge fascination with the sand if we even try to come near her to take her away from it she throws a huge fit about it. She just sat in the sand going around in circles on her bum. It was very cute to watch. i couldn’t take my eye off her because I knew that as soon as I even attempt to look away she would stick a hand full of sand in her mouth. i don’t have issues with germs and I think it’s good for kids to experiment, but sand is really hard to wash out of the mouth. Sure enough she managed to get a couple of hand fulls in her mouth, and thought it was quite funny when I tried washing it out.

She is taking a nap right now so I am also going to go and try to catch a snooze. When I find the USB cord I will post some pictures from yesterdays beach day.

I was going to write a bunch of stuff yesterday, but I had so much to do that before I knew it it was bed time. Oh well, at least I wasn’t sitting on my butt all doing doing nothing. Not that I could do that anyway, but sometimes it’s a nice thought. Brad started a new job yesterday so that means no more going out to do whatever we want anytime we want. It was really nice to have him at home to spend time with his family, but he does get home at 4:30 so he still gets to see Sophia for at-least couple of hours before she heads to bed.

A couple of days ago I went on this huge cleaning binge, I wanted to get a bunch of stuff put away and get some clothes out for the fall. Sophie’s room was the most fun to go through, looking at all the clothes that she has grown out of. It was so amazing to see how much she has grown in 9 months. I found her coming home outfit and I was amazed at how tiny that little onzie really is. I also found her first diaper (not used) and I cannot recall her being that small, it just seems so odd. Sometimes when we’re walking through a mall and I see a newborn baby I swear that Sophia was never that tiny, but I she was, she was even smaller than an average newborn. Mmmm, makes me want to have another one. Don’t you love the irrational feelings of a mother? She is just growing up too fast.

Onto another note, I have decided to train our cats to be both indoor and outdoor cats. This way I can stick them outside at night and they won’t annoy me and wake me up numerous times. I let them out in the back yard yesterday, and I thought that they would run away, instead they walked around eating grass and sniffing every square inch. I think they really enjoyed not being bound in the house, I hope this continues.

Sophia is awake and wants mommy’s attention now, I better go.

Yesterday my mom and dad went to Toys “R” Us to find some good toys for Sophia. We have a lot of stuffed animals and newborn rattle kind of stuff, but she is getting older and more interested in toys so we figured now is a good time to go and get some fun things for her. When we got to the mall Sophie had fallen asleep in my sling which I love when she does because then she is not cranky and tired all afternoon. We passed a couple of dads with their kids and one of the guys made a comment that my way is the best time to go shopping- when the kids are asleep. I thought that was a little funny, I guess that way the kids don’t bother you.

Anyway, back to Sophia’s toy shopping. We got her some educational toys and this and that, but I thought that it would be nice to get her a baby doll. Every little girl has to have her first baby doll. I found this cute little baby girl doll for her and we went ahead and bought it. Once I took it out of the box she immediately grabbed it and went straight for the soother that the doll had in her mouth. It was really funny to see her try and put that soother in her mouth. All it is is a little nub in the end, and yet she spent a lot of time trying to get that thing in her mouth. My little paci-a-holic. Once she figured out that she cannot suck on that paci she gave up and moved onto sucking on her foot or hand, whatever was closer to her mouth. I think she is about to cut another tooth. I find that a bit seeing as how she doesn’t have any top teeth yet, aren’t those supposed to come after the first bottom one’s?

She proudly carried her baby doll for the rest of our mall trip and if I tried taking it away she would squeeze it as tightly as she could. My baby has a little dolly, how cute is that.

Now I am going t vent about my two dumb and annoying cats. Since we had Sophie obviously they don’t get half as much attention as they normally do, so they try and get it another way. During the day they are nice and quiet, but once we go to bed all the noise comes out. There’s chasing, meowing, knocking things over, walking all over us, scratching on Sophia’s door. Seriously, sometimes I just want to knock their heads together so that they would be quiet and I could get some sleep. Obviously I wouldn’t do that, but it has sure made me seriously consider getting rid of them. I love my kitty’s, but I want sanity more. Last night Twiggles managed to climb into my drawer and make it fall apart- at 3 AM!!!!!! Anyone want free cats?

Sophia’s Toy Box Car

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who took the time to email me about my post “back from the dead” and shared their stories. It was really nice to hear that I am not the only one who feels lonely sometimes. I also wanted to clarify some things from that blog. When I said that Brad and I had to make some decisions I did not mean regarding our relationship. I also got a few emails asking if Brad and I were having marital problems, so I just wanted to let everyone know that no we’re not. We’re very happily married and in no way considering breaking up, the decision that I was referring to was whether we’re going to stay in BC or move back to AB. Thank you for caring about us and making sure that we’re ok, and we are, we’re great.

Now that I have clarified that I thought I would talk about Sophie. She is napping right now and I am wishing I could join her. It’s so dark and gloomy outside that all I want to do is climb into my bed with a cup of tea and watch movies all day. Too bad I have responsibilities that I can no longer blow off. I wonder if Sophie would be up for spending the day in bed with me. I tried that once and it didn’t go over too well. She got really upset that she couldn’t go anywhere that I had no choice but to get out of bed and entertain her. Thank goodness for nap time, nap time is mommy’s lazy time.

Sophia has become quite the chatter box recently. She can babble up a storm and sometimes she is really loud. She can repeat mama and when she is angry she screams “ney ney ney.” I was once trying to feed and and she was obviously not hungry and she yelled ney ney mamam and shook her head back and forth. It’s too precious to see her developing her oh so strong personality and watch her try and communicate with us. I never knew such simple things would melt my heart so quickly.

Well it’s almost her wake up time so I better go and set out her toys on the floor and get some snacks ready.Have a good weekend

Sophia eating a honey stick

Picture for now, blog later. She won’t let me write right now.

My dad took Sophia swimming for the afternoon, so I get about an hour to myself to do whatever I want. Of course I pick to blog since it’s the laziest activity that I can think of. I like sitting on my couch, it makes me happy. I remember when Brad and I got married we had this old gray/black futon in our living room that we used to pull all nighters and watch movies on, and once I got pregnant I realized just how uncomfortable that thing really was. We then went out and bought a couch that I am currently sitting on. I don’t really know where that came from.

Today I have been reminiscing a lot, and thinking about how quickly time is flying by. At this time last year I was in my 3rd trimester wishing that the pregnancy would be over soon, and now my baby is 9 months old. I can’t believe how much she has changed and grown. I now know what people meant when they said that kids grow up fast.

Sophia is cutting another tooth or two. She has had her two bottom ones for 2 months and yesterday I discovered that the other 2 bottom ones  were coming in as well. I expected the top teeth to be next, and maybe they’re coming in as well, but I will not risk and put my fingers in that mouth. You put them in and you lose them. Her teeth are so sharp that sometimes it even scares me to put food in her mouth.

Onto another note, Brad and I bought the third season of House today and I am really excited to watch it. Since last year Brad had a class Tuesday nights we didn’t get to see house, so now that it’s out I bet we will watch it in a weeks time. I have a week spot when it comes to House, I love that show. I guess I should take advantage of the hour that I have while Sophia is gone and watch the first episode. Ok, time to go…..

Ahhh the old days when Sophie would lay around on the floor cooing at the ceiling fan, she was nice and content to just kick her feet in the air, now it’s a whole new ball game. The little kid is into everything. She has learned how to crawl and is picking up her speed every day. It’s really fun to watch her because she doesn’t crawl like a normal baby would crawl. She has one of her knees bent and the other leg sticks straight out. It almost looks like she is half walking and half crawling. I guess it’s better then her commando wounded soldier crawl. Brad and I had to re-arrange our living room in a way that would block off a portion of the room so that she can’t get out. The little walking space that we have is blocked with a basket of toys which she has managed to move and maneuver through the tiniest of space. I was actually quite impressed at how skilled she is going through obstacles. She she is crawling under the coffee table she knows exactly when to lift and lower her head, I think that’s pretty impressive for a 9 month old.

Right now she is sleeping soundly in her little crib. Ohhh how I love nap times. I have a feeling that her second nap is going to go out the window soon, as now it’s only 1/2 hour long and it takes me forever to get her to sleep. I’m not a fan of the dropping a nap transition time. It’s like 2 naps are too many and 1 is not enough. The same thing happened when she went from 3 to 2 naps, it took her a while to adjust, but she slept soooo much better after that.

As for the sleep department, can’t complain there. She sleeps like an angel. She goes down at 7 pm and I don’t hear from her until 8:30 am the next morning. I love her sleep schedule and I an so glad that I took the time to sleep train her. As hard and frustrating that it was, it had definitely paid off.

I am going to go and have some breakfast now. Enjoy your day

Sophia climbing on her friend Arianna’s stroller

I had to take a little break from blogging this past month, and now I have decided that it is time to come back and start writing again. I have been feeling a little down about some things in my life, and didn’t want to complain about it. I figured it’s better to not write anything than sound like a whiner.

Brad and I had to make some decisions and had planned something that did not work out for us. I don’t really want to say what it it on here, but if you would like to know you can email me. I guess finding out that we didn’t get what we really wanted to get made me realize that I cannot control everything. I was very disappointed and spent some time crying over it, but have come to terms with my disappointment and realized that at some point in our lives, when it is right, I will get it again.

When Brad and I were living in Edmonton and I was dreaming of the day that we would be back in BC. Edmonton didn’t feel like home to me, BC was my home. It’s where we had family, where we had friends, and I was really excited to have all that back in my life. I guess I never realized how isolated I would feel once I had Sophia. Don’t get me wrong, I love being a mom and having her, but I was living in a dream world when I was pregnant. I had never had a baby, how was I know what life was going to be like? I think that was one of the biggest reasons to why I was looking forward to coming back here, I was going to get a break and have a little of my old life back. I guess I never realized that once I left everything had changed and it was never going to be like it was. People that were once really close to me were no longer in my life. I was the one that went away, I had made some decisions that some people didn’t agree with, and thus grew apart from them. It took me a while to see that I wasn’t going to have some of my old friends back, and it was a hard thing to admit. My mom always said that only time will tell who your real friends are, I guess she was right after all. People who I thought were my friends I barely talk to, and some that I hadn’t seen in years and years seem closer to me.
I think the hardest thing for me to come to terms with is that I cannot change how people see me. I wish that I could go back in time and change some of the decisions that I had made when I was younger, and maybe I wouldn’t have lost some friends that I did. But life has moved on, and the ones that were real stayed, the ones that weren’t, didn’t.

I have a wonderful family, a great husband, a beautiful daughter, and that is all that matters now. Yah I do feel lonely sometimes, I wish I had more people to spend time with, but we don’t alway get what we want. Where do people make friends now a days? Work, hmmm I don’t do that; school, not there either. Church, don’t attend a regular one.

We have been contemplating going back to Edmonton for Fall of 2008. Brad is thinking of doing his masters there, I would be ok with going away. I will miss my family very much, but we won’t be there permanently, just for a couple of years.

So here it is, my sad thoughts that had kept me from writing. I would be more detailed, but I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, I just wanted to express how I felt. There is no picture for today, but I will be updating this blog daily from now on, so maybe tomorrow I will post some  pictures. Happy Wednesday everyone

I know my blog has been really boring lately, I meant to write things in the last couple of days, but I guess I never got around to it.

Sophia is doing well. Her sleep has been incredible, except that now she is practicing sitting up by herself and that wakes her up at night a lot. She has been doing that for a while, but for some reason decided that it would be really fun to do it in the middle of the night. Oh well, it’s kind of cute to watch her in the monitor while she practices in her crib.

I had a dentist appointment last week and again it was not fun. Now both sides of my teeth hurt and I can’t eat properly. I’m hoping that the pain will go away soon, I like food too much not to eat it. Brad has an appointment in the next couple of days and I do not envy him at all. His is just a cleaning though, I hope that he doesn’t have any cavities, those are expensive to fix.

Tonight we’re going over to a friends house for dinner. Brad has never met them, but I know the girl from high school. She is the one that Sophia had her first play date with, well not her her daughter. They were so cute together, too bad I didn’t get any pictures of the girls. Next time I will.

So, everyone is doing well and I will try to keep this thing updated more often. Have a good day.

Having fun with grandpa

Brad and I went out to Abbotsford this past Sunday, and after church we decided to join my parents for lunch. Brad suggested we go to Boston Pizza and so we ventured out to get some food. We figured that it wouldn’t be too busy there since most church people tend to go to places like Red Robin or White Spot. It actually wasn’t busy at all, but our food took a stinking 45MIN to arrive. We were to mad by the end that we didn’t even want to eat anymore. My dad thought that his food was gross, and overall it was not a good place to pick that day. The server even forgot to give us our doggie bag. Boo to  Boston Pizza.

Later on that day we handed Sophia off to my parents and went out to Vancouver to meet up with some friends. It was a beautiful afternoon and we had a lot of fun catching up with some people from College. On our way home we were hungry and thought that we’d go to DQ and get a quick bite to eat. We walk in there and see a total of 3 employees and a few customers. Nothing too bad. Well the girl that was the front cashier had the biggest attitude I have ever seen. She was rolling her eyes at EVERY customer and was outright rude to a lady in front of us that had 3 kids with her. There was no courtesy in her what so ever. When it came time to take our order we were told that once our food comes out that she would bring it to us. 15 min later no food. Where is our food??? We ordered a blizzard and it’s nowhere to be seen. A bunch of people after us got theirs and we have nothing. Brad went up there to ask her about it and her response was, “oops, I forgot.” No sorry, just gave us the cold food and really badly mixed blizzard and moved onto the next customer with rolling eyes. I even overheard another complaint and her response was , ‘it’s busy so whatever.”

I don’t complain often, but I was so outraged at that DQ that I wrote a huge complaint to the head office. Now lets see if they reply. Don’t go to the DQ on 200th street in Langley, they SUCK!!!! Boo to DQ.

I know that fast food jobs suck, but honestly, if you hate your job that much then quit. I really hope that girl gets fired.