She is also discovering how much fun it is to SPLASH in the tub! (Mom and Dad, click through to the blog see the video.)
Thanks for all the love you've been sending Rose. Her kidney u/s is scheduled for Tuesday...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
lemons
Have I told you all how much Rose loves lemons? The second she sees them, she forgoes any of the other food on her tray.
She is also discovering how much fun it is to SPLASH in the tub! (Mom and Dad, click through to the blog see the video.)
Thanks for all the love you've been sending Rose. Her kidney u/s is scheduled for Tuesday...
She is also discovering how much fun it is to SPLASH in the tub! (Mom and Dad, click through to the blog see the video.)
Thanks for all the love you've been sending Rose. Her kidney u/s is scheduled for Tuesday...
Monday, March 18, 2013
Congrats, Mike!
Now that Mike has shared the news with his family, I can finally announce it here...
Guess who's entering the chemistry teaching program at the U in June?
This guy!
Congratulations, Mike!!!!! You're going to be a wonderful teacher. I'm so proud of you!
Guess who's entering the chemistry teaching program at the U in June?
This guy!
Congratulations, Mike!!!!! You're going to be a wonderful teacher. I'm so proud of you!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
47 weeks
We got a message from the doctor Rose saw on Friday, and she reiterated that Rose does, in fact, have a urinary tract infection, and her blood tests also suggest that it had turned into a kidney infection. Apparently this can sometimes just happen for kids, but for some kids it can signal a problem with "urinary reflux" which can permanently scar the kidneys. Sigh. The "good" news (if there is such a thing) is that it turns out that the doctor Rose usually sees (and I use "usually" in a loose sense, because we've only seen her for about two 'well visits 'to date, whereas we've cycled through pretty much every other physician in the practice through all the 'sick visits' she's had) has a special interest in pediatric nephrology, so she's the provider they would recommend following up with anyway in order to get an ultrasound of her kidneys. So for now we'll just continue the antibiotic, we'll have a follow-up with our regular pediatrician in a week or two, and we'll talk at that time about scheduling a kidney ultrasound. I'm praying she doesn't have urinary reflux because "Dr. Google" suggests that the treatment is then 6 months to 2 years of preventative antibiotics! So please send some positive vibes our way because I would really, really like to avoid that!
Anyway, because Rose has gotten sick so often, so has missed a ton of school in the past few months, including four days last week. But we got a lovely card in the mail yesterday from all her friends!
Wasn't that thoughtful? I love our daycare.
In other news, we're also back to sleep training again. Apparently we (as in I) got in the very bad habit of letting Rose fall almost completely asleep while nursing and rocking before transferring to the crib each night. Now that she definitely has object permanence AND separation anxiety, this translates into frantic screaming when she wakes up and panics when she realizes a parent isn't holding her . . . and in her mind this means we must have abandoned her because we had been with her when she fell asleep! Now we need to re-train her to fall asleep on her own, so when she wakes up in the middle of the night she'll no longer be surprised that we're not in the room. In order to help with this, we're now going to do our last nursing before bathtime, and Mike is going to read her a story then put her in her crib drowsy yet awake. "Cry it out" was incredibly difficult yet worked incredibly well when we needed to wean her from her 4am feeding a few months ago, so hopefully we (as in I) can get through doing it again.
As a result of Rose having been sick and thus having terrible sleep, my sleep has also suffered. I believe I have complained to you before about how much I hate being sleep deprived, so I'll spare you my litany of woes. But I thought I would give you two examples of just how tired I was yesterday:
1. I made a *huge* pan of wild rice casserole for us to eat over the next several days. And when I woke up this morning, it was tight where I had left it yesterday, still in the oven. Ugh.
2. I have a pair of black boots that I've been wanted to get more use out of, so I've been on the look out for the past several months for a cute black dress or skirt that's winter-worthy. Yesterday after we went to the play area at Eden Prairie Center we walked through Sears on the way back to our car and I spotted a beautiful dress on the Land's End clearance rack. On a whim, I tried it on - usually fitted dresses look terrible on me since I'm so short-waisted, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. It was perfect - and only $22 (originally $98)! Woo-hoo! Except that when I put it away today, I noticed that it is very clearly "sable." As in not black at all. Ugh. (So how bad would it clash to wear a brown dress with black boots???)
But enough of my babbling! Let's get to the thing that you've all come to this blog for: photos of Little Miss! This week she has been all about books! She loves all of her books, including:
Unlike her love of books, she's not so sure what she thinks of her daddy's new hat:
And now she's getting so fast that Mike started putting up barriers so slow her down between the living room and entry way!
She's getting tenacious, and also turning into Daddy's little girl!
Have a great week, everyone!
Anyway, because Rose has gotten sick so often, so has missed a ton of school in the past few months, including four days last week. But we got a lovely card in the mail yesterday from all her friends!
In other news, we're also back to sleep training again. Apparently we (as in I) got in the very bad habit of letting Rose fall almost completely asleep while nursing and rocking before transferring to the crib each night. Now that she definitely has object permanence AND separation anxiety, this translates into frantic screaming when she wakes up and panics when she realizes a parent isn't holding her . . . and in her mind this means we must have abandoned her because we had been with her when she fell asleep! Now we need to re-train her to fall asleep on her own, so when she wakes up in the middle of the night she'll no longer be surprised that we're not in the room. In order to help with this, we're now going to do our last nursing before bathtime, and Mike is going to read her a story then put her in her crib drowsy yet awake. "Cry it out" was incredibly difficult yet worked incredibly well when we needed to wean her from her 4am feeding a few months ago, so hopefully we (as in I) can get through doing it again.
As a result of Rose having been sick and thus having terrible sleep, my sleep has also suffered. I believe I have complained to you before about how much I hate being sleep deprived, so I'll spare you my litany of woes. But I thought I would give you two examples of just how tired I was yesterday:
1. I made a *huge* pan of wild rice casserole for us to eat over the next several days. And when I woke up this morning, it was tight where I had left it yesterday, still in the oven. Ugh.
2. I have a pair of black boots that I've been wanted to get more use out of, so I've been on the look out for the past several months for a cute black dress or skirt that's winter-worthy. Yesterday after we went to the play area at Eden Prairie Center we walked through Sears on the way back to our car and I spotted a beautiful dress on the Land's End clearance rack. On a whim, I tried it on - usually fitted dresses look terrible on me since I'm so short-waisted, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. It was perfect - and only $22 (originally $98)! Woo-hoo! Except that when I put it away today, I noticed that it is very clearly "sable." As in not black at all. Ugh. (So how bad would it clash to wear a brown dress with black boots???)
But enough of my babbling! Let's get to the thing that you've all come to this blog for: photos of Little Miss! This week she has been all about books! She loves all of her books, including:
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| Goodnight Moon |
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| Pat the Bunny |
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| I am a Bunny Rabbit |
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| Where is Baby's Belly Button? |
And now she's getting so fast that Mike started putting up barriers so slow her down between the living room and entry way!
She's getting tenacious, and also turning into Daddy's little girl!
Have a great week, everyone!
Friday, March 15, 2013
another week, another illness
Little Miss has had a low-grade fever for the past four days. Mike has been able to stay home with her most of the week, but I got to spend yesterday morning with her and Grammy spent all of yesterday afternoon with her (thank you, Marsha!!!). Now that her sleep has also been disrupted for two nights (the canary in the coalmine), Mike took her to the doctor this morning. So far we only know that it's not an ear infection, but they're running tests to see if it's a UTI or a GI infection of some sort. Sigh. Hopefully we get some answers soon!
Update: It's a UTI. :(
Sunday, March 10, 2013
46 weeks!
Rose is really loving her walking toy from Great Aunt Dolly and Great Uncle Peter! This week it's been the thing she crawls over to the second she gets home from school each day. As you can see, she's gotten quite proficient at walking with it! (Mom and Dad, go to the blog to see the video!)
Way to go, Rose!
In other news, here are some updates from our world.
Work: I'm finally starting to settle in to my new role! I'm having fun learning new things, meeting new people. being exposed to the business side of the company, and thinking about things in new ways. There were even a couple days last week that it was hard to tear myself away from work because I was enjoying my projects so much! Good thing Mike and Rose are so wonderful to come home to. :) Now I just need to make sure I pace myself and don't get burnt out (and sick again!) from eustress rather than distress!
Sleep: I'd been getting frustrated with the chaos of Rose's daytime sleep schedule. She usually takes two naps a day (although sometimes only one), but these naps can range from 20 minutes each to 2.5 hours each. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to whether her first nap is at 8:30am or 11:30am. Ugh. We have had so much success with nighttime sleep ever since we implemented our strict evening routine - I crave that consistency in our daytime routine on the weekends! After a disastrous attempt at regulating naptime yesterday (don't ask), we decided to stick with our "crutches" of the stroller and the magic sleep machine (i.e., the car). There is so much chaos in the infant room at her school that it's been impossible for them to implement a standard nap time for Rose, and since she's there 5 out of 7 days each week, we just don't see her enough to overcome that chaos. So we're choosing "radical acceptance" of our crutches... at least until she's in the toddler room this fall, where everyone naps at the same time!
Nursing: Back when I was pregnant, I had no idea how long a year is in nursing months. It's like dog years or something - one month of regular time feels like seven years in nursing time! After I went back to work last July, I started pumping in the mornings as well as twice work, then breastfed Rose as soon as I picked her up in the afternoon and also before bed. I don't remember exactly when I made the changes, but I remember pushing myself to tears before weaning off the afternoon pumping at work (October?), off work pumping altogether (Thanksgiving), and off the afternoon feed at home (January?). Which left me with my morning pumping and bedtime feeding. For several weeks now I've been struggling with low mood and no energy - part of this can't be helped due to the cold weather and the minimal sunlight we've had, but part of this is because I haven't found a way to consistently get in any exercise this winter. Back when Rose took a catnap on the way home from school it was easy to walk the long way home for exercise. But now she gets SUPER grumpy if she's allowed to fall asleep after 4pm, so I need to race home as quickly as I can before she falls asleep in her stroller. So earlier this week I decided to soon start skipping the morning pumping session in order to exercise in the morning, and I proudly came to this decision without reaching my breaking-down-crying-sobbing point. And now that I've announced it publicly I'm going to have to stick with this routine and not hit the snooze bar in the morning! I did not feel the slightest hint of sadness when I put Bertha away Friday morning, and I only felt a hint of guilt when Rose had her last morning nursing session today. Ah, it's pretty nice to make decisions that are in my own best interest, as hard as that sometimes can be to do.
Finally, here are Rose's portraits from this week:
Have a great week, everyone!
Way to go, Rose!
In other news, here are some updates from our world.
Work: I'm finally starting to settle in to my new role! I'm having fun learning new things, meeting new people. being exposed to the business side of the company, and thinking about things in new ways. There were even a couple days last week that it was hard to tear myself away from work because I was enjoying my projects so much! Good thing Mike and Rose are so wonderful to come home to. :) Now I just need to make sure I pace myself and don't get burnt out (and sick again!) from eustress rather than distress!
Sleep: I'd been getting frustrated with the chaos of Rose's daytime sleep schedule. She usually takes two naps a day (although sometimes only one), but these naps can range from 20 minutes each to 2.5 hours each. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to whether her first nap is at 8:30am or 11:30am. Ugh. We have had so much success with nighttime sleep ever since we implemented our strict evening routine - I crave that consistency in our daytime routine on the weekends! After a disastrous attempt at regulating naptime yesterday (don't ask), we decided to stick with our "crutches" of the stroller and the magic sleep machine (i.e., the car). There is so much chaos in the infant room at her school that it's been impossible for them to implement a standard nap time for Rose, and since she's there 5 out of 7 days each week, we just don't see her enough to overcome that chaos. So we're choosing "radical acceptance" of our crutches... at least until she's in the toddler room this fall, where everyone naps at the same time!
Nursing: Back when I was pregnant, I had no idea how long a year is in nursing months. It's like dog years or something - one month of regular time feels like seven years in nursing time! After I went back to work last July, I started pumping in the mornings as well as twice work, then breastfed Rose as soon as I picked her up in the afternoon and also before bed. I don't remember exactly when I made the changes, but I remember pushing myself to tears before weaning off the afternoon pumping at work (October?), off work pumping altogether (Thanksgiving), and off the afternoon feed at home (January?). Which left me with my morning pumping and bedtime feeding. For several weeks now I've been struggling with low mood and no energy - part of this can't be helped due to the cold weather and the minimal sunlight we've had, but part of this is because I haven't found a way to consistently get in any exercise this winter. Back when Rose took a catnap on the way home from school it was easy to walk the long way home for exercise. But now she gets SUPER grumpy if she's allowed to fall asleep after 4pm, so I need to race home as quickly as I can before she falls asleep in her stroller. So earlier this week I decided to soon start skipping the morning pumping session in order to exercise in the morning, and I proudly came to this decision without reaching my breaking-down-crying-sobbing point. And now that I've announced it publicly I'm going to have to stick with this routine and not hit the snooze bar in the morning! I did not feel the slightest hint of sadness when I put Bertha away Friday morning, and I only felt a hint of guilt when Rose had her last morning nursing session today. Ah, it's pretty nice to make decisions that are in my own best interest, as hard as that sometimes can be to do.
Finally, here are Rose's portraits from this week:
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| "Here I come!" |
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| "This is so much fun!" |
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| "And away I go, in my wide-legged, lock-kneed stance!" |
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| "This is the best day ever!" |
Monday, March 4, 2013
45 weeks!
I can't believe we're closing in on a year since Rose was born! Her birthday will be here in the blink of an eye. But in the meantime, it's so much fun to play with our little "squiggle worm" - she never sits still anymore, and she is constantly working on crawling over things, head-butting her parents, and pulling up on anything short. She is starting to point to objects she wants, is great at sharing toys, and is a master of the "all done" sign. Mike has even heard her say "ba ba" for bottle! She can clap, she makes funny sounds, and she loves games like "sneak up on Daddy and tickle him!" As you can see, we are madly in love.
Without further, here is Little Miss!
Have a great week, everyone!
Without further, here is Little Miss!
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| She's willing to take a few tentative steps, as long as her Daddy is close by to catch her. |
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| "I can crawl to you faster than you can scoot away to take my picture!" |
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| "Up?" |
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| "Why yes, Daddy, I would like a second piece of bacon!" |
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| Winter walks in MN require bundling such as this. |
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| Rose prefers to hold her own bottle nowadays. |
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| Did I mention she has 7 teeth now? |
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| Rose's favorite book this week: Potty. |
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| Fun with older cousins! |
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| She may be younger, but she's got several inches on her cousin Annie! |
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| "Hello, Mac!" |
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| "Uh...bye bye, Mac!" |
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Baby Name Length Report | The Baby Name Wizard
http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2013/2/the-baby-name-length-report
Update:
Oops! I accidentally posted this before it was final. I meant to add that this was an interesting article, if you're as interested in baby name trends as I am. If you read to the end, you'll see that my daughter's name is apparently straight out of 1886! :)
Update:
Oops! I accidentally posted this before it was final. I meant to add that this was an interesting article, if you're as interested in baby name trends as I am. If you read to the end, you'll see that my daughter's name is apparently straight out of 1886! :)
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