Today was a pretty nice day. Katherine and I spent the morning together and at noon I "went to work" while she took quite a good nap until around 2:30. She woke up happy and ready to play. We played for a little while and then it was back to work. She was content sitting on my lap as we "worked" and then laying on the floor for a bit.
Tonight we had dinner with some friends from work. It was nice to see them. Nearly everyone was from out of town so it's not often we get to see them. They are the same people we used to travel with when Stephen and I were on the road. Their travel is a lot more than what we do. I'm confident I wouldn't want to do that job again. I'm not built for that travel anymore. It would break me!! :P
Little Nugget and Stephen are upstairs now having the bedtime bottle and I'm sure shortly I'll hear the bedtime bible story start. :) This is my 20-30 minutes of down time for the day and I so much appreciate it. Not that being with Katherine is tough, but it's nice to have this time each night and to know that she's getting special time with her Daddy.
Today I didn't get done any of the things I'd hoped to do. No thank you cards, no laundry and no cleaning the desk. Again the day escaped me. *sigh* I'd say better luck tomorrow but I'm beginning to feel like the situation is hopeless. :P I just got a little behind this weekend as a result of home improvements. I know I'll get caught up. This weekend. :) And if not, next week's another week. Ya can't fret it, right. :)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Seemed like a Monday
I know today was Tuesday, but it felt like Monday. After a long weekend going back to work, even part time, isn't fun. :P Katherine slept until about 7:15 this morning, which was lovely!! When she did wake up she was quite the hungry little girl. She ate her bottle in less than 15 minutes. And shockingly there was no spit up after! She actually fell back to sleep for another hour once her belly was full.
Today Katherine was quite the fidget. She didn't cry so much as yell. Just yell to get my attention so I'd pick her up. Then she'd stop. We played quite a bit today because that was the only way I could get her to stop yelling!! I went out to the store to get a new thermometer for the kitchen (the old one broke) and I carried her into Bed Bath and Beyond thinking she might like the looking around. As I was standing looking at thermometers I hear her burp and then felt my shoulder get warm... UG!!! Bad sign. Then I heard "splat". I look down and all over my foot (wearing flipflops) and the floor is some of Katherine's lunch. Yay. She's got spit up all down the front of her, I have it all over me, all over my foot and the floor of the store. So I try as I might to clean her up with her burp cloth (I was smart enough to bring that in) and then my shoulder and finally the floor of the store. That ended our shopping trip. All I could say was "Really Katherine?? Really?" She smiled and smiled. Turkey!!!!
We took a little "walk" out front tonight while Stephen was doing some yard things. I say walk and it was really just walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the house. Since I didn't learn my lesson earlier today I was again carrying her. She really does like looking around. She's quite alert. We saw a couple of neighborhood kids and a lady and her doggie. The dog licked her foot which had her crawling up my chest. hehe Whenever she gets startled by something and your holding her she curls up and it feels like she's trying to crawl up your chest. A truck drove by tonight and that startled her too. Again we had crawling up my chest baby. :P
We finished putting the dining room back together tonight. And got Katherine's play room back in order. We'd moved the dining room furniture into the play room while we painted. The dining room looks great, if we do say so ourselves. :) Now to get the computer room in some semblance of order. Between working from home and just accummulating so much paper - I'm not sure from what - I've got stacks all around my desk. It's making me NUTS. And I can't go through it and hold Nugget at the same time. She doesn't permit it. :P Maybe tomorrow... We'll see.
I have a lot of things on my hopefully tomorrow list: thank you cards, cleaning up the office so I can work in some order, laundry (dear God laundry)... those would be my top things. Probably in that order too. We'll see how that goes tomorrow though.
Today Katherine was quite the fidget. She didn't cry so much as yell. Just yell to get my attention so I'd pick her up. Then she'd stop. We played quite a bit today because that was the only way I could get her to stop yelling!! I went out to the store to get a new thermometer for the kitchen (the old one broke) and I carried her into Bed Bath and Beyond thinking she might like the looking around. As I was standing looking at thermometers I hear her burp and then felt my shoulder get warm... UG!!! Bad sign. Then I heard "splat". I look down and all over my foot (wearing flipflops) and the floor is some of Katherine's lunch. Yay. She's got spit up all down the front of her, I have it all over me, all over my foot and the floor of the store. So I try as I might to clean her up with her burp cloth (I was smart enough to bring that in) and then my shoulder and finally the floor of the store. That ended our shopping trip. All I could say was "Really Katherine?? Really?" She smiled and smiled. Turkey!!!!
We took a little "walk" out front tonight while Stephen was doing some yard things. I say walk and it was really just walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the house. Since I didn't learn my lesson earlier today I was again carrying her. She really does like looking around. She's quite alert. We saw a couple of neighborhood kids and a lady and her doggie. The dog licked her foot which had her crawling up my chest. hehe Whenever she gets startled by something and your holding her she curls up and it feels like she's trying to crawl up your chest. A truck drove by tonight and that startled her too. Again we had crawling up my chest baby. :P
We finished putting the dining room back together tonight. And got Katherine's play room back in order. We'd moved the dining room furniture into the play room while we painted. The dining room looks great, if we do say so ourselves. :) Now to get the computer room in some semblance of order. Between working from home and just accummulating so much paper - I'm not sure from what - I've got stacks all around my desk. It's making me NUTS. And I can't go through it and hold Nugget at the same time. She doesn't permit it. :P Maybe tomorrow... We'll see.
I have a lot of things on my hopefully tomorrow list: thank you cards, cleaning up the office so I can work in some order, laundry (dear God laundry)... those would be my top things. Probably in that order too. We'll see how that goes tomorrow though.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Whew
Last week we took Katherine to a photo place to have pictures taken for her baptism. We had our first family pictures taken too. Stephen got all dressed up in his suit and I put on a dress (sans spit up) and we actually made it through the pictures prior to some spit up arriving. (Stephen ended up getting it all down the front of him as we were looking and selecting pictures.) Ahhh, parenthood!!
Katherine is doing well. We had our first trip to the ER last week for a fever. I know – new parents. Her fever was 100.4 or higher for more than an hour. So we called the pediatrician’s on-call nurse and they told us to go to the ER. By the time we got there and into triage it was 99.4. Then when we went back to the ER room it was 98.6. We aren’t sure what caused the fever. All of the blood work and tests they did so far came back negative. They were doing a blood culture and said that if anything came back “off” we would be contacted. The culture was being looked at yesterday and we didn’t get a call. I plan to call the pediatrician on Tuesday to see if they heard anything back on it. Dr Hewitt, our pediatrician, said no news is good news – so that’s what we’re going with now. She’s not acting usual or seemingly different either so she seems to be fine. Dr Hewitt said it could have been a viral thing.
Katherine's also found a new facination... Her feet! We laugh saying that she found a new body part. She grabs at her toes and feet and is trying to get them into her mouth. She also has a favorite toy -- Leap!! He sings the alphabet. "Hi I'm Leap, Let's sing the alphabet song..." She stares at him with sheer facination. She also likes her (Leap) worm that sings songs about colors, numbers and famous composers. I'm trying to figure out whether it's the voices that the Leap toys have that facinate her or the colors. Those two things seem to be her favorites. Leap by far being the favorite of even those two.
Stephen is doing well. He and Katherine have their Daddy, daughter time each night. They head to her room after I give her a bath to eat her bedtime bottle, read some of her Golden’s Children’s Bible and sing some songs. (They’re in the Old Testament part.) Stephen said he’s learning a lot while reading to her. It seems there was a whole lot of smiting going on. He gets Katherine when she’s sweet smelling and sleepy. I get her when she first wakes up and she’s all smiles and happiness. All in all, we’ve got our routine going pretty well. Katherine’s even sleeping from about 9:30pm until around 7am. Pretty amazing for a less than 3 month old. (We think the sleep gene is mine… I seem to have a talent in that regard.) :P
This weekend we painted the dining room too. It looks great. We did two colors. One above the chair rail and another below. No stripes this time though!! (Katherine's room has stripes below the chair rail.) We did get a little creative though. The top is sponge painted on. We only had one sponge (shoot) so Stephen did all of the sponge painting. He did a fantastic job!!!! Now of course the work continues with moving everything back into the dining room.
We're hoping this week will be a little less eventful than last week was!!! Hope you enjoy the pictures. Now that we have pictures of Katherine in her dress we can get to sending Baptism thank you cards. Thanks to everyone for the patience!! :) I promise we didn't forget.
Stephen is doing well. He and Katherine have their Daddy, daughter time each night. They head to her room after I give her a bath to eat her bedtime bottle, read some of her Golden’s Children’s Bible and sing some songs. (They’re in the Old Testament part.) Stephen said he’s learning a lot while reading to her. It seems there was a whole lot of smiting going on. He gets Katherine when she’s sweet smelling and sleepy. I get her when she first wakes up and she’s all smiles and happiness. All in all, we’ve got our routine going pretty well. Katherine’s even sleeping from about 9:30pm until around 7am. Pretty amazing for a less than 3 month old. (We think the sleep gene is mine… I seem to have a talent in that regard.) :P
This weekend we painted the dining room too. It looks great. We did two colors. One above the chair rail and another below. No stripes this time though!! (Katherine's room has stripes below the chair rail.) We did get a little creative though. The top is sponge painted on. We only had one sponge (shoot) so Stephen did all of the sponge painting. He did a fantastic job!!!! Now of course the work continues with moving everything back into the dining room.
We're hoping this week will be a little less eventful than last week was!!! Hope you enjoy the pictures. Now that we have pictures of Katherine in her dress we can get to sending Baptism thank you cards. Thanks to everyone for the patience!! :) I promise we didn't forget.
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