Well it is now the 28th and Ashlynn has not gotten bored with her mobile as of yet. I haven't gotten bored watching her with it yet either. She has turned into quite a little talker.... not that you could understand a word of it.... but those bills and coos are enough to turn a stone man into mush. She loves talking to who ever happens to be holding her. She imitates anything that you do. My mom has spent weeks flicking her tongue at her, and Ashlynn tries so hard to do it back. She loves any face that you make at her that shows your tongue right now and could spend hours sticking her tongue back out at you. She is getting so close to a laugh that it has all of us laughing with delight as she smiles and makes a sound that is close to a gasp. She is such a little social butterfly that she has a very hard time if you leave her to her own. We do it though because she needs to be able to entertain herself also. That is where that godsend of a mobile comes in.
The other night her face just exploded with eczema. It is so hard to figure out what food I am eating that is causing it. What is worse is the fear that it could be more than one. It makes me hurt just looking at her poor little face. It is all around the back of her head now too. I am going to ask the doc at her well baby appointment next week if there is something more that we can do for it. Perhaps there is a prescription creme that will help. I had to go back to the pump and feed today because her face is so sore. The problem with that is that when she gets back to healed and I want to breast feed again it is such a struggle. Let me tell you that this little one has a mind of her own. She gets the bottle and realizes that it is easier and doesn't want to go back to the breast. We had several days of fussing last time. Enough so that Dave wanted to just pump and feed all the time. I however was not so in favor of that. I have taken quite a liking to the time that she and I spend feeding. It took a while but once we fell into a routine that worked for both of us it really has become a great bonding experience. Ah well..... What is a few days fussing really in the long and the short of it. Her face is so sore and this is far more comfortable for her. Now we just have to find the offensive food and ban it forever. I can hardly stand what it is doing to my little one.
Tomorrow she will be officially 2 months old. I don't know whether to say that the time has flown or wonder how it can only be two months. As quickly as it seems to have gone.... I cannot imagine life with out her now.... even when I am wishing to God that she would go back to sleep because it is 3 AM and the rest of the world is asleep. Life is good and the two months that she has been here have been the best I have ever had. To be blessed with both Ashlynn and Dave in my life makes me one of the luckiest people in the world, I think. She doesn't even look like the same baby. She has chunked out nicely.
Speaking of Dave he will be35 on Monday. Holy moly 35 years young.... I'd make a crack about his age, but I am not far behind really. He never lets me do anything big, but my parents are going to babysit so that I can take him to dinner and maybe a movie. We'll do it on the Sat after though because New Years has so many people out and about and neither Dave nor I really play well with others.
Well i gotta run. The last half of this was typed with the angel on my lap. ( not so easy) and she is starting to sing me the dinner ( or really 4th dinner, babies sure eat a lot) song.
Melissa
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
New toys and new discoveries
One by one we are toting out all of the Christmas gifts that Ashlynn got. We have gotten a grand total of two up and running. But boy what a power house those two are. My mother got her the Rainforest peek-a-boo leaf mobile by Fisher Price for the crib. She swears by the Fisher Price Mobiles as she says that with her own children it was the only way to get any thing done. 10 minutes of peace as she calls it. She was really excited when she got it and realized that it runs even longer now. She got it so that Dave and I could get something done.... The only problem was that Ashlynn was so remarkably taken with it that Dave and I sat there the whole time watching her. She was COMPLETELY enthralled. The way that she was talking and cooing to it had Dave and I in the same state. What ever my mother paid for that toy it was WELL worth it!!!! That is the first time that I have seen my little one so taken with anything.... of course at 2 months she is only just starting to be taken by much of anything but food. Still we have offered a lot of other things for her to play with and look and talk to and none of them have had the effect that this one little mobile had.
With that in mind we were really excited to open the 123 Rain forest gym mat. That was not the big winner that the mobile was but it certainly did capture her attention. The cat that is supposed to be hit by her waving hand gets hit by her feet instead and she gets that little thing singing to her. The more it plays music the more she hits it. It is great. Only drawback was that there is no On/Off switch but not a real big deal because although she often sleeps on her back with her legs pulled up to her chest they don't reach that far yet so most likely she won't hit it accidentally.
Dave and I got her the laugh and learn farm pals kick mat for the crib. Thank GOD there is an off switch on that. She kicks and it plays so she gets more excited and kicks again. It can go on like that for an hour if we let it. I wanted to get the piano keyboard one, but the toys r us that we went to didn't have it. Dave talked me into this one because he was sure that it would be just as much fun. He was right Ashlynn loves it and that is what counts to be sure. We just have to get better about making sure that we turn it off before she falls asleep. It has caused a few wake ups that have been unfortunate... but she is a really good tempered baby and even if she doesn't go right back to sleep at least she is nice about it. : )
Life with Ashlynn is settling in slowly but surely. We are all still trying to get our bearings back and we are finding our happy middle. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am so taken with her and with the life that we are starting. Now if we can just get the eczema thing under control. I made mention to Dave that I had read on a web site that nursing mothers eating salmon can often help. Dave came home from the grocer the next day with 4 meals of salmon. It is great because we both love salmon, but that tells you how thrilled he is to have his little girl. I certainly have been upstaged by his little Urp Angel as he calls her. I am not complaining in any way. He deserves it. She can hardly take her eyes off of him when he is in the room. She can see 1/2 way across a room now as evidenced by the fact that the other day she heard his voice and turned to him. He smiled at her and she smiled right back. There could be no mistaking the fact that she could see him. It is amazing having a child and knowing the love that you can share with your child. It truly is what you've never realized your life was missing. We have completed our life and I think that both Dave and I are thrilled despite the trouble that we are having getting life back to an even keel.
Speaking of even keel. It is amazing that I have found two days in a row to be able to type anything. I am not sure where the time came from. It is difficult on some days to find time to shower. I shouldn't complain I know. I have had my dream fulfilled. So I feel guilty when I do complain. It is just that I am supposed to be getting so much more done in a day than I am. some days the only tasks that I get accomplished are feed and diaper baby.... repeat. As a matter of fact if I knew how to I would put a repeat sign over the top of that little phrase because that is how it goes. Now I know that this is how things are supposed to go.... but I am a homemaker and I have yet to figure out how to make a home. Dave is really great right now about picking up the slack but DANG he is working to make sure that I don't have to so that can't go on forever. I know that it is a simple matter of organization but you need time to get organized. Even when I do get time I end up feeling like a lump that has had all of the energy sucked right out of me. And even as I write this she is waking up. She slept just long enough for me to write and post this..... Perhaps that is what I will do. Write daily as long as she sleeps. That could make for some really short log entries.... Well gotta run. She is singing her song to me
Melissa
With that in mind we were really excited to open the 123 Rain forest gym mat. That was not the big winner that the mobile was but it certainly did capture her attention. The cat that is supposed to be hit by her waving hand gets hit by her feet instead and she gets that little thing singing to her. The more it plays music the more she hits it. It is great. Only drawback was that there is no On/Off switch but not a real big deal because although she often sleeps on her back with her legs pulled up to her chest they don't reach that far yet so most likely she won't hit it accidentally.
Dave and I got her the laugh and learn farm pals kick mat for the crib. Thank GOD there is an off switch on that. She kicks and it plays so she gets more excited and kicks again. It can go on like that for an hour if we let it. I wanted to get the piano keyboard one, but the toys r us that we went to didn't have it. Dave talked me into this one because he was sure that it would be just as much fun. He was right Ashlynn loves it and that is what counts to be sure. We just have to get better about making sure that we turn it off before she falls asleep. It has caused a few wake ups that have been unfortunate... but she is a really good tempered baby and even if she doesn't go right back to sleep at least she is nice about it. : )
Life with Ashlynn is settling in slowly but surely. We are all still trying to get our bearings back and we are finding our happy middle. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am so taken with her and with the life that we are starting. Now if we can just get the eczema thing under control. I made mention to Dave that I had read on a web site that nursing mothers eating salmon can often help. Dave came home from the grocer the next day with 4 meals of salmon. It is great because we both love salmon, but that tells you how thrilled he is to have his little girl. I certainly have been upstaged by his little Urp Angel as he calls her. I am not complaining in any way. He deserves it. She can hardly take her eyes off of him when he is in the room. She can see 1/2 way across a room now as evidenced by the fact that the other day she heard his voice and turned to him. He smiled at her and she smiled right back. There could be no mistaking the fact that she could see him. It is amazing having a child and knowing the love that you can share with your child. It truly is what you've never realized your life was missing. We have completed our life and I think that both Dave and I are thrilled despite the trouble that we are having getting life back to an even keel.
Speaking of even keel. It is amazing that I have found two days in a row to be able to type anything. I am not sure where the time came from. It is difficult on some days to find time to shower. I shouldn't complain I know. I have had my dream fulfilled. So I feel guilty when I do complain. It is just that I am supposed to be getting so much more done in a day than I am. some days the only tasks that I get accomplished are feed and diaper baby.... repeat. As a matter of fact if I knew how to I would put a repeat sign over the top of that little phrase because that is how it goes. Now I know that this is how things are supposed to go.... but I am a homemaker and I have yet to figure out how to make a home. Dave is really great right now about picking up the slack but DANG he is working to make sure that I don't have to so that can't go on forever. I know that it is a simple matter of organization but you need time to get organized. Even when I do get time I end up feeling like a lump that has had all of the energy sucked right out of me. And even as I write this she is waking up. She slept just long enough for me to write and post this..... Perhaps that is what I will do. Write daily as long as she sleeps. That could make for some really short log entries.... Well gotta run. She is singing her song to me
Melissa
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Baby's first Christmas
Merry Christmas! We finally got there. We finally had a Christmas with a child. It was a long road, but we got there. Christmas presents are tough to buy for a less than 2 month old child. Not to mention the fact that I wrapped all of her presents only to unwrap them myself a few days later. Ashlynn meanwhile showed how excited that she was by sleeping through the entire ordeal. Not mind you that I expected any more than that. She has managed to sleep through the opening of every gift she has received to date. Which is I suppose as it should be.
Dave made a wonderful prime rib that we ate over at my parents house. My brothers were there and my niece Ariah was there also. She had eaten so many treats that she didn't do the meat much justice..... She is 2 though and you cannot look for any more from her really. Ashlynn grumped for a little bit in the afternoon..... That is when she tends to get out of sorts.... but was an angel the rest of the night. We topped it all off with a caramel apple pie.... So a few hours after I ate it Ashlynn got her first taste of Prime Rib.
I am turning into a meat and potatoes kind of girl.... I have had to. Ashlynn cannot tolerate anything that is really spicy. Onions and tomatoes also give her problems. Between the fussy tummy and the sensitive skin issues it has me down to pretty bland foods. She has eczema on her face and neck and it doesn't seem to want to get better quickly. We have all changed to completely scent free soaps and lotions. We have also stopped using any laundry detergent or fabric softener with any smell to it even for our own clothes. so we are left now with the fact that most likely it is something that she is eating through me that she has an allergy to. The problem is finding out what. That means that my diet has to be taken down to practically nothing and built up slowly. Or one by one I have to remove items until her skin clears up. At least there are some ideas as to popular trouble makers. No big deal really. I need to clean up my diet anyway. Not being pregnant has gone to my head and I have been a bad bad girl. The problem is that I am causing issues with my own diabetes. I have had a hard time getting that discipline back. I told myself for so long it was only until the baby was born and now I have to get my butt back in gear because my body did not go back to my pre-pregnancy ability to handle food. One day at a time.
Dave has been mostly healthy since we got his gallbladder taken care of. He is having issues with his own blood sugars and in fact it seems that he may have more trouble than I do with it. We are taking care of that though. He is loving having a little girl. He is such a good daddy. Ashlynn adores him and lights up when he gets home from work. She always has a smile for her daddy. We are so happy right now. We are learning how to be a family. It seems to come natural. Life is good. Ashlynn goes for her 2 month check up next week. I am not looking forward to that. I would spare her the immunizations if I didn't think that they will protect her. Dave has graciously stepped up to the plate and will be going with us to that appointment. I am afraid that I will need more comfort than she will. Say a prayer for us.
love to all
Melissa
Dave made a wonderful prime rib that we ate over at my parents house. My brothers were there and my niece Ariah was there also. She had eaten so many treats that she didn't do the meat much justice..... She is 2 though and you cannot look for any more from her really. Ashlynn grumped for a little bit in the afternoon..... That is when she tends to get out of sorts.... but was an angel the rest of the night. We topped it all off with a caramel apple pie.... So a few hours after I ate it Ashlynn got her first taste of Prime Rib.
I am turning into a meat and potatoes kind of girl.... I have had to. Ashlynn cannot tolerate anything that is really spicy. Onions and tomatoes also give her problems. Between the fussy tummy and the sensitive skin issues it has me down to pretty bland foods. She has eczema on her face and neck and it doesn't seem to want to get better quickly. We have all changed to completely scent free soaps and lotions. We have also stopped using any laundry detergent or fabric softener with any smell to it even for our own clothes. so we are left now with the fact that most likely it is something that she is eating through me that she has an allergy to. The problem is finding out what. That means that my diet has to be taken down to practically nothing and built up slowly. Or one by one I have to remove items until her skin clears up. At least there are some ideas as to popular trouble makers. No big deal really. I need to clean up my diet anyway. Not being pregnant has gone to my head and I have been a bad bad girl. The problem is that I am causing issues with my own diabetes. I have had a hard time getting that discipline back. I told myself for so long it was only until the baby was born and now I have to get my butt back in gear because my body did not go back to my pre-pregnancy ability to handle food. One day at a time.
Dave has been mostly healthy since we got his gallbladder taken care of. He is having issues with his own blood sugars and in fact it seems that he may have more trouble than I do with it. We are taking care of that though. He is loving having a little girl. He is such a good daddy. Ashlynn adores him and lights up when he gets home from work. She always has a smile for her daddy. We are so happy right now. We are learning how to be a family. It seems to come natural. Life is good. Ashlynn goes for her 2 month check up next week. I am not looking forward to that. I would spare her the immunizations if I didn't think that they will protect her. Dave has graciously stepped up to the plate and will be going with us to that appointment. I am afraid that I will need more comfort than she will. Say a prayer for us.
love to all
Melissa
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