Fun Sunday

Today was a good day. Sadie had trouble getting to sleep last night so she ended up slepping later this morning. Adam got to sleep even later! Anyhow, I made eggs and turkey with cheese for b-fast (yummy!) and opened up the glass doors and enjoyed the cool air. I even got to sit and look at my new Crate and Barrel catalouge! We went to Toys r us and looked at high chairs. We are trying to figure out if we want a regular high chair or the space saver. I think we decided on the space saver. I love the other chair we had origianlly wanted, but we just don't have the room for it. Later after that we went to have lunch at Cabana Cove and I got yummy sweet potato fries. By then it was almost 2pm. Adam had to go to his friend Bobby's house to hang out for his birthday (Bobby's). He was there, but Sadie and I got a visit from Mama, Papa and cousin Kat. Sadie was fussy for the majority og the time they were here (sorry ya'll) but it was still good to see them. When Adam got back we went over to Alfred A. Ring park and had a nice long hike. I had Sadie in the front carrier and she seemed to have a good time. She loves to look at trees and flowers and hear all the sounds in nature. She looks around with her eye big and open. After we got home we made dinner and gave Sadie a bath. She had a tough time getting to sleep again tonight (she keeps waking up crying) but she is sleeping pretty good now. She is still having problems with her tummy. Adam and I thought it may have (in addition to the stuff we've already been working on) to do with her bottles. We have tried the Dr. Browns bottles, the Playtex Vent-Air and the Mam ones. We also have the Playtex drop-in nurser bottles. We had been using the "preformed" liner which don't really collapse as she eats and so she is still getting a lot of air. So, I had a "duh" moment and bought the bag liner instead (they collapse much better as she eats so there is almost no air). We have only used them a couple of times and they seem to do her good, but we'll have to wait and see. I can't imagine that they would be worse! Our annual halloween party that my job throws for the community is this Thursday. I am excited. This year we will have a haunted house and lots of other fun stuff. It's gonna be a busy week getting all the final stuff done. I will definitely post pictures! Gigi got Sadie a cute pink flower costume so we will take pics of that too! Anyhow, I have laundry and dishes to do so...Loves!

Beautiful baby

painted pictures

This is the picture I painted for Sadie's room. I have had a hard time finding art that looks good with her bedding, so...I did it myself. No, it's not perfect, but I like it. I had wanted to paint her room, but I found out that if you paint a baby's room with regular paint it's really toxic and they have to stay out of the room for like a month. They do make "non-toxic" paint but it's $38 a gallon and babies still have to be out of the room for 2 weeks. That won't work. Instead my mom is letting me have this bookcase that used to be in my room when I was growing up. I am going to paint it (it's white-ish right now) and also paint a dresser we have in her closet and her white toy box too so her room will be more colorful. Hopefully it'll turn out nicely. I'll post pictures when we get it all done. Anyhow...Sadie is doing well. We had dinner at Poppa and Gma Carrie's house last night. Grandma and Grandpa J (my dad's parent's) were there. We all had a really good time. Sadie goes back to her pediatrician for a follow up to the digestion stuff we've been dealing with. Her appointment is on Thursday. She seems to be doing much better than she was, although am not with her most of the day. She was a bit fussy tonight but I think she was just really tired. Adam and I decided that she is at the age where we need to be really vigilant about an evening routine. Her days are so erratic. Some days she's with me, some days Adam, some days Adam's mom. Unfortunately there isn't much we do about that right now, but I really want to make her evenings predictable. So we're going to start being better about that. Adam and I are doing fine. both just tired and want more time together but I am thankful for the time we do have together. Well, Sadie is sleeping and I need to work on laundry and cuddle time with my cute hubby! Hope you enjoy the cute pics of Sadie! Loves.

Dinner with the fam.

Family time!

Sadie has had an exciting last few days. Aunt Dona and Uncle Ron (my mom's sis and her hubby) came down from Alabama to see the family and finally meet Sadie. They got here on Saturday and hung out at Mama and Papa's house, then on Sunday evening we all went out to dinner. Sadie got to see her Gigi, Grandaddy, Mama, Papa, Aunt Dona and Uncle Ron. We got eat yummies at the Olive Garden and visit for a bit. Sadie seemed to enjoy being cuddles by everyone. Today Sadie and I drove down to Ocala and spent some more time visiting with Mama, Papa, Aunt Dona and Uncle Ron. She got to sit outside on the veranda and meet Bebe, the dog. Aunt Dona and I snuck off for a bit to so some shopping and have lunch. Sadie got to spend time with Mama. Aunt Dona bought Sadie some clothes and I got a cute pair of shoes. It was really nice. Later this afternoon We met Adam at home (he had been at work since 5 am) and went to Sam's club to buy candy for our community halloween party. I am getting really excited about the party. We will have a haunted house, games, food and all kinds of stuff. It should be lots of fun.
The last few nights, Sadie has been waking up at 4-4:30am and staying up for an hour or so. We went through this a few weeks ago. I am thinking that she may be going through another growth spurt. She wakes up and eats and wants to play and be cuddles a bit, then goes back to sleep. I guess I just need to go to bed earlier for a while. Tomorrow I'm working, then Thursday Sadie has her surgical follow up with Dr. Bierle. Anyhow, I've had a busy day, so I'm going to take a bath and go to bed! Loves.

Video

Below is a cute video of Sadie. This is the first time she has done this, usually she just sits in the bath and smiles while I wash her. It is amazing how much she has changed (mentally) in the last month. Also, the video looks black at first, I forgot to take the lens cap off for a sec. Pause the music before you play the video. BEWARE...my annoying mommy voice is going on through this video...sorry! Hope ya'll enjoy!

Bath time. Play to see!

cutest baby ever!

Not much to say

So, I don't really have much to blog about tonight. Sadie has had a full day of gas drops and no dairy in mommy. She already seems to be doing better. She had a bloated tummy of gas this evening and was barely fussy. I rocked her a bit and patted her and put her down to sleep! I just wanted to post this slide show of these pics Adam took earlier today. She is sooo adorable and I had to share them. Loves.

Little Tummy (happy three months Sadie!)

Sadie saw Dr. Fortunato today. She weighs 10 lbs 8 oz. Dr. Fortunato said that her incision sights are healing nicely and she is growing well (although Adam and I both thought her weight would be a small issue). We did speak with her about Sadie's fussiness and her gas problems. Sadie was very distressed while we were there and Dr. Fortunato said she is definitely a colicky baby and gave us some things to try. I have to cut out dairy and spinach (I eat fresh spinach 1-2 times a day!) and we are also supposed to give her some mylicon drops 3-4 times a day. We go back in 2 weeks, to see if those changes have helped. I really hope they will. If things are going better I can try to add dairy and spinach back in. Adam liked Dr. Fortunato and said she was really great with Sadie. Other than her tummy troubles Sadie is doing really well. She is growing and reaching (and exceeding some) the milestones for her age. She loves to be on her tummy so she can look around. She loves to ride in the front carrier on me so she can be in the mix with everyone. She is reaching out for toys and grabbing them and putting them to her mouth. I know that none of these things is really a big deal, but to me they are all so amazing. It's so great to see how far she has come in only 3 months. Adam got a call from Helzberg Diamonds yesterday. They want to interview him for the manager position. He will interview on Thursday, so maybe he'll be able to get a better job while he's working on school.

Adam is such an amazing hubby and daddy. I have to give him snaps for turning out so great and for coming into his own, and becoming such an independent man. He has really grown up a lot since we were younger (duh, right?). I guess in some ways he hasn't had much choice. For whatever the reason, I think he's great. Loves, ya'll.

Baby girl

Sunday at Mama and Papa's

Today was a long day. We started early, 6:30 am, and put some of our stuff out for the yard sale at our community. We tried to make some cash, but only made $10. I sold a pooh bear carrier and Adam sold his old computer speakers. That's okay I guess. We finished up around 11:30 am and drove down to Ocala to see Mama and Papa. Sadie did okay for most of the ride there. She got fussy when we were on I-75 close to the Ocala exit. She cried and gave me the sad face until we got there. She seemed to have a good time getting lots of cuddles and kisses from Mama. Unfortunately Papa was feeling a bit "under the weather" so he got to admire her from afar. Next time Sadie will have to get extra Papa kisses! Sadie's tummy has been bothering her. It seems like every time she eats she gets very bad gas and starts screaming. She'll pull her little legs up to her tummy and squinch her face up and the shoot the out straight as a board and cry. I feel so bad for her. I don't have any other kids so I don't know what is normal, but this doesn't seem normal. Last night and today have been the worst I've seen her. She was "climbing" up my chest. We go to the pediatrician on Tuesday so I am going to ask her about it. Adam was doing some research about gassy babies online and we think she may have lactose overload. She has all of the symptoms and I have milk oversupply, which is the main cause. Basically what it is, is when she is drinking breast milk she is getting too much of the fore milk and not enough hind milk. My body has a strong milk letdown reflex and is causing my milk to be imbalanced, so her tummy gets full from fore milk before she gets the fatty hind milk and that is causing a lactose overload. This causes her to have excessive gas, bloating, watery poos, etc. The really crappy part is that these babies that have this get gas relief from eating again (which is why she farts and poops a lot while she is eating) and causes the same thing to happen, creating a cycle. I was hoping that since she gets a lot of pumped breast milk that it would resolve itself, but, because my milk may be "imbalanced" the same thing happens. We don't know if this is truly what is going on, but it seems like the most likely scenario. I know that babies can be fussy, that's okay. I just (and I'm not the only one) feel like she shouldn't have to have such a hard time eating. Anyhow. We'll ,maybe get some answers on Tuesday. It's 9pm now and I'm going to go watch Family Guy!! Loves to ya!

Sadie is so cute but...

...who does she look like? I say Adam, he says me! both pictures of Adam and I are from when we were 4 months old. Sadie isn't quite that old yet but she definitely is getting a less new, squished baby look. This week seemed to go by really fast. I work tomorrow, but Sunday we are both off. We will be trying to sell some of our stuff at the community yard sale, Sunday, in the afternoon we will be going to Ocala to see Mama and Papa. They just got back from a long trip to Europe (I am sooo jealous!) I hope that when Adam and I reach our 5 year anniversary we can go somewhere nice and romantic together. We didn't have much of a wedding and no honeymoon, so I'd really like to have a belated one! Maybe on a cruise or to a Sandals resort or even Italy (yeah right!). We'll have to wait until Sadie gets a bit older. I told Adam that when Sadie gets to be 3 or 4 I really want to go on a Disney cruise. I've heard really fantastic things about them. It seems like so much fun. I went on a Royal Caribbean cruise a few years ago and it was a lot of fun. Anyhow...I am rambling. Tuesday is Sadie's surgical follow up with her new pediatrician, Dr. Fortunato. Adam has to work and can't be there. I really hope that everything goes well with this new pediatrician. I feel so weird about switching doctors, but I guess I'd rather Sadie have a good Dr. taking care of her. Adam applied for a job at Shands at AGH, send him good, yummy love so he'll hopefully get this job and we'll be in a better place. I think it'd make him feel a lot better about himself too. I just love him so, so much. Today when I came home from work for lunch, Sadie was napping and Adam and I were just sitting talking ad I asked him what he had been doing with her today. He said they had gone on a walk, he read to her, all the normal stuff. Then he said that he made sock puppets named Emily and Todd and was doing a sock puppet show for her while she was siting in her bumbo. I almost started crying. That is why Adam is my husband and why I continually fall more and more in love with him. He is such a wonderful, kind hearted man. I am so very lucky to have him in my life and as my husband and the father of our child. Again...I ramble. So...who does she look like?