I should be in bed. Both girls are asleep and have been for about 2 hours. James is out of town though and I never want to go to bed when he's gone. I don't know ... the empty bed just makes me more lonely. Then, I sit down in front of the computer and it just sucks me in. Facebook and blogs to read and emails and shopping ... I could stay up all night!
Anyways, things are great here. Emily is still growing every day. She is almost 6 months old and is still a little behind in her development but I think she'll catch up very quickly. She's rolling over and loves sleeping on her tummy now. I chuckle at the video monitors, yes there are two on my nightstand, because both the girls have their butts in the air when they're sleeping. It's too cute! Emily is starting to sleep really well. Hopefully she'll be like her sister and be a good sleeper. Megan is learning new things too. It is so cute to see her kiss her sister and try to take care of her for me and goes running when she cries. I love watching her get Emily strapped into her car seat (no, she doesn't actually do it but she wiggles the buckles and pulls the strap). We've had a few play times at the mall and she is starting to understand interaction with other kids a little better. Too bad we missed the boat on Mothers Day Out programs up here for the next school year because I think she would really benefit. Registration took place while Emily was in the hospital so we just didn't think about it at the time. We still have lots of fun planned for the summer and there is still lots of summer left. yay? ugh - don't get me started on the heat!!
Such a boring post, I know, but we lead boring lives these days. I took some cute pics of James and the girls on Father's Day but I'm too tired to hunt down the camera right now. OH - we have actually gone to Mass the past weekends and it hasn't been too much of a nightmare with the girls. We get there early so we can get a good (aisle) seat and we take plenty of stuff to occupy Megan. It is good to be back there. I missed it. After Mass on Father's Day we went out to lunch at LaHaRanch (yum!). They have those little quarter rides out front and Megan got to ride one and she loved it. I wish I had the camera because the smile on her face was priceless!! We'll just have to go back! After our dinner of hamburgers and hash browns (hey, quick and easy. don't judge) we went out for ice cream!! Megan loves ice cream and I'm sure Emily will too in about 6 months! It was a good day!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Megan's Stats!
Megan had her 18 month checkup last week. Boy was it a nightmare!! She knew where we were after we got out of the elevator, and I have to say she's not a big fan of elevators either. She kind of fussed all the way into the office but I let her out of the stroller in the waiting room and she had fun playing ... until they called her name. Poor girl! You would have thought being weighed was some sort of torture (well, maybe it is for the 30+ crowd but not for toddlers!!) :-) We were "those" people at the pedi office. The ones I used to tell Megan to not pay any attention to. His only concern was her lack of speech. There's actually a name for delayed speech!!! He wants us to call ECI and have them do an evaluation but he wasn't too worried because she comprehends so much. Hopefully the words will start flowing before we have to go back in December. He doesn't really want us going much longer than 20 months before seeking some sort of intervention ... but we'll see. She's my "cave baby". She's giant and all the does is point and grunt! hee hee! poor Megan. I guess I shouldn't call her that.
Here are her most recent measurements:
she weighs 29.3 pounds ... 95%
she is 35" tall ... >97%
She is way off the charts in her height and head circumference so she's still my tall, skinny, big headed girl. I almost fell over when the nurse said 35" tall. That's almost 3 feet tall. She's only 18 months old. She is wearing 2T clothes, consistently, with the occasional 3T thrown in (and in those snug fitting PJs). Now that's just silly!! Her favorite things to do are to mimic mommy. She loves her babies, and she kisses them and burps them, and puts them in the swing, bouncy chair, and her little stroller. She'll even put a burp cloth over her shoulder sometimes. She fed her baby doll a puff yesterday. It was too cute. She has started kissing her little sister too, which almost brought me to tears the first time I saw it. She doesn't share those kisses with anyone else, just Emily. Oh, and the dog. She kisses Kaitlin. The girl absolutely LOVES being outside. She always wants to go out and never wants to come in. Unfortunately it is WAY TOO HOT to head out in the afternoons now so we have to do any outdoor activities in the morning. We haven't hit the pool yet but I am anxious to see how she'll react. She really likes playing with the hose or a bucket of water at home.
Emily is getting bigger every day too. She doesn't go back to any doctors until the week after the 4th of July. Then we have a bunch. She has to be closing in on 15 lbs. She is always hungry. I think she's ready for cereal but the doc said to wait until 6 months. She is consistently sucking down 8 oz bottles, sometimes within 3 hours of each other. Nobody will ever accuse the Starke girls of not being eaters, that's for sure. She's rolling over both ways, almost. She can't quite get her head upright when she goes from back to front and if I make her go from front to back too many times, she gets frustrated and face-plants and screams. She is sleeping better but still not on any sort of schedule. It is hard to find a schedule when she wakes up to eat at different times every night/morning. Today, she slept until 5 am, so that's when I got up for the day. (I should be napping instead of blogging.) She is really smiling and laughing now and absolutely hates it when you're entertaining her then walk away. We have started bathing her every night because she really sleeps better on nights she gets a bath. That's the only routine we have for her right now and it seems to work well. She plays with toys now too, when they're hanging over her head or right in front of her. She likes her time in her bumbo chair but I think it still wears her out quickly. She is still sleeping most of the day and night but that's to be expected since she is really somewhere between 5.5 months and 3 months old.
We made our first trip to church on Sunday. It was our first Mass since Emily was born. It was really good to be back. We had gotten into a great Sunday routine with the 830 Mass and breakfast afterwards but there is no way we can make it to the 830 anymore. Megan sleeps too late and we're a circus when we're trying to leave the house. Luckily, the have a 10:00 that seemed to work really well this weekend and we got to go to lunch afterwards. mmmm Snuffer's!! Then we hit the outlet mall, me in my skirt and heels pushing the stretch stroller. It was fun though and the girls, of course, got more cute clothes that the really didn't need.
If you were trying to go to the Rangers game Saturday, or anywhere along I-30 from Dallas towards Arlington, I hope you didn't get caught in traffic. There was a bit of a wreck and I have to say I am very happy my brother is OK. He was the front seat passenger in the Hummer. Not much left on that side, is there? The guys were all OK, there were 5 of them in the Hummer, as were the other two drivers. No, the driver of the Hummer wasn't at fault, nor was he drinking. These things can happen in the blink of an eye and sometimes there's just nothing you can do about it. You just have to thank your lucky stars when something like this happens and looks worse than it was. OH - and the airbags didn't deploy. hmmmmm?
Here are her most recent measurements:
she weighs 29.3 pounds ... 95%
she is 35" tall ... >97%
She is way off the charts in her height and head circumference so she's still my tall, skinny, big headed girl. I almost fell over when the nurse said 35" tall. That's almost 3 feet tall. She's only 18 months old. She is wearing 2T clothes, consistently, with the occasional 3T thrown in (and in those snug fitting PJs). Now that's just silly!! Her favorite things to do are to mimic mommy. She loves her babies, and she kisses them and burps them, and puts them in the swing, bouncy chair, and her little stroller. She'll even put a burp cloth over her shoulder sometimes. She fed her baby doll a puff yesterday. It was too cute. She has started kissing her little sister too, which almost brought me to tears the first time I saw it. She doesn't share those kisses with anyone else, just Emily. Oh, and the dog. She kisses Kaitlin. The girl absolutely LOVES being outside. She always wants to go out and never wants to come in. Unfortunately it is WAY TOO HOT to head out in the afternoons now so we have to do any outdoor activities in the morning. We haven't hit the pool yet but I am anxious to see how she'll react. She really likes playing with the hose or a bucket of water at home.
Emily is getting bigger every day too. She doesn't go back to any doctors until the week after the 4th of July. Then we have a bunch. She has to be closing in on 15 lbs. She is always hungry. I think she's ready for cereal but the doc said to wait until 6 months. She is consistently sucking down 8 oz bottles, sometimes within 3 hours of each other. Nobody will ever accuse the Starke girls of not being eaters, that's for sure. She's rolling over both ways, almost. She can't quite get her head upright when she goes from back to front and if I make her go from front to back too many times, she gets frustrated and face-plants and screams. She is sleeping better but still not on any sort of schedule. It is hard to find a schedule when she wakes up to eat at different times every night/morning. Today, she slept until 5 am, so that's when I got up for the day. (I should be napping instead of blogging.) She is really smiling and laughing now and absolutely hates it when you're entertaining her then walk away. We have started bathing her every night because she really sleeps better on nights she gets a bath. That's the only routine we have for her right now and it seems to work well. She plays with toys now too, when they're hanging over her head or right in front of her. She likes her time in her bumbo chair but I think it still wears her out quickly. She is still sleeping most of the day and night but that's to be expected since she is really somewhere between 5.5 months and 3 months old.
We made our first trip to church on Sunday. It was our first Mass since Emily was born. It was really good to be back. We had gotten into a great Sunday routine with the 830 Mass and breakfast afterwards but there is no way we can make it to the 830 anymore. Megan sleeps too late and we're a circus when we're trying to leave the house. Luckily, the have a 10:00 that seemed to work really well this weekend and we got to go to lunch afterwards. mmmm Snuffer's!! Then we hit the outlet mall, me in my skirt and heels pushing the stretch stroller. It was fun though and the girls, of course, got more cute clothes that the really didn't need.
If you were trying to go to the Rangers game Saturday, or anywhere along I-30 from Dallas towards Arlington, I hope you didn't get caught in traffic. There was a bit of a wreck and I have to say I am very happy my brother is OK. He was the front seat passenger in the Hummer. Not much left on that side, is there? The guys were all OK, there were 5 of them in the Hummer, as were the other two drivers. No, the driver of the Hummer wasn't at fault, nor was he drinking. These things can happen in the blink of an eye and sometimes there's just nothing you can do about it. You just have to thank your lucky stars when something like this happens and looks worse than it was. OH - and the airbags didn't deploy. hmmmmm?
I'm off to do laundry. I'm a slave to the housework today. Had a great checkup at the dentist this morning so I guess I should get to work since I got to relax in the dentist chair for 30 minutes. :-) Nothing like considering the dentist appointment a 'break'. :-)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
FYI
I am finally in the process of updating my pics site. I have added a few new albums for your viewing pleasure but still have a long way to go.
Does anybody own actual printed photos anymore? It's kinda sad. I'll never get around to scrapbooking (partly because of time and partly because all that cute stuff costs too damn much!) so I guess I'll just pass pictures down on CDs for future generations. It's like the shoebox full of pictures that we all have of previous generations, right?
Does anybody own actual printed photos anymore? It's kinda sad. I'll never get around to scrapbooking (partly because of time and partly because all that cute stuff costs too damn much!) so I guess I'll just pass pictures down on CDs for future generations. It's like the shoebox full of pictures that we all have of previous generations, right?
Monday, June 01, 2009
Leaps and bounds
Leaps and bounds ... my girls are growing by leaps and bounds!!
Emily started rolling over Saturday night. Goodness knows I don't give her anywhere near enough tummy time so I was VERY surprised when she plopped on over the other night. She has become such a smiley little girl, when she's not screaming to be changed, fed or held. She has such a cute little smile, completely different from her gassy smile too! But, if she's smiling at you then you leave, be prepared to hear about it. She loves attention and hates being lonely, apparently. And just within the last week or so she has started to giggle a little. Yesterday she gave me a deep belly laugh that melted my heart. She seems to be developing somewhere between her actual age (almost 5 months - OMG!) and adjusted age (about 2.5 months), which makes me very happy. Even though our pedi didn't seem to think it was necessary, I'm looking forward to our visit with Priscilla, her developmental nurse from the NICU, in July just to get a read on how they think she's doing. When Megan was a baby I was glued to that "what to expect" book but I haven't even looked at it with Emily. It's so hard trying to figure out where she fits in that I just don't bother. She's doing fine and that's all that matters. Luckily, she didn't get my cold. Megan was a snot factory for a few days and I gave her some medicine but she never ran a fever. Emily has a little more snot than usual but that's it, nothing more.
SO ... tonight is Emily's first night in the guest room!! She is now in the pack n play instead of the travel crib too. I'll be interested to see how she does. So far so good (fingers crossed - because I've had a few beers and would like the sleep - mommy's such a lush). She cried when I first put her down but all quiet since then. We don't really want to move her upstairs into her room until she's sleeping through the night. That worked with Megan because she was sleeping through the night at 4 months!! By that, I mean from about 10 to 6 ish. Emily goes from about 9 pm to 3 am then only makes it to about 7 after that. I really don't want to trek up the stairs at 3 am, let alone worry about Megan waking up, but I guess we'll have to put her up there eventually.
My life isn't all Emily. Megan is starting to show signs of a good heart, rather than the whole 'plucking wings off butterflies' theory I had earlier. :-) We went out for ice cream on Saturday night, Marble Slab is right down the road. Megan just shared our ice cream, she certainly doesn't need her own yet, and when James offered her the spoon she pushed his hand and the spoon towards Emily who was sleeping in her car seat on the floor. It was so sweet I almost cried!! She only tried to share with her once ... but the fact that she even did it was just so cute!! Megan enjoyed the ice cream and her eyes just lit up with every bite. Megan has also finally started walking up into her treehouse/fort all by herself. She wanted nothing to do with the ramp or slide until we had all the kiddos over on Memorial weekend. I guess she saw all the fun they had and decided she needed to try it out. She still isn't too sure about the slide but she sure likes walking up and scooching down the ramp. It's too cute and we've even gotten comfortable enough with her doing it that we can sit down and watch from the patio. As long as we watch.
So that's what's going on in our world. I can't believe I'm still awake at 11:00. I have finally put away the pump for good. Emily is on all formula all the time and she seems to be adjusting well. It will make my life easier I guess but might make my posts even more limited. I only have time on the computer after everyone is in bed, and shouldn't I be in bed too?
Emily started rolling over Saturday night. Goodness knows I don't give her anywhere near enough tummy time so I was VERY surprised when she plopped on over the other night. She has become such a smiley little girl, when she's not screaming to be changed, fed or held. She has such a cute little smile, completely different from her gassy smile too! But, if she's smiling at you then you leave, be prepared to hear about it. She loves attention and hates being lonely, apparently. And just within the last week or so she has started to giggle a little. Yesterday she gave me a deep belly laugh that melted my heart. She seems to be developing somewhere between her actual age (almost 5 months - OMG!) and adjusted age (about 2.5 months), which makes me very happy. Even though our pedi didn't seem to think it was necessary, I'm looking forward to our visit with Priscilla, her developmental nurse from the NICU, in July just to get a read on how they think she's doing. When Megan was a baby I was glued to that "what to expect" book but I haven't even looked at it with Emily. It's so hard trying to figure out where she fits in that I just don't bother. She's doing fine and that's all that matters. Luckily, she didn't get my cold. Megan was a snot factory for a few days and I gave her some medicine but she never ran a fever. Emily has a little more snot than usual but that's it, nothing more.
SO ... tonight is Emily's first night in the guest room!! She is now in the pack n play instead of the travel crib too. I'll be interested to see how she does. So far so good (fingers crossed - because I've had a few beers and would like the sleep - mommy's such a lush). She cried when I first put her down but all quiet since then. We don't really want to move her upstairs into her room until she's sleeping through the night. That worked with Megan because she was sleeping through the night at 4 months!! By that, I mean from about 10 to 6 ish. Emily goes from about 9 pm to 3 am then only makes it to about 7 after that. I really don't want to trek up the stairs at 3 am, let alone worry about Megan waking up, but I guess we'll have to put her up there eventually.
My life isn't all Emily. Megan is starting to show signs of a good heart, rather than the whole 'plucking wings off butterflies' theory I had earlier. :-) We went out for ice cream on Saturday night, Marble Slab is right down the road. Megan just shared our ice cream, she certainly doesn't need her own yet, and when James offered her the spoon she pushed his hand and the spoon towards Emily who was sleeping in her car seat on the floor. It was so sweet I almost cried!! She only tried to share with her once ... but the fact that she even did it was just so cute!! Megan enjoyed the ice cream and her eyes just lit up with every bite. Megan has also finally started walking up into her treehouse/fort all by herself. She wanted nothing to do with the ramp or slide until we had all the kiddos over on Memorial weekend. I guess she saw all the fun they had and decided she needed to try it out. She still isn't too sure about the slide but she sure likes walking up and scooching down the ramp. It's too cute and we've even gotten comfortable enough with her doing it that we can sit down and watch from the patio. As long as we watch.
So that's what's going on in our world. I can't believe I'm still awake at 11:00. I have finally put away the pump for good. Emily is on all formula all the time and she seems to be adjusting well. It will make my life easier I guess but might make my posts even more limited. I only have time on the computer after everyone is in bed, and shouldn't I be in bed too?
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