Month: December 2012

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Family/Travel

Sick, party of four

We made it through the Christmas holiday {relatively} sickness free. After their colds & hand foot mouth & Lucy’s bout with pink eye 10 days before, we were feeling lucky to experience a fabulous first Christmas with just little baby colds & Lucy having chapped cheeks. {Christmas post with pics to come}

Then, on the 26th, Zach woke up with his left eye super goopy & stuck shut. His beautiful eye lashes were all matted. I scooped him up in the ergo & carried him close
as we shopped that afternoon. He seemed okay & tolerated eye compresses in the Loft & Crate & Barrel bathrooms. By Wednesday night, though, his eye was still bad & we felt like his little cold wasn’t great either.

Jason got up with me Thurs around 3a for Lucy’s night feeding feeling like he’d been hit by a truck. He’d caught the babies’ cold bad.

Lucy woke up Thurs morning with yellow gunk in her eyes & we realized it’d be a trip to urgent care for both. luckily, we heard about KidMed which was super close by my parents’ house. They opened at 3p & we were waiting at 245. We were impressed by the nurses, doctor & staff. We got in & seen & on our way within an hour. They checked & thankfully both were negative for RSV & the flu. They were diagnosed with viral colds/upper respatory infections & pink eye. A couple days of drops three times a day, & the babies are doing much better.

They got much TLC Thurs & Fri from their Pops & me while Jason rested. We decided to delay going home til they were better.

Of course, Sat, my dad & I woke up stuffy & with sore throats. After a couple doses of dayquil, he felt better, but they didn’t have anything I could take but cough drops . I’ve been struggling through & thankful that my Mom stayed well & Jason was on the mend enough for me to rest Sat evening.

As I write this Sunday afternoon traveling back home, lil crusty noses are all that remains of the babies’ sickness, Jason has the colds-almost-over cough, & I have tissues stuck up my nose. Good times!

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Everything Else Food

Tuttorosso Tomatoes Winner

I had promised to announce the winner last Friday, then the babies got sick, as did the husband & now me. Through my fog of it all, I’m sorry to say this is late.

But I’m excited to announce the winner of a prize package from Tuttorosso Tomatoes is…

{drum roll}

 

Father of twins! Congrats! Stay tuned for an email shortly.

And for those who missed out, I have more tomato product love in the works for the new year!

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Babies

Lucy: Seven Months

Oh our Lucy girl. She’s such a joy. I’m about writing this a week late because we’ve been busy celebrating the Christmas holiday with family. Lucy & Zach too have been spoiled with love & hugs & kisses this week. I’ll post about their first Christmas soon. Back to Lucy girl.

I weighed us on her month day & she’s about 17 pounds now. We’re still putting 6 month clothes on her, but in cloth diapers they’re getting tight. I hit up after Christmas sales at the children’s place & bought my baby 9-12 mo clothes. Crazy how quick she’s growing.

Very serious Lucy girl wearing her Ms Claus suit.
Very serious Lucy girl wearing her Ms Claus suit.

She’s almost sitting independently & very very very close to crawling. She loves to move the little beads across the bar on the exersauser. She likes us singing, reading, bouncing & dancing! She’s getting good at standing too.

Lucy often gets attacked by the sock monster & is thrilled when she finds herself sock less. It’s then that she can most easily grab her toes & stuff them in her mouth!

Lucy’s still a fabulous nurser and she’s learned to help hold her 5 oz bottles. She eats every 3-4 hours. We started her with solids right after their 6 mo appointment & she is not a fan. It’s like shes personally offended I’m not giving her the boob. She has tolerated bananas & kinda like the peas we tried this week.

She continues to do a good job sleeping. Typically waking up once a night for a quick nursing session. She still takes smaller naps.

Lucy experienced her first (since postNICU) antibiotics  during the past month when she had hand foot mouth & an eye infection. She handled both the eye drops & dealing with the blisters on her hands, feet & bottom like a champ.

Happy {super late} seven months baby girl! Here’s hoping the sweet Santa outfit photos from your month day make it off the camera & on here before your eight month post!

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Family/Travel

Merry Christmas

Hope you & yours are having a fabulous Christmas Day. Below is our 2012 Christmas card. The photos were taken by my friend Emilee Beth & the card was designed by Becca of Jumping Jax Designs.

{deleted our last name on purpose}
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Babies

Zach: Seven Months

Our Zach. He’s Mommy’s boy for sure. He likes others: his daycare ladies, his Daddy, his Pops & Cici. But if he’s the least bit tired, hungry, or sees me while being held by someone else, he’s arms out whining until I scoop his lil booty up.

Zach sleeps pretty well. He continues to take two naps at daycare. And he usually sleeps from 830-7a getting up once or twice a night for nursing & snuggling. His favorite is to sleep on us on the couch or cuddling with me in bed 4a on, but we try to not have that happen much.

And speaking of little booty, I weighed him on his month day & he was exactly 14 pounds. I’ve transitioned him to size 2 in his Huggies naturals & he’s a size two in the honest co disposables we’re trying too.

He still fits girth size in 3 month clothes, but one piece outfits look like capris. I’ve been retiring them to pass down. And I’ve been putting him in 3-6 mo & introducing 6 more clothes. Our stash of hand-me-downs has dwindled, but I found some Carter’s deals I’m looking forward to him wearing.

7 mo old Zach {the Santa suit edition}
7 mo old Zach {the Santa suit edition}

Zach recently had his first high fever & doses of baby Tylenol. I’m pretty sure he had hand foot mouth only in his month. It occurred just days after his sister’s bout of it & just a day after getting his first two bottom teeth! The left front bottom popped out the Sat after I saw the right tooth Fri afternoon. It was quite a busy few days.

Zach is all but sitting unassisted. He gets into crawling position but hasn’t made any moves yet. Zachy discovered his feet within the last couple weeks but still likes eating his fingers best. He loves reading books, the birdy on the exersauser, & of course, his monkey wubba.

He loves reaching for our food. I can no longer eat while he nurses. He’s still nursing well {besides the days he had a fever}. We’ve upped his bottles to 5 oz of fortified breast milk after his daycare teachers saying he still seemed hungry after 4.5 oz. Over the last week, we stopped the zantac reflux medicine & haven’t noticed him having reflux issues.

We started solids right after Thanksgiving. First rice cereal {not a fan}, then when Mom was down a couple weekends later, I made avocado, sweet potato & banana baby food in the baby bullet. Zach loves avocado! He’s okay about the other two. I have plans to try him with organic purchased pouches & jar food over the Christmas holiday.

Happy 7 months my littlest buddy! {Will add photos soon}