Mostly non-baby related stuff

Just checking in real quick before I put my laptop up for the night. I haven’t taken very many pictures this week. I think because it has been a really rough week for us. With Zoey getting her shots on Wednesday and then getting her tongue clipped on Thursday, it has been a very fussy end to the week! Tonight she has been pretty fussy too but I think it’s related to her just being hungry and tired. She is laying in the bouncy seat right now, trying to fight off the sleep. I can see the exhaustion in her eyes. Poor girl.

Tonight we had pizza for dinner. My plan is to write up a menu for next week and get a shopping list together and get what I need so I can be better organized. No more eating out for us! I read an article in a magazine about how if you get up early every morning and exercise, you are more likely to lose weight and keep it off. I’m trying to convince myself to do this but I just don’t know if I can. For one, I am a huge wuss and too scared to go walking the neighborhood by myself before the sun comes up. For two, I don’t think I can convince myself to get up at 5 AM! I am just not a morning person. Actually, I don’t even consider 5 AM morning. I don’t know what it is but I think it’s entirely too early to be considered morning.

I had my shower this morning and we gave Zoey a bath this evening and now Gene is in the shower. We’re going to have one good smellin’ family here in the next few minutes. You’d think with Gene’s help I could go to bed freshly showered every night but it just doesn’t always work out that way. I try to get a lot done when he gets home in the evenings like dishes, washing bottles, laundry, etc. and I just can’t seem to find the time before midnight to take a shower! Ugh. I’ll get a routine down.. someday :P

Tonight I decided to break out my sewing machine and get back into sewing. I miss it. I sewed up 4 cloth wipes. I’m washing them now to see how they turned out. I’m hoping to keep practicing and maybe eventually put some stuff up for sale on Etsy. It’s been a huge dream of mine for a long time now, I just haven’t ever had time to really focus on it. I am going to spend the next week trying to clean up my sewing area and get things in order. I’d even love to order my own labels some day.

Tongue Tied No More!

This morning we took Zoey to an Ear Nose & Throat specialist to look at her tongue. He didn’t have to look at it long to determine that she had a tongue tie. He explained the procedure to us and told us if we got it done before she was 3 months old it would be a simple in-office procedure. If we waited, it would have to be done in the operating room.

We opted to get it done today so they took her into another room to do the procedure. I think she was gone for less than 5 minutes. It was a very quick procedure! She came back to us sleeping soundly. However, that didn’t last long. By time we checked out and got to the car, she was inconsolable. Not screaming at the top of her lungs, just crying as if she was uncomfortable. We tried to console her as much as possible in the car and I even fed her a little but finally decided to just go home. On the way home, I held the paci in her mouth and she finally started to suck on it and dozed right off.

She hasn’t been AS fussy today as she was yesterday after her vaccinations but she has been more fussy than usual. She has been sleeping on and off and eating small amounts. She hasn’t had any more oozing or bleeding since right after the procedure so I’m happy about that. Today I saw her tongue come out to her lips, for the first time ever!! I started laughing and cheering and saying how happy I was to finally see her tongue and she got a little startled by all of my excitement and started crying. Haha.. Oops!

So earlier today I was changing her diaper in her room and my dogs started going crazy. They were barking REALLY loudly and I could hear people’s voices that sounded like they were coming from my front porch! But no one had ever knocked or rang the door bell. I finished up the diaper change and walked into the kitchen and I could hear the voices loudly and I could hear my outside water faucet going! I peeked out the window and I could see a man bent down in my front garden area.

By time I got to the front door and opened it, they were standing at the car that was parked in front of my house on the street. I stood there and they finally saw me and turned around. The guy said “Hello” and I replied “What is going on?” and he pointed to a little boy with a cup and said “The boy needed some water” and then followed up with “I just delivered your new phone book” and pointed to my front porch. I looked down and saw it, grabbed it and went back in. First of all, I don’t mind if your kid needs water and you need to use my water. But why not KNOCK and ask first?? You don’t just go to people’s houses and use their water! I have to actually PAY for that water. There is a freakin’ 7-11 right across the street from my neighborhood! Buy your kid some REAL water! I was sooo annoyed. Why scare someone like that? In my personal opinion, if you don’t ask for something like that and just take it, it IS stealing.

Just a bad day for this mommy!

It’s 10:30 PM and I’m washing diapers. Today was a pretty awful day so I was lazy and used my All In One diapers all day, therefore I am out and have none to take with us tomorrow when we’re out. I really need to purchase some more so I can have a good stash.

Tomorrow morning we’re taking Zoey to an ENT to check on her tongue. I just want a specialist to look at it and tell me if we need to have it taken care of or not. Personally, I’d like to at least try to get her to latch on if it gets fixed but I’m not getting my heart set on anything just yet. It may be way too long gone for me to re-establish my milk supply but I can at least dream, right? Hee hee.

Today Zoey had her first shots. The shots themselves weren’t too awful and I only got a few tears in my eyes. She slept really well for quite a long time afterwards but then the rest of the afternoon if she wasn’t sleeping, she was screaming and crying. It was awful! We spent most of the afternoon crying together on the couch. I slept almost all day and all evening. Just a depressing day due to a few other things that happened. I’m feeling a LOT better right now though.

Last night I had an “episode” similar to what I experienced Memorial Day weekend and wound up in the ER. Luckily I had the pain pills the ER gave me so I took one of those and felt better pretty quickly. I went to the doctor this morning and she put me on Prevacid for a month. We’re gonna monitor it and see if I have any episodes again. I’m hoping it works. We’re trying everything we can before resorting to surgery.

AGAIN?

Last night I had another one of those gall bladder attacks. Well, that is what I am calling them. I have no idea if it really is my gall bladder or what. I was about to put my laptop up and it started really quickly out of nowhere and got bad pretty quick. I took 2 extra strength Tylenol and then ended up taking a Hydrocodone that the ER had given me a few weeks ago when this happened last. It did help and I was able to get to sleep by about 1 AM.

I feel kind of queasy and weird this morning. Zoey is fed and changed and I have an appointment with my doctor at 10:10 AM. I may just have them give Zoey her shots while we are there. Anyway, I need to get dressed and get the diaper bag packed so I am ready to go in an hour.

I just want them to get to the bottom of this. That kind of pain is excruciating. I can’t even describe how horrible it is. Wish me luck.

A rundown of things

Zoey went down about 20 minutes ago. She ate a good 5 1/2 to 6 oz so I’m hoping she’ll sleep for a while. Of course, I am wide awake. I’m sleepy but I feel wired so I don’t think I’d be able to sleep, even if I tried. Looks like I’m going to be napping with the baby tomorrow.

I was going to mention a couple of things quickly without going into too much detail. My Mom and Dad are leaving for Florida tomorrow. It’s a work related trip for my Dad but they wont be back until Wednesday and I think it is mostly just for leisure. The work part is mostly an excuse. I’m really happy that my Mom is getting to go because this is the first time she’ll have been on a plane in about 16-18 years and also the first real “vacation” she has been on with my Dad. They never even had a honeymoon!

Also, my Grandpa is still in the hospital. Not sure what all is going on with that but he’s not doing really great. So if you pray, please pray for him and if all you do is think happy thoughts, please send some telepathically to him. Anything is appreciated at this point.

I really want to write up a post going into detail about our cloth diaper adventure. It has been so great and I just love them so much. The first day was difficult. There was a lot of “doubt” in the first day of it. But I knew I just needed to stick with it and it would get easier with time and I can’t believe how easy it’s been so far. Plus, I knew I had already invested quite a bit of cash into the whole thing and would be sorely disappointed if I didn’t stick with it. I’ll try to write one up tomorrow about it all. I know, my blog is SO interesting. Gag.

As far as Zoey goes, she is 7 weeks old as of Tuesday and doing so wonderful. Her tummy is finally settling well and she is doing GREAT on her new formula. She’s been on Earth’s Best Organic for over 2 weeks now and she no longer seems to have many tummy troubles. Today I was goo-gooing and gaa-gaaing and giggling and making some pretty ridiculous noises at her and she gave me the biggest and longest smile I’ve seen yet! It about killed me it was so adorable. I don’t think I’ve felt my heart swell that much since the day she was born. I love this kid to pieces. I can’t even believe that she is mine sometimes. It feels too good to be true!

Cloth Diapers: Day 3

Cloth Dipes

I really need to do some general housecleaning on this blog. I need to upgrade WordPress, install a new theme, maybe even install some new plugins. I just haven’t had time to sit down and really mess with it. Upgrading WordPress is probably something I need to do one evening when Gene is home to watch the munchkin.

Speaking of Zoey, she is tryin to wake up now from a whopping 30 minute nap!

Well, I’ll make it quick. I just wanted to report that we are on day 3 of cloth diapers. So far so good! I’m using mostly prefolds with covers during the day and at night I use an AIO. She can completely saturate a prefold in 1-2 hours so at night the AIOs seem to keep her feeling dry for longer.

I’ll write more later when Screamy McScreamerson calms down :D