Two days now. Faye is on a nap strike. She did take a 40 min nap (20min a piece) when we dropped Maddox off at Preschool and then again when we picked him up... so around an hour and a half total. That as at 9am and 11am, it's 3pm now and I finally got her to pass out, on my shoulder. I was holding her kind of on my hip, but up high on my shoulder and she fell asleep bunched up in a ball on my shoulder and chest. She kept falling asleep like this when I saw my mother on Monday. We went to a couple different stores and Faye would fall asleep in every store like a little blob attached to my body.
After doing the Preschool thing today, Faye completely refused the wrap (including the 1.5hr that we were home while Maddox was at preschool). She wouldn't let me lay his in my arm and drape her blanket over her like she normally falls alseep (Maddox always did too), she let me put her down once when I laid her in my bed, took of her clothes and put her blanket on her. I laid down next to her and she was talking to me, but as soon as I went upstairs to make food for the first time today (that was at 1:30pm) she would scream. That was the only time she let me put her down. Now I feel like I have some 13lb tumor on my right side. LOL She's soooo cute, but she's going to be the death of me.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Rollin' Baby
I put Faye on her belly from some tummy time (we forget to do that a lot... =/) and she rolled over from her belly to her back! She was mad about being on her belly and still wasn't happy after rolling over. She didn't surprise herself at all, she just rolled onto her side and than rolled onto her back. She's been rolling from side to side since birth, so she is pretty used to turning that way.
I know that she is right on time with everything, but it still completely amazes me because Maddox didn't do things till pretty late. It makes me realize that the 4 weeks that he was early really did make a difference - a pretty big one for at least the first 6 months.
I know that she is right on time with everything, but it still completely amazes me because Maddox didn't do things till pretty late. It makes me realize that the 4 weeks that he was early really did make a difference - a pretty big one for at least the first 6 months.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Preschool Shyness
On the way home from school today I asked Maddox what he did at school. He told me "all the kids decided to play playdoh and I played cars because I love cars". I asked "so you didn't play cars with anybody?" and he said "No, they decided to play playdoh". I asked him if he played with any kids today and he said "No, but I really wanted someone to play cars with me". I suggested that he should ask someone to play cars with him next time and he said that he was too shy. I suggested that he ask his teacher to help him ask someone to play cars with him and again, he said he was too shy.
It really frustrates me and makes me feel said and makes me feel helpless. I have tried REALLY hard these past, almost 4 years NOT saying the word shy or labeling him in front of him or to his face, WHERE did he learn "shy"? I spent my entire childhood feeling to shy to talk to anybody that didn't talk to me first and spent a lot of time playing by myself and I do not want that for him. I hate that feeling. And know I do not know what to do for him. I do not know how to encourage him to be more aggressive and to try to over him his shy feelings.
He also told me that he wanted someone to come to his house (after saying that he wanted someone to play cars with him). I though "well I can fix that!" and so I asked him if someone came to play at his house, who he wanted to come over. Turns out I cannot fix this problem, because he replied "one of my cousins". I asked him "Dante, Ariana, or Kaden?" just to make sure, because he has called Autumn his cousin before, and she is just a friend, but he answered yes and said that he liked Kaden the best - because "he is bigger but I am older!"
It really frustrates me and makes me feel said and makes me feel helpless. I have tried REALLY hard these past, almost 4 years NOT saying the word shy or labeling him in front of him or to his face, WHERE did he learn "shy"? I spent my entire childhood feeling to shy to talk to anybody that didn't talk to me first and spent a lot of time playing by myself and I do not want that for him. I hate that feeling. And know I do not know what to do for him. I do not know how to encourage him to be more aggressive and to try to over him his shy feelings.
He also told me that he wanted someone to come to his house (after saying that he wanted someone to play cars with him). I though "well I can fix that!" and so I asked him if someone came to play at his house, who he wanted to come over. Turns out I cannot fix this problem, because he replied "one of my cousins". I asked him "Dante, Ariana, or Kaden?" just to make sure, because he has called Autumn his cousin before, and she is just a friend, but he answered yes and said that he liked Kaden the best - because "he is bigger but I am older!"
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
3 Months!
Pirate Baby - 09.08.2008
Faye had her Ortho appointment on the 9th and she is a free lady! Well.. Mostly free. She wears a "Hewson Brace" at night. We put it on her around 7-8pm and take it off when she wakes up in the morning. It doesn't seem to bother her at all.
She's been watching Sportacus alot lately...
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tennesssee
Amy (my sister) picked us up at 5am on Friday. We started out with 5 kids and 2 adults in the mini van and Kerry (my sister's SO) and his friend, Mike, in the U-Haul behind us. We didn't really get on the road til around 6-6:30am. The first stop that we made, about 2 hours into the trip, my nephew Dante went and road in the U-Haul with his dad and stayed there until we got to Tennessee - which I'm sure made for a more peaceful ride (lol). It took us around 17 hours to get to her house in Milan, TN (about 1.5-2 hours northeast of Memphis). Her kids slept almost the entire time. My niece, Ariana was awake for maybe 2 hours total (lol). Maddox took a half hour nap around 7am and then fell asleep again at 7pm until we got to Tennessee and then went back to bed around 12:30-1am. Faye slept most of the time and I fed and changed her every two hours. She even slept really great that night even after sleeping all day long.
We got to her house around 11:30pm and when the boys in the U-Haul got there, we went over to Walmart to get groceries. We didn't do a whole lot while we were there. They have a huge backyard and mostly the kids just played. Amy took me around her little town and we drove up to the biggest city near her (Jackson, TN which is about the size of a small-average sized Mpls suburb). We had Lee's Famous Recipe for lunch on Saturday and Tuesday (for my nephews 8th Birthday) and for Dinner on Sunday night. We had a BBQ at Kerrys friend, Charlie's, house (his family owns Lee's Famous Recipe, the restaurant that Kerry will be working at) on Monday night. Amy's yard has no tree's except a small little area at the very end of it and so I taught Ariana to fly a kite and she did awesome at it. Amy kept her house so cold that I wore a sweater inside and outside the entire time I was there and I gave Faye a bath outside in the little shark pool LOL
My nephew Kaden (Maddox's BFF who is 6mo younger) made me cry on the way too Tennessee when he was crying to his mom that he wanted to go home. Amy said "we are going home, we're on our way" and he cried "no, to my REAL home" meaning here in MN. He made me cry again when we were leaving. Amy wanted to get a picture of the boys hugging. Maddox gave him a huge hug. Normally Kade is the hugger, but he just stood there with his head hanging down and his arms limp at his sides. I got down and wrapped my arms around him, kissed him and started bawling. I still cry when I think about it. I tried to talk Amy into letting me bring him back home with me, but it was a no go!
Amy drove Maddox, Faye, and I out to the Memphis International Airport. We had 1 checked suitcase, a checked car seat, and two carry on backpacks. They helped me get my boarding passes and everything and when I got to security they wouldn't let me through because they never put Faye on the boarding pass. We had to walk back over to the check-in place with no shoes on or anything and they wrote her on the passes with pen. The flight to Atlanta was really fast. 1 hour and 20 minutes and it felt like a half hour.
The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sucks and so do all the people in it. When we got off there was a guy calling for transfers. I went up to him and told him that we were going to Minneapolis and needed gate D2. He said "yep, gate D2", I asked where it was and he said Concourse D but was completely unhelpful after that. We got off at Concourse C. I decided I would get Maddox to the potty and change Faye's diaper as she had been in it since before we left for Memphis at 9:30am and it was now 2:30pm. We got to the PACKED bathroom and they have no changing tables. A woman informs me that there is a family bathroom down by a different gate. We go over there and wait for 15min before knocking on the door. The woman asks what we need and I said we needed to use the bathroom. She yells at me that she is changing her sons diaper. We waited for 5 more minutes and went into the regular bathroom so that I could at least get Maddox to go potty. We come back out and the same woman is STILL in the bathroom. There had been a woman waiting in line before us that left and a man that was waiting behind us that was still waiting when we got out of the regular bathroom. I was frustrated that that was the ONLY bathroom that I was going to be able to change her in and cannot figure out how in the world it would take more than 20 minutes to change a kids diaper. A flight attendant that was in the bathroom told me that if I didn't get to our gate, it would close soon. She showed me how to get there. We had to go downstairs and take a train to the next concourse. There were no seats on the train so I had to get Maddox pushed up against the wall of the train and holding on to the rail. There were 4-5 people surrounding him to make sure he stayed put and I had to hold a pole because the thing just took off. The airport was large and hot and full of rude people.
Faye fell asleep right before the plane took off and Maddox fell asleep right after the plane took off. He was mostly unimpressed with the airplanes. He thought it was fun to open and close the window. He watched out the window as we took off and landed and looked out while we were in the sky, but didn't really care. Both kids slept the entire way. Faye was wiggly and fussy, but never really cried.
When we got to Mpls-St Paul International, it took forever for our stuff to come off the baggage claim thing. The car seat was the very last thing to come off and our suit case was around 10-15 suitcases before it and the plane was full. The guy that lined up next to me at the baggage claim said if I had more than one thing, he'd grab it for me, but his suitcase came off right away and he took off. There was another guy that was wondering around and came over to me about half way through the suitcases being dropped down and said he would grab my stuff if I wanted him too. I declined politely. He grabbed his suitcase and said he would stick around if I wanted him to get our stuff, but I said we were fine (Faye was strapped to my chest). Maddox waited very patiently next to a column with our two carry on backpacks and we waved and smiled at each other.
Clayton was just leaving from work in rush hour (which is around 20min during NON-rush hour) when I got off the plane and got there before our bags came down!
Poor little Faye was soaked and smelly half way through our second flight and had to stay that way til we got home :( Yay for Cloth diapers though, she didn't get any diaper rash or anything.
I brought 10 cloth diapers with for the car ride down and changed her every two hours. I planned on using disposables while in TN. I used all of the diapers and put her in a disposable. Changed her once and threw all the diapers in the wash. I used 3 disposable diapers and was done with them and used cloth the rest of the time. I brought about 20 or so disposable diapers and left them for a friend down there who has a 4 week old.
The cool flip down mirror thing - you can see all of us, except Faye.. even the cats!
Kaden
Kerry, Dante, and Mike
Ariana (lol)
Maddox
The clearest pictures of Faelyn that I have
Scooby Doo van in Wisconsin
Lee's Chicken Dinner LOL
The Mall Of Milan.........
Lee's Restaurant
Dante & Ariana's new Elementary School
Pretty self-explanatory... lol
Picture of Amy's house taken from the end of the back yard
Cuties in Boxes!
Ariana's Horses
Faye's Tennessee Bath
(sorry it's so small, a tidbit of baby parts that I didn't want to show)
Kite flying
Miss Smiles
The boys cuddled on the couch
Dante's Birthday at Lee's
Dante and Ariana getting ready for their first day of school
Before the kids left for school
Flying Three Year Olds
Tons O' Cheese with Kaden and Maddox
Memphis International Airport
Memphis to Atlanta
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Atlanta to Minneapolis
Atlanta
Southern Minnesota
We got to her house around 11:30pm and when the boys in the U-Haul got there, we went over to Walmart to get groceries. We didn't do a whole lot while we were there. They have a huge backyard and mostly the kids just played. Amy took me around her little town and we drove up to the biggest city near her (Jackson, TN which is about the size of a small-average sized Mpls suburb). We had Lee's Famous Recipe for lunch on Saturday and Tuesday (for my nephews 8th Birthday) and for Dinner on Sunday night. We had a BBQ at Kerrys friend, Charlie's, house (his family owns Lee's Famous Recipe, the restaurant that Kerry will be working at) on Monday night. Amy's yard has no tree's except a small little area at the very end of it and so I taught Ariana to fly a kite and she did awesome at it. Amy kept her house so cold that I wore a sweater inside and outside the entire time I was there and I gave Faye a bath outside in the little shark pool LOL
My nephew Kaden (Maddox's BFF who is 6mo younger) made me cry on the way too Tennessee when he was crying to his mom that he wanted to go home. Amy said "we are going home, we're on our way" and he cried "no, to my REAL home" meaning here in MN. He made me cry again when we were leaving. Amy wanted to get a picture of the boys hugging. Maddox gave him a huge hug. Normally Kade is the hugger, but he just stood there with his head hanging down and his arms limp at his sides. I got down and wrapped my arms around him, kissed him and started bawling. I still cry when I think about it. I tried to talk Amy into letting me bring him back home with me, but it was a no go!
Amy drove Maddox, Faye, and I out to the Memphis International Airport. We had 1 checked suitcase, a checked car seat, and two carry on backpacks. They helped me get my boarding passes and everything and when I got to security they wouldn't let me through because they never put Faye on the boarding pass. We had to walk back over to the check-in place with no shoes on or anything and they wrote her on the passes with pen. The flight to Atlanta was really fast. 1 hour and 20 minutes and it felt like a half hour.
The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sucks and so do all the people in it. When we got off there was a guy calling for transfers. I went up to him and told him that we were going to Minneapolis and needed gate D2. He said "yep, gate D2", I asked where it was and he said Concourse D but was completely unhelpful after that. We got off at Concourse C. I decided I would get Maddox to the potty and change Faye's diaper as she had been in it since before we left for Memphis at 9:30am and it was now 2:30pm. We got to the PACKED bathroom and they have no changing tables. A woman informs me that there is a family bathroom down by a different gate. We go over there and wait for 15min before knocking on the door. The woman asks what we need and I said we needed to use the bathroom. She yells at me that she is changing her sons diaper. We waited for 5 more minutes and went into the regular bathroom so that I could at least get Maddox to go potty. We come back out and the same woman is STILL in the bathroom. There had been a woman waiting in line before us that left and a man that was waiting behind us that was still waiting when we got out of the regular bathroom. I was frustrated that that was the ONLY bathroom that I was going to be able to change her in and cannot figure out how in the world it would take more than 20 minutes to change a kids diaper. A flight attendant that was in the bathroom told me that if I didn't get to our gate, it would close soon. She showed me how to get there. We had to go downstairs and take a train to the next concourse. There were no seats on the train so I had to get Maddox pushed up against the wall of the train and holding on to the rail. There were 4-5 people surrounding him to make sure he stayed put and I had to hold a pole because the thing just took off. The airport was large and hot and full of rude people.
Faye fell asleep right before the plane took off and Maddox fell asleep right after the plane took off. He was mostly unimpressed with the airplanes. He thought it was fun to open and close the window. He watched out the window as we took off and landed and looked out while we were in the sky, but didn't really care. Both kids slept the entire way. Faye was wiggly and fussy, but never really cried.
When we got to Mpls-St Paul International, it took forever for our stuff to come off the baggage claim thing. The car seat was the very last thing to come off and our suit case was around 10-15 suitcases before it and the plane was full. The guy that lined up next to me at the baggage claim said if I had more than one thing, he'd grab it for me, but his suitcase came off right away and he took off. There was another guy that was wondering around and came over to me about half way through the suitcases being dropped down and said he would grab my stuff if I wanted him too. I declined politely. He grabbed his suitcase and said he would stick around if I wanted him to get our stuff, but I said we were fine (Faye was strapped to my chest). Maddox waited very patiently next to a column with our two carry on backpacks and we waved and smiled at each other.
Clayton was just leaving from work in rush hour (which is around 20min during NON-rush hour) when I got off the plane and got there before our bags came down!
Poor little Faye was soaked and smelly half way through our second flight and had to stay that way til we got home :( Yay for Cloth diapers though, she didn't get any diaper rash or anything.
I brought 10 cloth diapers with for the car ride down and changed her every two hours. I planned on using disposables while in TN. I used all of the diapers and put her in a disposable. Changed her once and threw all the diapers in the wash. I used 3 disposable diapers and was done with them and used cloth the rest of the time. I brought about 20 or so disposable diapers and left them for a friend down there who has a 4 week old.
The cool flip down mirror thing - you can see all of us, except Faye.. even the cats!
Kaden
Kerry, Dante, and Mike
Ariana (lol)
Maddox
The clearest pictures of Faelyn that I have
Scooby Doo van in Wisconsin
Lee's Chicken Dinner LOL
The Mall Of Milan.........
Lee's Restaurant
Dante & Ariana's new Elementary School
Pretty self-explanatory... lol
Picture of Amy's house taken from the end of the back yard
Cuties in Boxes!
Ariana's Horses
Faye's Tennessee Bath
(sorry it's so small, a tidbit of baby parts that I didn't want to show)
Kite flying
Miss Smiles
The boys cuddled on the couch
Dante's Birthday at Lee's
Dante and Ariana getting ready for their first day of school
Before the kids left for school
Flying Three Year Olds
Tons O' Cheese with Kaden and Maddox
Memphis International Airport
Memphis to Atlanta
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Atlanta to Minneapolis
Atlanta
Southern Minnesota
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