Urgh!

Warning, doing some venting here....it is 6pm and it has been a very long day! Izzy and i battled most of the day today, she just was so hard to get down for a nap. I just don't get it, last week, mon-thurs she was awesome, 2-3 hour nap in the swing in the morning, 2 hr nap in the swing in the afternoon and sometimes one more for about 45 mins late afternoon. Today, she HATES the swing, if she does fall asleep in it she is awake in a half hour. I was only able to get her to take 1 good nap all day for about 2 hours up in her crib, but of course it was after several trips to put in the pacifier!

I know she is exhausted, and she has a bit of a cold so I am sure she doesn't feel the greatest. I just wish when they were exhausted the would SLEEP instead of turning into little frustrating monsters! I am so tired! Last night she woke up at 1 and and 4 and i got up with her at one, couldn't go back to sleep, then she fussed at 4 but put herself back to sleep until about 5 when dh finally went up there and tried to put int he binky which made her scream, because she was starving so, and of course i am listenign to it all on the monitor, so much for sleeping for me. Then he brings her in bed with me at 6, when she wanted to play not sleep! Urgh, she did take a little nap with me in bed from about 7-8 but man it has been a long day!

My friend MB is coming tonight to let DH and I go to dinner, since we haven't had dinner just the 2 of us in a long time and I am travelling again this week to finish my training with my old company. I leave on Wed and come home late friday night. Part of me is really sad to leave but another part of me is kinda looking forward to the break. (And sleeping through the night for 2 nights in a row!!! )I haven't been away from Izzy other then when she is sleeping since last wednesday since DH was busy working on the house this weekend so I didn't get anytime off, plus i was sick on top of it.

Okay i am done venting. On a positive note, we took Izzy to her first Major League Baseball game yesterday and she did great. She slept inthe Bjorn on me for hte most part and then ate and was happy at the end. The bonus was even the Tigers won!, Dh said he was 35 before he saw a win in person :)

I have a picture of her at the game but haven't downloaded it yet. I will and will post later.

Time to go finish my beer and try to unwind a little without falling asleep :)

3 months!

Well Izzy is 3 months old!!! Crazy huh! I am taking her tomorrow to JC Penny for her first official professional pictures...I hope she does well. We are going at 10:30 in the morning so hopefully it will be okay. It will cut into her morning nap a little but hopefully she won't be too cranky. She has been taking really good morning nap in her swing, like 2+ hours.

We still need to work on the sleeping through the night though. Over the weekend she faked us out making us think she was close going 8 hours, but then she was back to fussing more mon and tues night..but last night was a good night. She went to bed at 8pm, after eating not a lot around7-7:30 woke up at 1:30 starving, I fed her, she went back to bed and woke up at 6, and dh put in the binky once or twice and that streched her to 7:30. Then she went back to sleep around 8:30 in her swing where she is still sleeping.

While she was sleeping her mom was being a kid again. I bought a nintendo Wii yesterday and OMG it is SOOOOO much fun. I had played at a friends a while ago and have wnated one ever since...so we started a fund and we saved enough so i bought it yesterday. I sure got my workout doing boxing this morning, i was literally sweating and I know i will be sore tomorrow...how sad! It is the best video game because you actually have to do the motion to play the different sports, boxing, baseball, bowling, golf and tennis (which seems to be my least skilled sport, i suck at it so far! )

Anyway i just got out of the shower so time to get dressed before Izzy wakes up.

Here is a picture for this past weekend where we had beautiful weather and were able to spend some time outside and Izzy got to sit in the grass for the first time.

It was taken in our favorite room, our sunroom which we can only use when it is nice outside since it is not heated but with all the sliders it is teh best room in teh house!!!

1st Post Placement visit

We had our first post placement visit with our social worker today. All went well of course. She is such a nice lady and has 2 adopted boys with semi-open arrangements so she understands what it is like to be us. We have one more to do but that can't be done until after 5 months according to Texas law. So we set teh date for June 28th. I am supposed to call our agency at the end of May to schedule the finalization court date in Texas. We are almost half way there!!!!

It is such a beautiful day out today! I have been outside doing a little reading, when Izzy will let me of course. It must be close to 70 degrees out and sunny! Right now she is napping in her crib, and she is not allowed to get up for at least another half hour! We have been battling a little for naps during the day. Oh she is crying, gotta go put in the binky..........okay I am back. Daddy is working from home today too since he had to stay home for our meeting with the social worker so that is a nice change of pace also!

Here is a picture I took of her this afternoon before her nap

Smile for the camera

Well I finally got Izzy to smile big for the camera! She has been smiling for awhile now just not for the camera. She is doing pretty well, she is up to 12lbs 15 oz! No wonder she feels heavy! Still not sleeping through the night, about 5 hours is about as long as she goes at a stretch. If we are lucky and she eats between 10 and 11 she will only wake up once about 3.

Well gotta go, we are battling each other trying to go down for a nap.

1st Business Trip

Well, I am leaving on my first business trip today. Just for one night. The company I used to work for is changing all of their systems, so if I don't learn how to use them, I won't be able to do any work for them even when and if i decide i would like to start consulting again.

So i fly out tonight and come home early evening tomorrow. My mother in law is going to watch Izzy tomorrow. I think Daddy is a little nervous about being on his own from 3:00 on but he will do fine! He has done it before!

Then in early may i have the rest of the training which is 2 days , so it will be 2 nights.

It will be so weird to be back at my old company, so much has changed for me since I was last there in November I think.

I am feeling torn because I was asked yesterday to do some work remotely for them and at first I thought, yes thta will be good, extra money and it is pretty flexible work.......but then the other part of me, says....do i really want to spend my spring/summer having to worry about getting work done and taking care of Izzy, this is one of the few times in my life where it is okay that I don't work outside the home............I don't know what to do.

The money would be GREAT and we sure could use teh extra cash when paying off the adoption loan....i don't know. I guess I will go this week and then see how i feel about it.

I am really looking forward to seeing some of my friends while I am there though! I miss them all so much, i lived there for 5 years and then consulted with the company for over a year after I quit. Everyone can't wait to meet Izzy. Later this spring or early summer DH and I will take a trip over there to visit so everyone can meet her.

I will be taking my video ipod with me which has a ton of pictures of Izzy on it so I can show them off.....(and have them close when I miss her :) )

Wish me luck!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! And Happy Passover!I hope everyone had a wonderful week! We had a pretty good week, it started a little rough, but ended well for the most part.

Early this week we went to my aunt and uncles for Izzy's first sedar...well lets just say she is not ready to be out of hte house during her colicky time between about 6 and 8. It was lets just say a disaster...she pretty much screamed the whole time.......but oh well, I warned them.

Then on Tuesday I finally called the doctor because she had just not been eating well for a couple weeks, writhing all around and most bottles only eat 2-2.5 ounces when she can eat 4 , so the doctor prescribed Zantac for reflux, even though she doesn't spit up excessively I guess it can still bother her and one of the signs is she arches her back. So we started the medicine on Tuesday afternoon. Well she HATES the taste of it so getting her to take it is quite tricky. We finally figured out this weekend it works best when mixed with 1 oz of formula. But even though she wasn't getting it all, it seem to make a huge difference! Now it could be coincedence, but Thurs thru Sunday morning were her best days yet, FINALLY smilling a lot more and talking more, and eating SOO much better!

For easter we went to church with DH's family and the back to my mother in laws for brunch. Izzy was very good at Church, she ate just before the service and then pretty much slept. She was also pretty good and Grandma and Grandpa, the only problem was she didn't sleep much with all the excitement...which turned out to make a very unhappy girl last night...but what can you do. We learned our lessons, she can miss one nap but 2, just can't happen and she just does not sleep good away from home...she likes her swing during the day.

The easter grandma/grandpa bunny was very good to her. She got a great swing for outside when she gets a little bigger and she got a tummy time mat. She also got some new dresses.

I can't believe it is April, time is just flying by! Now if only the weather would catch back up!!!!