Fun outside

Well we had a GREAT weekend playing outside! Miss Izzy loves to be outside! She likes to walk down the sidewalk and look for doggies, she seems to be really into dogs lately. We played with teh neighboor girls (7 & 8) on their trampoline, which Izzy seemed to enjoy. Yesterday Izzy and I walked up to the park and went swinging, as you can see by the picture she LOVES swinging! I can't wait for summer, it was in teh 60's and breezy this weekend which was great but I can't wait till it is in the 70's! We grilled with our neighboors and hung out which I have missed so much!

On another subject DH and I came to agreement on what to do about a gym membership. I am goign to join the gym where my class was by June at the latest (car is paid off in June WHOHOOH!) the best part about it is by joining we get access to the awesome outdoor pool which Izzy and I will be using a lot of this summer! I am excited. I have to just try to stay motivated active and eat well between now and then. It is so much harder on your own to still go to the gym and work out for the full time. I packed my clothes and am goign today to workout at the little gym by the house (it is not a health club just a gym but I won a 6 month membership there and it is all new equipment)

Other than that not much else new. Just loving the warmer weather and can't wait for more!!!

Random Thoughts

I haven't blogged in a little while so I will add some random thoughts. I forgot to blog about Izzy's cast removal last week, she got it off on Tuesday and was a champ! We thought she would be scared of the loud noise of the saw but she actually laughed when they cut it off, it must have tickled from teh vibration. She started moving it right away and she is back to normal...yipee! The xray showed it is healing well and no more cast was needed! Yipee, I am so glad that is done, giving her a bath with the cast was not so fun!

Other Izzy developments, lets see she still isn't really talking, but she does say moooo(or more like boooooo) when you ask her what a cow says or if she sees a cow. We took her to the petting farm last weekend and the cow came right up to the fence and we could even pet it! She also got to see lots of baby pigs which she loved! Can't wait for warm weather so we can do more outside. It is actually supposed to be nice this weekend so I can't wait. We definately have cabin fever!

Oh and an update on her sleep. I think that night last week her mouth was just really bothering her because she was fine the next several nights. The poor kid has like 5 teeth coming in at one time, i noticed yesterday that I think the top center 2 finally poked through and then a bottom one popped also, so I think she has 2 more on the top trying to make it through also. It has to hurt. Last nigth ws the first night she got up in the middle of the night and I just went up gave her tylenol and origel and rocked her for 5 minutes and she was back out until morning......phew!

This is the last week of my workout class/biggest loser challenge. I am so sad it is over but still might continue on to the next class, I am waiting to see if the DJ comes through with getting me a free membership, if he does then I think I am going to take the next class which is more weight training based and way mor intense, i took the demo class on Saturday and my legs were sore for 3 days!. Still 3x a week only it will be in the morning instead of noon like I do now. Izzy will have to go the child care at the club 2x a week because my mom will not be available monday and wednesday but I think that will also be good for her. I took her there last friday and she did great! She loves being in new places and around other kids. I also will find out Friday at our weigh in if I win.....I hope so! I am hoping to be down a total of 15lbs! I am definately the smallest size i have been in my adult life. I have bought some new clothes lately and all the pants have been a size 8! I can't remember being a solid size 8 ever in my adult life, maybe for a year or so in college.....I am proud of myself! I just hope that if I don't take the next class that I am able to continue working out on my own.

Oh and we got our taxes completed and YIPEEEEEEE is all I have to say. We are getting so much money back and will still have $2500 of the adoption credit to carry over next year! We got to apply most of it this year and get it back which I am so thrilled about! Maybe we will actually be able to afford to do it again...........on that front I think we are both kind of thinking that we will get everything submitted by summer some time....there is still a small part of me that doesn't want to start over but the larger part wants Izzy to have a sibling, as scary and overwhelming as the idea of doing it again is. I would like them to be 2-3 yrs apart so if we wait till end of summer to submit everything and it takes 6 mo to a year we will be in good shape. I really can't imagine having a newborn right now. I know people do it everyday but I don't think I am ready...and neither is DH.

Okay well I guess that is enough random thoughts flying out of my head!

Sleep Izzy Sleep

Well it is midnight and I am up listening to Izzy cry! I don't get it one night she will sleep great, 13 hours straight and then other nights like tonight she is up and only wants to sleep on me or DH so we have to let her cry it out. It is so hard! I immediately think when she wakes up that oh maybe her mouth hurts(since she has had her top 4 teeth trying to come in for the last several weeks) so after one try of trying to rock her back down I go back up give her motrin and origel, and rock her again, after that then I let her cry it out. Then I think, as I am listening ot her cry, maybe her ears hurt and she has an ear infection..........but I think it is probably just seperation anxiety.

I just don't get why babies go through phases she will have good couple months of sleeping good, then she gets sick and it screws it up and now she isn't sick but from what I have read/heard it is probably seperation anxiety that she doesn't want to be by herself...................

I niavely thought that once they started sleeping through the night they just always did.......boy was I wrong!

Oh and DH, is snoring through it all!!! I have the monitor turned to lights only but you can still hear her crying from our room! I don't know how he does i! She is still at it, it has been almost 15 minutes....this is when I start to second guess myself and tell myself, maybe her ears do hurt, should i call dr in the morning and take her in for them to look at her....well i guess we will see what tomorrow brings. Tomorrow night she is sleeping at nana and grandpa's house....i hope she is better for them than she is for us tonight!!!! Time for me to go back to bed and try to go back to sleep.

Oh and on a total side note, it is totally snowing right now and we are supposed to get 3 to 5 inches over night...I AM SO SICK OF WINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS MARCH 27-28th ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful easter! Izzy got to go on her first easter egg hunt with her cousin Jessie and found lots of eggs filled with some candy and fruit snacks. We didn't get a great picture of Izzy in her dress but here is one from my camera phone. We also took a decent family photo. I am also posting last years. Wow what a difference!

Such a big girl

I am just amazed every day at how fast Izzy has grown up!!! I don't know where the time has gone! She is really turning into a little person. She still isn't talking really, which I guess I am a little concerned about but I know she is understanding most of what we say and she is always babbling so I think she will just start when she is ready I guess. She has one more week with the cast and so far has been dealing fine. Occasionally she tries to bite it off (it is kinda funny) and she has realized she can use it to bang on things. Her new favorite is to bang it on the metal pole in the basement because it makes a loud ringing noise.

I am so ready for nice weather, I am sick of winter and sick of being couped up inside. It is rainy and cold today and supposed to get colder and turn to snow tonight and snow again on Friday!!!!! Yuck! Where is spring??????????

Today is my dad's 68th birthday! Amazing! We are going to dinner for his birthday so hopefully Izzy can deal okay she still goes to bed between 6-6:30 so she will be up late tonight. Normally as long as we are out she is okay. Hopefully she will take an afternoon nap, lately she has been hit or miss with that nap and even when she takes it it is only for about 45 minutes which is no wonder she is so tired by 6. This morning she was up really early at 6:15 so hopefully she naps because otherwise she could be trouble at dinner. Last year we went to dinner for my dad's birthday and she screamed pretty much the whole dinner and we ended up leaving, that was back in her colicky days.........boy am I glad that is done!!!

Other than that not much new just waiting for spring! Easter Sunday should be cute this year, DH's mom is going to do an egg hunt for her and our niece jessie who is 10 so that should be cute to see Jess showing Izzy how to find the eggs! I bought Izzy a little easter basket and put a egg that has a little people person inside, a stuffed chick that chirps and a big girl plate. I also bought her a cute little dress at Target, it will probably be little big b/c they didn't have 18m size so I had to buy 24m so we will see how big it is. She will only wear it at church anyway, when we get to grandmas i will change her into more comfy clothes. Ok i am rambling cause I am tired from getting up so early and even teh 2 cups of coffee aren't helping. I should have tried to nap while Izzy is napping...i have never been very good at that!

12 lbs!!!

I weighed in today and lost another 4 lbs so I have lost a total of 12 in just over 8 weeks!!!! Yipee!!!! I think I am going to be the biggest loser out of the other 4 people and I can't wait....although i don't know what I win other than a smaller pants size but I will take it!!!!

Florida Trip

Well we had an exciting time in Florida, some was good exciting and some not so good. Lets start with the good. The weather was very nice! it was in the 70's or 80's and mostly sunny a little rain. Izzy did fantastic on the flight there, she slept for about an hour and a half, woke up ate, and played and then we landed. On Thursday night she didn't sleep so good in the pack and play she was in our bed by about 11 and woke up for the morning at 5:45 so friday was a little long day but it was fine. Izzy and I went for a walk and went swimming at the hotel while DH was at a lunch meeting with clients. We had a great time just being outside. Friday night we went out to dinner with my brother and he just couldn't get enough of Izzy. She slept much better friday night, slept until about6:30 am all in the pack n play. Saturday was my day with Izzy and my brother since Chris was golfing. It started out great, we checked out of the hotel went and dropped off our stuff an Jared's and then went down to the beach for some lunch. When we first left for the beach it was still kinda cloudy and not super warm since it had thunderstormed over night but as we at lunch (outside :) ) the weather started to really clear up. So i said lets go take Izzy across the street to the beach to see what she thinks. So uncle Jared stayed with our stuff, I took off Izzy's pants and took her down to the water in her onsie and let her stand with her feet getting wet. She LOVED it! Here is where it the trip takes a bit of a turn for the worse....

I was holding izzy's one hand/wrist to keep her from falling in the water and she started to loose her balance and fall, so I instictively pulled up on her hand/wrist to keep her from falling..........then I heard a cracking sound like when a joint cracks and she started crying......well she calmed down and I new she was very very tired because it was about 1:30 and she had no nap yet so i thought well maybe she is just tired, but in my gut i was worried about her arm. Well we go back to the car, she falls right asleep and go back to uncle Jareds and she lays down with me to take a nap. When she woke up she really wasn't moving her arm at all so I told Jared we better take her to the ER! Well 3 hrs later (and thankfully DH was able to meet us there) they have her in a splint because they think it is Nursemaids elbow but the dr didn't hear the elbow go back in and didn't see anything on teh X-rays..........so we leave ER and at this point I am a mess feeling so guilty and it was so horrible when she would scream with teh dr was trying to relocate her elbow...it was AWFUL!!! By the time we left Izzy was starving, and tired but overall considering in a pretty good mood. She slept well that night and the next day we were going home. Well we are at the crazy busy airport in Ft Lauderdale and my brother calls to say the hospital had some information for us. So i call them and they say the radiologist looked at her x-ray(there was no radiologist on call on Saturday) and he saw a fracture at her wrist!!!!! I FREAK OUT, i am balling in the middle of a very overcrowded airport. (keep in mind izzy is fine, she is acting like her normal self and clearly not in any pain but I was so sick over it) So we finally made it home after a very long day, our flight was over an hour and a half delayed and Izzy slept about an hour on the flight but was very squirmy and cranky for the last hour or so. We didn't get home until 8pm, I felt like it was the longest day of my life!!!

So Monday I called the pediatrician and after almost the whole day of tracking down her report from the Florida hospital they got us in the next day with teh Orthopedic dr. We took her yesterday and sure enough she does have a fractured wrist and they had to put her in a cast for 2 weeks!!!! She was moving her arm and her wrist ok after they took off the splint but they put the cast on to protect it because if she were to fall (which as a new walker she does a fair amout of) she could really hurt herself. She really did not enjoy being restrained while the cast was being put on but as soon as the lady was done she was back to her smiley self. She is a little annoyed with it I would say but overall is her normal self.

I am feeling a little better and I am trying to keep the guilt from consuming me because I know i didn't do it on purpose and it was an accident and she is fine. Not in any pain and she will get all better but it is really hard. I laid in bed the first couple of nights and just kept replaying when it happened over and over and over again. It was awful!!!!

Here is picture DH took when we went out to lunch right after it happened. She really was in good mood but looks quite annoyed in the picture. I just think it is too cute!