We took Lottie to her 2 month check up today even though she was 3 months 5 days ago. She weighs a healthy 12 pounds and she’s 24 1/2 inches tall, so she is apparently tall and relatively thin. Jack was the opposite at this age. My problem with her though is that she’s always trying to sit or stand up by herself even though I keep reminding her that she’s just a baby and she doesn’t need to worry about those things yet. Babies sure don’t stay babies for very long.
John leaves for another business trip tomorrow so it’s just us three until Friday. I’m still trying to decide if I want to face the stress of driving up there on Thursday night and dealing with these guys in a hotel room seeing as how I put Jack to bed an hour ago and I can still hear him talking in there.
As a side note–Jack thinks “SAY CHEESE!!” means put moms cell phone between your eyes!….whatever..
Sometimes Jack will scream until he wakes Lottie up from her nap and sometimes Lottie will do the same to Jack. Sometimes Jack wants to steamroller over Lotties head and sometimes Lottie spits up on Jacks hands and makes him cry. There are days when my only goal is to take a 20 minute nap but as soon as I get one down the other gets up. As hard as it’s been adding the second kid to this family I absolutely love having them both together on the couch watching Sesame Street. I can’t imagine our life without Lottie, and Jack thinks she is the most fun toy in the world. (most the time)
I feel so good today. I’m starting to think I may have been sick for much longer than I realized because today I feel better than I have in a long long time. I’m done taking my antibiotics, I’m back to nursing Lottie, and I even vacuumed. Today is a good day.
Jack is hanging out with his friend all day today so I’ve had some time to spend with just Lottie. Have I mentioned how cute she is? I take back anything I’ve said on this blog about her being a tough baby. I think actually she is the best baby I’ve ever seen. She absolutely loves to sleep. She sleeps about 14 hours a night then about 5 hours a day. When she is awake all she wants to do is talk and smile. She loves to squeal. She loves her brother, she’ll just follow him around the room with her eyes and she doesn’t mind his constant kisses at all. But her favorite person of all I think is John. He’s been able to do alot more now that she’s on formula and she gets so excited when he gets close to her. I can’t believe she’s almost 3 months already and I REALLY can’t believe I haven’t even gotten around to getting her immunized yet. I never would have let that happen with Jack. Next week for sure!
I thought I should let everyone know how I’m doing. My back doesn’t hurt as much and my fevers are gone although this is still how I spend most of my time. (this couch is right under the air conditioner vent) These new antibiotics seem to be working much better and I finally was able to get some sleep last night. John has to go back to work tomorrow though and that makes me nervous because I thought I would be feeling much stronger by now than I do. I’ll feel really good so I’ll jump up and do a bunch of things and then I’ll have to sit on the couch and recover for a few hours because I get so light headed and faint. This has been so hard on my kids though. Jack caught me throwing up a couple times and it would take hours of reassuring to calm him down. He has been crying or whining pretty much all the time. Lottie is trying to adjust to being on formula. I hate not being able to feed her. I also hate having to pump every three hours in an effort to keep my milk. The good news though, I was able lose that last 5 pounds of baby weight! Thank you for all the support and the prayers for me and my little family.
I thought I just had a weird back ache but everyday it seemed to be getting worse. On Tuesday night it started to get really scary so I decided to see the doctor on Wednesday morning. It turns out I have a kidney infection. I hate kidney infections. This week I’ve been doing nothing but vomiting, uncontrollably shaking, sweating, running fevers of 104 and going back and forth to the doctor. I’ve had 2 shots of antibiotics in my hips and I had to upgrade to a super aggressive oral antibiotic after the first wasn’t working. So now I can’t nurse Lottie for a week. This has been by far the most painful sickness I’ve ever had and I hope it’s over soon. The doctor says if I’m not significantly better by Sunday I need to be admitted to the hospital so I’m trying to do everything I can to not let that happen. But fortunately I have a husband who takes really really good care of me.
This has been one of the bad days. Let me preface this by saying that I didn’t get any sleep last night because I think I may have thrown my back out in a Jack tantrum incident on Sunday. So by about 3:00 I was feeling guilty about keeping the kids inside all day while I moaned and groaned on the floor. I packed them into the stroller and we went on a little walk. On the way back we stopped because Jack likes to play in these little ponds we have by our house. But I use the word “pond” very loosely. They are basically just low spots where rain water and other run off collects. So Jack of course got to close to the waterline and was starting to slip into the pond so I ran to grab him before he got all muddy when I notice the stroller where Lottie is asleep is rolling down the hill and crashes into the water throwing her out of the stroller into the mossy green muddy water. I grabbed her before she completely submerged but when I did I heard her arm pop and she let out a scream that you could probably hear a mile away. (strange enough though none of the passing cars even slowed down…) I tested out her arm and it seemed to still be in place and she was moving it so I felt ok to not rush her to the hospital when I realized the worst part of the whole ordeal. I lost my most favorite pair of white Rainbows to the toxic sludge of the pond! So we walked home, barefoot, soaked and crying. That being said though it’s 7:00 and both of my kids are down for the night and I ‘ve even cleaned off the stroller although it still has a pungent aroma of pond scum and stale water. Things could be worse I suppose. The day is going to get a whole lot better though tonight at eight, seven central when I get to watch the finale of the Bachelorette!!!
We had so much fun on Friday it made missing the cul-de-sac of fire a little easier. We got together with a bunch of ward/work friends and went to a lake about 45 minutes away. I’m so glad I know this place exists now because it’s the perfect place to have a picnic. We had lunch, then swam in the lake, then all the men left deserted us for frisbee golf and then they came back and made us dinner. We thought about keeping the kids up for fireworks but they both crashed in the car and couldn’t be awoken for anything so we just put them in bed. (Grandma’s–there are some more pictures on our Family Pictures page too.)
