so... starbies.
it's been awhile, huh?
well here's what's been up in the life of... me. yeah.
i've been at starbucks a few months now, and i love it a lot. i have some really great coworkers who will someday become great friends hopefully.
nona has two teeth now on the bottom of her mouth. totally adorable. i wanna make a baseball jersey for her that says "nona two teef." how cute would THAT be, huh? i know, i kill myself. i laugh at my own jokes so nobody else has to;)
we're going to washington at the end of july for my 24th birthday. my mom bought the tickets, which is my birthday present. i'm super excited to see everyone. my sister amber should be having her baby around the time we're up there, so i hope that i get to meet the little emily and also help amber around the house when she comes home. that is, if she wants me. i feel like i could really give her some good advice now that i'm such a seasoned mother and all (haaaaaaaaaaaaah!).
my mother in law left for washington last week because her sister was dying (she has since died). i guess i would feel bad for the woman except she drank herself to the point of letting her organs shut down, even though the doctors warned her. i know, it's a disease. but still. she had two children and they needed her and she didn't fight. she just kept going and then apparently acted surprised when they said she was going to die. so my MIL took off and we didn't have anybody to watch nona while josh was in school and i was at work. so i missed some shifts, which upsets me. i might possibly have someone from work who will watch her, so that's cool. teresa seems like a really awesome lady:) she wants to start her own daycare. she even offered to watch nona for free until debi comes back, but luckily debi will be home this weekend and we don't have to take advantage of teresa's extremely generous offer.
i've been talking to the rabbi and he said he was going to figure out the adult education schedule with us so we can start the conversion process. that's exciting. i know now more than ever that this feels incredibly right. i can't wait to be jewish and i'm really excited for the rabbi to teach us what he knows.
we started sleep training nona. now, before you get all excited, let me just say that we're doing it in a really easy way. she's co-sleeping in the bed with us, but up until this point she was being held/rocked/fed/etc to sleep. but it was getting out of hand and she was having a harder time getting to sleep lately. so we decided to teach her how to fall asleep without one of us holding her or feeding her, and sure enough, it worked. it's ridiculous how easy it's been. the first night was a headache. every day and night since then, it's as if she got on board right away and figured it out. putting her to bed used to take at least thirty minutes to an hour, and now we just take her into the bed, lay next to her quietly with a hand on her chest and she falls asleep within minutes. i told josh if it really did end up being that easy, we wouldn't be able to tell anyone because we'd end up with an angry mob at our door. all the mothers who had to go through hell to sleep train would surely hate us. but it's been a week and so far, she has been to sleep with a minimum of hassle and fuss each night. her naps are getting easier too. it's amazing.
in other news, we joined a gym. i went a lot the first week but petered off again. i'm frustrated because josh is always either at school or doing homework and if he's not, then i'm at work and i can't go work out. they have a center for the kids but nona cries within ten minutes of being dropped off and it's just a hassle and a headache to try and work out when we are getting called in all the time. these people don't change diapers or feed the kids, and they apparently don't know how to comfort a crying baby either. you would think that would be part of their training, no?
anyway, there's been some wildfires and there's a thick blanket of smoke covering our whole area for the past few days. it's really heavy and gross. i worry about taking nona outside but i still have to. the heat has also been oppressive. our car doesn't have AC and poor nona can't stand the heat. i always have to rush her into a cool store and load her up with ice water. pffft!
we've been feeding her baby food now too. it's exciting. but it's expensive! like $100 a month! wow! all these exclamation points! i tried making her some homemade organic baby food but she made a bunch of icky faces at my carefully prepared carrot and potato mash. josh asked what was different about it and i said "i made it with love! i guess she doesn't like the taste of love!"
i'm a dork.
anyway, so i think i've covered everything over my long absence. i've missed some birthdays (diana!), and i'm sorry about that. i meant to say happy birthday but i forgot. i'm bad at that. i take a lot of shifts at work and when i'm home, i'm playing with my little chubby girl. she's getting so big! she'll be 9 months on july 16th. it's crazy how fast the time goes.
<3 becky
well here's what's been up in the life of... me. yeah.
i've been at starbucks a few months now, and i love it a lot. i have some really great coworkers who will someday become great friends hopefully.
nona has two teeth now on the bottom of her mouth. totally adorable. i wanna make a baseball jersey for her that says "nona two teef." how cute would THAT be, huh? i know, i kill myself. i laugh at my own jokes so nobody else has to;)
we're going to washington at the end of july for my 24th birthday. my mom bought the tickets, which is my birthday present. i'm super excited to see everyone. my sister amber should be having her baby around the time we're up there, so i hope that i get to meet the little emily and also help amber around the house when she comes home. that is, if she wants me. i feel like i could really give her some good advice now that i'm such a seasoned mother and all (haaaaaaaaaaaaah!).
my mother in law left for washington last week because her sister was dying (she has since died). i guess i would feel bad for the woman except she drank herself to the point of letting her organs shut down, even though the doctors warned her. i know, it's a disease. but still. she had two children and they needed her and she didn't fight. she just kept going and then apparently acted surprised when they said she was going to die. so my MIL took off and we didn't have anybody to watch nona while josh was in school and i was at work. so i missed some shifts, which upsets me. i might possibly have someone from work who will watch her, so that's cool. teresa seems like a really awesome lady:) she wants to start her own daycare. she even offered to watch nona for free until debi comes back, but luckily debi will be home this weekend and we don't have to take advantage of teresa's extremely generous offer.
i've been talking to the rabbi and he said he was going to figure out the adult education schedule with us so we can start the conversion process. that's exciting. i know now more than ever that this feels incredibly right. i can't wait to be jewish and i'm really excited for the rabbi to teach us what he knows.
we started sleep training nona. now, before you get all excited, let me just say that we're doing it in a really easy way. she's co-sleeping in the bed with us, but up until this point she was being held/rocked/fed/etc to sleep. but it was getting out of hand and she was having a harder time getting to sleep lately. so we decided to teach her how to fall asleep without one of us holding her or feeding her, and sure enough, it worked. it's ridiculous how easy it's been. the first night was a headache. every day and night since then, it's as if she got on board right away and figured it out. putting her to bed used to take at least thirty minutes to an hour, and now we just take her into the bed, lay next to her quietly with a hand on her chest and she falls asleep within minutes. i told josh if it really did end up being that easy, we wouldn't be able to tell anyone because we'd end up with an angry mob at our door. all the mothers who had to go through hell to sleep train would surely hate us. but it's been a week and so far, she has been to sleep with a minimum of hassle and fuss each night. her naps are getting easier too. it's amazing.
in other news, we joined a gym. i went a lot the first week but petered off again. i'm frustrated because josh is always either at school or doing homework and if he's not, then i'm at work and i can't go work out. they have a center for the kids but nona cries within ten minutes of being dropped off and it's just a hassle and a headache to try and work out when we are getting called in all the time. these people don't change diapers or feed the kids, and they apparently don't know how to comfort a crying baby either. you would think that would be part of their training, no?
anyway, there's been some wildfires and there's a thick blanket of smoke covering our whole area for the past few days. it's really heavy and gross. i worry about taking nona outside but i still have to. the heat has also been oppressive. our car doesn't have AC and poor nona can't stand the heat. i always have to rush her into a cool store and load her up with ice water. pffft!
we've been feeding her baby food now too. it's exciting. but it's expensive! like $100 a month! wow! all these exclamation points! i tried making her some homemade organic baby food but she made a bunch of icky faces at my carefully prepared carrot and potato mash. josh asked what was different about it and i said "i made it with love! i guess she doesn't like the taste of love!"
i'm a dork.
anyway, so i think i've covered everything over my long absence. i've missed some birthdays (diana!), and i'm sorry about that. i meant to say happy birthday but i forgot. i'm bad at that. i take a lot of shifts at work and when i'm home, i'm playing with my little chubby girl. she's getting so big! she'll be 9 months on july 16th. it's crazy how fast the time goes.
<3 becky