Thought I'd give a little update and a funny story.  Val has created a habit of playing until she crashes when I put her down for naps.  It's really annoying.   So this afternoon I went to check on her (again) and she had pulled 2 of her drawers out and emptied the clothing.  She had also put all of her babies and teddy bears in one, and stuffed ( Read more... )

 I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted.  I don't even know where to start.  I guess with me.  I've had some weird health issues the last couple of weeks.  Abdominal pain.  After an ultrasound of my liver due to high enzyme levels and several blood tests my dr. thinks it's just some acid reflux or possibly pre-ulcer.  I'm on meds which he ( Read more... )

Ok...I noticed I haven't posted in about a month, so I'll put something short up (yeah right..we'll see how much time I waste!).  MOPS started yesterday.  We had about 23 moms (from my count, but I could have missed some).  Last year we averaged 20.  I know there's a few more coming that weren't there yesterday too.  So we're kind of scrambling to ( Read more... )

Thought I'd better post since I haven't really in over a month.  It's crazy here!  Val's been potty-training and doing pretty well.  She'd either go all morning or all afternoon without going in her pants (except nighttime and naps).  One day she did the whole day!  Then, last weekend she got sick and was sick for 3 days.  Yesterday I tried what we ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd put up a quick post to say I'm thinking about all of you Minnesotans!  I hope everyone is ok.  We have a bridge (that I use almost daily), that need to be replaced and also crosses the Mississippi, so now I'm nervous.   A friend of mine from here went over the I35 W bridge last week and say big chunks were falling off of it.  She ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Vallarie's 2 year birthday!  I can't believe it.  So here it is the day before and we don't have gifts for her yet.  We're such bad parents!  I was at Target and asked Craig what I should get.  He said just come home (it was getting late) and we'd talk about it...but we never did!  So I'm guessing I'll be out tonight or tomorrow ( Read more... )

It seems I never get to post anymore...let alone read. A lot has happened since I last read ( Read more... )

Well, I realized that it's been almost a month since I posted.  Things are finally starting to settle down with Nicolas and his eating issues.  After his tongue was clipped it took about a week before he got really good at eating on my right side.  My left was a different story.  He kept getting on and doing it well, then after about 2 or 3 days, ( Read more... )

Well if it's not one thing it's another.  Nicolas got his tongue clipped on Monday and has since had a much better time latching on.  Unfortunately I had to go through the whole engorgement thing again because I'd apparently been pumping more often than he's now eating.  That seems to be subsiding, but because of it, I ended up with Mastitis.  ( Read more... )

I've been having some problems with blisters and LOTS of pain while nursing.  I saw a lactation consultant yesterday afternoon only to find out that poor Nicolas is tongue-tied!  That just means that he can't physically get his tongue far enough out to latch on correctly causing me a lot of pain.  He was getting enough to eat though, so that's good ( Read more... )