This is the ABC's of Charlotte! As complied by Mommy and Daddy
A. Attached or single? Single and will be for a LONG time (per Daddy!)
B. Best friend? Lily and her bottle
C. Cake or pie? Hasn't had these yet...
D. Day of choice? The days she is allowed to crawl all over and investigate the world... so that would be everyday!
E. Essential item? Gas-Ex LOL But VERY true!
F. Favorite color? We will have to wait and see
G. Gummy bears or worms? She hasn't had these yet
H. Hometown? Where her heart is
I. Indulgences? Tiny bites of brown ice cream
J. January or July? Unsure right now!
K. Kids? None yet. Age 50 before Daddy is even going to think about that one!
L. Life isn't complete without? a nice warm bath, bottle and a snuggle with Daddy
M. Marriage date? Chris interjects here and says that this isn't going to happen b/c she isn't going to grow a day older then 6! Little girl forever! That or until he gets a gun licence!! LOL
N. Number of brothers & sisters? 1 sister-Older
O. Oranges or apples? Apple in her feed bag!
P. Phobias? Not getting enough food, and having a dirty diaper!
Q. Quotes? The one and ONLY one time so far she has said Momma to me!
R.Reasons to smile? FOOD!!
S. Season of choice? This year I would say summer
T. Tag peeps - Will default to Mommy's answer..
U. Unknown fact about me? She is starting to stand alone for short periods!!
V. Vegetable? Sweet potatoes
W. Worst habits? Biting! Those little teeth hurt!
X-ray or ultrasound? Cat Scans of her head are tops of her list!
Y. Your favorite food? Zwieback toast, puffs, really anything she can feed herself. That list also includes dirt, rocks, and crayons!
Z. Zodiac sign? Libra- just like Mommy!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Rdette's ABC's
Lily's ABC's
This is the ABC's of Lily! As complied by Mommy and Daddy
A. Attached or single? Single and will be for a LONG time (per Daddy!)
B. Best friend? Juice and Bear
C. Cake or pie? Both, but would take brown (chocolate) ice cream over both!!
D. Day of choice? Birthday- She is like the Mad Hatter!! We have UN-birthday's Evey single day! She loves Birthdays!
E. Essential item? Bear
F. Favorite color? Purple (just like her Momma!)
G. Gummy bears or worms? She hasn't had these yet
H. Hometown? Mixco, Guatemala
I. Indulgences? Singing!
J. January or July? January b/c it is her birthday month! She is already talking about her birthday cake!
K. Kids? None yet. Age 50 before Daddy is even going to think about that one! Although she loves to mother her baby dolls!
L. Life isn't complete without? Bear and brown (what she calls chocolate) ice cream! Oh and a bath!
M. Marriage date? Chris interjects here and says that this isn't going to happen b/c she isn't going to grow a day older then 6! Little girl forever! That or until he gets a gun licence!! LOL
N. Number of brothers & sisters? 1 sister-younger
O. Oranges or apples? Oranges
P. Phobias? Swiper from Dora, and the vacuum
Q. Quotes? 'That's Elmo's world!' Elmo and of course 'I do it!!!' My favorite thing she is doing right now is calling me 'my mommy' and Chris 'my daddy'.
R.Reasons to smile? Swimming!
S. Season of choice? Any that she can get outside and play, I think that this summer has been pretty great though!
T. Tag peeps - Elmo, Cinderella, and Dora
U. Unknown fact about me? Lily is double jointed in her hands.
V. Vegetable? Anything Mommy can disguise as "Princess food!" If we can pull that off she will eat anything.
W. Worst habits? Picking her nose...thanks Daddy!
X-ray or ultrasound? As far as we know has never had either
Y. Your favorite food? Milk, spaghetti, and ham and Cheese- thankfully, not all at once!
Z. Zodiac sign? Capricorn- just like Daddy!
I'm it!
Soooooo excited! I have never been "tagged" before to play a game! Thanks Kathy! http://whenrudysaysuhoh.blogspot.com/
This is the ABC's of me!
A. Attached or single? Attached sometimes it seems surgically! ;-)
B. Best friend? Chris
C. Cake or pie? Cake
D. Day of choice? Friday, because either Chris is off OR his hours at work are reduced and he gets to be home!
E. Essential item? My book bag. It has everything that the girls could ever need! It is like Mary Poppins' bag!
F. Favorite color? Purple
G. Gummy bears or worms? Worms cuz they gross Chris out! LOL Sometimes it's just fun to do!
H. Hometown? Exactly where I live now.. really in the same house
I. Indulgences? Music I <3 my Ipod
J. January or July? January Lily's and Chris's birthday, plus I am still coming off of my Christmas season high!!
K. Kids? The two most wonderful little girls a Momma could ask for!
L. Life isn't complete without? Chris and our girls. Oh and Chocolate ice cream!
M. Marriage date? June 24, 2000
N. Number of brothers & sisters? 1 sister-younger
O. Oranges or apples? both
P. Phobias? close spaces esp Tunnels... didn't happen until the girls came..very weird!
Q. Quotes? 'Do or do not, there is no try' Yoda- Yes, Chris I pulled out the Yoda just for you!! ;-)
R.Reasons to smile? My girls and of course Chris! Also the fact that for the first time in 6 weeks we are ALL staying home this weekend!
S. Season of choice? Fall
T. Tag peeps - Lily and Charlotte ( Kathy did this and I thought it was really cute!)
U. Unknown fact about me? Hmmmm a girl can't reveal it all can she....
V. Vegetable? brussel spouts
W. Worst habits? Absentmindedly picking at my feet
X-ray or ultrasound? X-rays are boring, I LOVED the many ultra-sounds I had to have when I was prego!
Y. Your favorite food? Crabs/shrimp YUMMY!
Z. Zodiac sign? Libra
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
10 months!
I love my Calendar girl!!
Last year we submitted 3 of Lily's pictures into http://www.guatadopt.com/ it is a FANTASTIC forum that gives adoptive families as accurate news as one can receive from Guatemala. Evey year they produce a calendar. We found out about the year Lily came home, but the submissions were only open to parents who had their babies home.
They do a great job making sure that every child that is submitted gets a place somewhere on this calendar! Lily is an August girl!! We keep it in our kitchen and were very excited to flip it to this month! If they offer it again we will be submitting both girls this year!
I found a picture of the proof they sent out too all of the parents before we bought them. I did my best to remove all the other kids faces. I don't post pictures of people unless I have their permission.
Chats with Lily...
Here are a few I have been saving...
I keep a dry erase board in our kitchen. I update it about every six weeks and when I do I draw Team Henry complete with names. Lily LOVES this and will tell everyone who comes into the house who is on the board. "Rdette there, mommy there, daddy there, and lilliana there."
One day she was reciting this to Chris. After she identified all of us he asked her "and what does that make us?"
her response... "happy"
Yesterday I was let her wear her new shoes in the house to help break them in a little. I got them all unhooked and handed each one to her and she put them on. She got the biggest smile on her face and ran all over the house yelling " I love them, I love them!" My jaw was on the floor, she had never said anything like that before. I told her that I was glad that she liked her shoes. Then she started yelling "I love new shoes, I love shoes!!!"
She is going to be my diva!!!
We are working with Charlotte trying to get her to say Momma and Dada. She will say both but only if she is mad and wants us! Lily knows we are trying so she will get right down next to her and tell her "Rdette say Momma, say Momma, awwww good baby!"
OMG it is so sweet. Charlotte just looks at her smiling, and then pulls her hair!!! Lily handles that well. She just tells her in her firmest voice "No hair Rdette, here book" or whatever it close to hand her. It helps that she pulls my hair ALL the time so Lily doesn't take it personal!
99%
That is how close Lily is to being...
FULLY POTTY TRAINED!!!!!!
She has been doing so well! It is soooooo true though, that if they are ready then it is a breeze. She hasn't worn a diaper in over a week and has only had a very few accidents! She goes in on her own to pee! I am only requested if she has pooped because she wants to "show you, nom ere!!"
Everyday when she poops we call Daddy and leave him a message! She gets soooo excited and wants to tell everybody!! It is too cute!
We are still using nite-nite panties and bye bye panties (pull-ups) and will for a while to come just to make sure. She growing tooo fast!!! :-( But we are sooo proud of her!!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Pop-Pop's Groupies!
We have been quiet the traveling crew this summer. This weekend was no different. I didn't post about our upcoming getaway because we were taking our dogs and there would be no one home. Our house was broken into two years ago so I try to play it safe!
This past Tuesday Chris and I were doing some forward planning of our summer weekend and we realized that if we didn't go to visit my parents this weekend we more then likely would not get to until after Charlotte's birthday. Not cool. We decided to make plans for this past weekend. So we packed up all 4 of the babies and off we went!
We had a really nice time, as always too short! On Saturday night Pop-Pop pulled out his guitar and played a few tunes for the girls to rock out too! She'll be coming around the mountain was a BIG hit!!! :-)
Mom-Mom and the Big girls making pancakes!!
Charlotte eating her first bites of pancakes!
Friday, August 1, 2008
550
August 1, 2007 was a scary day in my pregnancy. I wouldn't say the scariest, but absolutely in the top 5. I saved 1 and 2 for the days that we were told that I would more then likely NOT carry Charlotte to term, and Charlotte's birth when my uterus didn't clamp down as it should have.
August 1, 2007 stands out for me because it was the day that we found out that I had Gestational Diabetes. No biggie for most women just a few diet restrictions and maybe some medication. It becomes scary when they use words like, uncontrolled, insulin, birth defects, still birth, low birth weight. I could go on and on just as the Nurse educator did. It was terrifying.
Once I got home and started to digest all the information. I promised Charlotte that if they told me I had to stand on my head for the next 2 months then that was what I was going to do. In the following weeks it became a joke that standing on my big prego head would have been easier then what I was going through.
Unlike most women no matter WHAT I did/ or didn't do my fasting blood sugar number would NOT go down. There was one morning I think that it was the weekend of my baby shower I got up and peed in my little cup had ketones (not a good thing) then I went to check my sugar number and it was 91. That number just made me crumble. I lost it in my kitchen, while my family was in the other room.
I felt like I was failing Charlotte and I wasn't doing anything wrong. My doctors ( 3 of them at one point) wanted my numbers much lower then 90. I was seeing the doctor two times a week for stress tests and every time I went he increased the insulin that I was injecting into my tummy. To the point that I had to change the needles I was using to hold MORE insulin!
I went ahead to give myself my morning insulin dose and just couldn't do it. It literally bounced off of my pregnant tummy. Bawling at this point I asked my Mom to please help me give it. She did so w/out a thought. She was more worried about me then I could have even have known.
Once I gave birth to our baby girl it was only then I sat down and counted the number of times I stuck myself with needles. It came to approx 550 times in two months and a couple of days. It is hard to wrap your head around, but then again I am for grateful for a couple of things, 1 that Charlotte was by the grace of God born normally w/out any sort health issue, and 2 that after she was born (about 4 weeks later ) the diabetes resolved itself.
I would repeat every single second of those two month, everything if it meant that I would still have that baby girl in my life. Yes, I would even stand on my head! :-)
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