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A day in my life

Filed under: Uncategorized — Christy at 11:08 pm on Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Usually when Sam gets home from work, he asks me what I did that day. Here is my answer for last Thursday. Most of you will probably get bored reading about my day, but some of you other moms will identify. Sorry for all of the spaces between lines, I can’t get them to disappear. 

4:44 am I wake up to Katherine crying so I go in to feed her. 5:00 Katherine is back in her crib, but Hooligan wants to go outside. I actually check my email while I wait for Hooligan to finish her business.5:04 I am back in bed.

5:40 I am still awake. This is the last time I remember looking at the clock. I usually fall right back to sleep after feeding Katherine so this is odd and very frustrating.

 

7:38 Sam wakes me up when he kisses me goodbye. He usually does not leave this early.

 

8:27 Katherine wakes up so I quickly go into the kitchen to grab the supplies to pump while I feed Katherine. I find her in her crib, happy, but somehow she got one foot our of her footed sleeper. Hmm - how did she do that? I feed her.

 

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   8:39 I put Katherine on the floor in my room (after putting up the baby gate to keep Hooligan out) and I take a shower. This is a high priority every day. I can honestly and proudly say that I have taken a shower every day since Katherine was born. I think that no batter how stressful or difficult a day is, it is better if you are clean. 

8:50 I get out of the shower. Katherine is still happy so I go to the other end of the house to make my breakfast, a bagel and Juice Plus+ protein shake. I also iron my shirt and Katherine’s outfit. This is not something I normally do, but the ruffles and bow on her outfit really needed it!

 

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Hide and seek

Filed under: Katherine — Christy at 10:52 pm on Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Trying to hide

Trying to hide

Katherine likes to play on the rug in her room. I usually nurse her in the morning and then put her on the floor with some toys, set up the baby gate (to keep Hooligan out) and get myself ready. I poke my head in about every minute to check on her. Today I poked my head in and could not see her though I could hear her. I stepped over the gate and saw her almost totally under the bed. She was having a ball kicking the bottom of the bed.

Later today we were playing at Sammy’s house and he ended up 100% under the bed and tried to poke his head up. He was not too happy to hit his head on the underside of the bed.

 

6 months old

Filed under: Katherine — Christy at 12:21 am on Wednesday, August 23, 2006

I'm 6 months old today!

I'm 6 months old today!

Katherine, I cannot believe that today you are 6 months old, half of a year. Time sure flies. It seems like I just brought you home from the hospital yet that seems a lifetime ago.

Every month I think it is more fun being your mom than the month before. It really does get more and more fun because you are able to do so much more. This month it seems that you have grown leaps and bounds in your abilities. You are sitting up all by yourself for a long time. You push up onto all fours and rock back and forth like you are going to take off crawling any moment now. You roll all over the place. Sometimes when you are playing in your room you will roll under the bed. Sometimes you think it is fun to kick and hear the noise of the mattress and sometimes it makes you mad to be stuck under there. You also can pull yourself up from sitting to standing if there is something for you to grab on to. Daddy and I need to get busy on babyproofing the house.

You are so much more expressive when you communicate, both the happy and the not so happy communication. You have a lot of different types of cries and many kinds of giggles, squeals of delight and babbles. Nana and I loved it when you started to laugh when we were shopping. We never could figure out what was so funny.

You have started to act shy sometimes when someone is talking to you. That is really different because you love people. You will give them a big smile and then bury your head in my shoulder.

You have really started to notice and love Hooligan. If it were up to you, you and Hooligan would be allowed to play on the floor together all the time. It does not bother you that she wants to lick your face, but I won’t allow it.

You started eating sweet potatoes. You like them OK. Today you would have nothing to do with them at all so we will wait and try again tomorrow. You still don’t take a bottle so mommy is ready for you to start drinking from a sippy cup. Mommy is ready for you to get some nourishment from other sources besides her. That is getting quite exhausting as you are getting bigger and eating more often.

As usual we have done a lot of fun things this month. We have gone swimming, shopping, out to eat, many many playdates and playgroups. You are pretty easy going and happy when we are out and about. Mommy likes that because she would be pretty miserable if she had to stay home every day.

This month you were quite a stinker when I was trying to take your monthly picture in the chair. Now that you are sitting up and moving around, you would not sit still for the picture. You also were so interested in the piece of paper that announces your age. It was very hard to get a picture of you sitting tall, looking at the camera and holding the paper. My favorite ones are when you look like you will crawl off the chair and when you are holding the paper all crumpled up. It shows your fun and curious personality.

Take a look at all of her 6 month pictures by clicking on the album.

Katherine-6 months

Jul 27, 2006 - 20 Photos

Katherine, I cannot wait to see what you do this month. I look forward to the adventure.

Mommy