Are You Talking To Me?

Question:
When you over hear someone talking about how cute your baby is, do you respond to them and if you do, what do you say?

Michael and I were out eating dinner tonight and a mother with her 3 girls were sitting behind us. One of the little girls noticed Victoria in her car seat and said "look mom, a baby". THe mom started to tell each of the girls when they were born and how much the weighed. Victoria at one point opend her eyes and the little girl said " mommy, the baby is awake, come see her" the mom responded by saying that they would stop and look on their way out.

This never happend as Michael and I were the first to leave. I was a little uncomfortable during dinner because A- I could hear what they were saying about Victoria and B-the little girl stood up and was staring at all of us through the whole meal.

As many of you have already experienced this, what did you do? I wanted to turn around and say something, but then i would have to admit to listening to their conversations. I know that kids are very curious about the world around them and have lots of questions, but should I have turned around and said something like "turn around and let me eat dinner in peace"

Now, don't get me worng, i love hearing how cute she is or how precious she is or whatever comment people have to say, but why can't they say it to me or Michael and not whisper behind us. And what do you say when someone goes to touch your child without sounding mean or over bearing?
Who knew that having an infant would bring so many curious people and comments!?

So for now, I have chose to act like I don't hear them, unless they are speaking to me directly.

ABC's of Me

This was taken from Kellie's blog.


A- Available or Single?
Married happily now for 2 years and counting.

B- Best Friend?
All of you rock. Without each of you sharing your wisdom and guidence, I would be lost.

C- Cake or Pie?
Depends on what it is. If it's chocoalte, it's whichever I can get to first.

D- Drink of Choice?
Non-alcoholic is lemonade and alcholic is anything that tasts good, regardless of what form it comes in (jell-o shots, fruit soaked in vodka, etc)

E- Essential Item?
Phone, computer and baby. Ok, so baby isn't and item, but she is essential. She makes me laugh and I love spending time with her, when I'm not updating the blog for all of you to read and laugh at!

F- Favorite Color?
Blue or purple, then again, anything that isn't pink for the moment. We have so many pink things in the house from having a girl it looks like the house was sprayed in peptobismol.

G- Gummi Bears or Worms?
Neither, they both tast funny.

H- Hometown?
Rochester, NY. No matter where I am, this will always be my home.

I- Indulgence?
1000 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets. and nothing less will do

J- January or February?
January, it's the month Victoria was born and the month that all my troubles ended (my gallbladder came out)

K- Kids and Names?
Daughter-Victoria
Dog-Sandy
Cat-Molly-
Husband-Michael

L- Life is incomplete without…?
Love, laughter, sorrow, money and a great book.

M- Marriage Date?
September 5, 2004.

N- Number of Siblings?
2 half sisters (never met them)
1 Sister by marriage and one brother by marriage

O- Oranges or Apples?
Apples, cheaper in florida and the dog won't steal it from me if I leave it on the table too long and it goes great with the carmel topping I bought.

P- Phobias/Fears?
Hurricanes (yeah, I know, I live in the worng state for that one), losing a family member. I used to be afraid of needles, but I got over that one real quick.

Q- Favorite Quote?
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!

R- Reasons to smile?
My husband, my daughter, friends and family and reading the final book to the Harry Potter series.

S- Season?
Winter. You can snuggle up to a good book or a good friend and a great movie.

T- Tag 3 people?
If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged! So in the spirit of this: Tag, you're it!

U- Unknown Fact About Me?
Ok, this may seem odd, but, I can still touch both of my feet to my nose. Yeah, I know, weird, but you've come to expect that from me, haven't you!?

V- Vegetable You Hate?
Lima beans

W- Worst Habit?
spending way too much money, or so I have been told. That's what happens when I am given free access to money and the internet.

X- Xrays You’ve Had?
just two, one for my back at my chiropracters office and the other one for my kidney stones.

Y- Your Favorite Foods?
anything sweet and made of chocolate.

Z- Zodiac?
Aries….

now you are armed with more usless information about me. I am proud of you for reading this whole thing, that takes patience. Hopefully you learned something new and I made you laugh or at least smile or even think about chocolate cake.

Thank you for being here and alowing me to share my life with you...it's been a blast!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day has come and gone and yet I am still impresed with what Michael got me. I sent him steak and burgers from Omaha Steaks and in retur I got a gift certificate for a spa. Can you beleive it???

I was speachless, for the first time in 26 years (now he was wishing he gave one to me every holiday, keeps me quiet longer). I want to go and be pampered, but I want to hold on to this amazing gift for as long as I can.

As this was Victoria's First Valentine's day, She also got a few things. She got socks and 2 outfits from Nonna (Lia) hat and booties from Aunt Barbara and an outfit from Grandma Marie. Michael and I got Victoria a happy first Valentine's Day card to mark this special event. She had a great time gumming all the cards and wrappers to death (liquid death, that is) to get t the cards and gifts inside, then it was off to sleep she went.

On another subject, I have leaned that even though she is tiny enough to fit in our sink in the master bathroom does NOT mean that she should take her baths in them. I tried this n friday thinking that it would be easier to give her a bath as I wouldn't have to bend over then try to stand up with her to get her towel. This proved to be a very bad idea. Thoughs he can only slide so far...slide she did...all over the place, though she thought it was funny, I didn't. Even the cat thought it ws fun to watch until I told her that she was next, she stopped laughing at that point and had been avoiding me ever since.

Michael and I bought a 3 peice entertainment system to update the living room and to make things look more organized, well ok, we bought it to put all the electronics and games behind glass BEFORE Victoria learns to crawl and get into things. So I sent all of thrusday and all of Friday putting the middle and one of the side units togehter, boy what a pain in the *() that turned out to be. I wish that the instructions could teel you how it is:
step one, have a drink, step 2 have another drink. Ok, now that you are happy, this thing is going to ake at least 2 hours and drive you insaine.

I love it when they say some assembly required...sure, then you open the box and see all the parts that have to be put together, then you look at the instruction book and it's 40 pages. Worse yet, the pictures are awful with just a 4 word description of what needs to be done. No wonder I hate putting these things together, though they do look great once assembled. Go figure.

ok, I am all done complaining for now, thank you for listening.

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Michael and I have a monitering system that allows us to see Victoria in the day and the night on a tv moniter. We call this great invention, Beanievision.

Good Idea:
now when she is fussing, I can check u on her without actually going into her room and waking her up or making her more mad that someone has not come to get her sooner. We can also see if she is falling asleep and fussing all at the same time...it's also free entertainment.

Bad Idea:
i feel bad when I put her down after a midnight feeding. I can watch her looking around wondering why she has to be in the crib all by herself..she looks so lost and lonely. It makes me want to get up and go and snuggle her unti she falls asleep, which could take hours. I feel so guilty for leaving her there when she's not tired, but then reality sets in and i realize that if I don't get some sleep, I won't be any good to her in the morning.

Blah blah blah

ok...so many of you are asking what Victoria weighs and how long she is. Since her next dr. apt. isn't until March...we can improvise. I stood on the scale to first weigh myself (no, i'm not gonna tell you what it said) then i picked her up and stood on the scale. She is around 7 1/2 pounds. Big jump, though she still looks like a baby doll, only louder.

I went shopping down south (near Miami) over the weekend to a discount mall. While I was in the ladies room waiting my turn, a little boy looked at Victoria in her baby bjorn carrier ( yes, she finally fits into it and loves it) and asked if she was a real baby. That was funny and it caught me off guard. Even the mother at that point was waiting for an answer...then Victoria answered for me by letting out a scream.

Victoria is finally starting to grow out of her premie clothes, though she is not long enough to fit into alot of her 0-3 month clothes, so it's a hit and miss to what she can fit and wear. Our little beanie is growing up.

It's been a month without the gallbladder and I can say that life is good. Things are running as they should and I am back to eating everything in sight...then seeking out things that aren't in sight. I even make the cat and dog nervous.

I guess other than that, there really isn't too much to report. It's the same thing everyday. Get up, eat, feed Victoria and go back to bed...though some days her and I get showers, but other than that it's the same thing.

I have learned to put a dinner schedule on the fridge for Michael and I. He is impressed. I even tried something new...opening up a cook book and cooking something out of it. So it had 2 inches of dust on it and leveling off the old table, but hey, it's never too late to try something new. The scry thing is...it was good. Chicken with lemon pepper and dijon mustard sauce....sounds odd, but tasted great.

I figured if I keep this up, by the time Victoria is old enough, she will know how to cook...hopefully more than what I knew how to cook at her age. But then again, i hated cooking at her age.

Oh, the picture at the top was taken professionaly at the hospital...thought you might like to see it.

Multi-Tasking

I have mastered Multi-tasking. It only took me 26 years and a baby to master it, but hey, i did and that's all that matters.

I have figured out how to take a shower and fill Victoria's bathtub all at the same time...without getting shampoo or soap in her tub...that takes some talent. I have also managed to feed her and me at the same time. She lays very nicely in my lap while she is breastfeeding. This alows me to feed myself as her and I seem to be on the same feding schedule...which is scary if you ask me.

I have also learned to check e-mail, post, and read while feeding. This took more than some talent. It took patience and some really good balancing. Balance you ask? what does that ave to do with it? well, sit back and let me tell you all about it.

See, Victoria lays on my lap during meals...both bottle and natural. While she is laying there, shelikes to look around, so I move me leg accordingly to keep her head from bouncing all over the place. This takes some skill, to which I have almost mastered. This also alows me to get a few things done, like posting, reading or checking e-mail. I do this during feedings because it's the one time when she doesn't need a whole lot of attention from me.

The other times I do have to read or check things I am sleeping or watching her during tummy time, which she hates, partly because the dog likes to come over and check her out, then Sandy will sit down and watch Victoria to make sure that no one else disturbes her. That is way too funny to watch sometimes.

Update:
Victoria is sleeping very well in her crib, though we are trying to keep her room at a warmer temp, she seems not to care about that. She enjoys rocking in the middle of the night (Thankyou to Lia for the rocking chair...it's been a life saver...well, a cry saver that is). Victoria will snuggle up to me and just rock with me for what seems like hours, but as soon as I lay her down, they eyes are wide open as if to say " Hello, I'm not tired, what happen to the rocking???" No, she doesn't scream when i put her in the crib, she just lays there looking around. What a great kid we have.

Michael has been doing a great job with the weekend feedings. Friday night he got up for both night feedings so that i could sleep. In the morning he laughed and said " no wonder you are always tired in the morning" It was nice to sleep in for a change. I am glad to hear that he is getting to understand why I am tired during the day and require several naps.

Speaking of naps...time for another one! Have a great Superbowl day!

Sleep Deprived

Last night I made the decision to let Victoria sleep in her crib in her room for the night. At 3 weeks old, I am not sure if that is the right thing to do or not, but we did it anyway.

We moved the camera into her room and mounted it on the wall so that no matter what direction she is facing, we can see her to see if she really is awake or just making sounds in her sleep. The tv is set in our room...on my side of the bed.

It was very hard to go to sleep. I would wake up and stare a the tv for what seemed like hours, then I would get it into my head that something was wrong and I would go into her room to make sure she was breathing...of course she was fine and had I had any patience, I would have been able to figure that out while watching the tv. I am a new mom, impatient and over paranoid...can you blame me?

She only got up twice last night, as for me, I was up way more...ug. We have also discovered that if you do not burp her completley BEFORE you lay her down, she is strong enough now to spit up and get it half way accross her room...i should know, it happend to me last night. I couldn't believe it. I got hit and I was in the middle of the room. I look over and she has this big smile on her face, she was so proud of herself for getting me. It didn't stop there. While I was changing her diaper, i got peed on...then at a later feeding, i got spit up on me. So not only did I go through 2 outfits, but so did she, including her changing table cover the the sheet to the crib.

Can anyone say laundry? Who knew that someone so small could generate enough laundry in ONE NIGHT to do a full load of laundry. And I thought we were bad. The nice thing is I can wash a lot of her things compared to 2 outfits for Michael and I.

Anyway, feel free to leave a message and let me know when your little one was moved from the bedroom to their own room...and what caused you to do so...I still may move her back...you know, being paranoid and all, even with the beanievision, as we like to call it.

That's all for now. nap time, forget lunch, straight to nap time....wwwwwhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Pictures Galore

Now I know why all my friends had so many pictures...once you get going with the camera, it's hard to stop...even after the baby falls asleep. Michael brought home a quick flash high tech camera one weekend to test it out and see if it would be something that we might buy one day.

The answer is yes...one day we will buy a camera with a quick response to taking pictures. We had over 500 pictures taken in a span of 2 days. Even Victoria was tired of the camera, but i guess it didn't help that if Michael wasn't taken pictures, I was with my Kodak camera. I think at one point she tried to fake sleeping to get out of having her picture taken, little did she know that the camera doesn't stop just becuase she falls asleep...in fact, we took even more pictures.

If she is camera shy when she gets older, she will get over it, really fast. I was when I first met Michael, I got over it in 2 months. I had my picture taken more in the first 3 months of our relationship than I had before I met Michael. I guess taking 500 pictures of Victoria has it's upside. We have some amazing pictures of her. Even one of her flipping the camera off, I guess at that point she had had enough! ha ha ha

Anyway, Victoria is asleep...so i am going to go take a nap...imagine that, it's 9:30 in the morning and I need to take a nap. Though I guess this could also be practice for retirement! ha ha ha

Enjoy the pictures...and no, the picture of her flipping off the camera was not posted, I didn't want to offend anyone...even though we were. Can you imagine, your own child flips you off before she can even hold her head up for more than 10 seconds? geeze, what did Nana teach her while we were out???

Just kidding Nana.