OK well I haven't blogged this entire month.. I was really hoping to be on a roll from the September challenge but we have been so busy that the time I'm home I feel like I'm playing catch up on everything else! I also have not done a family/baby/life update in a while! So I think I'll tackle that one today while the baby is sleeping.
First off we are about a week and a half from having a 6 month old!! :) I'm thinking I'm going to throw her a Half birthday party. Something small with just a few friends and other babies :) Serving things in halves.. like Half a pizza or half sandwiches.. maybe deviled eggs, and of course Half a cake! :) Fun fun! These Days Miss AnaB is rolling back and forth all over and scooting around on the floor, putting everything into her mouth and really trying hard to crawl. She'll get up on her hand and knees and then push up onto her toes like she's doing yoga! (downward dog anyone?) haha I guess she's been watching me.. the few (maybe 3) times I've gotten around to doing it! Anyway, I think she's close, probably waiting for Daddy to come home to show off for him! *story of my life* She's working on getting a tooth also.. whew! She is not a good little teether! She is super fussy and up a lot at night. I really thought her Amber teething necklace would help a lot more, I think I might try ordering a different kind from Etsy.. they are much cuter there, too. :) (we all know that fashion on little girls is what really matters!) She has had a rough couple of weeks, teeth coming in and she had a little infection on her hip. I'm not exactly sure what its from but she got two very large infected bumps, one right inside her diaper and the other right outside of it. I freaked when it got big and of course researched it online thinking "OH MY GOD ITS MRSA!!! SHE'S GOING TO DIE!" Luckily I have a doctor that is pretty laid back and said, well just keep doing what you're doing and give her some Antibiotics to help her little body fight the infection. So she's being taking the sticky pink stuff for the last week and I've been doing warm compresses every night on the bumps. Both of them started way under the skin them worked their way to the surface forming a puss pocket and eventually popping. Once they popped they got much better but I know it hurt her, I had to work all the nasty stuff out of there and she cried and cried. I didn't even push hard, just light pressure made the stuff come pouring out and she wailed :( It was pitiful and I cried along with her. The antibiotic gives her tummy aches and lots of poopy diapers.. that along with teeth coming in makes for a very unhappy baby. Hopefully we'll finish up the yucky pink stuff in a few days and be done with it, I'd stop it now but Dr. Dad says she needs to finish it out or the bacteria could come back and be resistant to the antibiotic.
Charlotte is very much a 3 year old.. I'm not sure who came up with the terrible two's because the three's are MUCH worse! She has realized that she has an opinion and that sometimes it doesn't matter because Mom trumps her opinion, so she fights that all the time. I know Eric will have a much better way of dealing with it when he gets home. We make such a great team as parents and when he's gone I know I make a lot of mistakes. But it's all a learning experience right?.. Anyway, Charlotte LOOOVES her school. I'm not sure if she has any friends because when I ask who she plays with she always says, "I don't know" typical kid answer. She's such a little person now. She learns things on her own and is just a big sponge, soaking up everything from everywhere... I'm pretty sure this morning she told me she was "pissed".. yes she used that word. I was too tired to acknowledge it though, also I know if I tell her not to say it or make a big deal about it, she'll say it all the time.. because she does exactly what I tell her not to do. She likes to push every limit set and test me in every area of life... a very sarcastic *yay* here... I remember the days when I was the only thing teaching her and she only learned what I taught her... those were the days... Oh well I guess my job as a parent is to let her experience things and then teach her how to decipher the good and bad influences. We are all learning here. This week her school is going to the pumpkin patch, I'm thinking I'm going to go along. We'll go ahead and get some pumpkins so when Daddy gets home (hopefully this weekend) we can carve away! :)
This last weekend we went down to Navarre Beach, Fl, for my friend Cassie's wedding. Charlotte was her flower girl. I learned a valuable lesson over the 4 days we were there: Never attempt vacations without Eric or my mom. I'm pretty sure the way my girls acted the whole weekend and the way I reacted scared a lot of people into NOT having kids :P But I must stress.. parenting is not hard (well it is.. just not as crazy as I looked) but it is meant to be a shared job and children are jipped when there is just one parent. If we were going to stay in the military, I would probably not have any more kids until we were out. Thankfully we only have about a year left! So hopefully next year we'll have baby boy Wehmeyer on the way (fingers crossed) :)
First off we are about a week and a half from having a 6 month old!! :) I'm thinking I'm going to throw her a Half birthday party. Something small with just a few friends and other babies :) Serving things in halves.. like Half a pizza or half sandwiches.. maybe deviled eggs, and of course Half a cake! :) Fun fun! These Days Miss AnaB is rolling back and forth all over and scooting around on the floor, putting everything into her mouth and really trying hard to crawl. She'll get up on her hand and knees and then push up onto her toes like she's doing yoga! (downward dog anyone?) haha I guess she's been watching me.. the few (maybe 3) times I've gotten around to doing it! Anyway, I think she's close, probably waiting for Daddy to come home to show off for him! *story of my life* She's working on getting a tooth also.. whew! She is not a good little teether! She is super fussy and up a lot at night. I really thought her Amber teething necklace would help a lot more, I think I might try ordering a different kind from Etsy.. they are much cuter there, too. :) (we all know that fashion on little girls is what really matters!) She has had a rough couple of weeks, teeth coming in and she had a little infection on her hip. I'm not exactly sure what its from but she got two very large infected bumps, one right inside her diaper and the other right outside of it. I freaked when it got big and of course researched it online thinking "OH MY GOD ITS MRSA!!! SHE'S GOING TO DIE!" Luckily I have a doctor that is pretty laid back and said, well just keep doing what you're doing and give her some Antibiotics to help her little body fight the infection. So she's being taking the sticky pink stuff for the last week and I've been doing warm compresses every night on the bumps. Both of them started way under the skin them worked their way to the surface forming a puss pocket and eventually popping. Once they popped they got much better but I know it hurt her, I had to work all the nasty stuff out of there and she cried and cried. I didn't even push hard, just light pressure made the stuff come pouring out and she wailed :( It was pitiful and I cried along with her. The antibiotic gives her tummy aches and lots of poopy diapers.. that along with teeth coming in makes for a very unhappy baby. Hopefully we'll finish up the yucky pink stuff in a few days and be done with it, I'd stop it now but Dr. Dad says she needs to finish it out or the bacteria could come back and be resistant to the antibiotic.
Charlotte is very much a 3 year old.. I'm not sure who came up with the terrible two's because the three's are MUCH worse! She has realized that she has an opinion and that sometimes it doesn't matter because Mom trumps her opinion, so she fights that all the time. I know Eric will have a much better way of dealing with it when he gets home. We make such a great team as parents and when he's gone I know I make a lot of mistakes. But it's all a learning experience right?.. Anyway, Charlotte LOOOVES her school. I'm not sure if she has any friends because when I ask who she plays with she always says, "I don't know" typical kid answer. She's such a little person now. She learns things on her own and is just a big sponge, soaking up everything from everywhere... I'm pretty sure this morning she told me she was "pissed".. yes she used that word. I was too tired to acknowledge it though, also I know if I tell her not to say it or make a big deal about it, she'll say it all the time.. because she does exactly what I tell her not to do. She likes to push every limit set and test me in every area of life... a very sarcastic *yay* here... I remember the days when I was the only thing teaching her and she only learned what I taught her... those were the days... Oh well I guess my job as a parent is to let her experience things and then teach her how to decipher the good and bad influences. We are all learning here. This week her school is going to the pumpkin patch, I'm thinking I'm going to go along. We'll go ahead and get some pumpkins so when Daddy gets home (hopefully this weekend) we can carve away! :)
This last weekend we went down to Navarre Beach, Fl, for my friend Cassie's wedding. Charlotte was her flower girl. I learned a valuable lesson over the 4 days we were there: Never attempt vacations without Eric or my mom. I'm pretty sure the way my girls acted the whole weekend and the way I reacted scared a lot of people into NOT having kids :P But I must stress.. parenting is not hard (well it is.. just not as crazy as I looked) but it is meant to be a shared job and children are jipped when there is just one parent. If we were going to stay in the military, I would probably not have any more kids until we were out. Thankfully we only have about a year left! So hopefully next year we'll have baby boy Wehmeyer on the way (fingers crossed) :)
***A Note for Cassie and Mike, I'm so sorry for being so stressed (and probably over dramatic) the weekend of your special day. I let Charlotte get away with too much because I was trying to be a nice mom on vacation, but she took advantage of that (as any child would) and when I was taking her to time out at the reception she stepped on my dress... it was strapless..(you see where this is going??) Yes, I'm pretty sure I flashed half the restaurant.. including Mike's parents as I was right in front of their table when the front of my dress came about half way down my chest... That is why we ducked out. I was at the end of my rope with the kiddos and had just given your wedding guests a show.. My face stayed red until the girls were sleeping and I downed a couple of glasses of wine. So once again... I apologize ever so humbly and I hope you don't think ill of me for my lack of sanity over the weekend.Your wedding was so beautiful and I am blessed to have gotten to be a part of it. I am honored that you love my little girl so much to want her to share in your ceremony and "lay the magic path" for you to walk down. ;) Love you guys!****
Now back to my update... As I mentioned previously, E will be home shortly and I am sooooo looking forward to this. We have a lot going on for the nextfew months ...year!! Starting when E gets home, Halloween, throwing a baby shower, I'm sitting in on childbirth classes for the next 4 weeks, E gets 2 weeks leave for Turkey day so we're taking a little vacay (hopefully), then Christmas break is about 2 weeks after that, then we'll be spending the first two weeks of January in NC for some training and visiting with friends (hoping to be there for a birth!! excited!!!) then a couple weeks after that E leaves AGAIN for 6 weeks of training over seas.. LAME! then hopefully we can lay low until he gets out of the dag-blasted army(thanks billy ray cyrus for the adjective)! And somewhere in there I'd like to fit in getting certified to teach Hypnobirthing and start the Doula certification courses. (just a note for any preggos out there, a certificate does not make a Doula.. I would gladly be a support person for you and your husband/significant other) ;)
Now back to my update... As I mentioned previously, E will be home shortly and I am sooooo looking forward to this. We have a lot going on for the next
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| The girls! |
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| This is what Charlotte really wanted to do all weekend.. play with Dawson! |
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| The flower girl PRO! |
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| Seriously.. she's got it down! |
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| Me & baby ready for the wedding |
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| Pretty much sums up the whole weekend right there! |
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