Seaview Hotel

Today's title is another book I don't remember much about but know it was great. I'm not even sure that was the exact title but by making it today's blog title I might be inspired to remember. Yeah, we made it through the half way mark of the week!! That is something to celebrate. Yesterday was a pretty average day, decent day at school for Peanut. She did bring home an adorable little art project from school again, I will have to post it at some point. Last night we began the process of trying to get to sleep in her crib for the first part of the night. I have a feeling that will be a long process. Last night we got her to fall asleep in the nursery on the daybed next to me, then I got up and we left her there for awhile (not along, Mike was in the room the whole time). Then after we were sure she was good and asleep I attempted to move her to the crib. If that doesn't sound like a daunting task I don't know what does. Needless to say she ended up in her crib with her once sleepy eyes wide open and staring at me with a look that said "What the heck was that, what were you thinking!?!?" So I brought her back into bed with me and we went to sleep. We are going to keep trying every night though. Last night wasn't a complete success but she did fall asleep in there and sleep without me next to her for awhile so I think that counts for something. Have a good Thursday everyone, see you on FRIDAY!

I wish I had duck feet...

Today's title was one of Mike's favorite books when he was little, it was written by Dr. Seuss. I don't remember this one at all but he insists it is a great book so Daphne will be hearing it soon I am sure. I found out the title of Monday's book is "What Sadie Sang" by Eve Price. Update time...yesterday was a pretty good day, it was normal school routine for Peanut, she seemed to nap and eat as usual and was happy when we visited at lunch. When we picked her up we were talking to Naaman's mom and she was telling us how he is two months younger then Daphne and weighs 14.5lbs already, what a chunker! He has big chubby cheeks and is pretty cute. Daphne had a good night, other then her thrashing all around in her sleep making me realize I would give almost anything for a huge bed to myself and 7 hours of sleep again. She has learned a new skill! She now likes to roll over to her tummy in her sleep. Not my most favorite skill seeing as I have to be awake and watching to see that she completes it successfully but she seems to like it the best for the time being. Work is going alright, nothing to exciting, still waiting to figure out my flex hours. They tried offering me a the ridiculous option of working from 12-8 each day....yeah that sounds like a perfect schedule for new moms, how considerate.... needless to say we are still exploring the options. Hopefully soon we can figure something out. It has been sunny here but only about 30-40 degrees and windy. We are still stuffy but getting better. Tonight I have chiropractor at 4:00 so that will be a treat, maybe I will fall asleep. Today's picture is an action shot of her playing with her toy and kicking on the floor. Happy Hump Day!

Need a House, Call Miss Mouse

I have decided the titles for this week will be from books I remember growing up. Today's was one of my all time favorites as well. It was about this mouse that designed houses for all her friends. If I remember right there was a caterpillar, a spider, a butterfly, a frog and more. It had great pictures of the houses she designed, I remember wanting to live in them all. It was written by George Mendoza and is much easier to find online then yesterday's choice, which is not the correct title on yesterday's blog by the way. Alright, on to our update....yesterday Daphne did really well at school. She napped once for 1 1/2 hours! And the only reason she woke up was because I had to get her up to feed her at lunch....wow. She ate pretty good and took a few other naps as well. Only downfall is she is still stuffed up and having to deal with the infamous nose sucker. I am still working on getting over this never ending disease as well but I am feeling much better. Hopefully we will all be clearing up by tomorrow....fingers crossed. Other then that nothing out of the ordinary, she has been getting up 1/2 - 1 hour earlier then usual so that has been interesting for our morning routine. Hopefully right now she is sleeping with Mike but I have a feeling I will go upstairs and find her talking away. Hope you all have a great day and can escape the rain!

Sadie Sings...

Good Morning everyone, hope you had a great weekend. We did despite the constant rain and extreme fog that persisted from early Saturday AM until now most likely. Friday was a pretty good day for Daphne at school. She got the rest of her book order in. Remember book orders, we use to get so excited about those at school. Well her daycare does them too so that's one exciting part of going there. We ordered some books so we have a new collection to read....we might of gotten a little over excited. I'm sure they think we are nuts since we have one of the youngest kids there and probably ordered the most books but oh well, when we picked them up they were all excited that we were reading to her so that's good at least. One of my favorite books when I was little was from the library and called "Sadie Sings", at least that's what I think it was called but I'm having trouble finding it online so I might be wrong. It was about a little girl who goes on walks with her neighbor and is singing the whole way. Any way, we had a good weekend, lots of hanging out indoors and just doing stuff around the house like usual. Peanut's cold seemed to improve on Saturday but on Sunday and this morning she seems stuffed up again....darn it! Oh and her check up on Friday went really well. She weighs 13lbs 7oz and is 25 in. long (50% in head size, 48% in weight and 75 % height) so doing great. We have shots scheduled for Thursday of this week so I really hope she is feeling better. The doctor said she looked good and it's just a cold for right now so we'll keep watching her. The rest of our weekend consisted of our Target trip, granola making, cleaning the house some, some tummy time, some napping and some family play time. She is really liking Zeus and laughs and smiles at him all the time. We have some good videos of it but now have to find the video charger so we can get them online, that should only take a couple months, haha. Well I better go check on Peanut, when I left her with Mike she was being pretty wiggly so we could have another early riser this morning. Have a good Monday!

79 Degrees....

That is today's high! (Insert face of utter shock here) How can we go from 32 and sleet Monday to almost 80 and Sunny in 5 days, amazing! We'll see if it truly does make it that high, but either way it's going to be a nice day. Yesterday was a good day at school for Peanut, about the average. She was even happy enough when we picked her up at the end of the day to go to the going away party for someone from work. Everyone loved her and said she was adorable (or course) and like her big blue eyes. She liked to squeal at everyone and stare. Two people held her, my friend Allison, who has held her at our house, and Frederick, my old manager who has 5 kids. She did great! We did have a small diaper scare though. Right when we got there and I was holding her and showing her off she decided it was the prime time to attempt to blow out her diaper...and with gusto. It was loud in there so no one could hear but trust me I could feel and see her face and she was giving it her best shot. Luckily no one else knew her secret "Im blowing out my diaper" face so they just thought she was adorable. This was the one time we opted not to bring the diaper bag since we were a few minutes from home and not going to change her there, luckily we didnt have to, we didn't stay that long and changed her right when we got home. She also went to bed really well, even after meeting a bunch of people in a noisy place. Today is Friday......YES!!!!!.....other then her checkup not much going on, if only we could not work and enjoy the beautiful weather. It's suppose to rain the next 3 days, possibly reach 60, but rain. I will post her new stats here Monday, we are going to wait to have her get the shots next week when she's all the way better. Have a great weekend!

Ordinary Thursday

Happy Thursday everyone...today brings the promise of 60 degrees and sun....yes! That might just mean that Peanuts car seat will not need the layers and layers of warm weather gear it usually does, she loves car seat freedom! Yesterday was a regular day, pretty nice out actually so that was a big change. We found out one of the ladies that works in the Infant Room sometimes is from Escanaba...not far from Marquette at all! Small world....we found that out because of Daphne's awesome outfit yesterday (in the picture above...thanks to Uncle Jake). Like I mentioned yesterday it was favorite sports team day at school....we don't have much for that so we went with the onsie from Michigan Tech University that Jake got us....and as you can see from the picture, yes it was a little big, but it was stinkin adorable. She had a pretty good night last night again and I think we are both getting better. She has her 4 mo. well baby visit tomorrow so we can find out her height and weight! We might hold of on the shots for another week since she's already just getting over something, don't want her to get even sicker. For Earth Day yesterday we walked over to the design center in Kohler and they had a bunch of cool exhibits out. We got some free earth friendly cleaner, a sappling and some information about farms in our area. It was pretty fun. Tonight is a going away party for someone at work, we are considering taking Peanut with us and staying just for an hour or less. We'll have to check the happiness level when we pick her up....if it's anything like yesterday I think we'll be ok. Have a great Thursday, I'm off to get Peanut dressed in something super cute in case she has her debut tonight!

Earth Day

Yeah for making it to the middle of the week!!!! From today on it is suppose to get much nicer here. Today it is going to be 50's and sunny and Friday is suppose to be in the 70's!! That is a much needed relief, although I know a lot of you are under a foot of snow right now so are thankful we just got rain. Yesterday was a pretty good day for Daphne, she had some great naps at school, one was 1hr45min, which is really long for her so that's good. I think alot of it has to do with her getting over her cold, although just maybe she has learned to nap.....I won't get my hopes up. The parent's luncheon was alright, I was the only one their for the infant room so that was kind of stupid, but I would have been there any way feed her so it's not like I made a special trip. Today at school is wear your favorite sports team day, we aren't sure what Peanut it going to wear. She has Detroit Redwing's stuff but I think it's too small now, she also has a Michigan Tech onsie but it might be too big, we'll check it out this morning. Last night she went to bed really well...around 650 we fell asleep, yes that is early but it was actually me who was ready for bed. Seems like the pesky cold has hit me harder then her, ugh! She slept alright, she was kind of wiggly this morning (2am - wakeup) so that was kind of challenging but she is still sleeping now with Mike. Work is going alright, starting to pick up with a lot more projects, still not wanting to be there most of the time and hoping that changes. Hope you all have a melty or good weather day........and Happy Earth Day!