Little Perfection

Update

The thrush is getting better. Baby wasn't nearly as cranky today. She's now on 100% formula and she has adjusted well to being on it full time.

She's going to be growing out of her newborn clothes soon. I'm estimating another week in the newborn outfits before she moves up to the 0-3 outfits. Similarly, she's about to move out of newborn diapers and into size 1 diapers.

Since moving to the formula she's going 3.5 hours between feedings during the day and 4 hours between feedings during the night.

Side Notes:

1. Abby, I'll do a post about thrush in the near future. :)

A Not Boring Day

Baby has thrush. Lots of crankiness, rectal temperature taking, soothing, pacifier searching, formula making, and crying today.

We're heading into the evening now, wish us all luck.

Gotta Write Something

Though I'm not really sure what to write. I'm good, the allergies are hitting me hard. Baby is doing well: eat, sleep, poop, pee, stare at people, cry. Dog is doing okay with the baby. The parents are kinda freaked about the dog licking the baby. But shhhh...don't tell them I let the dog lick the feet of the baby. I don't think it's a huge deal.

I guess that's about it. Boring update, I know. Sorry.

Stumpy

The cord stump, or 'stumpy' as I've nicknamed him, has decided to stick around for awhile. We're going into day 12 here and stumpy is hanging on like nobody's business. It's not even close to being ready to come off.

I can't wait for it to come off, for no other reason than I won't have to fold down the diapers anymore.

Things

Things are going well here. As usual there's little things here and there but nothing majorly horrible to report. I spend a lot of time with the baby, the rest of my time is spent running errands, doing laundry, cleaning, or just kickin back and relaxing. I have plenty of free time, and I definately don't feel like I'm being taken advantage of.

I'm slowly meeting the people in the cul-de-sac, or however it's spelled. Lots of little kids. I'm gonna have to start farming myself out for babysitting on my time off. Cha-Ching!

I guess that's about it. To sum it all up:

Baby is cute

I'm averagely happy and still trying to find my place in the house

Dog drives me nuts sometimes

I'm not getting lost nearly as much.

A Moment of Clarity

Or maybe it's just the coffee speaking, but I can actually finish a sentence right now, so I'm taking advantage of it and writing a new post!

I finally got my driver's license yesterday. As usual it looks like a mug shot, but at least I can get insurance now.

I had to upgrade my purse, which bummed me out, because purses and I don't get along. I don't like them, rarely ever carry them, and I think I only owned 3 in my lifetime until I came here. Now I have on of those huge over the shoulder, could pack a house in there, can't find anything purses.

The reason for the purse upgrade? The work wallet. My personal wallet is nice and skinny, organized, and has the minimal stuff for shopping survival in it. My work wallet is another story. ATM cards, cash cards, Costco card, credit cards, money, baby card, gift cards, reciepts, coupons, the list goes on and on.

Oh, and the baby is doing well.

Routine

We're slowly but surely getting into a routine here. Well, it's mostly my routine, that I implemented, around the baby's natural schedule. But it's a routine none the less.

We're doing tummy time 4 times a day, she's getting better and better at sleeping in her bassinet. The general routine is:

Eat for 20 minutes, 1.5-2 hours of quiet alert time, sleep for 2-4 hours, wake up, eat for 20 minutes, and so on and so forth.

Still working on the shift work thing. More on that later.

Deep Breaths are Necessary

I'm in tears right now. I have yet to do something right so far today. This sucks.

I'm In Love

With the new baby GIRL who is now a part of my world!!!!! She is just freakin CUTE

Nesting

Well baby day is here. Trip to the hospital is scheduled for 4 pm, induction around 6pm, baby sometime on Friday.

Know what all of this means?

It means there's a lot of female nesting going on. This could possibly be because the babies room isn't done-(furniture isn't here yet), or maybe it's just nerves. Either way, it's 11am and I'm already tired.

4pm can't come soon enough.

Rough Day

Today was a bit of a rough day. I went shopping with my boss, who is 9 months pregnant, and it's hot. Yeah, rough day just about sums it up.

Another Day

Yep, I'm still here. Sorry I haven't been posting too often, I just don't know how to put my thoughts into words right now. Honestly, I'm a bit overwhelmed.

*breath in* *breath out*

Okay, time to get back to work

DMV Answers

Judy: Yes, I know. It's ridiculous.

Abby: I have a Michigan license, which is where I lived before I moved. But in order to be put on my boss's car insurance, and to get health insurance, I need to have a Georgia driver's license.

7 days till baby!

DMV, How I Hate Thee

I was at the DMV 3 times today. 1st time I was told I needed a bank statement with to prove I was a citizen. So I went to the bank, and had a print out of my account complete with bank stamp and signature on it. Back to the DMV I went for the 2nd time.

Was told I needed my passport AND birth certificate. So back home I went to get my birth certificate, since I just had my passport with me. Then I headed back to the DMV for the 3rd time.

So the 3rd time I went to the DMV I had my social security card, Michigan driver's license, passport, birth certificate, bank statement, AND official change of address confirmation from the post office.

Know what they said?

I need to have lived here for 30 days before I can apply for a driver's license. Now, why didn't they just tell me that in the first place????

I'm Here!!!!

I'm here in Georgia!!!!!!!

I offically start work tomorrow morning. Baby isn't here yet, that's not until next week. But there's a room to prepare, errands to run, baby clothes to wash, etc. etc. etc.

I've been busy setting up the GPS system for the car, figuring out where things are, putting my room together, and just getting settled.

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm here, and I'm alive :)