I wanted to start a list of words that Cailin uses on a regular basis so if you come around, You can translate. I will try to add more as I think of them... it is too close to midnight. I know I forgot something.
Cailin’s words/pronunciation
Om-eey = Homey
Omrey = hungry
Dashyrabul = Socksy and Rebel
Yesse = Jesse
Yaddy = Jesse
Euk = Look
Merry-mis = merry Christmas
Dov due = love you
Bobby = potty
Ewww = self explanatory
Mummy = bunny
Nay = horse
Melmo = elmo
Bibbit = frog
Dit = sick (she fakes a cough and says ‘I dit’)
Nanny = Nattalie next door
Nonny = snotty
Nan-due = thank you
Stesh = Steff
Un-til-tile = Uncle Kyle
Dasch = socks
Bosch = off
Poppy = Poppy or Puppy, you have to look at what she has, or is doing, or what she is looking at.
Dowl = clouds, and towel
Munch = lunch
Mimmie = binkie which she doesn’t use
Na-net = blanket
Pi-dow = pillow
Neeese = sneezed
Bat = bath
Mesh = mess
Mome = home
i-non-nont-no = I don’t know. The answer to EVERYTHING at the moment.
Bue = blue
Meen = green
nay-ned = naked
tuse-me = excuse me
Thursday, January 24, 2008
2.5 out of 3 are sick. Not good
I have been fighting allergies and asthma for a good 2 weeks now. It sucks. I ended up in Urgent care on Saturday night for 2 hours. I had to have 2 treatments of albuterol before I could calm down. I am not sure if you can even call it calming down because when you take albuterol, you become so jittery that it is just nuts. I am currently taking albuterol inhalers, symbicort inhaler, Claritin-D, codeine now I had to get some Delsym cough syrup. The cough syrup works. I am glad. It doesn’t take the cough completely away, so now I am taking prednisone as well. Just what every pregnant woman needs… drugs to make you want to eat more, drink more and pee more… I’m doing this enough as it is! J I am feeling better finally though.
While I am sick, Cailin has been having allergies as well. She just has clear snot dripping down her nose. Over the past 2 days, she is starting to act a bit more congested. When we get home from MOPS, on Wednesday, I try to get her to rest and notice she has a fever. It was 102.7. OIY. I give her some Tylenol and she was able to rest. Today, she still has a fever, but is drooling profusely. I know and can feel that her 2 lower 2 year molars are close to coming in. I hope that the fever is due to those. She is feeling snotty and cranky.
While I am recovering still, Chris is loosing energy every day. Tuesday, he has a sore throat, Wednesday, he stays home from work because it is so bad. He has strep throat. He feels miserable. I am doing my best to take care of him, take care of Cailin, take care of the house and dinners as well as trying to get myself better. It is exhausting.
From now on, I want to put a rule into effect… Only one person at a time is allowed to be sick at a time in this household. Think it will work?
While I am sick, Cailin has been having allergies as well. She just has clear snot dripping down her nose. Over the past 2 days, she is starting to act a bit more congested. When we get home from MOPS, on Wednesday, I try to get her to rest and notice she has a fever. It was 102.7. OIY. I give her some Tylenol and she was able to rest. Today, she still has a fever, but is drooling profusely. I know and can feel that her 2 lower 2 year molars are close to coming in. I hope that the fever is due to those. She is feeling snotty and cranky.
While I am recovering still, Chris is loosing energy every day. Tuesday, he has a sore throat, Wednesday, he stays home from work because it is so bad. He has strep throat. He feels miserable. I am doing my best to take care of him, take care of Cailin, take care of the house and dinners as well as trying to get myself better. It is exhausting.
From now on, I want to put a rule into effect… Only one person at a time is allowed to be sick at a time in this household. Think it will work?
I'll Take it!
Apparently, this pregnancy seems to be going just as well as my pregnancy with Cailin. That makes life easier. If the worse thing I have to deal with is the simple fact that I am sleepy, I will take it. I can nap when Cailin naps and I know this phase will be over soon. Also, just like my pregnancy with Cailin, I can not eat Mexican food without investing stock into Gas-X. If I take that, I can enjoy my favorite El Charro’s whenever I want. (When I am not broke)
I miss This
From the day Cailin was born, until she was at least 16-17 months old, I rocked her to sleep every single night. Sure there was that occasional night that we were out late and she fell asleep in the car, but most of the time, we would rock to sleep. Cailin isn’t feeling well and was uber fussy today. I know she didn’t sleep well, I could hear her coughing quite a bit throughout the night. Shortly after she picked and barely took 3 bites of her lunch, she sits on my lap on the floor crying and I started to rock her. She calmed down, and becomes very quiet. Chris tells me that her eyes were starting to drift shut. I move into her room and we rock for a while longer. She was asleep within five minutes. I continued to rock her, letting those little drool droplets roll down my arm, but enjoying this moment that we used to share every single night. When it was bed time, Cailin asked if we could rock again. YOU BET!! She didn’t fall asleep this time, but we rocked for about 20 minutes before I put her into her bed. I sang to her, she sang with me once in a while. After I realized she wasn’t going to sleep on my lap, we moved to her bed. She wanted me to put my head on the pillow next to her. I did, and I got to watch my baby fall asleep again. I miss getting to hold her and rock every night. I did notice at lunch time where she used to fit on my lap between the arms of the chair, now her legs dangle down the side. She has gotten so tall and growing up so fast. I can’t believe she is going to be 2 soon!!
Mind Your Manners Mommy!
Apparently Cailin has been listening when I am working with her on her manners, she now says Excuse Me (stuze me) before plowing into you with her stroller, she MOSTLY remembers to say Please, and almost always says thank you. I am very proud of her, however, she did remind me that I am not minding mine all the time and even though she is a child, I need to use my manners with her as well.
Earlier this week, Cailin found Chris’s stash of Pepperidge farm goldfish. She LOVES them just as much as her daddy does. She was eating some out of the bag when she runs to me with one in her hand saying “Ere mommy”. I stoop down and open my mouth. When it is less than an inch away from my mouth, she pulls is back and gets a grin on her face… “peeese mommy…. Peeeeeeessee…” I forgot to say please. I said please and she says “ere-go momma” and puts it into my mouth.
Thank you for that gentle reminder that even though you are small, I still need to mind my manners!!
Earlier this week, Cailin found Chris’s stash of Pepperidge farm goldfish. She LOVES them just as much as her daddy does. She was eating some out of the bag when she runs to me with one in her hand saying “Ere mommy”. I stoop down and open my mouth. When it is less than an inch away from my mouth, she pulls is back and gets a grin on her face… “peeese mommy…. Peeeeeeessee…” I forgot to say please. I said please and she says “ere-go momma” and puts it into my mouth.
Thank you for that gentle reminder that even though you are small, I still need to mind my manners!!
Bad Mommy
I know that I haven’t been typing much on here lately, but it has been busy. I have been stressed and at a lot of times feeling like a rotten mom. I am not sure if this is because I am moody because I am pregnant, or if it is the fact that Cailin has hit the “terrible twos” with so much force, I am not sure what has hit me. I feel like a bab mom for fussing at her as much as we have to and
Please tell me that it will get better.. for my sanity, her sanity, and well, for the cat’s sanity as well. There are some days that chris comes home and I feel so close to tears because it has been a harsh day.
Cailin loves the cat. She loves the cat so much that she wants to hold him all the time. She tries to pick him up, unfortunately for the cat, it is by the head or neck. This is not safe for the cat. She for some reason will try to hit the cat… with anything. One day for example, she had a hard plastic book, she was whacking the cat with this and Jessie just lay there hunched down as low as he could to cower away. I tell Cailin to stop. I try to tell her that it hurts Jesse and it isn’t nice to hit. She stops, I try to work on dinner. Chris is in another room doing computer repair. Five minutes later, I hear Cailin screeching with delight. She got into my pampered chef crate and found a bag full of lapel pins and was now hitting Jesse with this. I take the pins away, tell Cailin again that she can not hit. It is not an acceptable behavior, and it hurts Jesse. I sit her in the timeout chair. This is DEVISTATING to her. She screams. She tries to hit me because she is angry with me for moving her away from the cat. After making her sit (calmly) for a whole long minute and a half, she gets up. I play with her for a while and then I have to go back to dinner. Chris comes back upstairs and it testing one of his repairs. Not more than 5 minutes later, Cailin lets out a scream. It is one of those drop EVERYTHING you might think between her sobs, I look closely at her and notice four small puncture wounds on either side of her face. Small wounds that a cat claw could very easily made such as if Jesse ‘boxed’ Cailin’s face by hitting her on either side of her head with his front feet. I can’t yell at my cat if my daughter chases him around this house hitting him with various things. Apparently Jesse’s retaliation did NOTHING to teach Cailin. After dinner, Cailin had the cat cornered on the couch and was whacking him with the TV remote control. I took the remote, told Cailin that it hurt and and it was not acceptable. She was mad at me for this and started to cry. Reminding her of her cuts on her face does nothing to make her understand. We have tried tapping her hands, we have tried spanking, we have tried the timeout chair, and we have tried to reason with her. Nothing is getting through. This was just one day. We have tried stepping back and letting her see the consequences of beating on the cat, that doesn't do anything either.
Today, Cailin is sick. To steal words from another mommy friend, she becomes Captain Insomnia when she is sick. She took a 30 minute nap. She didn’t eat much of anything which it totally unlike my bottomless pit of a child. She was miserable as far as her attitude. I kept telling myself it was because she was sick. She got mad and tried to hit me when I took a cup of water away from her in the bathroom after she dumped ½ of it onto a carpeted floor. She got mad when I told her she couldn’t pick up the cat. She got mad when we wouldn’t let her drink daddy’s pop today. Daddy has strep and with her having it as many times as she did when she was less than a year, I didn’t want to take a chance of her getting it again. She was mad. Threw herself onto the floor and screamed. Last week she was in the kitchen and got mad at me for something. Before she threw herself onto the floor, she ran across the living room to the dogs bed, so she would have something softer to land on when she threw herself down. I had to laugh at this one.
With Cailin hitting and kicking as much as she has been, and her temper tantrums, there are somedays that I feel like all I do is correct her, or fuss at her for hitting, or kicking or whatever. Other days we have great days and laugh and giggle all day long.
Please tell me this stage will end soon and I will have my sweet loving little girl back soon!!!
Please tell me that it will get better.. for my sanity, her sanity, and well, for the cat’s sanity as well. There are some days that chris comes home and I feel so close to tears because it has been a harsh day.
Cailin loves the cat. She loves the cat so much that she wants to hold him all the time. She tries to pick him up, unfortunately for the cat, it is by the head or neck. This is not safe for the cat. She for some reason will try to hit the cat… with anything. One day for example, she had a hard plastic book, she was whacking the cat with this and Jessie just lay there hunched down as low as he could to cower away. I tell Cailin to stop. I try to tell her that it hurts Jesse and it isn’t nice to hit. She stops, I try to work on dinner. Chris is in another room doing computer repair. Five minutes later, I hear Cailin screeching with delight. She got into my pampered chef crate and found a bag full of lapel pins and was now hitting Jesse with this. I take the pins away, tell Cailin again that she can not hit. It is not an acceptable behavior, and it hurts Jesse. I sit her in the timeout chair. This is DEVISTATING to her. She screams. She tries to hit me because she is angry with me for moving her away from the cat. After making her sit (calmly) for a whole long minute and a half, she gets up. I play with her for a while and then I have to go back to dinner. Chris comes back upstairs and it testing one of his repairs. Not more than 5 minutes later, Cailin lets out a scream. It is one of those drop EVERYTHING you might think between her sobs, I look closely at her and notice four small puncture wounds on either side of her face. Small wounds that a cat claw could very easily made such as if Jesse ‘boxed’ Cailin’s face by hitting her on either side of her head with his front feet. I can’t yell at my cat if my daughter chases him around this house hitting him with various things. Apparently Jesse’s retaliation did NOTHING to teach Cailin. After dinner, Cailin had the cat cornered on the couch and was whacking him with the TV remote control. I took the remote, told Cailin that it hurt and and it was not acceptable. She was mad at me for this and started to cry. Reminding her of her cuts on her face does nothing to make her understand. We have tried tapping her hands, we have tried spanking, we have tried the timeout chair, and we have tried to reason with her. Nothing is getting through. This was just one day. We have tried stepping back and letting her see the consequences of beating on the cat, that doesn't do anything either.
Today, Cailin is sick. To steal words from another mommy friend, she becomes Captain Insomnia when she is sick. She took a 30 minute nap. She didn’t eat much of anything which it totally unlike my bottomless pit of a child. She was miserable as far as her attitude. I kept telling myself it was because she was sick. She got mad and tried to hit me when I took a cup of water away from her in the bathroom after she dumped ½ of it onto a carpeted floor. She got mad when I told her she couldn’t pick up the cat. She got mad when we wouldn’t let her drink daddy’s pop today. Daddy has strep and with her having it as many times as she did when she was less than a year, I didn’t want to take a chance of her getting it again. She was mad. Threw herself onto the floor and screamed. Last week she was in the kitchen and got mad at me for something. Before she threw herself onto the floor, she ran across the living room to the dogs bed, so she would have something softer to land on when she threw herself down. I had to laugh at this one.
With Cailin hitting and kicking as much as she has been, and her temper tantrums, there are somedays that I feel like all I do is correct her, or fuss at her for hitting, or kicking or whatever. Other days we have great days and laugh and giggle all day long.
Please tell me this stage will end soon and I will have my sweet loving little girl back soon!!!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Heartbeat
Got to hear baby's heartbeat today. I was surprised because they said they normally don't even attempt to hear the baby's heartbeat till 13 weeks. I am just hitting 11 weeks along. Sure enough there was a loud, and strong little beat going on. I heard this so many times while I was pregnant with Cailin, but it still brought tears to my eyes. I am so thankful that God has intrusted me with another little one to care for.
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