After much practice and hard work…  Wee Baby rolled over tonight!  Over the last week or so, every time she had tummy time, I took out the camera so I can capture the first roll!  And tonight she did it!   I am so proud of her!  And I cried too..  I just can’t believe she rolled over!  Next crawling, walking, talking, ….  oh the life ahead of me…. the beautiful life filled with wonderful moments with Wee Baby and Daddy.  I love my little family!

Wee Baby rolled over!

March 10, 2010

Mariella and I were sitting on the sofa talking about her boobie snacks.  lol That is what I call her breast milk.  I was telling her that Mommy was going to start weening her off of the breast and that she would get more formula.  Well at first she was startled..  and was like whoa Ma are you serious?  Hahahaa..    But then she understood and thanked me for giving her more than 3 months of the golden liquid.

Anywho, I took this picture of her while we were talking.  The natural sun light was coming through the windows and touching her beautiful face.   It really made her blue eyes pop!  Most of the photos I take of her don’t capture the blue of her eyes.  But this one did!  So pretty!

Pretty Wee Baby with Pretty Wee Baby Blue Eyes!

The third and fourth pictures show Wee Baby waking up from a nap.  So Sweet!  :-)  She is such a doll!

Mariella has a habit of falling asleep when I am feeding her…    she doesn’t get a full tummy and if I let her sleep, she wakes up in about 3o minutes for round two.  So often times I try and wake her up so she can finish eating.  She is always so cute! Here is a little video clip of her when I wake her up.

I also took some pictures after too.   She was not too enthusiastic to be taking pictures.  She really wanted a nap, and you can tell in the pictures she was like “what ever”  “I am bored”  “mommy put me in my cradle!”  lol heheeee

Just a few pictures of Mariella….   isn’t she just beautiful?  I need some more batteries for my camera….. 

That is all I got, just some pics today!

Happy today is Friday!  Pat will be home the next couple days and we get to have family time!  Here are a few pictures to get us through the day!

She slept like a champ last night.  From midnight till 5 am, then 7 till 10.  Perfect!  This is the third day she sleeps from 12-5 or 1-6….  I sure hope it continues.  I love the sleep!

Here are some pictures for us to enjoy.  She is such a precious little Wee Baby.   I love her and my husband….   I am so happy for our little family!  I wish we had some visitors so I can show her off to people.  Why don’t you come over for a visit?  It is alright by us! 

She dressed in an adorable outfit Candice and them gave her… she is so cute and changing so much everyday. She is making so many noises and her saliva glands are kicking in and I am starting to see some spit bubbles!

awwww I just love baby spit! LOL

She napped and ate and played and napped and ate and played again… a perfect day!

Mariella is pretty in her polk-a-dots today! She is all fresh and clean today! But her mommy is still fonky with Wee Baby snot on her sleeve and spit up on her bra. lol Well take a look at Wee Baby! She is so cute. I wish I could share her with y’all.  Anyone is welcome to come and visit and hang out with us. I am home sick..  well more like family and friend sick…  I need some interaction!

here is some Mariella cuteness to get us through the day! Thanks Nanny for giving Wee Baby such a cute outfit!

See the pictures on Facebook too

Well…  scared to use the mist too..   I let a couple days go by since it wasn’t affecting her, I just thought she would sneeze it out or something.  (which she did once before)

mistake, yeah I know

It is morning… 9ish…  I am holding Wee Baby in the kitchen heating up a bottle.   It is quiet and we just woke up.  The bottle is almost done, I open the kitchen drawer to get a towel so I can wipe the steam off the bottle.  I grab the towel as I was talking to Mariella, “good morning sugar poo!” ” did you have a good nap?”   She went to talk and make some morning ohhs and ahhhs and as she did, some snotty stuff must have went in her throat.   She did an eyes closed – noses scrunched – mouth open – gaggy thing – and she didn’t take a breath.    My immediate response was to reach for the saline mist to squirt up there to loosen the snot so she could swallow it or cough it up..   ?  As I reached for the saline mist, I closed the kitchen drawer with my hip, I caught her little foot it the drawer.  So now she can’t breath and she is flailing her arms and legs all over the place because her mommy hurt her foot and she still needs to swallow or cough up a lump of snot.

I have the mist, pop off the clear top and do you see that little white top??  I tried to remove it too.  I pulled… I pinched…  I grabbed a steak knife and tried to slice it off..  Mariella is still jerking and flailing all over the place…  “damn this plastic is thick” one handed, trying to use a knife, too risky, I got halfway through the cap..  it is now jagged and sliced up.   “this is f**king ridiculous!”  I throw the knife across the counter…  back to the towel drawer to get the scissors… I chopped the tip off with the scissors.

Finally I got the damn cap off!!!

Freaked out, scared, using saline for the first time ever (for myself or baby) I give the bottle a test squirt.   I pressed the trigger and saline shot up and hit the ceiling! “OH MY GOD What the hell?  this is not right! Saline mist MY ASS!” arghhhhhhhhhh  helppppppppppppppp    meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

I have some saline drops in her bedroom….   so I run down the hallway to her room…  laid her on her changing table…  and successfully put a few drops in each nostril.  By this time, I think all the flailing and jerking movements from me running down the hallway knocked the snot down and out of the way.   She was happy and content laying there, and I was in tears from all the terror and chaos of the last 60 seconds.

You probably already know that there is no “white cap” on the saline mist bottle.  The way you see it is the way it is supposed to be.   In my panic, I thought I had to cut the top off to release the saline solution.  You know, like cutting the tip off of a tube of super glue, or a rubber silicon tube.   My brain just thought, get the white cap off so the spray will come out!

I can laugh now!  So can Pat, he nearly busted a gut when he came home and pressed the trigger on the saline mist bottle and saw the saline shoot up 6 feet.

January 16, 2010

Today was the best day!  The day started with a good 5 hour sleep from 1 am to 6 am!  Pat took Mariella from 6 to 9 and I was able to catch up on some much needed sleep.   We had free coffee from the lounge.   Morning lounging around the apartment.  Mariella took a good 3 hour nap, and during this time Pat and I cleaned up the apartment, washed the clothes, and got things looking like a home again!   I even took a shower!  lol

We put on our Saints gear and took our first Saints family picture.  :-)    Thanks to Mike and Denise, Mariella had her first Saints shirt!  She was so adorable and she actually stayed up and appeared to be watching the game during the first quarter! Mike and Denise started a new fun tradition!  Each year they are going to give Mariella a Saints outfit and we get to take a pretty pic of Wee Baby in her Saints gear.  Each year, Denise is going to add an 8 x 10 Mariella Saints picture to her wall, how cool is that?   Thanks Mike and Denise!

Who Dat!   We had fun, wish we could have spent it with more friends and family.   We were invited to watch the games with a friend in Pennsylvania, I was just nervous on taking care of Mariella out of the house. ….      I guess I must get out the house sooner or later!  ….  guess it is later!  Plus we just got back from bringing Wee Baby in from urgent care, I was worried about her poop, but not to worry it is all fine and dandy.  Thanks Shelly and Jason for thinking of us!  Maybe next time! 

Go Saints!