Thankful Thursday

So a good friend of mine turned me onto a new blog! I love new blogs. It's called A Good Life. I am totally stealing something she did on there..so here it is. 13 Months of Pictures

Newborn
August 17th, 2010

3 Months
November 17th, 2010

2 Months
October 17th,  2010

1 Month
September 17th, 2010

4 Months
December 24th, 2010

 

 

 

5 Months
January 17th, 2011

6 Months
February 17th, 2011

7 Months
March 17th, 2011

8 Months
April 17th, 2011

9 Months
May 17th, 2011

10 Months
June 17th, 2011

11 Months
July 17th, 2011

1 Year!
August 17th, 2011

13 Months
September 17th, 2011

Wordless Wednesday

Outside with Grandma

Blog Changes

No you are at the right place! You haven't clicked on the wrong link...I am changing the name of my blog. It fits better with what I am writing about and if we ever add to our family again it won't just be one peanut but two peanuts, so in the next few weeks things will be changing. A great blogger friend of mine is working on a header for me (Thanks Ella!).

7 Years

On Sunday is my Anniversary of the day I married my best friend. We have been married 7 years! I can't believe it's been that long, it still feels like yesterday. We have been together for 11 1/2 years and married for 7 of that, seriously how does time go by that fast?

Mike and I when we first started dating

I think back over the last 11 1/2 years and I think of all the good times, and the bad times and how we made it through everything! Just looking at the above picture I can't believe how young we look. I am amazed that we made it through. We were such different people then and we have been able to grow up and become the people we are today and we have been able to do it together.

Mike and I at our friends Brenda and Joe's wedding

I knew at 6 months that he was the man I wanted to marry. I can't even explain it, I just knew he was the one and 11 1/2 years later we are happier than we have ever been.

Like all married couples we have had many ups and downs and those downs were tough, but they made us stronger. So here is to another 7 years :) I love you hun!

Wordless Wednesday - A little late

Leave it to me - Google changed their blogger interface and I went to schedule Wordless Wednesday and I thought I scheduled it for Wednesday morning at 7:00am and apparently I scheduled it for 7:00pm on Thursday ;)

So here is Wordless Wednesday a bit late - So maybe Thankful Thursday - Thankful for my cute little cuddlebug.

It's Official

I have been working for a health insurance company for the past few years and I have been loving my job. I love what I do, the people I work with and my flexible schedule. It's been great being able to work from home and my boss was great when I needed to work from home an extra day so I could pump and still work and not mess up my schedule.

The weekend before Labor day I got a call from an old boss of mine. She works for another area within the IT department that I am in at my company. She had a great opportunity for me and I couldn't pass it up. After talking with the director in my current department, my current manager I decided to apply for the job. Two weeks ago I received an offer and decided to take it.

After 4 years of working in the same area of the company I am moving to a completely different position. Instead of helping work on requirements and solutions for the projects within IT that the Clinical Users work with, I will be working on Continuous Improvement. My official title is IT Process Improvement Project Manager - Sounds so official doesn't it!!

Anyway I start in a week and I am so excited and nervous at the same time. I am sad to leave a WONDERFUL!!!! Group of people that I work with. I have made some great friends - Jess, Nicole, Jane, Lisa and Amber to name a few...plus so many more! I can't believe all the people that I have met along the way and I wouldn't change my career path no matter what. I learned a TON about the SLDC cycle and what it takes to write a great requirement and what it means to test that requirement.. but I am so excited to start this new chapter in my work career!!

13 Months

13 Months!

Weight

20lbs

Clothing Size

12 to 18 Months
12 Month Pants - 18 Months Shirts

Diaper Size

Up and Up 3

Feeding

Whole Milk during the day at daycare
You are eating more and more solids at daycare and at home.

You nurse 1 to 3 times a day from Mama (except weekends)
Peas, Apples, Bananas, Cheerios, Avocado, Meatballs, Ground Vension, Grouse & Chicken and whatever else Mama and Daddy are eating, but those are you favorites


Bedtime/Wakeup Times

 Bedtime: anywhere from 7:00 to 8:30pm
Wakeup Time: usually around 5am and then 7 for the day
Naptimes: You are down to one nap

13 Month Milestones

* You are walking like crazy!!! And so confident. It's amazing how fast you have gotten in the last month

* You are crawling up the stairs now and climbing on EVERYTHING!! 

* You are talking up a storm.

* You are also eating more and more!! You love peas and will pick them out of mixed veggies.
* You share an apple with Daddy almost every day when he gets home from work

* You are starting to drink your milk cold and out of a sippy cup

*You are sleeping through the night!! - FINALLY!! No seriously, you are sleeping from about 7:00 until about 5am every single night. Up for a nursing and then back to sleep for another 2 hours.

Wordless Wednesday

Battle Sleep

Yes, That's right I am blogging about sleep AGAIN!! I know what you must be thinking, aren't you getting any yet?? Well we are getting closer. Much much closer. After a rough week the week before labor day Mike and I decided it was time to crack down and be tough. So Monday night when we got home from the lake we decided on some rules or guidelines...

We have figured out that she is really nursing just out of habit/comfort from all her days with her ear infections. So we decided to start a bedtime closer to 7ish (and 7:15 seems to be the best time).


1. Start and keep a bed time routine: Eating, Bath, Change into PJ's, Play time, story time, Nursing and down to sleep.

2. We are letting her cry for 10 minutes or so before going into the room. When going into the room, we check diaper, temperature and make sure she is okay and put her back down, and repeat. If she stops crying for more than 5 minutes then it starts over again.
3. We decided to try not feeding her when/if she woke up before midnight.
4. If we fed her during the night, we wouldn't feed her before 3 hours after the previous feeding.

So far after 5 days its working pretty well.

Night 1: Went down, she was pretty tired. She woke up at 10:30 and cried for about 15 minutes or so and then was down until 1:30 or so. Then up at 4:30 and 6:30 for the day - so not bad for the first night.
Night 2: Went down, cried for a bit - had to go back in 2 times to get her down, but she went down finally. Woke up at 10:30 again but put herself to sleep :) Then again around 1:30 or 2:30 and 4:30.
Night 3: Went down easily for Mike with a bottle (I was out for the night) and never woke up at 10:30 (YEAH Small victory). She followed the same schedule.
Night 4: Went down great, woke up at 11:00 cried on and off for an hour and I finally fed her at midnight. We then were up about 3 hours later and again the same thing.
Night 5: Fell asleep and slept until 2:30. We decided since the rest of the week had gone well that we would put her down and not feed her at 2:30 - the previous nights she was only eating for 5 minutes or so. I changed her diaper and put her back in her crib and she slept another 2 hours. I fed her at 4:30 and she was up around 7. It was a great night!

So tonight we are going to try the same thing that we did the other night and not feed her at 2:30 so we will see how it goes. She is eating way more solids now - today I only nursed her a few times. So Battle Sleep continues but we are definitely making progress.

Wordless Wednesday - Fun at the P ark