Lu Look Alike

 

Having a child is a funny thing, because everyone (well me especially) wants to figure out who they look like. I thought Luella looks like me until I saw these pictures. Everyone has a different take. People who know Aaron well say she looks just like him, but everyone I grew up with say she looks like me. A friend of mine described it as though Aaron had crawled into my skin. It is like she is truly 50/50. We are thinking of getting some DNA art to look at all three of our Karyotypes (that of course was Aaron's idea). Aaron was once named by a 5- year old "A Big Boring Biology Book." At times, she wasn't too off! Beside being a BBBB, Aaron is the BEST husband and dad ever. I truly feel like I have the most perfect life. I often watch other relationships around me fall apart and wonder if that has to happen us. But I really think it doesn't. We truly have the greatest respect for each other and are best friends, and the fact that Aaron gives me everything I want helps too!!

The Fear of “Mom-Butt”

"Disclaimer...everytime I go to write on this blog, I feel like a faker. I candy coat everything in such a cheesy fashion that I find myself not writing much of anything anymore (well unless it is about Lu!). Everything I want to write, I feel like it will be offensive, or gross, or not appropriate for my profession. But I want to write and I want to write what I think. So here I go..."

I am sure like many others, there are so many things that have changed since having a baby. I am not talking about love and fear of being a mother, or not being able to go on 3 hours bike rides, or getting no sleep (although I do think this has it’s affects), or the hour tears that never streamed before at things like on star commercial; or the visions of when you go for a walk, that a car is going to bash your stroller and drag your child along the rode with it never being able to get your child and screaming a scream of death on the side of the rode. I am not talking about those types of things, I am talking about me. Things are just different. First off, all the pregnancy symptoms that people are suppose to get while they are pregnant, I got after pregnancy. Everything sounds loud. I eat like I am eating for seven. And my sinuses have gone mad. I had never had this amount of snot in my nose, which results in a large number of boogers. The thing about boogers though, is that I am a picker. And yes, I pick my boogers. And not with tissue. You cannot get your boogers out of your nose if you use tissue. In fact if you see me using tissue, I am just tricking you and trying to be polite. I actually poke my finger through the tissue. So back to the boogers and the picking. Don’t think of adding breastfeeding into the mix. One might wonder how picking and breastfeeding go together. But if you breastfeed, you have a lot of time to do nothing, but use one hand in a close range of your body and what does this one hand do…picks my nose. I feel like Pavlov’s dogs…it has created this awful habit and for those who have seen my nose I am paying a price. It is swollen, crusty and cracked and it will not go away.

Other things that have changed are my taste buds. I cannot get enough chocolate. I HATED chocolate before. I also hated sandwiches, now I like them. (I know how do you hate sandwiches?) I also use to LOVE Thai food, now I want nothing to do with it. Some might think it is because I threw it up while it labor, but no, I also threw up ice cream and I still LOVE that. Oh yeah, I like white wine now too, weird!

Next, I use to hate to wear jeans, now it is all I wear. Mostly because it hides the panty line. I HATE PANTY LINES, but I have to wear granny panties now…arghh! Thank you hemorrhoids. I have 8 total. 4 inside, 4 out. They are pretty much the worst part of having a child for me. I can handle the pain and the blood of them, but I just can’t handle the panty lines. How is someone whose wardrobe consists of glorified yoga clothes suppose to look cute with panty lines. Well it just can’t, so now I wear jeans. And not because I got "mom-butt", just because I am now a mom.

Finally, I got taller. And the one thing I was sure of, didn’t happen. My feet did NOT stay a size 12. Thank goodness.

Little Buffster

 

Lu had her 6 month check up early. At 5 1/2 weeks she is 26.5 inches long and 16.5 pounds. She is doing good...too good! She is crawling and eating everything. If only if was healthy for her to chew on newspaper, paperback books, cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and the remote control. I think toys were invented to create a distraction from the things that kids really want. Lu lately doesn't really enjoy her nights sleep. She is waking 3-4 times a night..."Are you really that hungry Lu?" She is getting more and more AWESOME daily. Exploring everything, laughing more and just the other day watched a little bit of "Yo Gaba-Gaba". She has new cries and is babbling up at storm (when in the mood or if you give her a pacifier to chew on), and totally yells at her parents. Yes already, she is girl after all? Her favorites right now are....well chewing. She prefers to stick her thumb under her shirt for a little texture chew. The thing that makes me laugh the most these day is the looks she gives me. She looks at me like "mom, really, you're weird". I also think it is funny that the back of her head and neck look just like her Poppa's (Aaron wants this spelled papa, but I like Poppa!!). Ok, that is all the time I have for rambling, must get baby to bed, no time to even spell check..sorry!

She Hiccups When She Laughs

Our Little Lu in going to be 5 months in two days! She is so much fun. Full of so many expression and it is getting easy to make her laugh. Every time she starts to make a belly laugh though, she always gets the hiccups. In our house we like to call them the "mean-cups" because they make her chest go crazy and they are loud! (Aaron calls them a large vagal response creating a diaphramatic spasm). Lu's new hobby is making spitting raspberries. She is enjoying the jumper and the excersaucer more and more, since she is taller and get almost all the toys in her mouth. She loves eating her solids during the day and is still eating a lot from mom in the middle of the night (we need to start working on this one). She loved avacodos for about a week but now if you give a her a bite she will not close her mouth in fear of tasting them and then tries to fake cough the food out of her mouth. She still like her sweet potatoes, bananas and rice cereal. She also tried oatmeal for the first time today and it seemed to be a hit, but then again so did the avocados day one! Another first that happened today during nap time, is sleeping on her tummy. She rolls a lot in her sleep. She looks like a little "L" with her legs up rolling from side to side to get comfortable. Today that roll took her all the way around. Lastly, of course she still loves the tongue, but has also found a new sucking aide...her toes!!!

Better Late then Never...4 months

Dr. Endo, the doctor that "almost" delivered Luella, suggested that I take a picture with her with the same stuffed animal each month to see how she grows. Here is her 4 month shot! Gotta love the little thigh checks and the awesome socks from Aunt Becky! Below are the first 3 months for comparison.