Almost a full nights rest

I'm so proud of Little One. Last night she slept all on her own in her own crib!!! Plus she only woke up at 4am hungry. Then again around 7:45. Mind you this is a first for her to sleep this long. Usually it's just the one time after her midnight feed that she sleeps four hours, not twice!

I'm not sure what to do with all this rest!!

Here's to hoping it continues thru to tonight and many more nights!!

Laziness Everywhere

So we really are alive. Lately it's been just too difficult to make it to the computer and post anything. 

Our days go like so: eat, sleep, eat again, sleep some more. Maybe get up and moving by 11. Sometimes it's 1 if eyes are REALLY red. Eat some more Little One sleeps & I find chores to do.  This continues until Dad comes home then if I'm lucky I steal a quick shower. Lately Dad has been doing dinners, which I'm SO thankful for seeing as my days are full of eating & sleeping. 

As of late, Little One doesn't sleep well in her crib. Really it's the bassinet still but I call it the crib. After eating we burb and she tends to crash on whomevers shoulder she's on. Once we put her in the crib however the stinker wakes up!!!  So, we as the parents (mainly myself) just go to bed with her. Cause let's face it I'm exhausted at 2 in the morning and I just want sleep. 

Now breaking each other of these habits are going to be difficult, I know but how do you stand by & let Little One cry herself to sleep when my head says she needs me. Granted I think she's gotten used to sleeping on a body and i just need to stop being lazy at night. But still. How do you break habits?

We tried last night. She'd last 25 minutes (on average) then wake up. Once she was picked up the crying stopped and she went back to sleep. Well for another 20 minutes or so. I did this with her from midnight until 4am. Then I gave in. 

Help!! Advice is greatly needed and would be most appreciated!! 

How wrong is it to be proud that you've just been pee'd on. Granted it was after the first totally naked bath for Tori, but still. Is it wrong?

I'm a Slacker, but for a good reason

So I'm a HUGE slacker but I do have a good reasoning for it.  Actually a couple of reasons. 

1. I've been getting little sleep
2. I've been instructed by the doc t =o stay away from stairs & sadly downstairs is where the computer is 3. I'm typing one handed & getting somewhat fast at it...not entirely accurate but faster
AND finally
4. Did I mention I gave birth recently to a beauty?  Granted its been a bit since she came, but still she's here isn't that enough?

So, here's the scoop.  I started having contractions in the early hours of 7th.  I honestly didn't think they were real contractions, granted it hurt enough that I cried AND they were coming every 5 minutes or so by the time hubby was ready to go to work.  Unfortunately for me Hubs forced me to go to the hospital...just in case he said, I'd rather hear they were false contractions before going into work.

Crappy for me they weren't false, but the upside, can I say it? I'm gonna anyway...Epidurals are wonderful!!! 

We got to the hospital about 9am, Doc came & broke my water at 11am, she appeared at 3:19pm.  Mind you, when Doc first checked us out he did give the option of going home, but promptly added that I'd be back later because she's coming no matter what.  If I stayed the upside was I could get the epidural faster...so of course we chose to stay.  Granted we came with only a bag, no cameras aside from our phones.  That was how sure I was that this was not the day she would be arriving.

So, in a nutshell we have a new wee one!!!  She weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces, 20 inches long and has (according to the doc & nurses) LONG eyelashes and LONG red hair.

Once I figure out how to do a slide show I'll post more pictures of her.

Update as of late

Not much has changed since my last update as far as the baby goes.  She still doesn't have a name, but we do have a crib & dresser.  Mind you they are still in boxes sitting in seperate rooms.  One of these days we'll unpack them, but until then we have plenty of time because we have a bassinet!!

We now go weekly to see the doctor until she comes, which is only 4 weeks away...less then a month now at least according to her due date of the 19th.  Doc doesn't say much, but what I do know is she's facing head down and I'm normal.  Maybe this week I'll ask if he can guesstimate how big she is.

We did start our pond up last week and MAN is it nasty!!  I'm trying to figure out how I can still get in the pond and clean it to a degree without bending over the whole time.  So basically I need to find a stool that I don't care if it gets slimy and wet.  As far as we can tell we've only lost 2 fish during the winter.  The fish have grown too!! Even our 3 itty bitty ones we had in the top pond survived!!   Maybe this winter we'll leave the filter on so it isn't quite as nasty. 

Any suggestions as to how to avoid slimy algea growing as quick or how to clean a pond without catching all the fish?  Really any advice would be lovely as we're too stubborn to take classes or get an actual book that tells you how to do things.  We'd rather take the unkown path for things!