Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I previously mentioned that Amelia was being especially cranky, fussy and irrational. I didn’t know whether it was from her ear infection, teething, or an early start to the terrible twos. Well, I think I’ve found a reason for all the fuss.
If my eyes are seeing correctly, she is finally getting her top two front teeth. And they are both coming in at the same time. No wonder the child has been so crabby. When I realized it yesterday, I gave her some Tylenol and she seemed to be a bit happier. She did give a huge fuss going to bed, but I think that was more because she was having so much fun playing with the dog, she didn’t want to stop.
So hopefully, she’ll be in a better mood soon since those teeth are finally breaking through. Of course we still have a whole mouthful to go! These two will be #5 and 6.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
This weekend Amelia got a "black" eye. Well, it hasn’t truly turned all black and blue, just a bit purplish, but it swelled up pretty badly on Sunday.
We have absolutely no idea how she bumped her eye. We are guessing she fell in her crib or something. She woke up earlier than usual crying, so I got up with her, but never realized there was something wrong. When DH got up an hour later, he went to give her a hug and noticed her eye was red on the side. Poor thing, she was extra fussy all day, but otherwise is handling it well. It looks a lot better today with most of the swelling gone, and just a purple bruise left that I’m sure will take a few days to go away.
Otherwise, we had a good weekend. We went to the lake and went swimming and for a boat ride. Amelia had a good time swimming, but she isn’t all that thrilled with her life jacket, but what toddler is. She also got to spend time with her cousin, who is only 2 months old and I got to hang out with other moms, one of which has a son a few months older than Amelia, which is a rarity for me. It was a fun day.
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I’m trying to decide whether Amelia’s angst this weekend is a result of her starting to come into her terrible twos or if she’s teething. Or maybe both. Or maybe she’s just acting out because her daddy was out of town and she was missing him. Or maybe it’s the developing ear infection. You never know when they are that little. But she was a real pill this weekend. Definitely testing her limits. So much so, she didn’t listen to me and had her first fall from the bed.
It was a rough weekend. She was wanting to get into and/or do everything she couldn’t. From jumping on the bed or couch to getting into the bathroom cabinet, where the bathroom cleaner is kept to pulling out the kitchen drawers and hanging on them. If I told her she couldn’t have something, she would just throw herself down on the floor. A lot of the time, she wouldn’t even cry, just throw herself down. One time I threw myself on the floor and started whining. She thought it was funny. Sometimes she would just start bawling for no reason. I took her paci away. She only gets it at bedtime, so I took it away in the morning. She stood there and cried as if someone had hit her. And I try so hard not to laugh, because she’s crying over something so basic, but to her it’s everything, so I just have to distract her. I’m on the phone and she wants to play with the phone cord, wrapping it around her arms and body and sometimes (scarily) around her neck. So I take it away and she throws herself on the floor and whines.
Toddlers are so dramatic.
DH was gone for 5 days and it was a long 5 days. He should be home today and it will be nice to have a 2nd pair of eyes and hands to help watch out for her. Once again I give huge kudos to single parents. When there are two of you to help each other out, it sure makes things so much easier. I take it for granted that DH is there helping me take care of her. I really do. So much so, that when he doesn’t do the little things that I just expect him to do, I really take it to heart. But he does do a whole lot that is just automatic, that I truly feel it when he’s gone and I’m doing it all by myself. It’s hard and I don’t know how single parents manage to do it all and stay sane. I hope to never be in that situation. Thank goodness my husband will be home today.
But I did notice a little white spot on her top gums, so possibly (crossing my fingers) a tooth might be getting ready to come out. She still only has the bottom front 2 and 2 upper molars. She’s 19 months old! I’m starting to get a bit concerned about her lack of certain teeth that really should be in by now. If this little spot is the beginning of a tooth, I will be relieved that she’s finally getting more teeth.
She also has another ear infection that I just noticed this morning. After a weekend of running after her with a tissue to wipe up the snot flying from her nose, it’s not really surprising to see her ear draining. So maybe that’s part of what was ailing her this weekend. Maybe she’ll start eating better after we get her on some antibiotics to clear that up.
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
I dropped Amelia off at daycare today and she started bawling. She is normally fine, but this morning she was standing there at the little table, I told her I had to go to work and that I would see her this afternoon. And the floodgates opened. It was heart-wrenching! I picked her up and held her for a minute but she didn’t want to let me go. It’s not often she does that, but I think she’s still trying to transition to her new classroom.
Her teacher took her and sat down with her to read a book. She loves books and reading, so that calmed her down a bit, but she was still sniffling and sort of crying when I left. Moments like that make you just want to wrap them up in your arms and never let go.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Over the past few days, the husband and I have merged our music and our photos. Gasp! Combined we now have over 7000 images in our iPhoto library and our iTunes library ridiculously large. Unfortunately, he never really kept his music organized, so now there are a bunch of file with no album, track #, genre, etc. That frustrates me because I like having all that data in the music file. It makes it easier to create smart playlists for syncing to the iPod. So this weekend I will be spending some time trying to clean up all the music that he imported to my iTunes library.
We definitely have a variety of music styles in there from alternative to rock to country to jazz to kids music for Amelia. We even have some latin music and hip hop. And don’t forget all my podcasts, audiobooks and holiday music. There’s a lot in there that I have to weed through now.
Thankfully, merging the photo libraries was easy since he didn’t really use any of the “features” of iPhoto. I use keywords heavily and I give most photos titles. I use smart albums and create descriptions of the albums. All this makes it easy to keep track of what’s been exported to Amelia’s photo gallery. So importing his pictures was easy. Just exclude all duplicates and we’re good to go.
The only issue with merging iTunes, is that only one account can have iTunes open at a time (we’re storing the library in the /users/shared folder). So anytime we use it, we have to make sure we quit when we are done, so it doesn’t get locked in case the other person needs to get in.
I know what I’ll be working on this weekend. Organizing our music library. Fun times! Of course he’s out of town on his annual guy trip, so it’s just me and the baby for a few days. I’ll have plenty of quiet time after Amelia goes to bed to work on that between knitting and catching up on All My Children.
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I’m officially a card-carrying addict of Starbucks coffee. We had our weekly knit night at Starbucks and I took the plunge. I got a Starbucks card and put $20 on it. I figured why not, since I’m there every week and some times I just don’t have the cash. I did this time, so now I have a little stash of coffee money I can use when I go knit. woohoo!!
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