Great weekend

This will be a great weekend to remember. On Friday evening we just hung out at home and relaxed, we are lacking sleep so a Long hot bath was very well deserved, they are few and far between now with the little chicken nugget around.

My best friend of 30 years came down to see my babe and Tino and I on Saturday. She had not met Ottavia yet so it was really special. Its hard for us to see eachother we live is seperate cities, she's got her own family and now I have mine. I wish so bad she lived in the same city, Ottavia loved her and Tino and I really enjoyed her company.

She arrived saturday morning, I was so excited to see her. I fed the babe and we headed to the mall. I have been wanting to get ottavia's ear's pierced but have been waiting for a good time...there is never a good time :( Saturday it was, we had lunch in the food courst then headed to merle norman, it wasn't busy, i didn't have time to think about it, we walked right in and within minutes Ottavia was on Tanis's lap on the chair ready to go, I stepped out....

When i came back she was MAD LIKE A HORNET...not from pain but she was so pissed even before they started because Tanis had to hold her head still but by within 30 sec's the crying was done, here are a few pictures of before and directly after...and a few hours later..they are so adorable!


BEFORE


DURING


RIGHT AFTER



Poor thing, but I promise it didn't last long she was a trooper and its all worth it. We finished our evening with appy's and Wine and cocktails, it was a great day.

Sunday morning started early as usual, there are no more sleep in weekends and we had coffee and made breakfast and Tanis was on her way...I was sad to see her go but we'll eachother again soon :)

Today we had a fussy mussy baby, but She is in bed now, lets hope for a good night, we just never know with this turkey :)

Bakery Success

I don't mean to toot my horn by any means but I am a really awsome cook, I hardly ever need a reciepe, I can whip up anything in a flash usually, I even enjoy cooking, getting the groceries, planning the meal, choosing the wine..BUT....

I'm not much of a baker. I don't really enjoy baking, I'm not creative when it comes to baking, my banana bread and Chocolate chip cookies are the only thing I know that will really taste good, plus, when you bake something its usually not the healthiest, the its in the house and someone has to eat.

Yesterday was my super duper Husband's birthday so I though instead of buying a dry cake from safeway I'll bake one and I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF. It not only looks great it tasted so awsome too. I made a marble yellow and chocolate, your all going to laugh because its looks nothing special, but I put my heart and soul into it.

Yesterday Ottavia had her 4 month shots that were not bad at all, I have no dramatic tale to tell other then she slept really good last night, I gave her some tylenol i think her legs are sore, she felt hot and nobody sleeps good when they feel like crap so a little tylenol won't hurt anyone.

For dinner we ordered Thai food, one our our favourte take out places Ruan Thai, its more expensive then chinese but its so delicious and spicey.

Jana and kelly came over for a drink and cake, it was a nice evening, here are a few pictures of the day!







Nobody wanted the "nub" of the cake so we dug right into the middle!! TALK ABOUT DELISH LAYED CHOCOLATE YELLOW MARBLE CAKE!

We sent half of it home with kelly and jana!

I just have to end this with saying....when Tino blew out the candles I hope he wished for spring :)

Ottavia's Monthly Newsletter: 4 months

Dear Ottavia,

This past month we have made a lot of new milestones. You have started to play, your still not reaching out to grab a toy but if something touches your hand or i set a toy on your chest you will play. You went into your excersaucer and Jolly jumper and really played this month, its so much fun and gives us so many laughs to see you enjoying something. We can play peek a boo and you laugh and smile, when Daddy comes home and says hello you hide your face in my chest and smile so big, anything makes your smile.

You are getting SO big. We had you weighed yesterday and you were 16.2 pounds..WOW. Your already wearing 6-9 months clothes, some are a little big but most of them fit you well.

You and your dad are VERY close, you both just love eachother. Daddy does special fun things that Mom doesn't do, like skating on the island, taking you on tours, he knows how to calm you down, or saturday morning soccer in bed, you love weekend mornings in bed with us, its our special bonding time.

Now for the downfalls, Ottavia we've had a rough couple weeks with your eating and sleeping. Since friday or the day before you turned 4 months you started to refuse to eat. You have always been a VERY fussy eater, I can't talk when i'm feeding you, the TV can't be to loud, I can only hold you on the one side, if i take the bottle out, thats it you won't take any more. On saturday it was a problem, you didn't have wet diapers, you would not eat, it was frustrating but worrisome all at the same time. Its still been a fight and i really don't think its a sore throat but we took you to the clinic anyways and they say thats what it is. I thought maybe you have been teething because the drool is crazy. Even at bedtime, its become a bit stressfull because you may or may not eat...something we are working on.

Sleep has also been terrible. You are waking up so often and crying for no reason, I finally give in to feed you, its also frustrating because a tired baby is a fussy baby. If you don't get your morning nap, we are in big trouble, we have a consult with a sleep specialist something like the baby whisperer so hopefully we will get this nipped in the but.

Speaking of sleep we have got your naps down pat I think, the only thing we need to work on is giving up the soother, its become a prop and i think when the soother falls out at night you wake up.

You LOVE to skype with Baba and Poppa. They sent you a care package from florida with a soft bunny in it and you've really taken to it, i think it might be your new favourite little toy.

Ottavia we love you so much, you definilty keep us on our toes and your smile and laughs are so rewarding. The older you get the more fun you are, sometimes i wish time would stand still...we love you baby

Love mommy and daddy

Under the Weather...

On saturday morning Mom, Dad and Babe all woke up a little tired, from there it got worse, little O wouldn't eat her bottle, I could tell she was hungry would take a few sucks and stop and start crying...then came lunch time we wanted her to eat so we could do our regular saturday thing, Nope, would not take the bottle so Now i'm like maybe teething, she was still smiling, she would nurse just fine, this went on all day so by bedtime i was starting to get concerned, we tried to give her the nightime bottle had a few sucks and nothing, she also didn't reallly have a wet diaper in 2 hours so I knew that she could get dehydrated soon, we gave her some tylenol put her in her crib and she went to sleep.

By this time i was uncertain about what was going on, maybe a UTI, maybe an ear infection who knows she couldn't tell me, so I called health link, they were useless, so at 830 i went in her room and did a dream feed and she ate the whole bottle, she also woke up at 330am and she ate the whole thing.

We woke up this morning with a new perspective and nothing so we decieded to take her in to the Cochrane urgent care, its really quiet because it just opened, she was a good girl, no fever but a red throat..the verdict...Strep Throat?? Maybe....they did a swab, gave a perscription and will the call with the results. They said to keep her on tylenol so we just tried feeding her and she did eat but only 4 oz's...wish us luck!

Swaddle...or not Too

O is almost 4 months, and at about 6 weeks she wasn't sleeping longer then 4 hours so I took some advice from a friend and started swaddling her and Voila...she's usually sleeping good..........

So the last few nights bedtime has been stressfull and tonight I kind of lost my patients..after bedtime routine we stick her in the swaddle sac, feed her and she is down for the night, but she went on a hunger strike and wouldn't take her bottle unless she had her arms out, so finally tonight we didn't swaddle her for the first time, and she's been in her crib for and hour and 40 minutes and just went to sleep with some fussing. I realize its an adjustment for her, but soon she will want her blanky, cover her face, roll around and get comfy so I have to stop swaddling one day or another. I put some socks on her hands because she likes to scratch her face. This could be a rough couple nights but we'll see how it goes.....

Its so sad, my new born baby is no longer newborn and little, she is turning into this amazing little girl with spirit, laughter, smiles, tears emotions....ugh, it makes me sad!

Mastered the Napy Nap!

I can finally say I feel confident that I mastered the at least 2 hour nap in the afternoon. I've been doing it for about 10 days and only once did O wake up an hour after crying, so I stuck the soother in and she slept another hour.

I have to say getting on a good daily schedule has been tough. I'm so orderly with things I do but I could not get this one figured out until now. Babies change so much, so fast, that as they change there needs change...Gone are the days of the 3 hour morning nap in the swing!

Our mornings differ day to day, sometimes O will sleep solid till 7, sometimes she wakes up around 6 for a feed, so if she does i feed and we usually fall back asleep till 9 ish, if she sleeps solid till 7, then we get up for the day, but usualy 2-3 days a week we a get a sleepin day which is fine by me!

My friend had a consult with the sleep specialist...a british lady somewha like the baby whisperer and she shared a few tips with me like the the afternoon nap should be between 2-3 hours, and it should be the most protected so i started putting her down at 1 every day and we seem so be good, I've also noticed that her witching hour isn't as bad from 6-7 because she gets a good solid nap.

Since the time change i've been pushing her bedtime from 8pm back to 7 about 15 mins everyday to get back to an early bedtime and its worked out good.

Just when I think I got it..something will change next week I promise, but as for now, no more outings until naptime is over in the afternoon. I think we are gong to start our morning walk routine this week, the weather is great, I can walk to tims and get my coffee, get excersise and get some fresh air!....HOLLA TO SUMMER!!

Weekend....

I had one of the best weekends on record in a long time. Thanks so much to a very involved husband, I had alot of Deena time, it was so great.

On friday we had our baby boot camp class in the morning which is a great workout, I sweat like crazy and ottavia loves it, she has a major starring problem with other babies, its hilarious, then we went to the chiro and we are making amazing progress, tummy time is fun now.

When Tino got home from work i had a long relaxing shower and got myself ready, we put the baby to bed and my friends picked me up. We went to this whole in the wall pub to watch my friends band play, we also met another friend there and my sister and her boyfriend, I had a few drinks and i really felt good about being out. I did not my best not to talk about my baby but of course i couldn't help myself and had to show a picture! I got home about midnight and Tino waited up for me, he was able to have Tino time which is always good too.

Saturday morning we were all up bright and early, i left the house by 830, got a Giant FREE might I add coffee from Tim's, with my roll up the rim winning and went to my hair appt which I totally enjoyed. Its crazy how much I appreciate it now, it defnitly doesn't happen as often as it used to, so now its a novelty, after that I met a couple girls for pedicure's, we found this awsome place thats CLEAN. SInce i'm just on the end of getting rid of a nail fungus i got from a spa on my finger, i'm very weary of spa's but this one they keep your own tools in a box wiht your name on them. This was the first time i ever had the wax on my feet it was so nice.

After this I picked up lunch for Tino and I and headed home, everythign was under control. I had to laugh, the coffee was still on, the house was a disaster, tino was starving still in his pj's....but the Baby was happy and content thats all that matters. I think he got an eye opening experience and appreciates my super mom duties I do everyday.

After lunch me and Ottavia had a 2 hour nap it was great. We spent the evening as a family.

Today Me and O went to my friends Erins for dinner, our friend was in town from ontario so we got to catch up, there are so many new babies since crystal left so she got her fill tonight!

I hope everyone has a great week, its warming up, back to my 6km walks!!

Rock Chip...

Yesterday I had to take the deerfoot south to pick up my kijiji purchase..I do NOT miss that freeway for one minute. I think this is the worst time of year for rockchips because all the gravel from winter is getting stirred up.

Well low and behold, i got one yesterday. I was so mad, not becauase I got the rockchip, but because I've got a diamond coated windshield on my SUV that says your windshield cannot get rockchips....WRONG

Not even a year ago i had my windsheild replaced for free because i got a rockchip and it spread like wildfire accross my whole view. So here we are again with another one, but i'm going to get it fixed before it spreads because car appointments are worse then dentist appts.

Word of Advice??? A diamond coated windsheild does not prevent rockchips my friends, so don't waste your moola!

Chocolate.....

Today is ash Wednesday which represents the beginning of Lent....Today I gave up chocolate for the next 46 days. I can do this, its not going to be easy let me tell you but it will bring me closer to my goal, as it will prove self disipline. I LOVE chocolate. I got this from my mom, she is also a chocolate lover. I'm going to find this extra hard in evening when I've saved several weight watchers points for a skinny cow icecream sandwhich which includes chocolate, now I will have to resort to a plain old popsicle for my treat..but thats okay.

I remember this day in elementry school, I was raised catholic so there was always an ash wednesday celebration in school and we would get a cross with ash on our foreheads. It seems to early for lent because its still so cold out and usually the snow is gone by the time this season starts although Easter seems late this year.

What are you giving up for lent this year?

P.S.. I promise on Easter morning I will take a BIG BITE off the Biggest chocolate Easter bunnies ear!!

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I Survived!

I Did it, Ottavia and I spent the weekend alone while Daddy went away for a soccer trip. I have to be honest, I've been dreading this weekend since october, before the babe even got here. Tino is so involved in parenting and helping out that I was worried about having no relief or becoming overwhelmed..which I did at one point which I will give details.....

me and O had a great weekend, it turned out that instead of sitting around with a baby we were super busy and I really enjoyed our girl time. On Friday we started the morning off at the chiro, then my friend Terri came over with lunch and we had coffee and dessert too. We had a really great visit and Ottavia LOVED her, she is starting to play strange but I was happy to say she really took to Terri. Terri is a real baby person so maybe Ottavia got that feel.

When she left an Hour later my friend lisa came over and we ordered dinner in and had some wine. It was great! She helped me put the the babe to bed. Not that its a hard job but Tino and I do it together so it was nice to have the extra help.

On saturday we had a nice quiet morning then ventured out to the mall and got some retail therapy. There is so much cute spring stuff out, I found a lot of great deals and made a few purchases that I normally woudln't that finally involved some color. I really like a yellow, navy and brown sequel so i bought a couple yellow shirts, a navy scarf, and its goinna look good with my brown boots. After the mall we had a visit with my sister...and here is where the mayhem began....

I did it...I did the cry it out method and it was HELL...My most adorable baby was a BAD baby in the night and I have to break this cycle before it breaks ME. I can't believe i tried this by myself when i'm already tired and don't sleep as it is without my husband home. Ottavia went down at her normal time around 730....i had the rest of the evening to myself..well low and behold 1230 came around and she cried out, i went in, she wasn't wet, I know she wasn't hungry, i know she wasn't hot or cold...so i stuck her soother in went back to bed....and we both didn't get back to sleep till 2am. She whined until them, it was never a peircing screeching cry, she got quite mad a couple times but after an hour i went back in...checked to make sure she was okay..which she was, she stopped as soon as I went in so I knew that she just wanted some attention so i left, she cried for another 20 mins and then there was silence...

at 530..again, she woke up crying, so i did not budge, this time it lasted 10 mins........at 610 again..woke up crying...again i did not budge and it lasted 6 mins....thens he woke up at 8am and we started our day...

Did i feel bad..of course, as I googled this method for then entire hour while she cried in the middle of the night without my husband there..did i feel like crying..heck yes...do you know how hard it was for me not to go in there???? SO HARD...but i was strong, i know this is what i need to do for us...I realized people have different ways of parenting, but with discussion to alot of my friends, it sounds like this age can be quite bad when it comes to night intruder's. I even ran into a radiologist i work with today at superstore and i was telling him about my night, he said don't feel bad, we did it for 2 weeks and slept in the basement with earplugs and never went back up till morning.....I"m not that tough...


anyways, here's to hoping for a better night, i showered her with kisses and love and a snuggle in my bed this morning and a fresh warm bottle, she rewarded me with a big smile and lots of love back so she couldn't of been that mad...

anyways..today she was tired, so was momma but we ventured out to my friends for coffee, then for a BIG grocery shop at superstore.....

......tis all in a days work for a momma and I wouldn't change it for the world....

All in all we had a great little weekend together and made the best of no daddy!


Check out my little addidas princess, she wore this in honnor of her daddy today who was busy coaching!!

Strange....

Today we went to see the infant chiroprator....WOW she is not at all what I expected. What wonderful place, so baby friendly, easy going, a change table, places to feed your baby, they will even look after your baby if you want a massage, plus there is a physio there too.

I was a little apprehensive about bringing Ottavia to a chiro...I have never been to one myself, being an x ray tech, its kind of hard to go to one after seeing chiro injuries, uneeded radiation for x rays they always send people for ect.

Today there was no adjusting like one would think...but she definitly gave me some insight on Ottavia's slumped posture, etc and hopefully with a few treatments then some physio we are good to go. She was wonderfull and I felt so comfortable with her, she sounded like she really knew what she was talking about and I will see results so i know something right is being done...

All that being said, ottavia totally played stranged, cried..got mad..didn't like her one bit! Dr. Hort was so good with her, she deals with kids and babies everyday, but as soon as she handed her to me, Ottavia would give the stink eye and stop crying.

As we were leaving, just after i got her fed, changed and all calmed down a lady came right up to the carseat in her face and starting gooing at her..BAM...she lost it again..why do people do that?? hahaha honestly, of course she is going to make strange when some stranger goes into her personal space :)

I go back on friday, hopefully this is going to help our babe sit up straight, enjoy tummy time and get the knots out of her spine area!

March..the month of birthdays..

WHERE ARE YOU SPRING?? I clearly remember one year ago this weekend we were out for a going away dinner, I was pregnant and didn't quite know, i couldn't get my drink on because nothing tasted good......anyways...one year ago this weekend...I WORE BAREFEET WITH HIGHHEELS....and now here we are march 1st and -37 degrees....yuck...

I've never been one to complain about the weather but I've almost had enough, sure it gives me and Ottavia lots of fun play time and snuggle time together, but so much for all the walking i wanted to do. Last month was warmer and i was able to walk the memorial trail often..

Anyways, This month there are so many birthdays to celebrate, my two friend Megans, my sister, Tino's dad, Tino, Tino's grandma, my friend Cara...and I think that might be it. I always thought a spring baby would be nice but there are already to many march babies...maybe my next one i'll have in may to keep it out of the popular season!

Today i'm supposed to venture out to salsa babies but i don't think we are going anywhere with this weather, its to cold for my chicken and for myself, plus my car has not been started since saturday so who know's if it will even turn over...

Stay warm everyone!