gramma's....and grandpa

This past weekend was a special one, Ottavia met her grandma and grandpa, and great grandma who she is named after. The weather was terrible, the snow was a falling, but we made the best of it anyways. Ottavia was a perfect baby for our visitor's, we went for lunch, went to the farmers market, made a nice dinner, drank some good vino, all in all it was a really nice weekend.

Tino and I really miss not having grandparents that live in the same city. I really miss my mom, we talk almost daily but its different then having her here, i wish we could go to the mall, meet for lunch, have pedicure's..i wish Tino and I had a grandma here to give us a little break once in a while, there is nothing like having family around......especially when you have children, i'm hoping one day they deciede to move here and we can all be together again.

Ottavia's schedule is SOO fantastic. She is such a delight to have around, sometimes we forget there is a baby in the house. She only makes a noise if she is hungry or tired..or if you have face time chatting of course. she goes to sleep between 7 or 8 and wakes up between 7 and 8, We are soo blessed. She still gets up to feed around 430 but only being 10 weeks old i'd say thats pretty good, we could have it much worse.

Here are a few pictures from our weekend, tino's parents have better one's that i'll post on Ottavia's monthly newsletter!

too much in one week...

I haven't blogged in a in a few days because i have to much going this week and I'm feeling overwhelmed a bit. Yesterday i went for a 2 hour walk on memorial with my friend Gretchen and her little guy and for the first time i went tino this little cafe...( I forget the name) but i will be going there more often, the mocha was awsome and the food looked even better.

So this week i have something everyday which i don't like. I'm going to quit making plans so far in advance because it becomes to much and then if we have a bad night i'm tired and we wanna hang out and snuggle and people get mad when i cancel but thats just life.

So yesterday i went for a walk, and then i had a book party in the evening, today salsa babies, tomorrow lunch, not to mention i need to get groceries and my inlaws are coming so i need to get ready for them......

Have i mentioned yet again my tooth??? what the hell, i had to cancel my dentist appt because of conflict with plans, and now i can't get into the 9th...its KILLING ME.......if I get an abcess i'm going to snap....

thats all my complaining for the day.....but then i look at this and i get happy!

Needles....

I'm a really positive person that tries to make the best out of a situation....like today, I took some pictures of Ottavia all ready to go and get her needles....




I've been dreading this day since I booked it. Unfortunatly Tino coudln't come along as most daddy's have to bring home the bacon. As I mentally prepared myself and her this morning..the whole ordeal when from bad to worse. When i arrived i was a bit of a "bitch" shall I say..not because I usually am that kind of person, but because i felt stressed and anxious. The lady at the desk was rushing me, Ottavia was screaming hungry ( I'm a planner and she wasn't ready to eat when we left so i had her bottle ready to feed her there) I dumped my entire wallet out..the lid for my bottle fell on the gross floor...whatever...she checked us in..had to get the baby naked in this freezing sketchy clinic.

The nurse called us, we weighed her, and she announced that she had a bit of a flat head on one side, which is no suprise to me, its already been discussed with our dr, its fine, not to worry...but she rubbed me the wrong way.

Now she was fed, but still naked and freezing and the nurse went on and on about breast feeding and why its the best..i finally interupted her in a stearn voice and said I don't need a lecture, i've been to consultants, dr's and surgeons and I"m doing the best I can do you really think i love taking 16 pills a day, pumping, nursing, washing, sterlizing and making bottles and breast milk??...so can we end this conversation???

Then we went through a questionaire and she asked me 7 times if i was depressed..I finally placed my hand on her leg and said....Elizabeth...you have asked me over and over, I have filled out the questionaire throughly, and truthfully, as you can see and as I've told you, i'm not suffering any sort of post pardum depression....(this is all while i'm standing bouncing my screaming baby).....I have told you 7 times that i feel great, I'm happy, everything is wonderfull at the fusco's....I know that they have to go through everything but she went on and on and on....as Ottavia is still crying..she asked if i needed some help about how to handle a colicky baby....so then i had to explain that she is not colicy at all, she's tired and freezing.........anyways.....

Then it was needle time, Ottavia cried so hard she barfed and was hyperventilating..then i walked out of the room with tears in my eyes and had to sit on the floor and console my baby because there were no seats left in the clinic..finished feeding her, got her dressed and we left........

So here we are now with a sleepy little babe....there's lots of snuggling happening around here........until next needle day..BOO