Oh the naps! It will be a mystery to me for the rest of my life. How is it that my Ava doesn't like to nap like I think she should? I have been experimenting with the one nap a day thing,but every day is different. For a couple of days, Ava slept in until 7am!!! Those days she woke up happy and all giggles. It was easy to keep her up until 11 am or 12. Now you would think she would take a long nap, but nope. She slept her usual hour and a half. Actually one day she slept a little over 2 hours. The hard part is she usually wakes between 5:30 and 6 am and is ready to go to sleep by 10 am and then wakes up around 11:30ish. Then is the debate whether to put her down around 3:30 ish for a "snap" (a.k.a short nap). If my mom isn't here, she will usually go down, but when she is here, I think Ava doesn't want to miss out on anything and it usually takes her 30 minutes to settle and then she only sleeps 30 minutes and then wakes up cranky. If I can just get her to sleep in until 7 every morning. Then if we go out and about any time after 9:30 am, chances are she is going to fall asleep being toted around. The other day, I was craving Quiznos (my newest craving- Turkey Ranch and Cheddar-yummmmmy!) and I went to get it at 10:15, so I could get back, make Ava's lunch and get her down by 11 because she was a crank-a-soraus that day. She fell asleep in the 5 minute car ride home. Go figure! Nothing was going to wake her at that point. I guess it will come in time, but in the meantime, she dictates her nap schedule.
The good news is that she is starting to sleep through the night again. Prays the Lord. That was a rough couple of weeks.
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Well, Today I was nesting, for lack of a better word. I wanted to reorganize and get rid of all our junk. The current guest bedroom closet, which will be baby Leptuch # 2's room, is where we have stored all our crap. We have photo albums, our china, games, gift wrapping, big pots and platters, my wedding dress, etc. You name it, it is stuffed in that closet. We recently got new custom cabinets installed in our garage, well, I should say more cabinets installed, so that we can move a lot of that stuff out there, but not all of it can go. So I started cleaning it out and making piles for donation. I honestly don't know why I hold onto a lot of it. I know myself and if I want a new trinket to decorate the house, I will probably go buy one and not use the old one that I have already seen.
The good news is that she is starting to sleep through the night again. Prays the Lord. That was a rough couple of weeks.
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Well, Today I was nesting, for lack of a better word. I wanted to reorganize and get rid of all our junk. The current guest bedroom closet, which will be baby Leptuch # 2's room, is where we have stored all our crap. We have photo albums, our china, games, gift wrapping, big pots and platters, my wedding dress, etc. You name it, it is stuffed in that closet. We recently got new custom cabinets installed in our garage, well, I should say more cabinets installed, so that we can move a lot of that stuff out there, but not all of it can go. So I started cleaning it out and making piles for donation. I honestly don't know why I hold onto a lot of it. I know myself and if I want a new trinket to decorate the house, I will probably go buy one and not use the old one that I have already seen.
Then I started in at our office. That room is going to become the office/craft room/guest bedroom. We are going to get rid of one desk and chair and put a twin bed in there and get some more storage shelves/bins/cabinets to hide everything. My mom visits often enough to have an actual bedroom and not just a blow up mattress in the living room. Also, when baby # 2 arrives, I would love all the help I can get for as long as I can get it and if this one is like Ava, we will be pacing around the living room/kitchen/family room at the wee hours of the nights, so it will be nice that our guest can get some sleep and have some privacy. I started getting rid of a bunch of stuff in that room and putting things away that I just didn't need. We are by no means close to being done. My donation pile was huge. I invited my younger sister over and she cleaned out a bunch of stuff. I also went through my closet and got rid of some shoes and some old clothes that I know I will never wear again. I love to get rid of stuff and declutter.
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About me, well, I still really tired and now my old clothes are starting to fit a bit tight. I know that that is what is going to happen, at least until I am finally in maternity clothes, but this is the worst time of it all. I know all the women out there can understand. Mike does not. I told him the other day that I felt fat and he just didn't get it. I don't mean it in the "I am not pregnant and bitching about the way I look" kinda way, I just mean it in the " my clothes don't fit and I don't have anything to wear and I just look like I ate too many candy bars" kinda way. All my shirts are too tight, so I look like I have a muffin top. I did buy a couple before I got pregnant that are a bit looser in the belly area, but that didn't account for the upper area. I guess, I will have to go and buy a couple of new tops. Darn! I am fine on the bottoms because I just pulled out my "fat clothes" and those are a little loose still. I guess I will have to start wearing dresses again too.
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About me, well, I still really tired and now my old clothes are starting to fit a bit tight. I know that that is what is going to happen, at least until I am finally in maternity clothes, but this is the worst time of it all. I know all the women out there can understand. Mike does not. I told him the other day that I felt fat and he just didn't get it. I don't mean it in the "I am not pregnant and bitching about the way I look" kinda way, I just mean it in the " my clothes don't fit and I don't have anything to wear and I just look like I ate too many candy bars" kinda way. All my shirts are too tight, so I look like I have a muffin top. I did buy a couple before I got pregnant that are a bit looser in the belly area, but that didn't account for the upper area. I guess, I will have to go and buy a couple of new tops. Darn! I am fine on the bottoms because I just pulled out my "fat clothes" and those are a little loose still. I guess I will have to start wearing dresses again too.
This is my 9 weeks shot (from a week ago, I am 10 weeks now). See what I mean, not so cute. I was so tired in this picture, which is not unusual these days! I live in my black Nike capri's.
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Ava is a hoot! She is learning new things everyday and trying to talk so bad. She babbles all the time and tries to repeat what we say. I have got to start watching the language as the other day in the car, I might have said Shit and she did repeat it in her own way. No one else would know what she is saying but us. If you ask her to point to things, she will. In one of her books that you open things up in to see what is behind it, she will point to the TV right after she opens it becuase that is what is inside the cabinet in the book. She loves her videos now too, which is not really a good thing. We wanted her to be a non-tv kid and I guess for the most part she is, but when you say something that reminds her of her videos, she will go and get the video and stand by the tv and wine/cry until I put it on or distract her. She does learn things from them, so that is good, but I don't want her watching too much TV. Some days she will watch her video twice and others not at all. She is becoming increasingly picky about her food. She will just shake her head no if we bring her her food and she doesn't want it. I just get her to eat what she will and make up for it with a snack later. No need to battle it just yet. As long as I get a balance of fruits, veggies,protein, I am ok with that. Here is Ava helping Mike put away our baby pool. She loves to help out or should I say be in the "mix". Where ever daddy is, Ava has to be. She loves her daddy.
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Ava is a hoot! She is learning new things everyday and trying to talk so bad. She babbles all the time and tries to repeat what we say. I have got to start watching the language as the other day in the car, I might have said Shit and she did repeat it in her own way. No one else would know what she is saying but us. If you ask her to point to things, she will. In one of her books that you open things up in to see what is behind it, she will point to the TV right after she opens it becuase that is what is inside the cabinet in the book. She loves her videos now too, which is not really a good thing. We wanted her to be a non-tv kid and I guess for the most part she is, but when you say something that reminds her of her videos, she will go and get the video and stand by the tv and wine/cry until I put it on or distract her. She does learn things from them, so that is good, but I don't want her watching too much TV. Some days she will watch her video twice and others not at all. She is becoming increasingly picky about her food. She will just shake her head no if we bring her her food and she doesn't want it. I just get her to eat what she will and make up for it with a snack later. No need to battle it just yet. As long as I get a balance of fruits, veggies,protein, I am ok with that. Here is Ava helping Mike put away our baby pool. She loves to help out or should I say be in the "mix". Where ever daddy is, Ava has to be. She loves her daddy.
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