Rock Meets Prada

Reduced To....

Instructions left for D while I head off to Kiki's bachlorette this weekend:

When she wakes up in AM:

7-8 oz. warm milk

museli with warm milk and dried berries OR

plain instant oatmeal cooked with milk in microwave for 1 minute and applesauce or dried berries OR

cheerios (but opt for the first two first) with milk

Note:  Sometimes she's not in the mood for the museli or oatmeal right away so I put it aside, let her play for a while and then try around 7:30 or 8AM.

 

1st Nap - 9:00AM

 

After 1st nap:

Toast with cream cheese and jam OR

Frozen blueberry waffles toasted with cream cheese OR

Cottage Cheese or Yogurt with fresh berries OR

Avocado with cream cheese

 

2nd Nap - Three hours after she wakes up from 9AM nap (but don't let her sleep past 4:30PM)

 

After 2nd nap:

5 oz. warm milk

Banana, crackers and/or cheese stick

 

Dinner one hour before bed:

Frozen tamale

Frozen beef stew by Plum Baby Foods

Canned black beans with cheese if all else fails

Berries for dessert

 

She should go to bed 3 to 3 1/2 hours after she wakes up from her 2nd nap.

 

 

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What to pack in diaper bag/backpack ALWAYS:

Black changing pad with wipes

2-3 cloth diapers

1 diaper cover

1 plastic bag for dirty diapers

1 change of clothes

1 sun hat

sunscreen

snack cup with crackers and Goji berries and/or dried blackberries and/or raisins

1 sippy with water

lovie

 

This is what Luna's life has been reduced to.

Break and Questions

I am thoroughly enjoying the break I am getting from Luna girl today.  Oy, what a weekend.  She's just so whiny and needy these days.  And she is in a total mommy phase, so anytime I walk into the room, it doesn't matter what I am doing, she wants my attention or me to hold her.  It's exhausting.  Today D was giving her her morning milk and I came in to say good morning.  Well, as soon as I walked out, she started crying and got really mad.  Even when I came back in and tried to soothe her, she was just plain pissed at me.  She tried to wriggle away from me and she threw her lovie away.  She holds a grudge, for sure.  Wonder where she gets that one?

Interesting things of note:

• Yesterday we went to visit Olivia, one of her day former daycare teachers, on her houseboat in Sausalito. How cool are houseboats? If I thought I could live with D, Luna, and two cats in a space that small, I would force us to move. However, given my need for personal space, I have a feeling one or all of us would end up overboard.
• Olivia spoke to Luna girl in Portuguese and she lit up and got so happy. I think she recognizes the language from Rejany. It was very sweet to see. Olivia also served us Pao de Queijo, which are little cheese balls, and Luna loved them!
• I saw two very interesting things yesterday:
  • In Mill Valley, a little girl with her nanny, carrying a real Coach bag. The girl was maybe 6 years old! What?  
  • Getting onto the 101 South, someone driving a Pontiac Vibe packed with so much trash, only his or her eyes were visible. Do the cops stop this guy or can you really get away with this stuff in Marin?  
• D has encoraged us to wean Luna girl from the bottle. She was only getting one bottle in the AM when she woke up, but for the past four days, she's gotten a sippy instead. Guess what? He was right (imagine that?)! I think she's weaned. This kid is so easy in some ways and so difficult in others.
• Things I've bought Luna girl recently: shoes to fit her new orthotics and new cloth diaper covers that hopefully won't make her have so much junk in her trunk

Questions on my mind:

• How much is too much wine? Does drinking wine every night qualify me as an alcoholic?
• Should I go back to work full time if everything is okay with Luna girl? What should I do about daycare?
• Would I drink less wine if I wasn't so bored at night, i.e., if I was working and catching up on emails after she goes down?
• Should we have another kid? And if so, when?
• Should I enjoy being a mom more than I am right now? What can I do to not feel so overwhelmed? Feed her McDonald's?
• When does being a mom and guilt not go hand in hand?
• Will my slow cooker beef curry turn out well?
• What should I do with my hair? Keep it short or grow it long and wavy again?
• What does it mean if I had a dream where I devirginized my childhood best friend's younger brother and in reality, I considered him my younger brother, I was never attracted to him, and I haven't seen him in like 20 years?
• What does it mean if in that same dream, my husband, was my real-life brother? And no, I am not into incest!

And on that note, I am going to check the slow cooker.
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So Long

I can't believe it's been so long since I last wrote.  I stopped writing in part because so much was happening with Luna and I was having such a hard time coping, I just couldn't write about it.  I still don't feel like going into all the details, but the good news is that we are getting closer to getting answers about Luna's cognitive and physical delays.  So far we have ruled out autism which is probably the biggest relief.  We are still scheduled for an MRI and a visit with a neurologist and then possibly a geneticist, but for now, our biggest fear has been calmed. 

And so much has happened:

• On May 7, D found Luna girl sitting up in her crib.  We thought it was a fluke, but from that day she started to pull herself up to sitting.
• On June 16, Luna crawled for the very first time.  D was getting her ready for bed because she was being so fussy and we assumed she was tired.  After he finished getting her undressed down to her diaper, he looked at me and said, "I think she just crawled."  So, we put her down on the floor and lo and behold, she crawled to get lovie.  Again, we thought it was fluke, but every day she gets a little better and goes a little further.  I watch her in disbelief, as I can't really believe we've arrived at this point.
• From May 16-May 21, we went to Moab, UT, which was so amazing.  We stayed in a beautiful condo and relaxed, swam, drank great beer, got addicted to Nija Warrior, and had an overall amazing time.  D got some great mountain biking in and we all got tons of great hiking in.  Our last day, we hiked 7.2 miles through Devils Garden and despite the terrible heat and difficult trail, Luna was a super star.  She even managed a nap in the Sherpani.  D and I were dying as we were almost out of water half way through the hike, but the scenery was so worth it!  Overall, Luna girl was such a trooper the whole trip.  She slept well, did great on the plane and even did so well on the 4 hour drive to and from Salt Lake City.
• Luna now has 8 teeth and I think she might be getting more as she is constantly biting her hands and anything else she can get her in her mouth.
• We went through a terrible picky eating stage for about two weeks, but that seems to be over, thank god!  She would just spit everything out, but now she seems to be eating most things we put in front of her.  Sometimes she gets really impatient with the high chair, in which case we have to hold her.  But I think she's gaining weight, as I've noticed she's got these adorable chubby legs recently.
• We also went through a terrible sleeping period where Luna was sleeping so long in the morning, that it was throwing the whole rest of the day off.  I thought she might be moving to one nap, but as it turns out, she's still a two napper:  9 and 1 or 2.

Okay, it's back to Jon and Kate Plus 8 and then bed.