Friday, March 30, 2012

This week in pictures

Cupcake at sugar rush. Yum!


My frozen milk so far. This is a huge accomplishment for me!! Maybe TMI for some people, but I know there are a select few that can appreciate this.





What happens when porter skips nap at school.





Sweet big brother. He is so good with her.


Emma.....
She is a friend's niece. She goes to porter's school now and I got to school before "aunt Gigi" one day this week. I got her to take a picture with me and sent it to her.


The next day when I got to school she wanted to take a picture again.



And again today. I got porter to pose with her today.






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Pics from wedding

Last weekend we went to mobile for a wedding. The couple is Travis and Kelly. He was in my residency class and Kelly was a nurse in the SICU at USA.
I didn't get a picture with Kelly, but our whole residency class was all there and we got a pic together. Probably the last time we will be in the same place together.



I also got to visit with what seemed like the entire surgery department and SICU staff. It was great to see everyone. I was especially glad to see my friend Tam, who is now a 4th year resident. I miss hanging out with her and her husband jack so much. They were as close as you can get to "real" friends during residency. You can really only hang out at work, since that's all you do.



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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Party girl!!

Stella sure is happy to have been up as much as she was last night. She got up at 11:30, 3:00, and 5:30 and was up for the day then. Nannie has already reported that she had a good nap this morning.



Porter was not into posing for a picture this morning. His picture would have been the opposite of stella's.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Kite flying weather--sorta

It seemed windy enough this afternoon for a kite, so Jared and Porter went and got one.  It was windy enough to get the kite in the air, but it would only stay for a few minutes at the time.  Porter didn't really care.  Once he got the hang of it, he just ran all over the place and had a ball.








Cookies with Characters

This event was several weeks ago, but I have just now downloaded the pictures from my camera.  Out of multiple pictures of Jack and Porter, these were the best.


Pitiful.  It's like herding cats...
Anyway, I love this event, but I just don't think we are going to do it next year.  First of all, it starts at 1:00. Nap.  Time.  It's just not the time of day you should expect my child to cooperate.  Then there's this concept that he doesn't understand yet--delayed gratification.  There are just too many people and too many lines to wait in.  All of that makes this outing nothing short of a disaster.  I wish they would offer multiple times to go, and one of those times be about 9:00 Saturday morning.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Our old stomping grounds

You can't make a proper trip to mobile without going to la cocina. We got to see our old friends chano and yusbie. Porter even or his picture made with chano.



And we even saw some old friends that are also big la cocina fans. So funny how a small group of people can be connected by just a restaurant.

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Pictures of the week

Plural because there is more than one. ;)










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Monday, March 19, 2012

3 months old!!!

It's been 3 months since Stella was born and 1 month since she was in the hospital. And boy has it flown by. But it seems like an eternity and no time all at the same time.
Here are some pictures from the last month.
Ambulance ride. This was the scariest day of my life.


Very rare smile from that week.


And here we are now. I think this is my favorite picture of Stella so far.


Showing off the little chick that Nannie made.





She enjoys the bumbo seat now.


Stella and big brother.








This was taken on the first day at Nannie's after we came home from the hospital. She has definitely chunked up since this picture. At her appointment last week she was 11lb 15oz. She was 10lb 1oz at her appointment with Dr E right after we were discharged. That's 2oz short of 2lb in less than one month. We have done some serious eating at this house.


She's still not sleeping all night, but consistently sleeps until 1:00-2:00, and then gets up in 3 hours after that. Progress is slow. Kinda. She was only getting up once a night before going to the hospital, but I think she has just been working really hard to gain weight, and that requires eating all nights long. Hopefully now that we have started doing cereal at night we are just around the corner from sleeping all night. Then if we could get porter to sleep all night we would be all set. I'm not sure I could sleep all night if I was drugged at this point. :)
Anyway, Stella is definitely a p pot--she prefers to be moving at all times, likes a bath, and doesn't like a swings or pacifiers. That's right, Flossie is pretty much a thing of the past. When we came home from the hospital she was a little obsessive about ole Flossie, so we took it away for a day of so, and she just moved on with life. Now Flossie is a fun toy for a moment, but nothing more. No pacifier at bedtime or anything. Those few nights of going to her room MULTIPLE times to put the paci back in her mouth made it easy to put up with a mildly cranky baby that wanted it. Plus she really needed to spend that sucking energy eating!!!
She is generally a happy baby now, as it seems we have passed the colicky stage, and I guess that's what we are going to call those crying spells. It definitely fit the description. Started at 3 weeks, lasted til 3 months, started around 3:00 in the afternoon, lasted for about 3 hours, and was 3 or more days a week..... Whatever it was, I wish it well. And don't let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out!!! For the last couple of weeks our evenings have been much more peaceful. She is pretty ready to go to bed and takes her bottle very easily a little before 7:00 and is in bed asleep right at 7:00.
This next month will bring lots of fun stuff as I think she is just on the verge of laughing out loud and we will be starting back to daycare. Great times ahead! And hopefully healthy!!!!
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Websites added!!!

I have added the websites from some of the vendors that we purchased from at the arts and crafts festival.  Unfortunately all of the ones we like don't have websites--specifically Ginger Woechan.  Anyway, check them out under the Favorites section on the side bar.  They are all at the bottom under the Etsy link.

More pics from the weekend

Papa and porter having a gator parade and race.














Porter being the super big brother that he is. He is our substitute baby bathtub.





Aunt ding ding brought him fireman rain boots. He tried them out in the bathtub at the hotel.



Cereal!!!


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Hipstamatic fun

It's so beautiful outside with the spring weather and all the blooming trees and plants I had to get out and take some pictures with my awesome hipstamatic app this morning.

































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