Emma Mondays :)

Oh, Emma! Did I mention that my little one is a PISTOL! This girl has definitely got her momma's attitude. She definitely gets it honest, but I could live without the ridiculously sassy personality! She knows what she wants and how to get it already, and she is only 4.5 months old! YIKES! Anyway, we have her late four month well baby visit on Wednesday, and we are very anxious to see how much she weighs! I am also very anxious to get a hold of her reflux issue.
She was put on Zantac at her two month appointment, and it had a hold of the situation for a little while, but it's lately come back and been getting worse. Not only do I hate to see her in pain, but it stresses me out a lot with her crying so much and not wanting to eat/sleep, etc. Poor baby. I hope the doctor will actually listen to what I have to say this time. Last time, she just kept interrupting me every time I tried to say something. It's an unfortunate situation we're in with this Tricare Prime business. I wish we lived at a base with more than one pediatrician, but Beale, well, is Beale. So we'll see how it goes.
We recently purchased a white noise machine, and it's helped with our sleeping issue a little. If you didn't know, she slept through the night for a few weeks, then she got sick, and it's been awful since (That was 2 months ago!). Last week, she was waking up about every 1.5 hours, which is NOT fun. So, since she slept so well on the plane on both trips we've made, I thought a white noise machine would help. The last two nights she has slept from 9-2! That's a huge deal to me because before it was like 9-11, up at 12:30, 2, 3:30, 5, and 630 for the day. So I'm hoping as the nights go on, it will get even better!
And we got a new big girl car seat, YAY! The airline ruined our infant seat by getting cargo grease all over it, so we got $200 worth of travel vouchers, and we had to get her a convertible seat, and she LOVES it. Here is a picture below: How I rotate it is beyond me! So just turn your head!

Now that I'm back! Some changes!

Okay, now that we are back from our little vacation, I am going to be making some changes to my blog! I am going to start dedicating each day of the week to a different topic so that my blogs aren't completely random and hard to keep up with! So, here is how it will go.
Monday- All about Emma :)
Tuesday- Cloth Diapering... Yes, I'm obsessed!
Wednesday- Exercise & Getting back to the size I was in 9th grade
Thursday- Budgeting/School/Life in General
Friday- Groceries and Dinner (I'll share new recipes that I like and any grocery trips I've had!)

I will not be blogging on the weekends in order to spend some time with my little family! This will start tomorrow! Also, I am going to try and include at least one picture with every post!

Twice in one week!

Okay, so it's my second post this week. Go me! I'm really going to try hard this time. I am writing as I sit here feeding Emma and trying to get her to go to sleep. She has been on a wonky sleeping kick lately, and let's just say, I've been one tired momma! I think the hardest thing about having her has been the fact that I am nursing and she relies on me for all of her food rather than me being able to pass off the night feedings to Aaron on the weekends, which would help tremendously, but I suck it up and do it anyway. I can't wait for the day when she finally sleeps through the night. I haven't seen a full night's sleep since long before she was born. At least my fat pregnant body got me sort of used to it before she got here.
Anyhow, tomorrow is mother's day, my first. Aaron and I are going to take Emma to the Sacramento Zoo in the morning, and then have lunch. We then have to come home and pack and be at the airport back in Sac around 10:30 tomorrow night. I am really looking forward to this trip and having the help with Emma, also to see family and eat good southern food!

About that diet. hahah. How am I possibly going to diet while going home for a week. Yeah right! So, I've really decided I'm getting serious about it when we get back. I've been doing well lately with working out. I've been doing an hour circuit type workout five days a week and walking with Emma another few times a week. Now I've just got to get my eating under control! Even though I've lost the baby weight, I want to be in really good shape, and it's going to take some discipline!!!! Hopefully I can do it!

Serious about blogging

Okay, so I want to get serious about blogging! I know. I've said I'm going to do better about blogging several times, and here it is two months since my last post! I mean it this time!

So, in 5 days, we are saying happy four months to Emma! Yahoo! A lot has changed since I last posted. We are going to Mississippi for a last minute trip next week to visit Aaron's family, and mine will be coming down for the weekend to stay and visit with us. Then we will hopefully still be going back in September to visit one week with my family and one week with his! Even if he can't go because you know issues arise with the military (last minute deployments, etc.), then I will probably go alone. Emma was not as hard to deal with as I had imagined she will be when I traveled home in March. It was my first time on a plane, and I will admit, I was TERRIFIED! It was easy peasy really, besides the fact that my plane from Jackson to Houston was delayed, and I almost missed my connection back to Sacramento! If you've never been to the Houston Airport, it's huge! And it wasn't easy lugging myself, a 2.5 month old, and two diaper bags across the airport in less than 15 minutes! I loved being home and definitely wish we lived closer, so I could go more like once a month!

Anyway, Emma is doing lots of new things since I last posted (DUH! It's been two months). She started to roll over from her tummy to her back at about 2.5 months ish. She recently, like a week starting rolling from back to tummy, and it makes her so proud! She does it every time I put her down now, so she's actually spending a good bit of time on her tummy without getting mad! She also started eating solids about 2.5 weeks ago, and she LOVES them! She's eaten carrots, bananas, apples, and green beans so far. So far, she love the apples the best, and surprisingly really doesn't like bananas. Oh well! Oh, my favorite thing is her laughing out loud! She's been doing this for a while now, but I still get excited every time she does it. My least favorite thing is this sleep regression phase she's going through. BOOOOOO! She's been waking up several times a night, and I'm about to go crazy! She was such a good sleeper for the longest time that I got spoiled.

Another new thing is: CLOTH DIAPERS! Okay, I looovveee them! We originally switched because of the massive amount of leaks that we were having with disposables. But a huge plus is the lack of money we are going to spend! Now that I have pretty much got everything I need, we are going to be saving a good bit of money not buying diapers every week or two. We are also using cloth wipes which is money saving too. :) Doing the cloth diapers has inspired me to do other things, like going back to menu planning and saving lots of money on groceries! That means only eating on Saturday, and every other day, we will be eating at home. It's been way too hard with a new baby and going to school and such to cook every night, but now that the semester is almost over and Emma is getting bigger, it will be much easier!

One last thing for this post, and I'll stop talking your ears off! I seriously want to start selling things that I make! Now that I have a sewing machine, I have learned to make leg warmers, skirts, shirts with sewn on designs, fleece diaper covers, curtains, a dress, and I plan on making a cloth diaper here soon. Plus I still make bows, bow holders, tutus, paintings, etc. I really want to do it because I have so much fun sewing and doing crafty things, but I also would like the little extra money it would provide. I just don't know how to go about getting all of that started. I know lots of boutiques have Facebook pages and Etsy stores, but how does one get so many freaking fans? IDK. I am going to continue to make a few more things and then I will see about starting something up. I think it would be ultra fun!

8 weeks!

Welp, Emma is a whopping 8 weeks old today! Time is seriously just flying by. She will be two months old in three days, and we have to go to the doctor and get shots. :( Boo hoo! I don't think that it will be as bad as the night in the ER, so maybe we will be okay! Right now, she's so stuffy and coughing, and I just feel soo bad for her! Hopefully she will get better soon. But the good news is that the coughing and stuffiness just takes all of her energy, so she's been napping good during the day!

Sooooo, it's only 18 days until we leave for Mississippi, and I am beyond excited! I am starting to get nervous though! I have talked to many people who say it's not bad at all, but I can't help but be nervous. My first time flying alone and with a baby at that! YIKES! I've already started a list of things that I will need so I am hoping that I will have everything together by the time we leave! EEEKK! Come on March 25th! Anyway, I will update again after her 2 month check up on Thursday!

Terrible Blogger

Once again, I am being a terrible blogger! Good news though! Emma is doing great and still growing sooo fast! I made her two month appt. today, and it's crazy how fast time has gone. In one week and 3 days, she will be two months old ahhhH! Scary! Anyhow, last week she weighed 11lbs, so I'm anxious to see what she's weighing at the end of next week! I have officially put away all the newborn clothes and the 0-3 month sleepers because she is too long for them! She is still wearing mostly 0-3 months for now, but some of them she's starting grow out of! EEEKKK! We have a big baby on our hands for a girl! She's been in the 95th percentile for girls, but the doctor said she will start slow her growth since she is breastfed. Thank goodness, she's getting incredibly heavy to lug around in her car seat!
In other GREAT news, Emma and I are going to Mississippi!!!!!!!! Yahoo! We cannot wait! We're going the last week of March and staying with Granny and Papaw. Sucks Aaron can't go, but we are going to have so much fun!

Our 7 week old! 

Growing so fast!

Yes, Emma is growing incredibly fast! It's kinda sad that she no longer fits into most of her newborn clothes, especially the one piece outfits... But she's also at this awkward stage where her 3mos clothes are still big, so I'm not wishing for her to grow up, but I do wish she could properly wear one size or the other! She's doing great though, eating well, and sleeping pretty good at night. Sleeping during the day is a whole different story though. It is 4pm, and she is sleeping for the first time since 7:30 this morning! But I am A o.k. with her sleeping at night rather than during the day!

On another note, Aaron enrolled her in Tricare today, and we found out that she has to be seen on base because we live within 30 minutes of the installation. Let me tell you that our address is 28 minutes from the clinic!!!!!! OMG. That makes me really mad because everyone talks negatively of the regular pediatrician on base. We haven't seen her yet because she's been deployed or something crazy like that, and they've had temporary people in there, who have been really nice. I'm not only mad because of the pediatrician, but I'm mad because all of the Airmen who work the appointment line and front desk are TERRIBLE at their jobs. They're just a pain to deal with. Did I mention that we are the base with the worst health care in the Air Force? UGHHHHHHHH. That is all for today!