My big little petite girl

Aslynn had her first real well baby check-up today and also got her first round of vaccinations.

Shes growing beautifully and everything looks good.

She weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 12oz (25th%) and measured 22.5 inches long(50th%).

So she is my big little petite girl.

Rip Van Winkle 0 - Aslynn Grace 3

Over the past 72 hours I have been able to ring in a whopping total of 9 hours of sleep.

This morning for example...Aslynn woke up at 5 after having woken up at 12:30 and 4. When did she proceed to finally decide to drift heavily away into dream land? oh 8:30. And just as I laid my head down on my pillow, which I knew I shouldn't have even done in the first place, Brayden decides hes had enough of playing quietly in his crib and he wants out.

You may be thinking that that isn't too bad....well let me add in the times and numbers.

3 was the number of hours she cried last night until 9:30 when she finally found her way to dream land.

10 was the minutes that I was able to shave my legs and shower.

She was also up at 10:30 falling back asleep at 11:30.

Now on a normal given day Brad would so graciously wake up with Brayden and let me get in just a few more winks. Oh but hell hasn't quite frozen over again. Nope not today.

So I'm back to the daily grind yet again with some serious baggage.

And just where is Brad......asleep in the bed.

Tagged

Monica has tagged me to do this meme!
I must reveal six unspectacular quirks about myself and challenge other bloggers to do the same.

The rules are:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules.
3. Tell six unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag six bloggers by linking.
5. Leave a comment for each blogger.

1) Kitchen appliances and designs get me all excited. Inner chef in me I guess :)

2) I have a fear of needles yet I have 3 tattoos.

3) If I'm not eating but someone else around me is I will either go to another room or turn the TV up so I can't hear them chew.

4) I used to be all artsy-fartsy. I was in the Art Guild in middle school and I loved to draw. I used to be good at it.

5) I wash my pillowcases every two days.

6) I could spend hours in Books a Million or Barnes and Noble just reading books. I love to read and wish I had more time.

So I am tagging:

Mia-A day in the life of Aria Faith

Antigone-Antigone Lost

Breanna-The Smith Family

Anelys-Life with my Flowers

Lauren-The Abby Adventures

Holli-Living Without Brenna

Must be nice

Honestly it must be nice to only have a 8 hour job. You get to leave and get a break from your job. You come home only to go right to bed and to sleep until 11am, causing your toddler and newborn to remain silent. Heaven forbid if a noise is made.

Dont get me wrong I am in no way knocking being a mommy. I love my job but just like with any job you need a break. I don't get that break. I never did when it was just Brayden. Sorry, yes I did and that was when Monica would have Brayden over for a spendanight.

While you have an 8 hour manual labor job I have a 24 hour manual labor job. I am Mommy. I tend to their every beck and call, every tear, every diaper-wet or dirty. I am lucky if there is a silent 10 minutes between the hours of 8am-8am to shower and shave my legs.

Give me a f'ing break. Don't moan and groan to me about needing more sleep..HELLO I am up every two hours feeding our daughter while you take a trip into la la land.


Must be nice.

Celebrating the life of those with Alzheimer's

My grandmother who passed away earlier this year suffered from Alzheimer's. She would have turned 90 in September. No one really knew the extent of her case until the moment she fell and broke her hip and had to have surgery and then stay in a Rehabilitation Home. They classified it as Sundowner's Syndrome. All that means is that her Alzheimer's mainly affected her at night or in the early hours of the morning. When my Aunt stayed with her she said her bad nights were horrible and her good nights were only so bad.

Social Spark has teamed up with the Alzheimer's Association this year in the Alzheimer's Memory Walk.

All around the United States this fall walks will be conducted to help raise awareness for this disease and raised money to hopefully one day find a cure. And to also honor the memory of the lives claimed by it.

A typical walk is anywhere from 2-3 miles so its not that far of a distance. And with atleast 600 communities holding walks I am sure that there is one near you.



You too can make a difference by setting up a team of walkers in your neighborhood. Go ahead and do something good. Walk for your neighbor, your own family member, a church member.

Ten on Tuesday

1) Momma left yesterday to go back "home". As hard as it is I'm trying not to dwell on it too much simply because when Momma left last year after Brayden was born, that was when my PPD hit big time. I had been fine up until then. It just sucks that she has to leave us.

2) Brad's first night back to work was last night and that was an adventure in itself. Since Aslynn was born I really had yet to be by myself with these two. I'm worn out to say the least.

3) Aslynn has her 2 month appointment tomorrow. She also will get her first round of vaccinations :( This is my first vaccination without Aunt NiNi there to make me feel better.

4) Brayden is FINALLY getting another tooth. That makes 5 now. 5 whole toofers.

5) I'm tired of waiting for this guy from Church to come around and answer our calls about buying our car.....so....Anybody want to buy a 2000 mustang???

6) I have a feeling that an Aslynn spendanight might be coming soon. We will have to get in touch with Aunt NiNi about that one.

7) More than likely we will be moving in a time frame of 60-90 days. It all depends on when they get done building. Woohoo for 3 bedrooms but I'm tired of moving. I want to be in a stable place for more than a year and I'm not even Military.

8) Kids Market in Huntsville is coming up in Sept. and I am super stoked about that! Brad went back to work at a wonderful time:)

9) Aslynn was tortured Saturday by two cameras. LOL. Monica was able to take some pictures of her for her announcements in my Christening gown from years ago. Momma and Monica said that she looks just like me when I was a baby so I'll take their word on it.

10) Our neighbor is moving back to Decatur soon and it sucks because I'm going to miss her and her little boy. She was awesome!

Ta Da!

Brayden got a haircut, hence the ode to his beautiful curls!

An ode to Brayden's hair

A boy and his puddle

We had a nice little rain today that allowed puddles to form in our parking lot and Grandma thought that it was a perfect time to let Tater play in the puddles.


There was one puddle that we now will call "Lake Tater" simply because it was huge. Oh he loved that puddle the best!
On a completely different note I FINALLY figured out my manual settings on my camera. We are still playing around but I found the setting that best works with me and everything.

Aslynn and her hearing

I feel so much better after our trek Birmingham yesterday. Dr. Wooley and everyone at Children's South is so wonderful and nice.

She essentially can hear in both ears with no difficulty in her left but in her right she has a reverberation in her right and a low decibel hearing loss. The reverberation makes everything she hears on that side a little muffled and she lacks the ability to pop her ears when she yawns.

We go back in February so that she can be tested in an isolated room to see if she can turn to sounds and what not.


So needless to say all is good with her hearing and a I feel tons better.

10 on Tuesday

1) We are going to Birmingham today to have Aslynn's hearing tested at Children's South and hopefully ease my mind and give me the answers I want that Dr. Murphree(if you want to call him that) couldn't give us.

2) I went for my six week postpartum check-up yesterday. Hard to believe it has been that long already. Dr. Aguayo couldn't believe it either. Everything looks wonderful and I am down a total of 35 lbs. Woohoo for me! I go Sept 2 to have Mirena "installed".

3) Words just honestly can't express how excited I am about Brad going back to work. The main reason for this excitement is because that means that I won't have to go back to work for a little bit longer. We all thought I would be going back first even though Brad promised I could stay at home with the kiddos.

4) I love my momma being here. I get "custody",as Monica puts it, of her again tomorrow.

5) Aldi's....'nuff said

6) We inherited back a cat. Opitmus from Momma kitty's last litter was sitting on our doorstep two nights ago when we came home..they decided that they just couldn't deal with a cat anymore...so wtf are you returning him to us for?? If we wanted him we would have kept him. So needless to say after finally beginning to enjoy being kitty free we have him who will be finding a new home this week.

7) Aslynn is in size 1 diapers now. *sniff

8) Brayden is a hoot. Now when I go into the kitchen he'll stand at the gate and lean over and start saying " nummy nummy nummy" that's what I ask him if he wants food..."do you want some nummies" He has recently become obsessed with his penis. We now have to keep shorts on him at all times or else he will strip naked to play with it or his hand will be stuck in the side of the diaper playing with it.

9) I am praying for Aslynn to start sleeping through the night. She did the first night that momma stayed with us but it has yet to happen again. So I guess its every 2-3 hours for now.

10) I'm back into my prepregnancy pants and its fabulous!!

Congrats!

Congrats to Lauren on her little GIRL!! bumblebee!

We have a date!!

Brad goes back to work August 18th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!