We made an offer on a house today and they came close enough to what we wanted to pay that we're going to accept their counteroffer. Yikes! This is going to be the first place that I've ever lived in that I cannot afford to live on my own, so I think it's sort of freaking me out a bit. I don't know why I'm not more excited. I think I just have a lot on my plate right now and it's sort of daunting to think of it all. 

I have to clean up my house (I mean REALLY clean... no throwing things in closets) and get it ready to put on the market by this weekend! I've got Avery to think about, with the daycare issue and her still not being 100% well. I have concerns about all of us living together. Donny is so illogical that I'm not sure how I'll handle the stupid things he says sometimes. Then there's the wedding and traveling to Michigan and that whole deal. Anyway, I wish I could be more excited but I'm just not into it. 

I am looking forward to living in that neighborhood... it sounds pretty nice and my running friend Sunny lives next door. I would love to have neighbors we were close to like we were the Waschas.

April 10, 2006

Avery still isn't feeling very good today, but I think she's feeling better. I want to try to start to feed her solid food. Doctor said it was okay to start cereal for another couple months, but wait til 6 months to try meat and veggies. 

So, I mixed the cereal according to the directions on the box and it was SO runny. Can this be right? I read it over and over, and yep, it was right. So, I let Jamie feed her her first solid (since I fed the first milk) and it was a huge mess! Avery wanted nothing to do with what was in the spoon and kept batting at it. Cereal spilled everywhere! I thickened it up a bit and we tried again with a bit more success. I think at least some of it got into her mouth! We took a few pictures of her messy little face when we finished.

April 7, 2006

Avery had to stay home from daycare today as she's a pretty sick little gal. Her fever is 102.4 and she's got a runny nose and is coughing a lot. I think the fever is normal for the day after immunizations (although she wasn't like that for her first round), but not the other stuff. Jamie said that Lola the daycare lady was sick when he went to pick Avery up on Wednesday. When he called today Barry told him that another baby was sick. Gee... that's odd. :P I think I'd have liked it if they had called earlier in the week and told me that Lola was feeling sick so I would have at least had the option of keeping Avery away. Anyway, I got to stay home all day holding my baby girl, and although she was sick it was nice to be with her. She wasn't very fussy or anything, just sleepy and feverish.

April 6, 2006

Avery went in to see Dr. Bondurant for her four month appointment. When the doctor walked in, Avery was waterskiing on my legs. She said that Avery looked more like a six month old developmentally. We were so proud! All our play time is paying off! The weighed 15 pounds even (I won the guess-the-weight game AGAIN) and was 25 inches tall. Or 2'1" as Papi likes to say. She started crying when the doctor started examining her. I guess being laid on the cold papered bench didn't help. Everything looked good, then the nurse came in and gave her three shots. She cried so hard she stopped breathing for a minute! Poor little thing, I felt so badly! But by the time we left the office she had a crocodile tear and a smile on her face. 

By the end of the evening she was running a little fever. I gave her some tylenol and put her to bed, and she slept pretty well.

April 5, 2006

Last night we went and looked at houses, and I think we narrowed it down to two. There are good and bad things about each one, so it's been tough sleeping on it. The one house I like the best has a really small stupid kitchen that I would hate. I think we just need to make sure Jamie can make it big and nice without making it still look stupid. 

Avery was such a good girl when we were looking at houses. She cried a little but hadn't eaten in a while. I went into the truck and fed her and she was a happy girl again. I think the Mexican food I had for lunch didn't set well with her because she was fussy last night before sleeping. Eventually she went down though. 

I woke up this morning and did all the stuff I normally do with Avery and then took her over Jamie's so he could take her to daycare. He was in bed when I got there and it almost made me mad to think I had been up for two hours doing stuff while he'd been sleeping. I know it's no fault of his own, but I'll sure be glad when we're living together and he can take some of the load off. 

Tina's morning
6:00 wake up to Avery farting and talking
6:05 feed Avery
6:20 play with Avery
6:45 change Avery
6:50 shower
7:00 do monkey dance for Avery
7:02 get dressed
7:05 put Avery in swing
7:06 start to dry hair, curl hair, put makeup on
7:15 bathe Avery
7:20 get Avery dressed
7:22 eat breakfast
7:27 wash breastpump, pack it and empty bottles for work
7:30 get Avery's bottles ready and bag packed for daycare
7:40 load dishwasher with last night's dishes
7:45 pack lunch
7:50 gather four bags (purse, my lunch, her lunch, breastpump) and the baby and get in car
7:52 look for sunglasses
7:55 find sunglasses and start to look for keys
7:58 find keys
8:00 leave for Jamie's (already late for work)
8:02 arrive at Jamie's and pound on door til he answers in his underwear

Jamie's morning

6:00-8:00 sleep
8:02 get out of bed to sound of Tina pounding on the door
8:03 get dirty look as she runs out the door saying she's late
8:04 climb back in bed with Avery

What's wrong with this picture! ;)

April 4, 2006

Today Avery woke me up at 4:30. So early! What happened to sleeping til 6:30 I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with the time change that happened Sunday. I fed her, and afterwards she was really sleepy. I was going to change her, but didn't want her to wake up fully so put her in the bed next to me and tried to fall asleep. She fell asleep, I didn't. At one point I had my back facing her and I felt her little hand on it stroking me. I know she didn't know what she was doing, but I pretended. We got up at 7 and I gave her a bath. Of course we had to sing our song 'boogers in the bathtub' as I was telling her about how clean all of her various parts were becoming. She kicked in the water so hard that my back got wet. I'm not sure if she loves baths, but she certainly doesn't hate them like her cousin Anna did. 

Avery is really finding her hands. She can watch something and reach for it now, which is really exciting. It's amazing to see her growing and developing more each day. There are days that she'll do something new out of the blue. Two weeks ago she found her tongue, and was sticking it out at us every chance she got. I have been waiting for her to have the ability to reach out and grab something. For weeks I've been dangling the little plastic fishes that are on her swing in front of her. She would watch them, but not reach for them. This weekend, I put her in her swing, and when I looked over she had one fish in each hand and her arms were extended and was swinging to beat the blazes. Hysterical!

Papi took her to daycare today. Of course they napped first. He's really going to teach her to be a lady of leisure, I tell you! I'm sure the daycare people think we're on drugs or something. I don't think we've brought her in at the same time two days in a row. It's hard though when Jamie doesn't have a schedule and I do. It'd be easier for me to just drop her off and Jamie's because it's closer to me then have her take him, but he's not always up and awake. Or he has a job. It's just nuts. I think it will be better when we're living together. Soon!