I have the eye from the hunched back of Norte Dame

Yep. Yesterday I fouond out I have viral conguctivitis at the urgent care. And today despite introducing medication my eye looks like the eye of the hunched back of Norte Dame. I hope it gets better soon. My eye is almost completely swollen shut and i can't see that well out of it. I hope my alignment isn't off with only seeing through my right eye. It's contagious so I bought all sorts of purell and chlorox wipes yesterday....I can't give it to the baby. Which is pretty hard because my eye seems to tear every 5 minutes. So every 5 minutes I wipe it with a tissue and put on more purell.

So pray for my eye :( I don't want to feel like a freak very long.

Silly new mom worries

I know I'm a new mom and that I shouldn't worry, but no matter how much you tell yourself you just keep on worrying. Well let me back up and tell you....about several weeks ago she was rolling over. That morning I put her on her stomach for "tummy time" and she rolled over almost immediately. She did it 4 times in a row before I gave up that morning of getting any "tummy time" in. But since then she hasn't done it once. Not once. And when the doctor asked about her turning over at her doctors appointment I explained that she had but she doesn't anymore. The doctor didn't seem worried about it. But it made me worry about it just a little more. So recently I've been thinking that maybe I am not giving her enough "tunny time", so this morning I had her on her stomach 3 times before noon. Making sure that she was plenty upset before I rolled her over. Maybe I was previously stopping to early. Maybe she just wasn't rolling over because she knew she could just cry and I would pick her up. But nothing. So I started showing her. (I know I'm weird.) I started showing her to lift up her arm above her head, so that her arm doesn't get stuck. Then she has to swing her legs over to get the momentum to turn over. After several repetitive instructions.....nothing. The baby just looked at me and smiled.

I know when I ask people they all just give me a generalization....of they turn over at about 4 months, they sit up at about 4 months, they start crawling at about 6 months. But my baby isn't turning over anymore, and she isn't sitting up by herself and she's 4 months. So I looked at Nicky's blog where the only milestone of Emily's close to mine is where she is only starting to rock on her hands and knees at 9 months. Well that gives Penelope plenty of time to do that. No problem. I'm a cool headed mom again.

funny ha ha

just something i thought was funny, and I feel is very true.

Little Nelly not so little

Little Nelly had her 4 month check up yesterday, where she turned exactly 4 months.
She weighed in at 14 lbs 8 ozs (75th percentile) and 26 1/2 inches long (over 100th percentile). Her head circumference was 44 inches (above 95th percentile). But our little munchkin has an ear infection. So pray that she gets better soon.

Books I want to read

I added two books I want to read to my book corner at the bottom of the page.

The Pillars of the Earth by K. Follett
"In the quest to build the greatest Gothic cathedral ever known, a struggle between good and evil erupts—turning church against state and brother against brother (oprah.com)." It's suppose to be a drama, a thriller, a romance, a suspense, and hold you are the edge of your chair.


Love in the time of Cholera by G. G. Marquez
"In the late 1800s, in a Caribbean port city, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza falls deliriously in love with Fermina Daza, a beautiful student. In this magnificent story, García Márquez beautifully and unflinchingly explores the nature of love in all its guises—small and large, passionate and serene. Love can ravage its host like a disease, but it can also persevere through the bleakest decades and survive the effects of time itself. (oprah.com)"

If anyone wants to read them with me, let me know. I'm still itching to start that internet book club.

Waaaaaaah!

I'm sad. I just had to dump almost 6 - 5 oz bottles of pumped breastmilk because I didn't bag it and freeze it quick enough. All that hard work.....

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picture people pics

picture people pics.....try to say that 10 times fast.

Here are our nov 2007 family portraits

The DaVinci Code

I just finished reading, actually listening, to the Da Vinci Code. I know I'm a little behind the popular rush to read it--but I didn't want to read it just because everyone else was. I did recently rent it from the library to listen during my commute to work. I think it is going to start a new habit. It really did help distract me during the time of sitting in the parking lot of the 405. Sadly I finished the book in about a week of work (which is only 3 days). I think that says a lot about my commute. It's a good thing that I got more then one audio book on CD.

Anyways, I really did like the book. It was a great mystery--I recommended it to Russell and now he's listening to it during his commute. (It's taking him a little longer to get through the whole thing. He doesn't have as far to go.) It was very suspenseful. I do have to say that I have one major problem with the story line. Sophia Neveu and Robert Langdon are pretty much the main characters. Sophia Neveu is a cytologist who works for the French FBI. Rober Langdon is a teacher who has studied the idea of the hidden holy grail. Through out the whole book it is Robert Langdon not Sophia Neveu who deciphers all the labyrinthine puzzles. Isn't it Sophia Neveu's career to uncode codes? Whats up with a women being completely helpless?

Also because there was so much rave during the time this book surface, I'll discuss this topic. First I want to state, this book is a fictional book. Again I repeat fictional. If we do just entertain the idea, but I don't believe it is true. The holy grail is out there and there is a secret group that broke off from the church to protect it. Lets just step outside the box of our ideas for a split second. Why would Jesus be any less God if He had a wife and a child? Could this all be something totally blown out of proportion? And lets just say that in the Da Vinci's Last Supper painting there is a women to the right hand of Jesus instead of one of His disciples. Where would the other disciple be? Why isn't there then 14 people? I probably don't know enough about this to make any kind of an argument either way. It all just seems like there was too much work up about some rumors and a painting.

But I do like the fictional book.

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I give it 4 stars.




If you want to comment on this book, feel free. Also if you are interested in starting a internet book club let me know.

Pictures of the Little Nelly

Here are some recent pictures of little Nelly and family that everyone has been requesting. Here are pictures of events including Russell's birthday bash, The Big Horse ranch to go to the corn crop maze and other acitivities, and halloween.



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