~Incredible moment while nursing~

OK let me preface this with saying I have barely any feeling left on my nips so when LO latches or unlatches I barely feel it.

Last night during her last nurse, I was sitting in my usual spot, but I had my head back and my eyes closed..I was just sooo tired. I opened my eyes and looked down. My LO was just staring up at me, and for how long she was doing that I have no idea, and I had the oddest sensation..not de ja vu..but close to it. I looked in her eyes and I had that feeling of, "I met you somewhere and I already know you." I would swear I saw her soul and experienced the phenomenon what is called "soul recognition". I mean, it was mind-blowing! It was like I knew her from another life or something..it was just one of those crazy wonderful things that you can't even explain and no one "gets" unless it has happened to them.

~Perspective~

This week 2 Beluga Whales were born in Massachusetts. Which, in itself is all well and good and exciting. However, what is not well and good and exciting is how I can relate to this event.

One of the male calves measured in at 5 feet 4 inches long, which is exactly how tall I am. He weighed in at a healthy 167lbs. I currently weighed in as of this morning 181lbs.

Yes..that makes me larger than a newborn Beluga Whale. Awesome.

~He's moving back in~

Bah. I have 2 more nights and then it is all over. 2 more nights and the Scott moves back into the Master bedroom. 2 more nights of free sleeping in the king bed. 2 more nights..and then I have to give up the goods too. I'm actually kind of enjoying this arrangement, but all good things must come to an end sometimes.

Not looking forward to that moment of just falling asleep and then I hear a massive fart or a snore or he needs to flip over or he gets up to pee...bah.

~4 Month well-visit~

Well they were able to do the stool tests (yay) and they all came back negative (double yay). I suppose she is just going to be one of those kids who has really (and I mean really) smelly poo. Lucky me!

We also went to the Pediatrician on Monday for her 4 mos shots and all the other goodies. She was a champ with the shots and only cried during one of them but that was becasuse it burned a bit. But as soon as she started crying it was over. So that was good. Another thing that was good was she slept like a champ for her naps and slept straight through the night! Although Mommy looked like she had had a breast augmentation in the middle of the night when she woke up. That wasn't any fun.

She currently weighs 14.9 lbs and is 25 inches long; which puts her in the 75-90 percentile for both. I heard a rumor babies weren't supposed to double their birth weight until they were 6 months old; apparently Madelyn did not get that memo.

We also started talking about solids! She has been eating rice cereal with every meal since she was 3 mos old (reflux issues..yadda yadda yadda) and we have gone fro the consistency of melted ice cream to a thick gruel in a month. She takes 5 mL in a syringe, as she is nursed, and then yesterday she took 5mL in the syringe and then another 5mL in a spoon and in her high chair! And it didn't even end up all over her face and bib! What a big girl! We were also instructed to begin giving her oatmeal in a few weeks, however I think I will just wait until all the rice cereal is gone and then start the oatmeal, which will probably be in 1 week, no biggie I think. Then at 6 months we can get her on the yellow veggies. So exciting!

It's really nice to have some good news to report.

~Poop, God, and humdingers..oh my~

So I was finally able to get all those poopie samples back to the lab only to be told that they may be too old for processing. Um, excuse me? I told them I was told by the woman who gave me the vials to hand them all in at once, and since this little girl only poops once per day if I am lucky these days it took a while to get them here. (Insert big drawn out sigh from the tech) Well 'll try and do the tesst on them but I can't give you any guarantees. Oh gee thanks! Oh and why did they give you 5 vials..you should have only had 3. Heh..that's what I thought too. BAH.

We had her baptism the weekend of Thanksgiving and it went swimmingly well. She behaved like a perfect lady in church, a little squirmy but hey..she's a baby! The food was catered and was just delicious, although an expense I felt we could have done without. The cake was from Modern...mmm...and sadly I could not partake in the devouring of it as it was filled with all things dairy. Alas. The little lady recieved some wonderful gifts as well as a nice fat share of Disney stock..woohoo! I told Scott that we'll have to visit Disney often to check on the progress, stability and standing of her holding.

So speaking of dairy I thought I'd do a little experiment to see what was causing the puking..soy or dairy..and what a way to go out than to eat a slice of that yummy cake. HA! At the next feeding she was puking up a storm..poor lady..so now I know the culprit, and it seems going dairy free with the Pepcid is making a huge difference. Slowly it is going away again as it takes a bit for it to work its way through her system.

Tree went up as well as some new outside lights on out hedges.

Went to see Santa Claus this past weekend as well. She did absurdly well. No tears, fits or pukes!

First significant snow today too. Can't wait to bundle her up in her new snowsuit and take her out in it for a bit. Going to be fun to see her touch it for the first time..I'm chuckling thinking about it although it stinks Scott won't be home for the experience.

And lastly, the humdinger finally made its appearance. Blah...