Where did the time go??

Two weeks from today, my baby girl will be turning one. She will be making the leap from infant to toddler. She is walking now, sort of. A good few steps then plops on her tush. Lilian now has 9 teeth. She's so long now too. She still rides around in her infant car seat (mostly for lack of money of buying a new, convertible/forward facing one...but hey, they can hold babies up to 30lbs and Lili's only 20something) and her feet hang over the edge. But it's safer for her to be rear-faced for a bit longer. So the next step is to get a convertible seat (so she can still be rear-facing until I feel comfortable to turn her around), preferably one of each car, but again, money's tight and they are a bit spendy. Maybe I can find cute ones on craigslist or something. Anyway, Halloween is right around the corner, and she will be TinkerBell. :) Then just 5 days after that she turns 1!! Her party will be the day after on Friday. She's already opened two presents from a friend since he can't really come to the party. Lili had never opened any presents before so she didn't really know what to do, but she loves tearing paper so once we start opening presents at her party I'm sure she'll be a pro. :) Well that's it for now, I will probably come back on Halloween and put a few pics up here. If I forget, check my myspace. :)

Well teething just blows.

4 teeth, MAYBE a 5th one....all at once. Not just poor baby, but poor Mommy and Daddy. I discovered this morning Lilian has cut 2 teeth on top and 2 on bottom and I THINK maybe another one on the bottom is trying to come through. She doesn't like my fingers in her mouth so I only get keep feels. Let me tell you, normally the infant Tylenol helps, but not today. No matter what I did, she wasn't happy. I got some peace when Adam and Kelly took her out with them, but she wasn't good for them either. Then they came home and Adam ran out real quick and she wasn't happy still. I think about 90% of the day she was screaming and crying for one reason or another.

I think another part of her grumpiness comes from the weaning. She hasn't had any bottles for like 3 days. I feel bad. It feels kind of like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...then one with Johnny Depp, where Willy's dad never lets him have candy even though he wants it so bad. It's not like she can ask me for it, but I just know that if I were to give her a bottle of something, she would go into a frenzy just reaching for it. Oh parenting, it's such a bitter sweet thing.

So it snowed today too. Not too much. Didn't stick to the ground, but it did to roof tops and cars. We took Lili and Apollo out in it. :)


Then we went inside and had some hot chocolate. Well Lili's was just luke warm of course. :)

Weaning.

So Adam and I have decided to start weaning Lilian off her bottles. We decided this last night, mostly because she's out of formula and we don't have any money to get any right now. :( BUT she's supposed to be off the bottle at 12 months anyway, and just turned 11 months yesterday. So today is day one of no bottles. She's been using sippy cups since about 6 months for juice and what not so she knows she can drink out of those. I guess really the only downfall on this part is for Adam and me. She likes to wake up in the mornings between 6 and 8. We are not morning people so normally I would get up, make her a bottle and give it to her and leave her in her crib...she would drink and play for a bit and then fall back asleep til about 10 or so. Now I get to get up whenever she gets me up. This morning it was at....oh man I don't even remember now...0730 or 0800 (sorry for the military time, but not only do I hear it from Adam, but that's how we record time in charts for patients so I'm practicing).

So that's that. She's almost walking now too. She can make the small gaps between furniture that she can't just reach for then guide herself, so very soon will she be running all over the place.

The update.

So as promised, here is the update. I'm super tired so there wont be any pictures, my myspace has all the recent ones anyway so go look there. :)

So Adam got home, homecoming was emotional of course, but the best thing ever. It's taking Lili a while to get used to Adam, but she's finally starting to warm up to him more. It's mostly when I leave her alone with him now, but I keep telling him that's the only way for her to learn.

Lili is getting soooooooooooooooo big, it's insane. She'll be 11 months in 3 days. ALREADY! Where has the time gone?? I've already set her birthday party date for the day after her birthday. Since her birthday is on a Thursday. Sadly, she doesn't have any kiddo friends to come play with her. I really hate that. I want her to experience other babies and kids, but without her being in daycare right now, it's almost impossible since we are the only ones out of our friends while a child. We found out daycare on post is much cheaper than we thought so once I get a job, we might put her there if we can afford it.

I started my CNA classes. It's so different but yet almost the exact same as my MA classes I took before. The MA stuff is more hands on, which is what I like, but I'm taking phlebotomy next term so I'll be good to go then. I go to clinicals sometime this month and should be ready to go to boards in November/December to be certified and ready to work. I had to get a few shots today for that. Since I don't have my shot record and I highly doubt my parents know where it is between all the different physicians and moving throughout my childhood. So I just said, titer what I should be vaccinated against (titers are blood tests to see if you are immune to something...I got titered for Verecella[chickenpox] and MMR[measles, mumps and rubella]) yesterday. Then because the STUPID army hospital immunization clinic don't give out shots on Thursdays, I had to go back today. I got my TB test in my left forearm, my Flu and Hep B shot in my left shoulder and then my Tetnus in my right shoulder. Yea it's not fun. Especially that Tetnus, I wasn't feeling it earlier, but let me tell you, I feel it now.

Adam is still on his 30 days of leave. We went to VA for a week to see his family. Not so much fun. Especially driving to Currie, NC to see his grandpa. Currie is one of those hillbilly towns where your entire street is made up of your family and you marry your cousin. Thank God it was only for a night. Lilian did very well on the planes. She was up the whole time on the way there and just sort of played in our seats. Then I decided that I was going to keep her awake all day when we left so she'd sleep on the flights. Yea, didn't work out as well as planned. She was so tired by that time she was too fussy to sleep. It took us a while, and many trips walking up and down the aisles to get her to sleep but we did it. She woke up on our layover and then crashed as soon as we sat in our next seat. The flights were miserable as it was. We flew home during that BIG storm over Texas. And where was our layover?? Houston. First our plane was late leaving Houston because of it....and then the crew thought that it had been struck by lightning so we couldn't get on when it got there, we had to wait for maintenance (which is based in Richmond, two hours away from Norfolk where we were) to get there. They had called them during the flight so we didn't need to wait two hours after it landed but it still took them a while to get there. Then they had to check it out. It would have been so much easier and reassuring to us passengers to get a new plane. But whatever. It was good to go and we started boarding 1 1/2 h ours AFTER we were supposed to take off. We got to Houston with 10 minutes to get to our next gate. Thankfully, they called the gate and told them to wait. But I was so worried that our luggage wasn't going to make it on that plane. I had a 10 minute layover once before and my luggage didn't make it with me to my destination, but like 6 hours later. And we had checked Lili's carseat with our suitcases so I was on the verge of a freak out because we had no way to get her home without it. But, the night ended well with our luggage being there when we landed. :)

So yea, I think that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Oh yea, we got a new puppy. He's a Shiba Inu born on July 25th (way too tired to do the math lol). His name is Apollo. He's freaking adorable. :D

I told you I'm bad at updating these things.

Sorry I've been slacking. It's been busy and my computer was broken for like 2 weeks. Anyway, I will have a long update later. When I have time to sit down and write one. And add a few pics. :) But for now, I get to go get some vaccines and find the place to go pee in a cup for my CNA clinical classes. :)