Height:
Weight: 12.2 lbs
FIVE MONTHS! Five. That's almost six months and six months is half of her turning 1 soooo I pretty much have a toddler on my hands. Haha. Dramatic? But seriously though. She's growing so incredibly fast and I can't seem to take in every little moment.
I keep telling myself to ENJOY motherhood. Truly enjoy it. We've had a rough start but I'm trying to get better by remembering that life will work out how it's supposed to. Scottie will have troubles, I will have troubles. But I'm doign the best I can and one thing I do know is that I love this girl witha ll my heart.
She's learned so much in the last month.
She discovered her toes and now she eats them! Loves to chew on those funny lookin' toes that her daddy gave to her. The poor girl :)
She loves to hold her bottle! Obsessed actually. When I give it to her she can't get her hands wrapped around it fast enough. I think she's a determined little one and I can tell it's part of her personality. Just like her mama. Speaking of determined. She curls her little knees under her chest and tries to crawl!! I think we're about to have a crawler on our hands soon. And then my life is over. Right? Haha time to baby proof EVERYTHING or more like take all your decorations down. Our house of course, has SO many corners. Cam and I love the modern look and of course comes the corners so our poor child has to deal with the corners. Hopefully she learns quickly and doesn't hurt herself too bad :) Our next house will definitely be a little more child proof. Live and learn.
She loves to smile. She smiles at everyone and it's very easy to get a big gummy smile out of her. Strangers comment on it. I love that about Scottie. She's the happiest little girl even when she's not feeling 100%. Smiley Scottie.
Everyone in Japan would look at Scottie and say "Oh my gosh she's so cute! She looks like a doll!" I think you put her gummy smile, bald head, blue eyes, chubby round face together and there you have it. A cabbage patch doll. We love our baby cabbage patch!
Scottie loves to talk. But these days she likes to talk at 6:00 a.m. A.M.! At first it would frustrate me because it wasn't time to wake up. But then I realized, you know what, she's happy. She's in her bed just playing with her feet and talking talking talking. It's more of a vowel sounding talk v. the cooing. She's learning!
This babe is also ROLLING. Rolling right, left, right, left, right, left, and before I know it. This girl has rolled all the way from the TV room into the kitchen. Silly girl. She knows where she wants to go and gets there. Again. My determined daughter.
We're so happy and love our Scottie.
Dear Scottie girl,
You're growing too fast! Mom is trying to soak in every moment but the days seem to go so quickly and your mom is always stressed that you're not getting enough food, getting enough sleep, comfortable enough, etc. The other day, you thew up, then you pooped in the tub, I cleaned it out, and then you pooped in the tub again! The problems seemed like it they never ending. But then I remembered those days where I longed for you for so long and it made life better. I've wanted you in my life for a really long time. And I never want to take you for granted. I want you to have the perfect, safest, most happiest life. But I know I can't protect you from everything. I want you to be happy. I hope that you pick up the best traits from your mom and your dad and learn from our mistakes. We love you. We want the world for you. Thank you for smiling. Thank you for making me smile! Mom needs that in her life. She needs your gummy smiles and snuggles. It makes her so happy when she can still hold you in her arms and put you to sleep. It will make me sad when the day comes when we move you out of our room. (I know...you're still sleeping next to me because I can't get myself to move you! I'll be too sad.) Keep smiling for me.
XOXO
Mom
Friday, June 2, 2017
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
{ Taking a 4 Month Old To Japan }
We took Scottie to Japan! It was the
craziest, but we survived. I think I stressed out about the travel and flight
over to Japan probably a week before it all went down. My milk supply shot
down...surprise surprise...and I was an absolute stress case. Traveling
international is hard as it is.
Add a four month old to the mix! I had to
make sure I had every little thing for her. Just in case she needed something.
In case she got sick, had gas, got a rash, was cold, was warm, three blankets
of course--it felt like half of our bag was just for Scottie.
I brought the dockatot on the plane and
that SAVED MY LIFE! It was the best thing ever because we had a seat between us
on every single flight. I wonder if they did it that way because they know we
have a baby and no one wants to sit by a rvyign baby? Haha either way. Stoked.
We were able to put the dockatot between us on the seat and let Scottie sleep.
She did awesome on our 12 hr flight! We
even had a lady come up to us and say "you had a baby with you?! I didn't
even hear her". Scottie didn't make a peep. She actually talked quite a
bit but there's so much white noise from the plane you couldn't really hear
her.
Once we got to Japan, we. Were.
Exhausted! I felt so disgusting after 18+ hrs of travel so I had to take a
bath. I brought Scottie with me and she screamed like I've never heard before.
I don't blame her. It was the longest day ever and then I'm dowsing her with
water?! Poor girl. I couldn't not let her go without a shower though I felt
like she had been laid down on every airport floor (even tho she was on a
diaper changing mat on a chair).
Airports are just gross, you know?
Scottie slept pretty well over our
vacation too! That's one thing I was concerned about going into the trip. I
knew that this trip wouldn't be a vacation for me because I had a four month
old baby that was going to be jet lagged. Well she surprised us and slept for
majority of the night! Woke up a few times to eat but never wide awake. It was
awesome. (Coming home was a different story. VERY opposite. She would be up
until 4 am jusybwide awake and chgaytjng and moving around and playing with her
toes. Dang girl. She took a week to get over that jet lag coming back.)
It was so fun seeing ojiichan and
obaachan with Scottie. Ojiichan thought she was so cute and still thinks it's
hilarious that her name is Scottie. There's a tissue brand in Japan called
Scottie and my ojiichan has boxes everywhere in his house. Kinda funny.
Scotties everywhere! He loved playing with her and Scottie would smile and
laugh back. It was the best.
This trip was mainly to spend time with
family and that was just about my favorite thing ever! My family in Japan has
always meant so much to me. I've always regretted not being able to speak
Japanese and have a relationship with them.
SO. Cam did something crazy. We'd always
talked about how cool it would be if he were to transfer to the Tokyo Goldman
Sachs office. Well. Since we were traveling over there anyways, he thought why
not. He setup several meetings with high up VP's to introduce himself and talk
about the possibility of transferring to the Tokyo office.
Things are happening!
Cam met with so many VP's that were
excited and positive about the possibility, however, they got back to him once
we got back to the states and told him that there's not much available right
now. But that doesn't mean that there won't be an opening in the future. It's
hard to wrap my brain around the thought, but what an amazing adventure it
would be! To pick up and go to Japan. Live in the city, just me, Cam, and
Scottie girl. It's scary to think that it could happen still because I'm a
planner. I like to know. I like to color code my calendar...yes. I do that. I
like to know when things are happening and on a note where we're talking about
planning. My next baby. Would I get pregnant and deliver my second baby in
Japan? It scares me to think they could come to us and say....ok guys! Here's a
position. Now see you in a few weeks.
WHAAAAT.
It's hard to live day to day thinking
this may happen. So what I've decided is that I need to continue to live my
life normally and keep this idea in the back of my head. Tucked away, but also
readily available if it happens.
It would be a
dream but a scary dream come true I think. Why does it scare me? Well. It would
be me and Scottie alone in the tiny apartment. I won't have friends. I won;t
have family. I won't have my community. BUT again, I've always regretted not
learning Japanese and this would be my chance. Every time I think about my
regret, it makes me cry. I cry because it's important to me. It's a huge part
of my life and yet I don't know the language well enough to know my mom's
family well.This would allow me to finally be able to truly tell my Ojiichan
how I feel about him and his love. He's the most selfless, humble, happy man
and I always want to thank him for everything he's done for us. My mom said
when we left the train station this trip, he started to cry because he was so
happy to have us all together. It makes me so sad to wave goodbye to him from
the Tahara train station.I love him and his example he's set for his posterity.
Not a day goes by that I miss him! He's continuing to see Obaachan at her
elderly home and it is such an example of true love. They're the best and I
always pray they are happy and healthy.We ate lots of delicious food in Japan!
Cam and I tend to do that...haha we sound like little piggies. We look forward
to meals when we travel. We're foodies alright?! I mean the food in Japan is
just so incredible, we eat at the gas station half the time. I made sure to get
enough Melon Soda while I saw there.It was so fun to have the entiiiiiire
family there. Mom, dad, Sachi, Mari, DJ, Airi, Misa, Tanner, Oliver, Me, Cam,
Scottie. Phew. Just typing that made me tired! Haha what an adventure it was.
Babies. Crying. Laughing. Lots of people in a tiny house. And when I say a tiny
house, it's a HUGE house in Japan.
All in all it
was so great to have all the siblings together and we enjoyed talking and
spending quality time together.We were in ofuro's about 1/2 of the trip. Haha I
asked Cam, why are we not taking more pictures? And then I realized...well,
we're naked and in bath's half the time! It truly was an ofuro almost every day
it felt like. It was so amazing though. It truly feels like you're at a spa and
for SO much cheaper than it would be for a spa day in the US. They're so
relaxing and Scottie LLOVED it. She would just sit on my lap and looked like
she was in heaven.I'll always want to visit Japan and hope that I can take all
of my kids to Japan one day. The Melon soda, Katsu, DisneySea, Ofuro's, Candy,
Family mart karage. All of it.
Until next
time,
KRR
{ Her First Meal }
Today I gave Scottie her first taste of real food! Can you call it real food? Haha her face definitely showed how she was feeling.
I've been trying to feed her rice cereal for a week now. Every time I try, she looks at me like, "What in the world did you just put in my mouth." So I thought, ok why not try it. I tried it and it. was. AWFUL! How can we make babies eat this stuff?!
So, I decided ok. Well maybe she'll eat it if I mix in some flavor. I bought these pureed organic apple, oranges, and carrots mixes that I squirted into her rice cereal.
She ate it!
Still a little confused with the spoon, but she definitely ate more of it than usual. She gave me a great big smile at the end so I'm thinking we have a winner. Dr. Hansen told me to do veggies before fruit so that they don't just eat the sweet stuff. I figured it had carrots in it, right? I also bought a few sweet potatoes that I'll give a try before I go back to the sweet stuff. I'm so that mom that's going to make her own baby food. I mean, like I said. How can we make our babies eat that rancid stuff?! The canned baby food SMEEEELLLS. SO bad. Poor babies.
Scottie is too funny. She makes me laugh every day and is a dream come true. I think I had a little postpartum depression, which was hard. I think it had to do with several things that has happened since Scottie was born, but still. Depression. I wasn't smiling. But today I am.
I love this girl with all my heart. She's my dream come true and what a lucky mom I am to have such an angel baby. God knew I needed her.
Until next time,
KRR
I've been trying to feed her rice cereal for a week now. Every time I try, she looks at me like, "What in the world did you just put in my mouth." So I thought, ok why not try it. I tried it and it. was. AWFUL! How can we make babies eat this stuff?!
So, I decided ok. Well maybe she'll eat it if I mix in some flavor. I bought these pureed organic apple, oranges, and carrots mixes that I squirted into her rice cereal.
She ate it!
Still a little confused with the spoon, but she definitely ate more of it than usual. She gave me a great big smile at the end so I'm thinking we have a winner. Dr. Hansen told me to do veggies before fruit so that they don't just eat the sweet stuff. I figured it had carrots in it, right? I also bought a few sweet potatoes that I'll give a try before I go back to the sweet stuff. I'm so that mom that's going to make her own baby food. I mean, like I said. How can we make our babies eat that rancid stuff?! The canned baby food SMEEEELLLS. SO bad. Poor babies.
Scottie is too funny. She makes me laugh every day and is a dream come true. I think I had a little postpartum depression, which was hard. I think it had to do with several things that has happened since Scottie was born, but still. Depression. I wasn't smiling. But today I am.
I love this girl with all my heart. She's my dream come true and what a lucky mom I am to have such an angel baby. God knew I needed her.
Until next time,
KRR
{ Postpartum Life }
I want to write about this because I think it's important. Not many women talk about their postpartum experience and I think more than ever it needs to be talked about. Not once did someone warn me that recovery let alone everything that encompasses postpartum would be the hardest part about having a baby.
I knew it was real. I knew people struggled. But I didn't know how hard it was.
There has been a lot of different things that have happened in my life since Scottie was born that have triggered some deep emotions. I think that combined with motherhood, have sent me down a path of depression. It's weird to even type it out because not once did I think I would ever suffer from depression. I was sad at times, yes, I cried at times, yes. But never did I think depressed.
Cam and I talked about it the other day and he pointed out that I'm not happy. I'm not smiling, never laugh anymore. I thought "ok well yeah I've had some things happen in my life but I'm not depressed." It took me a drive in the car to really realize that he was absolutely right. I thought about the past four months of my life. I've had one of the most miraculous happiest moments of my life, delivering my baby girl. Why would I be depressed when this is all I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom?
I decided I need to blog about it. I've said this before and I'll say it again--I blog to organize my thoughts. To better understand who I am and what makes me, me. I also hope that one day, these experiences that I go through, may help one of my kids, grandkids, grandkids kids, etc.
Being a mom is the best thing I've ever experienced. It's so amazing how much love I feel for my little Scottie. I never thought I could love a little human so much. I love seeing her learn new things and grow everyday. I want to protect her from all evil and want her to become a beautiful, kind, caring, woman one day. I have so many hopes and dreams for her.
So what's my deal? Why am I depressed?
One big piece of motherhood. Feeding your baby. Since Scottie got RSV, my milk supply tanked and has never been the same making it hard for Scottie to nurse. She gets so frustrated because my supply isn't where it should be. She gets frustrated and that makes me frustrated and we both turn into mean people. For a long time, I didn't want to go to bottles. I wanted to feed my daughter. I wanted to give her that nutrients and that was our bonding time. So many people love Scottie and want to spend time with her which I appreciate! I felt like for the first month of her life, she was in someone else's arms. I'm not complaining. I just wanted to have that with her and since my supply dropped, I wasn't able to successfully do so. I spent February-April power pumping, taking fenugreek, reading every breastfeeding article I could to get my milk supply up. Just last week, we went to Japan and my milk supply completely tanked from stress of traveling and no access to my pump. In Japan, I had no choice but to give her formula (plus some of Misa's boobie milk...haha I know. I'm telling you! It turns me into a crazy person.) and bottles. I finally came to terms on that trip that it was OK that I was doing that.
It's better that I'm FEEDING my baby and that she gets food. That's all that matters. I came to terms and decided ok, I'm going to pump and give her breastmilk in bottles and I felt good about that. Night times were easy because Scottie would feed from me since she was so tired and out of it she would just nurse no problem. Come day time, she wanted it quick and fast and that meant a bottle. Since power pumping in Japan, I was able to get my supply up and the last few days I was able to nurse her successfully! I have to start my let down because my let down has always taken 400 years to start. But I decided, I need to pick my battles.
Lately, that is what I've been doing and it has been pretty successful thus far. I want to be able to nurse Scottie for at least a year, but based on my history, I'm making small goals. I made a goal to nurse till 4 months. Hit that. Now I'm currently trying to nurse till 6 months and we'll see what happens then.
I'm realizing that this postpartum life needs to be compiled of small wins. Scottie may wake up several times a night. She may sleep and only wake up twice a night. I had her on this awesome schedule before Japan, but now that we're jet lagged, she's getting up 6x a night SCREAMING at the top of her lungs (I think she's going through a sleep regression?) and 4x a night by just wiggling around. This leaves me with 2-3 hrs of uninterupted sleep for an entire night and we're back to survival mode.
Survival mode. I think this is my third time in 4.5 months. Once when Scottie was born, again when she had RSV, and now getting over jet lag.
It's hard!
So hard. I am not a nice person when I don't get sleep so again, small wins.
I've lost myself in taking care of Scottie which I've ALWAYS wanted to do! I've always wanted to be a mom and that's it. What I didn't realize is that leaving a high profile career behind would be harder than expected. I went from a Regional Director to a Coordinator. Never would I ever think that would bother me. But it did. It affected me more than I had planned and wanted.
There's something about being successful in a workplace and having your co-workers know who you are and the work that you do. I missed that. A lot. SO I decided to go back to work part-time as a Coordinator so that I can be at home with Scottie and also get some portion of that.
It's different because my responsibilities aren't nearly as rewarding, stressful, hard, etc. But it's working for now. I get to do some adult work, and spend time with baby.
Lastly, and most importantly. Cam has told me that he no longer has a testimony in the Mormon church. This of all things has been the hardest, most emotional, scariest, heart wrenching news of all. I love him so. I don't know what my emotions are about it entirely, but I know that it's hard. And that's ok. I felt bad for the longest time (still sometimes do) that I didn't respond as positively as everyone else around us did. I promised Cam when we got married that I would love him no matter what. This is loving him no matter what. It's going to be a difficult and lonely journey at times, but I'm choosing to do it because I'm choosing him. I think over the next couple years I'll figure it out. For now it's a little confusing but what I know is I love Cam. I love how the gospel makes me feel. I love that it teaches us to be good people. I love the way the temple makes me feel. I love the way I feel when I hear church hymns and primary songs. I love my Scottie girl who was sent from heaven. God knows I need these things. These things are the reasons why I know the gospel is good for me. I may not know everything and may have more questions than I did, but I know those things above are true statements. Cam promised to support me. And I know he will. He's also promised to be an amazing dad. And I know he will. He's already shown his love everyday towards Scottie and that's enough. A person who loves his wife, supports her in her decisions, loves his daughter and would do anything for her. This is Cam's journey. My therapist has helped me realize that. I learned this from a dear friend who passed that this is Cam's journey and I've been wanting him to walk mine. But that's not how it works because second to giving birth, free agency is the biggest blessing that we have. I'm learning and will continue to learn how to grow and have this trial turn into a blessing in my life.
Until next time,
KRR
I knew it was real. I knew people struggled. But I didn't know how hard it was.
There has been a lot of different things that have happened in my life since Scottie was born that have triggered some deep emotions. I think that combined with motherhood, have sent me down a path of depression. It's weird to even type it out because not once did I think I would ever suffer from depression. I was sad at times, yes, I cried at times, yes. But never did I think depressed.
Cam and I talked about it the other day and he pointed out that I'm not happy. I'm not smiling, never laugh anymore. I thought "ok well yeah I've had some things happen in my life but I'm not depressed." It took me a drive in the car to really realize that he was absolutely right. I thought about the past four months of my life. I've had one of the most miraculous happiest moments of my life, delivering my baby girl. Why would I be depressed when this is all I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom?
I decided I need to blog about it. I've said this before and I'll say it again--I blog to organize my thoughts. To better understand who I am and what makes me, me. I also hope that one day, these experiences that I go through, may help one of my kids, grandkids, grandkids kids, etc.
Being a mom is the best thing I've ever experienced. It's so amazing how much love I feel for my little Scottie. I never thought I could love a little human so much. I love seeing her learn new things and grow everyday. I want to protect her from all evil and want her to become a beautiful, kind, caring, woman one day. I have so many hopes and dreams for her.
So what's my deal? Why am I depressed?
One big piece of motherhood. Feeding your baby. Since Scottie got RSV, my milk supply tanked and has never been the same making it hard for Scottie to nurse. She gets so frustrated because my supply isn't where it should be. She gets frustrated and that makes me frustrated and we both turn into mean people. For a long time, I didn't want to go to bottles. I wanted to feed my daughter. I wanted to give her that nutrients and that was our bonding time. So many people love Scottie and want to spend time with her which I appreciate! I felt like for the first month of her life, she was in someone else's arms. I'm not complaining. I just wanted to have that with her and since my supply dropped, I wasn't able to successfully do so. I spent February-April power pumping, taking fenugreek, reading every breastfeeding article I could to get my milk supply up. Just last week, we went to Japan and my milk supply completely tanked from stress of traveling and no access to my pump. In Japan, I had no choice but to give her formula (plus some of Misa's boobie milk...haha I know. I'm telling you! It turns me into a crazy person.) and bottles. I finally came to terms on that trip that it was OK that I was doing that.
It's better that I'm FEEDING my baby and that she gets food. That's all that matters. I came to terms and decided ok, I'm going to pump and give her breastmilk in bottles and I felt good about that. Night times were easy because Scottie would feed from me since she was so tired and out of it she would just nurse no problem. Come day time, she wanted it quick and fast and that meant a bottle. Since power pumping in Japan, I was able to get my supply up and the last few days I was able to nurse her successfully! I have to start my let down because my let down has always taken 400 years to start. But I decided, I need to pick my battles.
Lately, that is what I've been doing and it has been pretty successful thus far. I want to be able to nurse Scottie for at least a year, but based on my history, I'm making small goals. I made a goal to nurse till 4 months. Hit that. Now I'm currently trying to nurse till 6 months and we'll see what happens then.
I'm realizing that this postpartum life needs to be compiled of small wins. Scottie may wake up several times a night. She may sleep and only wake up twice a night. I had her on this awesome schedule before Japan, but now that we're jet lagged, she's getting up 6x a night SCREAMING at the top of her lungs (I think she's going through a sleep regression?) and 4x a night by just wiggling around. This leaves me with 2-3 hrs of uninterupted sleep for an entire night and we're back to survival mode.
Survival mode. I think this is my third time in 4.5 months. Once when Scottie was born, again when she had RSV, and now getting over jet lag.
It's hard!
So hard. I am not a nice person when I don't get sleep so again, small wins.
I've lost myself in taking care of Scottie which I've ALWAYS wanted to do! I've always wanted to be a mom and that's it. What I didn't realize is that leaving a high profile career behind would be harder than expected. I went from a Regional Director to a Coordinator. Never would I ever think that would bother me. But it did. It affected me more than I had planned and wanted.
There's something about being successful in a workplace and having your co-workers know who you are and the work that you do. I missed that. A lot. SO I decided to go back to work part-time as a Coordinator so that I can be at home with Scottie and also get some portion of that.
It's different because my responsibilities aren't nearly as rewarding, stressful, hard, etc. But it's working for now. I get to do some adult work, and spend time with baby.
Lastly, and most importantly. Cam has told me that he no longer has a testimony in the Mormon church. This of all things has been the hardest, most emotional, scariest, heart wrenching news of all. I love him so. I don't know what my emotions are about it entirely, but I know that it's hard. And that's ok. I felt bad for the longest time (still sometimes do) that I didn't respond as positively as everyone else around us did. I promised Cam when we got married that I would love him no matter what. This is loving him no matter what. It's going to be a difficult and lonely journey at times, but I'm choosing to do it because I'm choosing him. I think over the next couple years I'll figure it out. For now it's a little confusing but what I know is I love Cam. I love how the gospel makes me feel. I love that it teaches us to be good people. I love the way the temple makes me feel. I love the way I feel when I hear church hymns and primary songs. I love my Scottie girl who was sent from heaven. God knows I need these things. These things are the reasons why I know the gospel is good for me. I may not know everything and may have more questions than I did, but I know those things above are true statements. Cam promised to support me. And I know he will. He's also promised to be an amazing dad. And I know he will. He's already shown his love everyday towards Scottie and that's enough. A person who loves his wife, supports her in her decisions, loves his daughter and would do anything for her. This is Cam's journey. My therapist has helped me realize that. I learned this from a dear friend who passed that this is Cam's journey and I've been wanting him to walk mine. But that's not how it works because second to giving birth, free agency is the biggest blessing that we have. I'm learning and will continue to learn how to grow and have this trial turn into a blessing in my life.
Until next time,
KRR
Thursday, May 11, 2017
{ Sickie wickie }
Scottie got sick...again! Like are you for real? This week has been really hard trying to keep her hydrated, suctioned, happy...well Scottie truly is always happy. I've been blessed with the happiest, smilie-est baby there ever was. Even when she's feeling as icky as she does now, she's smiling. I love her for that.
It's scary because I'm having major PTSD every time I have to suction her out. The RSV Hospital visit was NO JOKE. We went through a lot. Scottie went through a lot.
The poor girl has been through SO much in just four 1/2 short months of her life. She's truly blessed with strength, I can tell that about her already.
I'm going to start writing letters to her every week. I know. I know. A challenge in itself :) but I hope one day she can read them to truly understand how she's already changed our lives and grown into this beautiful lady. My mother did this when I was a baby and I was able to reflect back and read certain things about myself as a baby. I thought, hey! Scottie does that too. It's funny how genetics and personalities are passed down through generations. I hope I'm benefiting my posterity somehow...giving them some good traits.
Scottie:
Sweet girl! I'm so sorry that you got sick again. Mom feels really bad and cried in Japan when she heard your nose get congested...it reminded her of the scary five day hospital stay when you got RSV. Scottie I love you so much! Even when you're feeling sick, you still smile. It makes mom happy to know you're happy. I do everything for you. I worry about you. Mom and dad pray for your strength and health always. Keep smiling for us. You're growing like crazy. You're already tucking your knees under your belly trying to crawl! You crazy girl.
XOXO
It's scary because I'm having major PTSD every time I have to suction her out. The RSV Hospital visit was NO JOKE. We went through a lot. Scottie went through a lot.
The poor girl has been through SO much in just four 1/2 short months of her life. She's truly blessed with strength, I can tell that about her already.
I'm going to start writing letters to her every week. I know. I know. A challenge in itself :) but I hope one day she can read them to truly understand how she's already changed our lives and grown into this beautiful lady. My mother did this when I was a baby and I was able to reflect back and read certain things about myself as a baby. I thought, hey! Scottie does that too. It's funny how genetics and personalities are passed down through generations. I hope I'm benefiting my posterity somehow...giving them some good traits.
Scottie:
Sweet girl! I'm so sorry that you got sick again. Mom feels really bad and cried in Japan when she heard your nose get congested...it reminded her of the scary five day hospital stay when you got RSV. Scottie I love you so much! Even when you're feeling sick, you still smile. It makes mom happy to know you're happy. I do everything for you. I worry about you. Mom and dad pray for your strength and health always. Keep smiling for us. You're growing like crazy. You're already tucking your knees under your belly trying to crawl! You crazy girl.
XOXO
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
{ Scottie Yuki Ryther | 4 Months }
Height:
Weight: 12 lbs 2 oz
FOUR MONTHS!! Where has time gone. I swear I was just in the hospital having this baby. We're so excited as our Scottie girl has done a lot of development over the past few weeks. One in particular....SHE'S SLEEPING!!! Finally. I put her down at 8:00 p.m or 8:30 p.m and she sleeps until 1:00 a.m. giving me a 5 hr stretch. Sometimes a 6 hr stretch. From then on she wakes up at 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. Sometimes when I'm lucky she skips the 4:00 a.m. feed and that makes me secretly happy :) Getting a couple more zz's in. The doctor gave us the OK to even let her go 8 hrs with her weight gain, but she said her schedule is pretty typical. We are one happy family that Scottie is finally sleeping. My trick = the Dockatot.
Linds let us borrow hers to test it out one night and the very first night, Scottie went from getting up every hour to every two hours to sleeping a four hour stretch! I bought the Dockatot the very next day. Since then, Cam and I have finally felt like we're out of the "no sleep newborn stage" even though she still gets up at night.
Scottie has started to roll. And now she's rolling all. the. time! I put her down on her back and the next thing I know, she's moved a couple feet and is on her belly. She loves to move around and see new things. That's one thing I've always noticed about her, even from a little newborn, she gets bored! So funny how someone so small can already decide how she's feeling about everything.
She eats her hands. She actually eats just about anything you give her. Jenny bought her this awesome baby chew ball that's like super Organic apparently :) She bought it from her Whole Foods store when they were moving locations. She LOVES this ball. It's small so she can grab it really well and it's so fun to see her study that thing. Lots of brain power going on in there.
Scottie still eats every two to three hours :) We've started to get better with breastfeeding since my milk supply dropped. I've been taking Fenugreek every day so I can tell she's getting more milk. Downside, my burps (sorry) taste like maple. I found out that Fenugreek is the herb used for artificial maple.
Scottie in the 10th percentile for weight and 20th for height so she's just a petite thing. She fills out her 0-3 clothes nicely but her 0-3 jammies are still a bit big. I can even squeeze her into her newborn onesies sometimes :)
She coos and GIGGLES! It's the best thing ever. Linds and I went shopping the other day and were nursing in the Nordstrom Mother's Lounge. We put her and Lola together and Scottie just DIED she thought Lola was so funny. She was just giggling for minutes it was too cute.
Cam keeps calling her Booger.
We're taking off to Japan tomorrow and have to get up at 3:00 a.m. to get to the airport for our flight. Hopefully she does well as a 4 month old. Wish us luck!
We love our Scottie girl.
Until next time,
KRR
Weight: 12 lbs 2 oz
FOUR MONTHS!! Where has time gone. I swear I was just in the hospital having this baby. We're so excited as our Scottie girl has done a lot of development over the past few weeks. One in particular....SHE'S SLEEPING!!! Finally. I put her down at 8:00 p.m or 8:30 p.m and she sleeps until 1:00 a.m. giving me a 5 hr stretch. Sometimes a 6 hr stretch. From then on she wakes up at 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. Sometimes when I'm lucky she skips the 4:00 a.m. feed and that makes me secretly happy :) Getting a couple more zz's in. The doctor gave us the OK to even let her go 8 hrs with her weight gain, but she said her schedule is pretty typical. We are one happy family that Scottie is finally sleeping. My trick = the Dockatot.
Linds let us borrow hers to test it out one night and the very first night, Scottie went from getting up every hour to every two hours to sleeping a four hour stretch! I bought the Dockatot the very next day. Since then, Cam and I have finally felt like we're out of the "no sleep newborn stage" even though she still gets up at night.
Scottie has started to roll. And now she's rolling all. the. time! I put her down on her back and the next thing I know, she's moved a couple feet and is on her belly. She loves to move around and see new things. That's one thing I've always noticed about her, even from a little newborn, she gets bored! So funny how someone so small can already decide how she's feeling about everything.
She eats her hands. She actually eats just about anything you give her. Jenny bought her this awesome baby chew ball that's like super Organic apparently :) She bought it from her Whole Foods store when they were moving locations. She LOVES this ball. It's small so she can grab it really well and it's so fun to see her study that thing. Lots of brain power going on in there.
Scottie still eats every two to three hours :) We've started to get better with breastfeeding since my milk supply dropped. I've been taking Fenugreek every day so I can tell she's getting more milk. Downside, my burps (sorry) taste like maple. I found out that Fenugreek is the herb used for artificial maple.
Scottie in the 10th percentile for weight and 20th for height so she's just a petite thing. She fills out her 0-3 clothes nicely but her 0-3 jammies are still a bit big. I can even squeeze her into her newborn onesies sometimes :)
She coos and GIGGLES! It's the best thing ever. Linds and I went shopping the other day and were nursing in the Nordstrom Mother's Lounge. We put her and Lola together and Scottie just DIED she thought Lola was so funny. She was just giggling for minutes it was too cute.
Cam keeps calling her Booger.
We're taking off to Japan tomorrow and have to get up at 3:00 a.m. to get to the airport for our flight. Hopefully she does well as a 4 month old. Wish us luck!
We love our Scottie girl.
Until next time,
KRR
Saturday, April 1, 2017
{ Scottie Yuki Ryther | 3 Months }
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Weight:
Our little Scottie is growing so big and strong! We're so proud of her for coming out on top of her RSV awfulness. She's starting to talk to mom and dad, a lot! She's starting to eat her hands and put everything she can in her mouth.
Scottie is a little stinker and doesn't sleep much which means I don't sleep much. She goes to sleep around 8:30 p.m. and lasts until 10:00 p.m. or 1:00 a.m. and then is up every two hours. Scottie is starting to eat a lot and I can't keep up! To help her grow, I'm power pumping to get more milk for her.
She loves sleeping in the car. Loves sleeping when someone is holding her.
Scottie's neck is getting nice and strong and she's starting to hold her head up! It's a little wobbly still, but she loves to sit on my knees and tries to look into your eyes. Her head is still heavy for her so she just looks down :)
We love our Scottie girl!
Until next time,
KRR
Weight:
Our little Scottie is growing so big and strong! We're so proud of her for coming out on top of her RSV awfulness. She's starting to talk to mom and dad, a lot! She's starting to eat her hands and put everything she can in her mouth.
Scottie is a little stinker and doesn't sleep much which means I don't sleep much. She goes to sleep around 8:30 p.m. and lasts until 10:00 p.m. or 1:00 a.m. and then is up every two hours. Scottie is starting to eat a lot and I can't keep up! To help her grow, I'm power pumping to get more milk for her.
She loves sleeping in the car. Loves sleeping when someone is holding her.
Scottie's neck is getting nice and strong and she's starting to hold her head up! It's a little wobbly still, but she loves to sit on my knees and tries to look into your eyes. Her head is still heavy for her so she just looks down :)
We love our Scottie girl!
Until next time,
KRR
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