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yeah that’s right my life revolves around the kid and i have absolutely nothing else to talk about but the kid. today i decided to take a couple people’s advice (including the pediatrician) and start a bedtime routine to try to get her to sleep longer during the night eventually.

the routine consisted of a bath at 7pm which she just hated and then feeding, and then sleep in dark quiet room. by 8pm she was asleep and she slept for 4 hours. it was great. she woke up again couple hours ago, got fed and now is sleeping again. i wonder how long she’ll sleep this time. for the last couple of weeks she had been sleeping on the kick and play in the living room w/ lights on and tv running. I had given up on trying to lay down to sleep in my bed because she’s always wake up just as i was getting comfy. maybe being consistent like this will eventually pay off?

you’d think i’d take advantage of this and sleep in my bed, eh? well it’s nice to finally be able to play on my puter. i have birth announcement cards to create soon or i’ll be sending out pictures of a 3 month old! :-O

we went to babies’r'us to exchange diapers but when we got to target we had to call it quits after 15 minutes and head home. it was just too hot in that store and she just doesn’t like to be hot. but it’s a start i guess. i guess going out on a couple errands gives me a sense of normalcy. i just don’t get out much these days.. which i can cope with since i’m such a homebody anyway but it was nice to get out for a little while.

for my shower at work, my coworkers got the baby a kick n’ play bouncer seat among other things. we’ve been getting lots of use out of it these days. it vibrates, and plays music with lights flashing and the whole nine yards. she’s gotten so difficult lately that sometimes it’s the only thing she will sleep in soundly.

well, i just love the tunes it plays. .. more than her, i think. god, i’m a dork! she had been fussing since 4pm and i finally got her to go to sleep…. on the bouncer. jeez. i have everything going on it, vibration, music, flashing lights. she’s been asleep on it for 50 minutes but i keep playing the music over and over. i really like it. i wonder if this means i’ll also like barney and friends and all that crap too when the time comes. this is bad.. LOL!

yep, she’s gone from sleeping 3 to 4 hours at a time to sleeping 1 hour at a time. she’s constantly up and wanting to eat. i can’t get ANYTHING done. not even eat!

jada woke up when dennis came home at 1 am. she’s developing one hell of a tempter this little girl and really won’t have anything to do with anything as long as she’s hungry. she stiffens up her whole body and legs and cry till her face swells up and turn bright red. waiting 2 minutes for mom to get things situated is just FAR too long a wait for her! well she got fed, peed all over herself AGAIN during a diaper change, got a change of clean clothes (second one today) and put back to bed into the bassinet in the living room to sleep. i decided to stay out here and sleep on the couch until she woke up again for fear that the move to the bedroom would wake her up again. well i turned the lights off out here at 4?.. and i haven’t been able to sleep on the couch at all. sooo… i’m up, yawning up a storm and staring at the walls in the dark so surfing sounded like a better alternative. i’m going to be dead tomorrow. i wonder when she’s going to wake up again… it’s been 4… now going on 5 hours since the last time she woke up. :/ she loves to scare the shit out of me by making sounds like she’s choking on stuff. …just like she is now… it really sounds like she’s choking on something, but she’s not. she’s gonna make me go grey. lol

i pumped for the first time yesterday. just as a test really. i wanted to see if jada would eat out of a bottle. first off let me say pumping made me feel more like a cow than the 37 pounds i put on during the pregnancy. :-O it’s the oddest thing i’ll ever do to myself i think. well jada made all kinds of “something smells like shit around here” faces and probably only drank half from the bottle over a couple hours of coaxing. we’ll have to try again in a few days.

today is first day of many (i hope) of being on a halfway descent schedule. i slept most of the night hours and got up at 11:30. not perfect, but getting there. at least i have something that resembles energy now and not at 4am like usual. so i’m doing more laundry and just got done vacuuming the dog hair of off one of our couches. jada’s asleep of course. wouldn’t be able to get anything done otherwise. it’s a start.

the battle with the dog hair is not over. all 3 dogs were shaved over the last 2 months, but scully and bullet have grown it all back already so they need another shave. tela was shaved couple weeks ago. but still needs a bath. in fact, all 3 stink like hell and despite the shave tela is still shedding like hell. not as noticable but the hair is still accumulating in corners and getting on clothing. she must have jumped on our bed when we weren’t looking too cuz it’s all over that. not good when you put clean clothes on your baby only to find dog hair all over her 10 minutes later. sooooo, i’m going to make dennis bathe her this weekend, brush her too and I’ll shave the other 2 in a few days. i need to order a new clipper attachment to the dog clippers and give tela a closer shave too. she looks awesome all shaved. really really sleek look.

anyways. i’ve got less than 7 weeks left in my leave. sounds like a long time but i think it will fly by in a blurr much like the first 3 weeks have. where did the time go?