12 Months!!!

As the bottom picture shows, R2D2 is beyond excited to be finished with her basket photos!  I can't believe our baby girl is one year old now.  It's been a great year.  We survived parenthood and finishing my last year of residency.  I am so grateful to my parents, Joe's mom, friends, and all who have helped us survive this past year.

Baby girl loves to play and I love watching her learn and figure things out on her own.  I think we're back to baths as her favorite activity.  This girl loves splashing water and we have to make sure Winston's water bowl is up or else she'll play away.  She doesn't like the ocean or big pools yet though.

At her one year check up she weighed 23 pounds (89%) and was 29.5" long (63%).  Well, I guess I no longer have to worry about failure to thrive in this little one.  Now that we have reached a year, I'm going to cut back on breastfeeding.  I'll see how long we want to continue morning and night feedings, but I'm going to stop pumping once I go back to work.  Fortunately she has no problem taking whole milk, and I still have some frozen breast milk we'll use.

In terms of clothes, she's hover between 12 month and 18 month sizes.  She still hates shoes and socks.

And, she's walking!!!  She's slowly started to walk more instead of crawling, but she can crawl faster than walking for now.

We're trying to figure out if she knows mama and dada specifically yet.  I think she knows hi too.  She will always say mama and dada, but sometimes she still says dada when looking at me, but other times she'll keep saying dada until Joe says hi to her.

10 and 11 Months!!!

 Look at my little ham at 10 months old!!

Now above at 11 months old!!

I love being a momma.  Baby girl however, loves every thing I do, so I find my self only being able to get on the lap top after she's gone to bed.  By the time I'm finished checking my email, I don't have time for blogging.  That's ok, I'd much rather be with my family.

As a bonus, today was my last day of residency!!

But back to R2D2.  She loves getting into everything!  Around 10 months, her favorite toy was stacking rings.  Now a days, her favorite toy is playing with stacking cups.  She also loves anything with music.  She'll dance to anything, but she really starts rocking to music from the 60's and 70's.

Baby girl is cruising along.  I keep thinking she'll take her first steps any day now, but that's been my thought for 4 weeks now...  She gets around so quickly crawling that I don't think she's in any rush to walk.

She's finally sleeping through the night!!!  She wakes up anywhere between 5-6am, but I'm still able to get several consecutive hours, so that's great!  Perhaps we'll be able to get her bed time to 7:30-8p and then she'll sleep a little longer...we'll see.

I'm happy to say I'm going to meet my goal of breastfeeding for a year.  Other than momma's milk, she loves basically all foods!

I weighed her on our scale last week and she's about 23 pounds!  To think I was worried about her being underweight.  I'm hoping this weight gain slows down...

In terms of my weight, yeah, I'm not quite back to pre-pregnancy weight yet.  I'm about 5 pounds above pre-pregnancy weight, but I'm ok with that.  I need to get back on cutting out desserts and sugars, but I'm not going to go crazy.  Now that residency is over I'm kicking up my working out and if I lose weight with that, great, if not, as long as I start get to more toned again, I'm good with that.

R2D2's eyes are still blue, I think it's safe to say she's our blonde haired, blue-eyed babe!

Coming to an end!

I have two days if residency left!!!

Hobbies such as blogging have taken a back burner while I try to be present with the family. I'm ok with that. I've taken photos of R2D2 at 10 and 11 months. It's ok that I haven't edited them or posted. She much prefers to blow raspberry kisses and use me as her humans jungle gym. 

My First Mother's Day

I'm so happy I was able to spend the day with baby girl and my mom!  With Mom's diagnosis of breast cancer, it's been a tough couple of months for her, yet she continues to be there for me. I hope when the day comes, I can help baby girl as much as she helps me!

Flight Behavior

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the narration was wonderful! Kingsolver explores global warming while weaving a story of love and finding one's self. When I picked up this book I didn't know one of the main characters was the monarch butterflies, but since I love anything butterflies, that was an added bonus! I'm a scientist at heart, so learning more about the monarch butterflies definitely appealed to me.

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9 Months!

So if you haven't picked up by my paucity of posts, life is a little busy.  I'm reaching the end of residency, getting things set to start a new job, and trying to be a good mom and wife.  So, in an effort to try to keep myself sane and spend time with my family, blogging has been placed on the back burner.

R2D2 is now closer to 10 months old than 9 months, but oh well.  Her pictures are from 9 months at least. 

I can't believe I was once worried about baby girl's weight being too low.  At her 9 month check up, R2D2 weighed 20 pounds, 8 ounces (83%) and was 28 inches (61%) long!!  She fits in a few 9 month clothes, but she's pretty much sporting the 12 month size.

In terms of eating, I'm still breast feeding :)  I love the bond we have and I'm debating if I want to keep up morning and night feeds even after a year of age.  I plan to stop pumping when she's one, i

f not earlier pending my freezer stash.  Unfortunately, I know part of why neck and shoulders hurt is from carrying my pump around every day.  R2D2 is up to about 3 meals a day.  She prefers

to feed herself, Daddy prefers if we feed her (only because she makes a huge mess).  We're letting her try a bunch of things.  She still loves yogurt.

During her 9th month, her favorite thing was probably crawling to try to "pet" Winston or playing with her little tea set.

Sleep was going well, but not now that she's over 9 months, but I'll save that for the ten month post.  For the most part, she was sleeping through the night, even if that meant waking at 4:30 sometimes.

Baby girl still loves to talk.  She clearing saying ba ba ba and using inflections.  And I don't want to jinx anything, but I think the blue eyes are here to stay!

Burnt Out

I feel like there is so much I want to do, but I either don't have the time or the motivation to do it. Honestly, I think I just need to just catch up on sleep. I feel the bank is depleted in that department. Tomorrow is hopefully my last 24 hour shift ever!!