Dianthe’s Blog

it’s 12:15am – and for once, Sydney went to sleep before midnight – i have been trying to write this blog for almost 2 weeks – and i promised myself that i would write one today come hell or high water – but there are never enough hours in the day – Sydney had her 4 month appointment today – then i had a few errands to run – by the time we got home, Sydney was wide awake – and fortunately, she was in a really good mood – so we played for a while and then she ate – she took a short nap, which gave me just enough time to eat dinner – then she was up again – we played some more and then we both took a short nap – she ate again and we played some more and then i put her down for the night – since she was asleep, i had to clean the kitchen, get her bottles ready for tomorrow, fold and put away her laundry and get all of her diapers and wipes put away – i also had to figure out what i’m going to wear in the morning because if i wait until the morning, i’ll be late – and i have an appointment tomorrow afternoon, so i can’t just throw on something crazy – i need to look presentable – i also need to get a head start on the liners for tomorrow morning – welcome to my world people – did i mention that i have to get up at 3am and leave the house at 4am – this is why i haven’t posted a blog in almost a month

my baby is 4 months old – how did this happen??  i can’t believe that 4 months ago i was pushing this baby out of my body – and now she’s like mini me – she is full of personality and just like her mama – she’s moody and quite the diva – very definitive about what she wants and what she doesn’t – and when she wants something, she wants it now – i have no idea where she gets that from!  she’s 25″ long and weighs 14 pounds and 10 ounces – how crazy is that – she’s almost to the point where she’s heavy!!  Sydney has tons of personality and she loves to laugh – she wakes up happy (she did NOT get that from me) and she smiles when she sees me – she is so strong – she’s gotten to the point where she really hates to sit down – she wants to stand all of the time – which isn’t a beating for me at all – sure Sydney – mommy doesn’t have anything else to do but hold you in an upright position so that you can stand up – i never thought i’d be wishing for her to crawl, but dang – get moving already little girl – she rolled over last week for the very first time and i caught it on video – well sort of – we never really did tummy time because she hated it with a passion – but now that she can hold her head up and do the mini push up, she’ll tolerate it for about 5-10 minutes – so the other day i put her on her playmat so i could clean up in her room and the minute i put her down, she rolled over – so i ran to get the camera and put her on her tummy again and started to get the camera out – and before i could even open th case, she rolled over again – UGH!!  so this time i waited until i got the camera out, put it on video mode and then put her on her tummy – then i waited, and waited and waited – it took almost 6 minutes before she decided to roll over again – in fact, she moved 180 degrees before she actually rolled over – just ornery!  i told mom when she was still in my tummy that this would not be a child who performed on command – and i was right – but she finally did it and i caught it on camera – and fortunately, i was able to figure out the whole Windows Movie Maker thing and cut it down to 23 seconds!!

one of the other things we’ve been dealing with is child care – it is so hard to find someone to watch your child – when i first started back to work, a friend of my mom’s was keeping Sydney but she was having some health issues and was no longer able to keep her – i was really bummed about that because she really loved Sydney and Sydney liked her too – but her health was more important – so for the next 2 weeks, i found a really nice woman who has an in home daycare that was close to our house – and that worked for the interim – but i really wanted someone who could come and stay with Sydney at the house – she is so used to having that one on one attention and i’m not ready to give that up – last week was rough because my grandparents kept her – it was a huge help but they live about 30 minutes in the opposite direction from me and from work, so i had to take her at the crack of dawn – but they all had a great time – i don’t know who had more fun – Sydney or GiGi and PawPaw – but i know they kicked it!!  but we finally found another nanny and she started this week and i’m hoping that things work out – she has excellent references and she speaks Spanish which was really important to me – Sydney really seems to like her, so i’m keeping my fingers crossed – the last thing i want to do is go on the nanny hunt yet again!!