Today, Sasha and her Daddy would have been arriving home this evening. However, Sasha and my husband are doing so well out by his mother's house that they decided they wanted to stay out there a little longer.
So in a week, after Cassie is done with school and her birthday party, Cassie and I will head out that way to meet them. Then we'll have a two week vacation all together. And we will return home together. We were planning on having a family vacation together out west anyways so we just bumped it up a bit. That gives Sasha and my husband three more weeks to visit with his family and take care of family matters.
Sasha and my husband have both had chronic troubles with eating, weight, and lack of appetite. They both have increased appetites and have gained necessary weight while they've been gone. The trip has been good for their health. Therefore it's for their best interest that they stay out there a little longer. Although I know the environment has a lot to do with it, perhaps I can pick up a few tips and tricks on how to keep those two picky eaters fed.
I have missed my daughter and husband terribly. I know I should be trying to relax and maybe enjoy some down time, but I can't. I yearn to hold my baby again and can not relax until I am reunited with her. She is in my every thought and even in my dreams.
Showing posts with label 20 months. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20 months. Show all posts
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23 May 2008
Fussy girl
Today, my husband reports that Sasha was a fussy little wookie all day. She didn't sleep well last night and kept waking him up. I know she still has another tooth coming in soon so I have asked him to check her gums where her next tooth should be coming in to see if it's swollen or red.
Grandma offered to close her restauraunt to help my husband with the fussy toddler, but fortunately he was able to talk her out of it. It was sweet that she offered. Sasha was crying and yelling all day, and it did wear on my husband. Once Grandma came home, she relieved my husband and patiently cared for Sasha. My husband and mother-in-law are so very patient with Sasha.
Even when Sasha was sick, she was in good spirits until today. Fortunately, everyone out there has seen how good tempered Sasha normally is and understand that she isn't normally like this without reason.
Grandma offered to close her restauraunt to help my husband with the fussy toddler, but fortunately he was able to talk her out of it. It was sweet that she offered. Sasha was crying and yelling all day, and it did wear on my husband. Once Grandma came home, she relieved my husband and patiently cared for Sasha. My husband and mother-in-law are so very patient with Sasha.
Even when Sasha was sick, she was in good spirits until today. Fortunately, everyone out there has seen how good tempered Sasha normally is and understand that she isn't normally like this without reason.
22 May 2008
All Better
Sasha is better today. My husband says she has shaken whatever it was that was making her sick and is mostly back to normal. She ate about 1/2 cup of cheerios. She was begging her grandma for some cheese out of the refridgerator when she got a glimpse of it. And she's been drinking her milk. My husband was nervous giving her dairy so soon after her illness, but she insisted.
She was being very cute. Apparently on a car ride back from town, she wanted out of her car seat, so she kept asking my husband "up? up?". He told her that she could get up as soon as they were back home. When they were driving up the driveway, my husband pointed out the three horses. He asked her "What do horses say?". She looked him dead in the eye and calmly told him, "up". Either horses say "up", or she was making a point, but either way she wasn't messing around.
When I called, Sasha was sitting in her grandma's lap, playing with a telephone. She did come on the line to chat with me on the telephone for a bit.
Years of carrying a growing baby around has taken it's toll on my husband's back, so fortunately he saw a chiropractor today. I am glad for that as he says he did get some relief.
She was being very cute. Apparently on a car ride back from town, she wanted out of her car seat, so she kept asking my husband "up? up?". He told her that she could get up as soon as they were back home. When they were driving up the driveway, my husband pointed out the three horses. He asked her "What do horses say?". She looked him dead in the eye and calmly told him, "up". Either horses say "up", or she was making a point, but either way she wasn't messing around.
When I called, Sasha was sitting in her grandma's lap, playing with a telephone. She did come on the line to chat with me on the telephone for a bit.
Years of carrying a growing baby around has taken it's toll on my husband's back, so fortunately he saw a chiropractor today. I am glad for that as he says he did get some relief.
21 May 2008
Sick on vacation
Sasha got sick. Fortunately she is in good hands.
From what I am told, she was fine all day yesterday. My husband, Sasha, and his family went out to the city to a restauraunt and she ate some macaroni and cheese. But afterwards, she started throwing up. She spent most of the night sick and vomiting.
By the morning, they decided to be cautious and take her to the hospital to be checked out. She did have a fever but it did not seem to be anything very serious.
She has been very cuddly and sleepy. So long as my husband keeps holding and snuggling with her, she has been okay. My husband says she grabs his hand and puts it to her face, then hugs his hand to keep it there securely. She also pets him behind his neck to reassure him. She also cuddles with her grandma when she can.
My husband thinks that she will be back to normal by tomorrow morning, so perhaps it's a 24 hour stomach bug. She seems to be showing signs of getting better. They have been giving her pedialyte, and she has actually been drinking good quantities of it. He gave her some carmel popcorn and she nibbled on a piece and kept it down. Tomorrow he will see if she can tolerate some mild foods.
I am worried for her, but like I said, she is in good hands and I know she is being taken care of. I wish I could be there for her.
From what I am told, she was fine all day yesterday. My husband, Sasha, and his family went out to the city to a restauraunt and she ate some macaroni and cheese. But afterwards, she started throwing up. She spent most of the night sick and vomiting.
By the morning, they decided to be cautious and take her to the hospital to be checked out. She did have a fever but it did not seem to be anything very serious.
She has been very cuddly and sleepy. So long as my husband keeps holding and snuggling with her, she has been okay. My husband says she grabs his hand and puts it to her face, then hugs his hand to keep it there securely. She also pets him behind his neck to reassure him. She also cuddles with her grandma when she can.
My husband thinks that she will be back to normal by tomorrow morning, so perhaps it's a 24 hour stomach bug. She seems to be showing signs of getting better. They have been giving her pedialyte, and she has actually been drinking good quantities of it. He gave her some carmel popcorn and she nibbled on a piece and kept it down. Tomorrow he will see if she can tolerate some mild foods.
I am worried for her, but like I said, she is in good hands and I know she is being taken care of. I wish I could be there for her.
19 May 2008
Fun at Grandma's
One of the myriad of reasons my husband and Sasha had to go out west to see his family was the high school graduation of my husband's cousin, Sarah. Sarah lives with my husband's mother and is like a daughter to my mother in-law. The high school graduation was yesterday. My mother in law does catering so she catered about 50-some people afterwards for the graduation party.
In all that activity, Sasha had a great time. Things out in the rural lands are much different than the big city. For starters, people actually say hi to her. And when she does cute things for strangers, the strangers pay attention to her. So she is just eating up all the attention she is getting from so many people. Unlike the cold city where everyone is so self absorbed that they don't pay any mind to cute little babies who are trying to smile, wave, and be cute to get attention.
Sasha and her grandma's dog, Jack, are getting along great. She's already saying his name very clearly.
She's been eating well and sleeping well. Grandma stopped at a Costco before Sasha arrived and purchased Sasha's required chocolate milk boxes, since she is so addicted to those. That helped the transition. So long as Sasha has a parent and her chocolate milk boxes, she's fine.
Sasha's doing great. It's mama that's worried.
I miss Sasha terribly. The house feels so empty without her.
Sometimes, the silence gets to me, and I forget that Sasha is gone. I think to myself, "It's too quiet! I bet Sasha's into some trouble," and I turn around to look for her, expecting her to be coloring on the walls or into my knitting. But then I remember she's not here. Other times, I think to myself, "I should go wake Sasha up from her nap", again forgetting that no, Sasha is not just in the other room napping, but she is not home. My mind is having troubles grasping the concept.
I can put sharp pointy objects down on tables, and a toddler won't come right behind me to play with it. But I forget that I can do this now. If I have some scissors in my hand, I still think to myself that I had better set them down somewhere high up so that little hands can't reach them. I suppose it's alright to keep that habit. She won't be gone forever.
I've been way to oversensitive about everything. I tried to watch the television to keep my mind off of things. Coincidentally, the worst news stories pop up and make me cry. I saw a horrible news story about the earthquake in China. A couple had a 22 month old baby boy that the mother had just left at home with her inlaws to babysit while she went to work, when the earthquake struck. The couple had toiled for two days to try to get excavation equipment to their high-rise apartment building for a rescue attempt. They had lived on the fourth floor so their apartment was buried. They were hoping to find their child and parents alive, but alas after 8 hours of digging, they found their bodies. I was a mess the rest of the day crying over that. I just kept thinking about Sasha and how that would absolutely devastate me if anything like that happened. Ugh, it's horrible.
But no matter what channel I changed to, there was some horrible story on that made me think about or worry about my daughter. So I've had to limit my television exposure to the weather channel. Apparently it was in the 90s where Sasha is, but it was only in the 40s and 50s here :)
17 May 2008
Vacation
Airport Bye-bye
My husband said she did amazingly well on her plane trips. They had a three hour layover in Minneapolis and spent most of that going back and forth on those moving sidewalk thingies. Sasha is now a pro at hopping on and off those things. They'd hop on a moving sidewalk going one way, then after they got off, they'd turn around and go the other way.
Sasha should have a great time on her trip. She'll have so much attention! There are so many people that love her out there, and there are lots of things to see and do. Horses and doggies and lots of gorgeous open land to run around in and explore. Plus she'll get to go work at my mil's restauraunt, where she'll make an excellent waitress.
In addition to Sasha and my husband's trip, Cassie had a little adventure planned for today also. There was an anime convention that she and her friends went to. I was very nervous about letting her to to that without us. She and her friends were chaperoned by one of her friend's fathers but I guess I'm just an anxious mother sometimes. I have a hard time letting her go and do things with her friends without me. I gave Cassie way to many instructions. "Don't respond to men who might hit on you, Be sure to thank your friend's father for taking you to the convention, Stay with your friends at all time and never go separate ways".
Anyways she had a blast! She wore a costume, as did pretty much everyone else that went. She made lots of new friends, was very social. She got lots of autographs. There was a rave with music so loud she couldn't hear herself, and strobe lights that made it all look like "stop motion photography" to her, so she got into that and danced her little head off. All in all, she behaved herself and had a lot of fun.
I'm just glad my family all got to their destinations safely today.
Eating again
Thank goodness she's eating again. The past few days, she's been a little eating machine, and I dare say I think she might be plumping up a little! It could be my imagination, but she looks taller and chubbier to me, and her feet look bigger.
Yesterday, she ate four whole meals. And not little ones either. She had a smorgasbord breakfast (noodles, cereal, grapes, bread), she ate a second breakfast with my husband. She ate a pancake breakfast at IHOP for lunch, and she ate some noodles (high protein noodles drizzled with flax seed oil and parmesan cheese) and crackers for dinner.
I know it's not my imagination that the two pairs of size 5 shoes we bought her last month are already outgrown. She had finally outgrown her size 4 shoes last month. So wow, she went through size 5 in less than a month. Time to go shoe shopping again. It looks like a growth spurt!
16 May 2008
Getting ready to go
Sasha and my husband are going to be leaving on a two week vacation tomorrow and I am so happy and sad for them. I am going to miss Sasha terribly!
I was crying like a little baby tonight as I nursed Sasha to sleep for what is probably the last time. She was down to only one bedtime nursing to go to sleep. Two weeks away from me will probably wean her for good, and I feel very bittersweet about that. I won't be having any more children, so I do believe that I have experienced my last nursing of my lifetime. I tried to cherish the moment but I was just so overcome by emotion.
My husband and I ran around like headless chickens trying to pack and do some last minute chores. The hard drive on my computer died so we had to replace that and reload my system. He also had some things he needed to do for his mom before he left.
I was crying like a little baby tonight as I nursed Sasha to sleep for what is probably the last time. She was down to only one bedtime nursing to go to sleep. Two weeks away from me will probably wean her for good, and I feel very bittersweet about that. I won't be having any more children, so I do believe that I have experienced my last nursing of my lifetime. I tried to cherish the moment but I was just so overcome by emotion.
My husband and I ran around like headless chickens trying to pack and do some last minute chores. The hard drive on my computer died so we had to replace that and reload my system. He also had some things he needed to do for his mom before he left.
Armadillo!
My good friend Anj sent me a cute funny gift for my birthday. It was a stuffed armadillo toy with this strange sounding squeaker in it.
I can not begin to describe to you the sound it makes when you squeeze it. Sort of an unearthly moan and a honk at the same time. Like the noise you would make if someone gave you a squishy hug so hard it knocks the breat out of you. I'm at a loss for words, but it is a strange sound.
Anyways Sasha loves the thing. She has this cute thing she likes to do with it. We toss it on the ground and she comes running at it. She leaps into the air and belly flops onto it so that it squishes and makes that moaning honking sound. It's really funny.
I attempted a video of it but it's the best I've got. She can do better but she was distracted by the camera phone in my hand. She knew I was up to something. The audio doesn't really capture the sound of that armadillo toy very well either.
I can not begin to describe to you the sound it makes when you squeeze it. Sort of an unearthly moan and a honk at the same time. Like the noise you would make if someone gave you a squishy hug so hard it knocks the breat out of you. I'm at a loss for words, but it is a strange sound.
Anyways Sasha loves the thing. She has this cute thing she likes to do with it. We toss it on the ground and she comes running at it. She leaps into the air and belly flops onto it so that it squishes and makes that moaning honking sound. It's really funny.
I attempted a video of it but it's the best I've got. She can do better but she was distracted by the camera phone in my hand. She knew I was up to something. The audio doesn't really capture the sound of that armadillo toy very well either.
Road Trip
Well, we have a much needed new car, thanks to the assistance of my mother-in-law. The car was purchased over 1200 miles away, so my husband had to fly out to his mother's and drive it home. This left me alone with the girls for a few days. I had to take two days off of work, so that left me with the girls for four days.
I enjoyed every moment of it that I could, and I even got some well needed deep cleaning done on the house. We stayed in the house the whole time. Sasha learned some new tricks. She has been trying to sing the alphabet. She sings "ABCD ABCD ABCD ABCD" over and over again, but never continues on past the letter D. Big sister taught her how to say "I love you". She also learned how to finally pronounce Cassie's name. She wasn't able to say the hard C sound, or the S sound, so her pronunciation of Cassie sounded like "ta-yi". Then she figured out the S sound last week, so Cassie was "Tassie". Now she is starting to figure out the K/hard-C sound. Sometimes Cassie is "Tassie" and sometimes she is "Cassie".
We've had some luck with eating. I've figured out that if I don't give Sasha milk or juice immediately upon her waking up, she'll eat better during the day. Also it helps a LOT to cheer every bite she takes.
This weekend, my husband and the baby will be flying back out to his mother's for a two week visit. This will be the first time I'll have been away from the baby since she was born, other than going to work. I am going to miss her terribly. Even though I know she will be in great hands, I am still very worried for both my husband and for Sasha.
I enjoyed every moment of it that I could, and I even got some well needed deep cleaning done on the house. We stayed in the house the whole time. Sasha learned some new tricks. She has been trying to sing the alphabet. She sings "ABCD ABCD ABCD ABCD" over and over again, but never continues on past the letter D. Big sister taught her how to say "I love you". She also learned how to finally pronounce Cassie's name. She wasn't able to say the hard C sound, or the S sound, so her pronunciation of Cassie sounded like "ta-yi". Then she figured out the S sound last week, so Cassie was "Tassie". Now she is starting to figure out the K/hard-C sound. Sometimes Cassie is "Tassie" and sometimes she is "Cassie".
We've had some luck with eating. I've figured out that if I don't give Sasha milk or juice immediately upon her waking up, she'll eat better during the day. Also it helps a LOT to cheer every bite she takes.
This weekend, my husband and the baby will be flying back out to his mother's for a two week visit. This will be the first time I'll have been away from the baby since she was born, other than going to work. I am going to miss her terribly. Even though I know she will be in great hands, I am still very worried for both my husband and for Sasha.
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