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just like daddy!

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We had a doctor’s appointment and my little girl is great! The doctor says she very healthy.
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Now here’s the interesting part….She 36″ tall!?!?! That the 96%ile! And she weighs 30lbs! (87%ile)
My little baby isn’t so little.

Tho I forgot to ask when her next appointment should be.

Tonight was also the Peel Partner’s Annual Bowling Tournament. We went and watched Daddy and some work people bowl. Munchkin had a good time…seemed to be very interested the bowling. We’ll have to take her sometime. Maybe with the bumpers so there are no gutter balls!

Big Ultrasound is a big disappointment!

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First off, I’ll start by saying that the baby is great! Heartbeat was 164 bpm! And is folded in half…literally, the baby’s feet were above it’s head!

But the rest of the story isn’t as exciting.
We get to the U/S place, 5-10 minutes early. I asked how the wait was becuase my bladder was ready to explode, and they told me that there was one person ahead of me so it shouldn’t be long.
They call me in at 5:40…10 minutes late, not too bad. I say to the tech that my DH wants to come in and she says “yes, if there is time at the end”. Well, they always say this, and he has always come in….at the other clinic that I had been going to. So she starts the U/S. The bed is in a position that is really below the screen and where my head is I can just see it from the side….barely seeing anything!
She’s having trouble finding the things that’s she looking for so she sends me to empty my bladder. I go and come back and she continues. Baby is a bit more cooperative and she’s able to finish everything up. So she turns the screen to start showing me the baby and I say “can we call my husband in” and she says “I’m sorry but there isn’t time. We were already running late and now I”ve missed an appointment”. I’m almost in tears at this time. She hands me 5/6 pictures…I didn’t even count them and I head out to the waiting room. I fight thru the tears to tell Dh that there wasn’t time for him to come in. He’s furious. He says to me “but another couple went in and the guy got to go in too”. I didn’t know what to say, all I could do was cry.
This is the one thing that he looks forward to cuz he’s actually able to share this with me and he gets cheated. I’m so upset, disappointed and angry over this whole thing. Last night I cried myself to sleep becuase I just couldn’t believe what happened. I feel horrible…my stomach is in knots. This is something that we might not be able to get back. I’m hoping that when we see the doctor on Monday, I can get him to give me another U/S.
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way!!!

forget webster…we’ve got munchkin!

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So we got Munchkin winter boots with Barbie on them. I didn’t really care what was on them, I bought them because they co-ordinated with her snow suit.

But if you ask Munchkin who is on her boots, she says “Bible”.

Huh??

And how embarrassing is that when she says it in the shoe section filled with parents and kids.

It’s amazing how her vocabulary is increasing everyday, but it’s funny how she mixes words up. Maybe we should send Munchkin’s entries into the Webster Dictionary people and see what they think:

Bi·ble (bbl)

1.Trademark. a brand of doll representing a slim, shapely young woman, esp. one with blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin.

–noun

2.Also called Barbie doll. a person, esp. a young woman, perceived as blandly attractive and vacuous.

out of context?

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We tell Munchkin that it’s ‘dangerous’ to jump on the bed and it’s ‘dangerous’ to stand in the bathtub.
So the other night she stands in the tub…

Me: Munchkin, sit down
Munchkin: Dangerous
Me: That’s right. Standing in the tub is dangerous and you could get a big boo-boo.
Munchkin: Mommy dangerous
Me: I’m dangerous?? (Trying to contain myself from laffing out loud)

It kills me sometimes with the words she says and the fact that she uses them properly (most of the time)

Ack! Where did the time go?

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So what has been going on….
…moving
…getting pregnant
…doing renovations on the new house
…running around after a very active toddler
…working
…regular day-to-day house stuff

That sums up the lack of blog posting.

I have found a new tool for me to follow all my blog friends… http://www.bloglines.com/
Now I can keep up with everything; even if they don’t have an actual feed. It’s neat!

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My goal for this weekend is to write down all of the words that Munchkin says each day. I’m so amazed by the things she says. She repeats EVERYTHING but she is actually starting to use these words in “conversations”.

being a "T"s

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LOL! I wanted to come up with a catchy title for this post, and now I just think it’s corny. Oh, well. My blog…I do what I want.

So it seems that things associated with a toddler all start with “T”.

#1 – Toliet training
We have entered the wonderful world of toilet training. For the last 3 weeks, we’ve been taking Munchkin to the toilet, even with a special little seat, and “away she goes”. Sometimes she has even told us she has had to go. Not with any consistency mind you but it’s a start.

That leads to…

#2 – Training pants
I’ve decided that she needs them. Last weekend, she told me 3 times in 30 minutes that she had to pee. You can’t deny a “trying to be toilet trained” toddler that she’s not allowed to go so we went. And she did go every time. Yeah! But getting her dress has become time consuming and therefore frustrating. Doing up 8 snaps on the cloth diaper and cover combined is not something a 17 month old wants to wait for. So the hunt for good cloth training pants has begun.

I think I’m going to stick with the Motherease brand which are the same cloth diapers that we use. Their message board has many good comments about them and we have no complaints about their diapers.

#3 – Teeth
AAAAhhhhh! She has 14! Tuesday she cut both, yes BOTH, upper canines (eye teeth). This explains the fussy, crabby mood she’s been in for the last little while. Last night she was so clingy that she ate her dinner (all 4 bites of her grilled cheese sandwich) sitting on my lap, cuddled into my shoulder. There was no bath and putting her her PJs on while stuck to me was lots of fun. Luckily she was so tired that she went to sleep fairly quickly.

she’s a natural!

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Last night we had Munchkin’s first swimming lesson of this session! And she did great!

At first she was very apprehensive about the whole thing. We haven’t been swimming since last summer when we were in Nova Scotia.

She was on her back and kicking her feet and she’s try to roll over to be on her tummy. She had so much fun!

If you don’t count throwing up on the deck. She had swallowed some water and started coughing. Knowing Munchkin the way I do, I knew that she was going to be sick so we go to the edge of the pool as quicky as possible. She did throw up but not in the water! Thank goodness, or they would have had to clear the pool. I’m sure everyone would have just love to have their first class shortened because of us. But we got cleaned up and got back in the water.

Swimming ended at 6:30pm, and by the time we got home it was 7:00. Munchkin was asleep by 7:15!

things only a mom can understand:

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(excerpt from my MOMS page-a-day calendar)

  • The difference between beige, off-whie and eggshell
  • Cutting bangs to make the grow
  • Eyelash curlers
  • The inaccuracy of every bathroom scale ever made
  • Other moms

How true.

Home alone

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Tonight was a nice “me” night! Hubby was out tonight so I had the house to myself once Munchkin was asleep.

I did manage to do a few loads of laundry, vacuum the TV room, and watch Survivor, CIS and ER and catch up on my message boards. A few other things around the house should have been done, but, oh well!

I have tomorrow off because Hubby’s parents can’t watch Munchkin tomorrow all day. I’m dropping her off at 3pm so I can head down to Niagara Falls to see Grand Island High School’s musical that Mom co-directed and choreographed.

Now I’m off to bed.

more bubbles

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Yesterday, during her bath, Munchkin started blowing bubbles. She put her face in the water and blow! She’d come up with the biggest smile on her face and giggling!

Tonight was just the same. All through the bath, she’d blow bubbles and giggle!
Swimming lessons here we come! I think the next session starts in March.