Not quite as funny

Since poop and breast feeding seem to be hot topics in a newborns life I have another post on poop since I'm sure you do not want to be reading about all the feeding struggles and adventures. Well mostly I just wanted to post this picture

Sorry it's a little blurry but I couldn't stop laughing long enough to get one without shaking. 

Mark was outside with Tayia and came back in asking "did she get any on me?" I'm sure my lack of ability to answer and the camera coming out gave him his answer!

Well, I thought this incident was terribly funny, until last night when she did it to me and somehow I wasn't laughing quite as much. Good thing Mark was at a meeting and wasn't home to document it. Oh little miss...we sure love you!

12.7 seconds

This little miss of mine loves to go to the bathroom in a clean diaper. I usually have just enough time to fasten her diaper, her onsie and walk partway down the hall before the yellow stripe turns blue. All of about 12.7 seconds :). I'm used to changing back-to-back diapers. Today, however, I think our timing is off. 

It is just after 2 and she is in her fifth outfit for the day and four of those were changed because she decided to poop or pee all over everything right as I was changing her. Humm, I think I should have kept her in her pajamas! :)

My little laundry helper

It's amazing how much laundry one so small can make, but having this cute little helper makes it all worth it. 

Exercise

I was so excited to begin exercising at the six week mark, but soon realized it was not going to be as easy as I thought it would be. We tried going on walks outside and on 3 different days I was able to get exactly .35 miles in before she was done. I tried walking on the treadmill while holding her but that seemed a bit dangerous to me. One day I even rode my exercise bike while I was eating lunch just so I could get it in! 

I'm home all day one would think I could find or make time for exercise, but in priorities, I have to be honest, a shower sometime during the day is a higher priority than exercise so if she looks like she is going to be content enough to hang out on her own for 5-7 minutes, I selfishly choose to shower rather than exercise.

The other day she did not want to be put down at all, not even in her swing, so I got creative. It was cold and I wanted to go for a walk. I figured out I "only" have to walk around my inside circle look 112 times to equal a mile. 

Anyone want to come walk three miles with me on my little loop? :)

Looks can be misleading

Our little miss loves to swing and wasn't too happy about having to get out of the swing to have a bath. It's amazing she was so content sitting there in that mess. By the end of this adventure I needed a bath too! Thank goodness daddy had just gotten off work and took care of the messy swing. 

They say at this age babies should bathe 2-3 times a week (everyday would dry out their skin too much). With all her explosions we definitely meet our bath quota at all hours of the day. 

Moving

Well, it's true. She's moving, a lot! The books say by 20 weeks, if not sooner, a women should start being able to feel her baby move. Well, that wasn't the case for me, but that didn't stop people from asking me if I had felt her move or telling me how early they had felt their babies move. I started to get a little worried around the 22nd week when I still hadn't felt her move. Come to find out I have an anterior placenta so as the baby would kick she would kick the placenta and the movement would not register past that cushion.

And then her kicks became stronger and her body bigger that even with an anterior placenta I could feel her, Mark too. I loved it when Mark was able to feel her move for the first time. his eyes lit up. Somehow it made things seem even more real. What an incredible feeling! It is crazy to me to think that here in a few days or a few weeks she will be kicking on the outside instead of the inside.

Our baby is very possessive of "her stomach space". For example, when I rest the ipad on my stomach to watch a video clip for my Sunday School class or an episode of Alias she will kick at the ipad. One day she kicked it five times in a row! As the ipad jumped off my stomach I got the point-"get this thing off of me!"

One night I was cuddling Mark in bed and my stomach was pressed up against his back when all of the sudden my little sleeping baby hauled off and firmly kicked Mark in the back. How I wished he had been awake because I'm sure he could have felt it. It sure made me laugh.

Another day I was getting my blood drawn for preeclampsia labs when our baby just started rolling around and kicking. I usually probably would have kept it to myself, but for some reason commented out loud to the lab technician "I don't think she likes this". To which she responded in awe, "that was your baby? I thought that was you repositioning yourself. I caught that movement out of the corner of my eye. I wish I would have seen it straight on", she said. "I don't have any children of my own and that was one of the neatest things I have seen." The next day when I returned to the lab to turn in my 24 hour urine test (yep, fun stuff) she remembered my name and birthday. I guess you could say we left an impression on her.

She is always awake during Sacrament meeting for some reason and right during or shortly after meals. I usually don't feel her at night so hopefully she is in the habit of sleeping through the night. Sometimes bath time makes her wild too. One day I layer in the bath tub and watched with fascination as my belly moved and jumped around. Crazy stuff!

One day about a month ago Mark asked me if I had felt the baby move that day and I, all of the sudden, panicked. I had been so busy that I couldn't recall the baby moving at all in the last 3 days let alone that day. Needless to say I couldn't sleep that night. 'Come on baby, move, please let me know you're okay.' The next morning as Mark said the morning prayer he knew this was still on my mind so he prayed I would be able to feel her move. Boy did I ever that day! I think she moved non-stop for the rest of the day. It made me smile all day. I decided when you are too busy to feel your baby move you are too busy. My 14+ hour days came to an end shortly after that as my GED night class finished up. Phew.

As excited as I am to be able to soon be able to hold this baby in my arms I think part of me will miss the comforting movements of our baby. She loves to kick me right under my ribs on the right side to let me know she's awake for the day "good morning baby" I say as I smile and rub her feet.