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I made Lucy a tutu. It turned out pretty good, but bigger than I meant for it to be. I'm going to try making another one that won't be quite as big.

So much for that!

In my last entry I wrote about my excitement over Lucy's new sleeping pattern. I should have known it was too good to last. Sunday night was horrible! After an 11:30 feeding and 2:30 feeding, at 4am she was up about every hour. Last night was better, but I think I just need to accept the fact that no matter how hard we try, sleeping through the night is just not going to happen for us right now. And, that's ok. This too shall pass...

We're on our way

After weeks of praying over my daughter, I'm beginning to see my prayers being answered. We are on our way to sleeping through the night. This past week she's been doing very well. We do our bedtime routine after her bottle at 7pm and then she goes down between 8-8:30. She's been sleeping till about 2:30-3:00 am, we feed her, and then she's been sleeping till about 6:30am. This is such a welcome change from going to bed at 8-8:30 and then up at midnight, 3am, and 6am. I am also praying very hard that this will continue and every night she'll go a little longer till she's finally sleeping all night long.

Baby legs!

Dressing Lucy is so much fun. I found these baby legwarmers, called Babylegs, at Target.com. They are so cute. She can wear them like this, or I thought they'd also be really cute under a jumper. Poor kid, she'll be asking me in 15 years why I thought these were a good idea.

Two Things...

Here's my new post--thanks to Abbie for the idea


Two names you go by… Kristin and Kitty
Two things you are wearing right now… my maternity jeans (yep, still can't fit into my old pants) and a black sweater.
Two things you would want (or have) in a relationship… trust and respect
Two of your favorite things to do… sleep and go to estate auctions
Two things you want very badly at the moment… to be able to fit into my regualr clothes again and to lose about 20 pounds.
Two pets you have or have had… Jake and Molly, both childhood dogs
Two things that you did last night… Went to VisionWay's fundraiser and gave Lucy a bath
Two people you think will fill this out...Don't know since it's not in an email. Maybe Becky...
Two things you ate today… poptarts and vegetable soup, but not at the same time :)
Two people you last talked to… Dan and Dan's parents
Two things you’re doing tomorrow… staying home and taking care of Lucy
Two longest car rides… Our Road trip to Charleston, SC and driving to Disney when I was 14
Two favorite holidays… Christmas and Thanksgiving
Two favorite beverages… Diet Coke and ice tea
Two people no longer alive who you’d like to talk to… Grandpa Ryan and ??? not sure

Some recent pictures

Here are a few new pictures of Lucy.

Talking to daddy.

I LOVE my thumb! And my pacifier too!

2 months old!

I could be a supermodel if I wanted to.

It just never ends...

After getting our sewer problems taken care of a few weeks ago I was hoping that our water issues would become a distant memory. Not the case. In fact it's become a nightmare that I hope to wake up from soon.
As I last reported we were still waiting on the plumbers to come back and hook up our floor drain. This should have been done when they replaced our sewer, but they thought that the drain was an old connection to the old storm drains when the gutters used to tie into the sewer line.
Over the weekend as we got closer to Monday and Tuesday and all the forcasted rain, I was starting to get very nervous. Our floor drain was not connected to anything. I just kept thinking that if the ground becomes saturated then eventually that water is going to come up that drain and we're going to have a muddy basement once again.
Monday came and went and everything was fine, but Tuesday brought a whole new set of problems. Dan was home working that day and late in the afternoon he came upstairs to tell me that the laundry sink was full of water and about to overflow. How could that be? We have a back water valve in our line that is supposed to close when the city mains can't keep up. This back-water valve is supposed to stop any rain water from coming up our line. Since our laundry sink was full, obviously something was not working right. We also had water coming in from the small room off the steps. This is right next to where they dug outside, so the soil has not settled. There are lots of air pockets allowing water to pool and allowing it to seep through our foundation. It was gushing through at alarming speed. All that water was running across the floor and pooling up around our second floor drain where the washer is hooked up.
Poor Dan. He had to stop working and get our small pump and start pumping that water out our basement window. He hooked up the long hose and ran it out the window and down our neighbors drive far away from our house. Then he had to keep moving the pump from the laundry sink to the floor drain. They both kept filling up so quickly. Thank goodness the pump was working. I am sure that if we had not been here to pump this water out, we would have had a flooded basement once again and this time I think it would've been more than 3 inches.


Dan made another call the plumbers and yesterday and today they've been out to try and fix the problems that should have been done right the first time. All I can say is that they better be giving us a nice discount. The price for this job was not cheap and I think we've been put out one to many times. Not to mention Dan's lost work time.

After all this I am seriously ready to start house hunting. I don't know that we will, but I've just about had all I can take of this.
Anyone want to buy a house?

2 months

Lucy was 2 months old on Monday. We went to the doctor today for her wellness checkup. She weighed 13lbs 14oz and measured 24 inches long. She is getting so big so fast. She's already outgrowing her 3-6 months clothes and even wearing a few 6-9 month things. Lucy had to get her first shots today and I hated seeing her cry in pain. Her face got the brightest shade of red I've ever seen. She cried for quite awhile afterwards. I think partly from the pain and also because she was overly tired. She's been doing pretty good this evening and is sleeping at the moment. I am not looking forward to the 4 month shots!

I forgot to take her picture yesterday and was going to do it this evening, but with her not feeling well I think I'll wait till tomorrow. So I'll only be 2 days off. I'll post those pics when I get them.

Mom advice needed

I'm posting this so that maybe some of you who read this can give me some advice. We're having trouble with Lucy's naps. She won't sleep for more than 30 minutes at a time. I'll put her down and she'll go to sleep and then like clockwork, 30 minutes later, she's crying out. She's still tired when she wakes because as soon as I pick her up she goes right back to sleep in my arms. She'll sleep at least 3 -4 hours at night (thank goodness) so I can't figure out why she's waking during the day and I'm not sure what to do about it. If she woke up and was alert and happy I wouldn't worry, but it's obvious she still tired but just won't sleep.
And I have tried letting her cry for a few minutes to see if she'll go back to sleep. She sometimes will but only for another 5 mintues or so and then it starts all over again.

So for all you ol' pros out there, any advice??