one month

Yesterday marked one month since the birth of my baby girl. She had her one month check up on Friday where she received her second hepitius shot and was measured and weighed. She has gained over two pounds already as well as gotten over 3 inches taller! She is only one month old and has already outgrown newborn sized clothes and I can only attribute her growth spurt to being exclusivly breastfed… for HOURS each day. That girl never stops eating, and its obviously making her grow. Thats  a good thing, so I guess I can’t complain about not being able to sleep as much as I would like.

Yesterday I had a cleaning assignment at the church. My husband had to work, something unusual for a Saturday since quitting his second job months ago, so my parents agreed to babysit while I went. I have family in the Navasota State Prision and my parents asked if I minded if Sam rode along for their visit. Sam has been on a recent “COPS” show kick and always gets excited when he sees policemen. He always asks about jail and the people that “live” there, so I agreed to let him go. The Navasota State Prison is a minimum security prison and the inmates are all pretty trust-worthy – well, as trust worthy as a prison inmate i can, i suppose. I have been to this prison many times myself and knew that Sam would be safe there espesicaly since both my parents would be with him. Since Sam is a minor we knew that he would not be allowed to have a ‘contact’ visit with the inmates, but he could go in for a “glass” visit and meet the family he has never met before – all while seeing police men, prison gaurds and  “jail”. He was excited, but after making the 2 hour drive we found out he wasn’t allowed in because he was wearing shorts. Anyways, I had a BLAST at my cleaning assignment and can’t wait to start attending sacrament meetings again. I almost went this morning, but decided to wait another 2 weeks untill charlie was 6 weeks old. She has been somewhat sick since receiving her Hep shot the other day. I made a new friend while cleaning the bathrooms(of all places!) and even got to see the bishop for a few moments. It was so great to be in the church building and to be with some of my friends all while serving. I honestly enjoyed myself, and was surprised at how much fun I could have while cleaning.

I had planned on getting Charlie’s one month photos taken yesterday, but it will have to wait a few days. Its probally better that I waited since she has been somewhat sick recently. ill be sure to post them soon, though.

Casey started a new semester of school last week in addition to a hard-core diet and exercise program. He’s already lost weight! I have only lost 21 pounds in the past 3 weeks, and have about 8 more to go. I don’t beleive in diets, but have no doubt that I’ll reach my goal in the next week or two. I also dont beleive in scales (because i think i’d obsess over my weight if i owned one) but I was in the hospital last week for a post-ceserian uterine infection and was weighed at the time of my check in. I know 21 pounds is alot of weight to loose in 3 weeks time, but i can’t help wanting to loose the rest of the weight i gained… see why i don’t own a scale?! The infection isn’t that bad, thankfully, and as far as I know is already gone. Even though I was in pain my ONLY concern was my fertility. I know that we may be done having children, but i also know that i DO want more. I also want to be an egg donor at least once in my life and uterine infections can offten lead to infertility. Thankfuly, all seems to be healing fine.

Sam is doing well as a big brother. He even made up a “Charlie Grace” dance where he spins in circles while shaking his bottom shouting “Charlie Grace” over and over untill he can’t stand straight anymore. Its cute. He doesn’t like to feed her, but LOVES to throw away poopy diapers (and ONLY the poopy ones for some reason). He reminds me that she is his “see-steer”. Also, now that her complection has lightened up quite a bit he says they look alike. He has no idea that he was dark like her once too! (why are babies born so dark? they haven’t ever been outdoors and come out sporting a tan! I thought it was because of my olive color that I got from my father who is part indian, but i’ve noticed lots of other newborns with a ‘tan’ too. hmmmm.)

As you can probally tell I have decided to give up on the national blogging month topics. The topics i’ve skipped have been irrelevant to this blog anyways – such as “who was your first kiss and when and where was it?”. Its not important so i’ve decided to put in an honest effort to blog more, but try to blog about things that matter.

Thanks for reading through my rambles!

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