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I’ve been a little behind on my blogging lately. Work has been crazy and so has Ella who is now a super fast crawler. She turned 11 months old Saturday. 11 months old!! My little baby girl will be one years old next month! I cannot believe it!!
Weight: 23.5lbs – she has finally slowed down in the weight gaining department..thank GOD!
Height: 29.5 inches
Sleeping patterns: We have now narrowed it down to one nap a day and let me tell you this is no my doing! I would lay Ella down for her first nap around 10:30 and it would take her forever to fall asleep. Maybe around 11-1130. Then she would sleep for 2 hours. I will never wake her up. She knows how long she needs to sleep. Then I would try to lay her down at 3 or 4 and she would never go to sleep. So, then I just started laying her down around 11:30. She goes right to sleep and wakes up 2 hours later. We have also been putting her down around 8-8:30. Just depends on how tired she is.
Eating habits: Same routine as we always have done. We changed her formula to the Gerber 2. It supposed to have more nutrients that she needs now that she gets older. She has discovered that she loves Animal Crackers and Nila Wafers. They also don’t have very many calories or sugar in them.
Accomplishments: She is such a fast crawler! She follows me everywhere too, it’s so funny! I’ll walk in the bathroom and start putting on my makeup, then I’ll look around the door to see where she is in the other room and she will be sitting around in front of me. It kind of freaks me out a little bit. Another thing, not really an accomplishment, is that Ella is now in the big tub! We used to bathe her in a ducky pool type thing but she really has gotten to big for it. I bought a mat for the bottom of the tub and she just loves it!
Mothers Day wasn’t what I thought it would be for my FIRST Mother’s Day. I don’t know what I expected really. I guess Mother’s Day isn’t really special until your child actually knows what Mother’s Day is..haha. “Ella” made me a sweet card and she even signed it with her hand print. So sweet!! =) Had lunch with my mom and family Sunday morning after church. The ride there was pretty crazy. Ella is cutting in MORE teeth (by the way she already has 7!) and she was screaming bloody murder in the car. I was also by myself since Caleb and I take separate cars to church since he has to get there early. I actually had to stop the car and get her out. I didn’t know what was wrong at first until she started chewing on her sippy cup. When we got home Caleb helped me get Ora-gel on her teeth and gave her baby Advil. She was just as happy as she could be after that! I’m telling you, my kid LOVES medicine!
My new diaper bag, which was also my Mother’s Day present, came in about a week ago and I am so happy with it! The color is so cute and the inside has plenty of pockets! It’s not as roomy or big as my other one, which I don’t need now that Ella is getting older. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to carry everything I needed, but the pockets on the inside are huge and you can put anything in there! I usually carry a sippy cup with me every time I leave the house. Now it doesn’t fit in the bottle pocket (most sippy cups don’t, FYI) but it does fit in one of the inside pockets. I just love it!!
A couple of weeks ago Ella and I went to Kroger to get some groceries. I pushed my buggy out to the car and put Ella in her car seat. I then started loading the car with groceries. When I was done I ran my buggy over to the return carts place and hurried back to the car. I then started heading home, when 2 mins later I realized I didn’t have my diaper bag!! I then remembered I put it on the bottom part of the buggy and then put it in the return cart.
I called Kroger before I got there to see if they could get to it before I could. But when I got there my bag was gone and so were all the buggies. I thought, oh they must have grabbed it for me. So I grabbed Ella and went inside to the Customer Service desk to see if they had. No such luck. I stood there for about an hour with them looking at cameras, searching buggies, asking everyone! The bag was gone! I wouldn’t have gone through this much trouble if it was just a diaper bag, but I also had my wallet in there. I have to give Kroger a little credit for doing all they did. They really did helped me all they could. They even called the police for me so I could file a report. I doubt they would ever find the bag (especially with it being 2 weeks ago, it’s not looking good), but I still wanted it on record about my license and credit cards.
It has been a royal pain trying to get all my cards and license back. I didn’t have any cash in the wallet so that was good (I never carry cash). I just received my debit and credit card, as well as my license in the mail. It was really hard going around without anything but cash in your pocket!
Now that I had most of the things in my wallet, it was time to get a new bag. I decided that with Mother’s Day coming up I would just get a relatively nice bag as a gift! When I bought the bag that was stolen, which I loved, I had done a lot of research on what I wanted. I could have just bought the same bag but I was wanting something a little smaller so that I could carry it with me to work as well when Ella goes to daycare. It was between these two bags:
The first one is the JJ Cole Swag and the second one is JJ Cole Technique in green. They had both of these bags at Buy Buy Baby, except they didn’t have the green color. I was really worried about the green being too bright/loud. I went to the store by myself so it was really hard for me to decide on which one to get. I really like having someone with me to help me decide on which one looks best. But I ended up getting the JJ Cole Swag since they didn’t have the other one I wanted in the green. I got it home, cut all the tags off, put my stuff in, and really wasn’t happy with it. I know it sounds silly to have a complex about a DIAPER BAG but this is something I have to use and wear everyday and I want to get something I like.
So, I decided to take it back and see if I could get my money back without the tags being on, since I bought it the day before I didn’t think it would a problem. And it wasn’t. I was able to get all my money back. I then proceeded back to the diaper bag isle and still contemplated over all the bags (they have a HUGE selection). There was another girl there who was pregnant and trying to decide on a bag to register. She was so sweet and really helped me decide on which bag to get. She said that she also liked the JJ Cole technique and thought the green was cool. I decided right then that this was the bag for me. I ordered it off of Amazon today and I should get it Thursday, just in time for Mother’s Day. I just hope this ends my diaper bag search!
Oh, Happy Day 