Sickness strikes again!

So Noah had his first Christmas celebration on Sunday (I'll post pics later). He has a little runny nose but overall seemed fine. Then Monday morning, same runny nose, so we sent him to daycare, half expecting a phone call during the day. There was no phone call. I went and picked him up and they said he wasn't acting like himself, so I took him home and fed him, then took his temp. 100 degrees. He seemed tired so I put him down and he slept a good 2 hours. Then we woke him up to get him ready for bed. He had a 101.6 degree fever then. So we gave him some Tylenol and a bath and already he was feeling better and his temp was down. So then we fed him some applesauce. Then he wanted to play. So we played with him for a little while and finally around 9pm he was ready to go to bed. He did wake up around 3am because he vomited but still no fever and he basically went right back to sleep. We kept him home from daycare today just to be safe. My wonderful aunt came over and helped take care of him while David worked from home. So far, he's been great all day so hopefully we can send him back to daycare tomorrow and then I'll be home Thursday and Friday.

Here's a little video in the meantime. This is when we were feeding him the applesauce last night and he kept making this funny face. Too cute!

Updated Weaning Post

Ok, I just want to update that we will not be attempting to wean Noah from the bottle next week as originally planned. After more thought, I realized next week will be a short week in daycare. Both David and I are taking off work Thursday and Friday and the whole week following, so we will wait until the week of January 3 when he returns to daycare to start the weaning process. Although I fully intend to really work with the sippy cups while we are at home.

Snow Day (almost)

Can I just say that I now LOVE my new job. I definitely went through a period where I was very skeptical and unsure whether this new job was going to be better or not. Even when I first started, I was still nervous. I think I just hated the fact that I was moving from a place that was familiar and I knew all the clients and people to a brand new experience. Well I'm finally starting to get comfortable and as that gets better, I'm loving my new job more and more.

Last night, it iced pretty bad and our short experience on the way home last night showed me that. So this morning Noah's daycare emailed me (I love that) and school wasn't starting until 10am. Yeah for going back to sleep. So then I took him up there at 10 and was at work by 10:30am. Did they care? Not at all. So now I worked through lunch which is easy since I have my own office and I will be leaving at 5:30pm. Tomorrow I'll work through lunch to make up the additional hour I lost today. Again, they don't care at all. I'm still working through the guilt thing. At BKD, I always felt guilty working 7:30-4:30. Even though I was getting my hours in, everyone else always looked at me like I was cutting out early or something. Here, it seems like the normal time to leave is 3 or 4pm. Although when I'm leaving at 4, I still feel somewhat guilty but I think that will improve gradually.

Noah was in a Christmas play last night for his daycare. I absolutely love Noah's daycare. His teachers are so nice and they just love Noah. Did they have to put on a Christmas play? No, but they just go above and beyond and I just love that he gets the opportunity to go there and the fact that they are Christian. In fact, the more he goes to daycare here and is involved in a Christian school, the more I wonder if we should be seriously considering a Lutheran elementary school rather than public school.

Noah started walking with our hands the other day. He wants to go more sideways than forward (probably because he's so used to cruising along the furniture), but he's figuring it out. When I pull him up, he just gets this big grin on his face and giggles and takes off. I can barely keep up.

I have also made the decision that we are going to start weaning him off bottles next week. We are going to choose one of his sippy cups and start by taking away his morning bottle and putting the breastmilk in a sippy cup. Hopefully it goes well but I'm putting a lot of faith into the daycare to do this with me and I hope they don't end up hating me or something. I think he'll take a few days to get used to it and then he'll be ok, but I'll post again next week to update.

10 months - Another tooth and my new journey

That's right, Mr. Noah has his 2nd tooth. It's the bottom one in front on his left side. He's definitely a little snaggletooth now!!! We are still working with him on bye-bye and clapping but he mostly just stares at us. I did get him to stand up on his own for about 10 seconds, but then plop, down he went. We've been having some daycare sleep issues which I may have mentioned before. Basically, he can't sleep very well there. At home, he will take 2-3 hour naps. At daycare, only about 1 hour. Hopefully when he gets transitioned to the walker room, there will be more "quiet" naptimes and he will be able to get more sleep there. Oh and on Wednesday night, he will be in the Christmas play at school. Not sure how big of a part he will have, but I'm excited for him nonetheless.

Now onto a little bit of news about me. I've decided that I want another baby. I actually decided this quite a while ago but I've realized that I want this 2nd baby sooner than later. Sadly there are many obstacles to this goal. First, I'm still nursing Noah. I've done a lot of research on this and really now that he on solid foods and goes all night without nursing, I should have my cycles back by now, but I'm pretty sure it's the PCOS again. So, I do want to go back to my doctor for help, but before that, I'm going to try to do some things on my own. First, I'm going to try and lose some weight and be healthier. Since I'm insulin resistant, that makes it very difficult for me. Basically I will need to follow a low GI diet, similar to diabetics. I also need to start working out more often. If this works and I can actually lose weight, it may help several of my PCOS symptoms, mainly the fertility, though. If I can get my cycles back all on my own, I may not even need the doctor. BUT, our plan is to wean Noah at 12 months to a sippy cup of cow's milk during the day and just nurse nights and weekends, if he's still ok with that. Then either in Feb or I may wait until after busy season or even closer to my 1 year appointment in June, I will start talking to my doctor about my possibilities and whether I can start fertility treatments again. Hopefully my cycles will just return on their own with the weight loss and I can get pregnant all on my own (wouldn't that just be amazing).

Ok, well that's enough for now. I'll try and get some pictures at the play on Wed night.

10 months old!

Noah is 10 months old as of Nov 3. Such a big boy now. He has such a personality. He's getting better at cruising. Our new favorite game is to put our cell phones or the TV remote at one end of the couch and place him at the other end and watch him go crazy cruising along the couch to get it and then when he gets there, we move the item to the other end he started out and he goes off towards it again. I'd say it's really mean, except he just laughs and giggles when we move it back and forth. I'll try and get a video of it soon.

Noah has also started exploring a lot more big boy food now. We started giving him peach pieces which he absolutely loves. He's getting better at picking up the banana pieces and he also loves to feed himself peas. We also give him pieces of pasta as well. We started telling the daycare that they could feed him certain types of their school food which I think he loves being a part of the group now. We did break down and buy some jarred foods, just because it's so much easier to buy macaroni and beef than to make that up myself. I figure this period of time where he's still eating baby food is short and soon he'll just be eating with us, so no big deal. I do have the moral dilemma that I want to feed him the best food possible, but David and I don't really eat the greatest food all the time (i.e. We had Chick-fil-a for dinner last night). I need to start being a better example to him, not to mention I could afford to eat better (and maybe lose some weight). It's just hard with being busy taking care of him and working. If anyone knows some good simple, healthy, and fresh recipes, I'm all ears!!!

Lastly, I want to comment about our little boo-boo last night. Noah was playing on his table and he turned around at me and fell backwards. I went to grab him and instead, poked him in the eye! He screamed and screamed and I just picked him up and held him so tight. I felt so bad that he was in pain and that I caused the pain! I'm sure if he just went ahead and fell on the carpet, he would have probably been just fine. I finally got him to open his eye and there was a little red mark, but by this point, he was laughing at me, so I think he's ok, but I was so worried about him. I guess I need to get used to this. With him being so mobile and being a boy, this will not be the last boo-boo.

Oh and here's some 9 month photos for you to enjoy:

My new job

I know, I have been so bad at posting. I keep telling myself I will get better and it just doesn't happen.

So I started at my new job at Abeles and Hoffman, P.C. last Monday and so far, so good. There are definitely aspects that I like better than others, but overall I think it has been a good change. What I like is having my own office. Having the ability to just close my door and pump while I work is fantastic. I also like that I can take a personal call or eat lunch at my desk in a little more privacy. If needed, I can close my door and get more work done. On the other hand, I find myself not as motivated because I don't feel big brother is on my back as much. This might also be because I don't have much work yet so I find myself wandering out on the internet too much. This will get better with busy season and as my work load increases.

I also like how my new job has more flexibility. This is probably my #1 LOVE. I thought that I would probably work 8-5 for a while and then eventually ask to do something else, but no. I don't have to ask or anything, I just come in when I want and leave when I want. They want you to have 8 hours a day and work at least 10-3, but otherwise, it's up to me. I've fallen into a nice schedule of working 7-4 which allows me to avoid a big chunk of traffic and David takes care of Noah in the morning and I go get him in the evening. Of course, this will change when busy season starts, but for now, it's awesome.

Some aspects I don't care for is the dress code. I do like that we can wear casual clothes on Mondays with a logo shirt, but I don't have a logo shirt yet, so I have to wear professional. It'll also be nice to wear jeans and casual clothes on Thursdays (yes, EVERY Thursday). Friday is business casual which is what I'm used to. BUT Tuesday and Wednesdays (and right now, Mondays) I have to wear professional which is basically I suit. The biggest problem with this is mostly that I just don't have much to choose from in my closet right now. I plan on going shopping this weekend and this will change gradually. Then, I don't think it will be that big of a deal. I'm already kind of getting used to it.

Another "bummer" is I had to work the Friday after Thanksgiving. They only have 6 holidays here. In the future, I will use PTO for this, but I don't have any yet, so I had to work. Luckily, David came and visited me and I got to show Noah off a little bit.

A tiny Noah update - he's doing good. He's so mobile now, just crawls everywhere and cruises along us and the furniture. We are having a small problem with daycare in the fact that he won't put himself to sleep for naps there. At home, we put him in his crib and he cries for a second until we leave the room and then he is fine and puts himself to sleep. At daycare, the cribs are out and so it's impossible for them to walk out of the room, so he wants them to pick him up. I don't think leaving him in the crib to scream and get all upset until he finally goes to sleep is the answer, but I know it's difficult to rock him to sleep when he's super cranky too. I might talk to them and see if they can try harder to put him down for a nap earlier, say right after his 3pm bottle, so that he doesn't get overtired and nothing works. The last two nights he has fallen asleep on the way home and slept another hour, which is fine (he clearly needs a 3rd nap), but that also cuts into our time with Noah which is limited.

Oh and Noah had a great Thanksgiving, minus some vomiting episodes. For now, I'm saying he's getting another tooth, but who knows. He isn't upset afterwards and he doesn't have a fever, so I don't know. Times like this, I wish he could talk to me.