Hello!
Well...let's see, it's the end of September and Molly is almost 2 months old now! She is doing great and really filling out..must be because she eats all the time!!! I can't say she's in a routine yet, but I do see some patterns. She'll take a nap in the morning, again in afternoon...really fussy in the evening...around 7:30ish she'll be in a great mood and smile and "talk" to me..then I'll feed her again around 8:30 or so and she's out until about 1:30! That's her longest stretch. Once I get her down again around 1:45ish or 2...she'll wake again almost at 5 and then I just bring her in bed with me. She still is in the bassinet in our room. I haven't made the transition yet to her room-that's coming! Probably next week, I'll have Mike carry the rocking chair up to her room and start putting her to bed there.
Alyson is doing a lot better. She's had a hard time adjusting and takes it out on me mostly and Molly sometimes. But, there's been less time outs and more listening and following directions. I think she just needed to get used to having some other being in the house that takes attention away. She turned 3 this month! I'm getting ready to put her into preschool 3 mornings a week. It's a parent participation school, so I work in the class one day a week. :) I think it will be good for her and good for me, too. I've had extended baby blues and saw a psychologist for it a couple weeks ago. She said I'm having a lot of anxiety..not so much depression. She said I could take some anxiety medicine if I wanted to...but I prefer not to take any drugs. Alyson had her 3 year doc appointment and she is as tall as a 4 1/2 year old they said! WOW!! She had a shot and was very brave!
Mike is gone again...he leaves on Sundays and gets back home the following Friday night late. I really miss him. And, this past weekend, I had an unexpected visit to the ER which took up most of my one day I get to see him. :( He is going to try to take 2 days off here this week if he can.
My C-section incision has an infection. It busted open a little in two places and started bleeding and oozing again. It's really red and yucky. I'm on an antibiotic now so hopefully that clears it up. I think I'm still doing too much. It's hard not to with two kids! My weight loss has slowed. I was 290 when I went into the hospital. I'm now down to 248. I was 240 when I learned I was pregnant with Molly, so only 8 lbs. from that point. I was still trying to lose weight before getting pregnant from my pregnancy with Alyson. My goal is 185...I will get there some day but right now, I'm not too concerned about it. My job is to take care of my kiddies and the full time nursing should help (as long as I keep my eating in check!) with shedding some more lbs.
Here is a link to some new pics. :) Some are from Alyson's 3rd birthday. Hope anyone who reads this is well!!
http://adobe.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=hdc0iwz.844rzbhv&x=0&y=7bpejq&localeid=en_US
Angel :)
