Dear Weeb,
There are a lot of changes in your life right now. And you're still getting over your ear infection and accompanying cold. You get coughs so badly, just like me.
There are no bottles allowed at daycare and you are toilet training.
You absolutely HATE being dropped off at daycare and you cry hysterically. It breaks my heart. I end up crying all the way to work. The daycare lady is so good with you, but she's tough. I wonder if she's a bit too tough and isn't showing you enough compassion with all this change.
I don't like having to work. I want so badly to be a stay at home mom but we just can't afford it. I'm hoping that drop offs will get better soon.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
EAR INFECTION AND NEW DAYCARE
Deer Weeb,
You were supposed to start at your 3rd daycare today. We left the first because they were busted for having too many kids under 2 years old, the second asked us to leave because we started teaching you about inappropriate touching and the lady who ran the place thought it was because we didn't trust her boyfriend (who she had been leaving you kids with, unattended). I have not been impressed with having to leave you in the care of others and have had great disappointments with these past two experiences, though I never felt you were treated badly. I have hope for this new daycare. The lady seems rather set in her ways in regards to child care, but perhaps that will be a good thing. It is a Montessori daycare and will be going from a 10 child home daycare to a 50+ child daycare center in a new center in June.
You didn't actually start there today though because we spent the night in the ER with you. You have your very first ear infection and you were so very uncomfortable, all you could do is cry, you couldn't even tell me why. I just knew something was wrong and convinced Daddy that we needed to go to the hospital at 9:30 last night. We got home around midnight. It was much faster than I thought it would be. Luckily there was a drug store still open. We had you on antibiotics and anti-inflamitories for the pain. My poor girl. I've never seen you so upset. It was not a fun trip to the hospital. And by the time we got home, you were running a fever.
This morning, you actually slept beside me in bed for the first time. Poor thing, you were feeling so bad. But you had some good rest and I can see you starting to perk up.
New daycare will start in another day or so. Then we will start toilet training and trying to wean you from bottles!
You were supposed to start at your 3rd daycare today. We left the first because they were busted for having too many kids under 2 years old, the second asked us to leave because we started teaching you about inappropriate touching and the lady who ran the place thought it was because we didn't trust her boyfriend (who she had been leaving you kids with, unattended). I have not been impressed with having to leave you in the care of others and have had great disappointments with these past two experiences, though I never felt you were treated badly. I have hope for this new daycare. The lady seems rather set in her ways in regards to child care, but perhaps that will be a good thing. It is a Montessori daycare and will be going from a 10 child home daycare to a 50+ child daycare center in a new center in June.
You didn't actually start there today though because we spent the night in the ER with you. You have your very first ear infection and you were so very uncomfortable, all you could do is cry, you couldn't even tell me why. I just knew something was wrong and convinced Daddy that we needed to go to the hospital at 9:30 last night. We got home around midnight. It was much faster than I thought it would be. Luckily there was a drug store still open. We had you on antibiotics and anti-inflamitories for the pain. My poor girl. I've never seen you so upset. It was not a fun trip to the hospital. And by the time we got home, you were running a fever.
This morning, you actually slept beside me in bed for the first time. Poor thing, you were feeling so bad. But you had some good rest and I can see you starting to perk up.
New daycare will start in another day or so. Then we will start toilet training and trying to wean you from bottles!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
MY BABY IS SICK
Dear Weeb,
You have been very sick this whole week. You've had a high fever and have been throwing up. I've never seen you so sick and I'm terribly worried about you.
As I am posting this long after the fact (in 2010), I will say that you were sick as heck for a week. I took you to a clinic who said that it was a nasty bug and to give you anti-nausea medication so you could try and keep some fluids in you.
I was not far from taking you to the hospital.
You poor, poor thing. You were so sick.
You will learn, when you are a mother, that the world does not spin, the universe is not right until your child is healthy again.
You have been very sick this whole week. You've had a high fever and have been throwing up. I've never seen you so sick and I'm terribly worried about you.
As I am posting this long after the fact (in 2010), I will say that you were sick as heck for a week. I took you to a clinic who said that it was a nasty bug and to give you anti-nausea medication so you could try and keep some fluids in you.
I was not far from taking you to the hospital.
You poor, poor thing. You were so sick.
You will learn, when you are a mother, that the world does not spin, the universe is not right until your child is healthy again.
Friday, November 23, 2007
THE MOUNTAINS
Dear Weeb,
I'll be honest, I don't quite remember when this happened, exactly. It seemed to start when you were old enough to talk and the car seat was facing forward, so it could have been any time between ages 1 and 2. Or 3.
I don't remember where we were going, but you were in the back, in your car seat, and we were about to turn onto the main road and I said, "Ooh, look at the mountains, Weeb, they're covered in snow, aren't they pretty?"
You informed me that you made the mountains. And the snow. And your cousins helped you. You did this, you told me, before you were born.
This went on all autumn and winter that year. You INSISTED that you made the mountains and that your cousins helped making trees and grass and clouds and the squirrels that lived on the mountains.
The story had a mystical quality that kind of freaked me out. You were SO insistent. It really made me wonder about what you remembered about before you were born.
When I see the mountains now, especially when they are dusted in snow, I think of you.
Nice job on those mountains, baby. I love you.
I'll be honest, I don't quite remember when this happened, exactly. It seemed to start when you were old enough to talk and the car seat was facing forward, so it could have been any time between ages 1 and 2. Or 3.
I don't remember where we were going, but you were in the back, in your car seat, and we were about to turn onto the main road and I said, "Ooh, look at the mountains, Weeb, they're covered in snow, aren't they pretty?"
You informed me that you made the mountains. And the snow. And your cousins helped you. You did this, you told me, before you were born.
This went on all autumn and winter that year. You INSISTED that you made the mountains and that your cousins helped making trees and grass and clouds and the squirrels that lived on the mountains.
The story had a mystical quality that kind of freaked me out. You were SO insistent. It really made me wonder about what you remembered about before you were born.
When I see the mountains now, especially when they are dusted in snow, I think of you.
Nice job on those mountains, baby. I love you.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
POSTS
Dear Weeb,
I should have started these notes for you long before you turned 5, but I didn't and I'm sorry.
I'll do my best to go 'backwards' and post as much as I can remember as I'm sure you will be entertained hearing about yourself as a baby, toddler and kid, one day.
You have made my world a better place and you have made me a better person. I love you.
Mummy
I should have started these notes for you long before you turned 5, but I didn't and I'm sorry.
I'll do my best to go 'backwards' and post as much as I can remember as I'm sure you will be entertained hearing about yourself as a baby, toddler and kid, one day.
You have made my world a better place and you have made me a better person. I love you.
Mummy
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Dear Weeb,
It's so nice to finally meet you.
But did you have to keep us waiting so long? Ten days overdue is a cruel thing to do to a pregnant momma, especially with Christmas fast approaching!
I'm sure this is foreshadowing in regards to your personality - everything in your time.
And know this, the clichés are all true - I never knew I could love anybody as much as I love you and I cannot fathom how the world ever turned without you in it.
Love Mummy
It's so nice to finally meet you.
But did you have to keep us waiting so long? Ten days overdue is a cruel thing to do to a pregnant momma, especially with Christmas fast approaching!
I'm sure this is foreshadowing in regards to your personality - everything in your time.
And know this, the clichés are all true - I never knew I could love anybody as much as I love you and I cannot fathom how the world ever turned without you in it.
Love Mummy
Friday, May 6, 2005
YOUR NAME
I was in the shower after my ultrasound today. I was thinking about you.
It was as though you were with me (which I suppose you were) and said to me, "Hi Momma, my name is..." And I knew your name.
I went to talk to your Daddy. I told him we had to talk about your name again. He seemed to know exactly what I did, at the same time. We knew your name.
I would spend the next few months wondering if you were a boy, wondering if I was wrong about your name, wondering if I had just imagined it.
But I really believe that you told me your name.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF
There's a baby in here!
We got to hear the heartbeat today and SEE you!
I'm still in shock.
But beyond a doubt, this has been the best day of my entire life.
Thursday, May 5, 2005
WEEB
We have agreed to nickname you WEEB.
It is a name that we found in one of the baby names books. Daddy and I had a good laugh about it. I think it's a perfect nickname, short for 'wee baby'.
BABY NAMES
We have been looking at baby names.
Wonko and I do not agree on many names. For boys, we like Marcus and Harrison. For girls we like Lilith, Lillian and favored Erin most. There is one name that we liked, a few years ago, but because of a popular TV show, we thought that name, being so pretty, would become too popular.
We will not officially name you until you are born.
I still do not believe that you are real.
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