Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

Right now, Starfish is napping.  I was catching up on FB and e-mail and as needed, tending to laundry.  I also snuck in a bit of baking, making a batch of sugar cookies (from a pouch) and trying really hard not to eat the dough as I spooned little dollops of dough on to the cookie sheets.  I get one good long nap out of her a day now, the rest are 20-30 minute cat naps that are just enough time for things like meals, chores, and a shower.  Not necessarily in that order. And the long nap varies in time of day from one day to the next.  I know eventually we'll get something that resembles a predictable schedule, but until then, we just wing it.  She had her 4 month check-up with the Pediatrician yesterday.  It was a big appointment, the longest lasting one yet.  She weighed in at 13.5 lbs and was 23.5 inches long.  Looking back at her 2 month stats, she's gained 2 lbs and grew a half an inch.  Impressive little one.  We discussed first time parent concerns with the doct

On Thursday we closed the refinance and funding loan on our house.  The funding, above and beyond the payoff for the previous mortgage, is for installing a kitchen in our house.  You see, since before I even moved in here (nearly 10 years ago) the kitchen has been pretty much "makeshift". No traditional cabinets or pantries, no drawers (save for that one metal cabinet with drawers that is always a disastrous mess).  We've had a fridge and a stove/oven and a sink.  But none of the other creature comforts of a modern facility. But with this loan, that's all about to change.  Actually, the change is starting today as my hubby tears up part of the floor that needs repaired and replaced before we really dig in and get things moving. Hubby is tearing in and tearing up the floor!   The floor is gone and he's going to be putting in new joists and sub-flooring. We have already picked out flooring, cabinets, counter tops, and tile for the back splash.  We have

Last Thursday Starfish hit the 4 month mark.  I can't believe how quickly four months has flown by.  We marked the day with the cute picture below and a day full of crankiness.  She refused to nap that day and had massive mood swings as a result.  One minute she was playing and cooing and grabbing handfuls of my hair (ouch) and the next she was screaming bloody murder.  It was a fun day.... not. She goes in this week for her second round of vaccinations.  That should be fun.... (sarcasm).  And next week she has her 4 month check-up with the pediatrician.  I'm anxious to see how much she's grown!  I mean, I can SEE how much but I want official numbers. Over this past weekend she discovered her outside voice - inside a restaurant.  There was a TV near our table and it was showing a lacrosse game.  For some reason that excited Starfish to no end and she yelled and squealed with delight for pretty much the entire meal.  Thankfully there weren't that many patron

Yesterday I went to our local Harbor Freight and picked up a variety of rechargeable batteries for the various items in the house that require constant battery changes.  The C batteries were the ones I needed most for one of Starfish's favorite things, this mobile .  She will seriously lay in the crib for 15-20 minutes and just smile up at that thing when it's turning and doing it's thing.  She smiles the biggest when the ostrich comes around, sometimes she will squeal with delight even.  She seems to like the monkey and the giraffe as well. But the ostrich really makes her the happiest.  The other day the batteries finally died in the mobile, the same batteries we've had in it since she was about a month old.  I hadn't made it out to get replacement batteries and I was noticing that Starfish was looking at it longingly and would get irritated when she was in her crib during the day because it wasn't moving.  So I finally caved and bought some rechargeab

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The clock on the wall in the baby's room is losing time.  It currently reads 8:13, but it's actually 11:52.  It's been losing time for a few days.  I have been too lazy to change the battery.  But it's an appropriate physical allusion to the way life feels right now.  I realized this morning that in 10 days my little girl will be four months old.  FOUR MONTHS?!  It seems like it was just last week that I found out I was pregnant. I think it was actually about a year ago that I learned I was pregnant.  Maybe a week or two from now, when I took my first at home tests.... I didn't mark the occasion with a blog post or Facebook status update because I didn't want anyone to know until we met that 3 month viability mark in case something happened.  So I don't know the exact date we found out.  I am sure the midwives have it in my chart, as after taking the home tests on a Thursday night and Friday morning I went in Friday afternoon for a real test at the clinic.

Yesterday I had the need to use the Koala Care changing table in a restaurant to take care of an over full wet diaper on the lil' Starfish for the first time as a new mommy.  It went better than I expected.  But then, the bathroom was empty save us two chicks so I didn't have to feel like I was in any one's way or anything.  Thankfully I'd not bothered taking out a small blanket I'd packed in the diaper bag for our last weekend trip and was able to just lay that down on the hard plastic surface of the Koala table so Starfish didn't have to be annoyed by it. She was already in a mood and I was just glad to give her one less thing to get pissed about.  Recently she's discovered her feet.  At first she just grabbed there occasionally and cooed.  Now, however, it's like an all day task to get her toes into her mouth.  And that task usually results in a meltdown because eventually she gets too tired to hold her foot tight enough to get it to her mouth or

Today marks the fifteenth week since my little Starfish came into the world. And to mark the occasion she has decided to be an absolute cranklepuss today. Well it really started yesterday, maybe the day before.  But whatever.  She's intolerable right now.  So far today, if she's not sleeping she's just whining, crying, screaming and/or fussing.  Nothing seems to be a comfort.  I am not sure if it's growing pains or teething pains or a combination of the two, but it's not any fun at all. I know this too shall pass and all that jazz, but it's exhausting right now. In recent days when she's in better moods, however, she has been a complete joy.  She's learning new things it seems every day.  She's discovered her feet and likes to have them in hand a lot, which makes things like diaper changes and bath time challenging. She's finally had success in getting her little pigs into her mouth too, but it's a funny process that leads up to her g