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January 2, 2005
Hi everyone. Long time no write for me. Sorry about that. We are all doing well. We had a very nice Christmas. It seemed like a lot of work leading up to it, but Christmas is my favorite holiday. Oh and Maddie turned three on Christmas Eve. I think she was very excited about it. On her actual birthday her friend Kacie came over and we sang to her and gave her one present before she went to bed. I won an auction on ebay of the 6 characters on the Bear in the big blue house, her current fave. It was such a big hit that it was worth all the stress. I kept getting outbid. She sleeps with them now and watches the videos all of the time. She even pretends that she is treelo. She had her 3 year check-up and I asked the doctor if he thought that the fact that she memorizes several shows from start to finish and then acts them out was weird. She acts out the entire show without missing a beat. He said that that is a sign that she is bright. I hope so, because I am her own mother and I think that several things that she does are weird. For example, she does a lot of things in a precise order. We have to play that way too. I have never seen anyone else act like her sometimes.
Anyway, back to Christmas. I got a nomination bracelet from my husband. It meant a lot to me because he had to pink out the links for me. My parents and Ray's parents came for dinner. The girls got so much stuff! NExt year I think I won't by them as much because they get so much stuff from everyone else.
Emma is doing well. Still not walking. She says Daddy all of the time. I have come to the conclusion that Emma is her own girl. She's definitely not one to be prompted to show her stuff. She will pay attention to me when she feels like it. I could try to teach her something but if she doesn't feel like paying attention she won't. Sometimes she won't even acknowledge that I'm talking to her. It's frustrating. But she loves to play and interact with me, she just doesn't want to be bothered with me teaching her anything unless she's interested on her own. So, as a result she is not doing the same things that other kids her age are. I don't mean that as a negative thing. I have long given up on putting any stock in whether she keeps up with other babies I know. It is hard sometimes to read the other baby diaries with babies younger than Emma already walking and saying sentences and stuff like that. Maddie was always the first to do things and said over 100 words by her first birthday. So, it is not good to compre them. But Emma is the sweetest and most pleasant and happy baby. I think she is going to be very creative and a free spirit. I think she will be very social (she's such a flirt) and bubbly and have such a great personality. I was always shy and quiet and cared too much about what other people thought about me.
Anyway, I didn't expect to write all that about Emma. We had the best new years eve! My inlaws came here to babysit and Ray and I went out to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner (low carb menu) and the movies (Cold Mountain). We stayed at a local bed and breakfast. It was so nice to spend the night out. This was our first overnight out (minus my stay in the hospital to give birth) ever. I absolutely loved waking up on my own instead of the alarm clock. The owners made breakfast for us. We got up and went out again. We went to babies R us to buy a booster seat for Maddie, the bookstore, and then out to lunch. It was so, so, so nice. I should do that again.
So, I've switched to the South Beach diet. I got really tired of the atkins diet. I felt like I couldn't eat another egg or breast of chicken. Even though I was seeing great results I just couldn't live like that. I love the south beach diet because you can eat fruit and vegetables and have a broader range of stuff to eat. There is lots of great sugar free stuff out there. I love the structure too. I like the menus and feeling compelled to actually cook them instead of taking the easy way out and eating eggs and sausage like on Atkings. I can be very lazy. So this is good. I think I could stick to this. I ate freely on Christmas and was so sick of eating all of the cookies and feeling so aware of all the pies and cookies in my house, like I had to keep eating them. I love not being tempted to keep eating that stuff.
So, if you've made it this far, here is my big question. Please give me feedback. Please, please. Emma is one year and weighs about 18 1/2 lbs. I just bought Maddie a new booster/car seat and have switched Emma to Maddie's old carseat. I had trouble installing it rear facing (you know, one year AND 20 lbs) and feel much more confident in installing it forward facing because of the tether. Do you think it would be horrible to put her forward facing even though she is 1.5 lbs too light? I'm having such trouble with this. With the carseat tethered it doesn't move at all, it's nice and snug. With it rear facing it moves all around because there's no tether. I don't think I'm installing it wrong. So what should I do? What if I get into an accident and that 1.5 lbs makes a difference? I would hate myself? But what if it being rear facing but not snug is more trouble? I would appreciate any thoughts. It is a Britax roundabout carseat.
Well, after all of that, I have to go. Thanks for reading!
Jessica
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