Last Friday Brianna had her first day of daycare. I brought her in for a few hours to see how she did. She was fine and didn't even look for me, me on the other hand, I cried the whole time I was there. All the teachers kept hugging me reminding me that it would be harder on me than her. They were right, she had a ball playing with the kids. When I went back to pick her up, she was actually sleeping! Unbelieveable. The only bad thing was she got sick over the weekend, I am sure from being aroud those germy kids. She ran a 102 fever and shit was coming out of her nose all day and night. I kept her home Monday and Tuesday and today she is back there. She is doing a lot better now, just a few bad nights. I really think it is good though that she is getting exposed to all of these germs now so she can build up an immunity to them before she goes to preschool. Not like that is anytime soon or anything but the earlier she gets used to the germs the better. I am still contemplating taking her home to Daddy at lunch, I guess I will just go and see how she is doing first.
Also, apparently I put too many pics in this journal because I ran out of space to add more. So I had to delete all the old pics so I can keep updating new ones. Good thing I have them all saved on my computer and on cd's.....
2007-09-11 (baby has arrived)
Good news yet bad I got the call that we have been waiting for, Brianna got off the waiting list for daycare. We have been on the list since January and a spot has finally opened for her. I was happy that Bobby can now find a job down here but at the same time so upset that she has to go be with strangers all day. I almost started crying on the phone when they told me. We have been so lucky that my mom could stay with her all day when we were still living in NJ and that Bobby was able to not work after we moved down here so he could stay with her while I went to work. I wish it could stay like this forever but we really need 2 incomes. Especially if we want to have another child someday. I am off Friday so I am going to bring her in for a few hours to see how she does at the daycare. I am so scared that she won't be OK. I get so upset just thinking about it. I went over there today during lunch to check it out and see what I needed to bring with her and as they showed me around, I had tears welling up in my eyes. Am I a wacko or what?? Thank God I am off Friday because I think I am going to be a wreck, Thank God for waterproof mascara!! I think Bobby was more upset than me. He said, who is she going to play with? How will they know to feed her? How will she nap with all those kids? Will she have toys to play with? All valid questions, in fact, the same questions run through my mind. I just hope everything will be OK. I try to keep thinking that millions of working families do this everyday but it doesn't help. I still feel terrible. Maybe I'll hit that lottery that I don't even play and we won't need to work and she can stay home with us.....
2007-09-07 (baby has arrived)
Almost 10 months
Brianna is turning 10 months old next week, wow almost a whole year old. This time has flown by so quickly. It is so hard to even imagine my life before her. She is everything to me....
So, she had her 9 month check up yesterday at her new doctor's office in NC. They said she is perfect developmentally and physically wise, duh, like I didn't know that. She is now 30 inches long (97th percentile, YIKES!!) and weighs 22 pounds 4 ounces (still 95th percentile). I can't believe how big she is. She is still so slim though, just a little belly on her. I guess being so tall evens it out. I really hope she doesn't continue with this growing spurt. I dont want her to be 7 feet tall!! But again, the only thing that really matters is that she is healthy, which she is.....
Don't want to jinx anything but she slept through the night for the past 2 nights, maybe we are back to normal??? knock on a big friggen piece of wood....
2007-08-28 (baby has arrived)
9 months
My little babydoll turned 9 months old 2 weeks ago, she is getting so big now. I can't believe it. She went to the doc a couple of weeks ago and was 20 pounds 11 ounces, WOW!!! She has 3 teeth, with another coming in on the top. She makes this horrible grinding noise with the top tooth and the bottom two teeth. It is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Still no walking by herself yet but she stands all the time and lets go of whatever she is holding onto. She can stand there for a good 20 seconds by herself until she starts clapping her hands or turns around and then loses her balance. She hates to be confined to one thing anymore. She only likes her exersaucer for a little while and even the pack & play she can move around in and walk around the sides of is getting old to her. She would rather be on the floor crawling and getting into everything she isn't suppose to. Luckily we have a huge playroom for her now so she can roam around. Of course, the few things that are in there that she can't touch, like the armroir with her books in it and the stand for the TV, she wants more than anything.... figures.....
Brianna loves to eat now and has mastered the stage 2 Gerber foods. Favs for the moment: everything, especially the hawaiian delight desert. I give her that after she has her veggies for dinner. She loves all the mixed fruits, like apples & cherries, apples & blueberries, bananas & strawberry & pear, and even the mixed veggies like sweet potatoes & corn. So unlike me thankfully. She still hasn't quite mastered the sippie cup, in fact she thinks of it more as a toy than anything else. We are still working on that one.
Brianna had her first official outing at the beach 2 weekends ago (August 18). We went to visit my parents at their condo for the day and then spent the night. She didn't know what to make of the sand and the water! And she especially loved the seagulls. Pics in the album of the day, you can see how happy she was on the beach with my parents....
Still waking up during the night which is getting old real quick. She was doing so well, and now we are back to waking up once a night, which sucks when I have to get up for work at 5. I just don't understand how she can be hungry after all she eats throughout the day and night. And I know I should just let her cry and go back to sleep on her own, but when you have to go to work, it is just easier to get up and help her back to sleep so I can get some sleep. I am hoping this is just a phase associated with teething.
