An update

Last week we had Olivia's dr appt. She has become quite the chunky monkey! I was excited to see what she would weigh. Although we had a 4oz bottle before putting her on the scale she weighed in at 13lbs. I really thought she would weigh more than that. With her only being a week a way from being 3 months she is supposed to have doubled her weight (14 lbs 10 oz). I am not too concerned given her volumtious shape but it suprised me. Everything was good at the dr otherwise. She seemed to be growing appropriately and doing all the developmental things for her age.

I also went back to the dr (different one) to discuss the lack of weight loss and nausea. He thinks it is my blood sugar spiking and falling. He re-started me on the metformin.

I know there will be some disgust with this news but Olivia GOT HER EARS PIERCED! It looks adorable!!! I love it. She did great with it too. When they pierced them she cried and had a tear or two but by the time I went up to pay she was asleep. I am hoping they don't get infected and we have to take them out.

Tests, Bears, and Blessings ohhh my!

Negative Test...I took a prego test and it was negative. I think I am in the clear. The nausea seems to have improved for the most part. Still comes on in the evenings and I can't figure out what is causing it. I am relieved that I am not pregnant. Obviously I would have accepted the news but I really need more time! Olivia can be a handful. It would have been a nightmare to do the early prego exhaustion and listen to screaming. She is getting much better but then there are days that we sit in the recliner for hours because she just cries if I try to set her down. I must report the BEST $20 ever spent.......The WOMB BEAR. I had seen it at Babies R Us but I never thought it would be necessary. One of our challenges is that Olivia doesn't sleep longer than 30 min at a time. I think most of her fussiness is that she gets so tired. The Womb Bear is a soft cuddly bear that has a swooshing heartbeat noise. It has a 40 min timer. She is mesmorized by the sound. It over takes her!!! Now I swaddle her and put the bear next to her. I maybe rock her for 5 min and she is asleep. Not only does she fall asleep fast but stays asleep for 2 hrs. I have to sneak in and restart the bear but it is great. She will fuss at about 30 min but as long as the bear is on she goes immediately back to sleep. I don't care if she starts hating it tomorrow, the fact that she has slept for the last five days is great! Her mood is so much better when she gets the long naps.

On Sunday we had her Blessing. All the family came and we were able to take pictures. Afterwards we had a BBQ at the house. I don't have the pictures from the church yet because they are on other people's cameras but here are a few from the BBQ. Olivia had her new red party dress which looked so cute!!!! There was ping pong tournament that lasted for hours.....