Hey, guys, please be sure to say a prayer for me and Miss Autumn. We are headed to the children's hospital ER because she's really dehydrated. Wah! My first ER trip as a mommy!

Sicky baby day 3. Vomiting, fever, coughs and whimpers oh my! I am going to call the doctor in the morning if she still has a fever. I can't really tell, too, if her ear-pulling is just what she does from time to time or it her ear is hurting.

Tomorrow aikido starts up again and boot camp on Thursday. I'm probably going to just do the adult class because of Autumn. I might have skipped out altogether but can't since we are going to do Frank's 3rd kyu demo. It's not so much over-protective mom stuff as I just hate to ask people to carry a sick, whimpering baby for 4 hours and she refuses to eat from a bottle or sippy cup so I need to hang around and feed her so she doesn't dehydrate what with all the blarging she's been doing. Ah, well. Seven and a half months and this is our first sick experience other than the Night o' Barfing. Can't get much better than that.

I did an yesterday so it's time to Christmas photo dump yay! By the way, I've locked some of my old photo posts, mainly because I don't want a bzillion Autumn pics floating around.

Please forgive my uninspired captions. My head is hurting a bit.



Christmas Eve at Outback. We went to the Christmas Eve service at Mike's parents church. It's funny, we haven't been to a traditional church in ages and, I have to say, it was very...quiet. LOL. Oh, and Autumn doesn't actually take a pacifier. She just chews it and then sucks her thumb for comfort.


Happy mama and baby pre-sicky.


Haha. Baby robe! This is actually the day after Christmas as evidenced by the edge of what is a bounteous pile of gifts.

Christmas!

Good morning, Miss Molly, you're looking quite brown today!


We put her in the hat and bib Michelle sent. They are so cute that she wore them for 3 days. And, Autumn is much more interested in the tree than her gift.


Mike opening his stocking. I got him a couple of books in the Dragonriders of Pern series.


Autumn's first gift!


A build a bear with her heartbeat in it! I had a sound thingie that Liz got me and I made the recording at the last ultrasound before she was induced.


But she's much more interested in the crinkly noises that the bag of hershey kisses makes. I get Mike a new bag of kisses every year. this year: cordial cherry creme kisses.


My Mike haul. He really gets the best stuff for me.


We took her over to Mike's parents' in her Christmas jammies.


Santa baby!


Playing my new game and waiting on Ryan and Leah to arrive.


They make it in...Autumn and Tyler observing one another.


Christmas morning at Mike's parents' post camera on fire.


Um, this one appears to be the day after Christmas when we opened sibling gifts. As evidenced by 1. the new outfit and 2. the baby chair that my mom got her. I just noticed as I was previewing. lol.


The best hat Evar.


Brad, Tyler, and the rapidly growing Pile. Yes, it needs a capital letter. :P




Back at my house for dinner. This is my china! Like my purple charger? Sooo cool. Mike's mom found them for me. This is out of order, I realized on the preview. :) Valerie set out the silverware backwards. :P I didn't say anything.




My mom crocheted this--so STINKING CUTE. She looks like a Jedi.






Madeleine and Autumn the day after Christmas--Autumn looks soooooo much like my baby pictures here.

And that's it!

Autumn is pitifully ill with a cold--complete with slight fever, horrible mucus that she occasionally vomits up, and whimpering. IT IS SO FREAKING SAD.

Sicky baby:

Nothin But Pictures

These are all lowish quality because the studios don't want us using them to make prints.

Did the santa thing today. She didn't mind him at all even though his fur and beard made her sneeze. :P The weird checkout lady made a big deal about how huge Autumn is and how she's sooooo much bigger than her 6 month old and her 6 month old is a biiiiig girl. Ok. Whatever. ::eyeroll:: lol.




She seems to really like this pose.


The abominable snow-Autumn!


This is how she's going to look when trying to get out of something she's in trouble for.


Those are the coolest shoes evar. Mike's mom of course.


I don't really like this one cause her face looks all crazy. The arms belong to Mike's mom. :)


"The look" again.


I absolutely love these.


This is the one Mike's mom says looks like me. :P




"daisy"


And we are done!

7 month update

Well. It snuck up on me but...I'm back down to my prepreg weight!! Yay! I'm not as fit as I was so that's definitely my next goal but...yay! ::dances:: I haven't weighed myself in ages because it was just soooo depressing. Especially since I kept seeing these women at the store. at church. outside. EVERY-freaking-WHERE that I would look at and say, "that baby looks a week old. She looks better than me. Oh, that baby is really little. And SHE looks better than me, too. Everyone looks better than me!" Of course, I would tell myself that they also probably didn't have IV and blood transfusion swelling which helped but...so depressing. I just randomly decided to hop on the scale because all but maybe one or two pairs of pants fit and most of my shirts fit now.

I also weighed Autumn and she's about 16 pounds. Yay for the teeny cute baby! I really, really don't want her to hit any major growth spurts until she can walk. Lol. She's doing well. Not sleeping great at night but I'll take that over other problems we could have. Solids are still a meh. She's not interested other than the Night o' Barfing's banana happiness. She's kind of getting the hang of a sippy cup and that's pretty cute. She can tip it up but hasn't figured out that chewing isn't going to bring out the water.



Back to cleaning now...

This one's for Ryan

As most of you know my brother Ryan and his wife Leah had their son Tyler a month or so ago. (I'm sure I've got pictures laying around somewhere...) Ryan is pretty much your sterotypical macho-father figure. He lifts weights, plays sports, watches sports, wears trashy t-shirts, etc.... Anyway, I've no doubt in my mind that Tyler is going to be encouraged *cough*forced*cough* into playing tons and tons of sports. Which is fine really. But I'm totally predicting this is how things are really going to go down...

One minute of baby squealing

Nothing fancy here just some cute baby noise. Enjoy!