Flashbacks

It's been so strange the past few months or so. Gianna's 1st birthday is tomorrow and I'm a bit sad but it's almost like I've been reliving her whole pregnancy each month. In November on certain days I would tell hubby "this is the day I found out this..." same in December relating to my pregnancy with her. Then the steroid shots and then I've been thinking 'oh this is when mother-in-law and grandma showed up to help.' Now today I'm thinking of the madness around my house before I left on tomorrow morning a yr ago. I needed to make sure everything I could have done, was done just in case something went wrong and I was either in the hospital for awhile or worse, died. They had no idea how long I could be in the hospital and thought a week but then they thought she could be hospitalized for 2 weeks. Ugh. I'm so glad everything went so smoothly and we were able to come home after 3 days! The morning of surgery was awful. We had to be there by 7 and just so happened that morning was supposed to start sleeting and icing! It was a 1 hr drive to the hospital doing this risky surgery!! So we started out early leaving around 5 am and it had already started icing. Add that and the fact that I was so nervous I puked about 5 times on the way there. lol It was quite the morning!

It hasn't really hit me that she's 1 yet. I know alot of people cry when their last is 1, I haven't really got there yet. She is still so baby like, you can definitely tell she was a preemie. She's just slower on a few things. She finally got all 4 of her front baby teeth the last couple weeks. She's no where close to walking yet. She can pull up to standing and shimmy along the furniture but she's not ready to go out on her own yet. I remember being so scared in the hospital before they pulled her out not knowing what a 34 week baby with a Single Uterine Artery would be up against and then they pull her out and ask "are you sure of your due date? did you have diabetes?" Funny how a baby expected to have IUGR due to a condition comes out at 34 weeks at 6 lbs 2 oz. But after a 24 hr observation she was perfect and allowed to come back to our room. :)

Maybe another reason it hasn't hit that she's 1 is the fact I'm still breastfeeding her....very wearily. lol Since she's got some teeth now, there's been a few times she's used them on me. A few days ago she drew blood. Dh is laughs when I shriek from the pain of her sinking them chompers in but this time when I pulled her off and he saw blood he knew I wasn't joking around! So I'm still feeding her but I'm on high alert if I feel like she's not interested completely, we're done. lol If she is going ballistic wanting to nurse bad, I'm calming her first. I'm watching for any clues that she's going to get alittle crazy and possibly bite so I can avoid it at all costs. lol!
I took this picture the other morning, I think you can tell she has a cold by her eyes poor kid, but someone who knows what she's been doing told me it looks like she's sharpening her chompers with that graham crackers. LOL I bet she is.

Gymnastics Round #2

When our first Alex was in Gymnastics, I never imagined we would have another do it. Then when Mia came along I thought maybe she might be into girly things, but who knew having 2 brothers ahead of her she might play with hotwheels and want to do sports for all I knew. lol This is her 3rd month in Gymnastics and the kid is loving it. She just turned 5 a few weeks ago but is the smallest kiddo in her beginner class. She is trying hard, she's still a bit shy but she's breaking out of her shell more and more each week. :)

Kids Break Stuff

We've had a fair share of things ruined around our place. Cell phones dropped in the toilet, fish killed with a book of matches thrown in a tank, permanent marker all over wood, sofas peed on, glass shattered dishes, a gallon of veggie oil poured on the carpet last month. :/

Nothing prepared us for our son smacking our 50 inch TV breaking the screen. Oh the horror. I really thought my hubby would kill both Rocco for doing it and me for not paying attention to him. $1,000 down the drain. It's been 4 days now and it's actually not bad with no TV in the living room. Infact we're thinking about getting rid of the cable box now since it hasn't been used. The kids aren't seeming to mind. I hardly get to watch TV except for my 11 am love of Young and the Restless. We have a TV with bunny ears in the kitchen and cable in the basement if we really want to watch. I guess sometimes we don't always need what we THINK we need!