Ahhh......It has been a busy day and I am finally getting a chance to relax for a second! Frank is upstairs with Frankie and Gigi getting them settled in for the night and I have decided to write a little while I have the chance!
These past few days I have been thinking about this past year and what it has meant to me and my family. I seem to be drawn back to the birth of Gigi almost a year ago. I remember at this time last year, I was looking forward to meeting Gia and to have some time off from my crazy life at work. I am having quite the time wrapping my mind around the fact that in a few short weeks my baby is going to be turning 1! All through my pregnancy, I kept telling myself that I was going to enjoy every single second of this pregnancy as well as every second of the next year with Gia. I have done just that but I think because I held on just a little tighter to Gia, knowing that she was my last baby, that it made the time go by just that much faster! As of today, she is now on table food 100% (no more baby food!), we are in the process of transitioning her over to milk from formula and she is starting to stand on her own and take a few steps by herself! I love seeing her grow and develope but at the same time I am sad that I know longer will have those experiences with another baby.
Which brings me to another thought I have been struggling with alot....having another baby. When Frankie was about 10 months old, we found out we were expecting again and there were alot of emotions surrounding this pregnancy. It was not planned but was a very nice surprise! I remember driving home from the doctor's office and calling my mom and asking her if she was ready to be a Grandmother again! We were just beginning to wrap our mind around the idea of another baby when I started having problems with the pregnancy. I miscarried at 12 weeks and my soul was broken. I have never experienced such physical as well as emotional pain in my life. We lost our baby the first part of December and I just remember telling Frank that I did not even want to celebrate my birthday or Christmas. Somehow we plugged through the holidays but I honestly don't remember much of them. When we found out we were pregnant with Gia, we were so excited! I did however, tell Frank, that no matter what the sex of this baby was, it would be our last. I just could not go through another loss of a child. So after I had Gia, I had my tubes tied and have felt very comfortable with my decision. These past few months though, I have been having serious doubts about my decision. My heart tells me that we should have had one more but my head tells me that we needed to be done. We are done having babies due to the surgery but I often wonder what it would have been like to have one more......
With these thoughts in mind, I am going to enjoy my babies as they grow as well as my husband as we get back to focusing on us. I am so blessed to have two amazing babies and a husband who loves me for me and who is wonderful to me as well as to our children! I am anxious to see what 2013 has in store for our family!
Love to you all!
Tina
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Last two days of my maternity leave...
I can't believe that baby Gia will be 8 weeks this Friday! Where did these 8 weeks go!? It just seems like yesterday that I had her and now I am preparing for my first day back to work. I have enjoyed every last minute with both Frankie and Gia but still say I would make a very bad stay at home mom! lol I admire women who can stay at home with their children day in and day out but I am not one of them. I love both of my children beyond words but am a much better mother to them by working outside the home. So back to work I go on Friday.....
Yesterday I went and had lunch with my mother and then did some clothes shopping for the kids. Frankie is able to begin the spring/summer season off with wearing his clothes from last summer but poor Gia is just growing through anything that I have for her. She no longer can wear 0-3 month and is almost out of 3-6 month sized clothes. I am thinking I should just buy stock in Children's Place for as much as I shop there!
Frankie is really enjoying all the nice weather we are having! He loves walking up and down our deck steps as well as taking his shovel to the sand pits out in our back yard. Frank and I have determined that a sandbox is a must for the summer! I can't wait to get Gia outside but am waiting until it is not so windy.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
Yesterday I went and had lunch with my mother and then did some clothes shopping for the kids. Frankie is able to begin the spring/summer season off with wearing his clothes from last summer but poor Gia is just growing through anything that I have for her. She no longer can wear 0-3 month and is almost out of 3-6 month sized clothes. I am thinking I should just buy stock in Children's Place for as much as I shop there!
Frankie is really enjoying all the nice weather we are having! He loves walking up and down our deck steps as well as taking his shovel to the sand pits out in our back yard. Frank and I have determined that a sandbox is a must for the summer! I can't wait to get Gia outside but am waiting until it is not so windy.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
Monday, February 13, 2012
It has been a Monday......
Frankie turns two on Thursday. What!? Where did these two years go!!??
Frank and I decided (or should I say I decided and Frank followed through) to convert Frankie's bed into a toddler bed. We have been having a hard time with him not taking afternoon naps and so in my wisdom, I thought that maybe it was the bed. Now before you call me crazy, he is sleeping in a "big boy" bed at daycare and doing a great job of it! So my husband changed out the bed yesterday morning for us. Nap time came and Frankie was not having his new bed. So another day with no nap. No problem...we would just put him to bed early. My husband agreed to take on this project and it seemed to go very well for all of us until about 1:30 this morning. Frankie decided that his bed was not going to work. I give my husband credit as he worked with him for about an hour trying to get him to relax and go back to sleep. By this point, I was done. So my husband and I agreed that the bed needed to be converted back to a crib if we were going to get any type of sleep. After 10 minutes, I told Frankie it was time to go "night night", put him in his crib and he fell fast asleep. I had just gotten back into bed and was drifting asleep when my sweet baby girl decided she was hungry. My husband fed her and then after many attempts at getting her to go back to sleep, I decided that her and I would just get up for the morning. I will have to admit that I love that the local news comes on @ 4:30 in the morning!
Frankie went to daycare today and Frank and I took our male dog to the vet for his shots. Then decided that due to the weather we were going to just come back home for the day. Baby Gia and I got a good afternoon nap in and now I have supper in.
I am making a new recipie and am hoping that it turns out good! ( you know how that can go!)
Here is the recipie if you are interested......
4 slices of precooked ham
1 tbsp. of prepared mustard
2/3 c. brown sugar
1 can sliced pineapple
Heat oven to 325. Place ham with a pineapple slice into a deep oven proof dish. Layer the ham and pineapple slices. Mix sugar, mustard and syrup from the pineapple in small saucepan and bring to boil. Pour over the ham and pineapple slices, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
Love to all!
Tina
Frank and I decided (or should I say I decided and Frank followed through) to convert Frankie's bed into a toddler bed. We have been having a hard time with him not taking afternoon naps and so in my wisdom, I thought that maybe it was the bed. Now before you call me crazy, he is sleeping in a "big boy" bed at daycare and doing a great job of it! So my husband changed out the bed yesterday morning for us. Nap time came and Frankie was not having his new bed. So another day with no nap. No problem...we would just put him to bed early. My husband agreed to take on this project and it seemed to go very well for all of us until about 1:30 this morning. Frankie decided that his bed was not going to work. I give my husband credit as he worked with him for about an hour trying to get him to relax and go back to sleep. By this point, I was done. So my husband and I agreed that the bed needed to be converted back to a crib if we were going to get any type of sleep. After 10 minutes, I told Frankie it was time to go "night night", put him in his crib and he fell fast asleep. I had just gotten back into bed and was drifting asleep when my sweet baby girl decided she was hungry. My husband fed her and then after many attempts at getting her to go back to sleep, I decided that her and I would just get up for the morning. I will have to admit that I love that the local news comes on @ 4:30 in the morning!
Frankie went to daycare today and Frank and I took our male dog to the vet for his shots. Then decided that due to the weather we were going to just come back home for the day. Baby Gia and I got a good afternoon nap in and now I have supper in.
I am making a new recipie and am hoping that it turns out good! ( you know how that can go!)
Here is the recipie if you are interested......
4 slices of precooked ham
1 tbsp. of prepared mustard
2/3 c. brown sugar
1 can sliced pineapple
Heat oven to 325. Place ham with a pineapple slice into a deep oven proof dish. Layer the ham and pineapple slices. Mix sugar, mustard and syrup from the pineapple in small saucepan and bring to boil. Pour over the ham and pineapple slices, cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
Love to all!
Tina
Friday, February 4, 2011
Friday at last......
I don't do such a hot job with keeping up with my blogging but I sure hope to change that! So here goes......
Frankie was scheduled to have surgery this past Wednesday but due to the weather we moved the surgery to March 17th. Frank and I feel really good about this rescheduling for a variety of reasons. I was feeling very guilty about not having a birthday party for Frankie's 1st birthday and now we can with the surgery delayed. I also am having second thoughts about tubes in Frankie's ears. This delay will give me some more time to decide if this is the right thing for Frankie.
Frank has been fighting a cold all week. I can't remember the last time he was this sick. I woke up this morning around 5:00 am thinking that Frankie was crying in his sleep. When I determined that it was not him, it was bothering me where this sound was coming from. I figured out that Frank was weezing in his sleep! We are picking up a antibiotic this morning and I sure hope that it helps.
Yesterday I spent the day doing projects. I am hosting a baby shower for a friend of mine and I decided to order the invites online. I hope that she likes them and I am getting so excited for the shower as well as her baby girl to make her appearance in the world!! I also decided that it was time to be serious about my weight. I have struggled with this since I was in college. I am one of the lucky ones who lost all of my pregnancy weight that I gained with Frankie but since having my miscarriage in December, I can't seem to lose the 10 pounds that I gained. I did a lot of research and determined that I was going to rejoin Weight Watchers. I have a really good friend who is doing the program as well and so I am hoping that we will be a good support system for each other!
Today, the guys and I are going to the mall to do some shopping before Frank goes to work. We don't get to spend a lot of time together as a family so it should be fun!
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!
Frankie was scheduled to have surgery this past Wednesday but due to the weather we moved the surgery to March 17th. Frank and I feel really good about this rescheduling for a variety of reasons. I was feeling very guilty about not having a birthday party for Frankie's 1st birthday and now we can with the surgery delayed. I also am having second thoughts about tubes in Frankie's ears. This delay will give me some more time to decide if this is the right thing for Frankie.
Frank has been fighting a cold all week. I can't remember the last time he was this sick. I woke up this morning around 5:00 am thinking that Frankie was crying in his sleep. When I determined that it was not him, it was bothering me where this sound was coming from. I figured out that Frank was weezing in his sleep! We are picking up a antibiotic this morning and I sure hope that it helps.
Yesterday I spent the day doing projects. I am hosting a baby shower for a friend of mine and I decided to order the invites online. I hope that she likes them and I am getting so excited for the shower as well as her baby girl to make her appearance in the world!! I also decided that it was time to be serious about my weight. I have struggled with this since I was in college. I am one of the lucky ones who lost all of my pregnancy weight that I gained with Frankie but since having my miscarriage in December, I can't seem to lose the 10 pounds that I gained. I did a lot of research and determined that I was going to rejoin Weight Watchers. I have a really good friend who is doing the program as well and so I am hoping that we will be a good support system for each other!
Today, the guys and I are going to the mall to do some shopping before Frank goes to work. We don't get to spend a lot of time together as a family so it should be fun!
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Maybe I Am On To Something.........
Last night I left my son with a friend of mine for a couple of hours while I went and had a final dress fitting for a bridesmaid dress and of course I left him screaming his head off. Luckily, the friend that I left him with was very capable of handling his "fit" but still I felt bad leaving him. In a effort to not begin to cry, I tried thinking of what may be causing these fits that he seems to have every day.
I began to think that the "fit" would happen about two hours after I would give him his juice bottle. I am giving him juice to help with his constipation issue. In addition to the "fit" he would then spit up for a couple of hours and would also scream 1/2 way through his bottle. So my conclusion is that maybe the juice is upseting his little tummy. I decided that I would do 2 things to test my theory out today.
First, no juice until bed time and I am going to do 1/2 juice and 1/2 water and see what that does. Frank and I decided to get out of the house today and go to the mall. I dread outings because these "fits" of course, happen when we are out. I am so excited to say that we had the most wonderful two hours at the mall today!!! No "fits" and he was a very happy baby the whole time!!
I really think that I am right about the juice upsetting his tummy. I hope that tonight when I water it down that it will ease some of the upset but still take care of the constipation issue.
Keep your fingers crossed!
I began to think that the "fit" would happen about two hours after I would give him his juice bottle. I am giving him juice to help with his constipation issue. In addition to the "fit" he would then spit up for a couple of hours and would also scream 1/2 way through his bottle. So my conclusion is that maybe the juice is upseting his little tummy. I decided that I would do 2 things to test my theory out today.
First, no juice until bed time and I am going to do 1/2 juice and 1/2 water and see what that does. Frank and I decided to get out of the house today and go to the mall. I dread outings because these "fits" of course, happen when we are out. I am so excited to say that we had the most wonderful two hours at the mall today!!! No "fits" and he was a very happy baby the whole time!!
I really think that I am right about the juice upsetting his tummy. I hope that tonight when I water it down that it will ease some of the upset but still take care of the constipation issue.
Keep your fingers crossed!
Friday, April 23, 2010
Frankie and His "Big Boy" Bed
Good morning! Last night was a big night @ the Guerra household! Baby Frankie moved from sleeping in our room to sleeping in his crib in his room. He had started sleeping through the night last week and so I figured it was time. My husband from day 1 of bringing him home had asked when he would move into his own room at which I replied..."I don't know"!? Well, I know now. He did very well for his first night. Our bedtime routine got a little messed up last night due to getting home late last night so I was not sure how it was going to go. He went down for bed about 10:30 and woke up at 12:30 to eat. He then was back to sleep about 1:00 and slept until 6. I would say that was good for his first night! I, on the otherhand, did not get much sleep. I kept waking up and turning on the monitor to see how he was doing and also to hear him breathing. What a wonderful sound!!
Frankie went for his first road trip last night. We went for trip to see a friend and her husband and their new home. Frankie did fairly well in the car until about 30 minutes into it and he was done. He is still not too sure about that car seat! After we got to my friend's house, he decided that screaming for a hour and a half was a hot idea. Turned out that his little legs were bothering him from the shots the day before.
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Wish us luck on Sunday as we travel to Kansas City for the day!
Frankie went for his first road trip last night. We went for trip to see a friend and her husband and their new home. Frankie did fairly well in the car until about 30 minutes into it and he was done. He is still not too sure about that car seat! After we got to my friend's house, he decided that screaming for a hour and a half was a hot idea. Turned out that his little legs were bothering him from the shots the day before.
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