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Testing using the iPhone app for the first time in o. It appears to be much more accessible with voiceover than it used to be. !
We Finally have internet!!!
Well, it's been a year in coming, but we finally have internet at home. Obviously I won't be able to catch up on everyone's lives, so feel free to give me the reader's digest version in the comments. I'll try to pop in on a more regular basis.
So, lots going on.But since my time on the computer is pretty limited, I'll keep it pretty short. First, the girls. Some of you are on my Facebook page, so you've seen my updates about them. They're growing like crazy, and learning so much ever day. Haylie talks in full, non-stop sentences, paragraphs,and sometimes it seems like novels. She never stops talking, and she's gotten much more understandable. She's had two eye exams under anesthesia, and we're in the process of getting glasses to correct her very poor vision. Emma is just stinking cute. She doesn't talk much, though she expresses her wishes quite clearly and is learning new words daily. She started walking late last summer, and can keep up with Haylie pretty well these days. She's the happiest, sweetest child, she loves giving kisses and hugs, but she and her sister tend to terrorize each other, which makes my life interesting to say the least.
Kevin and I are still together, and doing fairly well. We've had our issues, but we're working on them. Robert has started the process of giving up his parental rights. I don't really want to go into that whole can of worms here, but suffice it to say that it's pretty clear he does not want to be a father.
Kevin and I are both working, though I'm having to take some time off to find more permanent child care.We're going to look at a daycare/preschool next Wednesday, and if it works out, hopefully I'll be back at work by the beginning of April.
Other than that, not much else is going on. So, now it's everyone else's turn. Catch me up, y'all!
So, lots going on.But since my time on the computer is pretty limited, I'll keep it pretty short. First, the girls. Some of you are on my Facebook page, so you've seen my updates about them. They're growing like crazy, and learning so much ever day. Haylie talks in full, non-stop sentences, paragraphs,and sometimes it seems like novels. She never stops talking, and she's gotten much more understandable. She's had two eye exams under anesthesia, and we're in the process of getting glasses to correct her very poor vision. Emma is just stinking cute. She doesn't talk much, though she expresses her wishes quite clearly and is learning new words daily. She started walking late last summer, and can keep up with Haylie pretty well these days. She's the happiest, sweetest child, she loves giving kisses and hugs, but she and her sister tend to terrorize each other, which makes my life interesting to say the least.
Kevin and I are still together, and doing fairly well. We've had our issues, but we're working on them. Robert has started the process of giving up his parental rights. I don't really want to go into that whole can of worms here, but suffice it to say that it's pretty clear he does not want to be a father.
Kevin and I are both working, though I'm having to take some time off to find more permanent child care.We're going to look at a daycare/preschool next Wednesday, and if it works out, hopefully I'll be back at work by the beginning of April.
Other than that, not much else is going on. So, now it's everyone else's turn. Catch me up, y'all!
Updateage
There really isn't much new to report. For a while after I told Robert I wanted a divorce, things seemed to be okay between us. A little strained, but we were fairly civil, even cordial, toward each other. Then that went downhill. He started treating me like dirt, and pretty much ignoring the girls. The only way I could get him to spend any time with them was to hand them off and then disappear into my room or into the kitchen or something. Then things blew up when I called him out on both. He ultimately took the computer out of my room and took my iPhone. He basically cut me off from any communication with the outside world, left me without any of my contact information for important people like Haylie's teachers. The next morning, Patrick, my dad, and Robert's supervisor all told him he was an idiot, and that he had no right to take my phone away, no matter whose paycheck paid for it. He came home early from work and gave it back. So now the only mode of communication I have is my iPhone, which is fine since I can do virtually everything on it that I could do on the computer. Since that incident, after I let him know in no uncertain terms what I thought of him for doing something so low, things have been pretty much back to normal between us. We have another 6 or 7 weeks to live with each other, and making things nasty and uncomfortable is doing no one any favors.
I think I might have found a place to live. My friend Leanne lives in an apartment building in the Northeast part of Kansas City, and she happens to be really good friends with the owner. Additionally, as luck would have it, there are two 3 bedroom apartments that will be available very soon, both on the 3rd floor, right across the hall from each other. Did I mention that my best friend Kathy is moving up here? So she and I are both looking for apartments, and these two just sort of fell into our laps. It's not a done deal yet, but I'm hoping that it will be within the next two weeks. Kathy is coming up next weekend for a whole week to get some running around done, including looking at the apartments and hopefully putting down a deposit. It will be great to have her here for a week. And having Patrick here has been great too. He's really turning out to be a fabulous friend to both Robert and me, and I sincerely hope that we can remain so after we're no longer living together.
And now for some happy, non-divorce related news. Emma is sitting up all by herself now. I mean, I have to put her in a sitting position, but she'll stay there forever, unless she sees a toy she wants and topples over to get to it. If she's content though, she can easily sit unsupported for at least 10 minutes. She's also pushing up on her hands and knees and starting to rock back and forth before crawling backwards. She has started demanding real food when she sits at the table with us, and loves bread, cheese, yogurt, chicken, hamburger, pork chops, beans, pasta, and a bunch of other stuff. She's not crazy about banana, only taking a few bites before turning her head away and shoving my hand away from her face. She still only has 2 teeth, the same 2 she cut when she was 4.5 months old. She's sleeping like complete crap, but I'm not sure if that's due to teething, another sleep regression, or the fact that I co-sleep full time with her now. I don't have much choice about that last part right now. My room is small, and there's just not room in there for a bed of her own. I do like being able to nurse her without getting out of bed, but man, she's a little furnace and I get so hot at night! When we move I'll be putting Haylie in a queen bed that my dad is gifting us, and then side-carring the crib to my bed so that Emma and I can still nurse easily in the night, but we have our own space. With any luck it'll be a smooth transition, and we'll both start getting better sleep.
There isn't much new to say about Haylie. She's still her silly, sweet, crazy, busy, hilariously funny, sometimes obnoxious self. I can tell she's picking up on my stress, because she's acting out more often and wanting more attention and affection. I try to give it to her when I can, but sometimes I just want to rip my hair out.
That's all for now. I need to go to bed.
I think I might have found a place to live. My friend Leanne lives in an apartment building in the Northeast part of Kansas City, and she happens to be really good friends with the owner. Additionally, as luck would have it, there are two 3 bedroom apartments that will be available very soon, both on the 3rd floor, right across the hall from each other. Did I mention that my best friend Kathy is moving up here? So she and I are both looking for apartments, and these two just sort of fell into our laps. It's not a done deal yet, but I'm hoping that it will be within the next two weeks. Kathy is coming up next weekend for a whole week to get some running around done, including looking at the apartments and hopefully putting down a deposit. It will be great to have her here for a week. And having Patrick here has been great too. He's really turning out to be a fabulous friend to both Robert and me, and I sincerely hope that we can remain so after we're no longer living together.
And now for some happy, non-divorce related news. Emma is sitting up all by herself now. I mean, I have to put her in a sitting position, but she'll stay there forever, unless she sees a toy she wants and topples over to get to it. If she's content though, she can easily sit unsupported for at least 10 minutes. She's also pushing up on her hands and knees and starting to rock back and forth before crawling backwards. She has started demanding real food when she sits at the table with us, and loves bread, cheese, yogurt, chicken, hamburger, pork chops, beans, pasta, and a bunch of other stuff. She's not crazy about banana, only taking a few bites before turning her head away and shoving my hand away from her face. She still only has 2 teeth, the same 2 she cut when she was 4.5 months old. She's sleeping like complete crap, but I'm not sure if that's due to teething, another sleep regression, or the fact that I co-sleep full time with her now. I don't have much choice about that last part right now. My room is small, and there's just not room in there for a bed of her own. I do like being able to nurse her without getting out of bed, but man, she's a little furnace and I get so hot at night! When we move I'll be putting Haylie in a queen bed that my dad is gifting us, and then side-carring the crib to my bed so that Emma and I can still nurse easily in the night, but we have our own space. With any luck it'll be a smooth transition, and we'll both start getting better sleep.
There isn't much new to say about Haylie. She's still her silly, sweet, crazy, busy, hilariously funny, sometimes obnoxious self. I can tell she's picking up on my stress, because she's acting out more often and wanting more attention and affection. I try to give it to her when I can, but sometimes I just want to rip my hair out.
That's all for now. I need to go to bed.
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Everyone in the house has been sick except for me. Robert got it at work, and wound up going to to urgent care on Friday. Then Haylie got it, and now Emma has the crud. So far, I've managed to stay healthy, though if I don't get some sleep soon, that's not going to last. Emma has been up every hour or two for two nights in a row, unable to breathe through her little nose. And night time feedings take longer because I have to clean up her nose, suction it out, and then settle her enough to nurse before going back to bed. Ugh. Last night I got about 3 hours of broken sleep. An hour here, an hour there, and now I'm starting to feel it. But I can't nap today, because we're having company for Robert's birthday ddddddinner tonigh. I still have to vacuum and clean the hall bathroom.
For a few nights, I was using the new essential oils I got to help Emma sleep, and they were doing the trick. I wasn't getting much more sleep than usual, because my body was so trained to be awake, but Emma started sleeping much better. And then she got sick, and it all went to hell. She seems to be a little better today, so I'm crossing my fingers that she sleeps more than an hour or two tonight so I can pass out.
The computer is still messed up, but hopefully we'll get getting it fixed on Thursday. Unttil then, I'm able to update but unable to read my friends page. The LJ app is only partially accessible using VoiceOver on my phone, so I'll have a whole lot of catching up to do when I'm able to get back on the computer.
Okay, I need to go get the meat loaf made for tonight's dinner, and then peel and cut potatoes for mashing. I would sooooo rather go back to bed for about a million years.
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Prayers and Positive Thoughts, Please
I was invited to my friend Leila’s baby shower this coming Saturday. She was due the first week of September, and so excited to be having a baby with the love of her life. This morning, Shani texted me and asked to call when I could, that it was about Leila. I assumed that Leila had had the baby a bit early, and that the baby shower had either been cancelled or postponed. Apparently, last night Leila was in excruciating pain, and it was concentrated in her abdomen. She was rushed to the hospital, and for reasons yet unknown to Shani and me, they delivered the baby via cesarean. We don’t know what the complication was, what was causing the pain, nothing aside from that he was born via c-section. Then during the surgery, Leila started convulsing. She had been awake, talking and chatting with her husband and the doctors, and then she was suddenly unconscious, and has not regained consciousness since. She’s on life support, and the doctors suspect a brain aneurism. As of now, they haven’t proclaimed her brain dead, but they haven’t been able to get any brain activity from her. I imagine they’ll continue to run tests until they can confirm the cause of all of this. I’m in shock. What should have been the happiest day of her life turned into a nightmare for her and her family. Even if a miracle occurs and she recovers, it’s incredibly unlikely that she’ll be anything close to what she was. She’s only 28 years old. She and her husband just celebrated their 1 year anniversary last Thursday, her 28th birthday. I just spoke to her a few weeks ago, and she was so happy, so vital, and excited to be having a baby. She was even planning a home birth. I feel so helpless. I’m going with Shani this evening to see her. We won’t get to see the baby, because he’s still in the NICU. He’s fine, as far as we know, just a little bit too early. Shani and I, since we’re both breastfeeding, are planning to pump for the baby as much as we can. She’ll probably be able to get more than I; she has quite a hefty milk supply and I don’t. I make enough for Emma plus a little extra to pump. I’m upping my Fenugreek intake, as well as eating oatmeal, and anything I can pump will go to the baby.
Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers. Especially Sky, Leila’s husband. He’s going to have so much to deal with over the coming weeks and months.
Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers. Especially Sky, Leila’s husband. He’s going to have so much to deal with over the coming weeks and months.
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2 years old!