Good News!

The MRI came back negative, meaning there are no tumors! That's what I figured in the first place but its always better to be safe rather than sorry right? But the bad news is we still don't know what is making me so sick. All of my blood work came back ok with the exception of my thyroid levels being low--but my doctor doesn't think that is the problem. Now they want me to go to a neurologist. Goodness, it has been a rollercoaster ride for sure. And boy I am glad that I have insurance! So I have an appointment on Monday with the neurologist and hopefully he will be able to shed some light on the problem.

If I Only Had A Brain!

Oh, but wait, I do! It's been confirmed. And let me tell you its huge! Today I had an MRI to hopefully find out what is causing me to feel so crappy. It was not the most pleasant experience, that is for sure! I never knew that I am claustrophobic, but I think I am. There is something really creepy about being stuck in a tight space where you can't move. I can't believe I lasted 35 minutes in that thing. It is definitely something I never want to do again. And definitely not what I wanted to do with a raging migraine either! That machine is loud! Anyway, we find out the results tomorrow.

What to Do, What to Do?

See this sweet little thing? Well I have a problem. Lately she has not been so sweet. This little one who would drift so peacefully off to sleep now throws the biggest trantrums anytime she even thinks that I am going to try and put her to bed. Every nap and bedtime we have these little battles, which I always win--but let me tell you it isn't easy. But I am getting tired of the fight. I don't know what to do because if I just lay her in her crib to let her "cry it out" she is so stubborn she would cry forever. I am not even kidding. I've tried. So what now? Does anyone have any secret for getting a stubborn girl to go to sleep?! Let me just say, she still puts on a show for other people. If there are people around she is happy, giggly, smily, and would never even think about crying. Just mommy and daddy however, well that's a completely different story! Hopefully this phase won't last long.

Biggest Loser

So one of mine and Ben's favorite show to watch is the Biggest Loser and Season 11 is finally here! And while we were watching the premiere the other night, I heard something really interesting: 2/3 of Americans are obese. Not just overweight but obese. That is really sad! So I started looking around me thinking if this statistic was right, approximately 66 of every hundred people that I see are severely overweight. How did our country get that way? Anyways it makes me really self conscious--not only do I want the image that comes with being obese, but I can't imagine being stuck with the health problems that come with it! I have made some personal goals to work out more and eat healthier everyday. I need to be an example to my family to help stop this epidemic. I came across this video the other day and it was really inspiring to me. If people can lose hundreds of pounds to be healthy, I can suck it up and lose these few extra pregnancy pounds. No problem.

I LOVE TECHNOLOGY, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS YOU, YOU SEE

Well, Cora does at least. I mean, she is super obsessed with it! Whenever we are out her favorite toy to play with is mine (or daddy's) cell phone. But her favorite thing ever are computers. When she sees a keyboard she goes nuts! This weekend she was kind of under the weather after all of her shots (not her usual hyper self) but anytime she saw a computer she perked right up. I was in my professors office the other day with her and she tried to jump over the desk just to reach the keyboard. Nothing else is as cool. Not the TV, not her toys, not mommy, not daddy. She's hooked! What a geek.

Our little girl is getting HUGE! I took her to her 6 month check up today (really 6 1/2 months) and I cannot believe how big she is. She now weighs 16 pounds 12 ounces! HOLY HUGE! I mean that is only the 57% percentile but that is WAY up from where she was a few months ago (2nd percentile). And let me tell you she is TALL!! She jumped from the 19% percentile last appointment to the 77% percentile! :) Go girl. If she keeps going at this rate she will be full grown next year! Anyway the poor thing had to have 5 shots today-including a flu shot and so she has been really fussy. She only cried for a second though and recovered as soon as I picked her up! She is tough as nails. I still cry when I get shots! (Not really but almost). I am so glad we have a healthy little girl!

Oh and other good news--baby Kayson (our soon to be nephew) is almost here! Joey is due in three weeks and I am really excited for Cora to have someone else to play with!

Goal

So I made a goal to try to write a blog post every day this week since I have been severely slacking the last couple of weeks. But I feel like I have nothing funny, interesting, or even exciting to say. What I do have to say is that I am completely and utterly exhausted. I don't think I have ever been so tired in my life. Sure I have a six month old baby but she is not the problem. In fact she is a great sleeper. She has slept through the night since she was two weeks old. She goes to bed at a decent time (maybe 9 or 10) and she wakes up just when I am wanting to get up (9 or 10 am). So why am I so tired? Well I am working on figuring that out.

In the mean time I am consuming more than my fair share of caffinated beverages and am trying to carry on with my daily activities. Today that included school, school, and more school. I am a teaching assistant for a professor so I had about a bizzilion essays to grade today. I could not believe these people were in college. Half of the writing was horrid! But, being the nice girl that I am, and being in their shoes recently, everyone received good grades. I swear half of what I read were girls telling stories about their boyfriends. Who does that? I would never in a million years write an essay about my boyfriend to turn in for credit. Kids these days! :)

Big Girl

My little Cora monster is now eating solids--somewhat. She has graduated from the pureed food and can now eat small chunks of things! Its great! The only thing is, she gets so excited when she eats that she will scream at me if I am not fast enough for her. She's not very patient. And she gets what she wants when she wants it apparently. But I am still excited that she is getting to eat "big girl food". She finally has her six month doctors appointment on Friday. I will be surprised if she doesn't break the scales! She is seriously getting so big--and fast. She went from being in the 2nd percentile to probably the 50th percentile in just a few short months. Where is my tiny baby going?

Baby Hungry

...not me--just to clarify.

But I swear half the people I know are pregnant and the other half are men.

We are not planning on another baby for a while. Key word here PLANNING.

Right now one baby is more than enough for me. The past 195 days that I have had her here with me have been some of the best. She is happy, fun, and well lets face it lots of work! I can't even imagine having two of them right now.

So this post is a little reminder (mostly for myself) that babies are HARD WORK. Hopefully I wont get too baby hungry with all these soon-to-be newborn babies!

I would just like to remind everyone that its the weekend! :) I have been waiting for this day for the last 5 days. Let me show you why I LOVE the weekend:

I get to spend the whole time with the lovelies. What more could a girl want?

Very Naughty Girl

Ah! Cora is a very naughty girl! Today she finally learned that she can scoot/crawl to the things that she wants. So I am upstairs making lunch and Cora is laying on my bed playing with her toys. I was pleasantly surprised that she wasn't crying and was happily entertaining herself. After a few minutes I decide to walk downstairs to check on her because she was just being too good. As I get to the bottom of the stairs I hear a man's voice coming from my room. I was a little startled but I walked into the room anyway. What do I find? Cora has crawled to my wireless keyboard and was happily pressing ever key. She has been eying this toy for a while and was screaming with delight that she had finally gotten ahold of it. Well what about the man in my room right? Well she somehow managed to turn on the voiceover feature on the computer. I have no idea how she did it or how I am supposed to turn it off. This voiceover reads every word on the page. Nothing I do can get it to turn off. In fact, I have typed this whole entry with the man copying me. Ugh. The moral of the story--never leave Cora unattended. She is VERY NAUGHTY.

Undecided

It seems like everyday I want something different to happen in my life. Lately I have been going crazy staying at home so much (it has helped since I started school and can get out of the house a little bit). A few weeks back I decided that I should apply for some jobs so that I could make some money, get some more work experience, and get out of the house more. And now I have two interviews. One with an engineering firm as an Administrative Assistant--and one with Intermountain Health care. By no means are these my dream jobs but they are pretty good companies to work for, they have good pay, and they would give me an opportunity to use my talents. But the more I think about leaving Cora at day care for 8-10 hours out of the day--well I just can't do it. I am more attached to her than I previously thought. Even leaving her for a few hours three nights a week is pretty rough for me. I see babies and strollers on campus and I wish that I could just bring her with me. So needless to say--I have turned both interviews down. I may be crazy but I know its best right now for me to stay home with my little girl.

Baldies

For some reason Ben thought Cora needed a twin so he shaved his head--bald. Maybe it was my fault because I suggested that he needed a haircut but it was too late at night and I was tired so I let it go. The next morning I wake up to Ben giving himself a haircut. It looked nice when I saw it--a little short but nice (he had some hair on his head when I saw it). So seeing that he had it under control I went back to sleep. When Ben came home from work there it was--a very bald head. Maybe I should shave my head too so my whole family can share the lovely hairdo.

Holding Out

I have all these sweet pictures of Baby Cora and I've been holding out on you! So I thought I would share a few. Isn't she cute? I mean yeah I am her mom and I have to say that but seriously, I don't think babies get much cuter than this!

Baby Cougar

We have a little BYU Cougar on our hands (whether she likes it or not).

Boots!

I am SOOOO proud of myself. Ben has needed/wanted new boots for a while now. I was planning on getting him a nice pair for Christmas and I scored big time! I got him the same exact pair that he already owns (except his are nearly ripped to shreds and covered in grease). He loves those boots! And the best part is that he bought them for $150 and I scored these on major clearance because they only had a few sizes left! Good thing for me Ben has small feet! And how much did I pay for them? Yeah, thats right--$35. And did I mention I got free shipping? :)

BAD DAY!

Can I just say that I am happy today. Happy that it's not yesterday--cause that was one of the worst days in a VERY long time. Why is it that when you are already having a bad day about a million other bad things happen to you? Let's see, to start Ben and I bought a car and it ended up not being what we wanted so we had to spend 5 hours yesterday at a car dealership figuring out what we want. I should be happy about that right, cause I mean we got a new car and it is something that we really like! (Actually at first I was skeptical because it was a stick shift, but it turns out--I CAN DRIVE A STICK!). Anyways that was not fun, we had to redo all the financing stuff and I hate that. I hate owing people. It is the worst feeling ever. I don't know what I am going to do when we decide to buy a house. I think that if money didn't exist in the world, I would be a much happier woman! Anyways I had to miss my class yesterday since we had to get the car thing figured out. That's not too bad right? Well actually it is. I can only miss once class for "free" without getting a large amount of points deducted from my grade--not that my grade really matters. Guess my schedule is filled for the next 13 Wednesdays. So we finally get done at the dealership and I go to get in the car. Then guess what? MY PANTS CATCH ON SOMETHING AND TOTALLY SPLIT! (luckily on the outer leg seam). An optimist would look on the bright side, at least we were heading home right. Yesterday was not an optimistic day. Oh and then I get home and I had lost my retainer. Yeah the one we just paid $150 to replace. Don't worry, I found it--but not yesterday. Not too many things make me hysterical but with everything compounding on each other caused me to explode. So my question: how do you keep a positive attitude when you are having what you think is the worst day in history?

Happy 6 Months

Ok so I know I have been very good at neglecting my blog lately but I just couldn't miss this one! Today my little (BIG) Cora is 6 months old. Can you believe it? I am still trying to accept the facts. Six more months and she will be a whole year old. Wow, you've heard it a million times before but it truly goes by SO fast. I can't believe it. Cora has learned so much: she rolls over all the time, she is 15 pounds and has moved up to size 3 diapers which she will probably been in for the next year..., she loves the sound of her own voice, she sits up on her own very well, she is eating more big girl food and thinks that she has to do it all by herself (she is not very good at that!), she gives high fives, and she is now working on the whole crawling thing. Oh and I can't forget, the little baldy is working on getting more hair. I can wait until it is actually long enough for me to do something with it. Also, Cora is already a little flirt and is the object of much desire to some cute little boys at church. One of the little boys even said "She likes me, and I think I like that!". Oh wow. We are in for some big trouble, that is for sure.

One last little note: no teeth. No sign of teething. No problem. :) Yet...

Blonde Moment

So yesterday, I am driving back from my orthodontist appointment in Spanish Fork. As I am getting on the freeway a police officer speeds by me with his lights on. About a minute later I was in bumper to bumper traffic that was basically stopped. The nearest exit was closed and I was in the farthest lane away from the exit so I accepted my fate and sat there for a half an hour. Not to bad for a rollover wreck right? Well as I am sitting there a life flight helicopter lands right next to me, thats beside the facts but it was pretty cool so I thought I would throw that in there. Anyway I hear someone listening to hispanic music really loudly--I look to my left old, non-hispanic man in a pick up truck. Couldn't really figure out why he would be listening to the music, especially so loud, but oh well. Soon I approached the wreck, which happened to be on the other side of the freeway (yep, I was stopped for half an hour so nosy people could stop and see what was happening on the OTHER side of the road!) I finally get out of the traffic jam, off of the freeway, and almost home and guess what I hear? Loud mexican music. On MY radio. Ooops.