Jewelry box or wipe box?

Today I made my custom wipe box. I got bored looking at the plastic for a while now, so I grabbed some things and started "dressing" it. I got the idea to make it look like a jewelry box.

Here is what I used:

An Empty Wipe Box

A Glue Gun

Old PJ's

Ribbon

Fake Flowers

Charms

Scissor

Let's get started:

I use the glue gun to glue the fabric to the box. It's pretty simple and when it gets messy, I can easily wipe the glue away and start over.

I make sure that the fabric "sticks" to the box, before I glue another side.

After I am done with the fabric on the box and the lid, I glue the ribbon on the edges of the box.

Once I am done with that, I use (but that is a personal taste) some "fuzzy ribbon" like a boa, and put this around the edge of the lid.

I then strip a yellow and white flower and combine them to ONE flower. I use some charms to create my daughters name "Lora" and some shiny charms to make it look like a "jewelry box".

I will grab a new pack of wipes, cut it open and put them in the box.

And that is it! Now I have a "fancy" diaper wipe box!

Photoshop!

New home and 4 month shots :(

So, today I moved our posts from her old blog to this one. I like the templates here a lot better.

I also like the connectivity a lot. (Facebook, twitter etc..)

Anyways, Lora had her 4 month shots today. I have been nervous since yesterday, cause I remember when she had her 2 month shots, she wasn't very happy at all. She cried the whole day, not the "hungry cry" or the "I am tired cry", no she cried the " I am in pain and I feel like poop cry".

Thank god Brad was going with me this morning. Last time I started crying in the doctors office when she got her shots. At least now I would have mental support!

Her check up went great! She weighs 14.7 lbs and is 24 inches tall. The doctor said she is bigger than 75% of girls of her age, but that was nothing to worry about. He said i did a good job feeding her. I have been breast feeding her since the day she was born and we're still going strong. My plan is to keep it up until she is at least 1 year old. The doctor also told us that we should give her breast milk only until she is 6 months old. Apparently if you start giving babies solid food now, they have an increased risk for allergies. So breast milk it is!

Now the hard part, the doctor left and the nurse came in. Instead of 3 shots, Lora was getting 2 shots today. 2 shots in the same leg. I started to get nervous and had to put Lora on the bed. The nurse asked me to hold her down, but I only held Lora's hand. I did not want to hold my daughter down against her will. It makes me feel as if I done this to her on purpose. When she got her second shot, she lifted up her head and looked at her leg. She gave a very loud scream and it was over by then. She cried even harder and my throat started closing. I felt so horrible for my little girl. Poor baby :(.

I picked her up and held her close to me while she was crying and she grabbed my shirt. I walked around with her trying to soothe her, but nothing helped. I quickly put her back on the table, changed her diaper, dressed her and we walked out. I kept her in my arms, as I did not want to lay her in her carrier. Outside the doctors office we put her in her carrier and carried her to the car. By the time we reached the car, she was sleeping.

We had to go to Walmart quick as we had to pick up a few things, but we did not have the stroller with us. I decided to carry her in the Snugli and she was so quiet the whole time in the store. She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and my eyes started watering. She is so precious :). At the end she fell asleep again. She barely woke up when I put her back into her car seat when we drove home.

At home she was very good as well. She ate immediately and even smiled and laughed. I checked something on the computer and sat her in her swing for a bit and everything was fine. She started fussing a bit after a few minutes and I picked her up. She didn't eat a whole lot when we got home, so i decided to go lay down with her, feed her and maybe get an hour nap myself.

I woke up to a screaming baby, covered in sweat, inconsolable. She was screaming her lungs out and I felt horrible again. "Here we go" was the first thing that popped up in my head. I asked Brad to bring me the baby Tylenol and I gave her a small dose. I got out of bed and started walking around with her. This all had little to no effect. She kept screaming. I could feel her right leg kicking, but her left leg was stiff as could be. She would not move it.

I filled the bathtub with warm water and lavender baby wash and sat in it with her. Even this was not soothing, so after 5 minutes I had enough of that. I got a towel and wrapped her in it, did not even bother with putting her in a diaper. I grabbed my bath robe and walked some more around the house with her. I finally went to sit down on the couch and I let her nurse. This was apparently soothing enough for her to stop crying. She nursed for about 30 minutes and I even got a smile out of her.

Since then she has been on and off crying and sleeping, but thankfully she isn't crying as loud anymore. I can still see that she does not want to move her left leg. I cannot touch it either. I tried to massage and move it earlier, but she won't let me. It feels warm, but whenever I touch it, she will cry. So tomorrow I will try and massage it for her again and maybe play a little bit with her. I want her to move her leg, so it won't be stiff the next few days.

Anyways, it's been a busy day. I am so not looking forward to her 6 month shots, it will be 3 shots again instead of 2.

Banana! (Mar 2)

Lora is 4 months old now and next week we will have our follow up visit with her pediatrician. We already discussed last time, that Lora is probably going to eat solid food as well. For now she is breastfed only. I am very proud of myself that she is breast feeding for 4 months now, but I can see she is getting curious for "normal" food too.

I have been reading the past week about "solid" baby food. When to introduce it, how to prepare it, but I really haven't found a website yet that describes or tells me how to keep breastfeeding as a main nutritional source and add "solid" food to keep her curiosity going.

Anyways, we tried banana puree today.

Lora enjoyed it very much. She ate really good from the small spoon without making too much of a mess and she got actually quite frustrated when I wasn't fast enough with grabbing new banana puree. So cute ! :)

Now to figure out how to balance breast milk and "solid" food. I guess I'll wait until Monday and ask the pediatrician. It was great to see her eat today though :).

Milestone! (Feb 15)

This morning I woke up at 6 a.m. only to witness Lora turn over right next to me ! She turned over from her back onto her belly! She kept her head nice up right and was coo-ing away :) .

I called Brad to show him, right before he left for work, and we were both very proud of her. Every day now she does something new. I want to stop time and make it go slow, but father time does not listen to me sadly.

Thank god I got a new video camera last week, so thankfully I can record most of her mile stones now, so we can enjoy watching and sharing them.

Brad and I are reaching a milestone ourselves. We are trying to buy a house in the next 2 months and it will be our first time. This afternoon I am going to be picked up by our Realtor to go check out 2 or 3 houses we have seen on the internet. They had a nice yard outside and didn't look to shabby on the outside, now if only the insides are of our taste, that would be great!

I just hope we can find a nice house before April 15th. That is when we have to leave this house and it would be nice to have a new roof over our heads. If not, we might have to go live with Brad's mom for a few weeks/ months/ until our new house is available to move in. So let's hope that doesn't happen. It is not that I don't like living there, but let's face it: The house is very small, it is about an hour or more away from Brad's work, it's still my inlaws... , and as a mom and wife I would love a place of our own.

So I am off to do some cleaning and getting ready to go house-shopping.

Happy Valentine's Day (Feb 14)

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

Valentine's day is a day surrounded by love and hearts. Well my day this morning started with some news about my own heart.

I had a heart ultra sound a week ago and a 24 hour monitor and this morning I received a phone call with the results.

I was only awake for about 5 minutes when I received my call. The nurse on the other side told me that they had seen on the ultra sound that my heart is a little enlarged. It is pumping more blood in my body (instead of the arteries) than a normal heart and he said that when I had my monitor on, they seen my heart not beat for 2 seconds. They want to go over the results with me face to face in detail and to figure out what our next steps are.

You can guess how my day started: Panic Mode. I hung up the phone and started crying of course. Looked at my little girl, who was sitting on my lap, and thought I'd never see her grow up.

I called my husband and told him the results and he tried to assure me that there is nothing wrong, else they would've wanted me there already. But because I was in such Panic Mode, he called the nurse himself to make sure everything was indeed fine. I have been feeling a little depressed lately and I probably only heard the bad half of the conversation and not the good half.

My husband called me back and told me I had nothing to worry about. The enlarged heart was minimal and probably a left over from the pregnancy and the 2 seconds where my heart did not beat was probably from where the monitor lost a connector and I had to re-attach it. So yeah, I am not too worried now, well still a little, but I can at least go on like I was going till at least Wednesday. I hope the news is not bad and I do hope that if there is something wrong, it is treatable!

After all the phone calls this morning I decided to not let this news ruin my day. I put Lora in her Valentine's outfit , made her a new flower to match the outfit and took a picture of her. I posted the picture on daddies facebook and thanked him for my precious gift =) .

The sun is shining today and when I walked the dogs this afternoon it actually felt good outside. So I decided to give the boys a bath outside, it was well needed after a cold winter and I cleaned out their pens. The blankets are now drying in the sun and wind and hopefully they can go back tonight.

I am gonna finish up writing this and then I'll start cooking dinner. Pork chops are to be made tonight. Maybe Brad wants to grill them today :)

Crafty Friday (Jan 21)

I was kinda bored today and with Lora sleeping in the swing, I had some time for myself.

The past few weeks I have been reading forums for babies and seen that mamas post pictures of their babies wearing these cute head bands. I also checked etsy.com and some women are selling head bands on this website.

I had to go to the doctor this morning, but afterwards I dragged myself to "wallyworld" and bought fake flowers, head bands a glue gun and glue. By the time I got home Lora had passed out in the car seat. I woke her up however to feed her and she went straight back

to sleep in her swing.

I had about 2 hours for myself now and I started making flowers. I ripped the flowers I bought apart and my whole table was covered with leaves. Now it was time to mix and match! I took some old head bands I had, but never used cause they are so tight, and stripped down the bows on them too. Nice, now I had some nice center pieces as well.

Maybe I should start selling them too.. *halo*

New blog

Since I am going to use this blog from now on for my other blog as well, I will have to import some "old blogs".