It's been awhile since I've last blogged and a few things have happened. Last weekend, I brought Meredith down to Blue Earth. Friday night we went out to the Legion for my good friend's mother's 60th Birthday. Meredith's schedule worked pretty well, she took a long nap on the ride home, we stopped briefly at my mom's to feed her a bottle and then headed up to the Legion. I had my travel highchair and put Meredith in it and fed her some puffs! I was able to hang out and catch up with my friends Emily and Danica, while Sheila's mom opened presents and visited. The only difficult thing was Meredith really wanted to get down and crawl around, but the floor was just a bit too dirty there! It was a lot of fun and I'm glad we went. We got back to my mom's about 9:30 and she spent some time getting hugs and kisses from Gma and Gpa and then got her off to bed.
The next day I had brunch with my Gma, mom, sister-in-law and step-sister up at a store for a special mother's day brunch. Then my Gma came over to spend some time with Meredith. Then after a quick nap we headed to my brother's place for a late lunch with my dad! It was very nice spending time with my dad and Meredith, but after a few hours, Meri was ready for another nap. The rest of the evening we spent with my mom and step-dad. We even had time to watch the movie, "The Blind Side" - which was a very good movie.
We headed back up to Minneapolis the next morning and I was greated with flowers, a present and a couple of cards for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, I was feeling very exhausted (I had a horrible cold, that kept me home from work that Friday, and was still sick, plus the weekend had been very busy) and all I wanted to do was take a nap. After feeding Meri, with Jon's help, I did just that! It was fabulous!
And this past weekend, I actually got sick again! We had my Aunt come over on Friday night because we had plans to go out to dinner with another couple to Restaurant Alma. Cory and Stephanie came over about 7pm to have a drink before dinner and to see Meredith. My Aunt was here by 7:15pm. We all headed out to make our reservation by 8pm. But at the restaurant, almost out of nowhere, I got nauseated and ended up getting sick, twice actually. I toughed it out through dinner, but didn't eat any of my food, but we had to leave right after dinner. I felt so bad, because Jon and I had been looking forward to going out for a long time. I ended up getting sick again in the middle of the night and couldn't eat much the next day. In fact, I didn't do much but sleep until about 2 in the afternoon. I still have no idea what happened. I had eaten some focaccia bread on Friday evening, maybe that was bad, I don't know. But it totally bummed me out.
I did still go to a work party on Saturday night with Meredith for about an hour and a half, but I didn't eat or drink anything there, except Ginger Ale! It was a birthday party for a couple of coworkers, that she has had the last few years. She has it at her house in Highland Park in St. Paul, so it's very close to our house. We got there after Meredith's dinner and it was so nice to see all my coworkers outside of work and they all seemed to enjoy meeting Meredith. My friends Nicole and Travis brought there daughter Paisley, too and they seemed to be fastenated with each other. But by 9:30, Meri was getting tired - and so was I, so we headed home.
As far as Meredith is concerned, things are going well in every area - except her eating, as usual. The last couple of weeks she hasn't been eating very well, especially at day care. Like only taking 1 to 3 oz in her two bottles at day care. She's been crying a lot with the bottle, and really only eating well when she's asleep. She's also basically refusing anything by spoon at home, though does eat a bit better by spoon at daycare (probably because she takes so little by bottle there). She does, however, love to eat puffs. I think if she could eat puffs all day long, she would. It's been very stressful for me, and after some encouragement from some coworkers, I'm going to see the feeding clinic at Children's Hospital. I had an appointment with them back in February, but ended up cancelling because she was improving. But the truth is, she does improve at times, but she always comes back to these times where she hates the bottle and it's a struggle to get her to eat. I'm reading to get an expert opinion and I fully intend on going ahead regardless of how she is eating at the time of the appointment. And actually the past couple days have been a bit easier to feed her, which has been great. It doesn't look like we will be able to get appointment until the beginning of June, so we'll see how she is doing then.
But other than that - Meredith is doing so great! She sleeps well at night, she's happy when she's awake. She's always smiling and giggling, she's crawling everywhere and starting to pull up on things, at least to get up on to her knees. She is so inquisitive and independent. She's just a lot of fun!
And as far as Meredith's modeling career. It's off to a very bumpy start. Actually, the Manhattan Toy Company shoot also fell through because the toy Meri was going to model, wasn't finished. So, she didn't end up doing any modeling:( The photographer and my friend at Manhattan Toy Company are going to keep us in mind and maybe we'll end up doing something in the future!
Here she is crawling around, she's getting pretty fast now!
Here's where the red hair comes from, her Auntie Emily! Her and her hubby spent the night with us a few weeks ago before taking an early flight out to Las Vegas the next morning
Meri's spending some quality time with her Gpa Pfaffinger
Here she is snuggling with her Great Auntie Kate, who graciously came over to babysit on Saturday night! Thanks Auntie Kate!
Here we are with the Swingen's who we went out to dinner with, bummer that I got sick :(
Jon's good friend, Pete, was in town for a Surgery meeting. He and Jon have known each other since Med School, then were in General Surgery together and he was even the best man at our wedding - but he now is a Colorectal Surgeon in Ohio and we haven't seen him in a long time. It was nice to see him again!
Meredith is starting to show interest in standing. She can't pull herself up to standing, but can pull herself up to kneeling and is getting close to standing - I think we're in even more trouble!
She's starting to like to crawl into the dog bed, with or without the dog. That equals, lots of dog hair all over Meredith, oh well!
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