Staying Up Late

Riley and I have decided that it is a lot of fun when you stay up late. We have been staying up really late the last week. Riley stays up until 9:30 and I stay up even later than that. Sometimes I stay up until 11:30. It is so much fun to spend more time with mommy and daddy. They keep trying to make us go to bed earlier. So far we are winning. However mommy and daddy do look really tired. I get mommy up to check on her usually once a night. She is doing okay when I yell for her (in case you were wondering). While she is up I figure she might as well feed me. I didn't wake her up last night though. She stayed up until almost 1:00 so I figured she needs all the sleep she is going to get with a 5:00 wake up call. Nine days until my first Christmas. I will let you know how it goes.

Missed Me?

I know that it has been forever since I have blogged and a lot has happened to me.

Mommy went back to work and that has kept me a little busy trying to keep up with things when I am gone at Alice's all day long.

So first things first I had my first Thanksgiving. It was really nice to meet Tia. That is my Aunt Adrienne. We call her that because it is spanish for aunt. I also got to meet Tio Brian, Rina, Carl, Rachel, Carl Michael, John, Nadine, Jenny, Erica, Stephanie, Andrew, Caroline, Mike, and Mimi. That is a lot of people for such a little girl. I also got to see where Grandma lived. She set up a room for Riley all by herself. She even filled it with toys. But she made mommy, daddy, and I share a room. I wonder if she will give me Tia's room when I am as big as Riley? I think Grandma gave herself the biggest shaft because she slept in the basement. I didn't understand all the hype on the food, but mommy says I will one day.

Mommy went back to work and Riley took me to meet my babysitter Alice. She is really nice. There sure are a lot of kids to look at there. I will never run out of things to entertain me there. Riley gets to go down stairs now with all of the big kids. I miss her a lot but she comes up to visit me sometimes.

I turned three months old. Everyone says I am such a big girl. I am, I know I am but I have not totally grown out of my three months clothing yet. Who knows how much I weigh I don't get on the scale these days.

I went to Mommy's surprise birthday party. Daddy threw it for her. She had a big smile on her face. Daddy did not let me in on that surprise I guess he thought I would spoil the surprise, but I am not really sure how I could have. Mommy is going to be 30. Is that old? I am not even one, so I guess that is pretty old.

That pretty much brings us up to date. I still spend a lot of time sleeping. Mommy says that I am a very good easy going baby. She is so lucky to have me. Daddy wonders why I keep spitting up on him and I tell him that I only do it on people I love. I am marking my territory. Riley is still trying to hug me and kiss me all of the time. Sometimes I think she loves me a little too much because she gives such intense hugs and kisses.

Santa is coming soon. If I don't talk to you before then I will let you know what he gives me.

Riley Has the FLU!!!!

Riley has been really sick the last couple of days. She started feeling sick when she came back from GG's with Gram and Poppy. Mommy said that she doesn't think that she got sick with them, but that she picked the flu up somewhere and no one could say exactly where. On Sunday she was running a fever of 103 and was coughing and had a runny nose. Mommy made me stay away from her. I don't like having to be away from her she is a lot of fun to watch. She is always dancing around and doing crazy stuff. Mommy says that one day she will make me laugh. She is also always very loving and caring. She wants to give me kisses and hugs all of the time. She even puts my paci back in my mouth and tells me that it will be okay. She is a great big sister, I don't think that I could have ordered a better one.

She finally went to the doctor's office on Tues and saw Dr. Howell. She is so lucky. Mommy and Daddy did not let me go in. They said something about not wanting me to get sick. I was just there on Friday did they not think about that then before they made me go get all of those shots. While she was there Daddy said she was really good and that she got some test done. They said she tested positive for the Type A flu whatever that means. All I know is that she is sick.

We have had to sit around at home for three days straight. Mommy says that we do not want to get anyone else sick. She said that maybe we can go back to the Y on Friday. Mommy just wants to give it one more day to make sure that Riley doesn't get anyone else sick.

She is feeling better now and Mommy said that she is not contageous any more. I am excited because that mean that I get my hugs and kisses back.

IU Game

Oh how exciting Mommy and Daddy took me to my first IU game on Saturday the 7th. We had so much fun. Daddy carried me around in the Baby Bjorin. He even took me in the the men's restroom, but he said I had to close my eyes. It was such a nice day. Mommy was even concerned that I might get too much sun. Daddy was so excited to introduce me to a real football game. I have watched them on the TV with him, but this was really there right infront of me.

The game was pretty good. IU lost, but Daddy said that that happens all of the time and that I should get used to it for a while. Daddy said that it is okay to still be an IU fan and that we have to stick with them during the tough years.

I can't wait to go to my first real IU basketball game.

Two Month Check Up

I went for my two month check up last Friday the 6th. We had to wait an hour and 1/2 to see the doctor. That was a long time for Riley and I . Mommy said that we were really good to wait that long to see the doctor. Riley just played and I sat in the carseat carrier until I was too hungry and had to eat. Riley told me that I will learn that whenever mommy pulls out that pretty cloth it means it is time to eat. That is pretty exciting considering that is what I like to do most. I mean you can tell that I like to eat because I was 13 pounds even and 23 inches. Riley was only 11 pounds 11 ounces at her 2 month check up. Looks like I have her beat. Mommy says that it is not a competition and that I need to stop getting so big so fast. She had a tear in her eye when she said that so I think that she is sad that I have gotten so big and that I am already growing out of being her little baby. I have to grow up mommy you can always have another baby if you want to. The doctor said that I looked good. I just love Dr. Howell. She is so nice and always takes such good care of me.

Riley got three suckers on the way out. Mommy didn't get any for me. I mean I thought I was really good too. I mean I am the one that got all the shots and that stuff put in my mouth. I didn't see Riley have anything done to her. The world of injustice just keeps going.

I am starting to do so much. I smiled really big at mommy the other day. She just loves it when I do that, but I have not done it much. She told me that she can't wait until I smile all of the time. I am also starting to make a lot of noises. No not the ones coming from my butt, other ones, like little coos and ahhhhs. Mommy just loves it when I do that and Riley thinks that I am talking to her.

Keep checking up on me to see what I have been doing.

Two Months and Other Happenings

I am two months old now and I really look the part. Mommy keeps telling people that I am big. I mean I don't think I am that big. Riley is still bigger than me. It has been an exciting two months. I always have visitors and I am always on the go.

Mommy and Riley went to get a hair cut today. Mommy said that she was going to shave my head so that my hair would really start to grow. I don't think that that makes much sense. She didn't really do it and I am glad. Mommy and Riley both did a good job sitting still in the chair. Daddy came to the event as well. I will share a picture of Riley with her new hair cut. She is so cute. Mommy is too.

Mommy, Daddy, and Riley also went and got shots today. Mommy said she got hers for me because I can't get one. She said that Daddy was scared to get one, but he got it for me too. It is really nice of them to get shots for me. I know how much they hurt.

I go for my kidney test tomorrow morning. I am not nervous for the test I just want to know the results. I don't want to have another UTI. I don't want to have to take medicine everyday either because mommy will probably forget to give it to me some days. That is what will happen if I have this urinary reflux thing.

I also go to the doctor on Friday. I will have to give you my current stats after that. Mommy thinks that I will be well over 12 pounds and on my way to 13. She also thinks that I am about 22 inches long. Hey I am a growing girl. We will see if she is any where close.

Sorry that I didn't get my two month pictures up yesterday, mommy was too tired to let me on the computer.

Crabby Night

I am having a really crabby night tonight. I don't really know why. Maybe I am upset that I will already be two months old tomorrow. Mommy is not even going to celebrate with me tomorrow night. She is going to have people over, but I not invited to the party. She told me that it is not a party that it is Bunco, but I don't believe her. I think that she is having a party without me. I am mad. Maybe that is why I can't stop crying.

Or maybe I am hungry. I mean I just ate an hour ago but sometimes a girl just has to eat more. I mean it is not like I have to watch my figure. Everyone says that chubby babies are the cutest and that is what I am going for cute!

Or maybe it is that I have not pooped since last Wednesday. Mommy read in the books and they say that is normal and so did the doctor. But really that is a long time.

Or maybe it is just because I have gas.

I just hope that I stop crying soon. I know that it is hard on mommy and daddy. Don't worry Riley is okay she just sleeps right through it. And Wrigley just lays around like usual.

My First Halloween

Well I enjoyed my first Halloween. Everyone came to see Riley and I. Grandma came all the way down just to see us go Trick or Treating. Uncle Tim and Aunt Cindy came over and brought us presents. Then Uncle Kevin, Aunt Kristie, and Tyler came and they passed out candy while we walked around. Then Gram and Poppy came just after we got back from getting candy. Now that I think about it I did not get any candy. They let Riley walk up to people and get candy, but I didn't get any. Things are going to have to change next year. I guess I better be walking by Halloween if I want to go up to door and get candy.

I dressed up as a pea pod. Mommy borrowed the costume from Annabelle and Ander. Riley was Minnie Mouse. She was so cute, but of course I was too.

We also carved pumpkins. Mine said my name. Well short for my name Luci. Riley's was Minnie Mouse, how appropriate. Mommy's was Dora, I think she did that for Riley. Daddy's was just a Jack o' Lantern face.

I had a good first Halloween, but I bet next year will be even better. I wonder what I will be.

Taking Mommy to the Doctor

I took Mommy to the doctor today. She just had to go for a check up. We went to visit the doctor that delivered me. She was really nice and she said how cute I am. I got a picture with her because Mommy forgot to get a picture of us together when I was first born. So I look a lot bigger than a newborn in this picture since I am seven weeks old.

Visit With GG

Last weekend I went to visit GG. Gram, Poppy, Mommy, Daddy, Riley, and I went. We left Saturday morning. I slept the whole way there. This was my first time to meet GG. She is a nice old lady. She liked to hold me and talk to me. She talked in a sweet voice. Everybody likes to do that. They must think that I like high piched voices.

We just hung out at GG's house all day. Daddy and Poppy left and went to an IU football game that night. Gram made chili and vegetable soup. I wish that they would let me have some, but Gram says I am too little. Riley got to eat some, I don't think that is very fair.

I had a really bad night Saturday. About eight o'clock I decided that I was going to cry all night. Mommy said she was tired of it and so she strapped me into my car seat and took me for a drive. It took me about thirty minutes to give in and go to sleep. Mommy drove all around Brazil. At least I got to see where GG lives.

The next day Great Aunt Mary, Ashley, Katherine, and Madelyn came to visit me. The all liked to hold me too.

We had a nice visit. Then we left. I think that I will make mommy take me up there again to visit soon because GG said that it is hard for her to get down here to visit me.

Riley Was Bad!! I Was Good!!

Mommy was really upset with Riley today. She ran away from mommy four times. The first time was in the parking lot at the YMCA. Mommy dropped one of her bags and my carrier in the car and ran after her. Then we went to Hobby Lobby and Riley ran away from her two times while we were there. Mommy was running around the store pushing my stroller. That was kind of fun for me, but I don't think it was for mommy. A lady stopped Riley for mommy one time. The last time was when we got home and Riley ran out into the street. Mommy had to tell me about that one because I was asleep in the car.

I told mommy that Riley is just two years old and does not understand that she is being bad and how badly she could get hurt. I also promised mommy that I would not run away like that. Then she reminded me that I could not because I am always strapped down in a carrier.

I have been a really good girl today. I was good at the YMCA. Everybody likes holding me there. I was so good because I let mommy work out for a half an hour after my feeding time. She really needs to get back into shape so I figured I should let her. I also did not run away at Hobby Lobby like my sister. Then when we got home I took a nice long nap so that mommy could eat lunch and take a shower. I can't have her smelling like sweat you know. I also cannot put up with her crying saying that she is hungry.

Well I think that I am hungry so I better go eat and then I think that I am going to smell like something else and mommy will have to change me.

Hospital Stay

Well Mommy had to rush me to the emergency room on Sunday. She said it was because I had a fever of 101.1 and I am so little. When we got there they asked mommy a bunch of questions put me on a little table to weigh me and stuck that thing up my but again to get my temperature. I tried to tell them mommy already did it, but mommy kept saying shhhhh.

After the doctor came in to see me the nurses took some of my pee pee. I don't know why they would wan that. Then this really nice guy made me lay on a big table and he made mommy put on a really heavy shirt. They called it an apron, but I don't even know what that is. Then they took pictures of my chest. The guy said that I did a really good job.

Then the meanness really started. Those ladies stuck this really sharp thing in my arm and it hurt. Then they tried to make me not bend my arm by putting a board thing on it. But I showed them because I kept bending my arm anyway. I am one strong little girl can't they see that. Then they got really really mean because about four people came in the room and they made my mommy leave. The doctor told her she would cry. What does he know I am the one that cried and I cried a lot because they stuck this really sharp thing in my back. What kind of people go around hurting little kids. When mommy cam back she told me that they were not trying to hurt me and that they were trying to help me. Because she is my mommy I will believe her, but they really did hurt me.

After all of that some guy took us to another room and we stayed in that room for three days. While we were there people kept checking me out putting stuff up my butt, on my leg, in my arm, and on my chest. Again mommy said it was to help me. All anybody did to her was give her food and drinks. I really don't see how that is fair.

People came to see us everyday. Daddy was there as much as he could be. He had to work and take care of Riley. Riley came to visit too. So did Gram, Poppy, Steven, Melisse, and Sabrina (Mommy's friend). Mommy said that Kevin and Kristie wanted to come to visit, but that she told them they couldn't so that Kristie would not get sick.

Well as you can tell we are back home now or I would not be writing this to you. We went in at 4 am Sunday and came home at 9 pm on Tuesday. I was fever free and took my antibiotics like a good little girl so mommy said they let me come home. It is good to be back with Wrigley and Riley everyday again. But it is really nice having that thing out of my arm. Now mommy just has to remember to give me my medicine everyday. Good Luck with that mommy.

Oh yeah I almost forgot. We went to the doctor's office yesterday and I weigh 11 lbs now. Mommy said WOW!

Sleeping All Night Long

Last night I slept all night. Here is how it went. Mommy and Daddy went on their first date after having me. Gram and Poppy kept Riley and I. I had my first bottle at 9:00 and then I went to sleep after having my diaper changed sometime after ten. Mommy and Daddy picked me up after twelve. Riley got to spend the night. That was not fair but whatever, I know that I will get to do it someday too. When Daddy and Mommy got home they left me in the carseat and there I slept all night. I woke up about 7:30. It was a good long sleep. Mommy said that she liked it too, but that she wishes she would have gotten to bed sooner to take better advantage of it. I don't know if I will do it again tonight but I bet Mommy and Daddy hope that I do.

Doctor Visit

Well Mommy and Riley took me to the doctor on the 7th. The doctor said that I looked like I was doing very well. I weighed in at 10 lbs 10 oz and 21 inches long. My head was 14.5 inches. Mommy said that she did not think that I was that big. She said that Riley was 9 lbs 11 oz at her one month check up. I must be a good eater. I mean I only eat every three hours. Well I guess I am just a healthy girl.

One Month

Well I know what you are thinking, it is about time I start blogging I am already one month old. Here is the problem my mommy won't let me get on the computer much because she wants to give me kisses when I am awake. She says that I sleep too much to be spending my wake time on the computer. Not much is going on with me, just sleeping, eating, and making a dirty diaper. Mommy says that I am a good baby. I love to sit in the swing and the bouncer seat is okay too. Mommy usually only puts me in there when everyone else is sitting down at some big brown thing and putting some crazy looking stuff into their mouths. I mean aren't you just supposed to put your hand, a paci, and milk in your mouth. I don't know maybe Riley will teach me about that later. As far as Riley goes she is alright! I mean that girl just wants to kiss and hug me all the time. I do have to ignore her when she is loud in the mornings. She likes to run in my room (really it is mommy and daddy's room) and yell HI or baby. Doesn't she know that I am sleeping and that I do have a name. Daddy says that she is only two and we can't expect her to say my name all of the time. Daddy does assure me that Riley knows my name is Luciana. She does call me Luci sometimes and I guess that is okay. Daddy says that some people will call me Luci my whole life and some will call me Luciana and some will call me both. Mommy told me that she named me after a little girl that was in one of her classes. She said that the little girl was so cute and so good and that she just loved the name so she had to use it for me. I think that is pretty special. In fact I got to meet that little girl a couple of days ago. She was really nice. She is in fifth grade right now at mommy's school.

Well that is probably enough for now. I think that I have to go back to sleep. I don't stay awake much these days but it is getting to be more and more. Keep checking back, but don't expect too much because I am a very busy little girl.