Driving me a little crazy!

I realized we haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd put a quick update on life.

First, to all my teacher friends... I'm sorry your summer has come to an end, but may you have a wonderful year full of crazy kids and crazier administrators :)

Brett is still loving his job at UVRMC, but we would both be loving it a little more if it were a day shift. Maybe someday [sigh].

We had Lindy's baby blessing on August 7th. It was great! Brett's Mom made Lindy's dress - it turned out soooo cute. I was very pleased with how it turned out - she did a great job. Mostly we loved the day because almost every member of our family was there (including Lindy's Great Aunt Lindy who she's named after).

We were missing the Nelsons, and my sister Sarah's husband Brent, but everyone else was there, which really is saying something. My mom decided to go for broke and we took a family picture outside on the play set - we'll have to photoshop 3 people in (Brent, Matt, and Abbey who had to be gone for the picture day for their new jobs). We even got the dog in.

Me and my sisters (can you tell...) and our babies in Hawaiian garb from Grandma Reesa and Papa Phil

While she was here for the blessing, my sister Ali and I ran our first 5K. Everybody who knows us Borens, knows that we're not so great at the cardio thing, but are probably some of the people who need it the most given our genetic background. So we "trained" for a few months and ran the Highland Fling 5K. I'm pretty proud of us for doing it, and hope that we can keep it up. Brigham helped me train and I really appreciate his advice and coaching - it was a great motivator.

I'm mostly loving my new job as a Mommy, but I'm going a little crazy these days with Lindy's sleep schedule. She used to sleep 7-8 hours at least in a stretch at night, but she's regressed to about 3-5 hours. I wouldn't complain too much except that I have a really hard time getting myself back to sleep (and so does she sometimes). I figure if she could do it before, then she should still be able to do it, so I'm a little frustrated. She also seems to be more cranky during the day, almost right from the moment she wakes up. It's been a little better these last couple of days, but it's definitely a work in progress. I've been trying to utilize the Weissbluth method in "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" but any other advice from the masses would be appreciated. She actually took a binki today for the first time for her morning nap, but that's unusual, and I don't feel like she has a very good self-soothing method. Brett's work schedule makes it a little harder as well, since he's gone a few nights a week and by the time he's home, we're both exhausted from staying up all night. My Mom saved my bacon 2 nights ago and took care of her all night (although that happened to be her best night in the last week or so... lucky Grandma). But she's still super cute, even though she's super frustrating...

Looks like?

Katie

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Brett

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Lindy

Who do you think she looks like?

Lindy's Blessing Invitation

I know I keep using the same picture of her over and over, but it's my current favorite... I think I need to get to the mall for a photo shoot. For anyone who wants to come... here's the invite!

Invitation card personalized with Smilebox

Lindy 2 Month Stats

Our girlie girl, is a little over 2 months now - crazy! She sure is growing - as evidenced by her latest stats.

This is probably one of those weird things, that only Mom's care about... but here it is anyway.

Length: 23.0in (90% percentile)

Weight: 10lbs 9oz (75%)

Head Circ.: 38cm (75%)

Cuteness: Like a button  

I brought Lindy and Brett with me to the last Friday of school for our district, and had a good time saying hi and goodbye to my kiddos. I hope it's only a temporary goodbye for my teacher friends. I miss chatting with my "teams." Here are a few photos of my last day at FHMS - I'm sad I didn't get more with the other teachers.

I love being a mommy, but there are definitely some things I will miss about teaching - especially my friends. When I had a great lesson, or even better - a fun lab, I really did enjoy myself. There were only a few truly hard days when things fell flat on their behinds, or when the students were completely insane. I think teaching is kind of like childbirth... it doesn't seem like it was all that hard when I look back on it (selective amnesia, I guess). I definitely hope to go back when my own kids are all grow'd up. 

It's definitely harder to have "grown up" conversation when I'm mostly hanging out at home with a 2 month old. But... Mom and Dad are coming home this Saturday! Ah!!!! So hopefully Mom won't mind my running around the house behind her, chatting non-stop... just like the good ol' days.

Lindy 1 Month Old!

I know everyone probably says this, but I can't believe my baby is already 1 month old!

Lindy has been really fun to have in our home. She eats and sleeps most of the time, and sometimes cries a little in between, but on the whole she's a perfect baby. Brett and I are having a lot of fun just watching her little face while she sleeps - she seems to have a lot of food-related dreams. We sure enjoy having such a sweet little gal.

I suppose I should have blogged earlier, but there really isn't a whole lot to say, so I'll add a bunch of pictures instead (I tried to put them in chronological order so you can see how she's changed already).



This isn't a particularly exciting video, but she's awake, sculpting the air with her hands (which she does constantly if she's not swaddled), and sneezing (anybody who's anybody loves baby sneezes, right?).

Wake Up, Little Lindy... Wake Up!!!

This is mostly for my PUs in Hawaii so they can see the kid in action!

Who let that stork in here?!?

Who knew this could actually happen ... on April 7th, we left the window open on a nice spring day, and a stork flew in and dropped off a lil' kid for us.  Magically, the tumor in Katie's abdomen was immediately resolved!  Magically-er, both of us are getting less sleep these days!

We call the bundle "Lindy Paige Groneman."  Lindy is the nickname of Katie's Aunt. Katie has been doing great since the stork's delivery and her tumor extraction/disappearance.  She's only been on Ibuprofen.  She hasn't even needed the Percocoet, even in the hospital.

If the stork had given me an ugly kid, I would have loved her all the same, but Lindy is ridiculously cute, and makes us laugh a lot with the faces she pulls.

WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER??

She's actually better than I had imagined with sleeping.  Sometimes (certainly not always) she'll sleep for 4 hours at a time if we don't wake her up, but then we usually wake her up at that point to eat.

Her bilirubin levels are high, so we started with the bilibed yesterday.  Levels are down today because of that, but we're going to do another day of bili-lights.  I guess I'm just glad that we have the ability to monitor her bilirubin levels to make sure she's okay.

She's cute.  She's fun.  We're both very glad she's here and doing okay.  I'm glad Katie is doing great too.

For the record, here's the series of events at the hospital:

Apr. 6th:

0800:  We get the call to go to AF hospital for the induction.
1000:  Start Cytotec
1600:  Start Pitocin (which was tapered up to the maximum "normal" dose for quite a while without much progress, and went a little beyond "normal" with the OB's approval.)

Apr. 7th:

0120:  Artificial Rupture of Membranes [which was particularly effective to get labor really going]
0430:  Epidural
0940:  Surprisingly suddenly dilated to a "9 1/2" and "pushing" commences.
1023:  Stork flew in and dropped off a kid, and Katie's tumor was resolved!
1032:  Lindy to Nursery because she wasn't 100% on APGAR scores, not a particularly strong cry and a little floppy.
1100:  After nurses and a respiratory therapist listened to her and assessed her, they called the pediatrician and recommended that he order an IV bolus to expand intra-vascular volume.  He did.  60 mL.  IV started, bolus given.
1110:  I clean her off while they're working on their stuff.
1330 (ish): Katie down to Mom/Baby and meets up with Lindy again.

Apr. 9th:

1000 (ish):  Discharge from hospital to go home.