27 weeks 2/14/12 Happy Valentine's Day!

Natalie turned 27 weeks on Valentine's Day! This outfit was courtesy of Grammy Rancourt.  One thing you can't see is the onesie that she has on has a bulldog that says adorable on it.  Do we love our Rocky?

She was not all that happy with this photo shoot.  The pictures below were from earlier in the day.  These are taken at night and she is about spent at that time.  Very hard to get a smile out of this girl. 

Someone was feeling left out so he came over to visit.  Can't resist getting him in the shot.  She was looking so intently at him.

Here they are looking at each other. 

Natalie did pretty well over the weekend.  We went back to the doctor's on Monday.  He felt her head and thought it was pretty much the same.  She developed this pretty nasty cough on Sunday, so he checked that out.  He tried to check her ears but didn't work so well.  There was a lot of gunk in there so the nurse came in to clean it out.  Now my girl does not like to have her body forced to do anything, so you can imagine how she felt when mommy had to hold down her arms and head so the nurse could pour water in her ear and get all the goo out of there.  She was not happy.  It was not a good time for any of us.  Grammy Jean was with us.  She was SOOOOO upset.  It doesn't hurt just very uncomfortable and weird.  We got through it and the doctor checked her out and said she had a mild ear infection so had to be put on amoxycilin.  When I went to fill it at the pharmacy, the girl asked what flavor.  There were about 15 to choose from.  I chose grape.  Yech!! Does that stuff stink.  All you smell after you give it to her is sickly sweet grape.  Nasty.  Can't imagine how it tastes.  No, I can by the horrible face she gives us twice a day. 

She's getting really good at holding herself up.  I am helping a bit but she's getting there. 

Her favorite thing to look at is the blinds in our room so she's looking at that and Mom's looking at the camera. 

We did ok until about Tuesday night into Wednesday.  The doctor had mentioned something about lack of sleep as something to look for in regards to the head issues.  She has been consistently sleeping through the night for months now.  She woke up Wednesday morning at 1:30am and ended up nursing as she wasn't going back to sleep.  Also, at day care she didn't nap like she normally does.  On a normal day, she has a 1-2 hr nap in the morning and one in the afternoon.  Wednesday she only had 30 minute naps in the am and pm.  I was a little concerned because of what the doctor had said so I called them when I got home from work.  We went in to the doctor's office and he checked her out and felt that the lack of sleep was from the sickness and not from the head issues.  He also said that since the ultrasound was normal and she is acting like what a 6 month old should act that we shouldn't be concerned with this unless something drastically changes. 

This is what happens when dad takes her out.  She gets socks for mittens and that blue striped thing she has behind her is a cloth napkin he is using for a burp cloth. 

The rest of the week was good.  Dad and her went discgolfing on Friday. She also finally got her shots on Friday too.   

She fell asleep by hole 5. 

 Friday we tried some avocados with rice cereal.  She really liked it this time.  That's good because we have something else for our arsenal.  So this weekend we were supposed to visit our friends Brian and Kirsten in Scituate, Ma.  Their son, who is 3 1/2 months, was just getting over a cold and Kirsten and Brian both came down with ones so we decided not to go. Saturday we were going to go to Manchester to check out some more sofas.  Well, that didn't work out.  Natalie woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  Normally she wakes up and gives you a big gum eating smile.  This morning she woke up crying.  She was not happy and would not even nurse.  I think it had to do with the cold and the shots.  Her legs hurt.  We gave her some tylenol and later she felt a little better.  We went out to a local store in Dover and made it through that without a melt down.  Later, I left and Chris sent me this photo:

I think she was feeling better. 

Sunday, I was supposed to go visit my high school girlfriends but that didn't work out either because of sickness.  Chris had signed up for a disc golf tournement in Limerick, ME.  He decided to go up a division.  He thought he didn't do very well, and ended up taking third out of 16 people.  Pretty good for having a cut on his throwing finger from changing his daughter's diaper. 

Great Aunt Beverly made her some hats.  This one is really cute and fits her really well.

This one is a little big and we will grow into it.  But cute none the less.

Just thought this outfit was cute.

This is the earlier in the day photo I mentioned before.

There's the smile. 

ROCKY!!!

We decided to get rid of our stinky couch that has a tear in it and also replace the one that the dog sleeps on because it is also gross.  So we have been sofa shopping.  This was taken at Bob's in Seabrook.  Why would you need something this big?

This is Bob's in Manchester.  Can't wait for her to get bigger so we can get this for her.  Just her size.  So cute!!! Cup holders too.  Must have with little ones.

Chris' parents requested a gate for the loft area in there house.  They wanted it to look like the railing which is why they didn't want a store bought one.  It came out really nice and works well.  Shhh don't tell Kellan it is for him mainly.  They told him it was to keep Rocky from going down stairs.

We have made it through another week.  Natalie is feeling better now.  Still coughing but way better than she was earlier.  Hopefully everyone else starts to feel better.  We are doing ok.  Rocky had some time off from us because we thought we were going away for the weekend.  He had some fun with Kellan taking some walks but I think he was excited when I showed up yesterday.  He has been sleeping on his sofa since we got home yesterday.  See you next week.