Baybee Katie has been adamant that I not upstage her blog entry and has, for the past 3 days, thwarted every attempt I have made at getting one posted. She is pretty good at it too. She's ruthless. She'll do whatever it takes. Whether it be; demanding food, wailing for absolutely no reason, making me run across the house to wind up the mobile, disarming me with her devilishly cute smile, wanting me to read her the "Five Little Monkeys" with puppet accompaniment for the 11th time in a row, or just pooping her diapies nonstop. There is one thing I can say, the kids got stamina. Either that or she's stubborn. Sheesh. Just to get back at her, I posted these 'not-so-nice' (but kinda funny) pics of her. TAKE THAT, little kid!
Hmmmmm. What's happened since my last post?
Huzbend and I took an Infant & Child CPR class this past Saturday. Katie came along for the ride as well. Why is it, when we go out into public, she decides that she is going to be a complete angel? The class lasted from 9am until about 12pm. She slept through the ENTIRE thing. It was amazing. Everyone was complimenting us on what a "nice, quiet baby" we had. HA! If they only knew. It was all an act, I say.
Anyways, the class was pretty good if not a little scary. It was good because we learned what to do if a kid/baby is choking and how to perform life saving CPR on them. It was scary because I just don't want to think about having to be in a situation where my child is not breathing and I am the only thing that is standing between them and death. Ugh. I guess it's better to be prepared than to stand there helpless. At least you can do something.
It was really easy to learn. We all got to practice our techniques on Lil' Annies (child size) and Baby Annies. Huzbend got a little TOO into it at one point and while doing chest compressions on our Lil' Annie, pushed his hand almost through the dummies chest to the floor. The instructor had to slow him down with a very polite, "Um. There in the back? That MIGHT be a little TOO hard." Ha! It was pretty funny. GRRR, HE-MANNNNNNNNN!
On Monday, I was supposed to take Katie to her 2 month checkup at 9am. We got up that morning and rushed around to get ready. I actually made it to the docs office about 10 minutes early! I walked up to the check-in counter and said, "Hi. We're here for a 9am appt.". I gave the lady our last name and she began to look us up in the computer. She then muttered, "Ummmm" and looked up at me perplexed. I thought to myself, 'This can't be good.' She says, "I'm sorry Ma'am. We have you down for an appt. next Tuesday the 24th at 9:30."
What????? I KNOW that the lady that I had made the appt. with told me to be there at 8:45am on Monday the 16th because I was the first appt. of the day. I KNOW that I didn't write it down wrong. BUT, I was nice. The docs office is less than 5 minutes away from our house. I was too tired to argue and decided to cut them some slack. Sigh. I had mentally prepared myself for this appt. too. She was going to get 5 vaccines. Now I gotta psych myself up again next week.
I was able to get the grocery shopping done early though because of the whole appt. debacle. I was also able to get Katie home from the grocery shopping trip before she went rip roarin' crazy too. Man, has she got a cry on her. Wow. You gotta hear it to believe it. She really makes you 'pay' if your not on your game. See the picture below and imagine a thousand fingers scraping their nails on a chalkboard or a million Lloyd Christmas clones making 'The Most Annoying Sound in the World' all at the same time. Dude, no lie.
