Getting Ready For MN and Mean Doctors

So this week has been spent trying to get the house in order for when we leave. My friend Erin will be staying here to watch the kitties for me, I'm so grateful! If she couldn't have watched them for me, I would have had to kennel them or bring them to a cat sitter's home, which could have been disastrous. Cats are definitely not dogs. Anyways, as soon as I get a room clean it gets messy again! UGH! I shouldn't be having this problem! It's pretty much only me! I mean, sure, Lorelei makes a lot of dishes and laundry, but she's not running around (yet) making messes. I guess I'll have to try harder.
I can't believe it's been a week since Erick left! On one hand, I think, "Where did the week go?" but on the other hand, "Ugh, it's only been a week!" When it comes to Erick's deployment it seems to be going slow, but for everything else it's going by so fast! I got over the initial sadness of him being gone pretty fast, but of course I still miss him.
On to Lorelei, she's starting to sit up on her own! She still has trouble sitting back up if she bends down to touch her toes. I think it's because of her chubby little belly! We went to the doctor yesterday for her TWO MONTH shots (we were find of slow getting her enrolled in Tricare). The nurses just loved her! One was asking me questions about her development, while the other was just raving about how cute and chubby she was. In typical Lorelei fashion, she ate up the attention. She loves compliments! She smiled and gurgled at her like crazy! Then we plopped her on the scale and, folks, she is a healthy(?) 20 pounds! 20! Oy! So they left and awhile later the doctor came in. Right away I knew something was amiss, she kept saying "him" and "he." Did you even read the damn chart? What the hell kind of doctor are you? Well after a few, "She's a GIRL!" comments, the doctor pulled out the weight/height percentile charts that had Lorelei's measurements on them. She looked me in the eye (a bit too close for comfort, too) and said, "She's a little bit too chubby." Now I had already known my baby is a chunker, but the way she said it made me worry. Is she obese? Doctor I Don't Read Charts then handed me a paper that had the amounts of food she should be having at her age and asked me if she was following something like that. She pretty much is, about 24 oz. of formula and 8 tbls of rice cereal a day. Only I'm giving her fruits and vegetables, only about 4 tbls a day of each. Well you'd think I kicked the Pope in the face with the look she gave me! "You shouldn't be introducing fruits or vegetables yet." After that she spoke to me as if I were a 10 year old with an expensive toy. "She shouldn't be wanting a midnight feeding, just give her the pacifier to see if she just wants to suck...She should be going down to sleep on her own...She should be sleeping through the night." Now while these all would be wonderful things, I'm not going to ignore my hungry baby at night, which would keep her from sleeping through the night, and she's not going to go down on her own if I just plop her in the crib. Now, I'm not a pediatrician, but I do have experience with babies. When I got home I was all worried about her eating to much, so I got out my percentile chart and plotted her weight since birth, she has ALWAYS been above the norm for weight and in the 90th percentile for height. Nothing has changed, same chubber!
Like I said above, she got her shots. It was sad, I cried when she did. But it was also hilarious! We got in there and Lorelei was smiling at the woman who gives shots and talking to her, but after the shots, she would NOT smile at her. She leveled a baby glare at her. It's so fun! Her personality is coming through more and more! We'll see if bitchiness is genetic!
I also think she's starting to teeth. She's been crabby and sleepy a lot lately, not to mention drooling like a lunatic. Yesterday was a bad day for her all together, I'm sure her teeth we hurting her and then the shots on top of that made her even more sleepy and crabby. Today was a bit better, but still chewing on things really hard. She bit my finger today and it hurt like hell! So, look out! Lorelei's getting teeth!


Tubby for my chubby! Sitting up! Daddy Bear!