Father's Day was brief and we did not do everything I wanted to do for my amazing husband and the father to my children.
Since we were just coming home from Yellowstone, Sunday was spent doing laundry, cleaning out the car and camper and just ‘taking a vacation from our vacation.’
We did enjoy a delicious dinner at my parents house with my parents and Matt was gifted the movie Deadpool.
I'm pretty bummed that we didn't do anything fun and memorable for Father Day because heaven knows, he deserves to have all his wildest wishes and dreams to come true.
I'm so thankful that my body, against all odds, was able to give him children. He's the most amazing man I've every known and giving him children is the most I think I could ever give him. Zeplin and Arrowlyn are such blessings for each of us.
{TWO:} Appointments
This week was stressful and emotional. I felt like I was being thrust into an unfamiliar world of doctors visits, appointments, and obligations separate from my stay at home mom duties.
Since the car accident, physically, my back is about all that is messed up. I can't even hold Arrowlyn for long periods of time without my back seizing up. I can't tell if my appointments with the spine/neck specialist is helping or hurting because my every day chores are harder to do after seeing him. I was feeling ok on Tuesday (the one day I didn't see him) so I decided to relieve some stress and play softball. Big mistake - playing the field was easy but batting was another story. I was in pain after each at bat and since I had a runner for each of my hits, I walked back to the dugout with tears streaming down my face. The twisting motion to swing the back was causing my muscles to spasm and hurt. I was hitting amazing though..... but the pain of playing isn't worth it right now.
One of my teammates is a physical therapist and she suggested PT. I just might take her up on that after the next 3 weeks of seeing my Osteopath. I realized after playing ball Tuesday night that I'm a little worse for wear.
I'm just frustrated because .... 1. I paid money to play and 2. this accident is taking me away from doing things that I love. Even when we were in Yellowstone, I wear Arrowlyn in my Tula without hurting.
I hate that my ability to be active and strong has been halted.
{THREE:} Weight Gain
Since having to see the doctor so much, I'm getting weighed with each appointment and it's come to my attention that I'm gaining weight - as a matter of fact, I've gained all the weight I lost since having Arrowlyn. I decided to do a little research and found that the birth control I chose has a side effect of making women gain weight - (Oh great... I have everything against me to lose weight now)
Matt has been awesome to bring things into prospective and reminded me that once I can get my back feeling better, I'll be able to start working out again and lose some weight. It just really sucks that I lost 30 pounds since having Arrow only to gain almost all of back.
I called my OBGYN to talk about it and they suggested blood work to check my thyroid and vitamin levels. (Fortunately my spinal doctor already ordered those to see what might be the cause of my migraines.)
Hopefully we can figure this out because I've got a race to train for!
{FOUR:} Zeplin
Zeplin has been a good kid for the most part this week. I can't expect him to be happy with all the appointments I've been dragging him to.
He's been giving us a little big of grief with some of the things he's been saying to us. The other day I was trying to ask him to come do something for me when he turned his back to me, with his flat hand turned my direction and said, “I'm done with you. Don't talk to me. Just go away.” My friend, Joyce, was at our house and witness this. I was mortified but emotional. It was all I could do not to cry.
A couple days earlier, we were driving in the car with my mom when Zeplin blurted out, “Mom, how dare you. How dare you talk about me.” He was upset that I was telling my mom a story about Zeplin from Yellowstone. We laughed but after the fact, I was a little bothered. He's just become so mouthy and I don't know what to do.
Everyone says this is a phase and he will become my sweet little boy again once he grows out of this. I guess I will just have to see for myself.
Aside from Zeplin's mouthiness, he really is a sweet little guy. He loves to cuddle with me in the morning before Arrowlyn wakes up. He also loves to give us all hugs and kisses every chance he gets. He's constantly telling us that he loves us and we are his best friends. He also loves to tell me that I'm beautiful and cute and my hair looks like good.
I asked him to go get my phone from downstairs and his reply, “Mom, I'd be happy to.” I mean really?! It was so cute and unexpected.
He did embarrass Matt and I for the first time this week when he asked someone if they had a baby in their tummy. When she said she didn't, he replied, “Then why doesn't your tummy look like you have a baby in it” The woman handled it well and explained that she had a baby 9 months ago and sometimes tummies just look like that. I wanted to crawl in a hole. So mortifying!
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Zeplin has found a new love - Barney! Oh I hope this passes. Since we don't have television, we are dependent on Netflix and they've uploaded a slew of old Barney shows which Zeplin can't get enough of. I've watched a few of them and they are actually loaded with information that Zeplin has been retaining but the voices and the songs are quite annoying. Oh well.
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We have removed Zeplin's television from his room. Over the past few weeks he's been getting worse about going to bed when we put him to bed. He loves to come out of his room and ask for water, food or for one of us to come cuddle him. We are constantly having to send him back to bed.
As an experiment, we turned off the tv and just sent him to bed. He fell asleep within minutes of us shutting the door. He slept so much better during the night having done so.
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Zeplin has started learning about emotions. He's becoming more aware of our emotions too. Since focusing on this, he's learning the faces the associates with the emotions.
Occasionally he will throw in some of his own like, ‘the Hulk face,’ ‘the Batman face,’ and my new favorite, ‘the Joker face.’
{FIVE:} Arrowlyn >>-----> 4 Months
It just doesn't seem real - 4 months already.
She is so sweet and happy 24/7. She will smile at just about anyone willing to smile at her and laugh at those who are willing to make silly knuckle heads of themselves.
Arrow is trying so hard to roll over but hasn't quite mastered it. Maybe in a week or two she will have it down. Arrow is also great at putting herself to sleep and has been sleeping better during naps.
She loves to chat and will talk to anyone willing to listen to her. Her sweet little voice is adorable and cute. Both of my babies had super cute voices but her's are darling and tender!
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I had to take her to the doctors on Tuesday because she was really sick with green boogs in her eyes and nose. It eventually turned into a cough that was disheartening. Joyce was here when she coughed for the first time and we both felt nervous of it. The doctor said it was great that we paid attention to our guts because the whooping cough has been showing up in some of her appointments but fortunately, Arrow's cough is just in her throat and not her lungs.
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Her new things that she loves to do is play with her little pink elephant in her car seat, talk to her brother, stare at her feet and sit up.
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