Parker is 3 months old! What a big girl! Here is our happy girl in her super-cute tutu that her Aunt Tasha made for her. Parker also is 100 days old. For some reason, this is a big deal out here in Japan. What is hard to believe is that it has been one year since we did IVF. On November 4, 2008, Parker was 2 little cells. Now she is a healthy, happy baby. She is a miracle. On November 7, 2008 she was transferred into my uterus where she stayed (a little too long?) until August 3rd. It makes me think back to all of the ultrasounds and injections and pregnancy tests and feel so grateful that IVF worked for us. We hope that one day Parker will have some siblings, too!
Parker is so sweet. I love her more and more every second. I do NOT know how I am going to leave next week. Yesterday when I went to nurse her at lunch, she kept looking up and smiling and 'talking' to me in her little baby babble. It made me melt and also made me so sad :(
"Mom, I love you! Don't leave me." What a face. I am going to cry the entire flight to the US. I am scheduled for a military flight that leaves Friday afternoon and gets into Seattle on Friday evening (with the time change). Then I leave for Washington DC a few hours later and arrive on Saturday morning (again with the time difference). Then I fly to Newport, RI. I will get there Saturday so guess I can get some rest and try to get reset on EST for the start of ODS on Monday.
"Mom, are you sure Dad is going to be okay?" This is what keeps me up at night. I know it was hard for me to be home with Parker all day when we first moved here, but I think a lot of that had to do with sleep deprivation and moving to a new country. Hopefully now that we are getting settled and Parker is a little older, Corey will have fun with her on the weekends. We've had lots of people offer to help him, and our neighbors are great. We have a NICU nurse who lives next door in our multiplex, but hopefully Corey won't need her :) I know Parker is in good hands, but I hope that Corey asks for help if he needs a break or just needs to talk to another grown-up! We have been helping each other with her bath and washing the bottles and it is going to be hard to do all of it alone. I ordered more bottles so that he can get through an entire day. I am still nursing Parker 4-5 times per day (and I think I will until I leave - I just can't bear to stop while I am still here) but she is going to need more bottles, especially to take to the CDC. I know he can do it and I hope he's not totally exhausted when I get back in December!
Parker caught a cold last week at the CDC and is still exhausted in the evenings. One benefit is that she only gets up once during the night to eat now :) You can see that her onesie is getting tight - one of the ladies at the CDC said that her pants are too short! She is going to have to move up to size 6 months in Carters, which is what she's been wearing to the CDC. She is a long baby. She was reading the J Perio just before she passed out to help Corey and me prepare for the boards in the spring.
Parker is 3 months old! What a big girl! Here is our happy girl in her super-cute tutu that her Aunt Tasha made for her. Parker also is 100 days old. For some reason, this is a big deal out here in Japan. What is hard to believe is that it has been one year since we did IVF. On November 4, 2008, Parker was 2 little cells. Now she is a healthy, happy baby. She is a miracle. On November 7, 2008 she was transferred into my uterus where she stayed (a little too long?) until August 3rd. It makes me think back to all of the ultrasounds and injections and pregnancy tests and feel so grateful that IVF worked for us. We hope that one day Parker will have some siblings, too!
Parker is so sweet. I love her more and more every second. I do NOT know how I am going to leave next week. Yesterday when I went to nurse her at lunch, she kept looking up and smiling and 'talking' to me in her little baby babble. It made me melt and also made me so sad :(
"Mom, I love you! Don't leave me." What a face. I am going to cry the entire flight to the US. I am scheduled for a military flight that leaves Friday afternoon and gets into Seattle on Friday evening (with the time change). Then I leave for Washington DC a few hours later and arrive on Saturday morning (again with the time difference). Then I fly to Newport, RI. I will get there Saturday so guess I can get some rest and try to get reset on EST for the start of ODS on Monday.
"Mom, are you sure Dad is going to be okay?" This is what keeps me up at night. I know it was hard for me to be home with Parker all day when we first moved here, but I think a lot of that had to do with sleep deprivation and moving to a new country. Hopefully now that we are getting settled and Parker is a little older, Corey will have fun with her on the weekends. We've had lots of people offer to help him, and our neighbors are great. We have a NICU nurse who lives next door in our multiplex, but hopefully Corey won't need her :) I know Parker is in good hands, but I hope that Corey asks for help if he needs a break or just needs to talk to another grown-up! We have been helping each other with her bath and washing the bottles and it is going to be hard to do all of it alone. I ordered more bottles so that he can get through an entire day. I am still nursing Parker 4-5 times per day (and I think I will until I leave - I just can't bear to stop while I am still here) but she is going to need more bottles, especially to take to the CDC. I know he can do it and I hope he's not totally exhausted when I get back in December!
Parker caught a cold last week at the CDC and is still exhausted in the evenings. One benefit is that she only gets up once during the night to eat now :) You can see that her onesie is getting tight - one of the ladies at the CDC said that her pants are too short! She is going to have to move up to size 6 months in Carters, which is what she's been wearing to the CDC. She is a long baby. She was reading the J Perio just before she passed out to help Corey and me prepare for the boards in the spring. 
2 comments:
Once again.... "Parker is SO CUTE"! I love her in the tutu ;0) I also loved her adorable halloween costume. Even if she looks like a gnome she is the cutest gnome I have ever seen.. Just kidding she doesn't look like a gnome, I am just making fun of Corey's comment to you. He is so funny. If it makes you feel any better, several people, including my nephew in college, has said that Addie looks like an elf! I have to actually agree on that on. When she gets really angry, she looks more like a gremlin though.
Love the tutu (and the Snow White costume, too)! Parker is precious and getting SO big!
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