nighttime fun

she had a little energy to burn before crashing out tonight, and we decided to film some of it. you will notice that she is getting used to her mattress, in a round about sort of way, but at least she does not hate it anymore. still has not made its way INTO the crib, but 'daddy' uses it when he has to calm her at night. pretty comfy, a little short, but comfy.
** video may not be suitable for all audiences, nudie kid ahead**

naptime

So busy with Lucy. She had another doctor appt yesterday and lots of other crazy phone calls from the ENT doctors crazy nurse who is a major pain. So Lucy's palate is looking the way it should and we were told no more squirting water in there to remove any food bits, Most of the "white stuff" in there is healing skin. Her nasty cold is clearing up little by little. Wonder if the benadryl is working. She has been smiling a lot more again and making her cute little la, la's.

Now, if we could just get back to sleeping 11 hrs, life would be super fantastic. She is still waking up every 30 minutes all night long. So the schedule is as such.: John puts her to sleep between 7:00 to 8:00 and has her until 11:00pm, in case she wakes up. trust me she does. Then I have the 11:00 to 5:00a- ish shift and then get her back at 7:00am so John can get ready for work. I sleep mostly on the floor on her crib matress- most of the night I am a bit delirious at those hours and do not remember much but rocking and humming.

She has majorly bonded to me. Lucy wants me to hold her all the time-she did actually let change from my pajamas to clothes today without a fuss so that was good. She has started to not like her high chair and wants me to hold her when she eats. She threw some good old fashioned tantrums today about that.

We are looking forward to her mouth healing and just getting on with things around here. ok she's crying already

got to go. ps the two pics with john is when he came home after his first day of work away from her. she was VERY happy to see him. ME TOO!

a lil grumpy, but still groovin

so, she had a little rough day today. a bit more complaining than yesterday, but i guess we have to expect a measure of that. she did just have surgery 2 days ago. her codeine works some, but i thought/hoped it would knock her out better than it is proving. she only sleeps for about an hour at a time, waking up crying and fussing for quite a while before sleeping again. tonya has gotten a little more sleep then me in the past three nights, but not much. i am crawling on about 5 hours total since thursday.

we are finding this to be the case, and this is really written for other cleft palate families out there - everything is sticking to the roof of her mouth. i do not know what it is, but no matter what she eats, it stays up there, and then we see it there hours later. like.. a lot of food. full noodles, chunks of grapes, egg... everything. kind of like when we eat peanut butter. maybe we as adults clean off the roof of our mouth with our tongue when we eat more than we think, and since she never really used her tongue/roof of her mouth before, she has to learn to do so. i have this bottle of water and i tip her back at blast the roof of her mouth with it. needless to say, she hates that. but i do not want all that up there. whats the harm? i don't know, maybe it will rot or something, or dissolve her stitches faster of something. i just don't know why it is staying up there like we are feeding her glue. she is a strong lil kid. i just hate to see her so uncomfortable.

But then she has her good moments here - her strong personality does shine thru. on thursday night, way late, she was joking around with me in the room. try to play peek-a-boo, shake her head 'no' and giggle when i would ask her something. last night, she was rocking out to her musical cell phone, and i grabbed the camera for the tail end of it -

Hi"jack"ing the blog...

I feel totally hackerish doing this but Ton and John are too busy to post so I thought I would share a little info about how Lucy is doing after her surgery today! She is doing well! She's holding down her bottles and looking better every minute. She was really swollen right after the surgery but it's gone down a lot already. If she gets the all clear she will come home soon, but she is spending the night in the hospital tonight. While we were visiting she let out a few giggles, and Tonya said she even whispered a few "lala's". She's a little fighter.
She is just such a dream come true. She' s so wonderful and everyone that has met her has just melted and fallen for her. Tonya and John are doing such an awesome job, even if they can't see it through sleep deprived eyes;). It's fun to see them enjoying their very own little one at last. Across the house you can hear john giggling with her, and Tonya just beams with pride whenever she looks at Lucy.
Anyway, that is it for the update. I won't hijack this blog with my stories of my visit to ny, the baby shower or just all the fun Penny has been having with family! I will save that for my own blog!

Aunt Jackie (Tonya's sister)