Sa Baby!

Little Man sure does love his Sa Baby! HE gets very upset if She cries! It's good to be home. I am tired.

Little Man quite the time of it while I was in the hospital. Bug was so busy with other stuff, she forgot to watch him EVERY minute!

Needless to say Daddy wasn't to happy about finding a peanut butter sandwich stuck in his stereo's cassette player.

I found this to be quite amusing however I think if someone could have gotten away with murder, Bug would have been dead as a door nail.

I am not feeling well and the baby keeps throwing up EVERYTHING! Geez!

She sure is a sick baby. When she isn't throwing up she is GREAT! I am falling in love with her. I wasn't sure it would be possible to love her as I love Little Man so much, but who knew that your heart can expand so quickly and vastly. She is such a little doll. My Little Woman. She loves to cuddle and snuggle with me.

She is so tiny. I love dressing her up in cute little dresses. She is waving her arms at me. I think she wants me to pick her up. Yup! That is what she wanted alright.

Come on, Little Man. Let's sit in the love seat with Little Woman together. We will cuddle.

What! I had a GIRL????

He is not a he but a SHE.....

All my best laid plans are in the dust. Now what do I name a little tiny baby girl. She is so small. 7 pounds and 1 ounce. Compared to Little Man, she is tiny. So fragile.

I have no name for her. I planned on having another little boy baby. Darn it all!

She is so sweet. She smells so good. She has to be in a special incubator for a few days. She was blue when she was born. Now she is brown toned. "Is she really mine", I ask the nurse?

"Yes", she tells me.  Where did she get the dark skin tone? Odd.

She was born 3-4 weeks early. They say her lungs are quite developed enough but she is holding her own.

I miss Little Man. No one has come to see me at the hospital. Does Little Man know I am gone? Will he remember me when I get home?

She is four days old. No one likes the name I picked. Her dad comes up with something very different. A made up first name. I guess it will have to do.

She was named prettiest baby in the nursery.

Today Little Man came. Oh to hold him again! What a joy! He wants his Sa Baby! He smiles gently at her. We get into the truck and go home.

Ouch! That Hurts ............

My younger sister came to stay. We are just a few weeks away from the pending birth of this baby in my tummy.

My Little Man is growing like a weed and loves to sit in my lap (sort of fits!) and rub my belly. He loves to feel the baby move. He keeps saying," Sa baby!" and giggles. It is so cute.

I am having labor pains today. Really! It isn't time yet! I am not ready.

The cradle hasn't come. Grandpa Phil made one when his first grandchild was born, a little girl just a few months before Little man came! They both slept in the cradle. It was recently used by grandchild number three for Grandpa Phil.

Little Man, Bug and I are off to the doctors. I barely fit behind the steering wheel. Darn baby keeps kicking the steering wheel and oh no! Another contraction!

What's that I see?? Flashing lights behind my car?? What???

Officer to me," Please step out of the car."
I look at him. I look down at my belly....
"Can you help me get out?” I ask.
Officer,” No."

Officer," Have you been drinking?"  
"What!” says I. "NO? I am pregnant and having contractions!"

Officer Pales and gulps," Where are you going to?"
I say," To the doctor's office."
Officer," Follow me!".

So I did.

Once there, the officer helps me out of the car while Bug gets Little Man.

Doctor tells me I am fine and that it is false labor. Really?? I think to myself. It sure feels real!

Home we go......

At about 11:30 PM on March 17th my water breaks........

The baby is on it's way

I have a balloon in my tummy!

How is it that I went from a relatively flat tummy overnight to a rounded tummy? I mean really the day after I found out I was pregnant my tummy grew bigger.


I still can't believe I am having another baby. Little man is getting bigger and heavier. I am still working but it is hard to take care of the elderly and bend over to do things.


It's snowing outside. I have to go to Seattle to get my pay check. Little man must go with me as his daddy is sick. Off we go.

Oh No! The snow is falling so much faster and I can barely see out the window. It's been hours since I started back from Seattle to Tukwila. Little man is wet and hunger and I have no more bottles or diapers.

We pull over at Randy's Restaurant in South Seattle. Darn! I have no money for a phone call. Craptastic!

We are only 4 miles from home. I am sure we will make it.

 

We're stuck... in a ditch Little man and me.

A man stops and helps us out of the car. It is still snowing. So much snow.

We find a house nearby but no one is home. The man breaks into the house so we can use the phone.

Daddy is coming. Little man and I start walking. The road is slippery. I need to carry Little man. The baby is kicking. We are falling, Little man and me. He lands on the baby. I land on my back. I can't get up.

We lay in the road, Little man and me. Finally I manage to get up. He is crying... I am crying..... the baby is kicking. I am cramping...Oh God! Maybe I hurt the baby when I fell.

Here comes daddy in the truck.

Ultra sound

Little man and I went to the hospital to have my ultra sound done. He's in a little umbrella stroller. He is so patient.

The tech put jelly all over my tummy. COLD!

There can you see it!, she asks! Yes. Here are the eyes! They are on top of the head.

What's that, I asked? Pointing to the little baby body. The Tech giggles," you baby is sucking its thumb!"

Little man looks up and see the ultra sound. "What's? I responded. "That's a baby."

Little man nods his head and responds," Sa baby".

Does he know something I don't know??

WHAT? I'm Pregant????

December 4, 1979   I am 22 years old. My little man is 14 months old and I just found out that I am pregnant with my second child. Happy Birthday to me.

I can't decide if I am happy about this or not. What will their daddy says?

Worried.....how am I going to care for another baby, two kids in diapers!

How far along am I? Who knows, my body never went back to "normal" after little man was born.


Will I be able to love this baby as much as I love little man?

Only time will tell.

First Birthday

Can it be a year has gone by? Where did the time go. It seems just yesterday I was waddling around the duck pond in Sacramento, wishing that this baby would come out and join the world. I felt like a mother duck as I waddled around the pond. I was so sure the other ducks would start to follow me!


One year

so many diapers


so many sleepless nights

ear aches, colds, cutting teeth, tummy aches


Will he ever walk?? He bear crawls. You know what I mean. His hands are down on the floor and his butt is up in the air. His knees will never touch the ground!!!

One year

so many smiles, hugs and snuggles

Happy Birthday to my darling little man.

SnowTime

It's snowing outside.....

He stands at the window and peers out. What's that, he asks? It's snow, baby, I reply.


I bundle him up  and we go outside. I build him his first snowman. He screams! He cries! I shake my head in wonderment. Really? You don't like the snowman??


He didn't lilke the cold...



ah well maybe next year.....

Does every mother feel this way?

I stare down at my baby boy in awe and wonderment. This little creature lived inside of me for 10 months. He liked it so much, he wanted to stay longer than normal!

What a little piggy!

I never realized how much love I was capable of experiencing until I held my own child. I had the wonderful experience of helping my sisters with their children and babysitting for several different families in the neighborhood that I grew up in, but never, no never felt anything like this...

I prayed that I would have the wisdom to raise him to be a kind, loving man but more so I prayed that he would be a responsible, resourceful, educated adult. I looked at the men I knew in my life and wondered what their mom's had been thinking. Really! Do we need another boy/man in the world? You know what I mean.... a man that clings to childish behaviors and dreams and isn't willing or able to go forth and be an adult.

Heaven forbid my child should turn out like that

He walks, he talks ...oh No!

Has it really been a year..... I feel like I have lived a lifetime. Where is my sleep in days?? I have changed so many diapers, given a hundred or more baths and please I don't even want to talk about the laundry.

It never ends.


But he is walking now. He is one years old now. Where did my baby go? I looked away for one moment and when I glanced back my baby was a little boy child. Curious and in wonder of everything that was in his path.

Stairs.. I will climb them thinks the little boy.

Outside... I must journey


Truck .. I must drive.... and he did.... only the truck rolled down the hill and I was running after it. What was his father thinking anyway...letting a nearly one year old sit in the driver's seat and play like he was driving.

Silly little boy let the truck out of gear!

That's it! He will never drive again!

Once upon a time ............................................................

It all began on an average day.

I was just hanging around minding my own business when all of a sudden WHAM it hits me. I am pregnant. I am having a baby!

I am so not ready to have a baby.

What to do!!??

What could I do? I had a baby. A big baby! A 9 pound 1 ounce baby boy. He looked like a little old man - you know the type I am talking about. Wrinkled, bald, no teeth. Yep! That's my boy!

His favorite thing to do was to eat, pee and poop! Oh my!

 No one told me how hard nursing would be or how tired I would be or anything else for that matter.

You know how most babies lose weight before they leave the hospital. Well, not my little old man! Not him, no, he GAINED weight. I swore he was permanently attached to my boob.

But you know what.......


I fell in love with that little old man/baby of mine. He was so adorable. He loved to cuddle. He loved to lay on my lap and just look at me with such adoration. AH Love!!