gotta love those naps

Well, my two are down for a nap right now (Clint and Summer).  She should be waking up any time to eat.  She was actually supposed to eat about 45 minutes ago, so I know she will be ready when she gets up.  I should really try to get her to start going longer in between meals...at least I guess I shouldn't always assume she is hungry at the three hour mark.  But, I guess I do if I really think about it.  I know sometimes she lets me know she is ready, but sometimes I am just ready to feed her.  Of course my little piggy always happily accepts my breast.  You can tell by looking at her she is not turning down any meals...LOL.  She is healthy and has her rolls, but she is not too big.  I really wonder how much she weighs right now.  My arms get tired when I feed her and especially when I try to walk around a store/mall carrying her.  I guess we will find out in a few weeks when she goes in for her next round of shots.  I must say that I am not looking forward to that.  It wasn't fun the first time and I'm sure this time it will probably be worse as she is much more alert than she was then.

I am starting to get nervous about our flight on Friday.  I really wonder how she is going to act and I pray she does not scream and cry the whole time.  I know how it is to be on a plane with a screaming baby...but I have never been the one with the screaming baby.  I used to get a little ill when the baby would not be quiet, and now that I have one I understand that the parents would prefer for the baby to be quiet...there just isn't a button they can press to turn them off.  It is more tricky than that.  I know from experience of taking Summer to restaurants.  Clint and I eat out a lot and it is not nearly as fun or relaxing as it used to be.  Now that Summer is getting bigger, she wants to be able to look around and see what it going on and she doesn't want to do it from her carseat!!!  So, when she starts crying and I can't pacify her, I usually end up taking her out and holding her so the other people in the restaurant can enjoy their meal.  I wish I could put her in a highchair, but she can't sit up yet so that isn't really an option.  Our anniversary is on Monday, along with my in-laws, and we are all going out to eat to celebrate on Sunday while we are in San Diego.  I am not taking Summer's carseat with us b/c my mother in law is going to bring one with her from Vegas so we don't have to worry about carrying it through the airport.  I am not quite sure how this dinner is going to work with the baby b/c I don't know what to put her in while we eat.  I hope it won't be my lap, but it just might.  I guess we will see how it works when we get there.  I'm not going to worry to much about it b/c there isn't a whole lot I can do.  She is already requiring more stuff than me and Clint put together for this trip.  We have her travel bed, bottle warmer, bottles, play mat, breast pump (well, I guess that is for both of us), diapers, blankets, and clothes.  I am also curious to see if they are going to let me on the airplane with frozen breast milk with all the terror alerts going on with the airports right now....oh yeah and the gas drops, Desitin, and baby Tylenol.  I don't know what I will do if I can't take the breast milk with me.  I guess I could try to give her some formula and hope she will take it.  She probably will since she never seems to turn away food, I just really don't want to give it to her for some reason.  I have this paranoia that if she doesn't eat on my breast regularly, they are going to dry up.  I know it takes a while for this to happen, but that is probably why I always feed her after 3 hours...just to make sure I keep that milk flowing.  Man, I am really rambling on today.  I hope I am not boring everyone, but these are just the things on my mind right now. 

We were up bright and early this morning to take Amanda to school.  I got Summer up at 6:35 and put her in her carseat and we were out the door a few minutes later.  She was awake and did not go back to sleep until we were working out (about 9:30).  But that was only for 10 minutes.  I put her down for her nap around 10:45 and it is almost 12:30 now.  So, she is getting a pretty good nap in.  She hasn't spent that much time with Amanda yet.  I think Amanda held her once yesterday for a few minutes in Wal-mart while we were standing in line to check out.  Then Summer spit up on her and she gave her back to her daddy.  She didn't like that her sister had done that to her and was still complaining about the smelllast night after she had changed clothes.  So, they haven't really begun bonding yet, but she has only been home for a day so I'm sure it will just take a little time for her to get used to her little sister.  Well, I want to get a few things done before Summer wakes up so I better get to it.