All About Sofia

On Monday I took Sofie to the doctor for her 4 month, well baby check up.  She is doing perfect! Weighing 14 pounds 4 ounces and measuring 25 inches, she is in the 75% for both height and weight and I am a proud momma! Her reflexes and neck strength are on point! 

Thats my girl!! =) 

She has been mostly breastfed since the beginning.  Most days she only has breast milk, but when we go out I bottle/formula feed because breastfeeding in public (even in mothers' rooms or family restrooms) creeps me out.  Yes, I have a cover and yes, I know how to feed her using a blanket as a cover but it makes me uncomfortable.  Just something I haven't gotten over.  Anyway, the doctor advised me that I can start feeding Sofie fruits and veggies, which I'm really excited about, for two reasons, but I'm kinda sad too! Excited because I have been dying to see all the funny faces she is going to make when she tastes something new, and because I want to make her foods instead of buying compotas (I bought a baby food cook book!! lol). But, I'm sad because I feel like I am not producing enough milk for her and it may be time to start weaning her from breast feedings to bottles only.   

I have been very lucky from the very beginning of this whole journey because everything has come so easy to me.. The pregnancy itself was a breeze, nothing too crazy happened besides the occasional overreaction to some things and the extra tears for silly things, no morning sickness, no weird cravings (croquettas aren't weird! lol) my feet didn't swell and I didn't get stretch marks till the very very end.. literally the last two weeks was when the effing stretch marks made their appearance!! 

I didn't feel a damn thing during labor - thank you epidural!!! And even though I ended up with a c-section, my recovery wasn't bad at all.  I was terrified of the recovery and really it wasn't any where near as bad as I thought it was going to be.  I didn't even finish my pain killers!

Even the breastfeeding! Everyone I talked to said it was soo difficult, and soo frustrating, and a lot of people have given up very early.  It was frustrating at the start seeing as how I've never done that before, but once Sofie and I got the hang of it, it was cake. We started giving her formula at night to "help her sleep longer" but she's been sleeping 5 hours straight since 2 months, and now almost 8 hours straight on breast milk only.  No cereal, no formula, just me.

I know that my experience is not typical, at all.  I know that Nery and I have been blessed with a very happy, very content, healthy little girl.  She has an amazing personality and I love her to death.  No cheesey "oh she changed my life" blah blah blah enter your own cliche child quote here..

I love her. 

Period.

lol now I want to cry! =P

Here are some pics and videos of her.. 

The videos are listed as private so you can only see them with these links.. you cannot search for her on YouTube

First Father Daughter Pic 

Holy tan lines Batman!!

Besides running after Baloo, last week was so fun!! 

I got to meet a cousin of mine from Italy and show her around Miami! Her name is Licia, she is a foreign exchange student and finishing high school in Dickinson, TX. She came to Miami for 4 days as part of her spring break. 

She arrived on Tuesday and my daddy brought her by my house.  She brought a little gift for Sofie that was so sweet and unexpected! I tried to take her out during the day as much as a I could, but with Sofie its a little limiting.. we went to eat lunch with my mom in Coral Gables on Wednesday and we ate Peruvian food! She got to taste fried yuca and platanitos for the first time EVER and loved it! lol Then Thursday we went to Dadeland for a little shopping, but she forgot her wallet at home so she could only window shop.  Friday we went back to Dadeland so she could fulfill her list!! =) And of course I shopped a little too both days! hee hee

Saturday was the best day! We went to the beach.. one of my favorite places!! Nery stayed with Sofie so I could go relax with Licia and my mom.  First, however, I made a pit stop to buy some croquettas from my favorite place to snack on at the beach.  Licia had never tried them, and I had been talking about them all week so I HAD to stop and get some! 

I met up with them on 14th street (after parking on 14th, walking to 13th and then walking back to 14th!) The day was gorgeous! Couldn't have asked for better weather! The sun was out, the wind was cool and it was just perfect!! We got there around 12 and left the sand at 4ish.  I thankfully used sunscreen all over the place, except the back of my legs. . . . . bad idea.. I got a sunburn from my ankles all the way to my bum, and it still hurts a little to sit! But I was lucky compared to Licia.  Crazy girl didn't use sun screen at all and used oil instead!!! Lucky for her she didn't burn her back so she was able to sleep on her back but everywhere else was horrible!! I blame myself and my mom for not warning her, but in my defense I did see her put sunblock on her face! Then I didn't think about it again!!

SORRY LICIA!!!! lol

Baloo's great escape..

Part one of probably many more to come.. 

So yesterday, as I am getting ready to leave the house to go have lunch with my cousin Licia and my mom, Baloo decided to have me chase him for over half an hour all through our neighborhood.  Usually whenever we leave the house, we put Lady and Baloo in their crates so they (and by they I mean Baloo) don't destroy or eat anything (furniture, garbage, etc) while we are gone.  The last step in my "out the door routine" is letting the dogs out into the yard so they can do their thing. Well Baloo has a new bad habit of digging holes under the fence and escaping through them.. We have covered his old holes, but he keeps making new ones.  He clearly had a new hole that we hadn't covered because we ran out of things to cover it with! He was outside for less than a minute, and I know that because I had just put a bottle in the microwave to heat up some water for 1 minute.. before the timer beeped Lady was already barking that Baloo had gotten out. 

Sigh..

Ooops.. Forgot some stuff! lol

There are a few things I left out.. So many things happened it's hard to keep them straight! Well that and that's what happens when you are writing at midnight and can't keep your eyes open! lol

So, we got engaged and found out about the baby in March, had the engagement pictures done in April and the engagement party in May. Also in May, my in-laws decided to completely retire and move back to Nicaragua. That was very bittersweet for us.  Bitter because I was excited that Sofia was going to have both sets of grandparents in the same place, since I didn't.  I had my paternal grandparents here (well, in West Palm Beach, FL.) and my maternal grandparents in Venezuela. It was sweet because his parents asked us to move into their house.  We went from a small 2 bedroom apartment to a huge 4 bedroom house, with a giant yard for Lady and Baloo to play in!! We moved into the house the last week of June. =)

Getting up to speed....

Hi Everyone! =)

Just wanted to give you a quick history into my little family! 

Nery and I have been together for 5 years now.  We have known each other since 2006. For those who don't know we met online (on MySpace to be exact!) through my friend Diane.  He messaged her, and I was the one who answered the message and directed him to my page.  From there we began an online friendship.  Messaging and chatting and getting to know one another.  After about 6 months of chatting we FINALLY spoke on the phone and met in person shortly after.  We started dating and made it official on March, 4th 2007. 

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Our first family photo!! More to come soon :)

:)