yesterday was the la leche league education day in bedford, tx. rowan and i rode with alison and her three boys in their minivan. we had a little trouble finding the place and arrived 30 mins late, but they had just started when we got to the room, so we didn't miss a thing! anything involving a group of moms, you know there are bound to be stragglers.
the first half of the day was really great and informative, and i really enjoyed it. rowan was having fun, and i wasn't feeling too distracted and scattered by having him there; i was getting everything out of the presentations. in fact, i was really glad he was with me. then, right before we broke for lunch, i got this little, dull headache, and was really bummed because i was having such a good time and didn't want a headache to ruin the rest of the day. i thought maybe i just needed to eat (even though i'd made sure i'd eaten breakfast - vanilla soy milk, wheat thins and peanut butter). well, after lunch (vitamin water, chicken nuggets, a roll, and a brownie), the headache escalated into more than a dull headache, accompanied by really bad nausea. i do not know what causes these nausea/headache episodes, but they happen to me every so often. i want to say they're brought on by getting motion sick, because the last time i had one, i had gotten lost on the way to a movie theater and had to do a lot of u-turns and snaking around, all while looking at the car windows a lot to see where i needed to go. wow, just typing that made me motion sick... ugh. anyway, i knew that was why i got sick then. but yesterday, by the time i started feeling yucky, it had been hours since i'd been in alison's van while we were doing u-turns and trying to find our way. so that doesn't really explain why i got sick. anyway, we left around 3:30pm, and i had to ask alison to pull over on the side of the road so i could throw up. i didn't actually throw up, but man, i thought i was going to...
at home, i took two excedrine migraines, got in the tub and laid down in bed, but it was another couple of hours before i felt all right. i cannot describe how much i hate it when that happens; that headache and nausea. it makes me want to cry. it's not that the headache hurts that badly... it's just that i feel so GROSS and the feeling will not go away. it puts me in the most awful mood. i bet everyone to whom i spoke at the end of the education day yesterday thought i was a rude and unpleasant person, because i didn't want to talk to anyone. i just wanted to cry, and be home.
i actually called my dad last night and asked him if these headache and nausea episodes could be symptoms of high blood pressure, since he has high blood pressure and takes medication for it. he said his symptoms were always dizziness, tunnel vision, and the feeling that he was about to pass out. he never had headaches or felt nauseated. so i guess it's not that... i know it's related to motion sickness. i just wonder why, yesterday, it took so long after riding in a car for me to start feeling so terrible. who knows.
enough about that. today is going to be a fun day. here in a couple of hours, we're going to a birthday party for one of our friends at a really neat park in dallas. after that, we're going over to alison's house to play with the kids while she and her husband sneak out for an anniversary dinner-and-movie date. when we get home, it will be time to clean the house like crazy, because it definitely cannot look the way it does now tomorrow, when christian drops lina off for the day. no way, jose.
micah is so awesome lately. she's been in a wonderful mood, playful, and very, very loving. she hugs and kisses me all the time, and tells me she loves me "the best in the whole world." ah, it melts my heart!! i have been really working on not getting angry and loud with her. her behavior is very challenging, and it angers and frustrates me often, but i've committed myself to not yelling and being mean about it. i know it hurts her little feelings, and i can address the behavior itself (which does have to be addressed) without hurting her. i can, and i must. how can i teach her to be loving and caring and respectful of other people and their feelings, if i don't treat her that way?
oh, a couple of micah-isms... she's taken to calling josh and me "darling." it's hilarious. and she's been asking me all sorts of funny questions, like:
"if a cow were a car, what would it do?"
"how does milk get inside your nursey?"
"how does a baby get inside a mommy's tummy?" (oh, yeah...)
i love, love, love this age. while i think 4 will present its own set of challenges, of course, i think it's going to be a really delicious age for us.
rowan is presenting his own challenges at age 17 months. he loves to wrestle and tickle and play with us, but he is still learning the difference between playing and smacking you upside the head with a remote control. he also loves to climb on anything and everything, press buttons everywhere he can find them, crawl into the dishwasher and the dryer while i'm trying to load it, and drag his little arm across any table or shelf to knock everything on that surface down onto the floor. wooo, fun! on the other hand, he and micah sometimes will sit and quietly play and pretend together for a while, and i love watching those moments. rowan is still only saying "da-da" and "bye bye." i know he'll talk when he's ready, it's just hard not to compare him to micah, who was speaking in 3-4 word sentences by the time she was 18 mos.
time to go wake my babies so we can go buy a birthday present and get ready for the day. : )
the first half of the day was really great and informative, and i really enjoyed it. rowan was having fun, and i wasn't feeling too distracted and scattered by having him there; i was getting everything out of the presentations. in fact, i was really glad he was with me. then, right before we broke for lunch, i got this little, dull headache, and was really bummed because i was having such a good time and didn't want a headache to ruin the rest of the day. i thought maybe i just needed to eat (even though i'd made sure i'd eaten breakfast - vanilla soy milk, wheat thins and peanut butter). well, after lunch (vitamin water, chicken nuggets, a roll, and a brownie), the headache escalated into more than a dull headache, accompanied by really bad nausea. i do not know what causes these nausea/headache episodes, but they happen to me every so often. i want to say they're brought on by getting motion sick, because the last time i had one, i had gotten lost on the way to a movie theater and had to do a lot of u-turns and snaking around, all while looking at the car windows a lot to see where i needed to go. wow, just typing that made me motion sick... ugh. anyway, i knew that was why i got sick then. but yesterday, by the time i started feeling yucky, it had been hours since i'd been in alison's van while we were doing u-turns and trying to find our way. so that doesn't really explain why i got sick. anyway, we left around 3:30pm, and i had to ask alison to pull over on the side of the road so i could throw up. i didn't actually throw up, but man, i thought i was going to...
at home, i took two excedrine migraines, got in the tub and laid down in bed, but it was another couple of hours before i felt all right. i cannot describe how much i hate it when that happens; that headache and nausea. it makes me want to cry. it's not that the headache hurts that badly... it's just that i feel so GROSS and the feeling will not go away. it puts me in the most awful mood. i bet everyone to whom i spoke at the end of the education day yesterday thought i was a rude and unpleasant person, because i didn't want to talk to anyone. i just wanted to cry, and be home.
i actually called my dad last night and asked him if these headache and nausea episodes could be symptoms of high blood pressure, since he has high blood pressure and takes medication for it. he said his symptoms were always dizziness, tunnel vision, and the feeling that he was about to pass out. he never had headaches or felt nauseated. so i guess it's not that... i know it's related to motion sickness. i just wonder why, yesterday, it took so long after riding in a car for me to start feeling so terrible. who knows.
enough about that. today is going to be a fun day. here in a couple of hours, we're going to a birthday party for one of our friends at a really neat park in dallas. after that, we're going over to alison's house to play with the kids while she and her husband sneak out for an anniversary dinner-and-movie date. when we get home, it will be time to clean the house like crazy, because it definitely cannot look the way it does now tomorrow, when christian drops lina off for the day. no way, jose.
micah is so awesome lately. she's been in a wonderful mood, playful, and very, very loving. she hugs and kisses me all the time, and tells me she loves me "the best in the whole world." ah, it melts my heart!! i have been really working on not getting angry and loud with her. her behavior is very challenging, and it angers and frustrates me often, but i've committed myself to not yelling and being mean about it. i know it hurts her little feelings, and i can address the behavior itself (which does have to be addressed) without hurting her. i can, and i must. how can i teach her to be loving and caring and respectful of other people and their feelings, if i don't treat her that way?
oh, a couple of micah-isms... she's taken to calling josh and me "darling." it's hilarious. and she's been asking me all sorts of funny questions, like:
"if a cow were a car, what would it do?"
"how does milk get inside your nursey?"
"how does a baby get inside a mommy's tummy?" (oh, yeah...)
i love, love, love this age. while i think 4 will present its own set of challenges, of course, i think it's going to be a really delicious age for us.
rowan is presenting his own challenges at age 17 months. he loves to wrestle and tickle and play with us, but he is still learning the difference between playing and smacking you upside the head with a remote control. he also loves to climb on anything and everything, press buttons everywhere he can find them, crawl into the dishwasher and the dryer while i'm trying to load it, and drag his little arm across any table or shelf to knock everything on that surface down onto the floor. wooo, fun! on the other hand, he and micah sometimes will sit and quietly play and pretend together for a while, and i love watching those moments. rowan is still only saying "da-da" and "bye bye." i know he'll talk when he's ready, it's just hard not to compare him to micah, who was speaking in 3-4 word sentences by the time she was 18 mos.
time to go wake my babies so we can go buy a birthday present and get ready for the day. : )
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i love hearing about rowan at 17 months. that was one of my fav ages with eli....so fun to play with, but not old enough to be too spirited! : )
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