This week was pretty exciting on many levels. Dan's Aunt Val and Uncle Mike are over from Arizona so we spent some time hanging out with them and the baby. She spent the night over Dan's parents house twice over the past couple of weeks. I was sad to leave her but I know she has fun over there!
As of Monday August 13, Cailin has been sleeping through the night. Like, 9pm-645am. I am impressed.
I started work this week, kind of. I have been designing the middle school music curriculum and it has actually been fun. I have almost completed the 6th grade. In doing so, I was able to find some great lessons for my 7th graders! I also went to my classroom and hung all the posters and even got the whole syllabus done. I still have lots of work to do so I am going in on Thursday to hopefully get everything done.
Since I had to be at work, Cailin spent her first 4 days at daycare. :( I was sad to leave her but the provider is very nice and she loves Cailin! There is another baby there who is 4 months old so hopefully Cailin will make a few friends as well. The older kids really enjoy her too and can't stop trying to help Suzana! I am really glad we had this week to get used to the daycare and i think Cailin will really like it there!
My name is Jen and I married my high school sweetheart on August 13, 2011!! We welcomed our baby girl, Cailin Bonnie, into the world on June 18, 2012! Our lives have been a whirlwind ever since and we couldn't be any happier!
Friday, August 24, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
2 Months YOUNG!
My precious Cailin is 2 months old today! Where is the time going?
She is the best baby anyone could ask for! She rarely cries, smiles all the time, and sleeps through the night! (as of Monday this seems to be the new normal!) She goes to bed around 8 and then I wake her up around 6:30! It's great!
We spend our days playing at the spray park, taking walks, and playing with her toys. She loves being read to and looking at the pages. She also likes to watch tv but I don't really allow her to do so but sometimes at night she isn't quite ready to sleep so I let her sit with me quietly for a while.
She is the best baby anyone could ask for! She rarely cries, smiles all the time, and sleeps through the night! (as of Monday this seems to be the new normal!) She goes to bed around 8 and then I wake her up around 6:30! It's great!
We spend our days playing at the spray park, taking walks, and playing with her toys. She loves being read to and looking at the pages. She also likes to watch tv but I don't really allow her to do so but sometimes at night she isn't quite ready to sleep so I let her sit with me quietly for a while.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Happy Anniversary!
One year ago today I married my high school sweetheart and life changed forever! Little did we know that over the course of one year our bond would deepen and our lives could change so much!
We married each other on August 13, 2011. The ceremony was at Brewster Garden's in Plymouth, a place I went often as a child in the town I grew up in. The reception was at the Monponsett Inn in Halifax. Dan and I had both been there for family reunions and events. We had the most amazing wedding anyone could ask for! The weather was perfect, we were surrounded by our family and friends, and we got to pledge our undying love for one another!
Right after we got married, we talked about having children. We both knew that we wanted them and soon but decided to let whatever would happen, happen. We spent the next month and a half partying and living it up! we were married and had a great time celebrating it! It was so fulfilling to know that we picked "the right one" in high school!
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, we found out we were pregnant! I was in such shock that it happened so quickly, I called out of work at NMA. Wow! We were expecting a BABY! I went to my OB/GYN's office for the test and when they told me it was positive, I was so excited I think I blacked out! OMG A BABY! I had them do the blood test just to be sure and the nurse, Lisa, explained that a positive is always a positive and that a negative can rarely be wrong. I still insisted and she called the next day and said, "yea, you are still pregnant"
It was official, we were expecting!! It was literally one of the best days of my life to hear that news! I wanted Dan to be just as surprised as I was so I bought him a cute little card and wrote a nice note in it. I put a little gift bag together that had a bib that read "Daddy's rock star" in it along with the positive test from the Dr's office. He was so surprised! I was expecting him to pass out!
We spent the next 9 months prepping for our baby! At 19 weeks we found out we were having a girl!! Dan picked the name "Cailin" and I loved it! We both thought Bonnie would be a great middle name, after my late mother.
Being pregnant was difficult. It was physically taxing, and emotionally draining. I missed my mom more than ever. Since I was a little girl, I always thought that my mom would be in the delivery room when I had my babies. It was really tough to know that she wouldn't be there for that.
On June 18, 2012 we welcomed our PERFECT baby girl, Cailin Bonnie Moriarty, at 8:50 am! Our lives are even more perfect than we could have ever expected. Cailin is a great baby! She never cries, and eats and sleeps well! We are very blessed!
We got to spend a weekend together to celebrate our anniversary last weekend. Dans parents watched Cailin and Val is up from Az! It was really nice to spend time with each other!
Thursday, August 9, 2012
I love life right now!
I cannot emphasize enough how much I am loving life right now! I love spending every moment of my day with Cailin! we both wait all day for Dan to come home from work then our family is complete!
She is the best baby anyone could ask for. She is rarely fussy, she eats well, and she is consistently sleeping 5-5.5 hour stretches at night followed by 2, 2-3 hour stretches in the am. She behaves well in stores and restaurants when she is awake and much of the time she falls asleep in the car ride to where we are going. Napping can be odd because she usually sleeps in the am then takes an afternoon nap then a little snooze in the late afternoon. The exact timing is a bit difficult and sometimes she has a bit of trouble falling asleep for them.
Night time is her only fussy time and most times its not that bad. She cries a little when you are getting her ready for bed after her bath and while she is settling int sleep. I recently discovered "the happiest baby on the block" dvd and it is great! I learned some new tricks to make her fall asleep and be soothed and it works great!
We had a 3 day bad stretch when she had some serious gas. She was so gassy and was in some pain and that was the first time she was really fussy and wasn't easily soothed. I felt so bad I called her pediatrician. She recommended "gripe water" and we tried that and it does work. Once the gas pains subsided she was so tired! :( I felt terrible for my little sweetheart!
Dan and I are spending the weekend together as our anniversary is on Monday! ONE YEAR? wow. Time flies (unless you are pregnant, then it feels like forever!) I look back now and can barely remember life without Cailin. Pregnancy is tough, even if you have an uncomplicated one. It is so physically taxing! With that being said, it is so worth it in the end. I am so happy to have a smart, beautiful, baby girl and cannot wait to have more kids in the future. The somewhat distant future, but nonetheless, in the future.
We are lucky that Dan's Aunt paid for a night at the John Carver Inn, the hotel where we spend the weekend of our wedding. It will be so nice to enjoy each other while Cailin spends time with Dan's parents! We haven't had much time alone together since she was born and I can't wait to spend some quality time with my main squeeze! We are really excited for this vacation!
On another note, I have started some weening since I will be going back to work in September. No, I am not giving up on breast feeding but it would be a bit of a shock to both my body and to Cailin to suddenly stop when that time comes. I am replacing one day feeding with formula for now. Next week I will have to do another up until I am at the point where she isn't BF'ing during the times I would be at work. I know I can pump, but my time to do so will be limited during work and there is always the possibility that I might not have the chance and I do not want to risk leakage. I need to be honest and say that initially I hated breast feeding and even contemplated giving up on it several times, then sometime when she was 3 weeks old I began loving it! I really hate to have to give some of it up but it is not possible for me to feed her during the day when I return to work. I still plan on breast feeding her at night and all her other feedings. I will have to remain consistent with her daytime feedings on the weekends tho...
I am looking into getting our family photos taken in the fal. Cailin will be 4-5 months old and I think it will be nice and we can use the photos for our Christmas cards! It will be so cute!
She is the best baby anyone could ask for. She is rarely fussy, she eats well, and she is consistently sleeping 5-5.5 hour stretches at night followed by 2, 2-3 hour stretches in the am. She behaves well in stores and restaurants when she is awake and much of the time she falls asleep in the car ride to where we are going. Napping can be odd because she usually sleeps in the am then takes an afternoon nap then a little snooze in the late afternoon. The exact timing is a bit difficult and sometimes she has a bit of trouble falling asleep for them.
Night time is her only fussy time and most times its not that bad. She cries a little when you are getting her ready for bed after her bath and while she is settling int sleep. I recently discovered "the happiest baby on the block" dvd and it is great! I learned some new tricks to make her fall asleep and be soothed and it works great!
We had a 3 day bad stretch when she had some serious gas. She was so gassy and was in some pain and that was the first time she was really fussy and wasn't easily soothed. I felt so bad I called her pediatrician. She recommended "gripe water" and we tried that and it does work. Once the gas pains subsided she was so tired! :( I felt terrible for my little sweetheart!
Dan and I are spending the weekend together as our anniversary is on Monday! ONE YEAR? wow. Time flies (unless you are pregnant, then it feels like forever!) I look back now and can barely remember life without Cailin. Pregnancy is tough, even if you have an uncomplicated one. It is so physically taxing! With that being said, it is so worth it in the end. I am so happy to have a smart, beautiful, baby girl and cannot wait to have more kids in the future. The somewhat distant future, but nonetheless, in the future.
We are lucky that Dan's Aunt paid for a night at the John Carver Inn, the hotel where we spend the weekend of our wedding. It will be so nice to enjoy each other while Cailin spends time with Dan's parents! We haven't had much time alone together since she was born and I can't wait to spend some quality time with my main squeeze! We are really excited for this vacation!
On another note, I have started some weening since I will be going back to work in September. No, I am not giving up on breast feeding but it would be a bit of a shock to both my body and to Cailin to suddenly stop when that time comes. I am replacing one day feeding with formula for now. Next week I will have to do another up until I am at the point where she isn't BF'ing during the times I would be at work. I know I can pump, but my time to do so will be limited during work and there is always the possibility that I might not have the chance and I do not want to risk leakage. I need to be honest and say that initially I hated breast feeding and even contemplated giving up on it several times, then sometime when she was 3 weeks old I began loving it! I really hate to have to give some of it up but it is not possible for me to feed her during the day when I return to work. I still plan on breast feeding her at night and all her other feedings. I will have to remain consistent with her daytime feedings on the weekends tho...
I am looking into getting our family photos taken in the fal. Cailin will be 4-5 months old and I think it will be nice and we can use the photos for our Christmas cards! It will be so cute!
Monday, August 6, 2012
in the next year...
I am stealing this idea from my friend Kaytee's blog: list 25 things you want to accomplish in the next calendar year! It's a great idea since I have gone through so many life changes this year, I can aspire to make the next equally as amazing!
1. Spend a vacation alone with my hubby! Being a parent is very fulfilling but we both know that we need to make time to spend with each other sans baby!
2. Begin practicing again. It has been a while due to the wedding then pregnancy. I got back to the practice room this past week and I have a lot to work on. Having a baby really changes your support not to mention taking a long break did not improve my vocal fitness.
3. Take a CPR certification class. I have done this in the past and am confident I still remember what I was taught but there have been significant changes in some of these life-saving practices AND you are supposed to get re-licensed every couple of years. It has been over ten years since I took it so it is definitely time!
4. Bring Cailin to the Children's Museum! She is a bit young now, but within the year she will be old enough! I LOVED going here when I was a kid!
5. Improve my eating habits. Lets be real here, I never really eat sweets or snack foods and I do eat a good amount of fruit and whole grains. Here is what I want to do: increase the amount of veggies I eat and increase my snacking. I would like to eat a small snack between each meal and make my meals a bit smaller.
6. Be a good mommy to my beautiful girl Cailin! This will be an everyday goal of mine for the rest of my life, and my most important! Being a mom is great and relatively easy thus far but I know that in the future I will eventually face hard decisions where the easy answer isn't always the best. Cailin is my number one priority and I need to make the best choices for her, even when they aren't the easiest!
7. Get Cailin to sleep in her crib. Without the bouncy seat. This would be one of those hard things to do that I know I need to make happen.
8. Last year I had two private students and one school student make it into districts. This year I will not be teaching at NMA but I will still be at Billerica. My goal is to increase all of my students scores and have at least 3 get into districts.
9. Get into a fitness routine. I was going to the gym at least 4 times per week up until 2 months before the wedding. Then I got really busy with the wedding planning and work. I NEED to start going to the gym everyday again. I love the feeling after a great workout!
10. Take a family vacation! I would love to bring Cailin somewhere kid friendly. She is still a bit young now, but maybe during April vacation or the beginning of summer vacation next year we can bring her somewhere! Camping?
11. Go to a Bruins AND a Celtics game. I have never been to a hockey game and I havent been to a Celtics game in YEARS!
12. Start the home buying process. We aren't quite ready to buy a house but we are ready to make more money. We are looking into buying a triple decker in the area, and renting out the top two apartments and living in the bottom floor. This way we have an ideal apartment and we can live virtually rent free. Then we can buy our own home!
13. Enroll Cailin in music class for when she turns 1. Being a musician and a teacher, I know the benefits of children being musical. Cailin will still be too young for piano lessons but a baby music class will be great! Dalcroze? Who knows!
14. Baby swim lessons! I had swim lessons at a very young age and LOVED it! Cailin loves the water already PLUS I think its a good idea to teach children how to swim at a young age. The local Y offers a baby class and it would be lots of fun!
15. Attend another PETA demonstration. Judge all you want, but I love animals and hate people who hurt them!
16. Register for a music class. (Possibly Orff)
17. Begin the first phase of a new music association. (Already sort of in the works, deets later)
18. Make our own sushi.
19. Make a batch of wine to give out as Christmas gifts (as long as it doesnt taste terrible)
20. Start consigning my clothes and Cailins. I go through a lot of clothes, and lets face it, I LOVE clothes. I have so much that I don't wear for various reasons. Like my maternity clothes, they are all newish and I probably won't wear them again even when am pregnant for the 2nd time. I know I will want new clothes. Cailin outgrows her clothes in a matter of weeks so...
21. Visit Tina more often. Last October I had to give my cat Tina away. It broke my heart and still does. She was peeing in the house and I was pregnant. I loved that cat more than a human should love an animal. I got her near Halloween in 4th grade from an older couple in the neighborhood. She was one of two kittens and I chose her because she was the calm one of the two. Well, they reversed roles at some point. Tina was more active at 17 than Dan's cats are at 5. She was so full of life! She was my best friend! We survived middle school, break ups with boyfriends, deaths in the family, and moving from house to house. I really miss her!
22. Throw Cailin an amazing 1st birthday party!
23. Rent a cabin for a romantic weekend in Maine.
24. Continue to strive to be the best music teacher and mentor I can be.
25. Live life in the moment! Don't be afraid to be involved 100% because if you aren't, at some point you will realize you let life pass you by.
1. Spend a vacation alone with my hubby! Being a parent is very fulfilling but we both know that we need to make time to spend with each other sans baby!
2. Begin practicing again. It has been a while due to the wedding then pregnancy. I got back to the practice room this past week and I have a lot to work on. Having a baby really changes your support not to mention taking a long break did not improve my vocal fitness.
3. Take a CPR certification class. I have done this in the past and am confident I still remember what I was taught but there have been significant changes in some of these life-saving practices AND you are supposed to get re-licensed every couple of years. It has been over ten years since I took it so it is definitely time!
4. Bring Cailin to the Children's Museum! She is a bit young now, but within the year she will be old enough! I LOVED going here when I was a kid!
5. Improve my eating habits. Lets be real here, I never really eat sweets or snack foods and I do eat a good amount of fruit and whole grains. Here is what I want to do: increase the amount of veggies I eat and increase my snacking. I would like to eat a small snack between each meal and make my meals a bit smaller.
6. Be a good mommy to my beautiful girl Cailin! This will be an everyday goal of mine for the rest of my life, and my most important! Being a mom is great and relatively easy thus far but I know that in the future I will eventually face hard decisions where the easy answer isn't always the best. Cailin is my number one priority and I need to make the best choices for her, even when they aren't the easiest!
7. Get Cailin to sleep in her crib. Without the bouncy seat. This would be one of those hard things to do that I know I need to make happen.
8. Last year I had two private students and one school student make it into districts. This year I will not be teaching at NMA but I will still be at Billerica. My goal is to increase all of my students scores and have at least 3 get into districts.
9. Get into a fitness routine. I was going to the gym at least 4 times per week up until 2 months before the wedding. Then I got really busy with the wedding planning and work. I NEED to start going to the gym everyday again. I love the feeling after a great workout!
10. Take a family vacation! I would love to bring Cailin somewhere kid friendly. She is still a bit young now, but maybe during April vacation or the beginning of summer vacation next year we can bring her somewhere! Camping?
11. Go to a Bruins AND a Celtics game. I have never been to a hockey game and I havent been to a Celtics game in YEARS!
12. Start the home buying process. We aren't quite ready to buy a house but we are ready to make more money. We are looking into buying a triple decker in the area, and renting out the top two apartments and living in the bottom floor. This way we have an ideal apartment and we can live virtually rent free. Then we can buy our own home!
13. Enroll Cailin in music class for when she turns 1. Being a musician and a teacher, I know the benefits of children being musical. Cailin will still be too young for piano lessons but a baby music class will be great! Dalcroze? Who knows!
14. Baby swim lessons! I had swim lessons at a very young age and LOVED it! Cailin loves the water already PLUS I think its a good idea to teach children how to swim at a young age. The local Y offers a baby class and it would be lots of fun!
15. Attend another PETA demonstration. Judge all you want, but I love animals and hate people who hurt them!
16. Register for a music class. (Possibly Orff)
17. Begin the first phase of a new music association. (Already sort of in the works, deets later)
18. Make our own sushi.
19. Make a batch of wine to give out as Christmas gifts (as long as it doesnt taste terrible)
20. Start consigning my clothes and Cailins. I go through a lot of clothes, and lets face it, I LOVE clothes. I have so much that I don't wear for various reasons. Like my maternity clothes, they are all newish and I probably won't wear them again even when am pregnant for the 2nd time. I know I will want new clothes. Cailin outgrows her clothes in a matter of weeks so...
21. Visit Tina more often. Last October I had to give my cat Tina away. It broke my heart and still does. She was peeing in the house and I was pregnant. I loved that cat more than a human should love an animal. I got her near Halloween in 4th grade from an older couple in the neighborhood. She was one of two kittens and I chose her because she was the calm one of the two. Well, they reversed roles at some point. Tina was more active at 17 than Dan's cats are at 5. She was so full of life! She was my best friend! We survived middle school, break ups with boyfriends, deaths in the family, and moving from house to house. I really miss her!
22. Throw Cailin an amazing 1st birthday party!
23. Rent a cabin for a romantic weekend in Maine.
24. Continue to strive to be the best music teacher and mentor I can be.
25. Live life in the moment! Don't be afraid to be involved 100% because if you aren't, at some point you will realize you let life pass you by.
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