Late Night

Every few months, Hope goes through this weird faze where, for a week, it's really hard to get her to bed by her bedtime. Instead of her nightly ritual of bed by 10:30, she literally wants to eat for about 2 hours straight. So every night for a week I feed her and put her to bed by 10:30, but she wakes up about 2 minutes later wanting to eat again. This pattern repeats about three times until midnight when she is finally too tired to eat and I am too tired to do it all over again.

It is now midnight and I have my handy dandy baby monitor next to me, hoping she is dreaming of ponies and rainbows and not of delicious milk!

Life is going by so fast, I can't seem to get my head on straight! I officially have Celiac Disease and am off gluten FOREVER!!! (For those of you who don't know Gluten in a protein found in wheat, barley, oats, and rye) But, its not so bad. I made gluten-free pizza tonight that was amazing! I'm just happy I'm not sick all the time! But let me tell you, I wasn't this easy going a week ago. I stared at the dinner rolls the whole thanksgiving meal! Eventually they put in the freezer and finally the temptation was gone! It was hard. They smelt so wonderful...and we all know how much I love bread! So, all Thanksgiving Day and the next few days, I was having a little pity party "Why me?" boo hoo....but somehow, I'm still not sure how, I ate some gluten on Saturday. I think it was the french fries from Dairy Queen. They are supposed to be ok, but I didn't think about how they are fried with other things like onion rings. So, up until today, I have been EXTREMELY sick! I mean unable to walk straight, fever, chills/sweats sick. It was awful! Thus I am now deciding to stop feeling sorry for myself and move on because this isn't going away and no matter how much I want to cheat and eat a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza, it's really not worth it.

Updates on Hope...

-She is now 4 1/2 months old

-She has found her feet, but they have not made it into her mouth yet

-She rolls over like Rolly Polly

-She "scoots" herself across the floor

-For the first time, tonight she got up on all fours! I caught her twice. It was only for a second and I tried to catch it on camera, but I wasn't fast enough. Maybe next time.

-She is sleeping in her own room (tonight is the first night)

-She must have realized its her voice she is hearing because she squeals and screams as loud as she can and then giggles...sooo cute

Well I am now off to bed. No pictures this time, because my computer is acting funny and I'm too tired to figure it out.

Megan out