9 months and surgery

Well Im a bad bad blogger. Shame on me. Oh well, Im sure everyone will get over it. Quickly.

My Lorelei Rose is 9 months already. Where does the time go? She learned to crawl, pull up and cruise all in her 8th month. This leads me to my other snippet of info about her...she is lazy. Lord is she ever lazy. She knew how to crawl for a longggg time before she decided to do it. Im convinced of it. Thats why everything came at once. She waited awhile but then all the sudden just took off! Now she is just on the go. She never once stops. She is literally into everything. I call her the carpet picker cause she literally will find the smallest piece of crap on the floor and before I know it, its in her mouth. gross I know. We vaccuum ALOT since she has been in our lives. She will also force us to be more neat people. If you know us at all we are not the most organized people. But since Lorelei likes to grab and constently mess with stuff it forces us to pick up more around the house during the day.

Anyways, more about her new goings on....she had more professional photos taken. Poor second baby, she hasnt had pics taken since she was born. opps. I know other people are guilty of this as well but I promise to be better. Gigi had pics taken at newborn, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and a year. poo. Im so sad about that. But at least Im aware. I will be better. :)

She FINALLY got her first tooth.The bottom left. FINALLY. only took 8 freaking months. I told Tom I was very worried about her. She was so angry all the time. She never smilied. she would just cry cry cry. Very unhappy baby. The second that tooth popped through...AHHHH MOMENT! My sweet Lorelei Rose was back. I was so thrilled. I was trying to get used to having a mad, unhappy baby. I just couldnt. and thank God, now I dont need to. :) Love her. She also got her top tooth and is working on the other top tooth. I can see it through the gums but it hasnt popped yet. There is also the little white dot of the second bottom tooth.

Here are some pics of the girls photo shoot.

Now for the surgery part. So thanks to Miss Lorelei, a bone in my foot died. Nice huh? I thought so. I have very high arches in my feet and when I was pregnant with Lorelei I carried her only in my belly. Nice for weight loss only not so much for my feet. Too much tilting forward caused inflamation in tendon of my big toe. well apparently there are two small bones called Sesmiod bones in that tendon. They help you push off when running or walking. who knew!? So apparently what happened is the inflamation was so bad in that tendon that it caused blood flow to stop to one of those small bones. There is no helping it. We tried meds, an ugly boot, expensive orthodics. everything. nothing worked. bone is dead dead. So off to surgery I went. Surgery was yesterday and went really well. The Dr. told tom that when he got in there he realized the bone was very fragmented. When bone dies it will start to just fall apart after awhile. This is why there was more pain towards the end. I could barely walk from point A to B. Just walking from my car to my office was pain. When the girls at work and I would go down to the deli downstairs I would make them take the elevator up one floor cause I just couldnt walk that much. And as everyone knows that just really doesnt work with two kids. I wanted to be able to enjoy my summers and wear flip flops and go barefoot ( as anyone from the south can understand, we dont wear shoes in the summer!) and go to the zoo and be able to chase the girls. I havent been able to workout since pretty much right after having Lorelei. The pain was just too much. Forget about heels. those were out of the question since it hyperextended the toe. That doesnt work. So thats that. The bone has been removed and we are working on the pain cause the nerve block is wearing off. Boooo.

One funny thing that happened coming out of surgery was after I was finally awake the nurse asked me if I had children. I answered, yes two girls. She then asked me who was taking care of them which I thought was a tad odd. I replied my mother in law had them and that we were very lucky to have a lot of family in the area to help out. She said, well thats a relief. again...ODD. She then proceeded to say "well when you were first waking up the first thing you said was, Where are my babies! we were worried that you may have lost a child and had relived that during your surgery and being under. We thought this might be a bad coming out of it for you. That it might get emotional." Nope! Just missed my girls!

Well the meds are wearing off so I will write more later.