Welp my baby is ONE now!!

Well as the title said Miss Natalie Grayce turned ONE year old couple days ago. She is so beautiful. We had her bday party on the 16th. She is such a funny kid, and I have to say that Sunday she turned into a new kid. She started crawling, FINALLY, she says "HI" clear as day with a vigorous wave. She give ONLY HER MOM kisses, all of the sudden. And she is trying to pull up on stuff. It is funny I put the cake up by her to blow the candle out and she two handed grabbed some cake. LOL Did I mention that this cake was a "carebear" cake, so it had LOTS of colors in it? Needless to say it was a mess. But such a beautiful mess if I say so myself. She is 30 inches tall, and 18 pounds. The dr and nurse are concerned cause she has only gained 2 oz in 2 months. I am however not worried, believe it or not. She is drinking her whole milk out of a cup, so I think that will put some weight on her. Regardless she is my beautiful baby girl.

Update on Natalie Grayce

Well well this has been one hard tiring week.

We did however get Natalies tubes in her ears yesterday. The procedure took 11 minutes from the time they took her to the time the Dr told us she was done. She did fine but was up ALL night last night, not sure why. I am so freaking tired.

Today we finally had our developmental assessment with one of two developmental pediatricians in MI. She seen Natalie, who is 11 months and still not crawling, not sitting up on her own. She asked a bunch of questions, looked at her lines on her hands, looked at her hair line, Did some reflex stuff, and bent her feet and legs WAY around. I thought she was gonna break um.

The ending result is that she has a genetic abnormality that leaves her with very low muscle tone. There is nothing we can do about it and there is nothing that we could have done to prevent it. She said really it just means she will be behind in gross motor skills. She will walk but will do it late. She is not even recommending PT because she said it will not help at this point. She said as she gets older it wont be such a big deal. We do however have to be cautious about sprains and breaks when she becomes active because she does not have the protection on the joints as we do from the muscles. She also said it is very likely that this is why she is having so many ear infections. We will see her again in 3 months and go from there.

I left very relieved cause I was so afraid there would be a ton of testing, or that it was a form of cerebral palsy, or some weird thing from the cord being around her neck, that she would need care for ever. Then after thinking about it, it makes me sad, I just pray she will catch up quickly and not be made fun of. I count my blessings as I know it could have turned out much worse and it didn't. I am just glad to know that there is something that is keeping her from achieving her mile stones.

She is however saying "momma", "dadda", "babba". She is doing patty cake, peek aboo sometimes. She points to stuff but not sure why. Oh did I mention she has a temper. She can roll anywhere she wants, and if you get in her way when she is swinging her feet YOU WILL get hurt.

Thanks to everyone who has asked about her. She is such a sweety and I hope things look for her soon.

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How can she be OK with hurting me like she has?

Shame,Shame,Shame on her. That are about the only words I can put with it. I feel sad, betrayed. Very insignifigant. It is not like I didnt know her true feelings but now they have actually been said, OUTLOUD, after all these years. Just because Natalie and Rebecca are mine they are just as insignifigant, just as unimportant to her. Now because of her, I have to make it up to my girls, I have to find an explanation of her action, that reflects on their actions. She leads the way, therefore he follows.

Come to terms SUSAN, Wake up and look at reality.
And DAMN IT do something about it!

Yeah it has been a long time.......

I have some cute pics to post of my girls but first let me give you an update on the "campero" family.

We are doing as well as expected. We have had family reunions, and weddings on mikes side, then on my side my mom got married on Sept 15th, neices bday was 13th, Anna's bday was 16th, Josh's was 18th, and Tina and mom's was on the 21st. My moms apartment caught on fire on her bday and she has been out of a home since. My car was in the shop for 5 days. I am so thankful it is under warranty.

Becca has some MAJOR seperation anxiety for the past week and half. She is making me want to pull my hair out. She is getting very big and tall. She is officially in a 4T now, I just can not believe it. She is a very smart girl and just loves her "susie" sooo much. She actually calls me susie sometimes.

Natalie has to start Physical Therapy on Tuesday because she is still not developing the way the dr wants her to as far as her legs are concerned. She is not even attempting to crawl but by the grace of god is bearing some weight on her legs. She is finally eating alil better and is up to 17.9 pounds. I have to buy 12 month clothes because of how tall she is.

Mike went for a consult in June for Bariatric surgery and has finally finished "his" part for the surgery. All we are waiting on is a paper from his dr and approval from BCBS. We are both very excited for him. He has been working 60-70 hours a week, so that I can be home with the girls and think about school for the time being. It wont be forever but even for a couple months is going to help.

I started the nursing program on Monday and it is NOT going very smooth. We hav ehad the instructor change our class times, our baby sitter for the week (my mom) had this and that so I had to go in late and come home early. That is not like me. If I have school at 6 I am AT school by 5:30. I will see my dr on Monday for a physical. I have to get this depression and insomnia under control. I do not feel the antidepressent is working anymore. For days mike keeps asking what is wrong and I tell him that I have no idea. I am just very upset, sad, down. I shold be very happy but I am not. Sad, I know. I know I have so many things to be thankful for and I am but I just feel down. I am looking forward to week #2 at school. I am still working weekend at work for now. And we have recently hired our neighbor to help us with the short days with the girls. Tina of course is helping out also, and her plate is already flowing over. I swear when I graduate, I seriously think I am going to take her on an all inclusive trip of some kind.

Anyhow, we are doing pretty well. Thanks to all tha read about us.

Congrats to me.....

I just recieved a letter from Baker that says,

Dear Susan Campero Congratulations, you have earned an acceptance into the Practical nursing program.

Then there was alot of blah blah blah.

I am excited and kinda saddened. I mean it is for an LPN, which makes pretty good money(20-25 and hour) but kinda sad that I didnt go for rn. I guess I have accomplished way more than majority of my family, so even if I do do it in steps at least I am still doing it. I am not sure if I truly believe this but I am trying.

Now I have to get my stuff together quickly. I dont knwo what I am going to do about work. My school sch is like M-F, and I am supposed to work during the week. I already asked my boss if I could switch to nights but there is nothing opened. I think Tina and Ant will help me still with the girls whenever they can. I guess it is time to sit down and figure it all out.

Thank you God for just one more blessing you have tossed my way!

Tina.....

I am going out to dinner with my husband for our anniversary. We will be gone for aprox 3 hours. Just thought I would let you know.


:)

Didnt want ya to worry!

15 pounds 7 oz, 26 inches long

So Natalies nurse came. she talked about here development, her weight, eating. She is sending out an nutritionist, which will be good for the whole family. Anyway the most exciting is that our goal for her weight is to gain 2 pounds by August 7th. So that is a half pound a week. So I figured that she should be 15. 6 lbs to be on a good track. She weighed in at 16.7 lbs and that is with a diaper off. So she gained 10 oz, w hich is awesome. Guess the sweet potatoes and cereal that is daddy fortified is doing the job.

I hate when your teeth tell you what to do!!!!!

It all started on Sunday. My tooth told me that whether I wanted to or not I WAS going to the dentist!!!!!

I was at work and noticed that my left bottom jaw was sore. I thought it must be a wisdom tooth coming in, no biggy my other one gave me a little problem but went away. Well I was drastically WRONG, it has progressively gotten worse since then. As of 3:30 this am, My ear, jaw, tooth, throat was in so much pain. I was searching soooooo fast for the business card to the dentist. Yeah I haveNEVER been there, as a matter of fact I have not been the dentist in 10+ years. Sad I know but True!!

So, after shuffling kids, and tina/ant coming to the rescue AGAIN, I went in and got the situation taken care of, or so I wanted. AFter the dr took xrays, prodded a bit the conclusion is not as bad as I have antisipated throughout the last 5 years. I just knew that the 5 top back left and bottom were all rotted. I knew I had to start saving for soem nice dentures......:)

Well I have an somewhat erupted impacted wisdom tooth that is too infected to be removed till monday. Started on the antibiotics just now. I also to my surprise have a top non infected wisdome tooth that needs to be removed (maybe a cause of headaches), and I have one other filling that needs to be done on the top. Eventhough it sounds bad, I was surprsed. I expected much worse considering I have nto taken care of my teeth in a decade, and i chew on ice constantly, just ask the lady at in and out.

So that is me and my teeth, for some reason the anxiety of going to the dentist has subsided, i didnt feel anxious at all and I dont feel it when thinking of going on monday. MAybe from the pain? Maybe cause I am not a kid anymore? Maybe cauwse the embarrassment of my teeth has gotten to me? Either way it is all good.

I have decided taht if I get all my decay issues taken care of like a big girl then I will reward myself with soem teeth whitening.

YEAH!!!