Life 365 | Week 39

Yikes, so you want to know how you shouldn’t start the week? Waking up in the middle of the night sick. NOPE. Nuh uh. This morning around 1 am, I woke up with a start and rushed to the bathroom. I don’t want to horrify you with all the details, but ick, no one enjoys vomiting.

Any who, now that I’ve grossed you all out on a Monday morning (please don’t leave me), here is another installment of Life 365. And let meh tell ya, Emma is one big ol’ star. She’s been doing so many adorable things lately that it’s getting harder and harder to not post 1,379 photos per day of the little munchkin. I’m pretty sure I’ve annoyed everyone on my Facebook and Instagram with all my precious baby gremlin photos. I’ve become one of those people. You know who I’m talking about, the obsessed new mom with the camera glued to my face. I guess we all become our mothers eventually. 

Now where were we? Oh yes, the baby. 

TWENTY-TWOSigh. This girl. Those arm rolls. That eyebrow. Those nostrils? She’s just delicious. What were we talking about again?

TWENTY-THREE Emma has been working on her crawling. But it’s hilarious watching her attempt to crawl in bed with the sheet and blanket obstacle course. I just sit back and laugh. I’m a terrible mama. BABY BUTT. Okay moving on.

TWENTY-FOUR No big deal, she’s just sitting up on her own. *sobbing uncontrollably* Why are you growing up so fast wee one? I guess she likes watching me cry.

TWENTY-FIVE "No mom, it’s an octave above middle C! Try again.“

TWENTY-SIX We went to Paul’s annual work BBQ on Friday and of course, Emma was a hit. We played another round of pass the baby. Emma was obsessed with dada’s swivel chair. She had a blast spinning around. Baby barf comes out of leather right?

TWENTY-SEVEN Here we see the fuzzy pumpkin butt in her natural habitat on the plains of fluffy blankets and the great sea of pillows. Let’s follow her movements. 

TWENTY-EIGHT Emma became fussy (dang teething) at church but what do ya know, they had an awesome cry room where they were video streaming the sermon and Emma got to hang out with the other babies. Win-win. How did I not know about this? Emma is pointing out where the evil milk teeth are beating up her gums from the inside. I’m sorry baby girl.

I have a few days off this week before the start of the Fall quarter on Thursday. I’ll be back at the clinic at school so that will be an adjustment for sure. Grace and I are planning to hit up the outlets this week and do some lunching. Come to mama!

Have a beautifully scrumptious week! Please don’t punch me… 

A day in the life - 09.25.14

FRIDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2014

{Enjoy a little look in to a day in my life. I know, riveting. My dear friend Joelle inspired this post.}

6:00 Oh hey that’s my alarm. Emma slept in her crib all night. Praise Jesus. Snooze.

6:06 Yikes, Emma is letting me know it is time to feed her. Well I guess no more sleeping allowed.

6:19 Must. Have. Coffee. *turns on coffee maker*

6:21 Pumping time! Might as well call it milking the cow.

6:22 Oh yeah, I wanted to start my A Day In The Life notes. *opens a new Evernote*

6:26 I guess I’ll also write a new blog post while I pump.

6:40 Finally poured myself a cup of coffee. Get in my belly.

6:57 Post is up! Maybe I’ll actually start getting ready now. What’s for breakfast? OOO, I’ll have a quiche. Thank God for Trader Joe’s.

7:01 Preparing the baby bottles. Again. I had a dream that I was caught under an avalanche of bottles. Oh yeah, that’s real life.

7:11 Gahh, I need new contacts.

7:22 Whatttttt? It’s raining? That’s new. I hope my umbrella circa 2007 holds up.

8:01 Just dropped Emma off at daycare. That does NOT get easier.

8:13 Heading to Oakland for our last day at Externship. Sad!

8:16 Time to pick an Emma photo for Instagram! Hard to decide. There are so many gems. I’ll pick the one with the funniest facial expression. Now I have to decide on a caption…

8:24 Just reported a reckless driver on the Bay Bridge. Yup. I’m that person.

8:27 “I’ll be watching you. Every single day, every word you say…” gahh, that’s a great song on the radio.

8:28 Yikes, just passed a crash. Wow that big rig truck was CUT IN HALF. Thank God we weren’t around for that.

8:49 Finally made it to work. Drivers are STUPID in the rain.

9:03 Let’s see some patients.

11:11 Just finished taking out 5 teeth and feeling like a rockstar. Man, I’m thirsty now. Hopefully some of these teeth will qualify for WREBS (side note: the WREBS is my dental license practical exam that I will take in May).

11:12 I’m starving. What’s for lunch today? I’m going to really miss cheap and delicious China town food.

11:53 Hi ho, hi ho, to another pumping session I go. I guess I’ll scroll through Instagram again.

12:12 Yay! Heading to a vegetarian Vietnamese place. Yum.

2:19 WHEW! Finally have a moment to breathe again. Busy afternoon already.

2:21 Ugh, I’m feeling stuffed. I hope I get out of here at a reasonable time today. Traffic gods, please clear the roads!

3:52 So. Tired. How many times do I need to tell people to brush their teeth? One patient left. Aww a 6 year-old. I hope he’s well behaved…

3:54 Awwwww, I just found out community group is cancelled tonight. Darn. Maybe I’ll try to go to bed early. Maybe Emma will be an angel and fall asleep on her own at 8 pm. Maybe pigs will fly.

4:24 Taught some of the guys in the office about my breast pump, breast pads, and nipple shields. Good for them for asking questions and wondering. I hope they don’t have nightmares

5:06 Heading home. Whew, I hope there is no bridge traffic. Oh wait, there is a Giants game. Never mind. 

5:29 Oh traffic. Ahh, I just saw a corgi! So adorable. Look at that fluffy butt. 

5:35 I hate taxis!!!!

5:37 Oh yeah, Bones starts tonight! I’m so excited. Please hold all my calls. 

5:55 Just picked up the pumpkin butt. She finger painted to daycare. She’s a genius.

6:13 Finally home. I’m pooped. Is it too early to get into PJs? Nope.

6:57 Just finished de-cluttering the apartment. Whew, that feels good. Aww Paul made Emma a pillow fort for her nap. This girl loves her cocoons.

7:00 Thank God for my glider arm chair. Be still my sore back.

7:04 How am I not hungry for dinner yet? Oh yeah, it was probably the twenty thousand egg tarts I slammed into my face after clinic today. I’m genuinely going to miss all the cheap Asian food. I wonder how many pounds I gained these past three weeks…

7:06 Watching The Big Bang Theory. Gahh I love this show. A Christmas episode, great, now I wish it was Christmas already.

7:08 Uh oh, Emma is really deep into this nap. I wonder if I should wake her up to put her in a fresh diaper and her PJs and put her in her crib.

7:09 Decide to bite the bullet and get her ready for bed. Get ready for some crying.

7:14 Well she’s awake now. I guess we will try again later.

7:16 Aww, she wants to play! And I just took 10 photos of her. I’m obsessed.

7:18 Must. Take. Out. Contacts. Oh yeah, that feels good. I might as well wash my face while I’m here. Shoot! I’m almost out of night cream. I need to add that to my list.

7:21 Just texted my dad asking him how he is feeling after surgery last week.

7:22 Gahh! Emma is doing her baby planks again. Adorable. 

7:24 Ugh, these Apple-bashing Microsoft and Samsung commercials are really starting to bug me. I get it, there’s a rivalry.

7: 26 Bahahaha! Emma just got her toy stuck on her face. 

7:28 Just took a video of Emma laughing at her stuffed unicorn. Must send it to my sis.

7:38 Whoops, need to charge the phone.

7:41 I think I’ll have chocolate yogurt for dinner.

7:48 Emma is playing wit her musical instruments. Like I said, genius. 

8:00 BONESSSSSSS!

8:01 Shit. Booth is in jail.

8:21 Watching Bones and breastfeeding. Good stuff.

8:27 Oh my goodness, Emma has an adorable sleepy face.

8:28 Holy moly! (Spoilder alert!) Sweets and Daisy are going to have a baby!

8:57 THEY DID NOT DO THAT!!!!!

9:00 And I’m sobbing. Why would they do that to us??!

9:08 Oooo, an encore episode of the Sleepy Hallow premiere. But I still can’t believe what happened on Bones. Dear Lord.

9:12 I’m glad we have started putting Emma to bed earlier. She’s sleeping like an angel right now. For now. Now I’m wondering where the expression, “sleeping like a baby” came from. It’s all lies.

9:13 Bleck. I need to brush my teeth.

9:42 This show is so suspenseful. I love it! Probably the only thing keeping me from falling asleep on the couch. And Paulie already left me and went to bed. We are old farts.

9:59 That was good. Time for bed! I bet both Emma and Paul will be snoring when I get into the bedroom.

10:04 Time for some Harry Potter on audiobook. Mmmm. Good night. 

Awkward and Awesome

AWKWARD // 

- Hearing a huge crash in my bedroom and coming to find that my box of holiday decorations has fallen out of the closet and all over the floor. That’s not the way I wanted to start decorating for Autumn.

- Saying, “So I was sucking out Emma’s boogers today…”

- Going to take a drink of water and completely missing my mouth then having a wet shirt for the next thirty minutes.

- Getting punched in the face twenty times by your infant while breastfeeding. Why thank you, Emma.

- Getting carded at a restaurant when I have a baby in my arms. Do I look like a teen mom or something? 

- Pants and the post-baby body. How do they fit in the morning and not in the afternoon?

AWESOME //

- Emma’s epic baby-skeptic face. She has all kinds of sassy.

- My first devotion was posted yesterday on Blessed Is She. 

- My Nespresso machine and early morning cappuccinos at home.

- The start of this amazing season. Hello my name is Samantha and I am your stereotypical Autumn-lover. I’ll take my pumpkin spice latte and take a selfie in my knit scarf.

- PASTRIES. I could write a whole post about my sweet tooth. Hmm, maybe I will…

- Lipstick and earrings - how I keep my sense of self when I’m head-to-toe in PPE (personal protective equipment, an infection control thanggg).

Life 365 | Week 38

You want to know what is pretty wonderful? Baby snuggles in the pre-dawn hours. Miss Emma has been needy lately and wanting to sleep next to us and instead of resenting my interrupted sleep, I have embraced it. And by it, I mean the warm and squishy baby-goodness named Emma. 

Oh my gosh! Just as I was writing this, Emma went from laying on her stomach, to pushing herself up, to getting her legs underneath her, to sitting upright on her butt. Holy cow, I’m sobbing. Cool it Samantha, breathe. 

Yeah so before Emma amazed me with her body contortions, I was going to say that I had a special Life 365 post for you all. Usually I only choose one photo per day, but I have taken so many great ones this week that I’m going to collage it up. Because you know, I can’t Instagram everything (well, I shouldn’t). 

FIFTEEN Emma is a cuddle bug for sure. She also has been impressing us with her yoga moves. We just put her on the floor on a blanket, scatter her toys around, and watch the show. She’s only rolled under the couch a few times. I wonder if she’ll dust for me down there if I give her a Swiffer…

SIXTEEN I love me some baby wearing. My Ergobaby makes daycare drop-offs into cuddle moments. And is it just me, or are babies the only ones that can really pull off red leggings? She’s been working on her crawling moves. She’s completely mastered the army crawl. Now I’m just waiting for her to creepily stick her hands under the bathroom door when I leave her in the living room. 

SEVENTEEN Aww, shucks. She sleeps just like her daddy. And by that, I mean I have even less room. It’s all good Paul and Emma, I’ll just stick with my three inches. 

EIGHTEEN Early morning break dance competition. I definitely lost. 

NINETEEN Emma repped our alma mater on Friday. And look at this funky foot thing she’s doing. She seriously just likes to hang out with her leg up. Paul says she’s practicing to join the Radio city Rockettes. I think she’s trying to summon us. He wore a Cal Lu shirt to play tennis. Then I wore my Cal Lu PJ shorts. Yes, I am rolling my eyes too.    

TWENTY She’s getting better at sitting up on her own! But she still likes to face plant into the blanket. Graceful Emma. She was rocking a serious plumber’s crack yesterday and had an EPIC snot bubble. Seriously this thing was massive. Am I a terrible mom for laughing my butt off at her? 

TWENTY-ONE Emma wore her Sunday best to church today. I think we lasted two whole minutes before she slobbered and barfed all over her dress. New record! Emma brings a whole new meaning to sticking your foot in your mouth.

Well while I recover from my mommy heart attack, I hope the rest of your weekend is swell. I’ll be over here watching Emma do the splits. Pssh, show off. 

Oh hello there weekend

My scrumptious iced coffee from Blue Bottle Coffee.

Why hello there, it’s nice to see you again. How’s the family?

That is my not-so-subtle way of saying that my blog has been as desolate as the arctic desert. First, thank you for not leaving me. Second, it actually has been refreshing taking a little bit of a break here and there. My externship keeps me busy and I don’t have as much time to mindlessly scroll through social media. Not like I’d do that otherwise. *awkwardly side glances*

Raise your hand if you cannot believe how fast September has flown by! I’m already looking for a Halloween costume for Emma and Paul and I have already planned a New Year’s Eve trip. JEEEEZ father time, can you cool your jets?

Currently, I am in bed writing this post because I got a wonderful surprise this morning when nausea overtook me and I threw up my stomach contents (hashtag, TMI). Let me tell you, screaming, “grab the baby” while I was breastfeeding and getting the urge to throw up then running to the bathroom was an interesting way to start the weekend. Any who that’s enough vomit talk. Ew, I’m gross today.

This was another great week over at Asian Health Services. I have seen more patients in the past two weeks than during the first year of dental school and I lurrrve it. Working in the community clinic has reminded me of why I love dentistry - helping people (queue the sappy violin). But really, it has been an incredibly fulfilling experience and I cannot wait to go back in January.

I think Emma has seasonal allergies. She has a runny nose but doesn’t exhibit any other symptoms to make me think she’s sick. Poor girl. But she is making strides in the nearly-crawling department. We have all the pieces of crawling there, she just needs to put it together. Although now I may have to put a homing device on her. GREAT. 

Paul and I plan on having another relaxing weekend. We both need to recharge those batteries. Seeing 8-9 patients per day is completely gratifying but also exhausting, especially after trying to extract 3rd molars that have decided to play hide-and-seek. Paul is busy at work with the annual audit (don’t worry, I don’t completely know what that means either). He also had a review with his boss and got the highest rating! I’m so proud of his hard work.

I went to a new community group on Thursday. It’s a combination of Bible study and fellowship. We talked about 1 Peter, ate some Chili, and played taboo. I loved it! Even though the city is geographically small, it’s hard to get to know people. I am really looking forward to making this a part of my week. 

My daddy had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his knee yesterday. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers. But you want to know how he did it? Dancing. Yup. My mom said he was twisting when he should have been shouting. 

I have a special Life 365 post coming to you on Monday so stay tuned. ALSO, my first devotion on Blessed Is She goes up tomorrow. I hope you like it. It has been wonderful to be part of this amazing community. I will leave you with my post on the Blessed Is She Instagram from this past Tuesday.

Have a wonderful weekend!