May 1999

Friday, 5-7-99
All is going well, except I'm completely exhausted! Carrie constantly wants to be cuddled, or eat :p And I'm trying, but it's hard to keep up hours with her. =) We had a doctors appointment on Wednesday, and she has thrush, and *hates* her medication. Otherwise she's fine.. getting fat though. When she was born, she was 7 lbs 10 oz.. they lose weight after, and by 1 week should weigh about their birth weight again.. Not Carrie.. She weighed 8 lbs 3 3/4 oz.. definitely gaining weight and getting enough to eat! :P They told me that I have an infection, in my uterus or something or other.. I don't remember exactly, so I'm taking antibiotics for that. Sucks, but oh well, I'll survive.

Mike isn't going to make it in town this weekend to see Carrie, I guess. Finance problems or something. Mom and I are going to be leaving probably the 21st until the 31st to go to Pennsylvania, to pick up baby stuff, and to visit. So I don't think he's going to make it in town until after that. The trip should be interesting, with a newborn, who has to stop to eat at least ever 4 hours.. and she likes to eat a lot more often than that. Plus to change her diapers and what not. The trip might take awhile. We're driving ;p so.. But it will be great to see the family, and I can't wait to introduce them to Carrie. :) She's so adorable. I should have pictures of her up *soon* Like, maybe Tuesday. Anyhow, I better get some sleep.. :) Bye :)

Sunday, 5-9-99
*Yawns* I am sooo completely exhausted. When I woke up this morning, my brother made some smart-ass comment on the dark rings around my eyes.. ;) I LUB YOU TOO SHAWN!^%$ Oh well. :) I don't suppose I'll be able to sleep much for quite awhile still, so what does it matter, right? I might as well just get used to it. As I've said to a few people, I used to conf so much and stay up for days at a time.. So it's not *so* bad. I can sort of manage.. *yawns* maybe.. hehe. Well, my mom gave me a Mother's Day card.. What a weird concept. :)

Carrie's thrush is starting to go away, which is a good thing. :) But she still has to take her medication for another 10 days, 4 times a day. And she really hates her medicine. Not that I can blame her.. I don't like my medicine much either, but I'm trying to do my best to remember to take it.. ;) Following Jason's orders, I suppose ;))

I have an appointment this week to get Carrie onto Medicaid.. Mike said he's going to put her on his insurance, but not yet, and to go ahead with Medicaid for now. So we'll see how that goes. I have no clue what to expect from the appointment, since I'm not very used to this kind of stuff. Life is pretty weird sometimes.

I talked to Jenny a bit this weekend, she's staying at her mom's. Apparently her and Josh had another fight.. I don't know what's going to happen with them.. I just don't know. She knows what I think, but that doesn't mean she'll listen to me or agree with me. =) But I guess she has to figure it all out on her own. I just hope it all works out since she has Kalob to worry about, and now another baby on the way. She's about 4 months pregnant now. Kalob and the baby must come first..

Lets see, what else can I write about? Mom and I are trying to convince Shawn to come back to Pennsylvania with us too.

3:07 PM
Well, I stopped writing earlier because Carrie woke up, and I had to deal with her, and then I ate and now she's about to wake up again I believe to eat. =) So not much time to write, but I figured I should finish this. =) Speaking of her, she just cried, so.. bye :)

Tuesday, 5-11-99
Welp, Carrie's 2 weeks old today.. Woowoo :) I should have pictures of her up today or tomorrow at the latest.. They should be back, but I haven't gone to pick them up yet, and it's uhm... 7:40 pm now :p But I'm going to attempt to go get them today because I really wanna see them. :) *beams* She's so cute.. well, at least *I* think so, though I might be biased, I suppose.. ;) Anyway, Mom picked Carrie and I up and we went to work with her again for a bit today. A few people at the office wanted to see her, so we got to show her off some more.. Of course, everyone loved her. :) As usual ;) Anyway, not a whole lot going on, so nothing to write about. :)) Bye

Wednesday, 5-12-99
Welp I got pictures up of Carrie. They're at http://www.tmcom.com/~paige/pictures/carrie I forgot how red she was right after she was born *laughs* but she's still adorable, in my opinion. *Grins* Anyhow, all is going fine. I have an appointment to get Carrie on medicaid tomorrow, so that should be interesting.. It's at 8 am *yick*. Oh well, such is life right? Mom's gonna go with me so that should help, since I have *no* clue what I'm doing. Anyhow, not much new going on other than that.. Carrie's starting to stay awake a little bit longer. She spends a lot of time just looking around, she seems to really like my mom's ceiling.. erm.. heh :)

Thursday, 5-13-99
Well today has been alright. Had my meeting this morning, I'm apparently going to try the 'job supplement program' or something like that. It'll put Carrie and me both on Medicaid.. So whatever my mom's insurance doesn't cover for my future doctor bills, Medicaid will pick up. So that's cool. Meeting took about an hour, it was pretty boring overall. I have lots more forms to fill out now.. *yay* *rolls eyes* :) Haven't done much else, slept a bit and what not.. taking care of Carrie.. The usual. :) Anyway :)

Sunday, 5-16-99
All is well. Ric came home for the weekend, so he *finally* got to see Carrie.. :) He didn't even want to hold her ;) But mom made him. And he was such a nice brother, he baby-sat *twice*.. Once yesterday when Mom and I ran to Wal-Mart to get diapers, etc.. and once today when Mom and I ran to the fabric store real fast so she could find some materials to make Carrie *another* bonnet... Mom's getting so 'grandmotherly'.. it's cute. :) Anyhow Mom left tonight to go to Billings for the week, though she said she's going to try to make it back Thursday if possible, so we can get ready to leave Friday sometime. For Pennsylvania that is. Whee, I can't believe I'll get to see my family soon! The drive will not be *too* fun, but I can't wait to see everyone.. I miss them so much. Heh. :) Anyhow, not a lot other to write about so :) Bye :)

Monday, 5-17-99
*yawn* it's like.. 4:30 am and I haven't been to sleep yet. Reason being Carrie has been fussy all night, I'm not sure why. I think she's finally falling asleep .. But I'm not sure yet. She might not have been feeling well.. I really have no idea. :P So that sucks.. but anyhow, I think I'm going to attempt to sleep now.. So good night :)

Friday, 5-21-99
Alright, we're out of here. :) Headed to Pennsylvania and won't be back until the 31st so.. :) Should be interesting. Bye!@#@ *jadjadjad* :)


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