I paid $15.95 for my PdaNet membership! The regular price is $23.95 but for a limited time, Android phones gets that price. I sent Denisse (blackberry), Michael (iPhone), and JJ (Android) this announcement.
I cleaned the kitchen and made some oatmeal. I also cooked Alfredo's Chicken Pasta but of course, I can't eat it because of the lactose content of the cheese. We finally received the Snappis and the Udder Nursing Cover Set.
I've pretty much been with Abdiel, nursing, changing, and playing with him. He's been fussing all the way until 1:30 AM. I was able to finish dinner after midnight.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
For the most part, Abdiel has been good throughout the night. He didn't even pee for 4 hour straight and had some minor liquid poo but that was about it.When Moi woke up and took him off my hands, he went to showered Abdiel and that's when he peed but no poo. I pumped a little bit because I felt engorged but not much came out, about 1.5 oz. I need to drink more fluids.
I placed two orders on Boku Super Food via my phone but messed up my order so I'm calling tomorrow to fix it. I'm re-ordering 2 cases of Boku Bars and am ordering Boku Super Protein and the Organic Boku Super Food Family Size Refill. I'm excited to try these organic dairy and gluten free foods. I've also placed them on the 90 day auto ship program. I'm going to need to feed myself better especially with nursing my Abdiel.
I had to run downstairs to get some more prefolds out of the dryer because I didn't have enough in the changing room.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
I'm finally using my one-time paid for membership with PdaNet on our computer for the first time! The computer or Internet is slow but it gets the job done. I've been trying to work on our budget and paying the bills.
I called Boku after 1 PM because customer service opens at 9 AM PST. We, in Puerto Rico, are 4 hours behind during the fall. The guy who was on the phone helped me straighten out my order. I can't wait to receive and try my Super Foods!
Moi saw that I have the SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16 GB Pen Drive and he also wants one so I just bought one for him on eBay.
I'm seriously considering a crock pot to help me cook without me watching the food. I'm trying to get the grocery list together so I can make the trip out to the Commissary on Sunday, if God wills.
I washed and lanolized Abdiel's wool blanket and am not sure if I did it correctly and effectively. I used Abdiel's spa tub. It's awesome and useful because it also has a drain to flush out the water. I'm happy.
Around 9 PM, I was getting ready to put a diaper on Abdiel, he leaked out diarrhea poo. Then he shot milk straight from his nostrils that he got scared and got me worried too! I cleaned him up and put him in the bath tub in our bathroom and bathe him.
I brought up a basket full of prefolds and wipes.
I'm trying to make a huge grocery list for when I go to the Commissary on Sunday with Xiomi. Also, I'm thinking about investing in a crockpot. I think that it will make my life easier when it comes to cooking.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
I wasn't able to do all the stops that I wanted to do today. I changed Abdiel's diaper, nursed him, got dressed, and prepped his diaper bag. I changed his diaper again before heading out. All that took about an hour!
I drove us over to the base's clinic because I needed to find out how to get approval for Abdiel to be seen by a pediatric gastroenterologist but turned that I needed to personally make the phone call to TRICARE International SOS. I snapped a picture of Dr. Stacholy's referral and sent it to them.
Once I got out of the clinic, I nursed and changed Abdiel before heading out to Walgreens in Borinquen Plaza. I dropped off Abdiel's prescription then stopped by the nutrition bars section and bought two Odwalla bars. I stopped by Selectos and bought a 32 oz. organic vanilla rice milk and drank from it.
We stopped by Fresh Mart to eat lunch and spent about $45 on grocery. Then I headed out to Stacholy's office at 2 PM. Moi met with me and carried Abdiel for me.
Stacholy checked on Abdiel and said that he was healthy. She referred him to the lab to make sure that he's not dehydrated.
Moi drove us to Lab Ramey to pick up the urine sample collection bag for Abdiel.
At night, he glued the urine sample bag to Abdiel's pee area. Shortly after, maybe less than 1 hour, he peed into the bag.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Diaper Wash Day!
I soaked the prefolds and wipes with 3 TBSP of Rockin' Green for 30 minutes and then washed using my cycle which is set as prewash, wash, rinse, and extra rinse for a total of 2:18 hrs. I ran this cycle TWICE and did one cotton cycle. Dried them for 1 hour. The prefolds came out stiffer than usual.
The prefolds that were not in the wash soaked in a small bin to compensate for not being in the super mega cycle washes.
We headed out to Ramey Lab at around 630 AM. The lab tech arrived at around 7:10 AM. She poked Abdiel's left forearm. It wasn't too bad drawing 2 tubes of blood sample. He cried but then calmed down even when the needle was still inside of his vein.
I changed Abdiel's diaper before heading out to Walgreens and Moi took off to work.
I waited about half an hour for the store to open at 8 AM. One of the photo specialist helped me print my home-made birth announcement card pictures that didn't turn out how I wanted them to but still worked.
I wanted to take advantage of the 30 (4x6) prints for $3. I printed 30 pics with Moi's account and 30 with mine.
I stopped by the USPS to pick up two flat rate boxes. I need to ship some prefolds to Cassie so she can convert them into fitteds. I also ordered 3 dozens Medium and 1 dozen Large organic prefolds plus three workhorses in size Small, Medium, and Large from GMD.
I ordered another sling from Seven Slings in size 4. This is going to be my 4th sling!
Moi's 16 GB finally arrived!
I didn't do much house chores today. I also ordered a Medium Kissaluvs and an Large Imse Vimse wool cover from Mom's Milk Boutique. I'm taking a plunge into wool covers.
I drove us over to the base's clinic because I needed to find out how to get approval for Abdiel to be seen by a pediatric gastroenterologist but turned that I needed to personally make the phone call to TRICARE International SOS. I snapped a picture of Dr. Stacholy's referral and sent it to them.
Once I got out of the clinic, I nursed and changed Abdiel before heading out to Walgreens in Borinquen Plaza. I dropped off Abdiel's prescription then stopped by the nutrition bars section and bought two Odwalla bars. I stopped by Selectos and bought a 32 oz. organic vanilla rice milk and drank from it.
We stopped by Fresh Mart to eat lunch and spent about $45 on grocery. Then I headed out to Stacholy's office at 2 PM. Moi met with me and carried Abdiel for me.
Stacholy checked on Abdiel and said that he was healthy. She referred him to the lab to make sure that he's not dehydrated.
Moi drove us to Lab Ramey to pick up the urine sample collection bag for Abdiel.
At night, he glued the urine sample bag to Abdiel's pee area. Shortly after, maybe less than 1 hour, he peed into the bag.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Diaper Wash Day!
I soaked the prefolds and wipes with 3 TBSP of Rockin' Green for 30 minutes and then washed using my cycle which is set as prewash, wash, rinse, and extra rinse for a total of 2:18 hrs. I ran this cycle TWICE and did one cotton cycle. Dried them for 1 hour. The prefolds came out stiffer than usual.
The prefolds that were not in the wash soaked in a small bin to compensate for not being in the super mega cycle washes.
We headed out to Ramey Lab at around 630 AM. The lab tech arrived at around 7:10 AM. She poked Abdiel's left forearm. It wasn't too bad drawing 2 tubes of blood sample. He cried but then calmed down even when the needle was still inside of his vein.
I changed Abdiel's diaper before heading out to Walgreens and Moi took off to work.
I waited about half an hour for the store to open at 8 AM. One of the photo specialist helped me print my home-made birth announcement card pictures that didn't turn out how I wanted them to but still worked.
I wanted to take advantage of the 30 (4x6) prints for $3. I printed 30 pics with Moi's account and 30 with mine.
I stopped by the USPS to pick up two flat rate boxes. I need to ship some prefolds to Cassie so she can convert them into fitteds. I also ordered 3 dozens Medium and 1 dozen Large organic prefolds plus three workhorses in size Small, Medium, and Large from GMD.
I ordered another sling from Seven Slings in size 4. This is going to be my 4th sling!
Moi's 16 GB finally arrived!
I didn't do much house chores today. I also ordered a Medium Kissaluvs and an Large Imse Vimse wool cover from Mom's Milk Boutique. I'm taking a plunge into wool covers.
I prepped our guest room as best as I could by changing the sheets and comforter. I also set up Abdiel's changing station in his playard. It's set up nicely.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
I'm shocked that I was so exhausted that I didn't change Abdiel for over 5 hours after midnight.
When I finally changed his diaper at around 4 AM, his prefold diaper reeked of ammonia for the first time.
I prepared Moi's meals for duty day the best that I could because Moi has overnight duty again.
I've been trying to cram all of the prefolds to have them shipped to Cassie in WI. I was able to cram 26 Small and 1 Newborn Cloth-eez prefolds from GMD in the Large Flat Rate Box ($14.95) and 12 Newborn, 4 Small, and 6 Large prefolds in the Medium Flat Rate Box ($10.95) If calculated on usps.com that if I ship everything in one box, it would cost over $80. Heck no.
My Boku Bars, Organic Boku Super Food Family Size Refill, and Boku Super Protein made its way here! Yipee! I ate one bar. I'm excited to try the rest of the products.
Xiomi, JJ, Abdiel and I headed over to my in-laws. We spent some time with them. Then headed out to Walgreens to print more announcement cards and finally, as we were headed over to Moi's work, turned out that he had to get some sleep so we headed home.
Since we left our two cats and Niuki at home, we were hoping that all of them survived the cats and dog gathering.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
I put Abdiel's spa tub on our bed and he slept there except for when he nursed. He was pretty consistent in waking up every hour to two for nursing and changing diaper.
Moi got home by 830 AM and got on me because the house is a mess, particularly the kitchen. (Grrrrrr)
I just shrugged it off by saying, "I can only do so much" so he frantically cleaned the kitchen and place up. I just want to leave here so I can have some breathing space. I prepared Abdiel's diaper bag and got ready.
Xiomi, JJ, Abdiel, and I left our home by 11 AM. We stopped by Church's Chicken in Arecibo. We were hungry. I ordered a Pechupop combo with fries and a bottle of water.
We arrived at Xiomi's condo at about 1:40 PM. We dropped JJ and Niuki off and my brother met up with us to go to Ft. Buchanan. We didn't have a problem entering the base and even the Exchange. I bought a Crock Pot, a picture frame for Abdiel's picture on the beach and some Pyrex glass containers.
Xiomi bought some stuff and Michael bought a trash can.
We happily walked down the aisle as we headed out to the Commissary. We were greeted with a surprising news. Guests are no longer allowed to visit the Commissary. We were bummed but I had Xiomi write down what she wanted so I could shop as fast as I could. She helped me watch Abdiel while I ran down the aisles with the shopping cart.
For some reason, my USAA card was declined twice so I paid with Banco Popular's debit card. This is the second time that it happens to me. I don't have that problem somewhere else.
Then, Xiomi and Michael stopped by Costco while I nursed Abdiel in the vehicle.
Xiomi, Michael, Abdiel, and I then headed over to Xiomi's condo. We switched over to Michael's car (which belonged to my dad) along with all the stuff in the parking lot. We bid Xiomi and JJ goodbye and headed over to my mom's work. She was so excited to see Abdiel and held him for a little bit. She also cooked us up something for dinner. We were starving. She also made a combo meal for Moi. Then we headed over to their house to transfer all of our groceries and stuff to the Corolla. I've noticed that the house looks better since the home improvements were done but still needs a lot of work. I placed Abdiel on my grandpa's lap. I snapped pictures of my grandparents with Abdiel. So cute.
Once we loaded everything up in the car. We bid my grandparents farewell and headed out to Isabela, our home. Moi helped unload the stuff from the car while I went upstairs to nurse Abdiel who hadn't nursed for about 3 hours and I was already engorged.
I began putting things away while Moi and Abdiel went to our room. Moi needed to get some rest. I was tired too so I did whatever I could.
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