Chu's great!!!! He's a whole year old!!!! Yesterday was his birthday and his party is tomorrow!! I've got a lot going on. Tuesday is my last day of work and I've been swamped with trying to bring everything current and plan his party. I'll never do two such big things at one time again.

Awww that's so cute! Sarah left you a thread in baby talk - a lot of us commented on it

it sucks you're so busy we really miss you around here!

I'm just waiting for everything to die down a bit. After my last day of work I should have plenty of free time. Yay!!! Just in time to catch up on my Harry Potter.

How are you and aly doing? Got plans for memorial day?

My dad and stepmom are driving into town this afternoon, and are staying until .Monday morning. Yay! We're planning on having a small family barbeque on .sunday, and today we're going shopping for my birthday (.june 5th).

Alyvia's doing great! She has two teeth now and my nipples feel like they're falling off my body. She's way too tiny according to her doctor and she needs to gain some weight, so we've been working overtime on trying to get her to ingest more calories and praying like mad that they stick to her. She's crawling like a pro, pulling up on everything, and is acting like she might want to try walking soon.

Oh my .God, .harry .potter less than two months away!

The barbecue sounds great. I'm doing one for Chu party so i can cheat and combine two holidays in one. That's why this planning is driving me nuts. Do you think Aly's too tiny or do you think she's just a small baby. I'm curious because one of the docs I had for Chu thought he was skinny which gave me a complex for quite some time. Then I talked to another one who basically said it was just his genes since his gains were steady. Which makes sense when you look at both me and miguel. i was and am horribly skinny. Now I get viciously angry at doctors who say my baby needs to gain weight.

Well, I think both. I know she's not going to be a huge baby - .aaron and I are both small. But since her 6 month appointment, she gained less than two pounds. In fact, we had her weighed when she had a viral infection and she was 15 pounds 2 ounces, and the following week at her 9 month checkup she was 14 pounds 8 ounces (can you say what?). Her doctor said she's healthy but too small. If .Alyvia gets ill and stops eating, her body will have no reserves - and that's where the problem lies. We have to get her to gain some weight. But otherwise, she's totally healthy and she's hitting all of her milestones.

But it's given me a major complex - you're right about that. When other mothers ask me how old she is, I really don't want to tell them. The look that they give me and .Alyvia is so full of pity... you would think I told them she had a terminally ill disease. So many mothers have 3 month olds that outweigh my .Alyvia by a few pounds, and .I'm very uncomfortable about that. And she's such a ball of energy that .I'm paranoid she's burning off everything she's eating.

I hate it. I absolutely hate it.

It's taken me quite some time to get over it and I guess I'm not truly over it yet either. I hate telling people that chu is a year old. Invariably someone will comment on how small he is. I had so hoped that he would get my dad's genetics. I mean, when he was born he was such a doing it bruiser. Now he's short and skinny. Last doctor's appt Chu was 2'3" and 19 lbs. That's insane. Plus I know how people always say I look way younger that I am and laugh at me because I'm skinny. I guess I'm kind of projecting my weight (or lack thereof) issues onto him. I'm even more defensive about his size than I am about my own. Plus I think that it's worse since he's a little boy. People (or maybe it's just me and I'm projecting again) seem to expect boys to be taller and solid. Hmm... reading all this I'm starting to think that I'm the one who should get help...

sorry, didn't mean to get off topic in another post. just wanted to catch up with laura!

Whoops, I should have split this earlier sorry guys!

Kay: .I'm so glad you understand. It's nice to know .I'm not the only one. We need some .Chu birthday pictures!

Hi .k!!! Glad to hear .chuy's doing good. I'd love to see pics after everything dies down. Being busy sucks
So, I may be confused....or maybe I missed it. But last day of work? did you find a house, are you moving? Clue me in woman!!