Eleanor is 4 Months Old!

I can't believe how the time is flying. Eleanor had her four month old shots and checkup today on her actual four month bday. These are some pictures from her 4 month old day mark, just before she got her shots :(. She is in the 50th percentile across the board (head/lenght/weight). She weight in at 13 lb. 5 oz. and is 25 in. long. Our nurse this time was nice and speedy so her shots were definitely not as traumatic as her 2 mo. shots. She has been pretty sleepy and really wanting mommy to hold her ALL day but how could I complain about my little angel wanting to snuggle all day? We have had so much fun just sitting and rocking and reading books.

Eleanor, I miss you so much when I am away at school. This month I have especially noticed Monday mornings, leaving Marmi's house with just an indescribable hurt in my heart. I know you are in the best hands you could be in with your sweet Marmi but still hate that I miss out on your smiles, giggles, and sweet kisses all day long. You grow so much every day and I am so afraid that the business of life will make me miss out on something! Here are a few things you have been up to lately that make me smile:

- I think it is just adorable that you love your feet so much. You take your toes to your mouth and literally suck on them! I can't believe how limber you are! You definitely didn't get that from your mommy!

- You JUST started...like literally a couple of days ago, to blow bubbles almost trying to say the "b" sound...Daddy thinks you are trying to say "ball" (his first word)

- I love how vocal you are! You love to sing and talk in your crib before I come to get you, in the car, and laying on the floor when we play with you.

- You are rolling over like crazy. You hardly ever stay on your back and you go straight to your tummy once we lay you down.

- You don't like your tummy too much though your head control is great and you hold your head up nice and high! You will play with toys while you are on your tummy but after a while you like to tell Mommy and Daddy to flip you back over.

- I love your bedtime routine. It is such a special time for us together. Lately, we have been reading 3 books, "I Love You, Goodnight" (a book you were given that Mommy especially likes because it is full of similes - getting you ready to be a good writer from the beginning and you like because it rhymes and is very "sing song"), "Buenas Noches a Todos" (a book Mommy bought trying to immerse you in the Spanish language though Mommy doesn't completely understand what she is reading you because it is in "Espanol Solomente," and "Como Me Siento/How do I feel?" You like to have your paci in and to have one of your "lovies - soft little blanket/animal" by your face and you are always hugging it. Mommy reads and you like to help turn the pages while holding onto your lovie which currently is you "bun bun" that the Glynns all got you. After we read your books, we pray the same prayers Daddy prayed when he was little (Mommy used to just pray the "Our Father" and liked to sing it when she was little) - "Now I Lay Me...," The Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and thankful prayers. Then, Mommy lays you in bed and usually, you fall right asleep. You are so good to your Mommy and Daddy

- I love going to mass with you. You usually eat right before and fall asleep in the car on the way there. When you wake up, you are so happy to sing and pray out loud during mass.

- Mommy and Daddy are so lucky that you are sleeping through the night. You go to bed between 8 and 9 and then get up around 6 when we wake you to bring you to Marmis but you always fall back asleep in the car and wake up between 7:30 and 9 for the day. You have been known to take a 2-4hr. long nap in the morning and then nap in the afternoon as well.

- You just recently have been grabbing for Mommy and Daddy's food/water glass/wine glass a lot! Usually you sit in one of our laps or in the bumbo during dinner and now it has been three occasions that you have shined your sweet face at me as if wanting a sip of my water and I have given in, put the glass close to your mouth, you have opened, waited for the water to hit your lips, and started slirping as if you were a 2 year old drinking from a big girl cup but no, you are a 4 month old!

We love you so much baby girl, looking forward to what month 5 has to bring!

What Happened to my BACKGROUND!?

Ok so something happened to my old bg...don't know what but searching for a new one isn't a priority over ironing, grading papers, lesson plans, and keeping the house clean so unfortunately I had to pick this boring one from blogger to tide us over...oh well at least it is pink...my signature color!

Sitting here with the hubs watching the Cowboys lose their first game of the season when we both should be in bed...another week ahhh...I hope my kids are good and I REALLY hope a certain kid takes his meds tomorrow if you know what I mean...I LOVE 4th grade! No I am enjoying it I just have what can be quite the challenging class some days...the PE coach summed it up when I picked my kids up from PE Friday and he had a laundry list of things they did wrong and directions they didn't follow when he said, "You just can't catch a break, can you?"

Ok so this wasn't supposed to be a real post bc if it was I would be talking about my sweet little Eleanor who btw is just the coolest and sweetest little person ever and not my little delinquents. Anyway, headed to bed, hopefully will fix this background and catch the blogging world up on the Reinberg beautiful mess soon!

Peace and goodnight! :) PS the cowboys just scored with 3 secs left and it looked like it was recalled bc idiot #71 choked a redskin...this is going to be a good season...

"Late" Night Post

Late night post! I was sitting in bed wishing Andy wouldn't have to work so late thinking back to my old "late night posts" when I would get up to pee and wish I was going into labor! I don't know why I keep trying to re-live Eleanor's birth in my head, I just guess I loved that time! It is so amazing though how each day with Ellie gets better and better. I find myself always saying "THIS is my favorite phase in her life," and then a few days later she will top it!

School has started and I am exhausted. I don't know which was more tiring....right now or being pregnant this time last year...good thing this won't be paired with throwing up at least once a day this year! Anyway, I am adjusting to teaching 4th grade...it is amazing how one year younger brings a completely different bunch of kids. They just seem and really ARE so young! More to come later but since I am posting...may as well put an updated pic of my sweet baby :)

Roli Poli!

Eleanor rolled over today! I was at mom and dad's eating dinner because Plano West had Thursday night game and we put her on the floor. We went into the kitchen to make a plate for dinner and came back and she had gone from her back to her side. She does that a lot so I didn't think much of it but I should have taken the hint and gotten the vid. camera when she started throwing her leg over and trying to make her arm go under her body. Soon after she was on her tummy and I realized that was her FIRST time to roll over and I her tired and out of it mother didn't even think to video it! UGH! Well I am sure we will get her another time. How exciting though, I can't believe she is starting to become mobile! Here is a picture of her once she rolled over...the best I could do. My little baby is growing up way too fast!

Here are also some pictures of her first time on "the horse." I played on this rocking horse when I was little and our family friends, Bob and Sue, who loaned it to us, recovered it. We can't wait for Eleanor to get to play on it! For now, since she can hold her head up and likes to hold onto things, we thought we would try it!

Eleanor is 3 Months Old!

Eleanor is 3 months old! WOW how it is going by so fast. My sweet little lady, how you bring me SO MUCH JOY! On your three month old mark, I had already been back to school and was about to welcome my second set of students. I would come home so tired only to see your smiling face and be energized again. Some of my favorite things you do lately are:

- You love to grab your feet - you have even gone as far as sticking them in your mouth! You LOVE it! Any chance you get to lay on your back you use those strong abs and bring your feet right up to your face! The picture above shows you loving your feet AND the ballerina socks we put on them...you couldn't get enough of the tulle balls at the ends of your socks!

- You LOVE to sing and talk. I love when you wrinkle your forehead and really concentrate like you are trying to say something that is super important!

- I LOVE it when you smile with your mouth wide open! Oh it makes me melt!

- I love that you can sit up now and like to. You love your bumbo seat and are prefectly stable in it. I think it is almost time for you to try out an exer saucer!

- You are sleeping through the night which is such a gift to your parents. You go down between 9 and 10 and get up anywhere from 6 to 9, one time you slept from 10 - 10!

- You are taking a good long (1-2 hours) nap in the morning and afternoon and usually are on a pattern of eat, play/be awake/sleep.

- You drink 5 oz. of breast milk (Mommy is trying to keep up with the pumping) every 3 hours and lately Marmi has been able to stretch you to 4 hours at times during the day.

- You haven't completely rolled over on your own yet but you get so close, you love laying on your side and with a little push usually make it over all the way. You don't LOVE being on your stomach though you are beginning to tolerate it more. You are getting much better at lifting your head up and I imagine you will be crawling before we know it!

- We are about to switch you to size 2 diapers though are trying to use all the 1's we have first.

- You still take reflux meds but are mostly happy throughout the day unless you are hungry/wet

Sweet Angel baby, we are so thankful God gave you to us! We love you and are so thankful to share this first year of life with you!

How the time is flying...school already!?

So I decided to look through my blogs and realized I had 2 or 3 posts I never posted so feel free to read below the current posts.


Anyhow, I start my first day of full work tomorrow. I think I am so tired and overwhelmed about it all that I haven't had the time to be sad...I am sure it will hit me soon...God be with us! I just keep thinking in the back of my head - why isn't it May again? I want to start this journey with my little girl all over again! :)



Speaking of, Eleanor is turning 3 months old on the 18th of August! Crazy how time flies! Here is my little bug - we didn't have the camera - it was at Marmi's so we had to rely on the Iphone.

So Thankful for Family

I let myself stop and think about everything that has happened since May and reminded myself how thankful I should be for all that has happened the past three months. It seems like so long ago that I was walking around my classroom with swollen feet, an aching back, and a huge belly counting down the minutes until Eleanor would be here wondering if I was more excited to experience the life changing event of having my first child or to be rid of my dear 5th graders for the summer. I remember making all these plans in my head of what we would do once Eleanor came and was so excited for all the "free time" we would have. Maybe we would travel some (I heard "the best time to travel" was with a newborn...), we would definitely attend daily mass at noon and would spend some time in adoration as a family...maybe Andy and I would even do a book study together. We knew we would get to spend some time with both of our families and get lots done around the house as well because, well, we would have SO MUCH free time.


Well reality hit and I didn't realize how long it would take for me to get back to complete normalcy not to mention once my body and hormones would, I would also have a whole new component to my life - dear sweet Eleanor!

Anyway - best laid plans. Though we didn't accomplish everything we thought we would, we got the most important things in. Andy and I have so enjoyed getting to sleep in (that means we get a great morning nap after Eleanor wakes up at 6 or 7 and then naps until 9 or 10...still living the life as far as I am concerned with a newborn), cook meals together, and really do whatever we want as long as there is time to feed every 2 - 3 hours. Even more wonderfully have we been able to spend time with our families.

We have been able to take two trips to College Station and have Andy's parents visit us twice since Eleanor's birth. Andy's mom and dad were able to stay with us when Eleanor was born and were so helpful. My mom always called my Grandmary the "dishwasher fairy" because she would always empty the dishwasher while everyone was asleep along with folding laundry and helping with everything. 'Nell was my laundry fairy being so helpful with doing my laundry exactly how I liked it (I am kind of a laundry nazi) and being such a humble servant!



We love having my parents so close! They have been amazing in helping us with Eleanor and just providing company, a home-cooked meal when I am too tired to cook, and more square footage when we start to go stir crazy in this little apartment! We also got to share in such a special time with my sister Katie when she came home from Nicaragua. I will never forget she and Eleanor meeting for the first time. She became so natural with E and even was able to put her to sleep before her two weeks here were up.

I have loved watching "Aunt MEA" with Eleanor, she is basically another me to her and really hasn't not seen her at least once every couple days since she was born. It will be so weird with her being back in San Marcos :(. Even more weird will be Aunt Keekda (Kelsey) not being home every time we come over. I think Kel was a little shy around E at first but they grew a special relationship and there were times when I couldn't get Eleanor to sleeep and Aunt Keeks could. Ellie is so blessed to have three aunts who love her so much!

The few times she has been able to be around Andy's brothers, Eleanor has just eaten them up! They are basically clones of her Daddy and are the cutest to watch when they play with her. They just soften to mush!

Now that Andy and I are back to work, we have been SOOOOOO greatful for my parents and all they are doing to help. They are basically another set of parents to Ellie as they watch her from 6 - 6. The other day, mom wasn't up when I dropped Eleanor off, so Dad played with her/put her back to sleep. They are both so selfless and loving to be doing this when they are finally free of kids in the house. I don't know what we would do without them and I know this going back to work thing would be a million times miserable if it weren't my parents taking care of sweet E. Mom and Dad, thank you SO VERY MUCH for all you do!

Bottom line, I have never really appreciated the gift of family until having my own child. As a child myself, there were many times I bad-mouthed my parents for making us stay home on a Friday night to have "family night" or because they wouldn't let us sleep over on Saturday nights so we could be home for "family breakfast" where we read the readings for the day and discussed. All those times my mom pulled our teeth to spend time together paid off as we are such a tight knit family now! Andy's family is super close as well and all I can say is that we are abundantly blessed!