My birthday is tomorrow. I am going to be 24 years old. My god. In 6 years I will be thirty. In 6 years Gabby will be 6. Whenever I think in terms of years, I think of how old I will be and then I think of how old Gabby will be.
Rich and I are going out to dinner tomorrow night at 8:30. We are going to Hottles. If you are ever in the Downtown Wilkes-Barre area, I would highly recommend it. It is a little on the expensive side, and you have to make reservations, but it is a very good place to eat.
Tomorrow will be the first time we are out alone without Gabby. Rich's Mom is going to baby-sit while we go out. Its This seems to be a birthday of firsts…first time w/ a baby, first time away from the baby, first time that I can remember as far back as I'm alive that I won't get to see Dick Clark on New Years Eve. Who wants to see Regis on New Years Eve? Not me. It just isn't the same. The thing about Regis that annoys me most is his voice.
Gabby is really starting to liven up. She now smiles at things and her vision seems to be improving because she will become fixated on objects and stare at them for a while. She's also cooing too. It's more like an "ohhhhh" sound she makes. She is also sleeping a little bit longer at night too. If we put her down around 9ish, she will sleep straight through til 4 or 5am. This actually allows me to sleep in my own bed and not on the couch anymore. My back is starting to feel a lot better. I can't wait to see if I am all heeled up and how much weight I have lost when I go to the doctors on Jan 13th. I weighed 179 a few days before I went into labor. I have a feeling that I lost a lot because my feet are back to the normal size and I can fit into some of my normal clothes. I need to do some situps or crunches to get my belly down some more and something to fix my thighs. I can't do any excercising until my doctor visit though. I don't know why I keep blabbing on and on. I guess I'm just bored, sitting around with a nearly 1 month old all day gets kind of boring. The conversation is a little one sided, if you know what I mean. Well I have to run for now. Take care.