good news and bad news

Well the good news is that Camille is still sleeping through the night! It has been over a week now since I have last fed her at night. She is sleeping until between 6:30-7. I wish we could make that a little later but I will take what I can get….for now. The bad news is I got Mastitis from it. I had no idea that I could get it this late in the ball game but sure enough I did. I was still feeding her twice a night regularly so I guess cutting that out all of the sudden did the trick. Wednesday night my chest (really my boob but that sounds crude and breast sounds too formal, so chest will be code word for boob) kind of started to hurt. I didn’t put Camille to bed so I thought it was because I missed that feeding so I pumped. It didn’t really help. Thursday it hurt worse. I thought it was thrush because it was starting to hurt when she latched. Late Thursday night the fever came on. I woke up on Friday feeling like complete sh*t. I knew what it had to be. Luckily the day care had an open spot for Camille so I was able to drop her off with Av. There was no way I was going to be able to take care of her. My doctor called in some meds for me (thank goodness they didn’t make me come in to be seen) and off to dream land I went. I spent all day sleeping. I had not done that in ages. Mastitis is not fun. I had no idea how not fun it was. Between the fever, aches, chills and burning in your chest it makes it really hard to do just about anything, including sleep. Thankfully my friend Tylenol PM came to my rescue. By Saturday the fever was gone but my chest did continue to hurt all weekend. I guess I was just so excited to sleep all night getting up to pump to wean properly never even cross my mind. I will know for next time (if there is a next time).

poor jack

He is such a good dog!!!

Avery putting dada night-night

This is what they do every night.  Av thinks it is so funny.  He has a pillow under his head that is under that pink blanket.  I guess that is how she thinks he sleeps.  

the girls with their grandmother

Camille in her new diapers

pictures

I know I have a lot of pics of Camille on here.  Av will rarely let me take pics of her and if she does Camille must be in them.  

how our girls got their names

Avery Louise
Avery was a name John and I both loved as soon as we heard it. Matt’s (John’s best friend) ex-girlfriend is named Avery. That is where we had both first heard it. We agreed on it right away. We didn’t know if Av was a boy or a girl until she was born and right up until the end we didn’t have a boy’s name. Even in the hospital when I was being induced at 41 weeks we still had nothing. I was panicking. We were just meant to have our little Avery. Both grandmothers have the middle name Louise. How lucky did we get on that????

Camille Anne
We took a family vacation in the middle of my pregnancy. We had a lot of names we liked but had not decided on anything. My sister and I were in this big huge bathroom of the house we rented getting ready. She said “what about Camille?” I loved it instantly. John not so much. He kept telling me no. Until one day I got a phone call from him saying he had changed his mind and he was ready to name our second little girl Camille. He happened to be in Europe when he made that call. He was staying at a house his company rented out for their employees when they were there. The owners of the house lived attached to it and had a little girl named Camille. He said she was so cute and she reminded him a lot of Avery. Until then he just didn’t think it fit for a little girl. Anne is my middle name. My mom’s name and her mom’s name both have Anne in it.