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Monique's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 6/15/00 -------------------- 5/30/00 5/25/00 5/16/00 4/30/00 4/22/00 4/11/00 4/8/00 4/2/00 3/29/00 3/21/00 3/18/00 3/14/00 3/11/00 3/9/00 2/29/00 2/23/00 2/20/00 2/15/00 2/7/00 2/3/00 1/30/00 1/23/00 1/18/00 1/12/00 1/2/00 12/29/99 12/22/99 12/19/99 12/12/99 12/2/99 11/30/99 11/20/99 11/13/99 11/3/99 10/27/99 10/24/99 10/20/99 10/13/99 10/8/99 10/6/99 10/3/99 9/27/99 -------------------- Monique's Introduction

January 2, 2000

Hello everyone!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! I hope you all had a safe and happy one. I did.

Well, I am sick again, with a head cold this time. I just got better and now I am sick again!! Jeez, can I get a break here?!?!? I am up and around -- I just can't breathe.

Dakota is now pulling himself up on the couch and letting go for a minute, standing and then falling on his bottom. He is so proud of himself. I think he is teething again, he already has four teeth but he is drooling again like a faucet. He gets more and more adorable everyday. I am going to try and send some more pictures of us and him soon.

Well, I am already in my maternity pants -- did I already tell you that? I am 12 weeks now and feeling fat!

I am feeling better. I am eating like a horse and sometimes I feel sick but not half as bad as before. When I heard the heartbeat the other day I started to love this baby. Remember how I said I didn't think I could? Well, I am beginning to realize it is possible.

Right now Adam and Dakota are playing here on the floor and we have this toy that has rings that you put on a stick-type thing and Dakota put the rings on the stick for the first time just now I am so proud of him. He learns things so fast.

He was standing in his crib today and fell and hit his mouth and was bleeding a little bit. Of course, I wanted to rush him to the hospital but he was fine. I am a BIG worry wart!

Well, Adam wants to write a little so I will sign off.

Hugs to your babies!

Monique

Hello may name is Adam, Monique's husband. This is my first time ever writing in this diary. I always watch Monique write her entries and read a lot of the other ones, too, so I figured I would join and tell a little about my feelings in raising my son.

At first I was scared. I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it and then once the pregnancy moved on and it was time for her to have Dakota, I realized I would be a great father. Many things have happened since the day Dakota was born. I kind of wish I would have started writing then. I still remember him laying sleeping on my chest the day we brought him home. Now things are a little different. I can't get him to sit still for two seconds, let alone sit with me. I kind of miss it when he was so tiny and he always wanted you to hug him and hold him and he would sleep on you, but I enjoy more now watching the progress of him growing and learning as he takes the steps farther into his life. I have to say that I never realized that having a child, especially a boy, my own son, could be this much fun. I'm not saying there aren't hard times because there are, but you always get the bad with the good and the good outweighs the bad. I never realized that I could love one person, besides my wife, this much.

Now that we found out that we're going to have another child I often wondered if I was going to have enough love in my heart for both. But then I think back on when I thought I couldn't love someone else besides Monique and realize that it is definitely possible.

I feel bad for Monique having to go through so much sickness with this baby when she didn't have to go through any with Dakota. I'm the type of person who always wants to help somebody when they are sick or just feeling down and it's usually pretty easy to do, but not in this case because she is always feeling bad no matter what and there is no medicine that can take away this sickness. And then to top it all off she has been sick for the past two weeks and that makes it harder on her. I just wish there were something I could do. I do all I can for her but sometimes I tend to over-do it by asking her, "What's wrong? Are you feeling okay?" Over and over and over again, she tells me she gets irritated and I can understand. But I wish she would understand I am only doing it because I care so much about her.

I never thought when I was single that I would ever find happiness. I didn't think it was out there and then I met my wife and married her and I was happy then, and then we had a child and I grew even happier. My family is the most important thing in my life.

I am glad I am beginning to be a part of this diary. I look forward to sharing my experiencee with raising Dakota and my next child.

I have to go now because Dakota fell and bumped his head and is tired and needs to go to bed!

Take care everyone.

Adam