0 Months

I know probably everyone that follows my blog also follows Kelly's Korner, and has seen how she does a post every month for Harper's 'Birthday'. I really like that idea and think it's a great way to keep up with how she is growing from month to month. So I decided to copy Kelly and do a monthly 'Birthday' post for my sweet girl :o) 

Jodi sent me an e-mail one day showing me these SUPER cute monthly stickers that you can stick onto a onesie and take pictures for every month, so I decided to order them for my Birthday posts--hey, might as well go all out, right? Just look at them, could you resist or is it that little girl modeling them that makes them so irresistible? 

So here goes nothing.

Paislee Marie: You are 0 months old. Ha! Really, you are 2 weeks old today, but they didn't have a sticker that says '2 weeks' so we will stick with 0 months :o)

On the day you were born you weighed 8 lbs. 15.1 oz. and were 21.5 inches long. 

Yesterday at your 2 week checkup you weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz. and were still 21.5 inches long.

You are the most perfect little thing that me and your Daddy have ever laid our eyes on. 

You have a beautiful complexion, definitely not the complexion of a newborn.

Your eyes are a dark color that I'm going to call blue for now, but we all know that they won't be that way for long :o) 

You were born 'tongue tied' and weren't able to stick your tongue out or eat very well. We had that fixed when you were 2 days old, and you have been happy as can be ever since! 

Your feeding schedule varies, sometimes you are hungry an hour after your last feeding, sometimes its 5 hours or more before you will eat again--and trust me, I try to force you--but you are stubborn like your Mama! Either way, you end up feeding about 10-12 times per day. 

You only eat for about 5-10 minutes per feeding. I worried that you weren't getting enough at first, but after you gained more than a pound in less than a week, my worries disappeared :o) You're my little piggy!

You are still sleeping a lot during the day, but you have become more alert and are staying awake more and more every day. We give you a bath almost every night, and feed you right afterwards so you will know that it's time for bed! You are usually ready for a feeding around midnight, and after that you usually sleep until 4 a.m. or so! After that feeding I usually stay up with you until 6 or 7, and then let your Grandma take a shift so I can sneak in a couple more hours of sleep with Daddy--who has been sleeping through everything! Sometimes when I am up feeding you at 4 in the morning I look over at him snoring and want to strangle him :o) 

We have a rule around the house that whoever is holding you when you drop a bomb has to change you.  Good rule, huh? Most of the time you get your Grandma pretty good :o) You fart like a little man, I wonder who you get that from? ;o) We will blame it on Daddy! 

I have been having a hard time getting you to burp after you eat, and lately you have been throwing up after feedings, like BIG TIME throwup--every time it's on Daddy. I don't know if you are eating more than your little tummy can hold, or if he is squeezing you too tight, but I wish you would stop and I'm sure he does too! 

Speaking of, I think the nurses at the hospital probably think we are crazy. We call them all the time, over every little thing. Your umbilical cord stump fell off early and bled a little bit and I was so worried about it. I made Daddy call over that, and over a rash that you had, and I almost made him call over the throwing up but I changed my mind. It is SO hard having to worry about keeping you safe! I worry myself sick over the smallest thing, and even though I know it will drive a person to insanity, I google everything too! I just want the best for you :o) I'm not crazy, really. 

You are a lot of work! You are a GREAT baby, the best I could have ever asked for, but being a parent is tough. Everyone warned me that it was hard, and I knew it would be, but it's hard to imagine exactly how hard it is until you are holding that sweet little baby in your arms and feeling a love like you have never felt before. You will understand one day! (A long, LONG time from now!)

I was on my friend Lauralee's facebook page the other day and saw this quote: 

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

I love it, so true! 

That is all for now. I could write for days and days, but you might get tired of reading this one day :o) I love you little girl! 

XOXO,

2 Week Checkup

Today we took Paislee for her 2 week checkup--can ya'll believe she is ALREADY 2 weeks old tomorrow??? Crazy!

Everything looked good, and Paislee was PERFECT! I think she was showing off for Dr. Todd. She just laid on the table so content and happy the whole time. But as soon as Dr. Todd walked out she started screaming and was ready to eat, ha! She weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz. and was still 21.5 inches long. I think she is around the 85-90 percentile for both her weight and height. That's my big girl!

Mama's lookin rough, but I had to get a picture of baby girl's first Doctor's appointment!

We are off to Anchorage tomorrow for some shopping and good food--then when we get back its..dun dun dun...DIET TIME! We will be gone until Sunday, then my mom leaves us on Tuesday :o( SO, I may be MIA for a few days, shopping and spending my last few precious days with my mama--it could be the end of July before I see her again unless I can talk her into visiting this summer--I don't think it will be a problem, she won't be able to go that long without seeing her sweet Grandbaby :o) Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend, I know we will!!!

XOXO,

Too Cute Tuesday

We did a photo shoot for Paislee's birth announcements and here is one of the ones we didn't use. I LOVE this one, I think it's the most precious thing ever. Mama and Jason said she looks like a little monkey though, so it was voted out. I think she is the cutest little Monkey I have ever seen :o)

Married Mondays: Our 1st Vacation

Besides little trips to the beach here and there, and our trip to Myrtle Beach last summer before we got married, we really hadn't been on any big vacations until our Honeymoon. I don't really consider trips to the beach a 'vacation', I consider them a favorite past time. I already did a huge post on our honeymoon Here so I won't take the time to write all about it again, because honestly I don't remember it well enough. I also don't have enough time in my day right now so this will have to do for my Married Mondays post for this week. Sorry for being such a slacker :o)

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

XOXO,

Paislee's 1st Easter

Paislee's first Easter wasn't very exciting. We hung out around the house all day, and before we knew it, it was almost time for bed! The Easter Bunny was in town taking pictures, but we didn't want to take her for a picture seeing that he probably saw every kid in town today, and probably got sneezed on, pooped on, farted on, puked on, etc. and we would like to avoid those germs for as long as possible :o) Then we were going to go to church, BUT my body didn't agree with that idea, and I can barely find clothes to wear just on regular days right now, much less to church. We did want to take some pictures of her with her little Easter basket that the Easter Bunny brought her, and in her first smock dress that her Aunt Phyllis bought her. Can I just say that the Easter Bunny dropped her basket off weeks ago, and Mommy and Daddy have really had to practice major self control trying to stay away from that candy, ha! She wasn't a big fan of the dress--it was stiff and not very soft and comfy like she prefers, so we had a hard time getting a good picture without her fussing. Here are the only two we got that she wasn't crying in or making a crazy face :o) 

We also have a few (3) 'Babies 1st Easter' bibs, from Grandma Jan, Papa Stem and Aunt Jodi, but we haven't taken pictures of her wearing them yet--maybe after her bath. She is knocked out right now and I am quickly learning to never wake a sleeping baby and to enjoy every second of peace & quiet that you can get! 

Happy Easter from our family to yours! 

XOXO, 

Never any time..

I really miss blogging :0( it is so hard to find the time right now! My days go by so fast- it seems like they wouldn't seeing I am up so early but they fly by. I'll try to manage my time better and find time to blog more often :0)

Look at the sweet outfit that Aunt Valerie sent Paislee :0) Cant wait for this summer so she can wear it!


My sweet girl had a rough day yesterday..look at that hair! Ha! She wants to be held all the time. Jason thinks I'm spoiling her but I can't stand to hear her cry! I think she just likes to have someone to snuggle with- all the time... I don't mind though :0)


Happy Easter everyone!

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Thought's for Thursday

Sorry I haven't been updating much lately. Being a Mommy is hard work! People warned me that it would be, but I thought for sure that I would still have plenty of time for blogging and for Facebook--boy was I wrong!

--It HAS been the best week of my life though. Busy, yes. But I have never felt so much joy and happiness and LOVE in my life. This little girl is just the sweetest thing I have ever laid my eyes on. I could hold her all day long and just watch her every little move and listen to her every little grunt and never get bored. Sometimes I want to cry because I love her so much and realize that I am responsible for keeping her safe and that just scares me. I dread her first skinned knee or smashed finger, and will probably cry harder than she does.

--Paislee was born "tongue tied". The little piece of skin under her tongue was too far to the front, keeping her from being able to stick her tongue out, which made it hard for her to eat. The Dr. wanted to wait a couple of days to see if she could adapt to it, but after 2 days of her going 12 hours without eating--we decided that something needed to be done. Saturday we took her to the hospital and had the Dr. clip it. Paislee didn't cry, or even seem to know that anything had been done, and has since been a brand new baby. She is eating great now, has gained all of her weight back and is sleeping good too.

--Now that I have caught up on sleep, I am back to staying up pretty late. We usually go to bed around 12 or so, and I feed her before we go to bed. For the past 3 nights she has slept until about 4 a.m.! That's like 3-4 hours of sleep I am getting at a time, which is great compared to no sleep the first two nights, which was EXHAUSTING.

--My milk has came in, and let me tell you--Pamela Anderson has NOTHING on me. Girls with no boobs, when you have a baby and your milk comes in, you will realize WHY you should be happy that you weren't "blessed" with a chest.

--My mom is here for 3 weeks to help with Paislee and thank God for her. She has been a lifesaver and I don't know HOW we would have gotten through the past week without her. She has not only been helping with sweet baby, but has been cooking and cleaning as well. THANK YOU MAMA! I LOVE YOU!

--Is anyone as bored with American Idol as I am? This season just isn't doing it for me, maybe I am just distracted and not paying enough attention, but I'm bored with it already.

--I gained about 45 lbs. while I was pregnant :o( But I've lost 25 lbs. so far! Halfway done! Hopefully my little piggy will drain me dry and help me lose the rest and maybe even more--wouldn't that be nice? Either way, it's diet time!

Well, that's all I can think of right now! Hope everyone is doing great and enjoying the WARM weather that we AREN'T getting here in Valdez. Is it time to start a countdown to when we get to leave this place? I think so.
The way it is looking right now we won't be able to leave until around July 15--106 days left!

Happy 1 week Birthday to my sweet little girl!!!
XOXO,