A Little Bit of Everything
Tomorrow my first baby girl turns 5. FIVE. I’m in disbelief. I remember when she was born so vividly. I blinked, and she was all of the sudden 1. We moved for the first time in her life, and she turned 2. We moved, again, and she turned 3! Daddy was able to come home on leave from Iraq for her birthday party and you {Read More}
Reading a friend’s pregnancy updates prompted me to search through my post drafts that I never published… I found this gem from April of this year and had to share From the moment you pee on the stick you start second guessing everything. Everything you eat, everything you drink, every place you go, the cars you drive. Is this safe? Is that too much? What {Read More}
Our little Evie is officially 6 months old now, and I have somehow managed to keep up with taking monthly pictures of her cute little face. Each month I get a reminder on my phone to take a picture, sometimes it’s a week late, but I eventually remember to remember Here is what I have so far… Every month it never fails, we have a {Read More}
Since the arrival of our precious Evie I have found a few new favorite things I had to share with you all. ( click thumbnails to enlarge pictures ) iBaby Feed App This app may be solely responsible for my success in breastfeeding. I was overwhelmed with keeping track of how much Chloe ate when she was a baby, how often and so on. That {Read More}
If I heard “walk that baby out” one more time I was going to lose it. I had tried everything, nothing worked. If it’s a form of natural labor induction, I tried it. Trust me. I walked for hours, hours. At 40 weeks I finally had to quit walking because it was causing me more pain than anything. I had been having “false labor” for {Read More}
While sorting through tons of books in my daughter’s floor the other day I became frustrated. She has all of these really pretty books and they’re just being thrown in pile. Then, my Husband called and sensed I was stressed… Our Conversation Husband – “What’s your deal dude?” Me – “I’m just cleaning up Chloe’s book pile..again.” Husband – “Oh. Why don’t you make her {Read More}
This pregnancy has flown by. We still lived in Hawaii when I found out I was pregnant. It seems like forever ago, but also like yesterday. I didn’t know that was possible We are down to only 5 weeks until my due date. A Birth Plan I’ve begun getting things ready for the big day, for instance, a birth plan. I did not have one {Read More}
Guess what? We have been busy around here, and I’m loving it. It’s as though I looked up at the calendar and realized I’ll have a baby in less than two months. Normally I would want things to slow down so we can soak it all in and enjoy life (all that good stuff), but I have a growth the size of the moon protruding {Read More}
I’ve spent the morning and, really, the past month torturing myself with baby pictures of our now 4 year old. For Chloe’s birthday today I’ve been putting a photo album together with pictures from the day she was born to present. I often hear that once you have your second baby you do not take nearly as many pictures or document things as much, so {Read More}
We have all heard those stereotypical things people say to pregnant women. When pregnant with Chloe, I was fortunate to have avoided those type of comments. Lately it seems that’s all anyone can think to say to me. As of today, I am 29 weeks pregnant. Based on people’s reactions when I tell them how far along I am, I apparently look about 40+ weeks {Read More}
I am not magical. I thought I could do everything and get it all done in a timely fashion, however, that is definitely not the case. Leading up to our move I had so many plans for our new home and business. As it turns out, pregnancy trumps all. Pregnancy combined with . . . moving overseas, a new puppy, an increasingly more defiant 3 {Read More}
This past week has been a whirlwind of craziness. We are in the process of PCS’ing from Hawaii to Texas, in the civilian world they call this moving. In the Military they require acronyms for acronyms PCS stands for Permanent Change of Station. I’m pregnant, and easily overwhelmed, so my Husband sent Chloe and I ahead of him to be with family while he clears {Read More}
