A Mothers Love

Before you were conceived, I wanted you.

Before you were born, I loved you.

Before you were here an hour, I would die for you.

This is the miracle of love.

-Maureen Hawkins

It's About Time....

.....that I finally make a post! You'll have to forgive me, life has been crazy! Right after I returned to work after maternity leave I was promoted. Then school resumed. Thank God for Bryan's mom, she is a life saver. She babysits for us 4 days a week, Bryan works nights and I work days so she babysits while he sleeps, Thankfully we have our days off together so we do get to spend a day together. Which brings me to my next subject, work, ugh. I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate job. Currently trying to find a way to make money and be able to stay home with Jewels. Bryan works for the Bureau of Prisons but is trying to moving into a different division and when he does he will be making more money therefore something part time would be fantastic!!! Enough about us, lets talk about Jewels....

.....She will already be 7 months on the 25th!! I can not believe she is growing up so fast! She sits up on her own, rolls all over the place, and blows raspberries and absolutely LOVES peek-a-boo. I love her little laugh!

She had her 6 month appointment after Christmas, she weighed 17lbs and is 27 inches. Depends on the style of clothes she is in 6-9 months! At first we were going to make her food and did but then discovered the awesome variety of organic baby food at Babies-R-Us. I think I have more fun with the food selection then she does. They have all kinds and its so fun for her to discover the different flavors, however, we are Chick-a-terian's and are not giving her any meat. When she is older we will discuss giving her chicken but nothing for a while. It's just gross. Jewels loves all fruits and veggies, except for this "Summer Vegetable Dinner" from Earth's Best that she can not stand (it contains corn, garbanzo beans, zucchini, green beans, and carrots). It was funny to see her face when she ate it. She loves peas, green beans, bananas, apricots, peaches, pears, etc.

I was reading a baby book and it says to introduce no more then 4oz a day of juice. The first day I gave her juice I forgot to dilute it and she gave us many presents the next day! I was like "what is going on?" then remembered about the juice. Now I give her a diluted amount of juice. The problem is is that the book said to introduce juice in a sippy cup so that the baby knows she gets juice from a sippy cup and formula from a bottle. I have bought two different types/brand of sippy cups b/c she drowns herself with juice. The package says it allows the child to control the amount of fluid that comes out and the book says the child will eventually get used to the flow but man, I hate to see her cover herself in juice everyday. It will come, I suppose.

27th Birthday, Jewels, and Skynyrd

Jewels will be 11 weeks old tomorrow! We have been busy unpacking our new house and dealing with working life with a newborn. Man, it has been fun! Jewels has been so active during the day and sleeping through most of the night and I am so excited to get sleep in longer then 2hr intervals! Jewel's hair is getting more red everyday, we think her eye's may be turning brown but are still and blue/gray.

For my 27th Birthday Mom and Dad gave me tickets to Lynyrd Skynyrd, as a child they were one of my faves (if you know my background you would understand) and the concert was on my Birthday so they thought it would be fun and it was! There were some outrageous people, let me tell you! I think the people wactching was a big part of how much fun we had. Bry had to work so Nacole joined me, we have a tradition that we started several years ago, in the picture of the two of us you will see that I am wearing a tiara that says Happy Birthday, that is actually a very heavy metal and gliter accessory. We take turns wearing the tiara on our Birthdays and it was my turn!

OH, here are some pictures of the bows I had bought for Jewels, some are totally cute and some looked better off then on! Oh well, I had fun dressing her up though for some of them he got upset. The Halloween headband was the best, look at her expression, she looks so terrified! LOL

Two Months Old!

Tomorrow Jewels is two months old, I can't believe how fast the time is flying! She had her shots last Wednesday, she screamed her head off but made it through, i had to give her Tylenol b/c she developed a fever but she slept for about 18 hrs, of course waking up every couple hours to eat and be changed but she slept tons, poor thing. She now weighs 12lbs and is 23 inches, Mommy's Chubby Bunny (she doesn't like being called that but I like it).

I have been taking lots of pictures but have not had time to upload them b/c we moved into our new house this week on top of both of us working, so I think you can understand why I don't have them up, sorry! More will come soon, and pictures of our house! Better go, Jewels is up...

What A Month!

Wow! I am SO sorry that it has taken me this long to update our site. Jewellee was born June 25th, 2009 at 4:34pm, she was 6lbs 13.7oz and 18 inches long. A little bitty thing! The surgery went fine and my recovery has been fast. I have been enjoying all the joys of motherhood including the many sleepless nights and extreme exhaustion. Bryan has been absolutely fantastic, not that I didn't think he would be any different, but he works all night and comes home and stays up with the baby so I can sleep for a couple of hours, he's SO wonderful and I appreciate everything he does!!





We finall got a house and closed this past week and will be moving in in August, YAY! I finally feel like a grown up. I can't wait to make it our own!

I will post more pictures soon, I'm trying to sneek this in while baby snoozes, I need a nap!

15 days and counting down....

It's official, the date has been set. June 29th we will be welcoming Jewellee into this crazy world via c-section. With the diagnosis of gestation diabetes and other reasons (medically my body will not allow for the baby to come out any other way in which I will spare you the details) my Dr and I have decided that a c-section would be best for myself and Jewellee. I couldn't be more excited to finally meet her, however am scared out of my mind. I have never had surgery or any major procedure so this is something totally unfamiliar and frightening. I know it will be worth it but I am terrified! I have a lot of support from family and friends. Thank God, my mother is taking 3 weeks off work to help me, we live in a two story home and after I am released from the hospital and get up the two flights of stairs in our home I am not going to be able to go up and down for a while so she is coming to stay with us to help out, in which I am super greatful! SO, as these final weeks pass please keep Jewellee and I in your prayers, it would be very much appreciated!

35 Weeks and Counting!

Afternoon all! So much as happened the past couple of weeks! I've had two baby showers and at least 5 Dr appointments. Being I have gestational diabetes I have 2 NST's a week on top of a Dr appointment a week and a meeting at the Diabetes Center at the hospital every week. NST's are non stress tests, I get hooked up to two monitors, one to monitor the babies heartbeat and movement and then one to monitor my uterus; just to make sure the baby isn't under any stress. The Dr wants to make sure I don't go into pre-clampsia( I hope I spelled that right, you know what I mean). So far the NST's have been fantastic, the baby moves around and is very active so I never have to do a full 30 minutes, I usually have to do about 10-15 minutes. Last week I had a sonogram to determine how big Jewellee is and so far she is 4.5 lbs, a lot smaller then what the Dr was expecting, which is good. If the baby gets big because of the diabetes then I will have to have a c-section because there will be too much stress on her shoulders to push. I'm excited! I will post pictures of both showers when I get them emailed to me so look forward to the fun! Thank you to everyone once again to came and for all your support! Ta ta for now!