Friday, February 27, 2009

Lets see the little lady shall we!

Here's a few pix of my little lady. Thought i'd share :-)

Here's one of my little lady sleeping


This one is of daddy feeding her while they both watch tv. No we dont have pillow cases on our pillows haha - they are being washed

ok more to come ttyl




Operation Sleeping at night...

Yes, one of the things my lovely little cc has picked up on is her Daddy's schedule! It's driving me insane not to see the sunshine! She sleeps all day til about 7pm then shes up, eats, up for a couple hrs. takes an hr nap and up all night! I am posting this at 4:34AM!!! lol So, i decided that this is just not tolerable - haha - so as of today & tom (hopefully it can be fixed in a couple of days) we are preforming operation sleep at night! She sleeps 6 hrs spanes, so i have a STTN'er (sleep thru the nighter) who just so happens to be sleeping thru the day haha Hopefully I can get her into this schedule pretty easily. The only thing that may hinder this is the fact that shes getting her shots today! and they usually make them pretty tired! i just hope she has no bad reactions and who knows, maybe she'll b just a perfect little lady after. we are also bringing the dogs to the vet this morning to get their shots and get microchips. we have to thanks to good ole housing. barf! ill b super glad to leave this place, if we ever leave this place! Well, my sisters shower is next weekend and im super sad i cant b there. i wanna c her belly again! and im sure pl would love to see Cadence. too bad dude. and it pretty much sucks actually. At least we will be there in May to see the baby. I guess that's the better choice! I don't guess, I know. I'm just gunna b even more depressed once I realize how much smaller then my baby she will be. Well, unless shes a 10 pounder like her daddy. haha but seriously, my little cc is not the same baby i brought hoem from the hospital and im pretty darn sad about it! dont get me wrong, i love all the things she does now like talking and fallowing u when u walk aross the room with her eyes. she chews her hands and drools like a crazy woman! she smiles at us all the time now and its prettty exciting! shes definately a happy baby...i wouldnt trade her for the world! anyways, this has become a huge ramble eh? ok well, ill keep u posted! Say a little prayer my baby girl feels ok after her shots. shes gunna hate us for it! ttyl

Sunday, February 22, 2009

whooooooaaaa little rock...lol

Well, its been a while so i figured i should update on everything going on right now. Cadence is almost 2 months old. She talks and now she rolls from her tummy to her back. The dr says shes doing everything ahead of schedule - which kinda makes me sad! lol i mean, dont get me wrong, i dont wanna b behind schedule...but i dont want her to keep growing either!! lol dont tell her, but she gets her shots this week. on weds i believe! and then, as long as all goes well, shes getting her ears peirced this weekend! whoa, time flies!

Marcus and I are absolutely wonderful! We have our moments, but all together, we have been doing great. Communication is key. sometimes we comunicate a little too well. lol Him working nights still sucks to me, but he likes the schedule, so who am i to complain?!

For about a year now I have been telling him that we need to find antoher base to live. I am just sick of this place. I don't want to raise my kids here. It's too dangerous. It's away from home. It's just not a nice place to be. So, i think I have finally talked him into trying to get orders to Little Rock. there's a couple of steps he can take, and he has done the first one already. After the next one, we just wait and pray! Little rock is only 7 hours from home. We can hunt and fish. It's only a couple hours from Tennessee so we can vacation! We will be able to enjoy life without worrying about getting shot or looking at someone the wrong way. I hate it here. Hate it! so much. So, pray that it is the Lord's will for us to get this!!!

Otherwise, here we are. 2 months after my tiny little 5lb miracle baby was born. and here she is. Growing up too fast! My friends son is 10m and that just seems so odd to me! I remember her having miles and while in the hospital, i told her i was pregnant! and now here we are. Babies in hand. Totally different. They grow up too fast, and im scared if i dont pay attention to the little things, i'll forget all these moments!!!!

Well, thats good for now. Hey, Marcus gets a raise next month! WOOT WOOT to that!! lol ok well, ttyl guys!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

of freaking course...

ok so i took my friend phe's advice and kept cc up as much as i could between 7 & 11 tonight to try and get her days and nights in order...assuming thats whats been wrong with her. well, she fell asleep for about 20 mins in between that time. she was so darn tired!!! we did all we could...she wouldnt budge lol. but i bathed her, and fed her. and she went back to sleep at about 10:45. so its 1:15 right now and shes still sleeping. due for a bottle at 2. and wouldnt u know that because of the last couple of nights, MOMMY CANT SLEEP!!! how do u fix mommy's days and nights mixed up u ask? lack of sleep tomorrow. woot. i slept til almost 3pm today, off and on of course due to feedings & dh coming home with breakfast. hes been such a great husband lately. and i love him so much. i can honestly say that our relationship hasnt suffered at all since the baby. if anything, its gotten better. and let me just say...so has the sex! whoa...if u only knew how good...ud b jealous! lol anyways...maybe mommy will b able to sleep after her feeding. im def not waking her up for it. shes been sleeping almost 5 hrs between feedings so MAYBE ill b up for a couple more hrs...blah i dont wanna try and fall asleep now cuz i mean 20 min nap will just b enough to piss me off! lol hopefully doing this keeping her up stuff for a couple of nights will get her straight & we can go back to the way things were. prayers pls! ttyl

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

talk about a freaking ocean of tears!!!

He didnt have to wake up
He'd been up all nite
Lay'n there in bed listen'n
To his new born baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It gonna be OK

It wont be like this for long
One day soon we'll look back laugh'n
At the week we brought her home
This phase is gonna fly by
So baby just hold on
It wont be like this for long

Four years later bout four thirty
She's crawling in there bed
And when he drops her off at preschool
She's clinging to his leg
The teacher peels her off of him
He says what can I do
She says now dont you worry
This will only last a week or two

It wont be like this for long
One day soon we'll drop her off
And she wont even know your gone
This phase is gonna fly by
If you can just hold on
It wont be like this for long
One day soon she'll be a teenager
And at times you'll think she hates him
Then he'll walk her down the isle
And he'll raise her vale

But right now she up and cry'n
And the truth is that he dont mind
As he kisses her good night
And she says her prayers
He lays down there beside her
Till her eyes are finally closed
And just watch'n her it breaks his heart
Cause he already knows

It wont be like this for long
One day soon that little girl is gonna be
All grown up and gone
Yeah this phase is gonna fly by
He's try'n to hold on
It wont be like this for long
It wont be like this for long

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

whoa..she got me thinking...

ok so a couple weeks ago i got back in touch with a really good friend of mine. we lost touch a good minute ago - id say probably o geez at least 5 years. anyways, we got to talking about some of her hopes in life...(dont wanna b spreading her buisness or anything...) but anyways, in a part of the conversation, miss cc came up in the convo and she said something that kinda got me thinking...see i talk about cc so much & from what i got out of the conversation, it seemed as though she felt that i had lost myself in the process of becoming a mom.

that made me think a lot. i mean, the person i was, and the person i am now are def different pl but that has to b part of the territory of becoming a new mom. however, i dont wanna lose who i am because i am trying to b a great mom. so, lets figure out just who i am.

lol...the first thing that came to mind is mom. im a mom.

furthormore, im a wife. lover, a good one if i can toot my own horn lol, a worrier, a cook, a house keeper, a pacifier getter, a blogger...but all of these things are things i DO, not who i am...lets try this again

im very passionate, caring, jealous, not so patient, very emotional, easy-going, easily presuade, dont stand up for myself enough, peace keeper, ...and right now i have to b a diaper changer...ill finish this later

gunna b another long night i guess...

blah. last night cc was awake almost the entire night! i got an whoping 1 hr of sleep before i had to get up and start getting everything ready for her appt this am. shes got a cold. a little one. so little i didnt even know lol but shes got one. so maybe thats whats been making her a crazy lady at night! my mom always said sickness got worse at night...so maybe she just feels worse at night.

it snowd today. blah. cc's first snow. she didnt care much though. lol

shes laying right here next to me right now...its 11:30pm & shes laying on a pillow just talking away right now...its funny! i love it soo much! i gotta put some socks on her feet. i just changed her clothes and then laid her down to write this. but shes got cold little toes, which isnt going to help her little body get better! maybe i'll do a hat too! blah. if its a long night...ill bbl. if not, then ill post another tomorrow. just wanted to drop a little update! ttyl

Monday, February 9, 2009

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can u say...tired?!

man, last night was a wild one! at first i thought it was going to b a great night...boy was i mistaken.

at about 9pm, she was totally asleep. i jumped in the shower and marcus was just cuddling with her n the bed watching old CSI episodes until I got out. We laid her in her cosleeper, and thats when the fun began. She started crying, and we tried feeding her, but she would only take about an ounce. We swaddled her and put her down...she screamed and screamed...i picked her up and rocked her. never stoped screaming. i thought, ok, gas probably. so i burped her and burped her...she never burped and just kept a screaming. so i got marcus to get her bouncer. that worked fora bout 4.5 seconds. then we got the swing. again....maybe 30 min nap and then screaming again! if i picked her up and cuddled real tight, she'd fall right to sleep...but as soon as i laid her down, weither she was snoring in my arms or not...the screaming started again. so, at 1:30, i decided a bath was the only thing that may help at this point. so i gave her a very warm bath...which she screamed through. i put on her nighttime lotion...warm nightgown...cute little socks...and swaddled her up...finally snoring...finallly asleep at about 2. then, up again at 3 to eat! blah...i was truly exhausted!!! then she fell right to sleep after her bottle...and slept until about 7.

it was the hardest night by far we have had since she was born, but we made it through! and although marcus is going to come home exhausted from work, and we will all be in bed early tonight...we made it. this time. ttyl

Sunday, February 8, 2009

You know you're a mommy when...

well, i've been thinking a lot about how life has totally changed since having Cadence and i decided to write this little thing to make other moms laugh...and moms to be know what they are getting into! lol here goes...

You know you're a mommy when...

*you understand what it's like to be up at 2am NOT drunk or partying

*you know what true love truly is

*you can walk around with spit up on your shoulder, and not even notice the smell or the wetness until that night when you take it off to shower

*you hear your baby whimper and it wakes u up when before, u could sleep through a tornado

*you & your husband truly understand the meaning of a "quickie"

*you get more excited about seeing your childs face then your favorite tv shows

*speaking of TV shows, you watch all of your favs in the middle of the night, during feedings off of your DVR

*you can remember the exact moment you fed your child last, changed their diaper, etc. but you dont remember the last time you brushed your teeth!

*your legs are hairier than they have ever been - and neither you nor your husband notice lol

*you can grocery shop, which adding up all the prices to make sure u dont go over budget, and carry your child the entire time

*you spend your extra time just sitting there, totally exhausted, waiting for the next cry.

*you know exactly how much house work u can get done between naps


i could go on for days probably lol but im sure u get the drift...i'll prolly do a phase 2 later. this is good for now. ttyl

My Baby Is MISSING!

ok, so, this morning at about 6:30 my little angel decided she was hungry. I am usually the one who does all the shifts at night, but last night Marcus was home and, although unwillingly, took the 2AM shift allowing me to sleep until the next feeding. It was the first time in at least 2 weeks I didnt actually see her for about 8 hours. Once I got her bottle ready and picked her up out of her swing to feed, I was sitting there by the glow of the nightlight, and staring at her, when all I could think was, where did my baby go?

Her eyes looked big and brown in the dark, even though they are still dark blue. Her cheeks are filled out now. Her face as a whole is a lot bigger than birth. I just stared down at her, as she stared up at me and couldnt help but feel the tears in my eyes. 6 weeks can change someone so drastically that I could barely see the little lady I brought home.

Maybe all these thoughts came from reading a fellow blogger talk about her beautiful twins who are almost 3 months old and to her have changed so much. Gets you thinking about the little life that I brought into this world. The little lady that, at least for the most part, relies totally on me to feed her, bathe her, dress her, keep her healthy, warm, comfortable, etc. So much need in her tiny little life, and she relies totally on her parents to fill them. Which we do very willingly, other than in the middle of the night.

I'm pretty sure that the most we have fought about is why I didnt wake up to feed her at 2. Why I didnt change her diaper, etc. How horrible? When I woke up at 6:30 to a pissed off husband who couldnt undestand why when he ASKED me IF I wanted to get up at 2 am to feed her, I simply said no. If for some reason he was unable to do it, or just didnt want to, he could have just said, shes crying honey, please feed her. But he didnt tell me, he asked me if i WANTED to...and I said no. Due to the fact that I do it 5 to 7 days a week, and for once wanted to sleep longer than 2 hr stretches. See, yes, she eats ever 4 hrs, but thats four hrs from the beginning of feedings. For instance, if she eats at 4, she will be up at 8 eating again. So, I start feeding her at 4, she eats for 20 to 30 minutes, then is awake for another 20 to 30 minutes. So thats 5AM. then it takes me about 20 mins to fall asleep myself, and im up again at 745 to make the bottle shes fussing for...that makes well i guess 2 1/2 hrs of sleep at a time. Woot.

But something hit me this morning. As I looked into those what seemed to be beautiful brown eyes this morning, looking up at me as to say thanks mommy!, all i could think was how horrible am i?! How horrible is it of me to not want to get up and give this little girl her food. She cant get up and get it herself, she cant ask for it, she cant do anything without me, and yet I get upset because my husband wont get up instead of thinking that if it werent for me, for us, this little life would be no more. She would starve because she can NOT feed herself. How horrible of me to not want to give her what she needs to live and thrive. The nutrients her little body survives on. How horrible of me for wanting to sleep instead of get up and feed her.

Blah, this blog took a strange turn. It was supposed to be about my little miracle, and about all the changes taking place in her life. Too much for me. Too fast. Someone tell me how to make this little girl STAY little...please. I love her so much...I want her to have everything she needs, AND everything she wants. I dont want her to suffer in life. I dont want her to be sick, to be sad, to hurt in any way at all. I just want to stop time right now...while she sleeps on the couch next to me on her pillow. I want her to stay just like that so that I will always have my little baby...my little angel...my little....miracle.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

In the beginning...

Well, first, i am an addict. Not to drugs, alcohol, sex...well maybe sex...but the kind of addict I'm referring to is this. Blogging. Writing. Expressing myself with words. that's me. I'm new to this site, but not new to the act. My previous bloggings went down on myspace. A friend of mine has one here, and after reading, and reading...and reading, i decided this could b a new beginning for me. A new place to just let it all out. So, here I am.

The background - I'm 22 years old. Born and raised in good ole Louisiana. Miss it so! Currently residing in New Mexico due to my husband's job. He is my hero, and probably a lot of other peoples. He is currently serving for the US Air Force. He fixes planes basically. We tried for three very long very hard years, and in December, gave birth to our little miracle baby! Her name is Cadence. She is truly the biggest and best thing I have ever done, and a miracle straight from the hands of God!

Currently - I am a stay at home mom. Cadence is 6 weeks today. Boy does time truly fly! She's growing and changing every day. It's too fast, and too much to take in. I miss my little baby already...and this is only the beginning!

Goals for 2009 - currently our biggest goal is to pay off some serious debt. Thanks to the tax break, we will get a lot of it paid off in the next couple of weeks, and hopefully, Lord willing, get the rest paid off before the end of the year!!! It's crazy to think that after 3 years of trying so hard, we will actually get there. We will see how this year pans out, and hopefully be right here, a year from now, debt free! We want to buy a house Jan 2010. So this other debt must be paid off by then. Let's all hope!

There it is folks...the beginning...the first blog to grace your presence from me - unless you're farmiliar with my myspace blog...in which case, welcome to the new! Enjoy!