new baby

This beauty, right here, to the left, is giving me the touches of baby blues. Isn't she gorgeous! DLH and RH are the proud parents of EBH! I couldn't be more proud of them. She is absolutely amazing. Perfect blend of them both. So petite and angelic. Awww, I love her! Obviously you see why this is giving me some baby blue feelings, right?! I know we are in no position at this time to even think about such preciousness, and really, chasing a one year old around helps combat the feelings, but sometimes I still get the urge. Am I nuts? Ahhhh, baaabbbiiiieeessss. Yum Yum.

And here we are, proud of this beautiful baby girl. Anna-Kate loved her!...although she isn't in the picture because she couldn't sit still :). Oh btw, she took 6 STEPS tonight!!! We are so excited!

And below is Anna-Kate gettin' some lovin' from "Uncle Ro".

final plans

I really hope my mom doesn't read my blog because I'm about to disclose some information that she has no idea about...yet anyways.

We have officially decided to move. We gave our two months notice on the 5th of October which works out great because the first weekend of December starts on the 5th. The idea of it all hasn't exactly hit me yet. I'm not sure it will until it happens. At first I was really stressing out because thoughts of finding a new pediatrician, changing addresses on all of our important documents, finding a new part time job (which has already been taken care of), finding a place to put all of the things we want to keep but won't have room for, transitioning Anna-Kate to a "new life". It all seems overwhelming. I know this is part of growing up, moving on and achieving those dreams we've been striving for but that doesn't make it any easier. Plus, moving in with my MIL doesn't seem so grown up to me. Hahaha! I'm sure it'll all work out.

I think I'm going to keep AK's pedi here and just drive her back for her appointments. It will save me the time and grief of trying to find another great doctor in a completely different city I know nothing about. Plus, all of my family (and few friends) pretty much live here and it won't be that big of a deal to drive down for the appointments. I'll see how I feel about it when I have to drive an hour and a half for the first time just for a doctor's appointment. Hahaha.

My MIL got me a little job with a good friend of hers who either owns or manages a storage company. My job will be the mule of the operation. Running errands, making deposits, etc. Not bad. It is about an hour and a half to two hours a day, Monday thru Friday. I can handle that.

I'm slowly starting the process of hacking through our things and making sale, storage, take piles. It's tough. I don't like it. I have already found a temporary home for AK's crib. Yay. Maybe we can even use it when we are spending some time in town (as in at your house, in your spare room, with the spare full size bed--you know who you are) ;-)?? All of our bedroom items will be going with us. Bed, dresser, bookshelf, TV, nightstands, toy chest, AK's dresser, glider, mini table with chairs, baby bookshelf, changing table and clothes galore. We haven't decided yet what to do with our furniture, kitchen table and all of those goodies. I mean, I'd hate to sell them or give it all away and then not get accepted into the program right away and then have to eventually get our own place and have no furniture for it. Ya know. Too much to process for my brain right now.

I'm glad to say that I do have a couple of friends in the A area. Yay. One being a lovely lady named Tracy who just got married and moved there with her hubby. I can't wait to get together with her. She's pretty awesome.

Okay, well that's all for now. I MUST go do my workout videos or I'll never get to them. Ahhhhh.

PICTURES

Here are those weekend pics I promised. My husband didn't take the camera with him afterall...I found it on the couch ;)

^^^Here we are at the doctor's office...Daddy demonstrating how limber AK is^^^

^^^Getting her test done and napping afterwards^^^

^^^visiting Uncle Kevin and Riley at work and supporting the Longhorns^^^

^^^reading a book before bed and laughing at her Uncle Kevin at dinner^^^

^^^stopping for a visit with AUNT EMILY!!! and acting nuts on our way home from Austin^^^

^^^she's truly a silly girl^^^

^^^gettin' pooped^^^

As I was posting these pictures my little nut came crawling around the corner with her lovey on her head. It was SO HILARIOUS. I was rolling on the floor laughing and she was looking at me like I was the crazy one...and then continued on her way with her lovey on her head. I'll post pics of that later.

...home sweet home...

I am SO GLAD to be home!

Last Thursday Anna-Kate had a doctor's appointment in Austin so we decided to make a mini "vacation" out of it and stay from Wednesday night to Sunday.

The doctor's appointment: it went REALLY well and we couldn't be happier. There were no major catastrophes, praise Jesus. She did way better than I thought she would being that she is way more active than six months ago and she has her own opinion about most things. Of course, she experienced her first sucker in attempts to keep her as still as possible. The results?? you may be wondering. Well, they measure the whole thing on a number scale-10 and below is considered pretty normal. When we were there six months ago it measured at a 21. Thursday it measured at a 13!!!!! We were super happy. The doctor said that her valve is normal but wasn't opening up completely. As she grows, the valve gets bigger, therefore helping out with the whole problem. He doesn't want to see her again until she's two and he said that will most likely be her last visit. YAY!!! I'm so relieved and happy and...RELIEVED! In her case, it seems she's growing right out of it.

The whole weekend: was probably a little more stressful than I had hoped. First, Anna-Kate is trying to cut THREE teeth right now. That's more than ever before. So that made for some minor complications. Second, I don't know what is going on with her but she decided this visit that she DOES NOT like her room at Granny's house. I don't understand why. My husband says that she's probably afraid of the color red. Hahaha. In her room at her granny's house she has red curtains on the windows and a very red sheet on the bed. The bumper pad is denim with some red, a red-ish type carpet...and well, that's all I can think of. Seriously, I'm not kidding, my kid has never screamed like this before. Wednesday night she went down without too much of a problem, probably because she was exhausted, but from Thursday to Saturday the kid hardly slept at all! I consistently tried during the day to get her to sleep in there during her naps and she would scream her head off. She was screaming so bad that her voice starting cracking after the second episode. It was so sad. I couldn't bare to make her do it for long but I'd try for atleast 10 minutes every time. So, she had NO naps those days and slept in bed with me at night while waking up a couple of times during the night crying. Eventually I starting sticking some orejel in her mouth and then she'd go right back to sleep. On Saturday I finally came to the realization that she really just doesn't like that room so I pulled out the pack-n-play. I set it up in our room and put her down for a nap immediately after it was all out together and SHE WENT RIGHT TO SLEEP! I'm not joking. The kid slept! And we weren't in there with her-she was by herself and she went to sleep! I was sooo relieved. So from Saturday nap-on she slept in the pack-n-play. Atleast she slept, aye?

Despite all of the madness, Sean and I did get out for a movie and icecream on Friday night. It was nice to be together without a one year on my hip. We LOVE our daughter, but sometimes it has to happen. She had fun with her Granny and that Granny had her sleeping before we got home. Ahhhh. It was nice.

I wish I had some pictures to share but I left the camera in the car and Sean went to work :(. I was so excited to get them up too. More to come later.

SASS from a ONE YEAR OLD

My daughter is showing some little personality flaws this wonderful Wednesday. She woke up bright and early at 7 am fussing...yes, this is early for us. Not only did she wake up at 7 but she was up at like 1 and then 3. She hasn't slept through the night in about a week and hasn't had a real meal in just as long. Now, I know these aren't personality flaws but here's one for ya. She's been knocking the pictures over on the end table lately. I've given her a few "spankings" for it, none of which have phased her. When I see her standing at the table THINKING about doing it I call her name and tell her, "no"! She turns her little cute head around with her little cute curls popping out over her ears and gives me this look. I wish I could explain it but it's so funny and so ATTITUDE. I have to turn my head and giggle and then regain my seriousness about the crime she's about to commit and warn her about what will happen next if she chooses to put a finger on those pictures. She continues with her little look and I walk of. I've noticed that she's only threatening me with this daring look but then chooses to listen to her mommy. I seriously do not know where this "look" came from and I'll try to capture it on camera one day but I'll attempt to explain it for the time being. She turns and looks at me with semi-raised eyebrows, eyes that can stare a hole in you and this ever-so-sassy half grin as if she thinks she's the one really in charge.

And get this, this morning when I put her down for a nap she threw a fit. I left her in her bed for about and hour and a half, maybe two, and when I went in to get her it smelled like PUKE. She made herself throw up!! It was on her bed sheet, bumper pad, bed skirt AND the floor. Not to mention her clothes. I have no idea how she managed this. I know she's pretty much over being sick so that can't be it. She started gagging herself a little bit not too long ago and I'm wonder if that's what she did.

It's now noon and she's in her bed again (second attempt at a nap today) with only a sheet on the mattress. I had to remove everything else. She sure keeps me on my toes.