SB 2010!

Well...we have had a very interesting Spring Break, to say the least!!! We started the week, Monday, with Janie Ann's 4 month shots!! She did wonderful! She weighs 16 lbs and 4 oz- 4 oz bigger than Jojo! She was 26.5 inches long and Dr. Sellers said she is perfect! (We already knew that, though!) He said that she was very mature for her age...she has wonderful eye-hand cordination and is very strong!! She is changing so much everyday, I have enjoyed having this week off with her- makes me even more excited about the summer!!! Dr. BB also said that we could start rice cereal- so we did! Tuesday night was the first time we did it and we made the mistake of putting the bottle next to her Bumbo seat, needless to say, she was NOT interested in the cereal- just the bottle! So today I made the cereal a little bit thicker and hid the bottle- she did wonderful!! We have pictures/video- see below! She is also beginning to laugh out loud now and it is the sweetest sound EVER!!! Now...I'm going to post about her sleeping habits- very hesitantly!! (I hope this doesn't jinx us!) She has been sleeping through the night since Dec. 11th (see...I've waited a long time to post this! :)) It's absoutley pitiful when we have to go to work- I have to wake her up to feed her! I know that not many parents at all have to wake up their child!! We have tried from the beginning to put her on a schedule- we didn't read any parenting books or anything, being a teacher you just know that kids on a schedule are happier! So, from the beginning we wouldn't swaddle her at all during the day, but every night around 8:30/9:00 (depending on the feeding) we would swaddle her and lay her in the pack-n-play, whether she was asleep or awake, and then she would sleep until 2:30/3:00...that lasted for about 4 weeks and then one night she just slept until 5:30- I was AMAZED! So we have continued that routine- every night after her last feeding we swaddle her up and put her down! She will talk to herself until she falls asleep! I did ask Dr. BB if it was ok if we continued to swaddle her, and he said that she has so much hand-eye cordination that the swaddling was not in any way affecting her- to continue whatever we were doing. I know that we will eventually have to stop swaddling her, not sure that they make swaddles for 1 year olds!! Now, with the time change- she has been sleeping until 7/7:30! Again, my child is amazing!!! We also think she is teething- she LOVES her fingers and is drooling like crazy! We have to keep a bib on her at all times or else she would be soaked!

Yum, yum rice cereal!
Isn't she beautiful?

She won't smile whenever I pull the camera out, so tonight her daddy was making her smile and I FINALLY got a picture of her beautiful smile!

The rest of spring break? Well, on Monday Seth also had to go to the hospital to get a catscan done to see how large his kidney stone was and where it was located....each time we talked to the doctor or Sheena (Seth's sister- a nurse)the kidney stone kept getting bigger and bigger! It started out being 7 mm- when Sheena talked to Seth on the phone. Then Monday night Sheena came over to MeMaw's house (where we stayed for spring break, Thanks Memaw!) and it grew to a 7.2mm stone...then this morning at the doctor- yes, another dr visit, it was 7.4 mm. Hopefully it won't get any bigger!!! So right now we are just waiting. He will have to return to Dr. Bauer (No, not Jack Bauer, but that is who I thought of, too!) on Wednesday to possibly set up an appointment to have it crushed. So, please say a prayer for him and that it will crush itself, somehow!

What did we do on Tuesday?? Well, I had a doctor appointment in Auburn! Seth stayed at his mom's just incase his kidney stone started moving- we wanted him to be able to get to the ER and not have to be in Auburn!! So, Janie Ann and I went to see the doctor and then went shopping! We had a fun day- didn't buy much- but it was fun!!

Hopefully our spring break will get a little bit better- looking forward to possibly going out of town with Seth and Janie Ann for a night! Just to get away for a bit and go shopping for Easter clothes and hopefully some spring clothes for my "new" body! (That will hopefully go back to it's "old" self, soon!) Until next time....

Happy 4th Birthday Harrison!

Harrison-

We love you very much and hope you had the best day ever!! Hugs and kisses!

Love,

Uncle Seth, Aunt Tippy and Janie Ann

3 month pictures!!

We went to Birmingham on Friday to visit with Josh and Rosalyn Parker, and we prayed Baby Jackson would come to visit- but he didn't! So Saturday we went Patton Creek, behind the Galleria, to Portrait Innovations to get her 3 month pictures taken! She was such a trooper and did wonderful! There were TONS and TONS of people, everywhere in there! I got a little stressed out during the waiting part, but she did wonderful!

At 3 months she has become more alert of everything around her, she still LOVES her hands and had recently figured out how to suck on her tumb- which is going to be broken, soon, hopefully!! She has seen her feet and enjoys watching them, she just can't figure out how to grab them yet. She is also rolling from her back to her side, but still hasn't made it all the way over! It is still hard for me to believe that she will be 4 months old, SOON!!! Oh yea, she thinks she needs to be held ALL THE TIME!! :) Especially during nap time- sometimes you can lay her down, but the majority of the time she wants to be held (and I hold her!).

Now, we are praying for Baby Jackson, Josh and Rosalyn. She goes into the hospital tonight around 8 and they will induce labor. I pray that she has a quick labor and Baby Jackson arrives healthy! I will post a picture and details of Baby Jackson once he arrives!!

Day 2

I did ok today, not great... after a stressful morning/mid-afternoon at work I did have an Oreo (or 2), but otherwise a pretty good day! I had an atkins bar for breakfast, then chicken and rice for lunch- along with broccoli and cheese, then another atkins bar for an afternoon snack- along with the 2 Oreos, for dinner I had a bowl of Home style chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwich. I drank water all day- no soda's for me, well soda's with caffeine! (It's been almost a whole year, now!!!)

Tomorrow we are going to visit Rosalyn and Josh- hopefully Baby Jackson will be here soon! Monday at the latest!! We are also going to be getting Little Bit's pictures made on Saturday at Portrait Innovations- while I would love to pay Karen to take them again, we can't afford to get her every 3 months! So maybe for her 6 month and 1 year pictures...we will see! I'm just excited to get them done!!! Hopefully I will be able to get a CD of the pictures and upload them soon!

Diet time!

I am REALLY doing it this time- no more cheating or eating icing out of the jar, I am going to lose weight and I'm hoping all of my blog readers hold me accountable! No, I'm not going to put a starting weight on here, it's way too big of a number! I am going to put down each week how much I loose and hopefully what I eat each day. I am attempting the Atkins diet, but I'm doing it a little bit differently because I do have to have carbs because of the diabetes. I'm limiting my carb intake and cutting out a lot of the snacking that I so much LOVE to do! I want to look decent in a swim suit this summer, whether we are swimming at MeMaw's house or at the beach!

So today...for breakfast I had some eggs, bacon and a banana, along with some water to drink.
Lunch was a salad with Provino's salad dressing and grilled chicken, shredded cheese and bacon bits. For dinner I am hoping to have another side salad or green beans and salmon. I have also enjoyed an Atkins bar which had a nice chocolate coating on the outside, so that covered my sweet tooth for the morning, then I had 1 Dove dark chocolate heart for making it through the school day without cheating! Today would have been the easiest day to cheat, EVER! I have a closet full of Oreo's, brownies, Frosted sugar cookies from Wal-Mart and a draw full of Hersey kisses, Dove dark chocolate and Reese's cup hearts- but I know next week when I weigh myself and I have lost some weight, it will all be worth it!!

Tomorrow Karin and I are going to begin working out- Chad Paris, the weight trainer at our school is going to show us some things that will help us to tone our abs, legs and arms. Then, once it gets warmer Seth, Little Bit and I are going to begin walking at the school after we pick her up- hopefully turn that walking into jogging and then hopefully I will be able to do a 5K soon!

Oh- did you notice I used Seth's real name, well I decided I might have gone a little overboard on the whole thing- I'm still going to try to watermark my pictures before I post them, but only because I think it looks neat! I'm also still going to call the babe, Little Bit, for now... Ready to get home to see, hold, hug and kiss on Little Bit!

ONE more thing! Tomorrow my niece who will be 1 next week, (CRAZY!) is going to have tubes put in her ears and her adenoids removed tomorrow, please say a prayer for her and her parents!

Scary!!!

Ok, today while I was blog surfing I came across the blog Urth Mama and she had a post about how a lady stole pictures off of her blog and had made her own little fantasy family with her pictures!! SCARY!! So now, I'm in the process of changing everything on the blog!!! While I believe that I know everyone that comes to look at my blog, truth is I have no idea who looks at my blog, and that is scary! So we are no longer going to be using our real names, but instead new, fun names! Nor am I going to use anyone else's real names, hopefully I can be creative!! So, to begin with- My husband's name is going to be "The Traveler"- why? Because he can't STAND to be at home for a long period of time, he has to be up and going!! The Babe's new blog name? Little Bit- because she has to continue to have a double name! My new name? Hum...not sure yet! I don't really refer to myself that much on the blog- so I might not have to have a name! *My new name... The Avoider, according to my husband- because I will do anything to avoid doing any work* (changing everyone's name on blog, but I think that is for safety) The dog? He will still be called Caddy!!

Now I'm going to be trying to watermark all my pictures before posting on here so if they show up on someone else's blog, hopefully someone will notice the watermark and can let me know!!! I'm one of those people that thinks stuff will never happen to me, but for this- I don't want to risk it because it could possibly put my family in danger! So now to change names and watermark pictures....I'm sure more safety stuff coming, soon!!!

1st Week back-

and we both survived!!! I won't lie- Sunday night and Monday morning were 2 of the hardest days of my life. Preparing to leave her on Sunday and then actually leaving her on Monday morning, it was SO hard, and I didn't even have to take her to daycare!!! The Traveler and I are so lucky and blessed that our mom's are able to keep Little Bit- and Little Bit is super lucky for that!!!

All of my students were so excited to see me back- one student was so excited he watched my every move and whenever I would leave the room I had to reassure him that I would be returning!! My long-term sub was AWESOME and she got most of the AAA stuff completed for me- that is the best thing in the entire world!! And all of the students enjoyed her.

Next week is going to be a little bit harder because we will have to leave a little bit earlier to drop Little Bit off with The Traveler's mom on Monday thru Wednesday- and hopefully we can convince Gigi to come stay with us again!! :)