One Year Ago!

Wow! It's been a year since we found out that we were going to have another Princess!! With our first two children, my DH and I didn't want to find out if the baby was a boy or a girl. We wanted to be surprised and I figured it would give me an incentive to push that baby out! :) Well since there is a 9 1/2 year difference I figured we should find out. All 3 of my pregnancies were very different and I was shaped different for all 3 also. You know how they say that if you are shaped like a basketball then you are having a boy or if you can't tell someone is pregnant then maybe it is a girl. Well I heard them all and they were only 50% true because your chances are 50-50 to begin with!

We couldn't have been happier and it really was a blessing to find out because we had so many friends and family that wanted to help us! We were blessed with 4 showers!!! Oh my! I couldn't even begin to explain how blessed we felt! I can't even think of another worthier word, but blessed!!! We were given so many wonderful things for our Squiggler and to this day we continue to feel all the love and good wishes that people have bestowed on us. God doesn't make mistakes. We might not now the why or the how come, but someday it will all be revealed to us. We just need to say thank you and know that He is with us always!

7 Months!

Today the Squiggler is 7 months and I can't believe it! I know I say that every month, but wow she is growing so fast! Too fast! She is such a delight and we just adore her. She loves us as much as we love her. My husband said that he wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but having a baby later in life has been such a joy! That makes me feel good! I am so happy to be on vacation and get to enjoy her all day! To see her little routine and just have fun with her! She wakes up around 6am and plays until 7am when it's time to drink milk. She takes a small nap at 8am and eats breakfast around 9am. She has lunch around noon and sometimes takes a nap before or after. She gets really loud around 2pm and just talks up a storm. She eats again at around 5pm dinner and sometimes takes a long nap either before or after. She gets a bath at 7:30 and goes to bed around 8pm or 8:30pm. She wakes up once or twice at night to drink milk, but always goes right back to sleep!

• You can roll over when you want!
• You eat 3 small meals a day!
• You weigh about 17 lbs and you are 27 inches long.
• You kind of say dada.
• You love to be outside.
• You love to be sung too!
• You smile at everyone, except when you are having your pictures taken!
• You love to make the rasberry noises!
• You like to stand up, especially in your stroller. It scares the mommy!
• You laugh so cute aloud.
• You love to take a bath.
• You always want to be with the mommy, but if the daddy is around then you are a daddy's girl all the way.
• You got your first cold this last month, but it only lasted 2 days!
• You ate Mexican food. Beans from the olla by Tia C.
• You had a small taste of ice cream and you liked it!
  
  
  
  
  
  

We love you so much Squiggler! You have blessed our family in ways that we didn't even know existed!!!

Happy July!

Happy July everyone! I can't believe that it is July 1st already! Today was just another leisurely day at the Palace, but it was also the birthday of my Great Aunt. Today my Tia turned 91 years young! My mother, Squiggler and I went to her house to celebrate the day with her. Some of my Tia's kids were there as well as grandchildren and a great grandchild. My Tia has 7 children in total and I found out today that she was about 19 when she had her first child and 40 when she had her last. My Tia is such a WONDERFUL person and she still drives. She looks fantastic and I hope to be even a fraction of the kind of person that she is...so kind, caring and loving to everyone! The Squiggler had beans from the olla today for the first time. (My Tia made them.)

Me, My Tia and the Squiggler

The Squiggler and her big cousin with the same name!

Milestones

I have been home with the Squiggler and her sisters this week and I am loving it! I never wanted to ever be a stay at home mom, but with this one, knowing that she is my last... I so wish we could win the Lotto so that I could stay home with her everyday! How funny since I never ever wanted that before. This week she has

• learned to roll over
• try to drink from a sippy cup
• got a used jumperoo
• has been out walking with her sisters
• has petted the dog (She loves the dog!)
• has had apple and cantaloupe
• wants to talk on the real phone
• sounds like she says dada (of course they never say mama first)
• can do a 360 on her belly

Your sisters have been getting along so well this week and I hope it continues. I so always wanted a sister too and one of my wishes for my girls is that they grow up to be best friends! I dream of the day that all four of us go out shopping and to lunch, my beautiful girls and I. We will be leaving daddy the grandkids. Tomorrow we are going to daddy's school so the Squiggler can meet all the wonderful people that daddy works with.

Happy Father's Day!

Today is Father's Day and my day wouldn't be complete if I didn't tell you about my wonderful DH! He really is a great father, husband, brother and all around great guy! I am so lucky and blessed that he came into my life and even though we've had our ups and downs like most couples, the ups totally outweigh the downs. We went to church this morning, came home and just spent the day together as a family. We even snuck in naps with the Squiggler today. I think it was a good day except for the fact that he didn't let me take any pictures today! Well there is always tomorrow. I love you honey!!

What a Week!

I knew this week was going to be crazy, but I really had no idea that the Squiggler and I were going to get sick this week too! On Monday one of the cute little boys in my class sneezed on me. Now granted he didn't mean to and he is only 5, but as soon as he did, I knew I was going to get sick and I did! By 1pm I could feel the cold coming on and I had hoped to spare the Squiggler. I think we would have been okay, but she got her 6 month check up Wednesday and she got 4 shots and an oral vaccine. Poor baby! :(

She went to see her doctor at the new Kaiser facility near our house. (It was so brand new and shiny!) She is doing great and weighs 16lbs. 13oz. and she is 27 inches long. She is our thinnest baby at 6 months but our longest. She is going to be tall like her aunt Princess and sister Weegie. She was all smiles at the doctors too, talking and showing off her new rolling skills. She learned to roll this week and fell off grandma's bed on Tuesday. Anyhow the nurse gave her the four shots really quickly, she was good, and the Squiggler just looked at me like "How could you let them do that to me mommy?" and then she let out this cry and it broke my heart! I had taken the day off and spent the rest of the day just playing and having fun with her. She ended up taking a two hour nap and then she was all smiles again!

On Thursday she started to get a little bit of a runny nose and I could tell the sparkle was not in her eyes! By that evening you could tell she was having trouble with her nose and her breathing was a little funny. She was suppose to go to work with me on Friday, all day, because Grandma had to go out of town. My principal had okayed it and I had packed all her stuff in the car the night before. At 4am in the morning my husband woke me, now granted I am still sick too, and told me that he was calling in sick to work because he didn't want the baby to have to go to work with me. What a good daddy!! You have no idea how that made my heart feel that he was willing to stay home to take care of our baby! It was the last day of school and I knew that I had to go in to say goodbye to my little ones! By the time I got home the Squiggler was feeling better and you could see that her sparkle was back! My husband really is the best!

Speaking of my little ones, yesterday we had our end of the year celebration. It was definitely one of the best celebrations I had ever had with my kinders. Almost all the students except for 2 had someone there to represent them, the students sang so wonderful and the play we performed was really good too! During my thank you speech I started to cry because I realized how much I was going to miss this class. These kids were just fabulous and I couldn't have asked for a better bunch of kids! The moms started crying too! We had a great potluck afterwards and all the parents stayed and took pictures and ate! Today we had another party too! What a great group of parents and kids! Next year will be an exciting year too, but I will miss these little ones!

Weegie my oldest daughter will be going to 8th grade next year and the Speedy Cheetah will be a 5th grader. That means two graduations next year! WOW!! My babies are growing up! It happens so fast!! Both girls pulled off perfect report cards and we ARE SO PROUD OF THEM!

Time is Flying By!

So much happening around here! I only have 5 more days of work and the girls only have 5 more days of school! With that for me comes....report cards, cums, portfolios and awards! It's been crazy! I also snuck in two nights of having dinner out with different friends. (Of course I took the Squiggler with me!) It was fun, but I was so tired I took a two hour nap yesterday with the baby. Thankfully my husband let me!

Friday, I took all the girls to the mall so that Speedy Cheetah could have her pictures taken like a Rockstar! She had seen the ad one time when I took the Squiggler and asked if she could do it. Saturday was there last day using these props so I wanted to make good on my promise. She loved having her picture taken and wanted me to buy ALL of them! LOL! I bought a few!!!

On Saturday I took all the girls to the mall again so that Weegie could go to the movies with her friends. They had a nice time. Later that night she had a concert at her school that was REALLY GOOD! We met her boyfriend's parents. Yes, you read that right her boyfriend, but I will save that post for tomorrow. Hopefully my friend, Mrs. Pooh, will give us the picture she took of them.

The Squiggler continues to do well and thrive! She is talking more and accidently rolled over the other night. I am contemplating whether to buy her a jumperoo or not? I really don't know? She has outgrown her swing and really doesn't have anything else to play with so we will see. I need to decide this week!