43 weeks old!!!

Wow, we have 9 weeks until my angel is a year old!!  I can not believe it!  She is blossoming into her own independent, sassy little self.  She is very aware of when I leave her now, and she is learning the meaning of "No" very quickly these days.

 Chloe is crawling on all fours now, and she can get anywhere she wants to go!!!  She is all over the floor, and we have tried to baby proof the den, but she seems to find everything!!  So we are looking into one of those large baby gate systems that hook together to make a play yard , so we can section off a safe place for her until she can walk.  She is trying to pull up on everything these days and it will not be long until I will come into to get her out of her crib and she will be standing there to greet me!!

 Baby girl had some real milestones this past week!!!  She actually ate a whole waffle french fry by herself without choking at all!  This is really her first solid food to speak of and I was so proud of her.  She actually used her 4 little teeth in the front to chew on it, and she swallowed it no problem!!!  So with that information, I think I am going to fore go the Upper GI study that is scheduled for tomorrow, because I think she is solving her own problems in time.  Yeah!!!

 Also on Saturday, we had her 9 month professional portraits made!!!  I have gotten several proofs to share with you but I absolutely can not wait to share these with you!!!  One of my students used this lady as her daughter's photographer for her first birthday and that's how I found her!  She is soooo reasonable in price and spends unlimited amount of time with you and lets you do as many outfit changes as your baby can stand!!  LOL  We went to an arboretum here locally and it formed the most beautiful backdrop for these photos, not some stuffy ole studio.  I love the classic candid shots or just taking pics while they do their thing- the forced still shot is good in limited areas, but these came out just as I envisioned!!!  So stay tuned!

 We also just introduced the sippy cup to baby girl, and she can hold it really well, but she gets very frustrated because she can not get anything out yet.  She does not know how to suck on it- but she will learn it in time!  I mean I remember holding her for the very first time, and now we are weaning her off her bottles????  Really???  Where did all the days go???

 I am looking so forward to fall and the cooler weather so we can get outside with her more, and be more active doing outdoorsy things.  It has been a brutal summer and the humidity is suffocating!!  But that's life on the East Coast for ya!!!

 And this past Tuesday, we had our monthly Operation Hope baby play date and Chloe had so much fun again with her little miracle friends.  Of course this momma had the camera in their faces to capture a few shots, so I will post those this week hopefully!!

And my girl is adjusting so well to her new day school!!!  Last week was out first full week where she did not miss any days due to illness!!!  Yeah!!  She is becoming more and more comfortable with the ladies there and when I get there to pick her up, she is playing with her little friends and it just makes my heart so happy to see her interacting and socializing with babies her age!!!

Not too much happening this week, but hopefully my next post will include her beautiful 9m professional pics!!  Until then God Bless!!!

42 weeks old!

I am so incredibly blessed!!!  The Lord has given us everything we ever dreamed of in our daughter- and MORE!!!  She is without a doubt the most precious miracle we have ever had the honor of being a part of, I mean I am just humbled that the Lord chose us to be her parents.  This little spirit is so sweet and precious- and as she is now growing more aware of who Mommy and Daddy are- and showing us love in return- my heart is overwhelmed with this amazing blessing of motherhood!

Our little Princess gets cuter by the day and we are having sooooo much fun watching her grow and experience new things!!!  So this past weekend was a huge step for her - and US!!!  She began to really crawl!!!!  On hands and knees and boy are we in for it now!!!  :)

So if we have ready said "No Chloe" once we have said it a thousand times!!!  So we are baby proofing the living room in earnest now, no decorations down low of any kind, and we put that padded bumper stuff around the replace brick to protect her if she falls into it.  That's one of my biggest fears is that she will hit that brick and gash her head in!

She is now in a size 3 diaper and still in some 6 m clothes, but mostly 9 m especially for the length!  She has recently been pushing away her food, but she still loves her formula/rice cereal bottles.  We have not had the swallow study or upper GI done yet (had to cancel bc she was so sick) and I guess I am secretly hoping she is going to grow out of it and start eating and I don't have to put her through all those tests.

Chloe is doing so well at nursery school now.  This is the start of the 3rd week there, and this morning when I dropped her off she went right to Ms. Emily from my arms and actually waved bye-bye to me with no tears or anything!!!  That makes me so happy!! She was like "See ya later Mom, I'm going to play with my friends now!!"

Any mom who has had to drop off their precious at a sitter during the day, know how wonderful it feels to know your little one is HAPPY and not crying for you all day!! Now if we can just make this her first full week there- and not home any days because of germies we will really have hit a home run!!!

The picture below is actually showing "the hand behind the curtain" of Daddy's who is always behind me making her smile when I am taking her pictures!!  I thought these were so cute I would include them this time.  After I'm done snapping pics, he will let her have whatever toy or animal he is using to p with her- and these were just so sweet when I look at her the sheer joy on her face when she actually got her hands on this puppy of hers!!  :)

And one more update- she was supposed to have her pictures made this past Saturday- but she woke up all congested and crying after being up much of the evening- so I canceled them and we will retry again this Saturday.  I was so bummed bc we have had this scheduled for such a long time- but hopefully it will all come together this Saturday, and I will have some beautiful professional shots of my angel to share with you!!!

Until next time~ God Bless and we love you all!!!

A nice relaxing weekend and a new mobile for Chloe

So this past weekend was pretty nice and relaxing.  Baby girl had just gotten over being very sick with something she caught at nursery school, and Sweetness and I did not have a whole lot planned so we really enjoyed our time with our girl and were desperately trying to get her to crawl- as she is soooo close!!!

This is a picture of Chloe on Saturday morning with our dog Maggie, she was playing on the floor and Maggie came over and layed down beside her-I just had to get this adorable picture!!

Later in the day, Grandma came over to see us and I recruited her to help me with a project I have been wanting to do for a long time in Chloe's room.  So we brought Chloe into her room with us while we attempted to make a masterpiece!!!  LOL  She looks likeYou are gonna make what Momma?"

So basically I ordered many different colors and sizes of paper lanterns from various stores online, mainly amazon was a huge source.  Then you open up the lanterns and clip them to the open position, then using regular ole fishing line you hook them on hooks you have screwed in the ceiling.  You then arrange them until it has the shape and look you are after.

So this is how it looked before we started.....  just a plain corner of her room....

Then after opening up the lanterns, I laid them out on the floor to get a rough idea of how I wanted them spaced out!!!

Then I had my tall Sweetness come in a screw a few cup holder hooks in the ceiling to hold our fishing line, and we began to hang them up there--- in no particular order- just seeing what looked good!

Chloe was so sweet while  were doing this- she only wanted to play with the packaging that the lanterns came in!!!  Kids are so funny- you buy them an expensive toy and they only care about the box!!!

After it started coming together, Chloe was getting excited!!!  Yeah momma- this is so pretty!!!

And after an hour or so of arranging and more arranging- Mom and I finally got what we thought was the best placement for her new mobile!!! We layed her in the crib and she just loves looking at it!  Here is a shot of the final project!!!  I just love how it turned out

The view of the new mobile from her doorway!

An up close view

And a view from the closet in her room!

I just love it- I want one in my room now- but Sweetness is like ummm no!

So I know some of you have asked about her upper GI last Friday- well it had to be canceled becasue she was so sick.  Sweetness stayed home with her and took her to the doctor and they said she had a bad virus.  But her fever was so high- she could not have the test done.  I have not rescheduled it at this point because after she got well this past weekend- she then came down with a horrible cold on Monday evening.  Hubby stayed home with her on Tuesday, and I stayed home with her yesterday.  Thankfully she seems to be improving now and is back at nursery school today.  Man I knew kids were germ factories but this is crazy!!  My little girl has NEVER been this sick in her entire life and she has been around other children.  So hopefully she has some immunity built up now and is on her way to a healthy rest if the year- wishful thinking I know!!!

But this Saturday are her professional 9 month pictures- so I am so glad she is feeling better because we have had these scheduled for a time now!  I will be sure to post them later next week!  Until then God Bless!!!

41 weeks!!!!

 Ohhhh I love this picture!!!  This little face is just so precious to me!!!    So yep you guessed it, a whole week older, and still getting closer and closer to that beautiful first birthday, of which I am just starting to plan!!

So this was her first week at her new nursery school, and she had a rough couple of days there at the very beginning.  The second day she was there, she refused to take a nap of any kind of nap while there, after 7 hours I came to pick her up and she was just deliriously tired!!!  She fell asleep before I was even out of the parking lot!!  We got home about 5pm, and I put her down to sleep and my girl slept from 5p until 7a the next morning!!! My baby was exhausted!!!  But she has started to acclimate to the ladies that take care of her really well.                                                                                                                                        

Other than that, not much else going on...... its been so Africa hot outside nobody can do much of anything around here!!

Grandma did come over Saturday evening and we made Chloe a paper lantern mobile over her crib for her to look at.    We recruited Daddy to help too becasue he is sooooo tall.  I think it has totally changed the feel of her room and I am soooo happy with it and I think Chloe is too!!!!   Thats post will be comin up tomorrow!                 

I included this picture, so you could see her hair is finally starting to grow out!!!  If you look closely on the right side of her hair just above her ear, you can one of her sweet little curls trying to curl up!!!  I just love little toddler boys and girls with little bouncy curls all over!!!

Ohhhhh and one last thing!! This coming Saturday, we are having Chloe's 9 month professional pictures made at the beach, something I have always wanted to do, I just never had the time!!!  And you know I will be sharing them with you as soon as I get my hands on them myself!!

3/4 of a whole year old!!!!

This past Monday, Miss Priss turned a whole 9 months old!!!  Its so hard to believe 9 whole months have passed since I held this precious little miracle in my arms for the first time.  She was so small and helpless and now she is so big, and getting so independent!!

 We went to the doctor yesterday for her 9 month checkup and to ask a couple questions I have concerns about.  She weighed in at 18lbs 5.5 ozs, and that was with clothes, so I think she is really 18lbs even.

 Dr. L says she is growing perfectly and progressing nicely neurologically, which you know is a huge praise for us right now!!!  But this mamma's intuition is worried about one thing.  Chloe can not eat anything with consistency to it,   She eats stage 1 and 2 baby food just fine, but anything with little chunkies in it, or cheerios, or even cheerio 1/2s, she gags so bad, even to the point of vomiting!

 I've asked many different people about it and they don't really have an answer for me, so I finally brought it up to her ped on Tuesday.  She said that it is probably nothing, but given the fact that she has NF, we can never be too careful and we need to get it checked.  So she has ordered an Upper GI study as well as a swallow study for our girl to be sure there is  no tumor or other obstruction there.

 So this Friday I will take  her for the Upper GI, and then on Aug 7th she will have the swallow study done.  If you think about my girl, we would appreciate all prayers offered on her behalf.  We just want to keep her healthy!!  I adore this little face so much!

 Speaking of this precious face, she is sooo funny.  She just started making these crazy faces when I look through the camera and ask her to smile.  She cracks me up!!!  So I thought I would include a few of them for your comedy relief today!!!

Silly girl, but oh how I love to see her personality coming out!!  She is going to give me a run for my money I am afraid!! 

Oh one last thing I wanted to mention, I appreciate all the emails and face book messages saying you are praying for my grandmother.  It is much appreciated.  There is no update or change so far but we certainly appreciate your prayers.  God Bless you !!