52 weeks!!!! Yipee!!!

Well we finally arrived at 52 weeks old!!!  I know there are 52 weeks in a year, and her birthday is not until next Tuesday, so I don't know why this is the 52nd week??  My mom says I miscounted but I will have to go back and check and count the weeks I guess......  but we have been counting these weeks for as long as i can remember!!!

But anyway, she is more precious each and every day!!!  We got her 1year pictures taken Saturday and she did so wonderful!!!  She smiled and clapped and was just a baby doll!!!

We also had our first professional family portraits done while we were at it!!!  We all wore black tops and dark jeans and I received 4 previews last night and I must say there is not one picture in the bunch that I don't like!!!  As soon as I get the finished CD of them, I will be sure to show you!!!

So this will be such a busy busy week ahead!!!  I have so much last minute things to do for her party this weekend!!!    My mom is helping me so much and I would be lost without her!!!  She said last night that we were going to love the present she got for Chloe, so I cant wait to see what she got for her birthday!!!

Mommy and Daddy bought her a leap frog table that has all sorts of light up and singing things on the top of the table.  I like it because she has to stand up to play with it- and I hope that keeps her standing longer to build those leg muscles so she will walk sometime before Christmas!!!  LOL

I just can not believe how big my little angel has gotten in just one year!!!  She is soooo full of personality and just loves life!!!  She plays so hard all day- she never wants to stop and take a nap, she loves her Daddy more than anything and gives the sweetest kisses to her Momma!!!  How could I ask for more??

She is always just a clapping.....  and being such a happy girl!!

This picture cracks me up!!  She looks as as if she is saying "Ta Da!"

And this is her Ms. America wave--- Daddy says we are starting her early- and I say absolutely no to the pageant arena!! I know Chloe would win them all she is so beautiful, but I do not want her to base her self worth on whether she wins this competition or that one.  She is of worth because she is a child of the King!

Also this past weekend we went to the pumpkin patch with some of our friends and took tons of pictures.  I will blog about that next.  But all in all this week is going to be so fun and so busy.  We have lots of people coming to her party- more than I even thought- but that's great!!  the more the merrier!!  And you know I will have TONS of pictures of that great milestone event!!

Until tomorrow or Wednesday- I will be working on the Pumpkin patch post!!

Have a blessed week!

Her first piece of jewlery!!!!

I had my princess her very first piece of jewlery made.  It is a very cute baby pink braclet.  I thought these pictures were so precious, I'm going to just post them for you to see, with  no unnecessary commentary!!! Hope you enjoy these!!!!  Man I love this girl!!! 

51 weeks old- I can't believe it!!!!

My baby girl is soooo grown!!!!  My goodness, she is so independent and has sooooo much personality!!!  She is just the happiest little girl ever!!!  She babbles non stop from the time she wakes up until she literally can't talk anymore, she falls asleep babling to me as I rock her.....Her happiness is infectious!!!!  These pictures were snapped about 10 minutes after waking her up and getting her dressed.  She is always this happy except for when its time to go to bed, then she just wants to snuggle!!!

 I'm still busy planning her 1st birthday party in 2 weeks!!!  I think back to where I was emotionally and mentally a year ago.....I was a hot mess!!!!  All the unknowns.  was I going to get the baby, what was going to happen?  Her birth mom played some games with me and my emotions and I was just so raw and on edge, but if I could have only known the amazing outcome, the amazing joy to come, and just rested in knowing HE had everything in the palm of His hands....ah lessons learned!!

 I'm so excited about her 1st birthday pictures this weekend!!!  We are also having some family pics made of the 3 of us, and I can't hardly wait!!!  We have decided to wear black shirts and jeans, and maybe be barefoot, we will have to see.  Then after her photos that morning, we are headed to the pumpkin patch with our friends and their little girl Sarah!!!  I can't hardly wait!!!

 

Chloe's teachers at nursery school say she has a little boyfriend, his name is Benjamin!!  The two of them play together every day almost exclusively!!  I think it is soooo cute!!!  I am planning on taking in cupcakes for them on her actual birthday Tuesday Oct. 16th for them all to have, and I hoe to get some really cute pictures of them wearing party hats!!!  But who knows how it will go, babies are babies and they are messy!!

 I included this picture, because I thought it was so funny that she was yawning in the middle of all her smiles!!!  She had just woken up as I said earlier and she started to show the signs after a bit of smiling and posing.....but she is such a ham in front of the camera these days!!!  I guess I have had it pointed in her face since the day she was born!!  Ha!

 And she has finally learned to wave a real good-bye!!!  Before it was like a whole arm wave, but now she has mastered the turn at the wrist, and she is just so precious!!!  Here she is waving bye to Daddy..... 

So with that, I will wave bye for now.  We will definitely be back with more fun stories and pictures as we begin to celebrate my very favorite season....FALL!!!!   Happy Fall Ya'll!!!!

Chloe loves her Grandma!!!!

So here is Miss Priss, happy and ready to go play with her friends !!!

Her shirt today reminds me of something I have been wanting to post about for awhile now but keep forgetting........ When I was going through infertility struggles, I lost or dropped most of my friends.  I was jealous in part of them having baby after baby and it was too painful to be around, and I also could not relate to where they were in their life at that point.  Having a child changes everything and they wanted to talk about that, and I .....well was still pining away for that life for myself! 

But through it all one constant friend remained, my mom.

My mom empathized with me as best she could, having not been infertile herself.  But she did desperately want a grandchild as much as I wanted to give her one.  So in that space we could relate and understand the feelings of unfairness, jealousy, confusion and the why me's???

 

Since we have been blessed with Chloe, I have gotten a chance to see my mom become the grandmother she always wanted to be.  She adores our little princess, and she takes every opportunity to see her or play with her etc.  My parents live about 45 minutes from our house, but my mom works right near our house and her daycare.  She will sometimes go pick her up from daycare and bring her home for us, just to spend some time with her.

 

Other times she will come over for the evening after work and play and play with Chloe, help bathe her and rock her to sleep, then spend the night to see her in the morning and go to work from our house since we are so close by.  Chloe has come to know and LOVE her grandma and I am so happy she does!

I hope their bond lasts a lifetime, like mine has with my Nana.  I hope she can always find that solice in life with her grandma...... and learn from her all the wonderful advice she has to share.  Thank you Mom for being the Grandma I always knew you would be.......

And to Sean's Mom, Grandma Mary, you never got to meet our baby Chloe, but we know she has an angel in heaven watching over her all day, and she would have adored you too!!!  :0)

Enjoying the beautiful Fall Weather

Yesterday, the weather here in Virginia was absolutely wonderful!!!  It just begged you to come outside and enjoy the sunshine and the cool fall breeze!!!  So my friend Tonya and I decided to take our girly girls back to our favorite park!!!

I ordered these shirts for them several months ago, because we are going to take them to the pumpkin patch together in 2 weeks and I thought they would look so cute being matchy matchy  :)  Well we couldn't resist so we thought we would give them a try, and toddlers are just cute no matter what they are doing, and I think these pics turned out adorable!!!!

Sarah is about 4 months older than Chloe and she is walking and running circles around Chloe ~ who at the moment can cruise while holding on to something sstationary.  So we decided to have them sit on this bench, and their size difference is quite pronounced looking at them in this picture, but when they are playing they look almost equal.  Strange!!!

Both of them are only children, but Sarah has for sure learned how to take what is hers.  They are so funny at this age, when they know its "theirs", its theirs and there is no more discussion needed.  LOL

And sweet little Chloe just wants to have some of what everyone else is having, and she is a bit oblivious to other children's sentiments towards her!!!  ;0)

And then Sarah decides she has had enough of all the posing..... but Chloe is an old pro- It looks like she is thinking here "Hey Sarah, it's not too bad having your picture made, my Mommy does it all the time."

Then Tonya tries to distract them, and I think this is probably the best shot of the day, both of them somewhat smiling and you can see their names on their shirts!!!  This one is a framer I think!!!   :0)

Sarah still loves her paci sometimes when she is upset, and Chloe threw hers away a long time ago for her thumb, but she was certainly intrigued with seeing Sarah with hers, I wonder if it brought back memories of when she had hers 24-7???  Chloe just looks so intrigued  !!!

Funny Sarah.....

Sarah hopped down to be by her Momma (because she can), and that left my little Chloe sitting there alone.

Ever the little comedian, she did some crazy and funnny poses for us,

sat and listened to us talk and laugh.....

and lastly, waves her hands in the air (like she is going to fly away) for Mommy to pick her up!!! We let the girls' swing and they just loved it as usual and we had to pull them off crying. They just looooove the swings!!! We then took a long walk with the girls in the area around the big Fun Forest playground, until the girls were tired out!!!

After 2 hours in the park and all day at daycare, baby girl was prety tired and dirty.  So we headed home and in the bath she went!!  She got to actually sit in the tub by herself for the first time last night.  She can balance well enough now that I was okay letting her balance herself in the water.  She splished and splashed and had a good time!

 My favorite part of bath time is getting her out. Playing Peek-A-Boo while dryingher off, putting that good smelling night-time baby lotion all over, PJs and then brushing her beautiful hair. Well last night I asked Sweetness to brush her hair while I cleaned up the bathroom from the bath, and Daddy had some fun with my little girl......he gave her her first MOHAWK !!!!

It was a fun filled day, and I loved every minute of being her mommy.  We rocked her to sleep and she slept her usual 12 hours!!   I have an angel baby and I feel so incredibly blessed for all the gifts we HAVE been given.  Life.........it's good!

50 weeks old!!!!

Good gracious!!!!  I can not believe my little baby is a whole 50 weeks old!!!  2 more weeks until the big 1 year old!  She has blossomed into such an adorable, loving, stubborn :), amazing little girl!!  I am so in awe of the child the Lord chose for us to love and raise.  She fits into our family so well!

Miss Priss was super cranky on Saturday, very clingy and just seemed "off".  So I called the Ped's office, they said to take her to an Urgent Care that we would have a horrible night if I didn't, and they would call and tell them we were coming and we would only be charged our regular co-pay.  Okay!!!  So we took her in about 6pm Saturday, and sure enough, this mommy's instincts were dead on!!!  She has 2 ear infections!!!

So she is on Augmentin this time, we just got over an ear infection 6 weeks ago where we took Amoxicillin.  So hopefully this will knock those bugs out of my baby's ears!!!  When I dropped her off at day care this morning she was a bit more clingy than usual, and she has finally gotten to the point where she goes right to Ms. Cassie in the mornings.  It makes this momma's heart happy when she loves her teachers and goes happily to them in the morning, and doesn't cry when I leave.  She has to be well for her 1st birthday pictures next Saturday and of course for her party the weekend after!

Chloe is cruising now, holding onto things while she walks around them.  So that's hopefully the last stage before she takes off on her own!!!  I really wanted her to be walking for her 1 yr photos, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen!  And we have decided that during her one year photos, we will be taking a family portrait as well!  I am excited because we have not taken one as a family since having Chloe!

This past weekend we went and got her some Stride Rite shoes, an early birthday present.  She measured a 4 1/2!!!  Yikes, my girl is going to be tall!!!  So we bought a size 5 so she will have room to grow and she loves them already!!!  All my friends have said that having them in Stride Rites are the best for them to begin walking!!  But yikes those suckers are pricey!  She has on her new shoes in these photos, and they are so easy to put on, they look tied, but they are actually stretchy elastics!  very cool design when fighting to put shoes on a wriggling toddler!

I love this girl with everything I am, and I am so incredibly blessed to be her Momma, and that day I had been waiting for happened yesterday!!  She finally said "Mom-ma"!!!!  I was feeding her dinner, she was in her high chair acting silly, and I said Momma, and then she just repeated me like she says it all the time!!!  Sweetness was in the kitchen and he heard it too!!!   It's such a sweet sound coming from that baby like voice!!  Yeah Chloe!!!

So I am busy planning the party!  We will have around 12 people there I think, depending on if some of my cousins come.  I came to all their kid's 1st birthday parties to support them, it would be nice if they felt the same love and support for me.  But it wont dampen my baby's big day!!!

Until next time---- Have a blessed week!