20 weeks old and Grandma's Birthday!!!!

My beautiful girl is 20 week sold and growing like a weed!!! But man I am loving this stage with her! She is so sweet, and so lovey. I mean I am IN LOVE with this kid, and it feels soooo good! I am going to start videoing her and all her cackling and yelling she does at night while talking to her toys and try to upload it- it is so cute! But what could be cuter than her in this dress- right?

Actually her birthmom L, sent this to her for a Christmas present and I have not put it on her yet, because she is such a diva, she has 2 closets full of clothes and I haven't had a chance as of yet. So Sunday was the day to get dressed up, and boy was she just a ham!
She is doing just great eating her cereal off a spoon for lunch and dinner, and she just loves her Mama, she even reached for me from my Mom the other night. I must admit it felt really good to have a baby want me for once!!!
Speaking of my Mom, this picture has got to be one of my all time favorites!!!! Friday night was Mom (and Grandma's) birthday. Sweetness and I took her out to dinner and I caught this shot, and I must say it is the first really good shot we have gotten of the two of them and man it makes my heart sing....... The two most important people in my life (and Sweetness of course) right there with all that happiness...... how could I not be filled with joy???

Well that's all for today, thanks again for all your prayers..... will update again soon!!!

"Baby Anna"

Just a little deviation from my "little bit" always hogging the whole blog Haha- my co-worker Bettina had her sweet baby girl the other day, and last night I stopped by the hospital to see her little bundle of joy. This is her and her hubby's first child. They had been trying awhile- not that long though- and then one day she comes to work and says "Yeah I think I am pregnant."

I said "really? Why?" She said, I just have a feeling. And sure enough her "feeling " was spot on!!! Then when she went to find out the baby's sex at 20 weeks they could hardly tell which it was bc of baby's legs being crossed, so it was a guesstimate - of a girl. So she was really praying that the whole pregnancy that all the stuff she bought and was given was really going work!!! So without further ado :

Christi'anna Elizabeth Gattling

Feb. 29, 2011

6lbs 15 ozs. 20 in. long

Baby "Anna" and her mommy are doing great!!!!

These are just some pictures I took when I stopped by last night to visit her.
Here is mommy and her new little one!!!

She and her hubby have a whole new life ahead of them!!

When I held Anna I had for gotten what it felt like to hold a six pounder. Chloe was even smaller than Anna- which is so hard to believe!!!

In closing- Congratulations Bettina and William- she is just perfect and beautiful. Your life will never EVER be the same and you now know what true love is.......

19 weeks old and 4 month well baby visit!!!

Well Mommy made a big "goof" on the dry erase board that says how many weeks she is. I guess I tried to age my baby girl a week prematurely??!! She is not 20 weeks old this week, in fact she is only 19 weeks old. I'm so sorry sweetie, you will be 20 weeks next Sunday!

But it does not take away from her beauty in her weekly pictures/ She is still our gorgeous , precious little girl that is growing up before our very eyes and we are amazed at her intelligence and curiosity!!
Last Friday, 2.24.12, she went to her regular 4 month well baby check up at the pediatrician. She now weighs 13 lbs and 2.0 ozs, she was 65.4 cm (25.75") long and her head was 42.5 cm (16.73") in circumference. She is doing great in all the categories and she has really taken off now in the height category because she was quite short at her 2 month visit. So now she has caught up with her baby counterparts per se. LOL.
Just a happy happy girl!!!

That was until they gave her two shots in her little legs and one orally. She was inconsolable for almost 2 hours. Even the doctors tried to help calm her and it was not happening. My heart was aching for my girl. She would not even take a bottle. Does anyone else's children go ballistic after shots like that?

Baby girl was sporting her new jeans earlier in the weekend as well.

She was still wearing her Newborn sized jeans if you can believe that one!!!

We tried to get a few pictures, but I think she was tired and was not feeling like smiling so much then, so we just decided to give her a bath and lay her down to bed for the night.

She has really started to LOVE the bath. She is so cute splashing and cooing!!!

I'm sure it looks strange to have her bathtub in her nursery floor?? The reason we moved it in there in stead of in the bath tub as usual is our heat pump (central heat) decided to die on Friday. So it was so cold in our house, much too cold to bath our girl.

But we do have a new space heater that we used to heat up her bedroom so she stayed nice and toasty overnight and we slept under the electric blanket and and we were all okay.

Luckily, I pay for a home warranty premium insurance every month in case something like this happens. So we called them yesterday and a service call was made and they came out and told us that our problem is that the compressor is dead!!! Yippee....NOT!!

So the part has to be ordered - it will take about 2 days to come in and we don't even know if it's going to be covered under the warranty- we should find out today hen the repair man calls the warranty company to tell them his diagnosis.

He also replaced two burnt out spark plugs thingys so we at least had "Emerency Heat".
This man was a life- saver!!! I will post next about our new 55" TV and entertainment center as well as Sweetness' Val Day gift I made from Pintere.st as promised.

4 months old--- Feb.16, 2012

4 MONTHS OLD!!!!!!

Even though by my standards she was already 4 months old-when she turned 16 weeks, but everyone seems to go by the 16th of the month so that milestone was this past week, and of course we took some more pictures right??!!

And she is just as cute as always !!!
Gettin' a little belly in her onesie.....

Love you boo-bear...... You are my whole world!!!

It looks like she is putting her hand in her pocket of her sweat pants!!! My girl is advanced!!! Ha!!

Until next month- we will try to cherish each day, it's going way too fast. I love you- as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

18 weeks and growing up fast!!!

18 weeks old!!!! Baby girl is getting so big, and she is becoming increasingly more uncooperative for her weekly photos. Oh she smiles all day long, but as soon as I want to take a few pics with her sitting somewhere, nope!!! She wants to go!!!

I guess this is a good thing- it means she is growing a developing normally and she should be wanting to fidget and move, but I loved it when I could pose her and get the adorable shot.....now I have to WORK for each one!!!

Her Aunt Joanie sent her this beautiful lavender dress, which she looks so beautiful in, so I thought it would be a nice outfit to take her weekly pictures in.
I think we have beat the reflux, colic or whatever it was. She is now sleeping through the night and it is so nice to see her happy. However we do have a period of the day from about 4-530ish where she is just not happy.
I know it's hard to believe this bundle of smiles is never not happy but when I bring her home from the sitters she seems to be so full of gas some days, its unbearable trying to get it all worked out. I've talked to her sitter, who we really really like, if she is doing anything different, and she says no, so we are still trying to figure out why the "witching hour" as we call it begins in earnest when I pick her up, but hopefully it ends soon.
I spend all day just DYING to get to her, and then to pick her up and she is screaming , is no fun at all. But she started "solids" this last week too. By that I mean a nice soupy rice cereal, so maybe she is taking in a lot of air when trying to eat off the spoon???? Anyone have any thoughts on this????

My angel is talking, and babbling all day long these days, and makes our home so happy!!!

Saturday we went to Target to get all the junk everybody gets at Target right? lol and we went to the "One Hop Shop" in the back of the store. It is the newly set up Easter area in the store for this season's Easter holiday. Easter happens to be my FAVORITE holiday of the year. I was so happy to take my baby girl to see some of the fun stuff they already had put out. Most of it she of course was far too young to appreciate, but man I can not wait until she will be able to enjoy Easter with her Mommy as I teach her what Easter is all about. Well we found these little tiny egg spinners that light up and she fell in love with it. She can even hold the toy now!!!

She was so fascinated with it- we had to get it for our girl of course....

She is starting to be so fun!!!! I am LOVING being a Mom!!!! And I included this last picture just for those of you that have written and asked "does she ever have a bad day?" or "Is she ever not smiling?" Well the answer is YES!!! and here is the proof. She can go from super happy to meltdown in 3-2-1 boom! just like any other kid, but most of her days are spent extremely happy!!! Awwwwww

And speaking of happy, one last little thing she did this weekend, she sat in her Bu.mbo for really the first time, and held her head up and laughed with Daddy and me.

She is such a fun kid- You just want to kiss those cheeks off!!! I am the luckiest Momma in the whole wide world! That little face loves me and how can you put a price on that???

And one last thing-- Thanks for all the comments on my last post when I asked should I keep blogging or not. I guess I just need some reassurance every now and then that there are actually people out there who are reading this, and who care. I am really doing all this for my daughter- but it's nice to get some feedback as well. So thank you- The blog rolls on.....

Stream of Consciousness....

I have not had a chance to post Sweetness' Valentine's present that I made for him from a Pintere.st idea because I have been soooooo sick. I NEVER miss work, my classes will have no one to cover them, and when you teach college its kind of a big deal to miss, but yesterday I was so sick, I could not stop vomiting, it was really bad. I had Sweetness take Chloe to the sitter- I couldn't even watch her I was so sick.

So I am here at work today- just let my class out for the day, and I barely made it through. Only here because I had to be, they could never have finished the course on time if I missed 2 days!

But I'm feeling down. I put so much hard work into my blog, and I feel like no one cares or even reads it. NO ONE comments any more, so I wonder should I even do it anymore??

Yes I should.... for Chloe. This is to document her first year--- for her. I guess I would like to think that people would care and comment as much as I read and comment on other people's blogs, but life isn't always fair is it?

Chloe, Mommy works so hard to keep up with this blog, and the pictures for you because I will print this out in a book for you one day so you can see your first year and how amazing you were and how much you changed !

Speaking of change--- yesterday on the 16th was your technical 4 month birthday, so we will have to take your 4 month pictures tonight, now that mommy is feeling somewhat better!! Her sitter started trying rice cereal in a spoon and she did really great with it- so i will be doing that this weekend as well and I'm sure take pictures of all the fun!!!

I will post those later too!!! Hope everyone or anyone who reads this has a wonderful weekend.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

So Miss Priss was a bit moody this Valentine's Day morning!!! She was not wanting to give Momma her pretty smiles so easily as usual. But she was doing some funny poses as you will see below!!!!

In looks like she went something like this.....

"Okay Momma, you just want ONE pretty smile?"

Me: "No baby,Can I have two pretty pictures of you in your pretty new dress?"

Chloe: "You want TWO Smiles??"
Chloe: "Awwww okay Momma, I'm just kidding with you...... Heee heeee"

Man I love this girl!!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! I will do post tomorrow on the Valentine's Gift I MADE Sweetness this year. Yes I said MADE it!!!! I got the idea off of Pinter.est and it turned out soooo cute.

Until then, hug the ones you love today and be loved!!!!