Time flies by

Well, Big girl turned SEVEN yesterday. I don't know where the time goes. She has brought me sunshine and happiness for for seven full years now. She is truly the sweetest, kindest, most tender and caring child I have ever seen. I am so lucky to be her mom.

Baby girl turned six months old on the 22nd. She is a full half a year now. It seems like just yesterday she was newly born. If you pop over to Family Fotos, I have have posted our six month photo shoot.

Baby Girls appointment

Baby Girl went to get some shots yesterday. She got weighed and measured as well.

She was 17 lbs, her head was 18.11 inches and she was 25.59 inches long. She is 17 pounds, and that is at the 81th percentile for weight. She is is 25.5 inches, and that is at the 55th percentile for height. And she has a head circumference of 18.11 inches, and that is at greater than the 97th percentile for head circumference. (LOL, I can tell she has a big head when I put her clothes on. Let's hope she isn't forever cursed with a big head like Mommy)

She did well for her shots (better than Mommy who hates making her Baby Girl cry) and was fussy last night but overall wasn't too bad. She is a little late getting her shots because the nurse and I had some troubles matching up our schedule over Christmas, but she has them now and we are back on track.

First Solid Food

Baby girl had her first solid food yesterday at 5 1/2 months old. It was two weeks early but she really seems to need it. She did amazing! She loved it and once she figured out how to get her tongue out of the way, she gobbled it down. I am so proud of her. She is growing much too fast! While I was feeding her in from school walked Big Girl. She wanted to help feed Baby Girl so, of course, I had to get pics.

Two teeth!

Baby Girl has two teeth!! She was chewing on my fingers on December 30th and I realized I was feeling two teeth. They have just cut through and they are a little hard to see, but if you click on it and look closely you can just see there are two teeth on the bottom in the middle. She is still her happy babbly self. I am impressed with how well she is handling it.

Our little family.

Daddy and I have been enjoying our family. Our girls are both beautiful and bring so much joy to our lives. And even though it took us 5 years to add Baby girl to our family, she is even more special than I could have known. Big Girl is such an amazing big sister and takes great joy in helping Mommy out.

When I was in the hospital having Baby Girl, I got to talking to a doctor about how long it took for us to bring her into our lives. And after a few questions, the doctor said that she felt, I had PCOS. I haven't been tested but after reading about PCOS and all it symptoms, I do feel that she is right. The more I read, the more it feels like I am reading a manual about my body and so many things about it make so much more sense; my troubles getting pregnant, my irregular cycle, my weight, my blood sugar issues, the way my hair is thinnning out in the front, my blood pressure issues, fatigue, those weird little skin tages that keep appearing, those nasty hairs I shave off of my neck and pretend they were never there. These are all signs and symptoms of PCOS. It is such a relief to see it there in black and white. A lot of the symptoms have to do with the way my body does not process carbohydrates properly, it messes with sugar levels, hormones, causes strong sugar cravings and weight issues.

One thing about PCOS is that it does make it difficult to get pregnant, but eating a diet low in carbohydrates and losing just a little weight will help with that. With PCOS weight loss is difficult, but with dedication it is possible. So that is what I am going to do.

Daddy and I have talked about it and we would like to have another baby. We want to add one last addition to our family. We feel that if I can lose this baby weight and get back to my prepregnancy weight, this is possible. And even if I have difficult pregnancies, I recover very quickly after I have my beautiful little baby. I have always wanted to have three children and since we are so happy with our little family, we are going to try for that.

Now given my age and the difficulties we have getting pregnant, we are trying right away.