Now That's Entertainment!

It is funny how one little person can enthrall two grown people and wrap their hearts around her little fingers.

Last night, Baby Girl was practicing her rolling over. She was laying on the floor and she kept rolling over onto her little belly. Then she would wiggle and squirm and try desperately to roll back over onto her back. Every time she got upset, Daddy or I would get down, show her where to put her arms and legs and help her roll over. After we showed her, she would flip right back over and we could see her trying to put her arms and legs where we showed her. It was so cute. We watched her work so hard, working her little arms and legs. (Btw, the way she was working her legs, was amazingly close to crawling!)

And after a long while of us watching her and helping her, I sat back and thought about how entertained we were by her. Here we had a show on television paused for over 1/2 hour so that we watch our baby try to roll onto her back. LOL

She seems to be growing and changing so fast lately. She is doing so many things so much better than she used to: sitting up to eat, grasping her toys, trying to find and grabbing her toys, rolling over, etc. She is giggly and happy and drooly and squishy and snuggly and she is about the sweetest, baby I have ever seen.

Love

I feel like these days, my life is filled with love.

Whenever I lay in bed next to Daddy, or sit together and watch shows in the evening. I know how lucky I am to have someone in my life that I love so much and that loves me back. There is a security in that, in knowing him so well, and in him knowing me.

Whenever I hold Baby Girl, I remember 5 long years of trying to get her. I remember how fast time flies by and know that she will not be a baby nearly long enough for me. Every time I pick her up, I put my cheek against her head and try to soak up the feel of her, the smell of her, the sound of her breathing. I try to imprint the feeling of her in my memory for those days when she is running full tilt and I long to hold her close but can't catch her for a cuddle. She is so sweet and cuddly and snuggly. When I look at her beautiful brown eyes, all wet with tears, smiling at me because I came to rescue her from her crib, I smile from my soul. She is such a treasure. I am constantly aware of how much I wanted her, how long I waited for her, and I am overwhelmed by the depth of the love I feel for her deep in my soul. She is a prescious treasure I had to work to get, that I had given up on getting. I know how lucky I am that I get to love her.

Whenever I go into my big girl, Big Girl's room to wake her up in the morning, I look at how beautiful she is growing to be. She is tall, slender, with huge brown eyes and she loves nothing more than to get lots of hugs and cuddles. She is a little love sponge that just soaks up all the love you can pour into her and glows in the light of it. I love the feeling of her little hand in mine as we trudge down the stairs in the morning, to face the day together. I love how hard she works to do her reading homework, and the joy she takes in the stories. I love how she is always willing to drop what she is doing to come and give you a big hug and kiss.

She has imaginary friends. They haven't been around as much since her sister was born, and they have been reduced from four to just one, but she has one there just the same. Daddy called Big Girl into the living room the other day and this is how the conversation went:

Daddy: "Who is Margaret?"
Big Girl: My best friend.
Daddy: Who is Jasmine?
Big Girl: My best friend.
Daddy: Who are Alex and Matthew
Big Girl: My best friends.
Daddy: So if you have so many friends in real life, why do you need to have an imaginary friend?
Big Girl: Well, I play with them when I am outside, at school, or at the center, but when I am up in my room, I have nobody to play with and to talk to. If I had no imaginary friends, I would just be in my room talking to myself and Daddy that would be just silly!
Daddy: Uumm . . . Okay then.

How can you not love a little mind that come up with logic like that?

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.