Adam and Lindsay

seven months

2012-02-15T00:00:00.000-06:00

My little babynuggetlove is 7 months old today!

Weight:

Holding steady at 19 pounds! (75%)

Height:

27 inches (75%)

Clothing Size:

I think we are finally transitioning into 9-12 months! I bought her a few more pairs of jammies that are 12 months, but I think they run small because they're cheap.

Diapers:

Size 3, but once we run out of these I'm getting size 4. Has anyone tried the slip on diapers? We've reached the point where she turns over mid-diaper change. Presley doesn't know how annoying that is!

Feeding:

This last month was one big experiment with food! P is now eating table food! So far she loves chicken, crackers, bread, rice, and apparently after today at school...red velvet cuppycakes! She is still eating baby food and taking 5 ounces every few hours!

Hair/Eyes:

Lots of hair coming in and it's brown! This makes me happy! Her eyes are also still green.

Sleep:

This is a sensitive subject this week.

The little turd has started waking up every 30 seconds because she flips from her back to her front. Any other time she'd just roll back over, but NOOOOOOO sir-e-bob. At night she just cries for me to come flip her back over. Super annoying and just so we are clear...it is in fact illegal to duct tape a child to the bed, right? Because I'm running out of options. I know she's fine on her stomach, that's not a concern. It's just that she hates sleeping on her stomach and will cry until we flip her back over.

Favorites:

She's going through a rattle phase, or really anything that she can shake and it will make noise!

She loves to babble and fake cough

Mickey Mouse and his little minions are still dictating our TV

She loves to people watch

Fun Stuff:

Homefry has her two bottom teeth! BOOM!

Should be crawling in no time!

Says bye-bye, Mama, and Papa

weird fact: P calls Adam Papa...I've decided it's from all the Pitbull I listened to when I was pregnant. Look at my little latin bambina!

She's basically fluent in espanol.

She can pick food up and put it in her mouth. She prefers mouth fulls of food. There is no portion control with her!

That's basically it! It makes me sad to think how quickly this is going bye, but I love watching her grow and learn new things!

do's & don'ts

2012-02-12T20:35:00.000-06:00

If you aren't already aware of my job as a Massage Therapist, I'm about to dedicate a whole post to it!

Yippee!!!!!!!

What? Not excited?

**crickets chipping......**

Turns out that since I'm back at work everyday from 9-5, that's the only thing I have to talk about right now. No news on the babe. No news on the hubs. Just work.

Everyday all day I massage people.

Some big, some small, some weird, some smelly (!), some old, some annoying sorority girls, some guys who have been forced to come because their girlfriend booked a surprise massage for their 3 month anniversary.

I've literally worked on every type of person God ever ever EVER created. Which has led me to some pretty helpful tips for all you heathens who ever question your spa-going-woes.

.............

1) Your massage therapist doesn't care if you forgot to shave your legs before coming. Honestly, either don't shave for a long time (you know, get past the prickly stage!) so it's soft, or shave 30 seconds before walking through the door. Prickly legs hurt my hands!

2) Nobody cares that you haven't had a pedicure in 14 months. First off, to be a MT you can't have a foot phobia. People love a good foot massage and to me, it's the best part and what I always end the massage with. I generally don't get grossed out by peoples feet. It's nothing a little warm water and Dial soap can't fix!

3) If you book a deep tissue massage, that's a fine and dandy. You'll get a deep tissue. But where I work we sell Buy One Get One free Swedish Massage gift cards, so I mainly just do Swedish. But I have some crazy folks comin' up in there saying, "You can go deeper, you can't hurt me I promise!"

Ummmm...first off, it's a Swedish massage. Second, I can hurt you if I'd like to.

(FYI: Swedish massage is light to medium pressure.)

4) Don't call your MT a masseuse. Like, ever. That's like calling your hair stylist a beautician.

Back in the day- which was a Wednesday- I'm sure you did call them masseuse's and beauticians.

Not not peeps. Not now.

5) If you're ever wondering if your MT wants to talk, the answer is YES! HECK YES! I love when my clients talk! Can you imagine being in a room for 5-6 hours a day massaging people who don't say a word?

Trust me, by my 4th client I'm dead.

By the end of the day I literally can not produce one single brain cell because I've been silent for 5 hours straight.

6) To answer most peoples question of,"don't your hands hurt from massaging all day?"

SSHHHYYEEAAAHH! My hands, my arms, my elbows, my back, my feet, my freakin' brain...you name it- it hurts!

7) Just because you're about to get a massage and get all oily and greasy does not mean you can come to your appointment right after working out! This rule also applies to people who just got over a bad sunburn and are peeling!

Peeling skin + massage= little skin flakes all over my hands and the sheets.

8) Most places require clients to fill out an intake form. It asks questions about your health and injuries. If you list that your L5 & L6 are herniated disks, you have migraines, you had rotator cuff surgery, you have Fibromyalgia, you have a pinched nerve, and have arthritis then....

YOU OBVIOSLY NEED A WHOLE BODY TRANSPLANT!!!!!!

Not a massage! People will seriously come in with 538 problems and then think that one massage will heal them..I'm not the Lord...just little ol' Lindsay!

9) Turn your phones off!

last and most importantly...muy importante my amigos....

10) TIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only reason you shouldn't tip is if the massage was absolutely horrible! I can't tell you how many clients have gone on and on about how it was the best massage they're ever had..and then they don't tip. I always look forward to my clients who tip..and I will usually give them an extra 5 minutes or a neck or foot massage! Sometimes the tip is $5 and sometimes it's $20..I'd say an average tip is $10-15 though!

So, there you go...hopefully that will answer some questions that some of you have been pondering on!

Or not.

But I had nothing else to write about.

This is also a good time to talk about the other type of massage I just started doing! I got trained in Ashiatsu (bar therapy) and I am starting to take clients this coming up week! It consists of my and my chubby little self walking on my clients! It's a lot of fun for me, and perfect for anyone who likes very deep pressure! If you're in Tuscaloosa and want to try it out, then let me know!

Obviously not me..but you get the idea!

I'll be back in a few days with Presley's 7 month update!

Confession:

2012-02-04T20:53:00.000-06:00

I suck at blogging.

Hi,

My name is Lindsay and ~~I'm a work-a-holic~~ we're poor so I have to work 700 hours a day.

Y'all.

What happens when I hate being a SAHM but I also hate working?

I don't hate my job, I just hate that I have to work 9-5 and only get to see my little nugget for a few hours a day! It sucks major donkey butt and me no likey.

Up until a few weeks ago I was only working 9-3, but now I am back to working 9-5 and FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING GOOD AND HOLY I hate it! By the time I get Presley from day care I only have about and hour and a half before we start the bed time routine and she's out for the night!

Oh wellz.

It makes me cherish the weekends even more now!

In other news...

Presley might as well go ahead and apply for Social Security and move into the nearest nursing home...

because she's like, eating real grown up food these days and pretty much a genius!

Here's some updates on the fatty:

~two teeth

~waves and says 'bye bye'

~~~driving~~

~loves waffles and pasta

~so close to crawling we can taste it

~swaddle free at night

~also says 'pa pa'

~claps

~pisses excellence

See? So grown up I tell ya!

We still haven't taken her to her 6 month check-up..uh oh! We had her appointment for the 15th but when she was so sick her pediatrician rescheduled it for later on in January. Then after much thought we ended up taking her out of her pediatricians office and switching to a different doctor. There had been several doctor visits with her pediatrician that I wasn't happy with and when she overlooked Presley when she was very sick it was just the icing on the cake. We now have her 6 month appointment this coming up week and I am so excited to meet her new doctor (Dr. Buettner for the locals....her pediatrician was Dr. Roberts at West AL Peds and I really do love her, she just wasn't the doc for us!)

ANYWHO!

Adam has been pretty busy with baseball. The season starts very soon so they've had lots of practicing and workouts going on! I guess in a few weeks I'll become a single Mom...boo! Besides baseball he has been at school. He only has one class this semester AND THEN HE GRADUATES!

BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He will put out his resume soon and I pray he finds a coaching job! He is majoring in Accounting and has a minor in Computer Science....and he wants to be a college baseball coach!!??!!

Whatever makes him happy...if coaching falls through he at least has something good to fall back on!

Ok, well it's Bachelor time.

And if you're wondering, I can't stand Ben and I already know who he picks so I hate him even more. I can't wait for next season because Emily is the Bachelorette!

I'll consider entering Adam and maybe she'll want to be a sister wife! ;)

Holla back youngin' OOOOOHHHH OOOOOHHHH!

**We had our sweet friend Jamie take Presley's 6 month pictures...get ready to fall over and die from cuteness overload....**

Different day, same pose :)

The flash got us in the next two pictures!

trip to the ER

2012-01-21T15:11:00.000-06:00

Almost two weeks ago Presley was super sick! It all started when I picked her up from school on Monday (the 9th) and she felt very warm, like she had a fever. I thought maybe it was just from teething but then I remembered that she coughed a lot during the night. I brought her home to take her temperature and it was 102.5! Yowzas! I gave her some Tylenol and it went down..yay!

She coughed all night that night, woke up very wheezy, was so congested that she would throw up everything she would eat, and still had a temp. I had already taken off work since the babes have to be fever free (without any Tylenol or Motrin) for 24 hours. I was sad that she was sick, but pretty pumped about a snuggle day with my favorite little meatball!

She was still very sick so I called her pediatricians office.....

WHO WAS CLOSED BECAUSE OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!

KSDHIF;ASLDIFJOAE;IJF'odfj;asfdk'Eopifrp3ew9urdkfjdsk;LAKSFJDSLIFH!

Seriously.

So I waited until the next morning and we went to the doctor. Her pediatrician listened to her chest for about 2 seconds and said she was fine, then she looked in her ears and said she had an ear infection. Okay. Got some meds and went on with our merry way.

**just a little side note here: I took P's temp before we went and it was around 102 (btw, I go the bunghole route..joy!). Her ped took it in her ear and it was 97...so obviously they need to find a more practical way to take a baby's temperature. That big ear thermometer clearly doesn't fit in a childs ear....**

P was still running a high temp and even more wheezy and raspy by the next day, so on Thursday night I took her to a little doc-in-a-box (American Family Care by Publix) and this doctor (crackhead) prescribed her some cough meds and another antibiotic. The cough meds worked but we still continued to give her the antibiotic her ped gave her.

THE NEXT NIGHT (Friday night)! Still just as bad...maybe a little worse..

By this point the wheezing was so bad that I could tell she was having trouble breathing, I got a little worried and sent a video to my bff, Kristen, who is a NICU nurse and I figured she probably knows better than I do if I should take her to the ER or not and she said that it wouldn't be a bad idea.

I was super thrilled about going to the ER on a Friday night!

We fed Presley dinner then headed out. Thankfully there wasn't too many people there, but we even got to skip the waiting room and head straight back.

Presley was a beast because it was bedtime and she kept having horrible coughing fits. As soon as we got into the room she puked all over her hospital gown! LOVELY! But after a negative RSV test, a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia, a Rocephin shot, a breathing treatment, and a steroid shot...we were done!

The doctor said she was surprised that her RSV test came back negative because she had every symptom of it. (side note: a child across the hall in her preschool had RSV and it turns out that a baby in her classroom had it...so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it actually was!)

We are now recovered and back into our normal routine. When she was sick she was not eating or sleeping like she normally was...so this Mama is glad her baby is much better!

If you made it this far then you just won 489,535,670 brownie points from me!

At her pediatrician on Wednesday!

In the ER on Friday

Sick baby!

Breathing Treatment!

Finally home!

babino #2

2012-01-17T17:10:00.000-06:00

Did that title have you a little scared?! HA!

Nope, I'm not knocked up...yet.

But lately I have been thinking about things that I would like to do differently for our next child. We have learned so many lessons with Presley, and obviously we can't go back and change things, but we can be more prepared for the next lucky little tyke that we have!

First off, I will try harder to breastfeed. I am, by no means, against formula..it's just that uhhh, hello?! We have the poors. And that shizz is expensive! Especially when you have a little drama baby who is lactose intolerant and can only drink Soy based formula. RUDE! If you can recall, I BF'ed for about 45 seconds and was all,"Um thanks. But no thanks." Not to mention I could pump for hours on end and only produce about 5 ounces.

Also, I would like to do the Moms On Call seminars. I've read several blogs of new moms who have learned so much from them and pretty much all of them have success stories about their baby sleeping through the night at only a few weeks old. HELLO! Doesn't that sound like Heaven?

When Presley was only a few weeks old I remember the only thing I ever wanted was for her to sleep. I hated bed time and getting up during the night was, by far, the worst thing ever. Thankfully she was super cute and always smiling during those feedings, so I survived. I don't do well without sleep. I'm a raging hormonal casserole and the world is just a better place when LDizzle has had some shut eye.

The next baby is totally getting shafted in the clothing department. Unless it's another girl who just happens to be born in the same "season" as Presley. Otherwise, I'm buying about 10 outfits and that's all it's going to wear. I just got done packing up all of Presleys smaller clothes and holy crapola! She only wore, like, 1/4 of them! It's so dumb to buy so many clothes for a baby who is just going to wear them for such a short amount of time! I know it's hard to resist, especially girl clothes. They're so cute! But for reals. 10 outfits.

Another thing I will do more of with #2 is more tummy time. We have no reason as to why we didn't do it with P, we just didn't. Not that it's all that important though, her muscles are nice and strong anyways. But, for some reason I would like to do it more with the next one.

That's all I can come up with right now. Everything else that we do with Presley I'm pretty satisfied with! I'm sure along the way I will have more and more things that I'd like to do differently!

Now...we just need to get baby #2 here!!!!

six months

2012-01-15T14:43:00.001-06:00

Weight:

Homegirl is up to 19 pounds! Go big girl whatchu gon' do?!

Height:

Not sure..we haven't gone to her 6 month check up yet! The only reason I know her weight is because we did make a trip to the doctor a few days ago, but they didn't measure her height!

Clothing Size:

6-9 months in most everything except her sleepers. It varies by different brands but we buy all of her pi's from The Children's Place and we just moved her into the 9-12 month size! Everything else, clothes wise, she is in 6-9 months!

Diapers:

Size 3, but getting a little snug around her thighs. I'm also still hating Huggies and loving Pampers Cruisers!

Feeding:

Oh boy, I've created a diva in the eating department! When we started solids I was just giving her Gerber or Beechnut.

Then I got all wannabe-hippie and got the Baby Bullet and started making her baby food. Now when I try to give her Gerber/Beechnut? She purses her lips together and turns her head.

Oh no she di-int. Oh yes she did.

On one hand it makes me feel like I've hit the Mommy Jackpot and on the other hand it makes me wonder what the H#!@ I've done to create a picky little monster! She literally leaps for the spoon when I feed her my food! She's not too keen on the fruit though. She really likes her veggies and now I'm wondering where this child actually came from.

This comes from the girl who lives off fast food and could eat McDonald's 24 times a day and was positive that I was going to birth a 7 pound cheeseburger baby.

She is still taking formula every few hours, but I can tell that she's becoming less interested in it.
Hair/Eyes:

She finally has a significant amount of hair. I'm taking full credit for how much it's grown because I massage her scalp every night during bath time! We've also found a good remedy to keep her cradle cap away. I wash her hair with California Baby Shampoo, use a fine tooth comb to scrape any of the cradle cap off, then I wash her hair again with a little bit of Head & Shoulders. Then then THEN when she gets out I put Aquaphor on her head. She's then a nice little grease ball.

Sleep:

Goes to bed around 7:30 PM and sleeps until about 7:00 AM. She takes a short morning nap around 9:30, then a longer nap around 12:00! Sometimes she will take a short afternoon nap when we get home but not all the time!

Favorites:

Definitely totally for sure Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I bought The Little Mermaid DVD just hoping that she'd love it too, but nope. Doesn't care. I end up watching the movie all alone because she gets bored that there's not an annoying mouse yelling "HOT DOG!!!!" Ahhhhhh!

Food...that's my girl!

She has this one rattle that she loves. She usually bangs her head with it but I usually don't stop her. I figure that just a few more times of beating herself up she'll learn to stop!

She only got ONE BILLION toys for Christmas, she loves all of them.

Especially the ones that require batteries and sing really annoying songs.

oh wait.

THAT'S ALL OF THE FREAKIN' TOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fun Stuff:

She is officially a sitter-upper and that makes me happy! I don't want her to ever ever EVER learn how to crawl or walk because then my life is over with,FOREVER!

She can almost hold her bottle by herself! I think she could probably do it all the time right now but she's just lazy.

Gee. Wonder where she got that from.

I'm about six hundred and eleventy percent sure she has a tooth that's about to break through. Or at least it better, because homefry chews on her hands like it's her job. She also drools like there ain't no tomorrow. Which is super annoying because her bibs cover up her cute clothes.

**note to self: don't buy cute clothes for the next baby until they're done teething. Just buy cute bibs.**

And that's about it!

I can-freakin-not believe that our little PDizzle is 6 months already. I'm not gonna lie though, the first few months of her little life were kinda.....boring. She just sat there in her swing or bouncy seat..staring at things. Now that she is showing her personality more and able to sit and play it's way more fun. I miss her being tiny and stuff, but I'm also glad that she's growing up. She's got the sweetest face and the funniest personality. I can't wait to see what she will be like in a few more months!

Ooooh Toodles!

2012-01-10T16:27:00.000-06:00

Y'all. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is taking over my life.

I go to bed at night singing the hot dog song, and wake up singing the hot dog song.

kill. me. now.

This led me to the bright idea of ordering a few new DVD's for the little meatball. Obviously, I ordered ones that I like to watch since it stays on the TV all day long.

The other day I got online to order The Little Mermaid DVD and it was $40.

FORTY BONES FOR A MOVIE THAT MY CHILD WILL PROBABLY NOT EVEN LIKE!

So I did what any other poor person would do and I got-to-biddin' on eBay...

AND I WON THAT JOKER FOR $18.00!

oh yes I did!

It came in today, which conveniently was also the day that Presley chose to be sick. So we stayed home and snuggled up to watch the new movie.

Except that I forgot to give her the Tylenol (Benadryl) so she whined and coughed throughout the whole movie.

RUDE!

I ordered another ridiculous movie that my little brother used to watch (Baby Songs) which I'm sure she won't watch, it'll just be another 12+ songs that will be stuck in my head all day...

Anywhoozle, sorry for the lack of updating. I've pretty much been a single Mom since we've been home from Florida. Adam stayed at his parents house for a few extra days after I left, then came home for about a day and then left for NOLA to go the big game!

Which, if you haven't heard....

We are the National Champions! #14!

Adam got a student ticket and stayed with a few friends. He was super excited and had a lot of fun!

Let's not forget all of the brownie points I earned by staying at home with our child while he partied it up in The Big Easy. I smell a shopping trip or something in my future!

Honestly, I feel so far behind on blogging that I don't even have the brain cells to go all the way back to Christmas. It was great, we enjoyed seeing all of our families and friends! Presley met a bunch of new people, and got tons of presents!

We also got her ears pierced while we were in FL!

That was....interesting.

Poor kid...but she's better now! And is sporting some shiny pink ~~diamonds~~ CZ in her little lobes! I'm on the search for some screw-back earrings that were made for a baby!

I'm still super busy at work..turns out people really love getting massages.

Who would thunk it??

Adam starts back to school tomorrow...ONE MORE CLASS PEOPLE!

One class and he will graduate! He asked me if he could take a few extra classes "for fun" and without a blink of an eye I said, "HELL NO!!"

Seriously, who is he? Who takes classes for fun?

Alrighty, well I'm rambling and Presley is obviously pissed about something.

(I just checked on her and she had face planted the carpet)

I'm such a great Mom, y'all!!!

I'll update in a few days with her 6 month stats!

OH MY GOSH!! 6 months, for reals. I've kept another human alive for 6. whole. months!

FL vacay

2011-12-28T10:00:00.000-06:00

Sorry for the lack of blogging! We are in sunny Florida right now visiting Adam's side of the family!

PDizzle has had a great Christmas!

She was perfect on the flight here and has been sleeping pretty good in her pack-n-play! There's been a few times where she's woken up a little early, but we are on vacation, so naps are a little more frequent and that's okay with me!

Adam has been gone yesterday and today to help run an annual baseball camp that he's helped with for several years. On Saturday Adam and some friends went paintballing while Presley and I went and hung out with a friend (her husband was paintballing with Adam) and they have a little boy who is about a 1.5 weeks older than Presley. They were super cute!

We have more family on their way now so I better go get ready!

Just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a (late) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Visiting at Uncle Dave & Aunt Vickie's

Kara & Adam

On our way to FL!

hubba hubba!

FamJam

paintball with the boys

five months

2011-12-16T21:34:00.001-06:00

PDizzle is 5 months old!

Why can't pregnancy go by fast and the growing up go by slow?

Weight:

We haven't weighed her, but I'd say about 16 pounds. I'm apparently very bad at guessing her weight, so I could totally be off on that one!

Height:

Also not sure about this one!

Clothing Size:

Pretty much everything she wears is 6-9 months. Pants need to be 9 months because her legs are a little long. Y'all. Y'ALL! Is it possible that my child will have pretty long legs? Say it ain't so!

Diapers:

Size 3...too much booty in da pants..

Feeding:

We started solids a few weeks ago. We haven't started doing it for specific "meals" yet, but we are going to very soon! So far we just sporadically give her a jar for lunch or dinner. I plan on making her food, I just have to find a free day to do it! At night she is still eating about 8 oz of cereal, then when she wakes up she only takes about 4 ounces of formula. Throughout the day (usually every 3 hours) she takes about 6 ounces of formula!

Hair/Eyes:

Her hair is starting to get lighter. I don't think she will be blonde headed, but I do think it will be a lighter brown. Her eye brows are brown, if that's supposed to mean anything. Her hair is also growing back in the back where it had rubbed off! Thank ya Jesus! Her eyes are green fo sho!

Sleep:

Fan-freakin-tastic! I started to only swaddle one arm, so whenever she wakes up she will just suck her thumb right back to sleep. I'm not even sure if she wakes up anymore, but if she does then she doesn't make any noises. The only problem we have is that she scoots around the bed and gets herself smooshed up in the corner. She usually sleeps between 11-12 hours at night. HOLLA! If I'm being honest, I like my child a tiny bit more when she sleeps like that. Truth. She takes about a 30 minute nap in the morning, then about 2 hour nap in the afternoon!

Favorites:

-She is now out of her baby bath tub and sitting up in her little bath chair whatcha-ma-call-it. We fill the bath way up so she can splash around!

-She also still loves her jumpy and will bounce her little heart out until she falls asleep.

-Still loving Mickey Mouse.

-LOVES to look at herself in the mirror. Umm..conceited?!

-She is slightly obsessed with chewing on her hands.

Fun Stuff:

She is on her way to sitting up by herself! Just a few more days of practicing and I'm sure she will be a pro. She loves playing with the toys that are attached to her jumpy and has very good coordination with her hands. Everything she touches goes straight to her mouth...lovely! She loves to stand up and be talked to. Whenever I'm holding her and someone talks to her, she gets shy and buries her head into my shoulder. This leads me to believe that she's not actually my child because I know it's impossible for me to bear a shy child. We shall work on this.

Little P, you're growing so fast! Make it stop little girl!

to my Mom and Kara....

2011-12-11T21:33:00.001-06:00

Happy Birthday!

Tomorrow (the 12th) two special women will celebrate their birthdays!

We hope y'all both have a special day...Adam, Presley, & I love you both!

***And clearly we all need new family pictures considering these were the only two I could find. I had to steal Kara's off of her Facebook!***

P-Nasty's first Christmas!

2011-12-10T14:35:00.003-06:00

It's safe to say that this is my favorite time of year! October, November, and December are my favorite months because October has the nicest weather, November has lots of food, and December is Christmas time!

HOLLA!

I pretty much burn Fall scented candles year round and if I could leave my Christmas tree up all year long then I would. Except we get a real tree and I'm sure that come June, it'd look pretty ugly.

Everyone assumes that the second you have a baby that the holidays are like 143 times better than in the past.

That, my friends, is a lie!

For example:

Halloween this year, Presley was 3 months old. We took her trick-or-treating with the cousins and friends, you know, the usual. Guess who came home empty handed with not one....I repeat....NOT ONE cotton pickin' Reese's Cup or Mini Snickers for me to enjoy. How rude!

Thanksgiving this year, Presley was 4 months old. Which means she was no longer living in my stomach which meant that I had no excuse to get 6 helpings of turkey and mashed taters. Last year I could do that because I was preggo. This year I was just a fatty-tard.

So far Christmas has been going good. The only ridiculous thing is the amount of Christmas outfits P has. More specifically, Mud Pie outfits. Can you get stock in Mud Pie? I totally should.

We are being the meanest parents on the block and have chosen to not let our kids believe in Santa. It's just a personal choice that Adam and I made before we even had Presley and feel that we are making the right decision for our family! We are going to tell our kids about Santa, but that he's just a fun make-believe part of Christmas. This year, thankfully, we don't have to worry about it though since she will be so young.

Honestly, Adam and I aren't even getting her anything! I mean, she's 5 months old.

All she cares about is if she can fit her whole fist in her mouth and how high of a pitch she can scream at.

This year we will be in Florida for Christmas! Adam will be driving down next weekend, then Presley and I are flying down on the 23rd. We got a straight flight out of Birmingham but I still get anxiety about the 1.5 hour plane ride!

Anyone have any ~~Xanax~~ tips on flying with a baby?!

thankful for Toasty

2011-12-07T19:23:00.001-06:00

Since Presley has been here, we have been so fortunate to have family around to help us take care of her. My Mom came over almost every day in the beginning and would sit with the babe while I went and took a 3 hour nap. My Mimi came over on days that my Mom didn't and would keep her while I ran errands (walked around Target) or just needed a nap. They were such lifesavers and I honestly don't know how people do it without family! But, during those times Adam was also so much help. Whether it was helping clean the house, grocery shopping, cooking (Lord knows I didn't cook before the baby, much less when I was sleep deprived and a walking zombie!). He never once complained about getting up to feed her even though he had class that day. I got really lucky in the ol' ball & chain department! Granted, he does things totally different than I do, I am still very grateful that I have the extra helping hands :)

So, my advice to any expecting or preggo Mom would be to make sure you don't become too controlling over your new baby.

There are times when I wonder what goes through Adams head when he's taking care of her, but instead of being all psycho and "you did it wrong!!!!!!" I just choose to be grateful that he is helping out at all.

If he doesn't hold her the right way while feeding her, who cares?

She's not crying and she's still eating.

If he makes her bath temperature a little colder than I make it, she's still going to be just as clean.

If he puts her in super ugly clothes that don't match?! She is still clothed and isn't really trying to impress anyone!

On the nights when Adam has baby duty (which isn't much anymore since she sleeps through the night) he doesn't like to swaddle her. She doesn't really sleep as long when she's not swaddled, but he's the one that will be up taking care of her. Ain't no thang to this mama...I'm getting my beauty sleep!

While most of the time I am a pretty relaxed Mom, there are times when I do voice my opinion and say stuff like,"I promise if you do _________ she won't be so fussy!"

But I don't go all ape $#!* on him and cause an argument.

Some Moms think that it's just easier if they do all of the care taking for the baby. But if the men don't ever have the chance to practice then they'll never learn. I feel like my motherly instinct kicked in from the get go, but Adams instinct has come just by being very hands on.

So, Moms...don't be a psycho about your child! I've never heard of a child being in harm because they're wearing an outfit that they grew out of months ago but the Dad put it on them anyways!

Ok, that's my little tidbit for the day!

I really really really really REALLY am going to start blogging more. Presley is no longer boring and is a real human these days so I actually have things to blog about.

Y'all, she's on her way to sitting up by herself!

HOLLLLLA!

MMS Winner

2011-12-03T11:06:00.000-06:00

Cady is the winner of the My Memories Suite giveaway! Cady send me your email address (Ldevore7@gmail.com) and I will send you the instructions on how to download it to your computer!

My Memories Suite giveaway!

2011-11-28T22:07:00.000-06:00

Once upon a time, someone thought that my ~~poor, neglected~~ blog was super cool. They thought it was so cool that they asked me to do a giveaway for their product! And obviously I said yes, because...um...well, because it made me feel sorta kinda special and I either like to never ever blog, or go balls to the wall and just straight up give you something for free.

Plus I figured it may bring out a few creepers.

Yes, you.

You, with that really ugly shirt on. And those shoes? Ew, those are ugly. I'm totally talking to you.

You're all freaking out right now going, "but OH EM GEE if I want to win then I actually have to comment!!! And then Lindsay will know I'm a creeper and will never ever love me again!! WHAT DO I DOOOOOOO?"

Or maybe you're not thinking that.

But to ease your jittery feelings please let me reassure you of one thing...

I TOTALLY THINK YOU'RE A CREEPY McCREEPERSON!!!

Just kidding, slow your roll homie.

OKAY...I digress.....

(by the way, it's so cold in our house right now that my little sausage fingers are frozen, therefor making it very difficult to type....)

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See?

LINDSAY!!! CONCENTRATE!!!

My Memories Suite is a digital scrapbooking software that is super easy to use, even for computer illiterate people like me. They have pre-made templates or you can create your own from scratch. I like the pre-made templates because I'm super random and there wouldn't ever be a consistent theme to my pages. It would be like, the most overstimulated scrapbook you've ever seen. I tend to add as many little embellishments on one page as possible.

Absurd.

That's why My Memories Suite is fan-freakin-tastic. Because they make it look like I'm not some sort of psycho trying to cover every inch of paper with flowers, sparkles, and banners.

You can do more than just make scrapbook templates on MMS like photo books, cards, and videos. I chose the scrapbook templates because we actually have a scrapbook of Presley's birth that Adam's sister made for us! This way, we can keep updating the one that she made us!

Here are some of the pages that I created using the pre-made templates.

I must warn you that there is no order to the compilation of pictures, I'm not good with order.

I'm good with scrambled chaos so I chose to go with that :)

There are SO many more cute papers, banners, embellishments, and fonts to choose from! There are pre-set themes you can go with also. I saw a theme called "Princess Diva" and almost peed my pants because I was all "PRESLEY!! Princess Diva!!" She wasn't as excited as I was but I'm thinking that's the next project for us.

So, in a nutshell, My Memories Suite is straight up awesome and easy to use. The only thing that confused me a little bit was how to upload the pictures, but with a little help from Mr. Smartypants I got them uploaded! (And honestly, I think it was just confusing to me because we have a Mac computer and I can't figure out how to work this thing FOR THE LIFE OF ME!!)

BY THE WAY, DON'T YOU HATE IT WHEN I USE ALL CAPS? LIKE I'M TOTALLY YELLING AT YOU!

but I'm not. I just get super excited.

How to enter:

Go visit their website at www.MyMemories.com and choose your favoritist of favorite digital paper pack or layout, then leave a comment on my blog telling me which one you chose.

For extra entries:

1) Like My Memories on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593

2) Go follow their blog at http:/blog.mymemories.com/

3) Follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/mymemoriessuite

I will choose the winner through a random generator thingy-ma-jig Friday at 8:00 central time!

Love*Peace*Chicken Grease,
Lindsay

Happy Thanksgiving!

2011-11-24T21:23:00.000-06:00

This year I have so much to be thankful for! I am so incredibly blessed to have a husband who loves me through the good times and the bad. And let's be honest, he's had to put up with more bad in the past few months than he has good (holy hormones!!!). He's loved me when I have been unlovable and has taken care of Presley when I wasn't able to (holy kidney stones!!). He treats me like ~~the princess I am~~ a queen and you can see it in his eyes that the love he has for me is out of this world. You should totally be jealous that he's off the market forever!

But for a hefty price of $50,000,00-......wait..just kidding. He's not for sale :)

And then there's the adorable, chubby, and giggly little babytard! She has given Adam and I so much joy since she's been a part of our family and we have such a fun time watching her grow! She has taken center stage of our heart and soul :)

Now if we could just get her to stop spitting up all over me 24/7 and start doing her own laundry I'd never complain again....

We are so thankful for our entire family. They've all been so helpful and supportive this year, it truly means the world to us...we love you all!

One thing that Adam and I are very grateful of this year is our church. We've struggled in the past to find a "home" in a church and we feel like we have found "the one". Even if it is held in a movie theatre, Safe Haven Church is definitely our "church home" and the people we've met and grown close to are blessings in itself. We love our small group every Tuesday! And the series that we've been studying has seriously helped mine and Adams relationship in ways I never knew it could! I could go on and on and on, but if you live in T-Town you should totally come!

Anywhoozle...so much to give thanks to! I could go on for days but the kid and Toasty are both asleep so I'm ~~going out on the town~~ to hit the sack!

Holllllllla!

four months

2011-11-18T16:16:00.002-06:00

Weight:

15 pounds 12 ounces (75 %).

Honestly, we all thought she weighed more than that. All of our round about guesses were 18 pounds. I'm going to go out on a limb and say homegirl is packin' 6 pounds in her cheeks alone.

Height:

25 1/4 inches (90%)

Can we all gather 'round, hold hands, and pray together that she's going to be long and lean?! That'd be great. I knew she'd gotten taller because she's outgrown pretty much all of her sleepers.

Clothing Size:

Shirts/onesies she's in 3-6 months. If we put her in 3-6 month size pants they're usually a little short, depending on the brand. Her sleepers are size 6-9 months and some of them are just plain ol' 9 months.

**Side note: does anyone know of a certain brand of socks that will sat on homegirls feet?? Drives me crazy that they won't stay on, unless I put two pairs on....clearly I'm out of the loop in the sock department.**

Diapers:

Size 2 in Pampers, but if we are using Huggies she could probably wear a 3. The Huggies are a little tight on her fat thighs. That's sad.

Feeding:

Holy guacamole, this girl doesn't miss a meal. She is eating 6 ounces every 3 hours during the day (unless she is napping, then she will sometimes go longer). Before bed she will eat about 6-7 ounces of cereal out of a cereal feeder. We've been making it pretty thick and she does great with that..no tummy aches or anything! As you can see in the pictures below...she loves eating off a spoon...

Hair/Eyes:

Her hair is light brown and her eyes are finally green! Thems is so purtty, too! My eyes are just regular ol' doo doo green, but Adams are more of an emerald green. While we are praying for height let's also pray for less doo doo and more emerald. KthanksBye!

Sleep:

Good enough. For about a week she was sleeping all night long without waking up at all. Then all of a sudden she would wake up around 4 or 5 AM and want to be un-swaddled or fed. I'm not sure if it was a growth spurt or what, but I'm hoping we are on the road to recovery and back to sleeping all night. She really doesn't want to be swaddled any more but I'm too big of a pansy to not swaddle her and see how that goes. Right now she goes to bed around 7:30 or 8:00 and will sleep until 7:00. If she wakes up and wants un-swaddled she goes right back to sleep.

Favorites:

Like always, bath time. Except now she doesn't scream her balls off when she get's out. It's glorious. We let her sit in the bath for as long as possible. If I have to refill her water 32 times to keep her happy, then I will do it.

She also likes her Jumparoo thingy-ma-jig. She has almost mastered the jumping part but mostly just swings back and forth. We have a Jenny Jump Up but we use that for more of a swing. Adam and I just push her back and forth..

It's totally safe. I think.

Fun Stuff:

Pdizz had her first outing to the Quad during the Bama vs LSU football game. She wore her cheerleading outfit and looked sooo cute! We didn't stay too long because it was super crowded and I just wanted to be home.

Presley also got to meet her Uncle Ricky for the first time! Him and my aunt Rah Rah live in Germany (he's in the Air Force) but he was home for a few days before being deployed soon! Rah Rah will be here in 18 days so then it'll be her turn to snuggle the little meatball!

That's about all for now! I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of little details.

Picture time!!

**crappy iPhone pictures...sorry!**

Anna Lisa and the cutest little smileytard I know!

I had to work on this day, I so badly wanted to snuggle up to these two sleeping beauties!

Chubby cheeks!

Is it too early to put hot sauce on her thumb??

Just for fun..but that's me on the left (although I am 7 months in that pic) and Presley on the right...sorry Adam, maybe the next one will look like you :)

Psycho: Party of 1...

2011-11-12T21:14:00.000-06:00

That "party of 1" would be ME right about now!

Ya'll, my hair's falling out, I'm emotional, I'm tired, and I'm a fatty.

NO I'M NOT KNOCKED UP!

What a mean joke that'd be! I mean, can't I heal from the first meat ball before we start brewing up #2?! Thanks!

Although, if you would have asked me last week if I thought I was preggo or not..I wouldn't have been too sure. But thanks to a $20 pee stick it's been confirmed that I'm not.

aaaannnnnnnddddd....exhale.

Not that I was worried. But considering I ate Chili Cheese Tater Tots from Sonic at 9 AM and hysterically cried to The Little Drummer Boy song all in one day...my brain started wondering off to those crazy little quarters and suddenly I'm planning another nursery in my mind and totally freaking my freak.

I mean,seriously, the Little Drummer Boy just wanted to play his cotton pickin' drum! For Mary! And the sweet baby Jesus! And pretty little Virgin Mary loved it!!!!

**frownsmile**

Have mercy, I'm crazy. Let's pretend none of this happened. Mmkay?

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I've been very busy at work. I did go to the doctor where he told me I have carpal tunnel in both wrists. Which I already knew, but I needed to pay someone $60 to make me feel like I wasn't a hypochondriac. He told me to wear some splints at night, but clearly I wasn't about to do that. I then went and got acupuncture done. It was super weird and definitely not relaxing. The needles didn't hurt when they were put in, but it did ache a little once they were in. Not sure if I'm going to continue to get it done. At 50 bones per session I can see where that'll get expensive. One thing I will be starting next week is some training to learn a type of massage called Ashiatsu. Or rather...the type of massage where I hold onto bars and walk on my clients back....

I will be trained by a Chinese guy named Houliang who has been doing Ashiatsu for 20 years. He learned in China which means he knows his stuff. I had one of these massages done and it was by far, the deepest pressure I've ever had done. I seriously thought he was going to break one of my bones, but it felt so good! This will help my wrists since I won't be using my hands at all. Score!

Monday Pdizzle has her 4 month check up. She will also be getting a shot or two...wahhhh! Just a Dtap and Rotavirus. She hasn't had any problems with shots before so I'm not too concerned about it. I talked to her pediatrician a week or so ago and mentioned that ~~we are too poor to keep buying soy-based formula every week~~ we'd like to try regular formula to see if she's still lactose intolerant, and she said that they usually suggest trying that around 4 months. Part of me is super nervous because if she still is allergic to the milk then that means hours and hours and hours of crying and straight up diarrhea.

For her. Not me.

Although I will probably be crying too.....

....just not diarrhea-ing all in my diaper.

She's doing great at school. I think she just sleeps all day and then does a little ~~people-watching~~ baby-watching. She loves to look at people. More specifically, herself. Give the kid a mirror and she's all smiley and giggly...ummm, can we say conceited???? RUDE!

I was going to take her to get her ears pierced today but Adam made me feel like a bad MamaTard and told me it was like taking his baby to have surgery. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he was being a bit dramatic. But then I thought about it keeping her up at night and if you've even got half of a brain cell you know that you don't mess with a babes sleeping schedule.

So we wait. She's jewelry free for now.

In other news, I've been contacted by two different companies about doing a review for their product. One of them will be a giveaway so all of you little secret stalkers better come out of the rock you've been hiding under. It's okay, I'm a stalker, I won't think any differently of you.

Unless you're a creepy old man named Frank with a mullet and 3 teeth. Then I'll definitely think differently of you.

Alright, well this post has turned into complete rambling so I'll be scooting' off to bed.

Holla back young in'.

lessons learned

2011-11-03T22:20:00.000-05:00

In the 3.5 months that I've been a Mom I have definitely learned several lessons! All, of course, learned the hard way & never the easy way.

Why would parenting be easy anyways? Pshhh!

Any being the gracious person I am, I have decided to go ahead and warn you of these lessons so when you have a new baby yourself, you can just bypass these and pretend that you're really really smart!

Because I'm awesome like that.

You're welcome.

Ahem.

Lesson #1- When you're still in the hospital after pushing your little meatball out, sending the baby to the nursery doesn't guarantee that you'll be getting "a good nights rest before going home with the babe". No no no NO! You'll have people coming in every hour or so checking your blood pressure and taking your temperature, room service coming in to Swiffer the floors at 4 am, and the cafeteria calling you at 6 am SHARP to remind you to order your breakfast. Which, by the way, will be nice and cold by the time they actually make it to your room. The best part of it all though is when the nurse comes in every few hours to push on your stomach and check your pad...if you know what I'm sayin'.

Lesson #2- If you breastfeed then you know how badly it hurts in the beginning. I can't tell you how many nurses and lactation consultants told me that "if it hurts you're doing it wrong". I mean, there's only SO many ways to put a boob in your childs mouth and feed it.

It hurts. Just trust me.

Or maybe you shouldn't trust me because I breastfed for a total of 43 seconds and decided I was over it.

Lesson #3- Don't be too paranoid about everything. I try really hard to not hover over Presley and worry about everything. Granted, she's not mobile yet so I may eat my words later. But at this point in her life I try not to worry about everything. If she stays up later than usual one night, no big deal. She'll sleep when she's ready. If she's crying because she is hungry or wants her diaper changed, I don't drop every single thing I am doing and run to her rescue. If I'm doing the dishes or folding laundry I will finish that and then take care of her. That one sounds cruel, but honestly when's the last time you heard about a baby starving to death or something happening to a baby for having a wet diaper on for 5 minutes too long? Exactly.

Lesson #4- Never Google for parenting advice! EVER! Because that will bring up Yahoo! Answers and you all KNOW how that ends up. Every mother thinks they know ev-ery-thing about everything when it comes to parenting. If you want to try something with your baby that others say you shouldn't do...do what you want. I decided (before going to the pedi and her telling me it was okay) to give P-Nasty rice cereal at only a few weeks old. My Mom gave me and my brothers cereal at about 2 weeks old....

....and look how awesomely perfect and smart I turned out!!!!!!!!!!!

**crickets chirping**

Anywhoozle. Do what you think is best for your little nugget and don't worry about what other people have to say.

Lesson #5- If you want your baby to sleep through the night then read the Happiest Baby on the Block. I borrowed this book from a friend and the second I followed the 5 S's (swaddling, sucking, sush'ing, side/stomach lying, and swing) that's when P started sleeping all night. And my definition of "all night" was not unrealistic..we're talking a 6-7 hour stretch.

Lesson #6- If your child likes bath time, keep them in there until they start to get fussy and want out. We start our night time routine around 7:00 and she is usually very fussy until she is asleep, it's not a glorious time in our house once she's ready for bed. But, we get a good 20-30 minutes to pass by putting P in the bath every night. She loves a bath and I will refill her bath water as many times as it takes as long as she's still splashing around and enjoying it. Because once she's out...you better be on your A game and have the cereal bottle ready with her lullaby music on..because she will scream a bloody murder scream that I'm sure can bust an eardrum.

Lesson #7- Staring at your child will not make them go to sleep any faster. I swear, sometimes I feel like Presley and I have the worlds longest staring contest at night time. I just think the harder I stare at her, the sooner she will shut her eyes and go to sleep. Because by that point at night I just want her to GO. TO. SLEEP!

The staring doesn't work, y'all. It just dries out your contacts.

And that boys and girls, is all I have for now. I'm sure in a few more months I'll have more brilliant advice to give...I know you're thrilled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm off to do laundry. Kill me now.

Oh by the way..want to know what's more annoying than folding adult socks??

FOLDING BABY SOCKS!! So tiny and impossible to match and ball up.

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This is how we clean house together!

Pdizzle wore her Halloween costume to school!

Boots with the furrrrrr......

And here's a little video of our little babytard!

workin' woman!

2011-10-26T17:56:00.001-05:00

Ok, so I promise I am done being a total lame-o and I will start posting more! I've been pretty busy at work so I am usually exhausted when I get home. I only work 9-3, but when you have a child you never stop working. I leave at 3 and go pick her up from daycare, come home and try to pick the house up before Adam gets home.

Ok. That was a lie.

I come home, take my shoes off, put Presleytard in her swing and I plop down in the recliner.

What about dinner, you ask?

Um, hello. It's called Ramen and it only takes 3 minutes to cook.

Cooking real food requires me to go to the grocery store. Going to the grocery store requires me to remove my fat @$$ from the recliner. Removing my fat @$$ from the recliner requires me to actually open my eyelids and move my limbs.

All of which I am not a fan of. So we eat poor people food.

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Presley is still doing great at daycare. I had to tell my Mom to not let her sleep so much because she wasn't sleeping all night. Ever since I told them that though she's been sleeping all night! Last night was a milestone in the Pav house...PDizzle slept in her room all by herself!

Yes sir-ee-bob Adam and I actually slept in the same bed together for the first time in for-ev-errr!

I figured that I would wake up every hour and get up to check on her, but when I fell asleep at 11:00 I never woke up until 6:00! Let's hope that she keeps sleeping all night so Mama can also get some good sleep!

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This past Sunday Adam and I went to a new church and loved it! Well, I don't think the church itself is new, but it's the first time we visited. We loved it and are already looking forward to next Sunday! (For you locals, it was Safe Haven Church located in the Cobb 16). It seems kind of odd, but the church is held in the big movie theater here, but we love it because the seats are super comfy! Presley did great with the child care and it turns out that I know several people who also go there! We attended the couples small group last night and had a great time. We ate food, they had a baby sitter there, and we discussed Sundays sermon! If you live in T-Town and are looking for a fun church to attend you should really come! It's mainly younger couples who also have children, and the Pastor is also really great! He really just tells it like it is, preaches straight from the Bible, and that's what Adam and I have been looking for.

After small group last night, we I put Presley down for bed while Adam got a wild hair and went to Wal Mart to buy a new flat screen TV.

He apparently needed a new tv to play his new xBox game on. I don't really know.

If you are the wife of a proclaimed Penny Pincher then know this: never ask questions of why your Penny Pinching husband is going to buy a nice, new, flat screen. Just encourage and confirm that, indeed, the new Battlefield 3 will look much much better on that nice new TV.

Mmkay?

You're welcome.

On top of the new TV we are also trying to spruce up the ol' apartment. I just bought a new rug which I was extremely too excited about. Definitely made me realize just what my life has come to, but that's ok! And and AND I also found out today that we can paint our walls! Lowe's doesn't even KNOW what's about to hit them!

I'm going through a turquoise phase, which is very unfortunate for Adam because I'm not sure how he actually feels about it. On second thought, he's a man...will he actually even notice enough to care?

Probably not...so I'm going to go a little overboard I think.

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Well, that's about it for now! I'm off to go feed that youngin' of mine!

I will leave you with ~~some~~ a crap ton pictures of the little lady in a few of her Halloween outfits!

How fat does PDizz look in this picture? Hubba hubba! That's baby Turner and he only weighs 5 pounds! That's a preemie outfit he has on and it is almost too big!

where are my ear plugs??

2011-10-22T19:21:00.000-05:00

I just thought I drop in to say that I totally intended on posting today...but I currently have a child who will not stop screaming at the top of her lungs, making it hard to concentrate on anything!

She's fed. She's got a clean diaper. She's had gripe water AND tylenol. And she's tired.

At what point do you think she'll realize that her eyes are already closed and if she just shuts the BLEEP up she will fall right to sleep??

Well, I'm off to go be a bad parent now because I'm going to continue to clean house.

Judge away!

But before you judge..can you bring me a Xanax?

three months

2011-10-16T12:46:00.002-05:00

Yesterday our little Bunny turned 3 months old! People! I mean, 3 months is half way to 6 months...and 6 months is half way to ONE YEAR!

I'm nothing if not dramatic. Sometimes.

We did go to the doctor last week to get two other shots from her 2 month shots. They've really made her grouchy and irritable because she has been sleeping through the night for about a week & a half. Then she got those shots and has been waking up every night.

Guess who was less than thrilled about that????

ME! DUH!

Today is the 4th day (they say the 3rd day after should be the worst, and yesterday was day 3) so hopefully tonight we will be back on track.

**I know her onesie looks like a different color, but the picture on the right was taken with the flash on, and it changed the color...FAIL!**

Weight:

They didn't weigh her at the doctor on Wednesday, but I can guarentee you that she's at least 14..maybe 15 pounds. Hubba Hubba!

Height:

Also, not sure about that one either. I can tell she's gotten longer because her feet are getting squished in her sleepers! Let's all pause and say a prayer that she inherited Adams height and not mine. Not that I have any height or anything. I'm pushing 5' 3"...on a good day.

Clothing Size:

Depending on the brand it varies. For instance, whoever designed baby clothes for Target clearly had a morbidly obese baby because they run very big. I think she can still fit into some newborn clothes from there. But mainly 0-3 months from Target. She can wear a few things that are 3-6 months too!

Diapers:

Still in size 1 diapers. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that she could manage wearing a size 2 in Huggies but the size 1 in Pampers fit perfectly.

Also, does anyone else's kid have super potent pee? Or maybe I just have a good sniffer.

Feeding:

She's still eating 4-5 ounces every 3-4 hours. At night I give her a 5 ounce bottle and add two scoops of rice cereal in and that keeps her full a little longer than normal. I started out using Gerber cereal but found that the grains were too big and thick. Beechnut's cereal is more like a powder so it's easier on her tummy! She is still a pretty slow eater though so she obviously takes after her Dad in that department because I eat soo ridiculously fast. It's absurd!

Hair/Eyes:

Her hair has lightened up, and has also started falling out in the back. I shed a tear (a very small one, mind you) the other day when I looked in her bed and saw her little hairs that have rubbed off. She still has a good bit left though so I'm not too concerned. Her eyes are still blue, I think. Honestly, I haven't even looked lately.

Sleep:

HA. Well it was going fan-freakin-tastic. Then she got shots & possibly hit a growth spurt and things have been downhill ever since! Or maybe she's teething? I'm not the best at diagnosing these things because I'm a wee bit of a hypochondriac. But just a little.

Favorites:

Bath time is still a great way to calm her down! She also loves to go outside. Sometimes when she's freaking the freak out I will just open up the door and walk her around outside. Maybe we should invest in some patio furniture.

Or not.

Because I married a tight wad.

Not really...but seriously.

She loves her changing table and will smile and talk to you then entire time she's up there! She still hates to be held, but loves her Moby wrap. She also told me that she loves to go to Tokyo. She said that Adam needs to take us there for dinner one night soon.

Hey, it was her idea, not mine!

Welp, that's all!

She's a growing little butter bean who we love tremendously! I don't want to say that we "don't remember life without her" (why do people say that anyways? I vividly remember more sleep and less Fisher Price items taking over our house!) but she has definitely given Adam and I a new meaning of life and love and we would never want to go back to just being the two of us! She fills my heart with joy and there is for sure, no love like a Mother's love :)

in the funk

2011-10-10T18:29:00.002-05:00

guess who sucks at blogging?

THIS GIRL!!!

Yeah, about that.

Once you get into a blogging funk, it's a hard hole to climb out of!

**SWEET NIBBLETS...let me go feed my little babytard..**

Ok...geeeeze, she's so needy sometimes :)

Last Tuesday I went back to work! Hence, the lack of bloggage. I was super busy all week getting my massage on and can I just tell you how sore my hands, arms, and back were? I think we are in the middle of hiring another massage therapist, so that should help out a lot!

While I was working my Mimi kept the bambino which helped out tremendously! Not that P is hard to take care of or anything. I mean, she sleeps for the majority of the day and never cries. But it was nice of her to watch her while I was gone! Wednesday will be Presley's first day of pre-school! I have her bag packed, everything labeled, and I'm squeezing & kissing her as much as possible before she enters the germ infested world of pre school! It's bound to happen, she will be sick within a matter of days, I am already prepared!

One person who I know is excited about P starting school is my Mom! She will be her "teacher" and gets to spend all day with her! You don't even know how thankful I am that P is in my Mom's class! I have no intentions of crying or being a complete wreck when I drop her off which is a big relief!

oh oh OHHHHHHH and guess who has been sleeping through the night?

THIS GIRL!

BOOM!

Yes-sir-ee Bob!

It's taken a combination of things that (I think) have done the trick! The main one being that we try to keep her awake more starting around 5 or 6 in the afternoon. Now, don't let me fool you, she's a raging beast during these hours because she'd much rather be sleeping. But, I would take a few fussy hours for a whole nights sleep! Our first step to our nightly routine is bath time. Homefry loves the bath so we usually keep her in there for a while just to pass the time. Then, she gets her jammies on and I feed her a 5 or 6 ounce bottle with rice cereal in it. After that she burps and I let her food settle for a few more minutes...then it's swaddle time!!!

She hates the swaddling process. Loves being swaddled though.

I'm officially the swaddling queen and I have created a concoction of ways to keep her from breaking out of said swaddle...the only thing lacking in this process is the duct tape. We haven't had to go the route....yet.

I'M KIDDING!

Don't call the Mommy Police.

Or do. I could use some company around here.

After I mummify the babe we then turn on the little box fan and her lullaby music, then I rock her to sleep. I know I know I know, some people don't think you should rock the kid to sleep because once you start, you can't stop. But, this is the only time P will let me really hold and cuddle her, so I don't care if I am rocking her until she is 43 years old! (Have I mentioned before that PDizz hates to be held? Well, she does. I don't know how that happened but she would much rather be in her swing, bed, or bouncy seat than in someones arms).

Then she sleeps! Depending on how early we put her to bed she usually gets anywhere between 7-9 straight hours. Boom shaka laka!

I am also hoping that once she starts day care she will be more tired at night and we can put her to bed earlier without the 2 hours of pure ~~Hell~~ fussiness.

In other news, Adam is still very busy with school and baseball. I think Fall practice ends in a few weeks and I think that's when we will try to go somewhere for our anniversary.

OH YEAH...yesterday was our 1 year anny! We didn't really do anything major..just snuggled with our babe in the morning and then that night Adam and I went to a movie and dinner while my Mom kept Pres! I'm a pretty cheap date :)

Hmmmm what else?

Well, on Wednesday Presley has to get the rest of her 2 month old shots. Since we are doing the delayed vaccines she will pretty much have a shot every month or so. Then this weekend we are getting her ears pierced..that should be a bitchin' time! But, I would rather do it now rather than when she's older. Go ahead, judge away!

That's all for now! I've got Gumbo cookin' away on the stove and it's time to wake P up so she can have a scream fest!

JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a few pictures from our PhotoBooth session today...Presley was super excited as you can tell.

more brain dumpage

2011-10-02T16:06:00.000-05:00

**Lots and lots of useful non-sense in this post...seriously..it's long and pointless...but when is it not, right?**

This post has taken me 2 days to write. Turns out when you have a kid you have to feed, bathe, and rock the baby to sleep. Those things come first. Who knew?

We had some more pictures taken of P-Nasty and they're OMG so freakin' cute. Seriously, Jamie Cormier is the best I know!

Are you not just dying from those pictures? I seriously have baby fever..and my child is only 2 1/2 months old!

Whoever said "sleep when the baby sleeps" obviously had a maid, a laundry service, someone to sponge bathe them while they slept, and a cook because yes, I could "sleep when the baby sleeps" but every other aspect in my life would suck because I'd be living in a dump...and I'd be starving.

We just got a spray tan doo-dad at work. Yours Truly gets the employee discount which means I'll be looking like I joined the cast of Jersey Shore from here on out. Snookie ain't got nothin on LDizzle!

Work starts Monday! Let's hope I still know how to give a massage!

October 9th will be mine and Adams 1 year anniversary :o) We won't be able to go on a trip or anything until next month though because of baseball, but I'm sure we will go out to dinner or something.

After having Hunter and Taelor some this weekend I've decided that the worlds most annoying question is, "Can I play with your phone?" NO! You can't! I usually just lie and say my battery is dead. I think they're onto me though. They spotted the car charger!

Presley is the next Houdini. At night we swaddle her. She loves it, she just doesn't know it yet. She will fight to get her arms out until she is literally soaking wet from sweating. I won't give in though. We have tried 3 different swaddle blankets and we are now on our 4th. I like the SwaddleMe blankets but she has figured out how to get her hand out of the top of them. Our solution? WOOMBIE! I think it's the winner, although she can still suck on her hands, just through the fabric.

It's pretty much like a human cocoon. the only hole is from the head, so no arms can get out..yet. My child may prove us wrong. Now of course, she gets royally pissed as soon as we lock her up in this mug, but she will learn to like it..I'm determined.

Now, obviously the picture below isn't Presley because Adam is as white as they come, leaving all chances of P to have a little brotha-hood in here to be negative. Although, I'm not gonna lie, mixed babies are THE CUTEST of all offspring. Seriously, the curly hair, pretty eyes..and

OH MY GOSH I DIGRESS!

ANYWAYS..the woombie. This one shown below you have to pay extra for the ruffly boob decor, which I find really odd and distracting, but you get the point of this thing.

I'm switching P's pediatrician. No major reason except that I don't really care for the other doctor that is in with our pediatrician. We usually see him more often than our own because we just pop in and he's the one that happens to be there.

Adam has been really busy with baseball. He has been getting home really late every night and then still has homework! I feel like I've been a single Mom most days and lemme tell ya, it ain't fun. I don't know how single Moms do it and I want to give them a big pat on the ~~butt~~ back for doing it by themselves!

We are now on day 3 of me writing this. It is now Saturday and it's been quite the afternoon. I couldn't find my phone earlier & after searching my house up and down I found it in Taelor's underwear because "they make a good pocket". Where's the Lysol when you need it? Adam took Hunter to the Alabama baseball field to give him a good one-on-one lesson! Adam is a fun Uncle..I'm just a mean, boring Aunt compared to him!

I'm joining a Bible study group with a few friends from high school. It's actually held here in my neighborhood so it's very convenient! They also bring a baby sitter in to watch all of the kids! I can't wait!

We've been using the Moby anytime we go somewhere. It's so much easier than carrying that big ol' car seat everywhere! Please excuse the side-boob and my dirty mirror.

We didn't have big plans during the Alabama vs Florida game last night, just chilled at the hizzle! Bama SPANKED the Gators which makes me happy :) I do feel bad for their QB because he really hurt his knee/leg. It's never fun to watch a player get hurt, even if it's the other team. Presley had on her pink Bama jersey!

I got a new jumperoo toy thingy-ma-jig from one of my BFF's, Jordan. Her little boy has outgrown all of his baby toys and she always gives me first dibs! As you can see, Presley obviously loves it...

That's about it..don't you worry though, there's still much more dumpage to be dumped out of this old noggin', but I've got to go wash Tae's hair now!

pretty baby!

2011-09-27T08:23:00.000-05:00

You probably remember all of the awesome pictures that I had taken during delivery with Presley. Jamie from Jamie Cormier Photography took them and we still love those pictures. She is an amazing photographer and Adam & I are lucky to call her (and her Husby, Lance) one of our great friends! Sunday afternoon Adam and I headed over to their house and Jamie snapped a few pictures of the little princess while the boys hung out! Presley wasn't the most cooperative little nugget so we are going back on Wednesday to try for round 2.

But, I wanted to share some of the pictures she took because they're SOOO good! I mean, I know my kid is super presh and all, but Jamie really did a great job on the pictures!

I was all sorts of anti-tutu for Presley until I saw the one Jamie had! She has some really cute props for newborns and babies, so if you're in the Tuscaloosa area you should really check her out!

Her website is Jamie Cormier Photography and go on Facebook and like her photography page! She does all sorts of holiday cards, announcements, and other fun stuff!

Our favorite! We are definitely ordering this one! Look how cute my little bunny is!

Trying to sit P up so we can get a quick shot of her sitting! She kept tipping over, it was funny!

How cute is that tu-tu! Makes me want some cotton candy! And look how amazing my 2 month old is, sitting up all by herself! Ha! Sike!

She's all,"Seriously Mom?"

Wittle baby toes!

Two of my favorite pictures taken by Jamie! We have the one on the left in a frame in Presley's room and will be framing the newest one too!

I'm Free!

2011-09-26T13:50:00.000-05:00

No, I'm not free..honey child I come with a hefty price tag!

I'M STENT FREE!

I finally got my pee drainers out..but it was not a joyful ride getting those bad boys removed. I was a nervous wreck going in because I knew I wasn't going to be put to sleep for this, not that I needed to be, but I'm a pansy and would rather just be knocked up out!

So let me just tell you about my experience this morn-ting. Because I know you're all dying to know, but frankly, this is the most action my life has had all week and it's my duty to blog about life..so here ya go...

ANYWAYS! Ok..

So, I get to the hospital where my Urologist's office is..the 9th floor to be exact, which makes for a long and crowded elevator ride. After stopping on almost every floor to let people out, it was finally just me and another woman..who had a mustache, but that's not important right now. The elevator doors close and she starts creepin' over to where I was and then said...

"Aight, now dat it's just me & you in herrr can you scratch my back? I gotta bump dat's killin' me!"

I'm serious as a heart attack..which I almost had..but instead I scratched her back and she even said,"Okay, yeah..okay left a little...up..up a little more...YEAH RIGHT DERR, you feel dat bump?!"

I'm too kind sometimes, and part of me wanted to say,"Oh hey, since we're still in here, just you and I, can you scratch my butt just a little?!"

But I didn't, because the situation was already awkward enough.

After sitting in the waiting room I finally get called back and of course, I have to pee in the ~~shot glass~~ and headed on back to the "procedure room" where it looked more like a morgue. The only think I could really focus on was the ticking of a timer and the box of latex surgical gloves that said "Smooth & Professional". What was I really here for?!?! I'll blame the nerves for being a gutter-minded freak today.

Nurse comes in, tells me I have to "get an injection" of Rocephin, then have a scope stuck up my pee hole. Those weren't her exact words but pretty close but just the frownsmile on her face said it all. Pure torture is probably what was written on my chart for what they were about to do with the scope.

And when I say "scope" I really mean, "medical PVC pipe with a light on the end." Scope sounds much more medical though.

I've learned over the last few weeks that when a doctor says it's going to be "uncomfortable" he really means "it's going to hurt like Hell, but I can't say that because I'm a MD who has actually never had this procedure done so I really have no clue what the BLEEP I'm talking about."

So, they stick the pipe in my ~~pee hole~~ Ureter and pull those mugs out..and it was definitely "uncomfortable"! At one point, when they were looking at the screen and spotted the stent and then pulled it out, the doctor exclaimed,"There she blows"!!!

The doctor then dangled both stents in my face and said,"Look, they're even a pretty bright green color!"

And that automatically made me feel better...........

So anywhoozle, after he tortured me he sat me down and talked to me about what types of stones they were and all that junk. Then he told me that in a few weeks they will need to do a 24 hour urine analysis which will involve me collecting my pee for 24 hours straight! He pretty much explained it like I'd be collecting the pee in a milk jug and to do it on a day where I don't go anywhere.

He must know that I'm not the brightest crayon in the box.

So, that's it. I left stent free and with a sore butt cheek from the shot. Too bad that woman wasn't in the elevator on the way out, I sure could've used a good butt cheek massage!

And just so we are clear, I really do like my doctor even though he says some really weird things!

random tidbits

2011-09-20T11:37:00.003-05:00

Todays post will probably be about a whole buncha nothin'. We pretty much do the same thing everyday. Wake up, eat, sleep, eat, sleep, wait on Adam to get home, eat again, shower (umm, sometimes), and go to bed. I still dread night time with Presley. You know how when you absolutely can't wait for something to happen it feels like it takes for-ev-errrr to get there? And then when you really dread something it's like at the blink of an eye it's already there? Yeah, that's how bedtime is for me. I swear, I wake up in the morning then look at the clock and it's 7:30 at night.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! Say it ain't so!

The other night she slept 7 hour straight, though. SEVEN HOURS PEOPLE!

Of course, I was up during those times wondering why she was still sleeping, and then just sitting there waiting on her to wake up. But she never did! It was glorious and I high five'd her as soon as she did wake up! I was hoping for a repeat of that last night, but she only went 5 hours.

Fortunately, Megan is hosting a giveaway for Moms On Call. You can read all about them here, but basically they are baby whispering geniuses and I need them in my life. Or Xanax, but that's neither here nor there. If you want to enter the contest then just click this link: http://www.inthiswonderfullife.com/2011/09/giveaway.html and enter to win!

Oh well, we are making progress! I'm waiting to get the balls to actually let her sleep in her room by herself, I just can't bring myself to do it quite yet!

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The baseball team starts Fall practice this week which means Adam will be pretty busy with that every day. He really enjoys working with the Bama baseball team so he doesn't mind it. I, on the other hand, miss my Husband! Another thing that sucks about baseball starting up is that we won't have time to do anything fun for our anniversary in October! Poo! We have decided though that we are going to wait a month or so and then go on a little trip when they're done with practice. I'm not sure where we will go but I'm not too picky. Really just a weekend alone with Toasty anywhere will be fine with me! He's never been to Gatlinburg and if we go when the leaves and junk are changing then that should be fun. But then there's the warm sunny places too!

SO MANY DECISIONS!

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In other unimportant news, this is a big week for me! Um, hellur? All of my shows come back on this week! Modern Family, Grey's, Private Practice, Housewives....Thank ya Jesus! Presley is going to have to get her act together every night at 8:00 because this is no joke..these are my shows, and I will go postal on anyone and everyone who interrupts me while they're on. Even if they are my own offspring. We don't play around here.

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Alright, well I will stop torturing you now. I'm going to go ~~watch Teen Mom~~ finish some laundry!

Love, Peace, Chicken Grease,

Lindsay

baby items I love..or don't love

2011-09-18T18:24:00.000-05:00

When I did my registry for my baby shower it was certainly, most definitely, absolutely the most fun thing ever! I hated registering for our wedding, but with a baby?! Way more fun! I went to Target (without Adam. That's the key, never take your Husby with you) and literally scanned everything that was pink. Most of the stuff I use every day, but there are a few things I wish I had, and then there are also some things that I don't really care for. So, here's my opinion on ~~a few~~ 14 trillion baby items. This is just my opinion, so if I hate something that you love and swear by, then please still be my friend :)

Also, please still be my friend when you realize this post will take you 8 years to read. It's long. But I hope helpful. Or not. But whatever.

JUST BE MY FRIEND!!!!!

1) SwaddleMe blankets- We LOVE these! If you aren't a good swaddler then these really help, especially once the baby starts to move his/her arms around. Blankets become loose very quickly so these are lifesavers! The only thing I'd have to complain about is when you wash them the velcro sticks to other things in the washing machine so you have to wash them separately.

2) Fisher Price Papasan Cradle Swing- My Little Lamb- This is the swing we have and we love it! We bought ours from a girl my Mom works with and we only paid half price for it (& she threw in a free Bumbo!) so that's really the only reason we have this particular swing. While we love the swing, I think for the next baby we will get something a little different. We have to buy batteries for this bad boy about every two weeks. That could be because Presley lives in this mug so at this point, if we have to buy batteries ever 47 seconds we will. The other thing I don't like about it is that the music is on a timer, so after about 10 minutes it turns off & sometime that doesn't fly with our homegirl, she likey the music.

Next time we will go for something more like this one- the Fisher Price Rainforest Swing. The thing I like about this one is that it plugs into the wall. No batteries needed! Hall-a-lu-yer! It also has the options to change the position of the seat, and has a 3-point harness to hold your little nugget in!

3) Angelcare Deluxe Movement Monitor- this product is by far, a definite must-have. If you have nothing else for your kid then at least have this monitor. It will give back hours of sleep that you would normally lose with other monitors. For me at least. I'm one of those Moms that would be up all night staring at my baby with my hand on her back to make sure she's still breathing, but I don't have to be with this thing! It has this little square thingy that you put under the mattress and it detects if the baby stops breathing, then sounds off a super loud alarm if they do stop. It also has a thing to tell you the temperature of the room the baby is in. I will swear by this monitor until I'm blue in the face! The only thing I wish I had done a little differently....

...is gotten the video monitor. We were lucky enough to have had my Mom get our monitor for us so I wasn't being too picky. But I do wish that I would've told her about the video monitor that is also by Angelcare. I think that if we had the video monitor I'd be more likely to let Presley sleep in her room alone. Right now I am sleeping in a twin bed that's right next to her bed and I wake up a lot just to make sure she is still in a comfortable sleeping position. With the video one though, I could peek at her from my very own bed...you know, the place where my husband sleeps. Yeah, I miss that bed..and him! Below is the Angelcare Video, Movement, & Sound Monitor.

4) Kalencom diaper bags- Below is the diaper bag that I have, mine is just white instead of grey. While I love the bag, the only thing I wish is that it was a little bigger. Kalencom makes bigger bags, I just didn't get it (well, technically my lovely Dad bought us ours...yes, I am spoiled). You don't realize how much ~~crap~~ stuff you need to pack with a baby. Ours is usually pouring over the top with blankets and diapers so having a little more room would be nice. You have to remember that once you have a baby and have a diaper bag, it's most likely going to be your purse, too. So the bigger the bag, the better!

5) Gerber Zip Front sleepers- these I got rid of within days of Presley being home. The Gerber brand just has weird proportions to their sleepers (you can't tell in the picture). If you have a baby thats legs are 2 inches long and a torso that's 98 inches wide then these will be perfect! Unfortunately, Presley is more of a long & lean baby and not a short & wide baby. The reason I don't like them is because she kicks her legs a lot, and when she does that she kicks them out of the foot hole things and then her leg is all stuck and junk.

...instead, we love the sleepers from The Children's Place. They can be more expensive, but you can usually catch them on sale. I got ours when they were running a 3 for $24 sale!

6) Receiving blankets- Before Pdizzle got here everyone kept telling me to register for lots & lots & lots of receiving blankets. I was confused because I didn't know how many times I would be "receiving her! Turns out, we use these bad boys more for burping cloths than we do wrapping her up. It's nice to use when burping her because there's more room to catch the spit up! So, not much more to say about these, except they're good barf catchers.

7) A noise machine or iPod dock to play music- This is something that we didn't get off of our registry. I just recently went and got something to play Presley's lullaby music. I know most babies like the "white noise" sound and that comes on your basic sound machine like the one by First Years!

Below is the iPod dock that we have. It's by HoMedics and while I'm not sure how much these are I picked ours up at our local thrift store for...wait for it...wait for it....7 BONES!! Yes, you can't beat $7 for something that plays your iPod, has the ocean, rain, night, waterfall, brook, and sunrise sounds, and shines the time up on the ceiling! BOOM!

8) I don't know who this is..but she looks like a baby nurse...and everyone MUST have one of those to wake up with your baby at night. I shall name her Peggy. She looks nice and useful. I don't have one of these baby nurses (remember, we have the poors and have no monies) but if one day I am a super snobby rich girl, I will hire Peggy and have her care for all 23 of my children.

9) Summer Infant Inclined Sleep Positioner- This is something I bought when Presley was about a month old. We had been using two rolled up blankets to prop her on her side when she was sleeping but they didn't stay in place very well. I LOVE this doo-dad because it keeps her on an incline (which is good for reflux) and keeps her on her side! Although, now that I look at the picture this baby is on her back...but whatever...the kid looks happy and peaceful and glad to be on this wedge, so buy it.

10) AND LASTLY....the good ol' Dr. Brown Bottles! When you first bring home your baby, it will be a crap ton of trial & error on which pacifiers to use, or which bottles do or don't hurt their tummies. I had originally not wanted to use the Dr. Brown bottles because there's a lot of parts to each bottle (5 if we're being honest). And frankly, I'm too lazy to wash all of these parts! We went through a few different types of bottles (Playtex Drop Ins, Nuk, Playtex Ventaire) and they all hurt her stomach because she was getting too much air. I bought a little two pack of Dr. Brown bottles and could immediately tell a difference! I ended up buying two big bags from two different friends of used bottles (I spend a total of $40 for about 18 Dr. Brown bottles) so I really got lucky in the fact that I didn't have to sell my right arm to buy a bunch of these babies. Although I definitely would have because a happy baby equals a happy Mama! So, before you even waste your money on other bottles, be on the safe side and get these! Even if your baby doesn't have colic, it will still ease their tummies!

And that, boys & girls, is all I have for you. I hope that helps for some of you who are expecting or are unhappy with the products you have and need advice on other ones! Just so you know, this was just my opinion and I most definitely wasn't paid to advertise these products! I'm just tryin' to help out a brotha who's in need of some reviews.

2011-09-17T00:47:00.000-05:00

two months

2011-09-15T19:50:00.002-05:00

Today we had Presley's 2 month check up! I was a little nervous because I knew she'd be getting shots. We are on the delayed/alternative vaccine schedule (I think the one we go by is Dr. Sears?!) so I knew she wouldn't be getting too many. She only had one poke and one oral! The shot that she did get was a combination of DTaP(diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis), IPV (polio), and Hep B. Then she had the vaccine for Rotavirus orally. She just squealed really loud, then continued to drink her bottle! I am so glad we are doing the delayed shots, I can't imagine her getting 3 or 4 shots in one visit! We will go next month and get the other two she was supposed to have today! I've been giving her Tylenol every 4 hours so hopefully she won't run a fever or get too fussy!

Homegirl has definitely grown since last month!

Weight:

The little booger is up to 12 pounds even! The doctor said her legs are a little skinny but if you ask me I hope it stays that way for the rest of her life! Adam has long skinny legs, so maybe P will also have a little more Betty to her spaghetti if you know what I'm sayin'.

Height:

The nurse wrote down 22 3/4 inches...but I'm an optimist and round up..so I'm putting 23 inches in the baby book :)

Clothing Size:

The NB clothes have been packed up and put away. She is now filling out her 0-3 month clothes nicely which makes her wardrobe much bigger these days! Too bad we have nowhere interesting to go during the day! Oh well, she looks cute for me most of the time!

By the way..if you live in T-Town, before you go shopping at the mall or Target you have to hit up the America's Thrift Store. I hit the jackpot in the baby clothes section the other day. Most everything I got it all Target brand clothes and it all looks new! Babies grow so fast that they don't have time to wear things out and make it look old. I think the most expensive item was $2.98 and it was a nice jacket for the winter.

CHA CHING!

Diapers:

She's wearing size one these days! And can I just say, I hate Pampers diapers. Huggies all the way for this nugget! I can't tell you how many Pampers little side tabs have ripped off while putting the diaper on. Also the Huggies are a lot thicker and hold more!

Feeding:

One reason why I don't think Presley is my child...she is the worlds. slowest. eater. I eat like someone is about to come take my food away and never give it back. Seriously, if me and you ever go out to eat together I will have finished almost half of my meal by the time you get the napkin in your lap and the straw in your drink. It's retarded how fast I eat. Anyways..sorry ADD got me there.

Presley is eating about 4-5 ounces ever 3-4 hours. Last night I put rice cereal in her bottle before bed and she slept 5 hours straight! HOLLA! I had stopped putting cereal in her bottle last month but am going to start doing it at night again.

Hair/Eyes:

She hasn't lost any hair. It's still light brown and her eyes are still blue. I think her eyes are getting a tiny bit lighter though!

Sleep:

Well, we started our strict new routine only a few nights ago but it's working and getting better. Last night she went from 11:00-4:00, I fed her, then she went back to sleep from 4:30-7:30! She usually sleeps for most of the day. She wakes up to eat and stays awake for about an hour and a half then is back snoozing! I am having a really hard time not getting sleep at night. It takes about 30-45 minutes to feed her and then by the time I get back to bed I don't get much sleep. To say I am ready for her to sleep thru the night is an understatement!

Favorites:

She still loves bath time! Still hates getting out though! I would say her favorite thing right now is her swing. I feel like she stays in there for so much of the day but when I take her out to snuggle her she gets fussy and wants back in the swing! I guess I should be glad that it's not the opposite way around! At least I can get things done around the house (HA! yeah right) without having a baby attached to me!

Fun stuff:

The weather has cooled off so we have been taking little walks around the 'hood! This morning it was actually really cold! Also, my Mom and I took her to get her pictures made (we actually took her when she was 7 1/2 weeks old). My Mom still has a bunch of my dresses from when I was a wee lil' lad and so we took Presley to get her picture taken in one of the dresses. We just went to a cheap little place in town (Portrait Innovations) because you really can't beat their prices. We got SO many pictures in all different sizes, and a CD with every picture they took and it was only $100..thanks Nana Nessa!

The whole reason of going was to get her picture made in this dress!

welcome to the 'hood

2011-09-14T12:45:00.000-05:00

motherhood that is!

Before Presley came I had all of these things that I was and wasn't going to do as a Mom. For some weird reason I had (and still kind of have) this fear that I was going to become a Mom and become all frumpy and ugly and a total hermit. I was all,"we aren't going to talk to Presley in baby talk...we are going to let her cry when she needs to cry...she's going to go around our daily schedule, not let us go by hers...no classical music because I like Pitbull and T-Swizzle..." Just stuff like that. For the most part, I have stuck to some of my "rules." But then there's some that I look back at and think I am totally CRAY-ZAY!

Like, the "no baby talk"?! HA...if you could only hear me (and Adam!) talk to her! It's absurd and embarassing. Like, since when did I start talking all illiterate and add 's' to the end of everything. Seriously, my sentences don't even make sense...

"Do hers wants a bottle?"- of course this is squealed at an octave about 56 times higher than normal.

"Look at Daddy! Hims is so crazies!"

WHAT THE HECK?!

Stupid.

Another thing I've noticed that we do...it's like we talk through the baby. Like, instead of me asking Adam,"Hey babe, can you feed her while I eat?" I get all mommy retarded and say (in my baby squeaky voice),"Presley, tell Daddy, say 'Mommy needs to eat! Can you feed me?'..."

I kill myself.

I even caught myself saying,"Presley, tell Daddy that if he leaves his dishes in the sink one more time I'm going to kill him..."

I just don't get it. I probably never will.

Whatever.

Then there's the whole music get-up. When she was still in the ol' tum tum I never once listened to any sort of classical music. The closest thing may have been my massage music when I was at work. But outside of work I listened to Pink, Beyonce, Pitbull, Kesha, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, T-Pain...you name it, I listened to it...loud. I decided that instead of Presley learning to be intelligent and wise by listening to Bach or Mozart, I rather wanted her to know how to back in on up like a Tonka truck. Have some rhythm and style.

You know what's playing right now while she sleeps?

Telemann- Concerto In D For Three Horns Strings.

I have no words.

"Mama, I wanna be a thug, not no Johann Sebastian Bach!"

"Motha dear, I want to be a band contuct'a and a good citizen of the world. Cheeri-oh!"

I jinxed myself!

2011-09-12T14:43:00.000-05:00

Leave it to me to be all,"wahhh my life is boring I have nothing to blog about blah blah blah" in my last post. Because after that we had a pretty eventful next few days!

I mentioned that I was having surgery on Thursday to remove 3..YES THREE kidney stones. Normal procedure, I even got to come home that same day! YIPEE! I took my medicine and went off to sleepytown for the rest of the day. Friday morning I woke up and was in a crapload of pain, so I took some pain meds and waited on them to kick in.

and waited...

and waiting...

and waited longer...

then I took some more. Well then I started throwing up which was just stupendous because who doesn't love throwing up??!! My Mom came over after work and we decided that I needed to go to the ER. I think everyone and their mother had the same idea because it was SO crowded! Thankfully ~~I'm kind of a big deal~~ my Mom called my Urologist and they called the ER to tell them to take me straight back! I mean, don't get me wrong, we were still there forever!

They finally gave me some pain meds and did some tests. They ended up admitting me for an overnight stay so I could get all of my medicine through IV. My Mom stayed with me and Adam came home to take care of Little P! Saturday morning rolls around and my temp was 104.5...holy donkey butt...so much for going home! My doctor came in and said that we should put another stent in (I already have one on my right side..this was for my left side) so he did that and I felt so much better! They told me I could go home but I was still throwing up some and OF COURSE still running a fever. Oh, and my blood pressure? 64/36! Umm hellur!? Definitely not normal!

Anywhoozle, so I stayed again Saturday night and FINALLY got to come home yesterday! I'm still in a lot of pain from the stents so I am pretty much useless. I am sooooo incredibly thankful for Adam and my family for helping take great care of me and Presley.

I go back in two weeks to have the stents removed...apparently they don't put you to sleep for that so I'm pretty much crapping my pants thinking about how bad it's going to hurt. I mean, the stents go all the way up my ureter into my kidney...and they just pull them out. Someone kill me now.

for your viewing pleasure, here is what it looks like..those two stringy things are the stents.

I have a few pictures of Presley that we had made but I am going to wait until Thursday to post them because, what was that? We have her 2 month check up that day?

Two months?!?! Wahhhhh! That makes me sad. Actually that's a lie. The older she gets the more likely it is that she will start sleeping through the night..so grow baby, grow!

Do you think she missed me? I think so!

iPhone pics

2011-09-07T12:02:00.000-05:00

I really don't have anything interesting to talk about today (or any day for that matter). It's been nasty and rainy for the past few days, and now it's purtty chilly outside! All that to say, we've been very lazy! Tomorrow I have surgery to remove my planet-sized kidney stone, and sadly that's the height of excitement in our house these days! So, I'm just going to do an iPhone picture dump...maybe I'll have more exciting things to talk about later!

HOLLA!

Dinner at WingsU

Hunter, Presley, & Taelor

She insisted on drinking out of a bottle like P

chubby cheeks

I love her smile!

We spend a lot of time over at Jordan and Tanners house..this is Tanner loving on Presley....

Dad always gets the easy tasks of taking care of baby!

accent vlog

2011-09-02T08:38:00.002-05:00

Yesterday I had nothing better to do, so I stalked about 29 peoples blogs and noticed that most of them had done an "accent vlog". It's where you read off a few words and answer a few questions, and I guess depending on where you're from, the answers are a little different from other peeps.

So I was a total copy cat and did it, although I am about four hundred and eleventy percent sure that none of you really care how I talk. But when I don't know the person in real life (whose blog I read) I like to hear how they talk. Maybe I'm weird. Or really creepy, but it's true.

There should be a few disclaimers before watching it though. And by a "few" I mean 30.

1- in the very beginning I didn't stop recording when sending a text message. Photobooth is not my friend and I couldn't tell if it was already recording or not..and it was..so you just have to wait on e for a few seconds!

2- It's really hard to not look at yourself when you're recording a video.

3- I have concluded that I may have a touch of ADHD...Can't. Stay. Focused.

4- I note somewhere in the video that "Adam is from up North" and talks weird. That's a total lie. He is from Florida. South. BUT his family is mostly from Michigan (and they spend a lot of time up there) so they have more of a northern accent...

5- Sorry for the lack of make up...yesterday was a "Mom Day" for me. Nike shorts, oversized t-shirt, no make up, and un-fixed hair. It doesn't matter because the most important thing is that I showered that day. If you have a kid you know how big of an accomplishment that is.

6- I don't know why the audio is off a little bit..you know what..just close your eyes while you watch this. That way you can't tell the timing is off and you don't have to look at me! While you're at it..just mute it too...

OKAY! BLAH....whatever..just watch the video...and don't judge me.

The instructions are to say these words:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

And answer these questions:
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you use to change the TV channel?

baby swing rehab

2011-09-01T16:45:00.000-05:00

As of 3 days ago, Presley has entered rehab.

Her drug of choice:

her baby swing.

It seems as though she will only sleep while she's swinging..and unfortunately for her we are just too poor to buy batteries every week. Not really, but that's what we are telling her so she will start sleeping in her crib. We totally skipped the packNplay and put her in her crib. She has been doing pretty good so far at night, but she still isn't the biggest fan of just lying on her back without movement. She will whimper and cry for a little bit and then eventually pass out. The only time she gets to swing is in the morning for her nap! She does do better when there is music going so we are going to need to buy a cd player or something. I have some lullaby music on my phone but, obviously, she can't sleep with my phone all night.

I can't believe she will be 7 weeks tomorrow, it feels like it's been months! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'm kind of going crazy in this house, which makes me 1456 % sure that I could never be a stay at home mom. I literally stand by the window and watch for Adam to get home. Then I throw him the baby like she's a ticking time bomb and I have some "me" time. Last night Adam fell asleep at 8:00 so that meant I was on my own. I didn't feel bad at all when I woke him up for the 5am feeding either.

I go tomorrow for my check up with my OB/GYN. I was supposed to go last week (6 weeks post delivery) but apparently my appointment was never made. I called on Tuesday and they got me in this week. Then I have my surgery to blast my kidney stone a week from today. I'm not sure how invasive it will be, but I'm looking forward to the drugs! (I promise I'm not a crackhead, I just really like the deep sleep you get when you have surgery!) Hopefully I will be done with the hospital for a while after that!

This weekend is the first football game of the season (DUH!) and we were thinking about taking Presley to the quad, but I think I'm going to get my Mom to keep her instead. Once the weather cools off in a month or so then we will probably take her. I'm sure if we took her this weekend we'd just be sweating out nads off holding/carrying/feeding her. Doesn't sound fun to me!

Well, that's about it for today! Below are some pics and videos that I imported off my phone. Of course, they're all of Presley. Adam and I are no longer important :)

brain dump

2011-08-29T11:33:00.000-05:00

Now that I am finally out of the hospital and back home we are trying to get back into a routine. Not that we were really on one. I am trying so hard to get Presley to sleep for longer stretches of time. Here's something I don't understand...maybe someone can help a brotha out...

If a Pediatrician will give a one month old rice cereal for reflux, then why can't a one month old without reflux have rice cereal? I mean, to "diagnose" a baby with reflux you just tell your ped that the kid spits up a lot and blah blah blah and they're all..."Yeah sure okay whatever...here's some Zantac. Oh, and put cereal in the bottle."

That's all.

So I've decided (even though the little nugget "has reflux") that we are giving her cereal no matter what. Why?

BECAUSE SHE SLEEPS LONGER! And that makes me happy.

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Anywhoozle.

I'm not going to publish the post that I wrote before The Great Kidney Stone of 2011 happened. It's all pretty irrelevant and you really could care less about how work went for me for those two short weeks.

What's more important is my child's poop. I don't know what crawled up her butt and died but the kid has the smelliest $#!& EVER! I even caught the Diaper Genie being all,"Noooo! Don't throw that away in here!!!"

Ugh. Girl is nasty.

I mean, Obviously you can tell that I have nothing interesting to write about.

My head hurts, I'm nauseas, I'm tired, I'm having hot flashes....

I'M NOT PREGNANT!

Which is what every nurse and doctor asked me while I was at the hospital. That, and "when was your last bowel movement?" I don't know why..like I can keep up with that.

Speaking of being pregnant- Adam and I have no plans to avoid getting pregnant again.

ADS;LFKJ0249875SJDFNASDLKG835701!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's just me crapping my pants because, well, we all know how much I love being knocked up.

No birth control. No con....<---word I can't type because I'm immature. Nothing. My only saving grace is attempting to chart my ovulation?

Who am I kidding, I don't even know what that means. We would like to wait a year, but if the good Lord has other plans then we will be fine with that.

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Moving on.

Adam started back to school on the 24th. He is only taking two classes which makes it a pretty easy semester. Having only one class a day makes it easier to be with the baseball team. After class everyday he will go to the field (when the season starts up). Until now though, he is still pretty available to help me out with the baby. I must brag and say that when I was in the hospital Adam was a savior and took great care of Presley! He was exhausted though. I think every Dad should have to do that every once in a while!

He's the best..and he's all mine :)

Brownie points to whoever made it through this dump-age of my brain...which I should've added in the beginning...is on lots'a lots'a meds!.....that would explain a lot of things...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...SUPERMOM!

I'm here!...

2011-08-24T21:56:00.001-05:00

Well, barely!

I swear I wrote a post the other day, but didn't finish so it's in my drafts almost ready to hit "publish"! I'm writing from my iPhone so please excuse the errors!

You're probably thinking,"well dipstick, why don't you just publish it now!?"

Well, I would except I'm in the hospital AGAIN due to a 9 millimeter kidney stone and an E. Coli infection. Back when I was pregnant with Presley I was hospitalized for a week due to 2 kidney stones. I only passed one so we all knew that at some point the second one would come out.

Well it did, and it brought Hell along with it, which is making it splendid for everyone!

About a week ago I started having pains in my back and side which I instantly knew was my kidney stone moving. I'm pretty much the Kidney Stone Queen at this point so I didn't call the doctor and took some pain meds that I had prescribed from childbirth. I did that for a day or two (Adam took care of the baby when I was sleeping) and it eventually stopped. Fast forward to Tuesday afternoon. I started hurting again and the pain didn't stop. Instead of going to the ER like I normally do I call the Urologist to make an appointment but they couldn't get me in until the next morning. Thankfully Adam got up with the baby all night (he has truly been the biggest blessing!). I had to get a cat scan before seeing the doctor so they could locate and see how big of a stone we're talking about.

Anywho, I get the CT scan and then go to the urologist where they tell me it's a 9 millimeter kidney stone and there's no chance that I will pass it on my own. To make things even more fun, the stone has completed clogged my kidney and it is unable to drain and I have a severe infection!

Let's celebrate! Oh but wait, there's more!

The doctor comes in and I immediately conclude that he takes eye contact with his patients very very seriously. I don't think the guy ever blinked.

Kinda freaked me out. Just like when he told me they were putting me straight into the hospital and doing surgery to put a stint in so my kidney can drain.

Krjej3838382$;sjwhejw:$27:!:&2!/:&Isis!!!!!!!!!!

It all happened pretty fast so I had to get in touch with everyone to let them know where to go and who needs to take care of the little meatball. Adam and my mom weren't even at the hospital and I was already in the holding room to go into surgery, but Adam made it about 30 minutes before so I did get to see him.

The surgery went great, I'm a complete weirdo and LOVE being put to sleep so this was like a "mentally unstable Moms field trip"! Yay for sleep! Yay for drugs! Yay for people waiting on me hand and foot! What totally ruins all of the fun is when nurses and room service knock on the door, come in, and flip the light on and ask pointless questions that I'm PRETTY SURE could wait until the morning!

So, long story short: the stint was put in to drain my kidney and I have to come back in a few weeks when my infection is gone and I will get the stone zapped with a laser so I can pass it.

But but BUT the icing on the cake is the infection I have is E. Coli.

Again,

Jsisidg847:$:&28ish72!isbsiw817!!!!

Why not, right!? I mean, go big or go home! So I'm on (and will stay on) antibiotics for a few weeks to get rid of that. I'm not sure how I got that because I'm a 'tard and didn't ask the doctor but will in the morning.

So that's what I've been doing! Having so much fun without you and I know you're jealous! Between my Mom, Adam, and Mimi Presley has been taken care of. I miss her so bad though! I'm hoping I'll get to go home tomorrow. At least when I come back for my next surgery I will be prepared and packed! I'm not good with surprises like this, but I'm not gonna lie, I am good with the drugs there giving me :-)

Love Peace Chicken grease,
Lindsay

Sent from my iPhone

one month

2011-08-15T16:36:00.000-05:00

Weight: I weighed her the other day and the scale said 9.5 lbs. We go to the doctor tomorrow so we will get her weight on a better scale!

Height: I'd say around 21 inches..tomorrow we will know!

Clothing Size: She is still wearing newborn clothes. None of her 0-3 month clothes fit quite yet, we are trying to fatten her up so she can start gettin' dolled up!

Diapers: Still wearing newborn diapers. Hopefully she will move up soon because we are running out of NB and have a $h!t ton of size 1 diapers!

Feeding: PDizzle doesn't let you forget to feed her. Usually around every 3 hours ON.THE.DOT she starts squirming and sucking on her hand. She is a very slow eater, which is makes the night time feedings so much fun!!!!......

We just switched her formula from the Enfamil Soy to the Similac Soy and she seems to be doing a little better, no stomach problems...yet. We have an appointment in the morning to see if she has acid reflux or not.

Hair/Eyes: She still has a decent amount of hair, it's just getting a little lighter. So far no bald spots in the back either! Her eyes are still blue but I am sure they'll turn. Adam and I both have green eyes!

Sleep: Still sleeping most of the day. She wakes up for a little bit in the morning and then again around 7:00 at night, but always goes back to sleep. Adam brings her to bed around 1:30 or 2:00, she wakes up around 5 or 6 to feed, then again around 8 or 9. We usually get up after that and start our day!

Favorites: She loves bath time..but hates getting out and being naked! And every night, it never fails, she get's out of the bath and I put her on the changing table to get her pajamas on..and she pees. Every. Single. Time.

She also loves her little vibrating chair. She gets in there and immediately goes to sleep!

We just started putting her under her little mat thingy-ma-jig that has little thingy-ma-bobs hanging from it and she really likes that..until she spits up all over herself and I don't know it and all of a sudden she has puke in her hair, ears, and neck rolls...but that's neither here nor there...she loves the mat...that's all that matters.

Fun stuff: This weekend we are going up to Huntsville to visit with my Dad and Melissa! Adam also has a golf tournament on Saturday so he will be gone for most of the day for that. I'm sure we will hang out on the boat for a little while...OH SNAP! Presley doesn't have a bathing suit?!!?! I think I smell a shopping trip before we go!

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On a totally different note, I went back to work last Thursday. Not for good, but just for two weeks until Adam starts back to school. We figured that since he is able to stay home and watch the baby, I might as well go back and make a little money..and let's get real..I really needed to get out and socialize more! I find myself talking to my kid who doesn't care if we watch Dance Moms or True Life..but I ask her anyways because there's nobody else to talk to (Adam does go work out everyday, otherwise I'd talk to him!). I am only working from 10-2 everyday and it's perfect! I wouldn't mind just working part time when I go back, but that's not really an option I don't think.

I think I am more excited about going back to work because that means Adam has night time duty! I get 8 hours of sleep, go to work, come home and make dinner!

Yeahhhhhh buddy!

Ok, well the little peanut is getting antsy...gotta feed her and get ready for the Bachelor Pad!!

just rambling!

2011-08-09T11:04:00.000-05:00

Last night was a doozy in our house! Presley screamed..and screamed...and then screamed a little more. I'm no genius but I think she had a stomach ache which means nothing in the world would have been able to sooth her crabby little butt. She kept acting hungry, so after feeding her approximately 541 ounces of formula I did what any patient, loving mother would do....I handed her to my husband and told him I was going to bed and to not bring me the baby unless she was on her death bed.

And then I went and slept on the couch.

From 11:00 to 6:30.

CAN I GET AN AMEN??

I think between me being sleep deprived and her screaming I was losing my patience with her.

Like, I was pissed off at my 3 week old for having a stomach ache.

I think she is feeling better this morning though so hopefully we won't have a repeat tonight! We may try to switch formulas to see if that helps with her stomach issues. She is on Enfamil ProSobee (soy formula) but may try to wean her off the soy and back on to regular formula. Her pediatrician said she may not be lactose intolerant anymore, we will see!

Then there's the feeding and burping process. This kid takes for-ev-errrrr to burp. I usually try for about 10 minutes to get one out of her but I've decided that she finds the "super hard almost borderline child abuse burping pat on the back" to be very comforting. Because she just falls right to sleep.

*Le sigh*

Kids, they just won't give in will they?

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Anywhoozle, let's not forget mine and Adams mini vacation! Saturday night my Mom came over and kept the little nugget while Adam and I went away for the night. I had booked a hotel room in Birmingham at the Wynfrey, had plans to go to PF Changs, and do a little shopping! Of course I was most excited about the full nights sleep we would get!

We got there, walked around the Galleria (umm, hellur- back to school shopping+tax free weekend= a butt load of people!!) I love to people watch so it was fun. We bought a few things for ourselves and of course for little Pdizz!

I've never felt more like a Mom than I did when our shopping trip turned from cute shirts for me to...a Diaper Genie Elite II......BAM...that was reality slapping me right in the face!

But for realz, homegirl has some STANK in her diapers and her room was beginning to smell like..well....shit. Literally.

We headed home later on Sunday afternoon and I was so glad to see my baby! Adam and I were calling dibs on who got to hold her first when we got home. I'm a sore loser, so I won of course :)

It was so nice to get away for a night and spend some alone time with the hubs. I think that's important when you have a little babe because all of your time is now focused on keeping the kid alive! Time set aside for us is hard to come around these days, so I am SO thankful for my Mom. I know I say it in every post but seriously, she is a life saver!

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Another thing we did the other day was go to Presley's open house for day care! She won't be going until the middle of October, but we went to meet her little friends and teachers anyways. I was a little nervous about meeting her teachers because, who are these whackjobs who are going to be taking care of my little meatball?

Oh, right, I forgot. Meet her teacher....

Yep, my Mom is going to be her teacher! :) :) :) Which means my child will most likely be held and spoiled rotten every day from 8:30-4:00. Lord help me!

I can't believe that this Friday she will be a month old! It has been a tough time getting readjusted to life with a baby. But no matter how sleep deprived and greasy I am- she is life's greatest blessing and I wouldn't have it any other way!

We finally tried out our Moby, she loved it!

2 week check up

2011-08-01T19:04:00.000-05:00

Today Presley had her 2 week check up with her pediatrician! Looks like our little butter bean is growing right on track- she weighs 8.1 lbs and is 20 inches long. Let's all say a little prayer that she inherited Adams height and not mine....

Thanks.

They had to prick her heal, but turns out that didn't bother her as much as being naked on the scale did. My kid hates to be naked..makes me wonder who's child she really is. I KID!..Too far Lindsay, too far. Sorry.

Let's take a step back though and touch on one certain subject. I just want to know how in the WORLD people survive parenthood without the help of their Mother's? My Mom has been the biggest help to us and I really don't know how I would do it without her! She spent the night Saturday night and got up with Presley so Adam and I could go to a movie and get a good nights sleep. Oh Heavenly day it was glorious. I'm not gonna lie, I was dreading bedtime on Sunday night because I knew that I had to get up several times to feed her. Sad, but true. I dread bedtime and I feel like I don't even have it that bad! Presley only wakes up about 2 times and always goes right back to sleep, but shoot- I miss sleeping through the night! We love it when Nana comes over :) :) :)

As far as eating goes- I've officially quit breastfeeding. I was still pumping but it's so hard for me to have to watch everything I eat since she is lactose intolerant. I mean, everything I eat has dairy in it, and she can't have that milk so I was just "pumpin' and dumpin'" as I like to call it. So, just formula now which means...bottles! We've bought every bottle known to mankind trying to figure out which ones she likes. We've tried Playtex, Nuk, Tommee Tippee, Evenflo, and now we have decided to stick with the Dr. Brown bottles. Blah! There's so many pieces to them, but they really help with her tummy, so it is what it is!

As I said earlier, Adam and I had a date night the other night and went to the movies. We had to go to the early showing since I knew I'd pass out in a later one. We saw Crazy Stupid Love and it was HI-larious! I'm about four hundred and eleventy percent sure that I'd see it again and it has absolutely nothing to do with this....

Nope. Definitely hated that part of the movie.

ANYWHO!

Well, that's about it for now. It should be a fun night around here considering my boobs are pulsating with pain at the moment :) I mean, how long does it take for this milk to dry up? Oh, the joys of motherhood, right?

And of course, pictures of the little lady!

She's alive!!! This is a rare moment considering she sleeps for about 20 hours a day...literally!

two weeks??

2011-07-28T16:52:00.000-05:00

Has it really been almost 2 weeks since I gave life to the worlds cutest meatball??

It probably just surprises me because these days my mind is one big blur. Sleep, feed, burp, change diaper, bathe, and repeat.

Thankfully Presley sleeps the majority of the day and all throughout the night. She sleeps in her pack-n-play right next to our bed and when I start to hear her whimpering I pick her up and feed her, so she never really gets too hysterical and awake in the middle of the night. For a few nights in the very beginning she was sleeping in the bed with us because my back hurt so bad I couldn't bend down to reach her. Now that I've come to my senses I've been putting her back in her bed, at least until around her 7 AM feeding, then she snuggles with us me.

I've put breast feeding on the back burner. I'm still pumping every morning and that makes about 2 bottles of breast milk a day for her. She gets formula for the rest of the feedings. And let me tell you, formula is much much easier! The burps and spit up definitely smell worse, but that's fine! The good thing about pumping is that if we are in a pickle and I don't have a bottle, I can still breastfeed because my milk supply is still golden! Cha Ching!

We are still working on a routine, although once Adam starts back to school I am sure it will change. Right now our nightly routine works out great. Adam is a night owl so he stays up pretty late. I usually try to get into bed around 8 or 9 while he watches the baby. He will feed her around 9 or 10 and she will go back to sleep. When he comes to bed around 12 or 1 she will usually eat again (I wake up and feed her) and Adam is off duty at that point. So I get a good few hours of uninterrupted sleep!

Last night was Heavenly though...Adam didn't come to bed until 4 AM! So that means I got 7 hours of sleep! I was a new woman this morning...I could definitely get used to that!

I've been going to the chiropractor for my back, I think it's helping a little bit. I'm going to give it a few more times and then move on to something different if I don't notice any changes. Going every other day gets expensive when you have to pay a $35 co pay every time- but man, I looooove to have my back and neck popped!

Adam has been such a great helper with Presley. He's done his fare share of dirty diapers and spit up, for sure! Right now it's still pretty easy because she sleeps all the time, but I have a feeling the next few weeks are going to get pretty crazy! I can't wait!

This picture pretty much sums it all up! POOPED!

That's the face she makes after eating..she's full!

Love these two to pieces!

Presley's first day home

2011-07-28T11:38:00.001-05:00

We put together this little video so our daughter

could look back years from now and see her

first day at home with us. She is doing
great and we love her so much.

Enjoy,

Adam

Presley's Birth Story

2011-07-25T15:30:00.001-05:00

I am going to attempt to type out Presley's birth story before my memory fades and erases it from my mind forever. Trust me, I hope it completely goes away because honestly, the birthing process is not a fun one and if we want more children, I'm going to need to completely forget what birth was like this first go-around.

It was that tragic.

Tuesday July 12th was my weekly doctors appointment. I was still only 1/2 cm dilated so my doctor told me that I could go into the hospital Thursday afternoon to get Cervidil. It would help me dilate and get the process started faster for the induction on Friday. We had to be at the hospital at 5:00 Thursday afternoon, and like any expectant mother getting ready to meet her child, we were almost late because I spent the afternoon at the salon getting my hair washed and styled. We got admitted, hooked up to the IV, Cervidil inserted, then we just sat around a little. Adam ordered Olive Garden for us then he went home to get a good nights sleep. The nurse came in around 10:30 and gave me an Ambien and I was out like a light.

Or so I thought.

I woke up the next morning to find some pretty inner-esting text messages to a girl I work with. I sent her a text letting her know how "messed" up I was (although I used skankier vocabulary) and that I was still just a "fingertit" dilated. To say I was embarrassed when I woke up and saw that was an understatement. No more Ambien for me!

I was scheduled to have my water broken at 7:00. Now that is a weird feeling. It's just like peeing on yourself non-stop. I was able to get the epidural whenever I wanted and after feeling a few contractions I decided to pull the pansie card early and get it.

People had told me that getting an IV is worse than an epidural.

They lied.

It. Hurt. Like. HELL.

I cried but I survived! Once it kicked in I didn't even know when I was having contractions. My doctor came in and predicted that it would be around 8:00 PM before Presley was born. I progressed at a normal pace that day, had a few visitors, and just hung out. My right side was completely numb, but my left side wasn't. I could move my left leg like it was nobody's bidness, and looking back now I should've seen that as a warning sign!

I think it was around 7:00 or 7:30 when I started to push. Before I started to push my nurse took out my catheter and I got a little worried because I felt it when she took it out. She didn't think anything of it so I just started to push. It took me a while to get the hang of the pushing, but you literally just push like you're trying to take the worlds largest ~~dump~~ poo. Presley's butt was up in my ribs making it SO hard for me to take in a deep breath when pushing. I finally had to have my Mom push on my ribs every time I pushed and that made things much better.

They had to come in two times to up my epidural because I could pretty much feel everything. Turns out that it didn't take on my left side and even when they came back in to adjust it it still wore off.

Trust me when I say there are no words to describe the pain!!!!

During labor I actually fell asleep. I had heard of people doing this but thought they were making it up. Uh, NO! It happens! I fell asleep in between contractions, had a dream, and even talked in my sleep. It was the weirdest thing ever!

FINALLY Dr. Ray came in so that meant it was getting serious up in there! They uncovered all of those horrific looking tools and I knew it was time to get this meatball outta me!

I don't really remember much but I just remember it hurting and burning so bad I just wanted to get her out so it would be over! I had told the nurse from the beginning "Don't tell me 'one more push' if it's really not one more!!" and I don't think she ever did :) I pushed a few times and on the last push I heard everyone get really excited so I knew she must've been out most of the way. I could tell when her feet came out and I knew it was finally over!!!

Thank ya Jesus!

When Presley came out she was a definite cone head and wasn't really crying. She was wide-eyed though! I remember her being bigger than we had all guessed (we had predicted around 6 pounds since I was a week early, and during my whole pregnancy I measured a week behind). They threw her up on my chest and it sounds kinda gross, but I just remember she smelled weird. Not bad or nasty, but just....fleshy. I don't know. Maybe that's not the best word.

MOMS! Help a sista out and tell me what it is!

Then came the lovely after birth. I ended up losing a good amount of blood but they got it under control. I also ended up having an episiotomy which makes me want to puke when I think about it. But she got me all fixed up nice and purtty :) And yes, what they sew you up with definitely looks like a fish hook.

Anywhoozle, they cleaned the baby up, weighed her and all that junk and we just got to hold her and stare at her! She was super cute and very wide-eyed! From there we got moved to the postpartum room and I finally got to eat and rest a little!

Glory Glory Hallelujah, I survived!!!!!!!

So that's how it all went down. When I tell people how painful it was most of their responses are,"But it was totally worth it, right? Look at what you got out of it!"

Um Yes, of course it was worth it...but that doesn't mean I want to do it again any time soon, if ever, no matter what I get out of it! People say I will forget the pain but I disagree, we have it on video!

During all of this we had our great friend & photographer, Jamie Cormier, taking pictures. I highly highly highly recommend getting a photographer for delivery. She captured so many pictures that most people never get. She was also a great birthing coach :) We can't stop looking at the pictures and Adam and I both agree that was the best thing we could've done, having her in there!

And here we are a week and a half later! I'm still hurting like Hell but it's getting better!

Our house looks like Fisher Price threw up everywhere, there's baby blankets and burp rags strewn all over the floor, there's maxi pad wrappers and numbing spray sitting on the back of our toilet, nipple shields on our nightstands, and somewhere on my body smells like baby spit up and I can't, for the life of me, figure out where it's coming from.

But I wouldn't change a thing! We have little Presley here and she's the cutest thing we've ever laid our eyes on!...well, most of the time...sometimes she makes some pretty ugly faces...in which we made a collage of for your viewing pleasure...

But let's focus on the cuteness in these next two pictures...

And because I'm sure you're all wondering if I'm still swollen and huge..here we are a week and a half post baby....I owe it all to breastfeeding...and forgetting to eat. And yes, 2 days after having a baby I died my hair dark again.

whirlwind week

2011-07-24T14:46:00.000-05:00

Ooooh boy! What a change our lives have taken! During the past week so many things have happened, I barely even know my name at this point.

**this is most likely going to turn into a ridonkulously long post**

Since the last post things really didn't get any better. I got released from the hospital but Presley needed to stay and spend more time under the bili-light for another night. Adam and I were going to pay to spend the night in the hospital but our sweet nurse worked it out to where she could be moved to the pediatric wing and we could stay in the room with her all night.

Worst. Mistake. EVER!

From the time we got in the room-around 1:00 am- until 7:00 the next morning Presley threw up and had horrible diarrhea. We would change her diaper, and literally 30 seconds later she would poop again. This whole time she is supposed to be staying under the light, only coming out to feed and we could only keep her out for 20 minutes. She was hysterically crying, puking, and pooping and all we could do was just stare at her. Finally we said "screw it" and we got her out and snuggled with her. We had a horrible, horrible nurse who said there was nothing she could do for us until the doctor got there 3 hours later. I was crying, Presley was crying, and I'm sure Adam wanted to cry because this was at 6 AM and we were still awake, and Adam had to be at baseball camp at 8:30.

Finally Presley went to sleep at 7:00, then the doctor came in. He said to try a different formula and then he took one of her dirty diapers to be tested to see if she was lactose intolerant.

DING! DING! DING!

Sure enough, the little squirt is allergic to dairy! I was so relieved that they figured it out. We now have her on a special formula and she has been doing great! She also is nursing a few times a day and some at night. I'm not exactly sure how long I will continue to breast feed though, I'm not really the biggest fan of it. It takes sooo long and it really doesn't get her full, we usually have to top her off with formula anyways. I'm going to give it another week or so but life would be a tad bit easier if we could exclusively formula feed.

Anywho, back to last week.

We finally got to go home around lunch time on Tuesday. Adam was at the baseball field so my Mom drove me home. We got settled in and just relaxed! My Mom spent the night with us that night and got up with the little nugget which was a lifesaver because Adam and I were beyond exhausted from the night before. Adam got home from baseball around 4:00 and went to sleep as soon as he got home. He slept until 7:00 that next morning. Lucky!!

Wednesday was a really hectic day. We had to be back at the hospital at 7:00 am to check her jaundice, then we had to go to the pediatrician because her ear was draining some funky yellow stuff, then back to the hospital to get her blood drawn, then back home, THEN to the ENT doctor.

So, yeah, a little busy that day. Turns out her ear is fine and so is her jaundice and we don't have to go back to the doctor until her 2 week check up. Which, by the way is this Friday.

TWO WEEKS PEOPLE!

I have successfully kept a little human being alive for one week and two days. Adam has been a huge help considering we haven't really been on a consistent schedule with feedings and sleep. Oh yeah, about the sleep...that's all she does! She only wakes up when she's hungry and most of the time falls back asleep during her feedings. I know I'll bite my tongue later but I want her to wake up a little!

Adams parents came in town on Thursday, and his sister and her boyfriend came over from Atlanta yesterday to spend the day with us. It was a lot of fun having them here and we miss them already! Adam and I are maybe possibly going to attempt a trip down to Florida before he starts back to school, we will have to see. Just the thought of a 10 hour drive with a one month old makes me want to barf.

That's all for now! If you haven't seen the video posted below then watch it...I promise there's nothing graphic about it considering Adam was glued to the head of the bed during delivery! The only graphic thing about it was my language, and he bleeped all of that out!

Love, Peace, Chicken Grease.

Presley's Birthday

2011-07-24T00:47:00.000-05:00

Thanks again to all our family and friends

who supported Lindsay and I throughout

this whole process. Here is our video

of the big day. Hope you enjoy!

Adam

One week!

2011-07-22T11:42:00.000-05:00

The little rugrat is already a week old! We spent most of that week in the hospital which is probably why it seems like it's gone by so fast! We've been home for three days now and things just haven't slowed down.

I'm at the chiropractor right now so I can't update but when I get home later this afternoon I will get back on here!

Dang Ol' Bilirubin

2011-07-18T20:17:00.001-05:00

Well, we still aren't home! This morning the pediatrician said that PDizzles jaundice had gotten worse and they were going to keep her under the Bili-light all day to help get rid of it. I was super upset because I just want to get home!

It's been a very long day, Adam had to go coach a baseball camp, so it was me and my Mom hanging out all day (and Anna Lisa who works in the hospital, she hung out with us too!). I haven't left the room all day and I just want to snuggle my wittle bitty baby!

They tested her levels again at 6:00 and any second now we should get the results. I have the phone sitting right beside me as we speak. Adam and I have to be out of the room by midnight because insurance won't cover any more nights. We are able to pay for a room in a different part of the hospital so we are going to do that. No way are we leaving our baby and going home, besides, I have to feed her!

I can't say enough how thankful I am to have my Mom here to help. She is here as soon as I need her, stopping and getting me the things I need, and does everything she can to help. She has taken the week off of work and is going to stay with us at the house and I am soooo grateful for that!

So far motherhood is everything I expected: motha-bleepin-exhausting!

I'm on a really weird schedule where I pretty much never sleep. I have to pump every two hours to help bring my milk in, then I have to feed la niña every three hours, and that takes an hour. So by the time I get all of that done I only have a small window of time to sleep before I start all over again, and that time is filled with people coming in and out of the room.

Shoot me now!

I did have my first "mommy moment" last night though! The nurse was supposed to bring Presley back to me at 2:00 AM so I could feed her. Around 1:00 AM they come wheelin' her in my room saying they could not calm her down and she wasn't acting hungry, just fussy. As soon as I picked her up and she saw me she stopped crying and fell right asleep!

I died. Oh my gosh I have a child.

Pray we can go home tomorrow! I'll update when I can!

HOLLA!

Sent from my iPhone

Sleepy Head!

2011-07-17T14:50:00.001-05:00

I think I officially have the worlds laziest baby! She has slept through almost the first entire day and a half of her life. I know newborns sleep a lot so I'm not going to complain.

Things are going great! She sleeps a lot, we are working on the breast feeding, and poops like a champ.

Nursing was going great but then this morning she wouldn't cooperate. After several attempts to feed the little nugget Adam and I decided it would be best to supplement with a bottle, just because I knew she was starving! She dominated the bottle (literally the thing was gone in about 3 minutes) and has been in a food coma ever since. The lactation consultant is on her way now to help us figure out the BF problems.

We were going to be able to leave this afternoon but Presley is borderline jaundice so they want to keep her overnight. Nothing to worry about though!

Adam is out at a baseball camp for a few hours and I'm sure he's dying to be back at the hospital. "Obsessed" doesn't even begin to describe how he feels about her. It's the sweetest thing and I have a feeling she's going to be pretttttttty spoiled.

Our wonderful friend and amazing photographer, Jamie Cormier, was in the delivery room with us and took the most special pictures we have ever had. I can't wait to get home and see all of them! I will post a few of them on here once I figure out how to post more than one picture at a time on my phone. If you have Facebook go to Jamie Cormier Photography and "like" her page and you can see some pics!

Presley Grace

2011-07-17T12:32:00.000-05:00

A quick note...

2011-07-16T15:14:00.000-05:00

I can't even begin to tell you how wonderful and amazing

this whole process has been. At first it seemed like her

pregnancy was going to go on and on and on. These last few

weeks have been long and rough on Lindsay. Labor was hard,

Lindsay worked her little butt off. I love her so much for

how hard she tried. When our baby girl got here it was

an incredible moment...one I'll never forget. To see

that living, breathing, and crying baby that came from

Lindsay and I was the greatest moment I've ever

been apart of. She is a blessing from God.

I'm at home grabbing a few things for

Lindsay and the baby and I thought

I would quickly jump on the computer

and drop this little note before I

head back to the hospital.

I love you Lindsay and you did great!

Love,

Adam

She's here!

2011-07-15T22:59:00.000-05:00

After what could be the worst pain I've ever experienced, two hours of pushing, and about 3 attempts to up my epideral, the little nugget is here!

Presley weighs 7.3 pounds and is 19 1/2 inches long!

So far she looks a lot like me but I know that can change and in a few days she could look like a totally different baby.

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't enjoy labor one bit and cussed like a sailor which is totally not me! I also fell asleep in the middle of pushing and talked in my sleep, I was drraming that my friend was trying to sell me a nightstand. Who knows! Oh well, it's over now and I can enjoy our new little baby!

Thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes!

I'll update as soon as I can with more details, I'm going to go devour this Taco Casa!

Getting closer!

2011-07-15T16:00:00.001-05:00

About an hour ago the doctor checked me and I was 5 cm, fully effaced, and a zero station. Dr. Ray seems to think it'll be 8:00 when Presley makes her debut but I've got an awesome nurse who is doing every trick up her sleeve to help get her here before then!

I've started shivering but the nurse says that's normal and it's from the epidural. The uncontrollable farts are still at an all time high and I've just learned to accept it. I mean, I thought it couldn't get any worse but whaddya know. When your husband o's video taping you and you rip a loud one, it usually takes the cake. So there you have it. Ladies who are going to be giving birth soon, consider yourself warned by Yours Truly!

I do it for the fans, you're welcome.

I should get checked again pretty soon, but for now I'm just going to try and sneak in a nap!

Epidural fun!

2011-07-15T11:57:00.001-05:00

I finally caved and got the epidural. My contractions were pretty strong and coming every 2-3 minutes. I was really nervous about the epidural and holysweetjesus...it hurt! It didn't hurt like I expected it to, but it definitely wasn't the most pleasant feeling.

But after? HELLO! I'm in Heaven! It definitely feels really weird to not have any feeling from the waist down. It makes the exams much less painful and I didnt feel a thing when the nurse inserted the catheter!

Oh, and the side effects they don't tell you about? Thanks for asking. Let's talk about the uncontrollable farting!! Sitting in a room with your hubs and fam and then you totally rip one, yeah that's not weird AT ALL! Someone please tell me this happened to them too? If not just lie to me and make me feel better. Although I'm not the type of person to get embarrassed about that kind of stuff so it really doesn't matter :-)

I'm only dilated to 1 1/2 cm and 70% effaced.

All I can think about is a slush from Sonic and a chocolate milk shake from Chik-Fil-A.

Alright, I'll keep updating later. Until then I'm going to try and figure out a way to hold in a fart while being completely paralyzed from the waist down. Wish me luck!

Getting the epidural. I cried the whole time. I'm a pansie like that.

Olive Garden, Ambien, & Enemas!

2011-07-15T06:09:00.000-05:00

How about that for a title, huh?

Last night Adam went and got us Olive Garden for dinner. They had just put the Cervidil in so I had to lie flat for two hours, which made eating loads of fun because Adam had to feed me while I was flat on my back! Holy Indigestion! As soon as the two hours was up I sat up and could literally feel my food move from my chest to my stomach. Never again!

Adam stayed for a while and left around 10:00 pm. The nurse came in and gave me an Ambien to help me sleep. I wish I could tell you what happened between that time and 4:00 AM, but I'm not exactly sure. I do know that the night involved me getting up several times to pee, and me writing a somewhat inappropriate text message to one of my friends at work!

This morning they came in and gave me a "soap suds enema".....

I'm gonna let you guess how much fun that was.

Needless to say, I then showered, put my contacts in, brushed my teeth, and now I'm back in bed feeling squeaky clean....literally inside and out.

Just waiting to start the pitocin now and then my doctor will come break my water! Score!

Update ya later!

Times Up!

2011-07-14T18:36:00.000-05:00

I meant to update earlier today, but turns out that preparing for birth doesn't leave you with much computer time! I had bigger priorities to cover today: Target, Home Depot, and the hair salon!

I'm at the hospital now, got my IV, and we are watching Cops! That's about as eventful as it's been so far! They should be in here soon to insert the Cervidil and then Adam is going to go get dinner. I'm on a regular diet until midnight, then I can't eat anything. I get really grouchy when I'm hungry so it should be a bitchin' time for everyone once I get nice and hungry! YAY!

I'm blogging from my phone so o hope this actually works! I will try my hardest to keep everyone updated so check back every once in a while!

Things should be pretty uneventful until the morning time, then the fun begins! Whoooo de whoooo!!

38 weeks

2011-07-12T18:59:00.000-05:00

how far along?

38 weeks

total weight gain?

Went to the doctor today and I've actually lost a pound! I weigh 149, but have no fear- I gained that pound back right after my appointment by devouring Five Guys! I mean, you've seen how many french fries they give you, right?

stretch marks?

None that I can see, which these days isn't much. I think I'm still in the clear though!

sleep?

HA! What a joke. I pretty much just sleep when I can these days, and mu child isn't even here yet! I usually am awake from about 2-4:30 AM. I usually just end up napping during the day since I know I will be up all night. I guess I better get used to it!

best moment this week?

Knowing that this is the last week I will be pregnant! I can honestly say that there is not one thing I will miss about pregnancy. Trust me, I've tried to think of something but I've got nothin'!

worst moment this week?

My pinched sciatic nerve has really been a pain in the ass. Literally. Can't walk. Can't move. The only thing left for me to do is bitch and moan, which I seem to have under control these days.

movement?

Blah. That's all I have to say about that. She wants out. I want her out.

cravings?

Mexican food! Thankfully I had dinner with two good friends last night and we always go to La Fiesta so it totally hit the spot. Still loving the ice cold water too!

gender?

Girl!

labor signs?

Still contracting but nothing else has changed! I can't really tell how frequent they are anymore because my stomach is so hard all the time anyways just from being the size of a house.

belly button?

I gave up hope on the belly button last week. It hasn't changed much, just looks weird.

what I miss?

Being able to walk without looking like I have something stuck up my butt. It's not from the pregnancy, it's from the pinched nerve.

symptoms?

Exhaustion is at an all time high right now. Mix that with having 436 things to do, plus 100 degree weather and no energy to do any of it. I'm a pure joy to be around, let me tell ya!

what I'm looking forward to?

Thursday afternoon! 5:00 to be exact. That's when I head to the hospital and we get this party started! YEHAW!

weekly wisdom?

Warn your husband ahead of time that he's on his own when it comes to eating. Thankfully Adam married me knowing that I don't cook so he's pretty good about feeding himself, but I have a feeling it's about to get 10 times worse once Presley get's here.

Say it with me: STOUFFERS!

_____________________________

Well boys and girls, today was my last doctors appointment!

DO YOU KNOW HOW EXCITING THIS NEWS IS???

I am still only dilated 1/2 a centimeter so I am going to go in Thursday afternoon so they can give me something called Cervidil. Pretty much it's a "disk" thingy-ma-jig they put in my vag to help me dilate more. Then early Friday morning we will go on as scheduled with the induction. When I get there at 5 I will be admitted and all that junk, probably eat a big dinner with Adam, then he will most likely come back home to get one last night of good sleep. My doctor said they can give me some medicine to help me sleep, which I think is a good thing considering I probably won't sleep much on Friday. I told Adam that if I really needed him at the hospital on Thursday night that I would call him, but it should be pretty uneventful.

So, that really only leaves me tomorrow to get everything done. I still have to hang her pictures up in the nursery, go grocery shopping, and clean the house. Thursday I will probably just be lazy and make sure everything is ready to go, then I am going up to my work to get my hair washed and blow dried so I will at least look half way decent in pictures!

I will update Thursday before we head to the hospital!!!!

preparing for baby

2011-07-09T18:51:00.001-05:00

Well, the end of the countdown is nearing! I was sure that this time would never come but somehow it snuck up on me! In the beginning of my pregnancy it seemed like my due date was sooo far away, but now there there are days left, I feel like I could use a little more time. More mentally than physically. If it weren't for the fact that I truly hate about 99.87% of everything about pregnancy, I'd let her stay in there for a little while longer. I mean, of course I want her here but I also know that when she does come things are going to be totally different, and for the first few days, weeks, or months..very stressful!

The past few days Adam and I have been trying to get a few last minute things done. We both have a lot of time on our hands now that I am done with work and he's done with school. I may or may not have mentioned it before but Adam isn't taking any classes during the second summer semester and baseball is finished! Now he has no reason to complain when we are up all during the night with the little meatball :)

He has been doing some baseball camps and working out some of the Bama baseball players, though. That's really all he's been doing though. Oh, and catering to ~~most of~~ all of his ~~bitchy~~ hormonal wife's needs.

Speaking of labor, or not, I did have a little "false but not really false just me being really dramatic and paranoid"...alarm.

Thursday afternoon I took Hunter and Taelor swimming. I knew I had been having a few contractions throughout the day but they didn't hurt and weren't that regular so I just ignored it. It's what I do best! That night they got closer together and a little more "crampy" so I called the on call doctor just to make sure it was safe for me to wait until the next morning to go get monitored. I really didn't want to have to go to the ER and spend all night there! He said it was fine but if my water broke or they got more intense to head to the hospital. Duh.

They continued throughout the night but I tried to sleep through most of it, I called my doctor as soon as they opened and they said to come in and they would hook a brotha' up and check me out. I tend to be one of those people that will have something happen or go wrong, and as soon as it's time to get it checked out it's already passed or it won't happen again. I apologized to the nurse in advance for wasting her time if it showed I wasn't having contractions. But, BEHOLD! Yours Truly was indeed having them and they were pretty close together. Like every 5-6 minutes apart!

GO ME, I'M NOT A HYPOCHONDRIAC!

The doctor checked me (my doc wasn't in the office that day so I saw a different one) and he said that I was still just 1/2 cm dilated so I could go home. I was glad to hear that because I had a 1:30 bikini wax appointment that day so she would've totally messed up my plans! I kid, I kid. But seriously though...the wax was important.

Anywho, I'm still pregnant. I'm still having contractions. My sciatic nerve is pinched which is just all sorts of fun. Oh, and our toilets are broken and the Roto Rooter people can't come until Monday. They've obviously never had a 6-7 pound baby push on their bladder 24 hours a day, otherwise they'd send out all of the troops and fix our toilets!

Well, I think that's it. I had totally planned on posting pictures of her nursery but I haven't decided if I want to keep the furniture where it is right now or move it around. Be patient though, maybe I will do it tomorrow!

37 weeks

2011-07-05T19:16:00.002-05:00

how far along?

37 weeks

total weight gain?

Big Girl over here has hit the 150 pound mark. That puts me at a total weight gain of 29 pounds, could be worse I guess!

stretch marks?

So far, so good. My stomach has started to itch though which can't me a good sign. I only have to make it 10 more days, please let them hold off!

sleep?

I've accepted the fact that I am done with sleeping. Although, I did "sleep in" today until 5:30! I need to stock up on coffee!

best moment this week?

Getting settled in the new apartment, getting the nursery set up, hanging up all of her clothes, and my doctors appointment! Looky there, a good week at last!

worst moment this week?

Feeling 645 months preggo. I hurt everywhere, sleeping even hurts, breathing hurts...Hell, at this point even blinking hurts.

I would get another massage, but I think I'm too far gone. Tooooo far gone I tell you.

movement?

Not so much "movement" as "trying to claw and kick her way out of my uterus"...but what's the difference, right?

cravings?

Captain Crunch, blueberries, & Subway. Yes, you read right, I said Subway. Look at me, eating all healthy and junk! It's never too late!

gender?

Girl!

labor signs?

I am definitely having contractions in the middle of the night. When I get up to pee in the middle of the night my stomach is hard as a rock, but no cramping or anything.

belly button?

Still half and half. It's got 10 days to do it's thang then it's quitin' time! I'm very disappointed in my belly button, I was hoping for some dramatic "pop"...but nothin'

what I miss?

Being able to roll over in bed without having to hoist my stomach over first.

symptoms?

My tolerance for stupid people..or really just "people" in general is at an all time low. I've been getting annoyed pretty easily and honestly, the next person to tell me that "Presley will come when she's ready to come" I may go postal on them. She doesn't get to make the decisions around here!

what I'm looking forward to?

Getting the car seat in stalled tomorrow or the next day, packing my hospital bag, then Tuesday I go back to the doctor where we will set up my induction appointment! After that, it's on like Donkey Kong!

weekly wisdom?

Never move when you're 9 months pregnant. Although, this shouldn't come to a surprise to anyone that has even a smidgen of common sense. Worst mistake of my life.

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I had my weekly appointment this afternoon. Things are still right on track with my weight and everything. I was for sure that I had gained about 3 pounds in the last week but to my surprise I only gained 1 pound! Yeaaaaahhh booooyyyyy!

She checked me, I am 50% effaced, and about a fingertip dilated (half a centimeter). The Doctor is fairly certain that by next week I will be 1 cm dilated which gives us the green light to induce a week early!

Can I get an AMEN?

We still have lots to do ,and lots to buy before the 15th. Tomorrow I am getting my hair done and getting a pedicure..if I get a wild hair I may even get a manicure...who knows.

I still haven't packed my bag. I'm nothing if not the queen of procrastination.

Presley's diaper bag is somewhat packed..I'm not really sure what else she needs in her bag that we won't get at the hospital. People keep telling me to pack lots of receiving blankets but my thought on that is...how many times will we be receiving her???

I still have to get a nursing bra, I guess nursing pads too...oh my...what is my life coming to?

I'm thinking about making Adam go buy the huge pads they make you wear after delivery. Just for my own entertainment. I think nothing would make me laugh harder than the thought of Adam standing in line at Publix with the worlds largest Maxi pads in hand. I'll let you know how that goes!

That's all for this week...I'm going to go do some accupressure on myself (see, my education is coming in handy!) and maybe do some squats and lunges! HOLLER!