Giveaway!

Hi everyone!

Megan over at In This Wonderful Life is hosting a giveaway that you should check out. CUTE stuff!!!

4 months!!!!

*You weigh 14.1 lbs (50%), and are 24 3/4 inches long. (75%)
*You wear 3-6 months clothes and a size 2 diaper.
*You eat 5 oz every 3 hours and take a 6 oz bottle with cereal right before bed. We will be starting some Stage 1 foods tomorrow if the doctor gives us the go ahead. I can't wait!
*You sleep from 9pm until about 4am and then you take a bottle and go back to sleep until about 7am. I guess this is our routine for now? You take a morning nap around 9am-10am and usually an afternoon nap from 12pm-3pm.
*I can't feel any teeth just yet, but you are a drool machine and EVERYTHING goes straight to your mouth. You like to suck on teethers as well.
*You are rolling all over the place and grabbing on to your feet. You have also started to sleep with your hiney up in the air and I think this might be the cutest thing ever. I have given up on you sleeping on your back. You're over it and you just immediately flip to your stomach.
*What little hair you had at birth is basically gone. You are the prettiest baldy I've ever seen.
*You laugh and smile about everything. I guess you get that from your Mom. ;)
*You still have gorgeous blue eyes. I am almost convinced that they will stay this way, although neither your Dad or I have blue eyes.
*I feel like you change a little more each day and we are still loving every single second with you. :)

I'm still around...

So maybe you've noticed...or not at all, haha-- that I haven't been blogging as much. I am still reading. Still commenting. I just haven't been posting. Clearly all that I want to post about is my child and while that is interesting to some of you it is excruciating for others and I get that. This was an infertility blog and then it was a pregnancy blog and now...well, you know. I am basically using it to keep up with Isabel's monthly stats.

And it's a viscious cycle because next year we will most likely attempt another FET. And there will be infertility talk...and God willing, pregnancy talk, and then maybe pictures of a new baby/babies.

Moral of the story, I don't guess there is one except that things are great on the homefront and soon I will post some cute, cute, cute pics of my even cuter baby. Oh, and I am still keeping up with you all. :)

3 months!

* You weigh somewhere around 13.5 lbs. You didn't have an appointment this month, so I had to weigh with you on our scales and this is what I got. You wear size 3-6 months clothes and a size 2 diaper.

*You are eating 5-6 oz every 3 hours. Sometimes you get hungry quicker than that!

*You sleep (roughly) from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Occasionally you will wake up around 3 a.m. and go back to sleep with a little coaxing. (is that a word?)

*You also take about 3, 1-2 hour naps a day. Usually around 9 a.m., noon, and then around 5 p.m. which is probably too late, but you are persistent with wanting to sleep around that time so we don't fight it.

*You are noisy! You jibber jabber all day long and squeal! Just this week you have started to laugh, and it is so cute!
And when you aren't doing that you have your fist crammed in your mouth! You love that fist and we can hear you sucking on it over the baby monitor! And there is so much drool right now! Lots of people tell me that you will probably start teething a little early, but if there is anything I have learned about you Miss Priss, it's that you do things on your own time.

*You love your crib mobile! It cracks you up! You also love your taggie(s). Rattlers are just whatever for now.

*You still love bathtime. Right now we give you a bath every other day because your skin seems a little dry and I don't want to make it worse. You kick and splash in the tub and then have meltdowns while we put lotion on you. You really do hate that part, or maybe you're just mad that we got you out of the tub!

*You rolled over for the first time on July 9th. You rolled back to belly and have done it a few more times since then. Everything I have read says you should roll belly to back first...but that's not happening yet. I am confused about this, but like I said...on your own time. :) Maybe you'll walk before you crawl? haha

*You are starting to get such a cute little personality. As I have mentioned before, you rarely get upset...BUT, you are a champion fit thrower when you do get upset. Oh my goodness you have a set of lungs on you!

*I cannot believe that it's already been 3 months! Time flies when you're having fun!

And because Momma likes to take pictures.....

Here's how I know....

That I made the right decision to stay at home with Isabel. Because even when I am changing her diaper in the Hob.by Lob.by bathroom, and she is screaming bloody murder, enough that people come to check on her and then she later poops through her diaper and onto her clothes in the middle of Koh.ls....I still know without a shadow of a doubt that there isn't a place in this world that I'd rather be....except for maybe at home. :)

What have I been up to?

Okay I'll tell you...

*My last day of "work" (the kind you get paid for) was June 21st. I have pretty much been blissfully unaware of what day it is, what month it is, or what time it is from that point on. It's not important.

*I started training for my 5k that is in October. There was a time not *too* long ago that I could just pick up and run 3 or 4 miles and survive. And then there was pregnancy, where I decided that eating and laying around would be much more suitable ways to spend my days....and then there was 6 weeks after that where I decided that if I couldn't do that one thing, then it was probably best I didn't exercise either...and then another 2 weeks after that I had stitches in my leg and wasn't allowed to exercise, but alas...I have run out of excuses. I will finish up Week 2 of the "Couch to 5k" plan tomorrow, and so far...so good. :)

*A few weeks ago we encountered the blue screen of death on our PC. For whatever reason my husband flung himself full force into fixing this issue and was basically glued to the computer every spare chance he got. I am proud to report that FINALLY we got everything somewhat reinstalled and up and running again...except our speakers aren't working and we haven't figured that one out yet. My husband is having youtube withdrawals in a bad way...HALP!

*I was accused of having a tan a week ago. Wha?!?! Everyone knows that I am as close to albino as possible without actually being one. Maybe having a baby did 1 good thing to my body? Maybe my skin tone magically changed into one that is able to tan? Maybe there really are unicorns and leprechauns? Speaking of leprechauns...hey Laci, remember that one time I convinced you that I had a tattoo of one? Good times.

*I am an insomniac. Can.not.sleep. Hence this post...but hey, at least I am posting something!!!

Happy 4th of July ya'll!

Yes, the purple clashes....but this lady was having none.of.the.pictures this morning without that paci!!!!!!