20 Weeks!

If I were pregnant, we would have found out the sex this week lol. Annabelle is doing wonderfully well. She is such a happy little baby. She gets soooo excited when the cats come around her. She tries to jump out of our arms to get to them. She will rub on Pootie and then start pulling on her hair. Pootie doesn't mind it, actually I think she enjoys it. She will lay right beside her at night as if she is protecting her. When we first brought Annabelle home we sat her in the car seat on our bed and Pootie walked up to her, circled her then smelled her. After that she laid at the bottom of the car seat and has been her buddy ever since. Scottie pretty much stays just far enough that Annabelle can't get to her. Kate just gets worried when she hears Annabelle crying.

Speaking of Kate, it has been almost a week since she has been in our house. She loves this weather and hasn't wanted to come in. Jason can not bring himself to put her kennel up though. It is still in the living room. I am happy that she is outside. That is where she should be :) I don't mind though her sleeping in the house when its bad out or cold but she makes the living room so dusty and dirty. I actually kept my house clean until we got her. She is a good dog though, and is especially a good guard dog. Someone was on the trail behind our house at 11 pm last night and she let us know it. It sounds like she is going to rip someones head off but she wouldn't hurt a fly.

Back to Annabelle - she learned to blow raspberries this week. It is one of the funniest things I have seen in awhile. The other funny thing is when we put her in the bath, she arches her back and won't go. She peed in the water the other night while she was doing that. Needless to say Jason poured her some more water. She thought it was funny and so did we haha. She also peed on Jason last night when he was changing her. It had been awhile since that happened. She found humor in that also. I think she is going to have her daddys sense of humor which is a good and a bad thing. Jason pretty much thinks everything is funny. He is real mature that way :)

We have started giving Annabelle 2-3 bottles of oatmeal a day. It is mixed with breast milk and she really likes it. She has been a good night sleeper for a long time, but is starting to be a better napper. Her granny is with her today and she slept until 7:30. She and granny like to nap a lot when they are together, they napped for almost 3 hrs last night on the couch. The longest nap of Annabelle's life lol. Granny watched her Saturday while we went to see the Braves play the Reds. Since it has been so nice and warm here she has been wearing only a diaper. She looks so cute. When Jason doesn't have a shirt on and she is only in a diaper they look so much alike. Due to the nice weather she has been able to wear her dresses when we go out. She is so pretty. She has moved up to her big girl stroller and enjoys it. She likes going for walks with her mommy and daddy.

Today we get our building delivered and get all the junk out of the basement so we can make Annabelle a play room. I am excited for that. I have thought about moving our actual living room down stairs and just making the upstairs a sitting area with my books. I love books, I know I should probably get a hand held reader thing but I love to buy books. Plus I am afraid I would get a headache trying to read off one of those. It will never happen though because neither me nor Jason will ever move that big ol 800lb tv we have upstairs. I almost cut my toe off putting it up the first time. We will never go to LCD in the living room, ever, because of that tv lol. My books will probably just move downstairs.

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Annabelle...

You are HILARIOUS!!! When your daddy woke you up this morning, first thing you did was smile and then razz the fire out of him. I am laughing so hard at the thought and image of your continual raspberries lol. You just learned this trick yesterday and have been going strong at it ever since!

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Infertility can be heart breaking. The small problems I had (and I feel they were small because we were able to conceive without treatment) were heart breaking. People need to be supportive to those who are struggling. I was almost ready to give up after 2 years, I can't imagine what it is like to be dealing with this for years and years. I was fortunate to have a good friend who had experienced many of the same things that I did while trying to conceive. She now has a happy boy who loves my Baby Belle.

Part of the reason I feel like the luckiest person in the world is the fact that I was able to conceive and produce such a happy healthy baby. We struggled for almost 2 years with being unable to get pregnant and the doctors kept telling me to give it more time due to my age (I was 24 when we started) - but that fertility drugs were in my future. I had test after test and the only thing they could figure it to be was Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcos
Jason and I joked about whose fault it was that we could not get pregnant. A horrible thing to joke about I know but it made us feel a little better in some weird way. When I finally received my PCOS diagnosis I learned that I did not ovulate. I have very long and weird cycles and that was the cause. My doctor did not want me to take the fertility drugs for a few more months, until we could make sure I did not ovulate. She told me that if by some chance I did that the pills would stop it. Honestly that freaked me out because what if I started the pills in the future and my body decided to ovulate how in the world would I know what was going on? It still frustrates me to think about it.
Last year on March 30th, I watched Father of the Bride & Father of the Bride II. It was later and Jason was already asleep. I had not been feeling very well for a day or so and couldn't sleep. Those movies made me so upset for some reason, I don't even know why. They just made me sad because I wasn't able to get pregnant and that old chick was able to (yes I know it is a movie). The next morning I still felt bad, I thought maybe I was pregnant because I had been throwing up and using the bathroom a lot. I went to Instant Care because I don't have a regular doctor. They did a pregnancy blood test, it came back negative. I just had some type of virus. I was pretty much devastated. I cried the entire way home because I just knew that I was sick because I was pregnant. I got very upset with my mother who I did not think understood because everyone acted like it was not a big deal. To me it was huge deal. I don't think Jason really even understood. The DR gave me Phenergan and I was knocked out for about a week and a half. I was still sick after that my friend had diagnosed me with gallbladder problems (haha) but on April 15th decided to just take a pregnancy test. I was going to see Lucero the next day and just wanted to make sure. I took it and it was positive! I called my mother, she couldn't understand why I was upset. I don't understand why she thought I was upset. We went to Wal-Mart at 11 that night and got three more. All were positive. I believe Jason & I were stunned, we didn't know what to do. I told Jason while I was still in the bathroom. Who could wait? lol. I had an appointment the next week to start on Clomid, a fertility drug. Needless to say I felt very happy the next morning when I called my OB/GYN to tell them I needed to cancel. I also called Instant Care to ask about the blood test I had taken. They were very weird about the whole thing, I guess they were afraid I was going to sue. I can't remember what exactly I asked them, but I think it was about the reliability of the test (from what I had read those tests were pretty much 99% accurate). When I got off the phone with them they called me back a little bit later to make sure I told my doctor that the tests were a certain brand, I don't remember which kind now, and that they had been through quality control and that the dr would know what they were talking about. Them acting so weird about it got me paranoid lol. I had my first doctors appointment about two weeks later, I was about 6-8 weeks pregnant. They were surprised that I was pregnant without the fertility drugs.

I know that it was a miracle that I got pregnant. I am thankful for Annabelle every second of every day.

19 Weeks!!!

I feel like the luckiest person in the world most of the time. I have an absolutely great child who just has the best personality. She is such a laid back baby who has a ferocious temper (yes that is possible ha) if you do not do what she wants the moment she wants it done. Sounds a little familiar :) She smiles all the time, when she wakes up crying all you have to do is smile and her and she is alright. She loves her daddy getting her ready in the mornings and putting diapers on her head. In the past week Jason has taught her to hold her feet while she is getting changed. It is hilarious. He showed her one time and now anytime she is changed she does that. If she is on the changing table she holds her left food with her left hand and holds onto the table with her right hand. She is so funny. A couple nights ago we had a yelling match. She has learned she can control the sounds she makes and that if she moves her mouth different ways she makes different sounds. She really does sound like a banchee. If you ever see the Monster Quest of a wild banchee in Lexington, KY know that it is really just Annabelle running around in the back yard yelling. She may be talking by six months after all. The doctor told us to expect to hear "momma" and "dadda" by June.

The new thing that we are trying to get her to do is pat her hands together. When we do it in front of her she loves it. She watches and laughs. She watches everything and takes it all in. She is observant like her momma and silly like her daddy I guess. If her personality is anything like her daddys I am in trouble - the world is in trouble! In the past when I would clap her hands together she just keeps her hands in fists. Now she is relaxing them more. In a week or two she will be doing it. Who knows she may do it tonight. She rolls a lot now, not completely over but from side to side. She does it so perfectly its like she has always been doing it. When she was little bitty she rolled over to her side a couple times. By the middle of next week she will probably be rolling completely over. She is sitting very well by herself, when she starts to drop down she will stop herself and kind of straighten herself up. She is just too precious and adorable.

18 Weeks!

It seems as though I just blogged about 17 weeks yesterday. Not much has gone on this week. She is sitting up by herself better and better. Won't be much longer before she grows out of her infant car seat into her big girl chair. Probably by the end of May at the latest, her feet stick out and there is about 2 inches left of the seat above her chair. Daddy has been gone since Tuesday and its just been us girls. We have had a pretty good time. Annabelle has been sleeping at about 10 or earlier and waking up at about 7. This morning she woke up when I did so I wasn't sure I was even going to get to shower. I put her on her Baby Einstein play thing and she was content. She can grab all the things that hang from it now. She played a lot in her bouncy thing yesterday too. I bathed her by myself for the first time and we did that pretty early. We had all our stuff ready to go for today by 7 pm. Momma even got to pack most of her clothes and all of Annabelles clothes to take home tomorrow. We get to pick daddy up in London tomorrow and we are excited for that. He has been gone one week a month since January and he is leaving for another week in May and in June. I am behind in printing out my blogs, they go in Annabelles baby book. It is just so much easier for me to type than write. Daddy found a hand written letter I wrote Annabelle and was reading it. Apparently he does not know that some things are private :) I also am updating her baby book today for her fourth month.


Annabelles friend Seth is sick today, we hope he feels better. They like to play with each other at the sitters house and miss each other when the other isn't there.

1 Year Ago Today

I got a positive pregnancy test and our lives were changed forever :)

4 month well baby check up

Monday Annabelle had her four month visit with the doctor. She is 25 1/4 inches long and weighs 15 lbs 12 ounces. Jason must have been right when he said they measured her long at her 2 month appointment. I know she has grown more than 1/4 of an inch in two months or at least she looks like she has. I am amazed that she weighs as much as she does, she hides it well in her clothing just like her momma. When her clothes are off though that is another story, she has rolls all over lol. She has gained 6 lbs in the four months since she was born. She is very healthy, has very clean ears and the doctor is impressed at just how healthy she was. She is developmentally where she should be or slightly above. The things he told us she would start doing in the next two months like talking and probably crawling just do not seem real. She just seems too little to be doing those things. She already isn't our little baby anymore. He told us to put off baby food until next month which her daddy likes. Jason didn't like that we tried to feed her mashed potatos on Easter. He may just not have liked the fact we sent Conner to get him and wake him from his nap :) Jason!Jason!HURRY! lol. She has been on cereal for a month - the dr said we could start giving her oatmeal (ooopss I already had been) and barley. The barley he said was hard to find, we found some at Kroger probably a good thing too since it was a close out item.

She had more vaccinations and her reaction was pretty much the same as it was at 2 months. Cried just a little and was fine. Momma didn't cry this time and was able to distract Annabelle with her froggie. Monday night she started screaming though and we don't know if maybe her shots hurt her after all or if it was because her nose was stuffy. We gave her some tylenol and she was fine. I don't like to see my baby get that upset. We go back in two more months to see how much more she has grown.

Annie's 1st Easter

The Welches had a great Easter. We started it by going to Church with Veronica & Josh. Annabelle was the best baby and the prettiest :) in the entire church. She was very quiet and spent most of the time eating and sleeping. She looked beautiful in her Easter dress. We took some pictures and mommy realizes just how much weight she STILL has to lose. I am bigger now than I was at 6 months pregnant, that is sad and funny at the same time. Oh well, she is worth it. Back to Easter. We went to mothers & poppys after church to eat, it was good except mother put peppers in the corn. WHO DOES THAT?! I am still not over it lol Annie got to take a lot of pictures with her family and to hunt eggs with Chandler and Conner. Conner is the funniest little boy I know. He is also the wildest, haha, he adores Annabelle. Aunt V and I dyed about 18 easter eggs and the boys had a lot so they had a good time hunting eggs. Daddy helped Annabelle and it was very sweet & cute. We had a wonderful weekend and was completely worn out when we got back to Lexington. Maybe one day soon we will live closer to our family.

Annabelle & Jathis

Annabelle & granny

Annabelle & her Easter basket

Annabelle in her ears

Daddy & Annabelle hunting eggs

Silly boy!

Annabelle & mamaw Camzie

Annabelle with Uncle Josh & Auntie V

Annabelle & Jayme

I love these three

Annabelle before the hunt

Four Months

To my sweet girl on your four month birthday,
Mommy and daddy could not have asked for any better of a baby than you. You are so lovable, sweet and beautiful. You bring much joy to our lives and we can't imagine how we ever made it without you. We are truly blessed to have a child like you. You have developed so very much in the past month. It is absolutely incredible to watch you play with toys. You love to shake your rattle and play with your froggy from Uncle Will. Anytime you get upset we can always just shake your froggy and you calm down. It is so adorable to watch you reach for your toys when we hold them in front of you. Daddy has been working with you to try and roll over. You get to your side and then you stop. You still love to kick, kick and then kick some more on the floor. Yesterday daddy and mommy let you ride around Lexington and to Manchester with granny, pap and Auntie V. It was the first time you had been away like that from us. We didn't know what to do with ourselves. Mommy got to ride in the front with daddy to Manchester for the first time since you were born. We missed you a lot and even beat you to Manchester! Auntie V likes to take her time and shop. You are so precious. We love you so much. Granny bought you a jumpy toy and your favorite thing to do is chew on the leaf. Sometimes you play with the other toys on it but mostly you just chew on the leaf. We thought you were starting to teeth, your gums looked a little strange but I guess it was a false alarm. The drool still drips constantly but thats already, we just wipe it off. You and the cats have gotten to be even better friends than before. They like for you to pet them and Scottie cat sleeps next to you at night. They worry when you cry just like Kate does. Kate always peeks her head up in the window to make sure you are okay. She doesn't like to see you sad. Mommy is still breastfeeding you (she is proud to have made it this far). You get three bottles of breast milk at the baby sitters. You even get rice cereal now at least one time a day. It doesn't seem to make you any fuller though. The doctor is going to discuss putting you on baby food at your well baby check up. That will be fun, I hope you love sweet potatoes as much as I did and I still do. I can't believe how you play with things or how good you are. We are so lucky. Daddy is going to be gone all next week, it will be just me and you. We will miss daddy a lot but he won't be gone too long. We love you little one!
--Momma!

17 Weeks!

17 weeks ago I was in labor and today I am arguing with Humana FSA to pay for what the insurance didn't. I don't know which is rougher - probably dealing with Humana. Today they decide the papers which were acceptable in the past aren't acceptable any longer. That they need to say what the service was even if they just write it on there as long as it has their letterhead. Well if nothing else I can write C-Section on it myself. Do they not know how easy it is to make letterhead these days???? Oh Well...SJE is sending me something to use anyway.

Now to the important stuff....Anniebelles has developed so many new things in the past two weeks. It will not be long before she is pulling herself completely up from laying down. She is so strong, but she has been since birth. We keep waiting for her to crawl, nothing yet. I know it is early but daddy has high expectations. I on the other hand know that it does not really matter how early or late she does things, she will always be perfect. Her eye color has still not turned so maybe they will be an inbetween her entire life. My eyes on the other hand are getting lighter, how crazy is that? I am 27 and my eyes are turning lighter brown, almost hazel. WEIRD! We are very excited for Easter - We are taking Annabelle to her Uncle Josh's church. Jason and I haven't been to a church in four years. After that we are going to hunt eggs at mothers & poppys. I can't wait to see Annabelle and my youngest cousins play. The last time she saw Conner she wasn't able to really interact like she is now. He is going to be excited. Him & his brother both adore her. Jason & I are finally going to make it to the movies.

I have to work 1/2 day tomorrow but Jason is off. Tomorrow is going to be the first time Jason has had to watch her for more than 45 mins or so. I can't wait to see how he does lol. He has fixed bottles before but only a couple. Mom was there both times so tomorrow he is completely on his own. She doesn't like to sleep for him so it may be rough. He said they would probably call me many many times. I would take off tomorrow if it wasn't for the fact I want to see Jason do it alone. I know they will be fine. We are taking her Monday for her four month well baby visit. I am prepared to cry again when she gets her shots. We may pierce her ears but we still haven't decided on that. We have debated on doing that even before she was born. I am anxious to see how much she weighs now. One of her little legs is chubbier than the other lol.

She may be starting to teethe, I hope not but it is a possibility. She slobbers constantly and yesterday she wasn't feeling very good at the baby sitters. I am so lucky to have such a great sitter. She treats Annabelle like she is her own and I never have to worry about her. Most of the time I don't even call to check on her, just because I don't feel I need too. I know she is fine and if she isn't Jennifer will call me and let me know. That makes me feel so much better about coming back to work. It was rough that first week but after that its been a lot easier. I'd still love to stay home with her but she needs the interaction of other kids and the break from her mommy even though she loves me so much! I am lucky to have such a sweet, loving and happy baby!

Happy 5th Birthday Scottie Cat!

Sir Scott of the Highlands was born on Good Friday, April 9th, five years ago. We love her very much! We thought she was a boy and that is the reason for her name. Momma loved Scotland....we found out she was a girl so we just call her Scottie Cat. She is a sweet cattie. The first time we saw her she was climbing bricks and eating Klesko's dog food. We knew in that moment she was the Chop Bottom cat for us.

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Annabelle absolutely LOVES to watch basketball. Jason actually mentioned DVRing the game last night so she could continue to watch basketball until next season. I didn't really like that idea due to my dislike of looking at a certain UNC player. Thats mean I know but I can't help it.

Last night she had a very powerful blow out in her diaper. It scared the living daylights out of me and Jason. It was so LOUD!!!! It never phased her, she kept her eyes on the ballgame the entire time. We laugh so much at the things she does, I don't know that I will ever forget Jason jumping in the bed when she did that!!! HAHA

The good news is that Annabelle loves sportscenter too. Hopefully that love will continue now that baseball will be the main feature on it. I could sit her down in front of espn and she would be content for hours. It beats anything I"ve ever seen as people say.

Oh Canada!

Do I go with Jason or do I stay home with the baby? Do I go with Jason and take the baby with us? Who knows...we can't decide which would be better. Actually Jason does want her to go but I'm not so sure. If she does go do I buy her a ticket or just let her sit in our laps? We would need the extra room for her ticket but that is a lot of money to pretty much be wasting. My carry ons would be filled to capacity I am sure. She is a good baby so I don't think she would mind riding, she would probably actually sleep (yeah right!). We would have to get her a passport but thats not a big deal I have to get mine renewed anyway with my married name on it. I've never been to Canada and I'd like to go. If I knew that Jason would be free most of the trip that would sway my decision toward going. When he went to the Atlanta meeting it only lasted 2 hours but he was gone for three days.

BUT the most important part of this decision is probably the breast milk part of it. If she isn't with me I have to pump and I refuse to throw the milk away. I will bring it home with me somehow. I've been reading about it and I plan to call the airline to find out exactly how it works. Like my mom says I might not even been feeding her in June. AHH! Just sometimes I would like my decisions to be easy. More than likely I will stay home though and wait for him to return with presents! lol

Easter Pictures

We went a couple weeks ago to Portrait Innovations in Hamburg to get lil one's pictures made for 3 months. Without really meaning too it turned into Easter pictures. We were very pleased with the way they turned out. Daddy was ready to go back the next weekend for more. They were all so good it was hard to pick out favorites, here are some of the ones we liked the most. We were afraid we would go overboard and spend waaaay too much money but they were very reasonable and we were able to contain ourselves.


Daddy's favorite:
Mommy's favorites:
Everyone's favorites:

Storage Bags

Since being back to work I have used a lot of breast milk storage bags. I pump at least four times at work, which results in 11 or so ounces. I put five ounces in a bag. I had been using these Lansinol bags that a friend gave me. I had wanted to try the Medela storage bags to hook up to my pump. I have been using those for a week now and have almost ran out. My idea was to use them the way they are meant to be used but instead I have used those the same way I used the others - I pump into the bottle then pour into the bag. The Medela's would probably keep the milk fresher as there is less room for extra air. I think this weekend I will be returning to Lansinol though. You get more of those for your money.

My breastpump has been the absolute greatest thing, I would be completely lost without it.

Boo on Easter basket

Last week I was so excited to have ordered her Easter basket. The basket got shipped Friday but not the liner. The liner was the main thing I wanted so I was going to cancel my order. Turns out they had it in stock and it also showed as being shipped. So Tuesday when the basket came I thought maybe the liner would be with it as well. Nope, it wasn't. I called again yesterday and there was a problem with the liner fabric (they had gotten a shipment or so they said) and it was not suitable to be sold. Long story short, I sent the basket back and completely cancelled my order. I must say that I have been really impressed with the pottery barn kids customer service. They were very helpful and tried their best to find out what was going on. They are going to pick up the basket today and give us a full refund which I thought was pretty nice. When I told mom it had been cancelled, her reply was "well I can embroider her name on it for her" If she had told me that before I would have never even ordered it!!!! She knew I was going to but never said a word LOL.


I think I am going to send them an email right now about how great their customer service was.

16 weeks!

Watching a child grow and develop is the greatest thing in the world. In the past week Annabelle has learned to do so many new things. It absolutely blows my mind everytime that I see her doing something. She plays with things, she eats her feet, she babbles, and she screams like a banchee. She is the funniest and sweetest baby. Her and her daddy just sit and talk to one another all evening and every morning. She talks to him more than she does me, I guess because she wants to know why he is so silly. Even at this age she knows how to respond to things. Her daddy faked sneezed all Friday evening and she would laugh. When he stopped she stopped, when he would sneeze again she would laugh again. She is able to sit up but her ability to do so just gets better and better each day as she gets better balance. She does not mind tummy time like she used too. She will be four months old next weekend. Granny said its felt like shes been three months forever and it kind of has. I am just so thankful to be privileged enough to have her as my child. I probably have wrote this before but now as I look back on it the struggle to get pregnant was worth every test they ran on me, every bit of blood they drew from me and all the months (years) of frustration.