Thursday has always been one of my favorite days of the week. There is only one more day of work left and you get to anticipate the weekend. I now think this is why Thursday has been my favorite day, because my baby would be born on a Thursday. I love this little fact about her.
She sits up like a champ, she tries so hard to pull herself up and succeeds sometimes. She smiles always and laughs even more than she smiles. She has found Kate and loves her. She gets sooooo excited to see her animals that she squeals. It is so cute. Her hair has started to grow a little, sometimes I think it will be blonde and other time dark brown. My hair was blonde until I was about 4 or so...then it got dirty blonde and it has been dark brown since about 1st grade or so (maybe sooner). Jason had light hair but I figured my skin tone, hair and eyes would be more dominant. So far her eyes have not decided if they will be brown, in fact they are hardly dark brown anymore at all. Now they go from hazel to green.
Annabelle is babbling a little. It is adorable when she talks to the people we see in stores. She is trying her hardest to say "Hi!" Dadda is working on getting her to say dadda. So far there has been no response but its always good to keep trying. She has been eating sweet potatos and I don't know that she cares for them very much. She didn't particularly like carrots either but tonight we tried squash and she LOVED them.
We have such a sweet baby, I am so happy to have her. She is almost six months old. Then she will be a year, then she will be grown. So sad! We are going all out for her first birthday. Her daddy tends to not make a big deal out of things but this we agree has to be big. I already know what her first present will be. I am awful I know, I got over six months to think about this. I just want it as close to perfect as it can be.
I am going to schedule pictures for six months. We are going to the beach at the end of June and I can not wait to take pictures of her in the sand.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
23 Weeks!
It is sad, she is growing up every day. Last night we went to a birthday party, Chandler turned 1. She was able to sit up and play with the big boys (and by big boys I mean the 9 month old and the year old babies). I have a slight fear that Annabelle may be a bully. Or at least she will be persist ant and maybe a little forceful? Last weekend at Brody's party she grabbed the hair bow from another baby's head. They are the exact same age, which is pretty neat. It was funny but I was a little embarrassed. Nothing to be embarrassed about I know she is just a little baby.
In the past week we have noticed that little one has pretty sensitive skin. At grannys on Saturday she broke out on her face where she was leaned up on granny. They both had sunscreen on so we are blaming the skin so soft kind. Annabelle had been exposed to hers before and hadn't broken out. Today the baby sitter calls and she has done it again, this time to Coppertone. It is really weird because she has had the coppertone on at the baby sitters before. The most recent she was wearing it was yesterday. I have noticed she had a slight reaction to the fabric in her big girl car seat. I don't have sensitive skin and neither does Jason as far as I know. Maybe he did when he was younger.
TEETHING! We are still slobbering like a water fountain. She doesn't like for us to look at her gums. She fights us as much as she can. She has began to fight us when we change her diaper. She twists, turns, laughs, eats her foot all while getting changed. She prefers to kick the wipes bucket as well as eat the diapers. We are using our last pack of 2 pampers sensitives diapers. They are our favorites. They do not make a size 3 only a 2-3. I think I may get some from diapers.com. At this age she goes into Pampers Cruisers due to her mobility.
Since Kate has been out of the house, we have kept the house cleaner. We play in the floor a lot now and I don't think it will be that much longer before she is crawling. She gets her belly off the ground which is a good start.
In the past week we have noticed that little one has pretty sensitive skin. At grannys on Saturday she broke out on her face where she was leaned up on granny. They both had sunscreen on so we are blaming the skin so soft kind. Annabelle had been exposed to hers before and hadn't broken out. Today the baby sitter calls and she has done it again, this time to Coppertone. It is really weird because she has had the coppertone on at the baby sitters before. The most recent she was wearing it was yesterday. I have noticed she had a slight reaction to the fabric in her big girl car seat. I don't have sensitive skin and neither does Jason as far as I know. Maybe he did when he was younger.
TEETHING! We are still slobbering like a water fountain. She doesn't like for us to look at her gums. She fights us as much as she can. She has began to fight us when we change her diaper. She twists, turns, laughs, eats her foot all while getting changed. She prefers to kick the wipes bucket as well as eat the diapers. We are using our last pack of 2 pampers sensitives diapers. They are our favorites. They do not make a size 3 only a 2-3. I think I may get some from diapers.com. At this age she goes into Pampers Cruisers due to her mobility.
Since Kate has been out of the house, we have kept the house cleaner. We play in the floor a lot now and I don't think it will be that much longer before she is crawling. She gets her belly off the ground which is a good start.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Today was a big day
Annabelle's first day in her big girl car seat!!! She was just too big for her infant seat. Annabelle combined with the seat was just so heavy that it hurt my wrist to carry her. It is going numb just thinking about it lol. I honestly thing I got carpal tunnel from carrying her in her infant carrier. Her big seat is in the middle and my only complaint is I can't reach my hand back there to hold hers when she gets upset or to rub her on her head. She has lots of room though and looks really comfortable sitting in it. The other big thing is she had sweet potatos for the first time tonight. The jury is still out on whether or not she liked them. She has been eating carrots for a couple weeks now, she likes them alright. I think she is just a baby that doesn't enjoy baby food that much. Really though why would she when she is already getting the best!
Sweet Potato Face
Sweet Potato Face
Thursday, May 14, 2009
22 Weeks!
My beautiful girl turned another week old today. She barely resembles the baby I brought home from the hospital. She is so big and stout! Monday I was talking to mom on the phone and she was trying to STAND up. She was holding on to me and pulling up. Later that evening we put her in her walker and she started walking! A month ago she wasn’t able to touch the floor in the walker. Now she is walking – she pushes herself forward sometimes and it is funny. When Jason first sat her down in the walker she started moving and the look on her face was priceless. She was looking at me and she was just shocked, she didn’t know what was going on. Now she goes up and down the hallway chasing the cats. It is cute. We are very thankful to Brody for letting Annabelle borrow his walker and car seat Brody turns 3 Saturday and I can’t believe it. His party is tomorrow night and we probably won’t be able to make it. It makes me sad that we live away from everyone but especially sad when we miss things like this and Chandlers baseball games. It is starting to get to Jason too; hopefully we will get to see some baseball games on the weekends. I am going to pack some clothes just in case we do decide to go to Clay County tomorrow. If it is nice out we probably will head that way. If not we will just have to miss it and give him his present later. I just thought it would be special for his party to be the first one she goes too.
if the weather clears up we are going to the zoo on Sunday. I can’t wait, it is zoo babies. Jason isn’t big on the zoo but mom, veronica & I love it. Annabelle will love it too We are going to the beach at the end of June. Jason says he is ready for a vacation. He has been spending lots of time getting things organized in his new position. I know that if he says he is ready for the beach that he must be ready for the beach. Jason hates vacations more than anything lol.
Annabelle has a new noise. It’s like he he he. Kind of sounds like a homer and henry doll. It’s pretty funny. Last night I was so tempted to put her in her bassinet. I chickened out and didn’t though. Jason was gone to his volleyball match and she was asleep before 10. I should have but was afraid she would wake up. I am going to clean it out so that I can set her in there the next time.
Annabelle loves music and has pretty much since the day she was born. Swept Away by the Avett Brother is the first song she heard out of the womb. Her daddy sings it to her sometimes. Tuesday we were at Josh G’s and they were playing and singing. SHE LOVED IT. She just stared and smiled and raised her arm up and down, patting her leg to the beat. It was so sweet to watch. My sweet girl, I don’t know what I’d do without her. Not having her at the house Friday night made me realize how much time we had wasted before we had her. It was just so boring. Now we have her to watch after and every day is something new and exciting. We didn’t know what we were missing.
Three weeks and Kate is still an outside dog. Amazing! Our house is slowly losing the stinky dog smell. I love my dog but she stinks. When this silly rains stops we will finally be able to put up our building that’s been in my drive way for three weeks. We are going to build Kate a nice little dog house and sun shade on the side of it. She should enjoy it a lot. She is funny chasing birds that fly over her head. We like to sit on the back porch with her in the evenings. She seems to enjoy it as well. Maybe one day we will all be able to go for a walk together. Kate gets too excited right now and tries pulling Jason instead of just walking calmly. The babies swing is going to go up when the rain stops too. We have a lot of things that need to be done and not enough time to get it done.
We are thinking about Matt, Bethany & Evelyn today as they wait for the birth of their new baby. We are excited for them and hope everything goes okay today. There seem to be lots of new babies around for Annabelle to play with when they get older. My friend Heather’s baby turns 1 next week. I can’t believe that he is already a year old. At one time last year there were three of us pregnant in this office. Now our babies are all growing too fast
if the weather clears up we are going to the zoo on Sunday. I can’t wait, it is zoo babies. Jason isn’t big on the zoo but mom, veronica & I love it. Annabelle will love it too We are going to the beach at the end of June. Jason says he is ready for a vacation. He has been spending lots of time getting things organized in his new position. I know that if he says he is ready for the beach that he must be ready for the beach. Jason hates vacations more than anything lol.
Annabelle has a new noise. It’s like he he he. Kind of sounds like a homer and henry doll. It’s pretty funny. Last night I was so tempted to put her in her bassinet. I chickened out and didn’t though. Jason was gone to his volleyball match and she was asleep before 10. I should have but was afraid she would wake up. I am going to clean it out so that I can set her in there the next time.
Annabelle loves music and has pretty much since the day she was born. Swept Away by the Avett Brother is the first song she heard out of the womb. Her daddy sings it to her sometimes. Tuesday we were at Josh G’s and they were playing and singing. SHE LOVED IT. She just stared and smiled and raised her arm up and down, patting her leg to the beat. It was so sweet to watch. My sweet girl, I don’t know what I’d do without her. Not having her at the house Friday night made me realize how much time we had wasted before we had her. It was just so boring. Now we have her to watch after and every day is something new and exciting. We didn’t know what we were missing.
Three weeks and Kate is still an outside dog. Amazing! Our house is slowly losing the stinky dog smell. I love my dog but she stinks. When this silly rains stops we will finally be able to put up our building that’s been in my drive way for three weeks. We are going to build Kate a nice little dog house and sun shade on the side of it. She should enjoy it a lot. She is funny chasing birds that fly over her head. We like to sit on the back porch with her in the evenings. She seems to enjoy it as well. Maybe one day we will all be able to go for a walk together. Kate gets too excited right now and tries pulling Jason instead of just walking calmly. The babies swing is going to go up when the rain stops too. We have a lot of things that need to be done and not enough time to get it done.
We are thinking about Matt, Bethany & Evelyn today as they wait for the birth of their new baby. We are excited for them and hope everything goes okay today. There seem to be lots of new babies around for Annabelle to play with when they get older. My friend Heather’s baby turns 1 next week. I can’t believe that he is already a year old. At one time last year there were three of us pregnant in this office. Now our babies are all growing too fast
Monday, May 11, 2009
My 1st Mothers Day
Yesterday was very special for me. Jason made me a card that he and Annabelle signed. It was very sweet. Jason is very creative he made all of the grandmothers and great-grandmothers cards as well. Mine was the most special though :) I got a card from Annabelle Friday that they had made at the sitters. I love it so much! It has her little hand prints all messed up on it. It is so cute. I am so thankful that I have a great sitter and her husband who takes such great care of her. Jason gave me my presents on Tuesday. He couldn't stand that he had bought them and I didn't try to look. He kept saying, "someone has some presents in there, you can have them if you want." I didn't want but he kept on until he just brought them to me. Not wrapped, just gave them to me in the Target bag. Where did my super thoughtful husband go? lol I got a nice digital picture frame, a memory card and a book of photography with black & white images of Native Americans. I had been wanting that for awhile. We grilled some chicken and went to the park. Annabelle & I went for a walk while daddy & Kate played. Kate was really worried when we walked out of her view so she didn't play as much as normal. I thought that was very sweet. Yesterday was just a good day all around. Jeremy, Scot & Tara all stopped by last night and we had a good visit. Annabelle loved all the attention and activity. It was a perfect way to end the day. It was also sad in a tiny way because I will never again have a first mothers day but now I am looking forward to Jason's first fathers day.
I never appreciated how special Mothers Day was until I became a mother myself. I hope my sister & I always made them good for our mom. We all love her very much and she deserves it.
I never appreciated how special Mothers Day was until I became a mother myself. I hope my sister & I always made them good for our mom. We all love her very much and she deserves it.
Five Months
To my beautiful girl on your 5th month of life,
You are the most precious gift I could ever receive. I love you so much that it feels like my heart might explode. I will never forget the first time you smiled at me. My heart melted. You are the best child that either your daddy or I could have ever asked for. Last week daddy says he heard you say dadda when he was getting you ready. He has been trying this hardest these past few days to get you to repeat it. As there were only three witnesses, you, Pootie and him, two of which can't talk, I am very hesitant to believe him :) During the past month you have grown so much. You are so intelligent, it blows my mind at the things you have learned to do in only a few months. You are reaching for EVERYTHING, you are holding yourself up, almost able to pull yourself up to sitting position. If you hold onto mommy or daddys finger you can pull yourself up. You are such a pretty girl, you have beautiful eyes and skin. Your hair is starting to grow (finally!). This morning when daddy handed you to me your hair was everywhere. It looked like it had grown over night. You spent your first night away from both of us this past weekend. We all three survived, I heard you didn't cry one time. Not even for your bottle. Mommy & daddy missed you a lot but we are glad you had a good time and got to see Uncle Josh before he left. You will be almost 6 months old when he comes back. You are so sweet and most of the time you are so happy when you wake up. The past few weeks you have shown that big ol temper of yours in the mornings. You don't like daddy getting you up and you let him know it. You just whine a little though, nothing major and then you are happy again. You are so observant and watchful you love to go for walks in your stroller and see everything. You never make a sound just walk beside daddy and smile. We love you so much! Your aunt Veronica buys you lots of green clothes says its because it is your favorite color. Which is a huge coincidence because it turns out green is her favorite color as well. You have decided that you are a fan of the tv remote. We have to hide it from you, you reach for it all the time. You have even learned that just because we put it under or behind a pillow doesn't mean that it is gone. You still are reaching for it moving the pillow trying to get it. Which is amazing! You still love your cousins Chandler & Conner. Conner love to hold you and you love to pull his curls and give him kisses on the cheek (which he wipes off lol). You also love it when Jeremy comes to see you. You give him the serious look for a few seconds and then smile away. You even put your arms around his neck last night, you don't do that for mommy or daddy! It must be something about curly hair :) This month you played with Evelyn and her baby doll. Actually you tried to eat her baby doll. Everything you reach for and get goes directly to your mouth. You tried carrots for the first time yesterday. You enjoyed them but not as much as you enjoyed eating the spoon they were on. I think you would have eaten anything as long as it was on that spoon. When you cough you always sneeze right after, it is so cute! You are such a silly girl. Mommy and daddy will think you are asleep and all of the sudden you will blow a raspberry and start babbling and smiling. People ask if you are always so happy and smiling. The answer of course is YES! You are the greatest baby in the world. You sleep GREAT at night and on the weekends we sleep in till about 10 or so. Hopefully in the next month we will be able to get you to sleep in your crib. You don't need mommy to be right beside you now when you sleep, you stretch out and take up all the space. You get SOOOOO excited when you see the cats. Pootie lets you pet her all the time, Scottie not so much. You shreik and pat your feet when you see them coming and if they are both together, well you are just in heaven! You look from one to the other and back and forth. Yesterday you got to pet Kate for the first time. You tried to hard to pet her head but ended up almost petting her eye! She was gentle with you, she always worries when she hears you cry. She will protect you no matter what. Yesterday daddy put you in the walker. We didn't expect anything but you took off WALKING! You would push yourself with your feet at times and at others you would walk. I was so proud. Mommy has been able to nurse you for 5 months, I hope I can continue for a while longer. I'd like to say that you really enjoy it but truthfully you don't care where your food comes from as long as its coming. Nursing is our special time and mommy will miss it when it ends. Sometimes mommy & daddy wonder what they ever did before you came. Our lives were so boring until we had you but we thought they were fun. Boy were we wrong - Nothing in this life compares to the joy and love you bring to us. We love you so much!
-MOMMA!
You are the most precious gift I could ever receive. I love you so much that it feels like my heart might explode. I will never forget the first time you smiled at me. My heart melted. You are the best child that either your daddy or I could have ever asked for. Last week daddy says he heard you say dadda when he was getting you ready. He has been trying this hardest these past few days to get you to repeat it. As there were only three witnesses, you, Pootie and him, two of which can't talk, I am very hesitant to believe him :) During the past month you have grown so much. You are so intelligent, it blows my mind at the things you have learned to do in only a few months. You are reaching for EVERYTHING, you are holding yourself up, almost able to pull yourself up to sitting position. If you hold onto mommy or daddys finger you can pull yourself up. You are such a pretty girl, you have beautiful eyes and skin. Your hair is starting to grow (finally!). This morning when daddy handed you to me your hair was everywhere. It looked like it had grown over night. You spent your first night away from both of us this past weekend. We all three survived, I heard you didn't cry one time. Not even for your bottle. Mommy & daddy missed you a lot but we are glad you had a good time and got to see Uncle Josh before he left. You will be almost 6 months old when he comes back. You are so sweet and most of the time you are so happy when you wake up. The past few weeks you have shown that big ol temper of yours in the mornings. You don't like daddy getting you up and you let him know it. You just whine a little though, nothing major and then you are happy again. You are so observant and watchful you love to go for walks in your stroller and see everything. You never make a sound just walk beside daddy and smile. We love you so much! Your aunt Veronica buys you lots of green clothes says its because it is your favorite color. Which is a huge coincidence because it turns out green is her favorite color as well. You have decided that you are a fan of the tv remote. We have to hide it from you, you reach for it all the time. You have even learned that just because we put it under or behind a pillow doesn't mean that it is gone. You still are reaching for it moving the pillow trying to get it. Which is amazing! You still love your cousins Chandler & Conner. Conner love to hold you and you love to pull his curls and give him kisses on the cheek (which he wipes off lol). You also love it when Jeremy comes to see you. You give him the serious look for a few seconds and then smile away. You even put your arms around his neck last night, you don't do that for mommy or daddy! It must be something about curly hair :) This month you played with Evelyn and her baby doll. Actually you tried to eat her baby doll. Everything you reach for and get goes directly to your mouth. You tried carrots for the first time yesterday. You enjoyed them but not as much as you enjoyed eating the spoon they were on. I think you would have eaten anything as long as it was on that spoon. When you cough you always sneeze right after, it is so cute! You are such a silly girl. Mommy and daddy will think you are asleep and all of the sudden you will blow a raspberry and start babbling and smiling. People ask if you are always so happy and smiling. The answer of course is YES! You are the greatest baby in the world. You sleep GREAT at night and on the weekends we sleep in till about 10 or so. Hopefully in the next month we will be able to get you to sleep in your crib. You don't need mommy to be right beside you now when you sleep, you stretch out and take up all the space. You get SOOOOO excited when you see the cats. Pootie lets you pet her all the time, Scottie not so much. You shreik and pat your feet when you see them coming and if they are both together, well you are just in heaven! You look from one to the other and back and forth. Yesterday you got to pet Kate for the first time. You tried to hard to pet her head but ended up almost petting her eye! She was gentle with you, she always worries when she hears you cry. She will protect you no matter what. Yesterday daddy put you in the walker. We didn't expect anything but you took off WALKING! You would push yourself with your feet at times and at others you would walk. I was so proud. Mommy has been able to nurse you for 5 months, I hope I can continue for a while longer. I'd like to say that you really enjoy it but truthfully you don't care where your food comes from as long as its coming. Nursing is our special time and mommy will miss it when it ends. Sometimes mommy & daddy wonder what they ever did before you came. Our lives were so boring until we had you but we thought they were fun. Boy were we wrong - Nothing in this life compares to the joy and love you bring to us. We love you so much!
-MOMMA!
Friday, May 8, 2009
I did it...
I broke down and let mom keep her over night. She is currently in Manchester and will be going to school with her granny in the morning. Mom, mother, Annabelle and I went to Red Lobster in Richmond after I got off work. It stormed horribly, my friend Ross had a tornado in his neighborhood, thankfully he is okay, and the electric went out in Red Lobster. Luckily we had just gotten seated so we just chilled for awhile. Anyway when we were done Annabelle went south on I-75 and I went north. So far I am okay, but who is to say Jason & I will not be in Manchester around midnight tonight. Jason has stayed away from her before, I have not. Mom has a small milk supply at her house, it will be depleted by the time I get there tomorrow. Veronica had to go buy clothes, diapers and cereal for her. I was totally not prepared to let her go plus I thought they were come to Lexington to eat not Richmond. That totally threw me off. I think she did it on purpose. We do not know what to do with ourselves, so many movies out we want to see but no desire to go see them. I am so tired, played a little Farm Town on facebook, I am slowly understanding how to use that thing, going to pump and the get to bed. Jason bought some game on the DSI and the music is really annoying. He has been playing it for 45mins or more.
I also ordered her first cloth diaper along with a couple diaper covers. I make fun of my good pal Amy for cloth diapering but honestly they are just so much cuter than disposable. I wouldn't be doing it to save the planet I just like the look. Good luck to us in our journey with cloth!
I also ordered her first cloth diaper along with a couple diaper covers. I make fun of my good pal Amy for cloth diapering but honestly they are just so much cuter than disposable. I wouldn't be doing it to save the planet I just like the look. Good luck to us in our journey with cloth!
She did it..
she rolled over last night. From her belly to her back, she tries to crawl but just turns herself around on her stomch in a circle. Trying to get her to go to sleep last night with a paci was pretty funny, she was just randomly razz the paci out of her mouth when we thought she was sleeping and be all hyper. She is wild!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
21 Weeks!
My little Annie has gotten another week older. I sometimes miss her being a little baby. Well she was never really a little baby just a big ole alert baby. I have the picture of her at less than a day old hanging in my office and her eyes are wide open - Looks like she is about 3 months old. She threw up for the first time in the past week, only because she ate her food too fast (little pig). The swine flu has been going around and so of course people around here are over reacting and if they cough think they have the swine flu. Sooo because of that I have been told by my father to watch where I take Annabelle in public (no, I still take her the same places I did before) We were leaving Barnes & Noble with her for the first time (well really second) when he told me this, and my sister telling me to not be so unconcerned regarding this whole mess. I think she wants me to put a mask (baby size - can't you just picture that, haha) on her and carry her around or something lol. Dont tell her though, she gets mad that I make fun of her :) I think it will be funny for Annies to read this when she is older. Now that I have made fun of people one of us will probably end up getting it.
In a way Veronica is right in a way. I am very unconcerned about things and maybe I should not be that way. I maybe should take things more seriously, not necessarily the swine flu but other things. I have adopted the Jason Welch approach to life - the I don't care attitude. Of course he cares about things like me and Annabelle but you get the point. Since being this way I have realized I have had very few "stress" headaches, now I just get migraines and even those have decreased.
I guess I should really talk about Annabelle and not myself or Jason. I sometimes can't help but get off subject. My mind is random and I normally type what pops into my head.
Kate has been outside for two weeks now. I have actually sat in my living room past 9 pm. It was weird. We went down to Berea on Sunday to see the Smiths. It had been awhile and Evelyn is getting so grown up. They are expecting their second next week. Annabelle and Evelyn enjoyed playing together, I need to load the pictures on to the computer ( I am lazy!).
Annabelle is still blowing raspberries, she is reaching for things, especially toys, grabbing at our faces and just acting silly. The past week she has become much more active. She sits very well, can almost pull herself up from laying down and is babbling more. All these things will keep increasing and she will be able to do everything better. Monday she will be 5 months old and we are going to start her on some carrots. That should be an adventure for her and us. Changing diapers has become a chore. She rolls from side to side, twists her body, grabs the clean diaper, grabs at the dirty diaper, grabs the wipes, she is everywhere! Her favorite thing is to grab her ankles and pull up. It is funny, she did it this weekend and peed all over Jason :) Transitioning her back into her pack n play has not turned out so well. She still wakes up if we move her. We have on occassion been able to leave her laying by herself for a little bit. I should also admit that she had a diaper that was out of control and almost made even me gag. I admit it because I make fun of Jason for gagging when changing her. We both gagged at that diaper :)
Annabelle is a LOT like her Aunt Veronica. She doesn't always smile when she wakes up now because she does NOT want to wake up. She wants to stay asleep in the mornings. She has started to whine a little when Jason tries to wake her up lol. They both fall asleep in the car almost immediately and their feet are stinky! I probably shouldn't make such fun of my sister. I am lucky to have a sister like her so I should stop, buuuuuttt I probably won't. She is a pretty good aunt if I say so myself and Annabelle would agree. I might also add that Josh is a pretty good uncle. Annabelle picked his birthday present out this past weekend. We hope he likes it! We haven't gotten to see him in awhile so hopefully if we go home this weekend we will.
My first mothers day is coming up Sunday. We aren't sure what we will do, just being with Annabelle and even Jason will be enough for me. We may not go home, we are unsure. Mom has school Saturday and we might let Annabelle go with her and we go watch a movie.
In a way Veronica is right in a way. I am very unconcerned about things and maybe I should not be that way. I maybe should take things more seriously, not necessarily the swine flu but other things. I have adopted the Jason Welch approach to life - the I don't care attitude. Of course he cares about things like me and Annabelle but you get the point. Since being this way I have realized I have had very few "stress" headaches, now I just get migraines and even those have decreased.
I guess I should really talk about Annabelle and not myself or Jason. I sometimes can't help but get off subject. My mind is random and I normally type what pops into my head.
Kate has been outside for two weeks now. I have actually sat in my living room past 9 pm. It was weird. We went down to Berea on Sunday to see the Smiths. It had been awhile and Evelyn is getting so grown up. They are expecting their second next week. Annabelle and Evelyn enjoyed playing together, I need to load the pictures on to the computer ( I am lazy!).
Annabelle is still blowing raspberries, she is reaching for things, especially toys, grabbing at our faces and just acting silly. The past week she has become much more active. She sits very well, can almost pull herself up from laying down and is babbling more. All these things will keep increasing and she will be able to do everything better. Monday she will be 5 months old and we are going to start her on some carrots. That should be an adventure for her and us. Changing diapers has become a chore. She rolls from side to side, twists her body, grabs the clean diaper, grabs at the dirty diaper, grabs the wipes, she is everywhere! Her favorite thing is to grab her ankles and pull up. It is funny, she did it this weekend and peed all over Jason :) Transitioning her back into her pack n play has not turned out so well. She still wakes up if we move her. We have on occassion been able to leave her laying by herself for a little bit. I should also admit that she had a diaper that was out of control and almost made even me gag. I admit it because I make fun of Jason for gagging when changing her. We both gagged at that diaper :)
Annabelle is a LOT like her Aunt Veronica. She doesn't always smile when she wakes up now because she does NOT want to wake up. She wants to stay asleep in the mornings. She has started to whine a little when Jason tries to wake her up lol. They both fall asleep in the car almost immediately and their feet are stinky! I probably shouldn't make such fun of my sister. I am lucky to have a sister like her so I should stop, buuuuuttt I probably won't. She is a pretty good aunt if I say so myself and Annabelle would agree. I might also add that Josh is a pretty good uncle. Annabelle picked his birthday present out this past weekend. We hope he likes it! We haven't gotten to see him in awhile so hopefully if we go home this weekend we will.
My first mothers day is coming up Sunday. We aren't sure what we will do, just being with Annabelle and even Jason will be enough for me. We may not go home, we are unsure. Mom has school Saturday and we might let Annabelle go with her and we go watch a movie.
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