32 Things That Change When You Have a Baby

I got this in an weekly email I get about babies and wanted to post it. I can relate to a lot of these.

1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.
2. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.
3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like scarifies.
4. You respect your body...finally.
5. You respect your parents and love them in a new way. --This is so true.
6. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.
7. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child.
8. You lose touch with the people in your life whom you should have banished years ago.
9. Your heart breaks much more easily. --So true
10. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day. ---!!!!!!!!
11. Every day is a surprise.
12. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. ---I have never been so excited about a poopy diaper!!
13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.
14. You become a morning person.
15. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.
16. You discover how much there is to say about one tooth.
17. You finally realize that true joy doesn't come from material wealth.
18. You now know where the sun comes from.
19. You'd rather buy a plastic tricycle than those shoes that you've been dying to have.
20. You realize that although sticky, lollipops have magical powers.
21. You don't mind going to bed at 9 pm on Friday night.
22. Silence? What's that?
23. You realize that the 15 lbs you can't seem to get rid of are totally worth having.
24. You discover an inner strength you never thought you had.
25. You no longer rely on a clock-your baby now sets your schedule. --So true.
26. You give parents with a screaming child an "I know the feeling" look instead of a "can't they shut him up?" one. ---This is totally me.
27. Your dog who used to be your baby becomes just a dog. --Poor Charlie
28. You take the time for one more hug and kiss even if it means you'll be late.
29. You learn that taking a shower is a luxury. --You also learn to take a 5 min. shower instead of a 20 minute one.
30. You realize that you can love a complete stranger.
31. You find yourself wanting to make this world a better place.
32. If you didn't believe in love at first sight before, now you do!

3 Months

Can you believe Olivia is 3 months old today?!? These past 3 months have gone by so fast. It seems like just the other day I was ready to done with my pregnancy and now I have a 3 month old. Olivia has changed our lives forever. I mean...I knew she would, but it's has been the best ever. She has just fit in so perfectly. It's hard to even remember how things used to be. God has truly blessed us with a beautiful, smart, and healthy baby. We couldn't have asked for any better.
Here are a few pictures from birth til now.

1 day old

1-2 weeks old

1 month

1-2 months

2 months

almost 3 months here

Giving Thanks with a Grateful Heart

This week is Thanksgiving. A time to be thankful. I think we take so many things in life for granted and aren't thankful enough. I was reading the other night about this little girl born with a chromosome disorder and isn't expected to live to be a year old. It made me realize how Blessed & Thankful I really am. I am so thankful to have a healthy baby, a wonderful and loving husband, supportive family and friends, a house, a good job (sometimes) :D a great church family, I could go on and on. We should be thankful ALL the time not just a certain times of the year. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

She Be Rollin

Olivia rolled over last night! I am pretty sure she has already done it before, I just didn't get to see her do it. The first night she slept in her bed she had to have rolled over because there was no other way she could've ended up in the position that she was in. Last night me and Chad were playing with her on a palette in the floor and I would lay her on her stomach and every time she would roll over to her back. It was really funny to watch her. She would be so surprised every time she rolled over. I took a couple of pictures, but don't have my cable to upload them. She never would roll from her back to her stomach. She got really close, but just didn't know what to do with her arms. I think she is ahead of things she is supposed to be doing. So maybe she will walk early. Me and Sarah (my sister) both walked at 9 months. She already tries to talk to us. We started this thing with her. Just kind of talking to her every night. We will just starting saying "Oh" and she will say it every time we say it. She will even match our voice tone. It's crazy! Then we started doing this noise with our lips (the noise it makes when you relax your lips and blow) and she tries so hard to do it too. She will just watch our mouth and try to do it! She doesn't completely make the noise, but you know that is what she is trying to do, she only does this when we do it. It's really funny to watch her.

Playing with Mommy a couple of nights ago.

The night she rolled over. (You can see her birthmark in this picture.)

My sweet baby!

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Last night some of the girls in the church met to start a bible study. We met at Chick-Fil-A to just talk about what we wanted to do, how often we wanted to meet and what we wanted to get out of the bible study and read a few scripture. It went really good. I am so excited to see what God is going to do! We decide we would read The King's Daughter Becoming the Woman God Created You To Be. It sounds like it's a great book for our group. It's for women in all different phases of life. Women who have kids and who don't, women that are single, married, etc... I will let you know how it turns out.
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Tonight Chad is going to Cody's game. They will be playing Cullman at Cullman in the I think the 2nd round of the playoffs. I am not going. It's just going to be too cold. Me and Stephanie are going to have a play date with the girls. Paige is 6 months older than Olivia. They don't really play right not, but they will one day.
Tomorrow night some of the couples from church are going to Ben&Wendy's aka Bendys to hang out and play some games. I know it's going to be a lot of fun because Wendy is crazy!!
Sunday we are going to try to put up our Christmas tree. We will see if we actually do that or not. I want to do it now so it will actually be out for a little while and make it worth dragging all the stuff out of the attic. I really do dread putting it up though. Our tree is so BIG we have to completely rearrange the living room to make it fit. We bought it last year and love the way it looks, but really it's just too big for our living room. We probably should've thought about taking it back. It was pretty expensive. Maybe we will get everything done this weekend. That would be great!

Cutting Back

So...they are cutting my hours back at work. Starting December 1st I will only work 4 days a week, having Fridays off. I kind of have mixed emotions about the whole thing. I mean who really wouldn't want a day off, but on the other hand I do still have to work. I work for a real estate company who builds and manages apartments. Most everyone knows how the economy is right now, so a lot of stuff is fixing to slow down around our office for a little while. They don't expect this to be something permanent. I think I choose to not really be informed about things that I probably should be. I mean I know that the economy sucks right now, but I really just don't care to know all that stuff. I don't care to know how many points the stock market fell yesterday, today or tomorrow. I mean how is everything not doing so great and gas prices are $1.99?? That's all I really care about. How cheap I can buy my gas! Sometimes I feel like all I do is drive. (Did you know that in February I will have had my car for 2 years and it had 0 miles on it when I bought. As of today I have 49,000 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Anyway...I kind of saw my cut back as and "open door" maybe I can try and take a class in the Spring and some how find a job in Jasper. I really like my job. I just wish it were in Jasper and not Birmingham. My life would be just a little bit easier. I did tell my boss that this was not what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I know that this job is not what I am supposed to be doing, but it is what I am doing in the mean time. So, she knows my intentions on going back to school.

In other news...Today is Chris's Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I think he is 28. He might be 29. That sounds really old. So tonight we will go out to eat. I am guessing Perico's since there is absolutely no where to eat in Jasper!
Chad is getting his braces put on today. He's excited to finally have straight teeth well...at least in a couple of years anyway.

Its Been a Busy Weekend

We've been busy. Friday night I went to our ladies get together at The Barn - Pumpkin Patch. We all got together ate really good soups, chili and desert. It was a good time. Saturday we took Olivia to get her ears pierced and she did very good.

When we got to the mall I thought we weren't going to get them done since there was only one girl working, but we went ahead and did it. I didn't think we were ever going to get out of there and it was so crowded! We picked out her earrings, little diamonds, but I really wanted pearls. The girl got everything ready, but then had to check some people out. I mean why do they only have one person working? I think that is silly. Olivia was starting to get a little antsy and I was too. She finally came back and tried to mark her ears and got the marker everywhere. The marker was rubbing off on the girls gloves, which rubbed off on Olivia. All on her ears, side of her face and forehead and then onto her outfit! Thank goodness for baby wipes. So Chad held her and the girl did the first ear and quickly the second. She did so good and only cried for a second.

Here is a picture afterwards, but it's kind of hard to tell.
Saturday night we went to Megan's wedding. Chad didn't come, because he "had to" go hunting.... So it was just me, Olivia, Annetta, Chris and Cody. Megan was beautiful of course and everything was really pretty.

Sunday we had Olivia dedicated and she looked beautiful. I LOVE the dress that she wore. I have been waiting a long time for her to be able to wear it.

I am really thinking about something...

Our Pastor Adam and his wife Lindsay with Olivia.

Some of our family that came.

On our way home from church. Isn't she goregous??

Thursdays 13

I saw this on someone elses blog and like the idea. All you do is list 13 things you want to share.
So here goes...

1. I am going to the Cheesecake Factory tonight for Carmen's birthday.
Happy Birthday Carmie!!

2. I really dislike my job. I feel like it's not what I am supposed to be doing and I am so tired of driving to Birmingham.

3. I can't wait to have our family pictures made in a couple of weeks. I am very anxious to see how they will turn out and how Olivia will do. I am also having her 3 month pictures made.

4. Going to a wedding this weekend. Congratulations and Good Luck Megan!

5. Me and Chad are talking about getting Olivia's ears pierced Saturday.

6. We are having Olivia dedicated Sunday!

7. My bangs and hair in general has been annoying me since the last time I got it cut. I think my girl has messed up my natural part. Can you fix that??

8. I really want an Iphone but Chad won't let me get one. It's not so much the phone, but having a phone with the internet. He thinks that's stupid and there is no reason for me to have that. :(

9. I bought groceries Tuesday night (which I hate) and spent $202.85!!

10. I am probably the most indecisive person ever!! And it drives me CRAZY!!!

11. I am so ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas!!

12. Chad is getting braces Monday!! Yay Mr!!

13. I REALLY want to go back to school for nursing, but I just don't how I can fit it in and if I could even do it....Why do I always doubt myself??

In Her Own Bed

**I started part of this post Monday and never got to finish.

Last night (Sunday night) I decided to put Olivia in her bed. I wasn't really sure how she would do. She sleeps in a bassinet in our room. She has always been a very good sleeper so I was anxious to see how she would do in her bed. She seemed so tiny in that big bed. So I layed her down around 11:15. She kind of woke up when I layed her down at first so I rocked her for a little while longer and she was fine. The bed is so deep it seems, that I have to step up on my tipy toes to actually put her in the bed. I sat up the monitors and went to bed. She ended up waking up around 3:30ish. I went in there and she was in a totally different position than how I layed her down and she was not even under the cover. I really have no clue how she got to where she was laying. I had put her kind of head first with the corner of the bed. She ended up with her head at the opposite in of the bed. It's hard to explain...anyway...I just got her up and put her in our bed and she was fine. I know this is a big no-no, but I was too tired and honestly didn't feel like taking the time to deal with the situation. Is that bad?? So yesterday (Monday) I came to the conclusion that she probably woke up because 1. She was not under the cover whatsoever and 2. she wasn't on her wedge. In the bassinet she sleeps on an inclined wedge.

So last night I tried it again, but this time with her wedge and she did fine!! I went in there this morning around 6:30 and she was sound asleep. She had her little arms above her head right by her face. I love when she sleeps like that. It's so sweet.
We really do have a good baby. We are so blessed and I am so thankful!!

Slackin'

I am a slacker. Not all the time just sometimes. I haven't posted anything in a week.
Olivia's first Halloween was pretty good. We were at the church all night for our Fall Festival. It was fun even though she can't really do anything.

Mommy & Olivia the LadyBug

Daddy and Olivia...Please ignore his boggin. He thought it was funny that he looked like a hobo.

Olivia & AnnaLee...they are 3 weeks apart.

Pooped

So that was Olivia's first Halloween. Saturday we stayed at the house most of the day. Morgan waxed my eyebrows and then me and Olivia went to visit with Auntie Bri Bri and Eric aka Stranger. He is so scared to hold Olivia and we are always around Eric and Bri so we sometimes refer to Eric as stranger or that strange man. Maybe one day...

We also went out to eat with Biranna and her family at Garfield's in Jasper. I will be soo happy when there will be some descent places to eat in Jasper. I am not going to get my hopes up though. Sunday we went to church and had a good Sunday nap. It was kind of a boring weekend, but sometimes that is nice. The next couple of weekends will be pretty busy. This Saturday we are going to Christmas Village. I am so excited!! I plan on getting Olivia's picture made with Santa there. They have a really good Santa. He looks real. And I hope to buy some reallly cute stuff for Ms. Olivia and others.