Summers near, shorts are here!

I thought that Bailey looked cute in her little shorts today! :) 27 days of school left! Yipee!

Duke the sitter

Duke is my unofficial baby sitter. I was changing out laundry last night and put Bailey in her crib with her music. When I came in her room to put up her clothes there lay Duke. Sweet old big brother hound.

4 months old today!

Hello everyone! I am 4 months old today! It has been a great 4 months and I have learned so much. I had a pretty good day today. I woke up at 6 am this morning but cuddled with mama, had some milk, and slept until 7:45. That is the best I can do for mama on sleepin in on the weekend. Then I hung out with daddy while mama went to somebodys house who is thinking of adopting a great dane. In the early afternoon I took a big nap for about 3 hours. Then went to Home Depot and rode around in my stroller in the garden section. I like to be outside! Anyway, today has been a great day because I got to just hang out with mommy and daddy. The following are all the things that are true about me at 4 months old!

1) I go to bed between 7:30 and 8 and sleep until 6:30 or 7....ok ok...I actually get up once sometime between 2 and 4 for some milk. Hey it isn't easy to go all night without my mom especially since I have to be away from her during the day.

2) I like to watch this silly show called Arthur in the morning while I wait on mommy to get done pumping and getting ready. Mama thinks the show is weird because there are a bunch of different animals on there that are not recognizable as to what animals they really are. I just like the music and sounds so I don't know why mama has to analyzed it so much

3) I prefer my milk straight from the tap. I know I get the same thing out of the bottle but its not the same. I am eating a little more at Marjories but really just enough to get by.

4) Most of my 3-6 month clothes are getting tight or no longer fit and I am starting to wear many of my 6 month clothes.

5) I do not have a poop schedule and have gone up to 12 days and as little as a couple of times a day. It seems though when I go for a long time I get a bath and new outfit though. I showed Marjorie this was true on Friday when I exploded and got my first bath there. She told mom I enjoyed it a lot! :)

6) At Marjorie's house I like to sit in the bouncy seat and watch the other kids who stay there. In the afternoon the big kids come home and Marjorie's daugter really likes me. She tells mom when she arrives that she can't have me back!

7) I am sitting in my jumparoo but I haven't really figured out how to operate it yet.

8) I like to roll and scoot all over the floor and play

9) My favorite toy is this donut rattle with a face on the end.

10) I put just about everything in my mouth these days included my dresses.

11) I used to hate getting my diaper changed and getting new clothes on but now I love it and giggle on the changing table.

12) I grab onto my feet while mom changes me and mom says I will probably put these in my mouth before long.

13) I like to sit outside on a nice spring day and feel the breeze

14) I like going for rides in the stroller

15) I still like to be in my swaddle sack at night but like one arm left out

16) I like my daddy to sing and read to me. He does both of them almost every day.

17) I like to take a cat nap in the morning and late afternoon and a big 2 - 3 hour nap in the early afternoon.

18) I really like to stand up and look around these days...of course with mommy and daddy's help

19) When I have had a good nap or long nights rest I wake up really happy and talk to things in my crib.

20) I LOVE taking baths

21) I still like mr. suckey but don't seem to need it as much as I used to

22) I am not sure how much I weigh but mom guesses between 15 and 16 pounds. She says we will find out on Friday at doctor

23) I am not sure how long I am either but everyone always says I am really long. I guess I am taking after my daddy

24) I am happy almost all of the time except for when I get really tired. Then I let everyone know that I need to be put down for a nap

25) I am the luckiest baby in the world because my mommy and daddy love me so!

Well those are all the things that I can think of about me today. Here are some pics my mom took of me today. I don't really like her to take my picture so I like to be difficult and not smile! Anyway, thanks to everyone who stops by and watches me grow! :)

I am a happy bear on the changing table

Hey how did I get feet?

Me and my toys

My favorite rattle toy

favorite toys go in your mouth!


Relaxin' outside...a little sleepy

My sweet blue eyed face...I love being outside

Good Morning Bear

Here is a video of the bear in the morning. She usually spends about 15 minutes each morning just talking away to herself and then when I go in there she is full of smiles. Of course as soon as she sees the camera she stops talking! :) I will catch her talking when she least expects it!

17 weeks

17 weeks! Holy cow! I believe that the bear is already camera shy. I thought I would go ahead and do her monkey shoot before work today but 2 problems 1) she had the hiccups 2) everytime she would smile she would look away from the camera. I swear she doesn't like the thing. I will be talking and singing to her and she will be smiling away and then I get out the camera and it is like she thinks, "what did you get that thing out for?" Anyway, I was able to capture a few pics and got a few pics of her playing on the floor when we got home. She is moving all over the place on the floor by scooting, turning, and rolling over. I am going to have to keep my eye on that girl. Also, you will notice that this morning I she had on a cute little outfit and by this afternoon she was in a onesie. WEELLLL....she got her first bath today at the sitters. I got a text message from Marjorie saying that Bailey had gotten her first bath there because of a poop explosion. She is hoping that next time Bailey will just tell her that she wants a new outfit or a bath instead of causing such an explosion. Ha! Good luck with that. Anyway, here is the bear @ 17 weeks!

Hey there it's me I am 17 weeks old today

Camera shy little girl

I'm too big to lay around on this silly thing!

Momma was sneaky and got a big mouth smile on camera

That's the end of the post today folks. See you in a couple of days! I will be 4 months old!

(See I can already hold up 4 fingers!)

16 weeks

Hello its Bailey here. My mom is pretty tired so I thought I would take over the blog for today. She is still fighting off a cold or has bad allergies or something and her voice still sounds funny. I have been talking a lot these days though. Mom has tried to catch it on camera but I like to get real quiet when she gets it out! :) Mom tells me that I am 16 weeks old today! It is hard to believe that just 16 weeks ago I was in this nice warm place and now I am here on this blog! I am liking my sitters house and have figured out that the lady there has milk too and that it is ok to eat a little more. I miss my mommy but she always comes to get me in the afternoon and then I can have all the cuddles and milk that I want. It is fun at the sitters house. I have a friend named Riley who is about my size and another little boy who is bigger than me named Landon. In the afternoon right before my mommy picks me up some big kids come home too and they talk to me. Anyway, my mom had to get her camera and that silly monkey out today so here are some pictures.

Here I am with the Monkey today

Here I was with the Monkey when I was only a week old...I can't believe I was ever so small

My daddy was home for monkey pics today. He is over talking to me to the side and making me laugh in this picture

Here I am today sitting with the monkey. I am still looking at my daddy instead of the camera. He's pretty silly and sings to me a lot

Here I am at 6 weeks sitting up. Apparently I wasn't strong enough to sit up until this point.


I like being held and cuddled when I am sleepy but when I am wide awake I like to stand while my mommy talks to me.....


....and when daddy talks to me. I like to look at furry Duke too. For some reason he doesn't talk

Well that is about all that I know. I will officially be 4 months old next week so I will see if mom will let me post again then! Thanks for stopping by to see how I am growing!

Bluebonnets

Perfect bluebonnet patch! No other words needed...

Angel Care

I am always suprised at how many people have never heard of this product so I thought I would make a little post about it. It has truely been one of my favorite big item things that I invested in. My sister had one and said, "you must have this for peace of mind" Boy was she right. The sensor detects your baby breathing and will sound an alarm if baby stops breathing. There will be false alarms that make you jump up into the ceiling but I would rather that then the alternative. The false alarms usually happen when the baby gets to far off the center of the bed. Anyway just thought I would share for any one who might be reading this thing. Angel Care rocks! You can get it at babies r us or online.

Happy Easter

Yipee! The Easter bunny found his way to our house! He brought Bailey a little teething bunny and she seems to have given it her stamp of approval. I was hoping that the Easter Bunny was going to return my voice to me and make me feel better but I guess the teething bunny was all he had. So, we laid low today and I tried to get a few pics of the bear. It is quite difficult to get some good pics of a 3 month old without a voice but we did the best that we could. I did acutally break down and go to the doctor yesterday which if anyone knows me is quite a big deal. I was really hoping for a quick fix on my voice because teaching without one is quite difficult. However the only quick fix is steroids which apparently you cant take while breastfeeding. So, it is rest for me and hopefully it will be back by mid week.

Look what the Easter bunny brought me! A teething bunny!

Yummy! Just what I like something to put in my mouth!

This is how I pose for pics for my mommy these days. Dress up and hands in my mouth! :)

Like my dress?

Sittin' in my Bumbo!

I can sortof sit with a little help from the boppy.

I don't know why my mom always takes pics of my feet

Oops! I fell over!

Hey there! What are you lookin' at?

Cute little me!

Good Friday - 15 weeks

15 weeks! Wow! It is hard to believe! So much has changed in that time. It just doesn't even seem real! Bailey and I survived our first week back to work. I think she faired better than me! I am fighting of a cold and have lost my voice and pretty much feel like a truck has run over me! Bailey is liking her sitter. She doesn't seem to want to eat to much there but Marjorie says that she is happy and content so I guess she is holding out for the real thing when I pick her up. She nurses about every hour in the evening until bed. Which I can't complain about too much because I want to be close to her. Although it has been a little tough this week to have the energy to really enjoy the evenings with her. I am hoping that if I can survive the first week with a cold then surely I can survive the next 8. I am not sure if Bailey is going to end up with this cold. She seems to have been sleeping A LOT the last couple of days. Marjorie said she napped for like 4 hours straight yesterday. So, she is either growing or fighting it off.

As I posted last week Bailey is rolling over all over the place now. So, at night she is turning herself over and sleeping on her stomach which if she stays awake in the process it seems to help her sleep more soundly. However, sometimes I think she wakes herself up turning over and then gets mad and is thus awake. She still likes to sleep in her swaddle sacks although I have started leaving one arm out since she started rolling over because it made me nervous when she was a rolling burrito. I think that she might be ready to take the other arm out and then maybe get rid of the swaddle sack all together.

I suppose the easter bunny will be coming to our house on Easter Day. I am not sure Bailey is going to get to excited about it but I have thus bought her a little present anyway. I will post about it later. Don't want to ruin the suprise in case she gets on here and trys to take over the blog again.

So, that is about all that is new around here. Per my sisters request I have changed the settings on my blog so that commenting will be easier. I know several people have told me that they have problems commenting and I guess I never realized that I could make it easier until investigating further. So, comment away dear souls!

Hey Monkey how are you?

Sweet face

Welcome back Mrs. Williams

Well I survived my first day back and have completely no voice to show for it! No, I didn't spend my day yelling at the kids. I had started to be congested on Sunday and new that as soon as I went to school today and talked all day it would be gone!

So, I woke up at 6 am not really wanting to sleep anymore and axnious about starting the day so went ahead and got up even though I wasnt going to get up until closer to 6:30. Bailey had been up twice in the night to eat so I knew she wasn't going to wake up starving which was nice to know. I went ahead and got ready and then she was awake at 6:30 as happy as can be. I was glad I had gotten up earlier so that I could have more time to play with her. I fed her at 7, pumped and we were at the door by 7:25. I cried a little on the way to drop her off. We made it to Marjorie's (babysitter) and she was so glad to see her. I could already feel the tears building inside and was glad I had already given her a lot of detail ahead of time. I could feel the tears building so I quickly said good bye and headed for the door. I cried all the way to school (don't worry it isn't far maybe a couple of minutes). I had read in books to maybe drop baby at sitters for a few hours here and there before you go back to work. I never really got that and still don't. I would have been back there to pick her up in 5 mintues if I didn't have anywhere I needed to be!

I pulled it together and figured I would get into school before the halls became filled with students and more teachers and I could hide out in my classroom if I needed to. As soon as I got to my classroom door a student of mine had made me a little sign that said, "Welcome back Mrs. Williams! We have missed you!" Wow! How can that not bring a smile to your face? So, I already was feeling better and didn't feel on the verge of tears any longer. I walked into the classroom apartan could feel apart of the old me there. The me before Bailey. Mrs. Williams was who I was and soon one by one the girls came flowing in the door excited to see me and full of hugs. It was a great feeling to know that my kids had missed me too and that I also mean something to them. So, by the time that first period started I had already chatted with several little 13 year old girls and definelty had a smile on my face! Don't get me wrong I was still missing Bailey something terrible but what better way to be greeted than this while painfully missing your little baby? The rest of the day was pretty smooth. I didn't feel rushed about pumping and getting things done and felt like it was a good time to just sit and be alone with my thoughts about her. I called to check on Bailey at lunch and she was napping. Marjorie said she wasnt real crazy about taking the bottle from her but that she did eventually take it. She said she wasn't even acting that hungry but she knew she needed to eat. Marjorie said that she was about the same with her second bottle in which she didn't finish. Guess she was holding out for the real thing! :)

I was able to sneak out a little earlier from school and was so happy to get there and see her sweet little face. She was asleep when I arrived and I was glad that she looked comfortable and Marjorie said that she had been such a good baby all day. She already has another 3 month old friend, Riley, and she said that they stared and smiled at each other and that at one point Bailey was laughing away at the TV! Riley is a couple of weeks younger than Bailey and she said that Bailey was teaching her to roll over by rolling all over the floor!

So, there is my day. It was tough but I survived! I am sure by the time that I figure out how things are going to be with Bailey it will be summer! 1 day down....42 to go! :)

1 day left! :(

On Tuesday I will face the day that I have been dreading for some time. I go back to work. Ironically on Tuesday it will have been one year since we found out that Bailey boo was growing inside of me. So, Tuesday will be the first day that I will be away from her in the last year for more than a few hours. Ok, so I know most of that time she was inside of me but still she was with me.

I never really wanted to be a stay at home mom and I can't say that feeling has really changed. However, I really don't want to leave Bailey either. It is a mix of emotions. I miss teaching and having a life outside of the house but I wish there was a way that I could teach with Bailey strapped to my back or something. :) I am filled with anxiety for many reasons....1) Just being away from her and wondering if she is ok 2) Being able to get out the door on time now that I need to get myself ready, get Bailey ready, get Bailey fed, and pump. 3) Pumping at work and wondering if I will be able to keep up with what she eats 4) Not seeing my sweet little bears' smiling face. I have tried to express my anxieties to Trever, but I don't think men get it and maybe some women don't either. I know that he is excited to see her when he gets home and calls to see how she is doing during the day but I am not sure it is the same when you have grown to love having someone snuggled up to you so intimately to nurse.

I have switched who will be watching her during the day and I am at much more peace with leaving her than I have been for many weeks. It is a long story that I would rather not publish for the whole world to read, but will tell you about it privately so just ask. You might be sorry you did. So, I will not be getting her in the afternoons from the parking lot. Really I had come to realize that it really wasn't going to work anyway because Bailey has really settled into taking a seriously long nap in the afternoons and without it she isn't much fun to be around in the evenings. The new lady watching her is totally comfortable with keeping her on her same schedule so I think it is going to be an easier transition for the bear. I am confident too that the new lady will definitely treat Bailey like she is her own baby and is super sweet!

I am hoping not to be too big of a wreck and that I will actually be able to pull myself together to get myself in the school door. I do know that many of the kids are ready for me to come back so seeing them will make me more at peace. When I was up there the other day one of my students said, "Are you coming back soon." I told her, "yes, next week!" and she said, "oh next week I hope it goes by fast. " I was thinking I hope the next 9 weeks go by fast. My sub told me too that she overheard some of the kids talking saying, "Did you see Ms. Williams? I am ready for her to come back!" and my favorite 13 year old boy comment, "Ya I saw her and she sure is a lot skinnier!" Duh I had a baby! Boys! I keep reminding myself that I am returning to a job that I really do love and that my days usually do go by fast so I should be thankful. So, be thinking of me on Tuesday as I face one of the hardest things that I think I have had to do. I am going to miss my Bailey boo something terrible! Well I have rambled on this post long enough. I must go now so that I can start plotting how I am going to escape from school early everyday next week! :)

14 weeks