Are You Talking To Me?

Dear Mommy,

These pants DO NOT FIT! They are giving me a Muffin Top! How am I supposed to break into the modeling world dressed in pants that make my tummy hang over? Please do not use these photos in my portfolio when you are booking me an agent!

I'm A Happy Girl

Here's my sweet, smiling baby this morning. She woke me up this morning and was all happy. Once she saw her mommy was up for the day, she decided it was safe for her to go back to sleep. Little stinker!

I'm A Big Girl Now

I finally captured it, and nearly broke a nail in my frantic fury to do so! Elise is holding her head up. She's been doing it for a while, but by the time I get the camera ready to snap her she's face down in the Boppy from exhaustion. This might have been the longest she's ever kept it up!








She has started talking to me, too. Not much, but if I talk to her for a while she will make some noises back to me. I'll have to video it once she becomes more consistent. Oh, and she went to bed last night at 11pm, woke at 5am to eat, and got up this morning at 9am. There is a God and he does love me!!!!!!! I slept about 9 hours last night and it was amazing!

Boxing Up Baby Clothes=Depressing

I have slowly been packing up a box of Elise's clothes that she has outgrown. It's so sad that my tiny little baby isn't so tiny anymore. She is still little - as we are just starting into the 0-3mo. clothes, but all the tiny newborn sleepers that used to swallow her are too short now! I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with her clothes because I'm not planning on having anymore kids. Jason has a different plan, but that doesn't matter. Anyway, I ended up boxing them up to "save for later." Save for what? I don't know. Now Jason thinks there might be another baby in the future, but he better hope if by some act of God he gets another one, that it's another girl - because that's the kind of clothes I have. I thought about taking them to a resale shop, but I figure if any of my cousins have girls later on, they can have them.

I have gone from a respiratory infection to mastitis. When will it end? It seems like it's always something. I am on antibiotics for the mastitis now and am finally starting to feel a little better. I have felt like I had the flu the last couple of days - running a fever, body aches...

Last Wednesday, I took Elise to Pampa to hang out with her Nana and Grandpa. We ended up staying the night because the weather got bad and the roads were too slick to come home. I had just gotten Elise to sleep and just fallen asleep myself, when I was abruptly woken up by my father who decided he wanted to sleep with his granddaughter. As I mentioned previously, I'm not a morning person.... this also applies to having my sleep interrupted. So, needless to say he had to go sleep in his own bed after I had told him if he didn't I would!

Like Father Like Daughter

It looks like I have given birth to a little "Mini-Jason." Meaning that Elise is a morning person just like him. Jason wakes up singing and full of energy every morning, and I mean FULL of it.. it's so annoying. It's annoying because I am NOT a morning person by any stretch of the imagination and would really prefer not to be spoken to until 10:30am. This morning at four she was awake for her feeding. I was holding her and she was just smiling away. Smiling and looking at me. It made me laugh and smile that she was so happy SO early! After she ate, I laid back down and Jason was holding her and he says to me "I'm hungry. Let's go to IHOP." Are you freaking kidding me?! It's four o'clock in the morning - I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE! At least there is light at the end of the tunnel.... since the two of them like being up before sunrise they can go somewhere and leave me alone to sleep when she's old enough!


And here is my little sweetie resting after her 2 month check up this morning....


Elise weighs 11lbs 5 oz. and is 22 1/2 inches long now. She is in the 50th percentile for both. The doctor said her weight and height are evenly proportioned. She asked if she was in daycare or had a babysitter. I told her she had me! Dr. Walsh said that's great and is the best situation for everyone, especially her. She had to get 3 shots in her thighs and take an oral vaccine. She and I both cried, but luckily it didn't last long. She's had a little shot of some grape Tylenol and seems to be doing okay so far. She's developing just like she should... grabbing, smiling, cooing, and holding her head up. We are so happy she's doing so well, and that we have a beautiful healthy baby.

Little Miss Personality