Rylee's first day in a swimming pool!!! :)

So yesterday we went to one of my best friends house and Rylee got to swim in her pool for the first time. She looked so adorable in her little swimsuit and hat. :) Wish I would of taken pictures but forgot. :( She kicked her legs alot and just seemed real chill in the pool. She even started to fall asleep a little. She lasted like 30 or 45 minutes and then started crying because she was hungry. haha! But she did well. I'm proud of her. She is 4 1/2 months old now and time is just flying by so fast. She just starting growling last week and likes to growl all the time. Its the funniest thing. She sounds like a little darthvader or something. Then when we laugh at her she laughs back. First thing in the morning when I go to pick her up she is growling at me its so funny! She also just laughs all the time and giggles. She will be in the room by herself and just be laughing or giggling. I guess she can amuse herself now. She goes to the doctor this Friday to get her shots. So that will not be fun. Last time she got shots she cried a lot later that evening and I had to give her medicine and that put her right to sleep. Poor baby. Well just working part time and working out with my personal trainer alot. I have lost almost 40 lbs now since Rylee was born and only have 10 more pounds until I get to my goal. 20 pounds would be even better. Then I would be down to the weight I weighed at my wedding almost four years ago. :) My body is getting really strong now its so awesome!!! :) Well my bday is coming up in a couple of weeks and I will be 29! My last year in my twenties. I am still loving being a mother and taking care of my daughter. I am just so happy to finally have my own daughter. Sometimes I look at her and get tears because I am so happy to have a baby of my own. :) I know that sounds cheesy. Well I gotta get home soon gotta get up at 5am tomorrow to go to work. Goodnite and have a blessed evening! :)

Wow July is around the corner

Sorry I haven't wrote in almost a month. I only get on this blog at work and I only work two days a week now. But Rylee has been keeping me plenty busy. She is doing wonderful and still hasn't been sick yet and she's almost 4 months old. :) She is talking and talking haha! Right now she is holding toys now and loves to chew on anything she can find toys, her outfits, bibs, fingers. haha! I think she is teething now because she tends to slober alot. It seems lately we are always needing to find something to entertain her time. She gets mad if you try to lay her down when she wants to sit up and be a big girl. I started feeding her oatmeal rice cereal last week and she really likes it. I put a little fruit in it too and maybe thats why she enjoys so much. Her sleep schedule differs alot lately this month. She usually wakes up once a night and once and twice a week she will sleep thru the night. I have been working out alot and working with a personal trainer twice a week and eating healthy so I have been sliming down nicely. I have lost around 35 lbs so far since Rylee's birth. Well July 4th is coming up and we don't have any plans. :( I wanted to go to my dads house in Houston but Mark's on call for his job so we have to stay in town. :( So who knows what we will do. I think I am going to cook a brisket and invite some friends over. Well hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of july and have a blessed day!!

One more week till Memorials Day! :)

Rylee Michelle will be 11 weeks tomorrow. Wow how time flies. I can't believe she is almost 3 months old already. She is doing wonderful! She weighs 11.5 lbs now and is growing alot. We just recently moved her to her crib in the nursery from the bassinet in our room. She has been sleeping thru the night regularly. She usually goes to be between 9:45pm and 11pm and will sleep till 5 or 6am. She is still on breastmilk and drinks apple juice and half water occassionally. She just started talking alot and making cooing sounds about a week or two ago. Its so cute its like a baby lanuage. haha! She also loves to smile and laugh. She will even wake up now and not cry and will just lay in her crib and talk and make noises and entertain herself till we come to get her. lol I am still deciding if I want to take her to get all her 2 month vacinations. I just think that 2 months is too young to be giving her 6 shots of vacinations that really she could wait and get when she's a little older. They still don't know why so many kids now in our generation are artistic and I don't want to give her anything that would affect her. So whats the point in vacinating so young. I will probably vacinate when she is a one yr or older. I think her brain is too little right to take all that. But thats just my opinion. Better safe than sorry. Well Memorials Day is next Monday and Mark's 30th bday is the Sunday before. We are going to go the country house for two days and fish and relax. So it will be Rylee's first trip to the country. :) Well all have a blessed week!!!!!

The day before Mothers Day!

Hello!!! Well I am still enjoying motherhood! I guess I am getting used to it because I don't seem to be as sleepy anymore. She is also sleeping thru the night mostly. She usually sleeps thru the night 5 out of the 7 days. So that helps a bunch. Rylee is 8 weeks old now almost 9 weeks. Time is going by so fast. I can't believe she's already 2 months old. She started smiling a week or two ago and laughs and its so cute!! She will even follow u around with her eyes when u walk around the room. My husband is sick right now he has a sore throat we thought it was strep but found out at the doctor that its not luckily. So its kinda a bummer right before mothers day. :( Today I went to a Mothers Day Tea at my mother in law Pattie's church and tomorrow we are going to my mom's house for lunch. So it has been a nice weekend. I started back work on thursday. So I will be working thursdays and fridays now just 4 hrs a day. So I have been staying very busy. Having a baby I stay so busy all the time it seems like I have never have enough time in the day. Happy Mothers day everyone!! So excited because it is my first mothers day! :) Have a blessed day!

6 weeks

Wow!!! Rylee is already 6 weeks!! She is 10 lbs already!! She is doing really well. She loves to sit up and look at everything! She is so observant! She is even starting to loose some of her hair in front. :( But I guess its normal for them to loose their hair after they are born. I really enjoy being a mom and staying home with Rylee. I will go back to work soon which will be good because it will be nice to get out of the house again. Its only part time though so I won't be away from Rylee too long. Well everyone have a blessed day!

Can u believe its already April

Wow, sorry I haven't blogged in awhile. Since my maternity leave from work I rarely get on the computer anymore since I don't have Internet at home. Well Rylee Michelle came 3 days before her due date on Tuesday March 9, 2010. My water broke early that morning at 3:30am in the morning. So I got up took a shower and starting cleaning my house. Haha! I know it sounds funny but I had a home birth so I had lots of people coming over. I started having contractions around six or seven am. Then by 8am my mom and sister arrived. Then my midwife arrived around 10 or 11am. By 11:30 I was dilated to a four. Then dilated to a 10 by 1:30pm. So by 1:30 I was like wow I'm already fully dilated that was fast. So I was so excited that she would be out soon. But then I kept pushing and pushing and a few hours went by and still no Rylee. :( I was starting to get tired and was tired of pushing already. Then they said they could see her hair so that she's right there. She wasn't crowning yet though. So I kept pushing and pushing. Then by 5:30pm we decided that she just wasn't going to come out. 4 hrs of pushing is alot and boy was I exhausted by this time. So I got in the car and we rushed to the hospital. By 6pm or so I was in my room at the hospital and the doctor said yeah she's not going to come out because she is not coming out of your pelvis right and her head is back instead of being down. So we are going to have to do an emergency C-section. I was so happy to hear this because I could not push any more. By this time I was having contractions like every minute or sooner. So I went to the operating room still contracting the whole time even though they gave me medicine to stop them they didn't stop or the pain didn't go away. The anesthesiologist was trying to give me an epidural and I was still contracting. Then 20 minutes later she was born at 7:14pm. Thankgodness everything went smoothly and she was healthy and finally out. :)She weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and her length was 20 1/2 inches long. She is now 5 weeks old tomorrow and doing wonderful. She probably weighs around 9lbs or so. She slept thru the night yesterday for the first time Yay!!! She has been holding her head up since the first week and now likes to sit up as long as you hold her and she looks around everywhere. She is so observant and loves to just look at things. In one month she acts so big I can't believe she is only one month old. Being a mother is wonderful and I just love being home with her everyday. I healed very nicely and within a week or so I was back to my old self. In two weeks I was only 7lbs away from my start weight. I am going back to work in May just a few days a week part time. So I am excited about that to be getting out of the house more. Pattie my mother in law is going to be watching her while I work. She just lives around the block from me so its really nice. Well hope everyone has a blessed week. :)

38 weeks along today!! Yay!!

Well can you believe I am two weeks away from Rylee's due date. Wow how time flies. I have been so blessed and have had a wonderful pregnancy and smooth with no problems. Lets just hope the labor will be that smooth. ;) I am 38 weeks today so two weeks till the due date date. My guess is that she will come early the week of her due date. If she comes a week late then she could have her bday on St. Patricks day. I don't really care when as long as she is healthy. The longer she stays in the more rest I get. :) Tomorrow is my last day of work so I'm so happy about that. So I will be able to sleep in again until she comes. 5am comes so early each morning but I guess it preps me for when I need to wake for Rylee. :) Yesterday my dad and stepmom Janet came to visit which was wonderful. I have not seen my dad since his stepson Jeff's wedding in November so 3 1/2 months. They took me to lunch when I got off work and then spent the whole day with them which was so nice and they stayed the night and are leaving today. :( Last night I had my midwife appointment and everything was normal and even my ankles are better and not swollen anymore and I don't have any pitting edema either. :) So now I am just waiting for Rylee to come. I will have another midwife appointment in 5 days. Well today I work 6am-10am and then home to see my dad before he leaves back to Houston. Then meeting at work from 4:30pm-5:30pm and then off to Mark's brother's house to have a cookout and family night with Mark's brothers and cousins. Should be fun since we have not seen his cousins since Christmas. And somewhere during the day I am going to try to cook some bacon wrapped cream cheese stuffed jalenpenos to take to the cookout. So its going to be a busy day. Then tomorrow I work 1p-5pm so I will be busy the next few days. Well till next time. Hopefully next time we will be closer to Rylee's labor. Have a blessed weekend and week. :)