Saturday, January 19, 2008

finally... i am officially part of the "club"

who is this you ask?? this is haylee lynn... she was born on august 9, 2007 at 11:16am. she was 7 lbs 5 ounces and 18 inches long. it has only taken me 5 months to set this up!! i think i am doing pretty good.

i don't even know where to start... maybe i'll just start from the beginning... well, labor sucked (and mine wasn't even that bad)! who ever would decide to have 6 must be insane... just kidding mom!! i hate hospitals so having to stay there from early thursday morning to saturday afternoon was too much. once we got home i think i was still a little medicated because i remember feeling confident about motherhood... ha ha ha.

the first month was a little rough (scratch that... it was really hard)! i don't remember being pregnant thinking "what if i have a hard baby"... i just remember thinking "oh my gosh, i am going to have a baby". was i in for a rude awakening or what? i look back now and realize i am pretty sure i was starving my baby... she just cried and cried and my doctor told me to only breastfeed every 2 hours no matter what. so that is what i did, and in between poor haylee would just cry. i'm sorry honey!! i don't think that was all of your frustration though. i am pretty sure you didn't know how to take this huge world when you were so used to your little apartment in my belly... you figured it out though and are so much happier now! it could also be because i started feeding you more too (i eventually gave up on breastfeeding after 1 month). it was for both our sanity...

after the first month it started getting easier. not easy, easier... i am now back to work (i went back after haylee was 3 1/2 months old). it wasn't fun but obviously i survived. i only work 4 days instead of 5 so at least i get more time with my haylee bean.

she has already starting rolling from her back to her stomach, but has only rolled from her stomach to back a few times. her new thing is when i put her down for a nap, she just rolls over on her belly and then cries because she gets stuck, so with each nap i probably go in 5 times to roll her back over and pray she finally goes to sleep. it's a great time!

she loves to talk, and make weird sounds with her mouth which is adorable. she also loves to stand. when i try to take her hands to put her to a sitting position she makes me let her come all the way up to a standing position and stands for a very long time. i think she is going to have her daddy's strength! that should be fun for me when she gets older... she loves her daddy's beard... just kidding! she pushes him away when he tries to give her all of his kisses because i think the beard hurts her cheeks. she loves him very much though.

she is such a happy baby. she is always smiling. as soon as she wakes up from naps she instantly smiles at us and it seriously melts my heart... she used to sleep the entire night until about 6:30am, but for about a week now she decided to wake up at 2am and roll on to her stomach and talk and talk and then start yelling because she is stuck. so me and daddy (shame on us) grab her and put her in between us because we are not about to get up with her at 2 in the morning. what is she, crazy??

that is all i can think of for now, and this post is getting way too long, and my sweet angel just woke up so i will end with "we love chubbs"...