1st photo shoot

So our little model had her first photo shoot today, these were her 1 month pictures. So all week we have been working on her smiling and she has been doing wonderfully, as you can see in my previous post, but this morning I guess she just got up on the wrong side of the bed. I thought we had everything rolling smoothly, I fed her before we left so she wouldn't be hungry, we had her dressed and ready for the first picture so we wouldn't have to change her clothes too many times, I even washed her face to try and wake her up so that she would be alert. She fell asleep in the car on the way which I guess "started her day over again" so she was hungry and fussy. We did manage to get her to smile a few times, but I looked like a fool because I told the ladies that she knew how to smile, which is not incorrect, and boy am I glad I have proof because I would really sound crazy. She still looked beautiful though but then again she always looks beautiful to us.

How much is that Addie in the mirror?

She loves talking to and looking at the Addie in the mirror, it is so sweet!!

1st Smile

April 25, 2009

Oh how time flies

I can't believe that just a month ago we were in the hospital aiding God in bringing this angel into our world. Addie has been everything we dreamed of and more! In these past few weeks she has grown so much! She stays up more during the day just looking around kicking and talking. She hasn't quite started making eye contact yet, but she can hold her head up like a champ. Booskers still couldn't care about her less, for the first 2 weeks he was more than depressed, and even stayed out all night a few nights but he is coming around especially since everything has calmed down. We have gotten more into a routine and he gets shown more love.

So in these past 4 weeks Addie had her first trip to Richmond to meet her great grandparents. Although I was more nervous than I have ever been , it was a great trip. Then we took a short trip to the beach. During that trip she went out to eat for the first time (Crab Legs, YUM!). She didn't get to go out onto the beach, but Daddy did while we sat in the car. He even wrote her name in the sand. We also took her to church for the first time, what a busy month we had!

On her 1 month birthday she smiled for the first time and I managed to catch it on camera, one of the many things I'm gonna miss being able to do when I go back to work. I can't wait until she smiles all the time, right now it is just every once in a while. I have found that she is a morning person just like her Daddy and I, so mornings are usually the easiest time to get her to show her personality. She hates having socks on or being covered up, so I think that she will be a summer girl like her parents also.

Oh this child, We love her so much!! I couldn't imagine our lives without her! You know how people say that children complicate things, or put strains on marriages, well since Addie came into our lives I believe that Chris and I have been even happier ( not that we weren't happy before, Addie just made everything a little better).

On Mother's Day we are going to have her dedicated, I am so excited!! She is gonna wear the gown that I wore when I was dedicated. This gown my Mom made especially for me for my dedication, so it is gonna be so meaningful to have her wear it. We have already vowed to raise Addie in a Christian home, and are constantly seeking God's guidance with how to bring her up, but we are excited to proclaim this publicly. I can already tell though that she will do great things for Christ!

She is such a strong willed child already, I can't wait to see what the next 18 years brings, but in no way do I want to speed up our time with her now. I still just can't believe that she isn't a newborn anymore. I know that it goes fast, it's not like that is all I hear all the time, from everyone...but it also feels like so much has happened that she should be older than 1 month. At our well visit, she weighed in at 8lbs 11oz and 21 1/2in long. So she has gained 1lb, and grown 1/2 an inch, which I am so very proud of, my mother on the other hand...I get the feeling that she thinks that I am not feeding her enough. I feed her when she is hungry you know, it's not like I'm starving her, but I'm not gonna stick a boob in her mouth just cause it's there either! Then again I don't know if she would be happy if she was 10lbs. Really though, she just worries as do I, but if the Doctor is happy I can't help but be happy as well.

Isn't it funny how everyone has an opinion, like we will go somewhere and Addie looks like me, but the next person we see she looks like Chris. How is it that she changes so much in a matter of hours?? Because I am pretty sure that Chris and I don't resemble each other in the least. LOL, or how so many things work so wonderfully, yeah maybe for your child, but I appreciate everyone wanting to help guide us in our first parenting endeavor, and I can't say that I wont try and give tips later on down the road. Some of the advice I do like, that it why I don't discourage any of it, because I never know what will be helpful to us, it is just funny.

What a month!

Sweet Adeline

Ok so most of you know by now that our Precious Addie Mae was born. March 25, 2009. At 9:56am the most beautiful angel on earth was placed in my arms for the first time ever. How could I have ever imagined that something so amazing could be given to me to keep. Chris and I are absolutely in Awe over this blessing that has been bestowed upon us. Wow God really knows what He is doing, not that I ever doubted Him, but if we have ever been reassured, it was at this particular moment in time and that moment will stand still in our hearts forever.

So here is how it all went down:

On Tuesday evening after returning home from dinner at my Sister-In-Law's house, I went to go take my shower to prepare for work the next day. I sat down on the toilet, did my business, but low and behold it didn't stop!!! I was shocked, not knowing what to do I called Chris...Well Chris being the smarty pants that he is, came back there expecting something dumb needless to say he didn't have much pep in his step to find out what I needed. I was like uh I think my water just broke, and he in disbelief asked if I had just peed well I said that I was already done and right at that moment more water started gushing out of me. He freaked, he was like oh my goodness, what are we gonna do, well I was just as freaked as him. I was, who knows how long from having a baby, I mean did he really expect me to be calm and collected and to be able to give HIM direction on what to do?? So I just started rattling things off that were in my head, things that I had been running through my head for weeks in preparation for this very moment, of course they were pretty much coming out all jumbled together. We were both going in circles, to think back on it now it was rather kinda funny, well actually I did stop to laugh during all the commotion a few times. Luckily I had our bags packed... One of the girls in our Sunday School class had sent me an e-mail a few weeks before with a list of things that she needed while she was in the hospital to have her son last year. What a life saver that was, so we were somewhat prepared. He called the Dr. I waddled back and forth with the water steady flowing down my legs getting everything put together to go out to the car, and then found a seat in the recliner (on a towel of course, a beach towel that is) having no contractions (or contraptions as Chris likes to call it) I turned on the TV. What else was I gonna do, it took the nurse FOREVER to call us back, I mean it wasn't like we were having a baby or anything... When she finally called back Chris had to answer all these protocol questions which I might add he was not very happy about, I won't tell how that conversation went...Just for her to come back and say it seems as though she is in labor and you should get to the hospital as soon as possible. WHAT are you kidding me I could have told you that!! So off we went...

Here is the irony to it all, weeks ago Chris' Grandma said straight up "she will be born on the 24th", well for months my mom has said she thought she would be born on the 25th (which is my cousin's little girl's birthday). So on my way home from work that evening I was on the phone talking to Chris and we were talking about how his Grandma was incorrect, then jokingly I said well she still has like 5hrs and some odd min. (little did I know). So I guess they were both kinda right. The whole way to the hospital I just kept laughing and saying "I can't believe your Grandma!" "I hold her fully responsible" not that I was unhappy at all!! Everything couldn't have worked out MORE perfectly!

So after almost 13hrs of labor this beautiful child was born, it was the most amazing 13hrs of my life, and the results well they were just phenomenal.

She weighed 7lbs 11oz, and was 21in long.

BTW Chris was the best coach ever! He was such a great support, he was thoughtful of my pain (I really think though that he was in pain along with me), he woke up numerous times during the night to check on me (with the drugs I was on, I was doing just fine, but it was the thought). When I started pushing, he was right there helping me, counting, talking me through every bit of it. Then when Addie came out he cut the umbilical cord, stayed right beside her while they cleaned her off, and weighed her. His daddy instincts kicked right in immediately and they have yet to cease. I think that Addie and I are two of the luckiest girls on earth, but then again is it really luck at all? (I think not)

So I would like for everyone to meet Adeline Maize...