Look Out World Here She Comes!

That's right folks as of last night our beautiful Cayleigh-Grace became mobile!!

She was fussing b/c I kept moving her bird bath so she would have to scoot to it so I could film her! That is her favorite toys it seems, she loves taking the "flowers" in and out of their slots. I cannot believe that she started scooting on her 6 month day! She beat out both of her brothers with this milestone!

Our Dear Sweet Colin...

Man is this boy having some issues lately. You know you can only warn kids so many times, and then they get to spend the entire afternoon and night minus dinner in bed... Basically it all started 3 weeks ago. I go and pick the boys up from school and as soon as I get to Colin's classroom I am confronted with "Colin is just not listening and obeying in class, I will ask him a question and he has no idea what is going on b/c he is just not paying attention..." So we go home and Colin gets an entire lecture on listening and obeying his teacher and following with the lessons. I send him to school the next day with all of the best intentions... until "He still isn't paying good attention in class, maybe we should explain to him that he needs to do good in K-3 so he can be in K-4 next year." Me thinking that this would be a good idea tries it out, he cannot wait to be in Kiale's classroom, which is where he will be next year, so we give it a try. The next day is is much better and is paying attention in class again, so I think okay all is well in the world of Colin... Until I get his Thursday folder last week... M- that is not good. The kid has been all E's up until this past 2 weeks what in the heck is going on!?!? So I ask his teacher, same issues again, so we talk about it and he says he will do better. Fast forward to yesterday, I pick him up and am immediately told, by not only Colin's teacher but also Kiale's teacher, that Colin spent the ENTIRE recess on the fence, the WHOLE ENTIRE TIME! Needless to say I was WAY WAY less than pleased. His teacher said that he would not stop dancing around and being disruptive in class and would not listen to her when she told him to quite down and take he seat... (did I mention I was not happy when I heard this, and I am still not happy) So our dear sweet Colin got to spend literally the ENTIRE afternoon and night in bed yesterday. He wasn't allowed to have ANY stuffies, not even Buzzy, no books, nothing. The only time he was allowed out of bed was to go to the bathroom or to eat dinner. So hopefully this helped and he will be good and listen and obey today at school. We shall see in a few hours...

Sweet Potatoes = YUCK!

Well I did decide to start Cayleigh-Grace on solids today, and needless to say it did not go as I had planned it to. Both of my boys started off with sweet potatoes (I skipped cereal as the first solid with her, veggies have more good iron in them then rice cereal) so I figured I would start her off on the same thing... assuming she would love them like they did... boy was I wrong. She did not like them at all, and in fact she didn't seem to enjoy the whole solid thing at all either...
I did end up taking Cayleigh-Grace to the Dr today since she is still sick with one heck of a nasty cough. Turns out that she has a slight case of bronchitis which should clear up after a few nights with a humidifier and some saline solution. She now weighs 19lbs 7oz and she is 27.5 inches long.

6 Months Tomorrow

*UPDATE 3-3-09 Feeling much better today, yesterday was just a rough day for me. Thank you for those of you who bared with me through this post. It is something that has been on my mind and bothering me a lot lately and last night it just all came to a head*


Well my baby girl turns 6 months old tomorrow, and all I want to do is cry. Time is going so fast and I hate it. I cherish the sweet baby stage so much, granted I love all of the stages, but this one is the most precious. After tomorrow my exclusively breastfed baby will be no more. I will be introducing solid food tomorrow... unless I manage to talk myself out of it, which happens to be a distinct possibility. The 6 month marker is such a huge month and so full of milestones. At 6 months she will most likely become "mobile" at least that's when both of the boys became "mobile" so I am figuring she may follow suit. I am just not ready for any of this, the time has gone to fast and I find myself ill prepared for everything that comes during the 6-12 month and beyond marker. During the days following Cayleigh-Grace's birth all I did was hold her cherishing every moment of her newbornness We would spend hours laying on the couch together with her sleeping on my chest b/c I knew just how short that precious time was. I was sitting here earlier just messing around reading other blogs and she was here just setting on my lap and she was bouncing her little leg up and down while she held onto my arm and was leaning against my chest. During those sweet couple of minutes all I could think about was how I didn't want to few minutes to end, and how much I appreciated having a baby that totally loves to be held and snuggled with and that will just sit there with me and let me love and hold her. I totally attribute that to those first couple of months where she was nowhere else but in my arms. We literally did not put her down at all for a good 2 weeks following her birth, if she wasn't in my arms she was in Kiale's or one of the boys arms. We just held her and loved on her constantly, and we still do.

With both of the boys I couldn't wait for all of their milestones, but with her it is so different. I am literally dreading them. I don't want any of them to come... I started Kiale on solids at 5 months and Colin started them at 4.5 months and here is Cayleigh-Grace at 6 months old and I haven't started her on solids yet and honestly I seriously doubt that I start her on them tomorrow. She is still sleeping through the night and she doesn't need them yet. Her breastfeeding patterns haven't changed and she is still completely satisfied with my breastmilk alone, and I am absolutly dreading starting her on solids for some reason. I don't understand why all of her milestones are surrounded by a sort of sadness for me this go round. Normally they are such an exciting and happy time, and I just find myself so saddened by them. Trust me I am VERY grateful to have a wonderfully happy, healthy, and thriving baby who is growing normally and is hitting every milestone right on time and perfectly. Its just that I know that once she hits them it closes a chapter in her life that will never be open again. That's the only bad and heartbreaking thing about babies, they are so open and close when it comes to their lives. Every new breakthrough that they make closes a door behind them, and it is so hard for me to believe that at 23 this could be the last time that I experience any of this with my own children. It is so so hard... to think that we could already be done with this stage of our lives. It truly breaks my heart. I know that a lot of people don't want to see Kiale and I have anymore children, and I see the point that we have three happy and healthy children, we have our girl so we should be "done" and we probably are but it makes me so sad to think that we are finished. I feel like I am battling this battle inside myself that I really cannot express outwardly b/c I don't see anyone else understanding what I am going through. I had my first son at 18 my second son at 19 and my daughter at 23... do you realize how young that is. The thought that I wont be experiencing another pregnancy, another labor, another instance where I get to feel those first sweet butterflies of feet and hands moving around in my womb, another foot that is constantly poking me and getting stuck under my ribs... the thought is so beyond heartbreaking for me. I don't even think words can express the sorrow that fills my body and mind whenever I think about it, and time passing so quickly with Cayleigh-Grace makes it all that much harder...

By the way, she started waving last Monday, I think I forgot to tell you, and she clapped yesterday for the first time. She is such an amazing baby, all of my kids are. We have been so blessed to have three brilliant and loving children. God has truly smiled down upon our family.

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not have such a severe migraine on Monday that after picking up the boys from school and making a Dollar General stop for a tote and shower curtain, I did not grab the wrong shower curtain and thought it was a clear one, it was gray, and then when I got out to my car I did not thing that I had locked myself out of my car for the first time ever. I did not look down and pick up the keys that I had attached to my belt loop and think that they were my green house set (they were my pink car set) I then did not ignore KJ when he told me that I had the right keys and proceed to call my husband explain the situation about my migraine and tell him he needed to come unlock my car doors. It did not take me another three minutes to realize that the keys in my hand were in reality my car keys and I was not lock out of my car after all. I then did not have to call my husband and tell him to not worry about coming up to the store since I actually had the correct keys in my hand the entire time... I do not HATE migraines...

I did not take this precious video of Cayleigh-Grace fussing, since I know all to well that this sweet stage will be gone soon, and it will be replaced with annoying whining.

Notice all of the overflowing clothes piles in the back of the video, that is not what 5 days of no washer and dryer look like in my house, and that would not be only 2 of my 5 laundry baskets. All 5 of my baskets would not be overflowing like that... meaning that I would not have at least 6 loads of laundry to do as of Saturday morning...