I guess it is time to update our blog...

We did it!!! I finally graduated! It was an extremely difficult and long journey to complete while we were in the thick of it, but now that it’s over I think to myself “Hey, that wasn’t too awfully bad”. Not that I would ever want to repeat it!! I will be forever grateful for the help I received to accomplish my goal.

Bailee: What a busy little girl! She is such a good girl, most of the time. I am positive that I would have struggled even more through school if I would have received any other baby. But let’s be honest for a minute, she is no longer a baby…she is full blown toddler. These last couple days she has really come into being her own. She has HER own opinion and HER own way. She loves her brother a whole bunch, sometimes too much. In fact, I think Mac kind of gets tired of being hugged and kissed all the time from her; but he deals with it!

Now that I have graduated, I don’t have an excuse to work part-time any longer. I am working full-time nights now days. It has been tough for me to adjust leaving my babies for another shift. I know it doesn’t sound like much, and I am not sure why its been such a difficult thing for me, but bottom line is I have struggled to adjust working full time. I was NEVER going to be a mom who could stay home with their children all day, all the time…. As it turns out after having one, I TOTALLY would give anything to stay home. Unfortunately, we worked to hard and to long to achieve my goal of becoming a nurse… So it looks like I will be a working mom. J I am sure I will adjust to it soon enough.

Thank goodness for moms!!

I have to give some major props to our mothers and grandmothers...

They have been extremely wonderful in helping us, especially lately! I am having to learn to accept help,that I normally wouldn't allow. I have had to let some of my OCD things relax, and now just become grateful for their unbiased help.
I am almost positive that it would be harder for me to leave my Bailee with a complete stranger, but because they are so amazing I have not had to (THANKS!!)

Again....
THANKS FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!!!
I know that I wouldn't be nearly as successful in school if they were not coming around.

How lucky am I...?!!

At about 4weeks Bailee was sleeping for a good 4-6hour stretch at nights. Now at almost 6 weeks Bailee has been sleeping so well for us. Last night she actually slept from 10pm to 6:30am...I am thrilled that she is liking to sleep at night. It makes me feel better about going back to work and leaving Dave with her at nights. Hopefully she will continue to sleep this well at nights. I will keep you posted.

And Happy St. Patricks Day!

Priceless

Here is Bailee at 4 Weeks old... (I finally got her fingernails painted...he, he)

Rocking the leg warmers
She is now real smiling!! (Not just gas smiles)

The most priceless picture!

This is after we gave her a bath. Dave just loves her; he was just talking to her and loving on her. He walks through the door and is like velcrowed to Bailee until he goes to bed. I love it!! He is the BEST daddy!

Pictures

Because of my lack of time I am just going to post pictures this time. It is random shots as well as her 3 weeks.

These are what we took for her 3 week pictures, Mac got a little jealous of her being the center of attention....so he jumped in the pictures.

3 Weeks

Above and below are from my phone camera, so they are a little bit blurry.

So much for my goal of posting every week after Bailee was born....

I will do my best to post when I can and what I can.

2 Weeks old

Our Bailee is 2 weeks old now...

Here is the whole story...

Before:

(My last prego pic....)

After:

Bailee's first picture (more than 22hours after my last prego picture)

Minutes Old

One Day Old

1 Week Old

This is a premie onsie that she has on...I didn't realize that they are so tiny. And yes, that is a massive scratch on her cheek. She doesn't enjoy those mittens, and always manages to get them off.

I don't have a two week picture, because we took a bath instead of doing a photo shoot. We are amidst the sleepless nights, and long sleepless nights for that matter. But she is such a sweet thing to have around. I never thought that I would be happy to wake up to a screaming child; turns out that I LOVE it. Being a mom is about the coolest thing around (makes it super hard to want to focus on becoming a nurse). I am so glad that she is here, healthy, and ours. I will try to be better at posting pictures of our angel more often.