The joys of being a mom!!

There are so many days when I feel like pulling my hair out and then she giggles at something little I did or she falls asleep on my chest or sits by herself and talks to her teddy bears and my heart melts. Words cannot express what a blessing it is to be a mom and to see this child changing day by day right before your eyes. Their personality changes, their looks, their height/weight. As they grow they just seem to get cuter and cuter. They also start to develop an attitude and start to do things to push the boundaries. God has given me a strong willed child and I know that He has a wonderful plan for her life. I can't wait to see how He uses this will for His purpose!!

It has been way too long!

Hey everyone!! I was just reading the last post on my blog and I realized that I have not posted something in a very long time. So just a quick over view of what our lives have been like for the past 7 months... Hannah has four teeth and she is such a happy baby. She has her moments of sadness and she even has an attitude but for the most part she is just a happy, funny kid. Mike is still at the school division but he is working part time trying to finish our basement. We now have a bedroom that is almost move in ready, a laundry room and a bathroom with a working shower. The family room downstairs just needs to be painted and carpet put in and we will be able to use the other half of our house. I cannot wait!!!

I am three weeks away from writing my final exams and being done with school forever. Whoever said that going to school with an infant would be easy clearly had never tried to complete such a task. Not only do I want to be with my baby I also have a house to clean, meals to make, school work to do... and the list goes on and on. I cannot express how excited I am going to be when they hand me my diploma and tell me that I am finished!!! Oh the anticipation.

Well, here are a few pictures of Hannah so enjoy.

Today is Tuesday!!

So today is Tuesday and I am one day behind on writing my tests for this month. I wanted to make sure that I was ready to write them as I need to get really good marks this year. I was supposed to have them written by yesterday but that just did not happen. Last week I took Hannah to the doctor and after having chest xrays we found out that she has pneumonia. So she has been on meds and has been a bit cranky the last little while. I had been praying that she would be feeling much better by Sunday as it was her dedication at Church. When Sunday morning rolled around I knew it was going to be a good day. She was so happy and content and she had a great day with her cousins. It may have been too good of a day for her though. When Monday came around she was quite grumpy unless I was holding her and when she got tired she screamed and screamed until she just could not keep her eyes open any longer. It did not help that I had to take her for another chest xray in the morning. I am not sure if I have described the chest xray process to you but i will do that now. The technician put her onto what could be described as a bicycle seat for babies. Then the other technician held her arms up while the first guy wrapped a plastic cone around her little body to hold her in a seated position with her hands up over her head. Once she was strapped in they took a couple pictures of her chest and told me to go and wait while they checked the images to make sure they got 2 good pictures. Did I mention that she had to be naked for this procedure? Well she did, she could keep her diaper on but that was it. I felt so bad for her. So bad that I thought I would leave her in the seat just a few seconds longer to get a picture so that all of you could see what it actually looked like. But alas the room was too dark and my picture did not turn out so you will just have to use your imagination.

I do not have any pictures to show this time but maybe on wordless Wednesday I will be able to scrounge up a few pictures for all of you to see.

A long day!!

So I took Hannah to the walk in clinic yesterday. We found out that she has a croupe like sound coming from her chest. I had to take her to get chest x-rays and to pick up some penicillin to help her get back to her normal self. She apparently takes after me when it comes to taking penicillin, she stays wide awake instead of konking out. She has been much crankier the last few days and not sleeping much. I sure hope this passes over soon so we can get back to normal.

Sunday is her dedication at Church and I am sure hoping that she will feel much better by then.

Wordless Wednesday!

Busy September

So things have been really busy since school started for Mike and myself. I have been working on school stuff and Mike has been trying to get his real estate stuff finished. Mike has finally completed everything and is a full fledged real estate agent!! Yay!! I am working on my last year of school and I am actually enjoying this year. Hannah is doing great! I took her for her 2 month needles on Monday! She was a trooper. She only cried when they started to inject the fluid stuff and she only cried for a minute. I took her to the waiting room and she started talking away and was happy. She has been a little cranky the last few days though so I think she is just getting it out of her system. She is getting so big and so sociable. I just want her to be awake all the time but we also need the time when she is sleeping to get stuff done. When she is awake all I do is either hold her or lay on the floor with her and talk to her. So I guess her sleeping is necessary for me to get stuff done!

Today was our first Mots class. It was fun, a bunch of moms from the church or community were there. I was able to leave Hannah with some grandmas from the church who volunteered to come and babysit and I was able to spend time with other moms and not worry about Hannah. It was nice to talk to other people who have babies. I am glad that I went.

Busy morning

So today Hannah and I had a very busy morning. Mike was asked to bring pictures of Hannah to school so all the teachers could see his baby but since we have not developed any of our pictures of her we decided to just bring her to the school. Everyone thought she was just so cute and that she looked just like her daddy. After they all went to their classrooms I took Hannah to my old school J.R. Reid to show her to all the teachers that I used to work with. She was such a good sport about being shown to so many people. She smiled a bunch and then fell asleep. After that visit we went to the church for a Mots meeting which took till lunch time. Now I am home and I am fed, Hannah is sleeping in her swing and I feel the need to get some homework done. I also feel the need to take a nap. I am not sure which one is going to win out on this one but I do know for sure that a blanket, warm slippers and a cup of tea will be involved in whatever I choose to do!