Long time no blog!

Wow, its been over 4 months since I last blogged. I am having a hard time deciding on where to take this blog. I'm not that great of a writer and not very creative so I am at a loss of what to blog sometimes besides the obvious....Hattie. I started this blog as a way for my friends and family to be connected to us even  if they are far away and blah blah blah. Anyways, not ignoring the blog, just kinda scared of it right now.

1st Birthday

Can you believe it?? I sure as hell can't. Hattie is 1 today!! I remember so much about the day she was born and I also know I missed a lot too just being drugged, excited and anxious. I've been looking at pictures all day and wondering where the time has gone. I wont get too mushy, I've already cried twice today. My thought was to do a year in pictures. Lets see how this goes...

Hattie James Pelfrey
10-26-2010
12:01pm
7lbs 3oz
21 1/2 inches

These fat cheeks are from me eating buffalo chicken wraps almost everyday while pregnant.

Holy drugged up momma!! LOL

This is my favorite picture.

Sleeping on her bili blanket. Her jaundice was soo bad.

In the hospital at 6 days old for jaundice. Look how little she looks in that bed!

Gobble Gobble!!

In the hospital at a month old. Some type of virus...they never did figure it out.

Merry Christmas from the Pelfrey's!

All the babies born at work within a month of each other. Left to right, Hattie, Fenix, Hazel and Caden.

Hattie and Hazel, 4 months.

Daddy and Hattie, Easter 2011

The Helmet.

Panama City Beach, 9 months old.

This kid loves a bath!

My blue eyed little devil.

First hair cut!

No more Helmet!!! 10 months

Such a big girl now. If you'll notice, she has on the same bow in this picture that she has on in the second picture.

My 1 year old little girl!!!!


"When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."
 Johnny Depp

Bad Blogger

So I just realized that I have not blogged in well over a month! Oops. I feel like every day and I have less and less time to do anything. And Hattie has turned into a little tornado so I tend to run around after her all the time now. I'm telling you, I can clean the house and she can have it destroyed in 2.5 minutes. DVD's scattered everywhere, the baby proofing stuff strung about everywhere, (biggest waste of money ever) every toy she owns out in the floor, cabinets open and pots and pans all over the kitchen, trash can knocked over and the dog and 2 cats running for cover. She's crazy! And I love every damn minute of it. =>

On September 20th Hattie officially graduated her STARband! No more helmet for us! Oh and the 20th was our 8 year anniversary! That sound like a really long time, huh? This is a picture of her and Dale, her "helmet doctor". They gave us the plaster cast of her head. We put the helmet on it and put it on her dresser. Hey, that stupid thing was $2,600! I'm not throwing it away!

September the 25th was Hazel's first birthday! So of course we go and celebrate with Hattie's best friend! I actually have no pictures. A lot were taken, just not by me. My child was being anti-social and I ended up holding her half the time. Hazel, and Owen and Lukas, Tinas nephews and Hazels cousins, were playing around and all over the house and Hattie just sat there for like 45 minutes. Once they pretty much cleared out of the room, she decided to go play with all the toys.


Tina and I took the girls to Nivens Family Farm at the beginning of October We put them in the wagon and away we went! After I got home I realized that I never got a pumpkin. Jeez, I'm losing my mind. They had fun, but all they cared about was their snacks and juice.

See? What did I tell you?

Best buds.

Check out those pig tails. I did them all by myself. It was super hard!! lol I think everyone that knows my hair skills (none) will appreciate these!

Candy apple anyone?

Just try and tell me thats not the cutest face you have ever seen!

Tina teaching Hazel how to break rules already.

She's panting.....like our dog.
We also had Hattie's 1 year pictures taken this past weekend by Gena Murphy Photography. I cant wait to get all the pictures back soon! She had 3 outfit changes. Her Halloween outfit ones were a riot!

Hmmm....trying to think what else has been going on. Not much. Getting ready for Hattie's frist birthday...next Wednesday!! Where oh where has the time gone? Seems like I just had her and now she's this little mover and shaker. Never stops all day unless she's asleep. Her new thing? Telling me "no m'am". I'll give the warning "Hattie!" and she will look back at me and say "no m'am!" Little shit. She is also trying her best to walk. She's not quite there yet but it will be soon. I had more pictures to upload, but my phone crashed and I had to get it factory reset this weekend. All my picures are on that itty bitty sd card and I have to find the larger sd card that it fits into to upload them. Well, I know there is lots more, but I think this post is long enough. I will post a 1 year blog next week!!

10 months!

To my Hattie Bug,

You are 10 months old today!! I know this is a huge cliché, but where has the time gone? It seems like you just came into our lives yesterday! I feel so incredibly blessed to have you complete our little family.

What you are doing these days

*Not sleeping like you used to, that’s for sure! You used to sleep all night and now you are so restless and cry out all the time. Teething?

* You have 6 teeth and 4 more trying to come through! You have your bottom 4 and your top two incisors, and yes you look like a baby vampire.

* You clap at everything, even when the people on tv clap!

* You can fake cough. When me or Daddy cough, you have to do it too. You are becoming such a mimic!

* You love to pet and touch and play with Cyrus, he on the other hand could care less about you unless he thinks he can get food from you.

* I have never seen a baby happier to take a bath than you are. You would play in the tub all day every day if I let you.

* I have never seen a baby eat like you. I have not found anything but peaches that you will not eat. You ate almost a whole sweet potato last night! And green beans too!

* We finally found a cup you can drink out of, a straw sippy cup with handles on the sides.

* We moved you out of your carrier car seat to your big girl car seat a couple of weeks ago (still rear facing) and you enjoy it so much better because you can see out now. And my back is feeling lots better now that I don’t have to tote you everywhere.

* You are really picking up on your baby sign language now! Milk, eat, more, dog, change diaper, light and bath.

* You can say mama, dada and we thing “what’s that”. You picked that up from your cousin Carson.

* You are still in your orthotic helmet for brachycephaly, but hopefully only for one more month.

*You are some what crawling. You have popped your face a couple of times and now are hesitant to do it again. You can definitely scoot anywhere you want to go though.

*Pulling up on anything that will hold still is your current favorite thing to do.

* You get really excited to see the dog running around outside. I have no idea why this is better than him running around inside, but hey, whatever makes you happy.

*During the past two weeks you have started to make this weird new face. You scrunch your nose up and make a little “o” of your mouth and cry of fuss. It is so funny.

* You don’t seem to like other babies. You got so mad when we were at Tina and Hazel’s the other day in the pool. You actually scratched Hazel’s back….on purpose.

* And on that note….you have become very mean in the past couple of weeks. You smack, scratch, sling yourself backwards, kick and on and on when you get mad now. We try not to laugh, but its really hard not to sometimes.

* Still loving the Baby Einstein dvd’s.

* You weigh around 23lbs and are about 30 inches tall now.

* And last but not least, your hair is still as crazy as ever. And it is getting so long. But no bows for you, you just pull them out and throw them down.

Check out how much you have changed in such a short amount of time!!

4 days old

7 months old

10 months old!

The kid

Here are some recent pics of Hattie doing her thing. I can't believe she is 9 1/2 months old now.

Just readin my book

Eating spaghetti

Seriously need to learn how to fix hair.

Eating her foam floor

In her new car seat. She's crying because I bumped her head on the ceiling. Oops. Bad mom.

Victor teaching her about baseball. What a sweet picture!

Bath time!

Tina and Hazel

Changes...

As Tina and I are getting geared up to go to Switcheroos (kids consignment sale) tonight I realize just how much has changed in my life over the past 9 months or so. I overheard some of the other people at work discussing where they wanted to hang out tonight and who had the best beer on draft and who had music trivia vs. a live band, etc. This used to be me! I have to admit I miss going out with friends at a moments notice and not having a care in the world except for myself. (and of course Dorian, but you know what I mean)

And now I have wonderful Hattie! I'm so happy to just pick her up at moms, go home and just be with her, be it playing, eating, watching tv or whatever. Don’t get me wrong, I still get out every now and then, it's just that priorities have really changed now. I plan my days now on her schedule. You can’t leave the house at a moments notice anymore.....you need at least a 30 to 40 minute warning. Sometimes more depending on your state of dress at the time. You have to tote so much stuff everywhere!! This gets easier as the baby gets older and older I'm learning. If your little one gets fussy, it's time to hurry the hell up and get home for naptime. About the only time you have a moment to do anything is when the baby is asleep. Days off now consist of all the crap you didn't do during the week, plus all the other stuff you said you were going to do on the weekend anyways. Need a break? Now a days its sitting outside drinking a beer while the baby naps so you can hurry to sweep and mop just to have the baby wake up to crawl and scoot all over the floor and find all the dog hair and pieces of junk you so obviously missed somehow. Used to sitting down and having a quiet dinner? Not anymore! Dinner now consist of me picking up the sippy cup for the thirty-third time off the (mopped?) floor, dodging little fingers and hands just to get food in the baby's mouth, baby banging on highchair and yelling as she runs out of food to feed herself and the dog sitting patiently below her. I spend more time cleaning up afterwards than I did eating. Lost a few pounds lately, wonder if hardly eating sometimes has something to do with it?? My favorite time of the day? Bedtime! As I go to lay her down in bed she curls on her side and grabs her blanket and falls asleep I realize I wouldn’t change my life now for anything.

Okay, so this was a totally random blog. Hope you followed along okay!!


"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phillis Diller

"Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level" - Jami Gertz

Life

So I have been informed that I’m a bad blogger. What can I say? I’m a slacker! And we don’t have a home computer right now so that makes it rough. Anywhoo….

The beach was AMAZING. It was a great vacation. The first two days we were there it rained. And I mean poured!! Hattie and I spent a lot of time wandering the resort those first two days. When we first got there Dorian was running a high fever and slept the whole time. I felt awful for him. He looked exhausted. So I put Hattie in the stroller and away we went…..in the rain in a few spots too.

Things I learned at the beach with a 9 month old.

·       Hattie hates sand

·       Hattie eats sand

·       Its 90 degrees at 7 in the morning

·       Hattie can last a total of an hour and a half outside in the heat before having to go inside and take a 3 hour nap….twice a day.

·       Not a lot of good tv on during the day while the baby sleeps and sleeps and sleeps.

·       Teething and the beach and the fun in sun makes for a very crabby and sleepy baby.

·       Moms are awesome for watching grandkids after they go to sleep so the parents can get out of the room for a little while.

·       The bartenders name was Donna

·       I only used half the stuff I brought for Hattie. (figures)

Here a few pics of the family at the beach. My sister Angie, my bro in-law Terry, and their kids Taylor, Alexis, Mikayla and TJ. Mom and Danny were there too but I didn’t get any pictures of them. I didn’t get many pictures period. I have GOT to learn to be ready with the camera at all times!!

The kids with the Polynesian Dancer

Mikayla reading

Alexis

Alexis, Taylor, TJ and Mikayla

TJ with his face painted

Mikayla with her face painted

D swimmin

Hmm...looks like I didnt get any pictures of the adults.

Not much else has been going on since then. Just working and all that good stuff. Hattie went to her head dr appointment last Tuesday and it looks like another month in the helmet. We go back in 2 weeks for an adjustment and then in 2 more weeks for another scan. I have my fingers crossed that she will be out of it then. We are going on week 13 or 14 in the helmet right now.

Angie and I hit up some yard sales on Saturday. Found a few good ones, got a few things, went to the TR Farmers Market, the Flop Shop, (I LOVE that place!!!!!) and then we went and ate at Molina’s. I couldn’t get Hattie to drink out of her sippy cup and I knew she had to be thirsty b/c it had been so hot all day. My sister tells me to give her a sip from my straw. I’m thinking “whatever, she cant drink from a straw”. WRONG!!! She’s a champ!! I went and bought a few sippy cups with the straw feature and she goes to town on them! She is so stinking cute. They are the no-spill kind. (until she shakes the crap out of them)

It’s Shark Week! This is one of my favorite weeks of television. After I talked to an old friend last night, Dorian and I sat and watched a few programs. I don’t know why I enjoy it so much, it’s just so interesting.

Happy Monday to all!