A day full of Love

                                                    Today is Valentines Day
                                              Even if you won't remember it ,
                            we wanted to make sure your 1st one was very special.

Our day started off with a little of this

(Which we sent to your Grand & Great Grandparents all 9 of them! )

We then got your dressed & ready for the day. Lets just say removing all that lipstick was a challenge!

We exchanged Valentines Gifts (:

Daddy sold his pick-up truck that he once loved so dearly, but don't worry it's a good thing. Since your wonderful daddy did so we were able to almost completely pay off mommy's car. Once my car is paid off we will be trading it for something bigger! Yay more room for all of us, which trust me little lady we desperatly need. After running to the bank and such the three of us went to have lunch. You slept peacefully while daddy & I ate mexican food ( his favorite...you'll learn this..oneday) We then ran to your Nana(ers) house, visted with her and exchanged Valentines gifts. She made your daddy and I these really neat gift baskets. She is really crafty, and always amazes us with what she can make. You  really do love her so much, you always make the sweetest faces to her ( : The rest of the day fell to our normal routine. Daddy went to work, you and I played, sang, danced (..ok maybe I danced but it made you smile, so that's all that matters) , read books, took a nap, took a bath and just enjoyed our day.

You also took a picture with me, which is becoming harder to do because you like to be a wiggle worm (:

That night you looked like this..



Your shirt & Mommy's chocolates came from Popaw!

                             If your wondering, no you do not sleep in bows,
                                      but I put them on in pictures,

 to hide the one little spot on your head that doesn't have much hair

because you look so darn cute in them

All in all we had a wonderful day, and considering how much you smiled I'd have to guess that you did too. We love you little lady. To the moon and back, and back again.

Love,
         Mommy

Gettin' so big ♥

Where Oh Where Did My Little Baby Go

Oh Where Oh Can She Be

                            Your a whopping TWO Months Old today
                                       & while it breaks my heart
              I couldn't be more proud of you & to be your Mommy (:

 You now weigh over 10 pounds ( 11.5 if I had to guess) & are most defiantly over 22 inches long. We go to the doctor on Monday, so I am sure we will get all of your stats then.

You have changed so much just in a months time. When you were a month old you looked like me, now at two months you are the spitting image of your daddy (Which I love) Your head full of hair is getting longer by the day, and is now reaching past your collar in the back. It's also begging to curl! (: You love to smile & you even have a little dimple on your right cheek. Right now your loving tummy time, being read too, music (classical, praise & worship, and country mostly), cuddling, riding in the car, & mimicking. You loves to stick your tongue out at us, and you think its so funny when we do it back. You are still taking 4 ounces every 3 to 4 hours and are sleeping around 4 hours at a time.

 We have had some big things going on in our household lately & I am so excited to share them with you. Mommy is now a college student, after years of wanting to go, I am finally able too. I am getting my degree in Business with a minor in Marketing with the hopes of growing my photography business. My hope is that I will be able to make a full-time career from my business (& allow you to be my little assistant). I am also planning to accelerate my education so I am able to finish faster, but as of right now I will graduate in March of 2017, you will be 4 years old then. I really want to complete my degree while you are still little so that it will have a greater impact on you, and our little family, but not effect your upbringing. We were able to go to Tennessee over this past weekend where I was able to share the good news with our family and friends. I also had two photo shoots which ended up being my first ones, other than your newborn pictures that I have done since November. After the shoots we enjoyed family time where you got to meet your Great Papaw & GiGi ( great granny) for the first time. You also got to meet Mommy's childhood neighbors Mrs. Geri & Matt, as well as my "Uncle" Rick and "cousin" Ricky. (While they may not be my real uncle and cousin, I have never known them as anything else & you sure did love them. ) You also got to meet Mommy's friends which I loved every second of.

Aunties: Melody, Amber (& Laylah) Drea and Alyssa.

These girls are some of my very best friends & it was so wonderful to be able to sit down together and eat dinner and visit. I have missed them all so much! It was also really fun to have daddy join us for dinner, he was such a good sport to hang out with 7 woman but we all had so much fun. You were fascinated by Laylah, and she was you. We haven't seen Laylah since she was 2, almost 3 months old, and haven't seen these girls since October at my TN baby shower.

Laylah kept putting her little arm around you! Best Friends already!

Aunt Amber showing what us Mommas do best, Multi-task!

Aunt Alyssa & Drea ( :

Aunt Melody ( :

Aunt Amber & Laylah. Its so hard to believe you girls are 4 months apart just like Amber & I are! But its so cool.

Aunt Amber nearly brought mommy to tears this weekend, I will become Laylah God-Mother at her Christianising very soon. Can you believe it? What an Honor! Love them, and all these girls.

One of my photo shoots this weekend was for another one of my favorite people, my old roommate Brooke.  Oh my goodness did Aunt Brooke ever love you. I hate to say I don't have an individual picture of the two of you, but here is one of the entire group after their glamour shots. Aunt Jessica thought you were pretty neat too ( :

Aunt Jessica (far left) Aunt Brooke (far right)

We also got to have breakfast on Sunday with Aunt Kayla, and Aunt Amber and Laylah, but you were a little fussy because you had been held by 16 people the day before and were sore! So we didn't get pictures, but after breakfast we went and visited with Ambers memaw and poppa, who have always been an extra set of grandparents for mommy. Everyone always talks about how wonderful you are!

LITTLE GIRL YOU ARE SO LOVED

We had such a busy but wonderful weekend! It's crazy to me that not only was this your first trip to TN but it was also your first multi state trip. On Friday you and I were in 3 states! AL, MS & TN! But you did fantastic and we were so proud.

         Daddy and I love you baby girl to the moon & back, and back again!

Time Well Spent

After my last post I made drafts of the other letters I had written with big plans of posting the series within days of each other; but other things intervened.

Harpers' MiMi & Great-Granny came to visit us the 19th thru the 21st of January and we had a wonderful time visiting and shopping about town. I noticed though something just didn't seem right with Harper, she began sleeping a lot, and within a few days we noticed a rattling in her chest. I kept praying it would just run its course, but it didn't, it only got worse. After consulting Harpers' Popaw, Great Mawmaw and Nana(ner) James and I knew we needed to see a doctor. The problem was though Harper no longer had a pediatrician; the one we had selected months before little misses arrival wouldn't accept our insurance and with fear it would be days before we could be seen by another pediatrician we opted to go to the emergency room.

 We went to the hospital on January 24th that Harper was born at, hoping to find out what was going on with our sweet girl. After X-Rays, multiple doctors, RSV test, Flu test, an IV (after 2 attempts) we were told we were being admitted. James and I didn't really understand at first what was going on, then an ER nurse told us our baby girl had RSV. My heart sank, the only thing I had ever read about it talked about how dangerous to infants it is, and at 5 weeks old we were so afraid of how her little immune system would handle it. Our little girl is a fighter though, hands down. Treatment would consist of Harper being in a croup tent, and breathing treatments multiple times a day.



Harper was to stay in the croup tent most of the day, and was to only come out for feedings, changes and quick play times. James had to leave for work right after they told us we would be admitted, and I was alone with HL for no more than an hour before Nana, Aunt Kelly & Uncle Jason came to sit with us. I have never been so thankful to see them. I was so scared, and so emotional about the entire situation; now I know there are millions of sweet babies that are so much worse then Harper ever was but it is so hard to see your child, a helpless baby be uncomfortable in any way. I seriously don't know how my sister-in-law dealt with our sweet niece being in the hospital so long, she's a hell of a strong woman, and that little girl is the Miracle that her name suggests.



Regardless though, this was my view while sitting at HL bedside. I felt weak for crying because I knew I needed to be strong for our princess, even with family around me I wanted my husband, and my daughter to be at home, far far away from the cold hospital.

Harper spent a lot of time holding my hand

          Playing with Popaw ( who stayed with us for hours on end. )

Being sang to, You Are My Sunshine, which is HLs new favorite song. Seriously I sang it over a hundred times. & being read too. (Since Harpers wonderful nana brought us some of our books from home, as well as new clothes for mommy [: & took care of Shorty for us.)

                             Cuddling with Mommy & Daddy.

   & after 4 days we began to see the smile return to our baby girls face.

The staff at the hospital was INCREDIBLE they were so helpful and so kind to us, even willing to give us a new room after the air conditioner went out in ours, with a shower in it.The new room was the only one in that wing with a shower, and they knew how desperately I wanted to take one, but just wouldn't leave our baby girl. Harpers Popaw, Nana, Grandpa, Grandma, Uncles Jason and Jessie and Aunt Kelly all kept us company during our stay, and while James had to continue to work. (We love yall!)