Meeting her "future husband" for the first time
We were working out the details of the arranged marriage
Trying to get a sneak peek of her rockin' six pack ;)
This was back before she was a giant.
Meeting her beautiful and sweet cousin Gracie!!!!!
Meeting cousin Aimee
My God, this is one gorgeous six year old.
So cute :)
Meeting cousin Chelsea!
I was fighting back tears while watching my amazing nieces hold my daughter.
Look what I can do!
Riley had difficulty licking a moving target. Solution? Pin down the baby's arm.
My baby girls!!!
Just hanging out, being fat.
You don't say, Grandma!
I sometimes look back at my hospital pictures and Emma's NICU pictures. It feels like all of that was forever ago, but she's only three months old. It's quite a story... the battle with infertility, having her burrow in as a little embryo on such an important day, finding out about the pregnancy five days before Christmas, going into the hospital while only 6 1/2 months pregnant, having her at 32 weeks, the NICU, the heart monitor, the bradys. And now she's just a happy, gassy fat kid.
She's been asleep ALL DAY. She was up from about 8:45 until 11ish, and I woke her up at 2:30 for a bottle. I held her for almost two hours (just because I wanted to) and finally put her down so I could fold some laundry. She's going to be up all night, I bet. At least it's Saturday.
I'm hoping for some positive changes coming my way... I know everything will work out the way it's supposed to, but I can't help but get excited about the prospect of losing some stress (technically I'll be trading stress for stress, but it's different stress. Stress stress stress) and hopefully making my way out of a toxic situation.
Remember that 17 year old that I mentioned in a previous post? She was a notorious runaway and didn't give a crap about anything, even herself. And suddenly she's made quite the turnaround and seems to be a really great mom to her newborn... well, she's done it again. Darn kid almost made me cry... without getting into details (HIPAA!!!!!), I told her I'm concerned about her for certain reasons while driving her back to her group home after a long day spent talking to her. She was on the phone with her boyfriend in the back seat after we talked, and I heard her say "she cares about me. Is it so hard to believe that someone actually cares about me?!" *sigh* I do care about her. I'm just glad she finally sees it. In the unwritten manual of social work, this is considered a huge success...
The advantage of the baby sleeping all day is that I've gotten laundry, dusting, organizing baby clothes, and picture blogging done. If she continues to sleep, I really don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Actually, I think a victory lap is way overdue. And I really need to get started on her baby book. Victory lap first.
She's been asleep ALL DAY. She was up from about 8:45 until 11ish, and I woke her up at 2:30 for a bottle. I held her for almost two hours (just because I wanted to) and finally put her down so I could fold some laundry. She's going to be up all night, I bet. At least it's Saturday.
I'm hoping for some positive changes coming my way... I know everything will work out the way it's supposed to, but I can't help but get excited about the prospect of losing some stress (technically I'll be trading stress for stress, but it's different stress. Stress stress stress) and hopefully making my way out of a toxic situation.
Remember that 17 year old that I mentioned in a previous post? She was a notorious runaway and didn't give a crap about anything, even herself. And suddenly she's made quite the turnaround and seems to be a really great mom to her newborn... well, she's done it again. Darn kid almost made me cry... without getting into details (HIPAA!!!!!), I told her I'm concerned about her for certain reasons while driving her back to her group home after a long day spent talking to her. She was on the phone with her boyfriend in the back seat after we talked, and I heard her say "she cares about me. Is it so hard to believe that someone actually cares about me?!" *sigh* I do care about her. I'm just glad she finally sees it. In the unwritten manual of social work, this is considered a huge success...
The advantage of the baby sleeping all day is that I've gotten laundry, dusting, organizing baby clothes, and picture blogging done. If she continues to sleep, I really don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Actually, I think a victory lap is way overdue. And I really need to get started on her baby book. Victory lap first.
She is such a cutie! If for some reason the arranged marriage doesn't work out, I volunteer Zachary! lol He already charms all the girls at his daycare! lol
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