2010

wow 2010 already....can't believe that, 2009 was a great year for Austin and I. Shelby is ten months now and growing up so fast. I started my job at the Hospital and Austin fell into the roll of Mr. Mom.

Shelby has been crawling for a few months now and can almost walk. She's walking around the furniture like crazy and rolling over the dog with her walker. She stated to eat table food, and really hasn't found one that she doesn't like. She very interested in everything around her, and of course every new thing she finds ends up in her mouth. She has almost six teeth and I think teething has been one of the hardest things I've experienced as a mother. There were lots of first for Shelby this year including her first trip to the pumpkin patch.

Daddy with Shelby before we went into the pumpkin patch!And Shelby with a pumpkin

She loved the pumpkin patch, I know it looks like she hated being there in the picture, but she had a good time crawling through the pumpkins and trying to pick the up. This fall was a special time for us, we got to so a lot of fun family things like the Halloween parade

Every one was dressed up but Mommy :(

Anyway, we had a lot of fun last year. Fall is my favorite season and so I try to pack as much out door time in as I can. After Thanksgiving it was time to get ready for Christmas. Of course it was Shelby's first Christmas and I wanted to do everything I could to make it a special one. We started with the family Christmas card

With all the craziness of the holidays, running a house and caring for the baby I decided that I wanted to get back into the work force. I enrolled in a seven month phlebotomy program and found a job as a unit clerk and tech at a local hospital. I stated my job at the beginning of November and so far I'm loving it. Austin went back to school to finish his degree and got all A's this semester.

I'm doing really well in my quest to lose my baby weight and even have convince Austin to attend Weight Watcher with me. I've decided that I'm going to run a 5k this year and have started my training for that.

She's here

Shelby arrived on March 2nd at 7:56pm, she weighed 7bs 6oz and was 19 inches long. She was due on February 20th and after seeing the doctor on my due date and being as big as I was they scheduled me to be induced on March 3rd. That would have been 11 days past my due date, they wanted to see if I would go into labor by myself. Well at about 6:15am on March 2nd I started to get contractions, I went to the doctors office and from there they sent me to the hospital. To make a long story short, I labored for 10 hours (yes i had drugs) I never made it past 6 centimeters and every time I has a contraction her heart rate was dropping. So they took me in for a c-section, which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The recovery kinda sucked, I couldn't get in and out of bed by myself, and I couldn't bend very well but after 2 or so weeks things were back to normal. Shelby is a month old now and I can't believe how much she had changed in those 4 short weeks. When we first brought her home none of her clothing fit her and now she is starting to fill them out. She is formula feed so she is up to 6oz at a time and is sleeping almost 6 hours between feedings, so I'm hoping that she is going to be sleeping through the night my 8weeks. Anyway that's enough talking about her, here is a picture of my cutie


So like I said its been 4 weeks since she was born, so I decided that it was time to go back to weight watchers. I get weighed tomorrow so hopefully I had a good week. It was harder to get back into it then I thought it would be. I'm up in the middle of night to feed her and it takes everything I have not eat something. I have to get back into weighing my food again, and all that. I'm sure I'll be fine, I mean I have good motivation now. After all I want to be able to run and play with her, and she'll be a toddler before I know it.

Past due

As you can tell by my ticker, my due date was 6days ago and here I sit still pregnant, and crabbier then ever. I have to tell you its a little disappointing that I'm not sitting here holding my little one, instead I'm eating like I never ate before out of nervousness. I just want her to come now, I want to know what she looks like and hold her and kiss her and all that stuff Mommy's get to do after the baby comes. Well I have a doctor appointment tomorrow and hopefully on Monday I'll be bringing my baby into the world.

two days left

I can't believe that I have two days until my due date. Where does the time go.....it feels like yesterday I was running from the bathroom to the bedroom screaming we're having a baby!!!! I have a doctor appointment this Friday which is my due date, the doctor expects to see me there with baby still in my belly. If I don't have the baby on my due date, then I'll have another appointment the following Friday and if I'm still pregnant then, they will schedule to be induced that following Monday. I could have a march baby instead of a February baby. To be honest now that her room is done I'm ready to have her, and bring her home and hold her. These last few weeks have been tough on my body, I've been having a lot of pain the pelvic area even thought I'm only 1 centimeter dilated. Sleeping has become a challenge, I wish I was sleeping like I was in my first trimester, I slept so good those first few weeks. Anyway we finished off her room this past weekend, here are some pictures of where baby Shelby will be sleeping!

I can't wait to bring her home to her bedroom, I think it's just so cute. I love the letters that the husband got to spell her name out. He also painted the clouds on her ceiling, he really is the artistic one in the family!