Time Flies...

My baby is not suppose to be a year old yet. Technically I still have 30 hours and 51 minutes before she turns one. This has been such a hard week. I know I should be so excited and proud that my baby girl is growing up. And I am. At the same time, I just honestly cannot believe it has been a year. Every day this week I keep thinking back to what I was doing on these days leading up to her birth.

Last Wednesday was my due date. May 30th. I am SO glad she did not come that day. Her baby furniture had just arrived and we had to go pick it up and unload it at the house. Here I am on my due date helping move in her furniture! I wasn't in a huge hurry for her to come because I felt great. I just did not want to be induced, which they were going to do the next Tuesday. Therefore, I wanted her to come before then. The day after my due date I was doing all the old wives tales... Eating Mac and Cheese with A1 sauce, Eggplant Parmesean, walking, walking, walking. I DID not try the castrol oil...YUCK! But before I knew it, a few days later, she was here! Labor was not as I expected. Although going au naturale is what I had planned, I did not know that back labor existed and never imagined it would be that painful. With the good Lord's help and Michael by my side, we made it through it without that epi. Not to mention my amazing nurse who rubbed my back and legs and my Dr. who fanned me for 45 minutes! Those 18 hours flew by! (I don't think I thought that during the time though.)

I remember a nurse handing her to me and Lila's hand went immediately to my face. Oh, how I loved her! They say you can't imagine the feeling of holding your newborn baby in your arms, but you just really can't. There are no words.

Peek-a Boo

Zoo Fun!

We went to the PKU annual day at the zoo/fundraiser today! It was lots of fun and I give a big shout out to my friend Kellye who made it all possible. She has done an amazing job with starting the Tennessee chapter just a year ago and has raised lots of moolah for PKU. Although this was Lila's first "official" trip to the zoo, Michael likes to say that she has technically been to the San Diego Zoo with us when I was about 6 weeks away from giving birth. It was a very hot day, but I think Lila really enjoyed it. She would get just excited about the trees and water as she would the animals. She did like the goats, and as with any animal or person she gets very excited, but then when it is time to get close or touch them, she pulls back as she is doing below.

I love her! Concentrating...

Excited about the meercats...

Out of the Dog House

I must admit, Michael made up for my lack of mother's day gift with our anniversary gift. I have to cut him some slack because he has actually been planning on this for a while and was debating on what occasion he should give it to me (mother's day, anniversary, or new baby being born day). For our very first Christmas together (dating only 2 months) he gave me a diamond necklace. I loved this necklace. It is what I wore the day we got married and was the first time I had ever received jewelry (nice jewelry anyway) from my beau. Well, you can only guess what happened. Yes, I lost it. Oh it makes me sick just thinking of it. I still go to look for it in my jewelry box like I still have it. Well, Michael decided to get me an upgraded version this year for our 5 year anniversary! I love it! The only thing that makes me nervous is I have 6 pieces of jewelry to keep up with. AAHH! My engagement and wedding ring, my diamond necklace, my pearl earrings that he got me last year for our anniversary(I am counting each one because I always end up losing 1 from every set I own), and the pearl necklace he gave me for giving birth to Lila! He's so good to me!

(For Real) It's A.....

BOY!! AAAHH!! We are excited, but what to do I do with a BOY? Michael says we put them in the dirt and let them play. Lila will be a great big sister, I just know it.

It is kind of blurry here, but you get the idea of what we saw! It was awesome. I didn't know that anyone would be snapping pictures of us, but here we are after finding out. Thank you T.D. for snapping this. I promise I had already looked and talked to Michael at this point. He was still in shock! (He was convinced it was another girl.)

It's A......

We don't know yet, but will find out in 2 days! YEAH! There is a package sitting in my passenger seat with the results, but we haven't peeked! Here I am at 19 1/2 weeks. I am SO much bigger at this stage than with Lila. I took photos every week with her, but I have slacked and not taken pictures this time. So sorry little one. I will try to do better from here on out! (I don't know why this is typing underlined.)

All girl

I had just finished putting away Lila's shoes in the drawer when she went over, opened up the drawer and proceeded to pull all of these out and play. That's my girl. I can't wait until she discovers my purses!

I am putting away Lila's laundry and I turn to find her here. (I promise that there is an outlet cover on that plug behind her.)