Today is Day 1

Today is January 20th, 2010.

I forgot to mention yesterday that Rayanne got her third tooth. The top left one. She is growing so fast. In the last little while the things she is getting better at are sitting (she can now do it for a good 20 minutes) She can't get there herself, but she can sit...I'm hoping that her watching my niece some will help out with that. We leave for Florida in 15 days...I know that I will be missing 10 days on my 365 days of pictures, but I can promise that when I get home, I will be posting a picture for each of those days...doing something different. :)

Now on to today. Rayanne had an eye dr. appointment today, and so it was kind of a scattered day. Her eyes are fine though, and the dr. said he's pretty sure we have nothing to worry about, but wants to see her again in 6 months. :) I am glad that she is ok. I took a picture of her while she was napping today, she was pretty tired from all that happened today, so it didn't even wake her up.

Sorry...blog interrupted for photoshop lesson. :) It's not very high tech, and it's not going to really help me edit pictures, but I learned how to do animation for words. Check this out!! Ok so I couldn't get the video to work...(boo erns) so I am going to leave it for now, but I looked at another tutorial, but look at what I learned...I can't believe the difference.

Ok...so I don't know if that's actually going to work, I have to wait for it to finish processing, but I did learn it...now I just have to learn how to upload it if it doesn't work...anyway, here is the pictures of Rayanne. I am going to watch more lessons and maybe tomorrow I'll get it to look a little bit better. Can you tell the difference between the pictures?

Day -1

I say day -1 because I'm not ready to post a picture today. :) I'm not sure how good my pictures will be because I don't know how to edit them or anything, but I'm hoping once I learn some things, I will get better and be able to edit some anyway. A friend of mine suggested to me that I watch some tutorials on YouTube, so I plan on doing that. I do have Photoshop, but it just sucks because I have NO idea how to use it. I hope that I can get better at taking pictures, because as my baby girl grows up, I just want to have some really nice pictures of her. :)

Anyway, tomorrow is the first day...and Rayanne has a Dr. appointment at 10 to check her eyes (she has one lazy eye) so I will try to get a picture of her after that.

If anyone has any helpful hints for me as far as editing goes, feel free to share them. :) I'm always open to learn something new. Following this post is just a picture of Rayanne...it was taken a couple of days ago, but since this was a baby blog, I figured you guys should see what she looks like...not that I have many followers. :)

3 Months Young!

My baby girl is now three months old. I can't believe she is three months old already. Time is just going by so fast! It's crazy! She is growing like a weed, and I love every moment I have with her. I fall in love with her more and more each day.

What are some things that she is getting into now?? She is rolling onto her side more from her back. I don't know if she is actually rolling or just the weight of her legs pulling her over. LOL. She LOVES her jolly jumper. Actually it's not a jolly jumper, it's a jumperoo. :) She is still a little tiny in it, and so I have to wrap receiving blankets around her so she is supported enough, but she is starting to get the hang of it.

She also likes hanging out in her bumbo. I think I'm going to get the tray for it so that she has something to put her toys on. :) She is so alert and curious, she just looks around at everything.

I do have one complaint, and it's not about Rayanne. :) She's amazing...it's about jeans. Why do they make kids jeans so big? It's funny, she has a bit of a belly so leggings are too tight, and gives her a muffin top, but the jeans are too big around her belly. LOL...it's funny.

She isn't talking tons yet...she has very vocal moments, but not really babbling yet...and she isn't giggling yet. It makes me worried a bit, because I'm not sure if it has to do with her tongue and her short frenlum. But I will ask my dr. at her 4 month appointment when we go. Speaking of which, I should book that, since it's only a month away. :)

Discoveries

It seems like Rayanne discovers something new almost every day. :) It is an amazing feeling being a mom. :) I love her so much, and love discovering with her every day, I don't know what I'm going to do when I have to go back to work. :(

Ok...enough about that. :) Last Friday, Rayanne for the first time discovered her feet. It was the cutest thing. We were on our way home from the Dr. office, and Rayanne was sitting in her car seat, looking around. Suddenly...she picks up her left foot, and she looks at it intently. Then, she puts it down, then she picks up her right foot, and looks at it with the same intensity as she looked at the first one. And then she put it down, and just kind of looked. She then got distracted with something else, but it was neat see her discover her feet for the first time. :)

It seems every day, she gets more smiles, and more little faces, it's just amazing to watch her. We are also getting somewhat of a routine down. :) She takes a morning nap and an afternoon nap for sure...I'm just trying to figure out how to get her to nap more consistantly. The morning is good. She gets up at 8, she eats...we play for a bit, and goes back down between 9:30 and 10:00. Then she sleeps till 11. Gets up and eats...then from there it kind of gets messy. I have been busy this week with seeing people...so she eats at 11, and then it's up in the air from there. Which really isn't that good. Anyway, we are usually home around 3 or so, and then she goes down for another hour to hour and a half again. :)

Then yesterday, Rayanne decided to start playing with me. This is how it went. :)

Rayanne: looks at mom, spits out soother, smiles.

Mom: picks up soother, puts it back in.

Rayanne: looks at mom, spits out soother, smiles.

Mom: getting the hint, puts soother away, I guess she doesn't want it.

Rayanne: puts on her pouty face, and starts to fuss like she is going to cry.

Mom: takes out the soother again, and gives it to Rayanne.

Rayanne: looks at mom, spits out soother, smiles.

LOL!! It was the cutest thing.

Anyway, that is my update on my little girl. Thanks for listening.

My first post as a mom!

Ok for starters...I'm not sure why that picture is so big at the beginning of the blog. I am not totally computer literate...so I'm still trying to figure this out.

I have decided that I need to start a motherhood blog. Why??!! Because I feel like sometimes people get tired of hearing me talk about Rayanne, and that's all I want to do is talk about my baby girl. :) It was a very tough time getting her into this world...and I just appreciate every minute that I have her. :)

She will be 10 weeks tomorrow...what is she doing so far?? She is so alert! She has started making some noises besides grunts. She recently discovered her tongue so she sticks it out a lot...silly girl. She has started to smile, and has laughed in her sleep a couple of times...I can tell that she wants to do it when she's awake too, but just hasn't quite figured it out yet. :)

Anyway, that's it for my first post...I hope you all are doing well...I haven't checked your blogs in a while. Now that Rayanne has started getting into more of a schedule, it is easier for me to get on the computer and do things. :)

Waiting on the Witch!!

I'm just waiting on the witch...I am 10 DPO today, and I am pretty sure the witch is going to rear her ugly head soon...(I really hope she does anyway, I'm ready to get back to trying) I had some spotting yesterday, so I'm not sure why that is...it's not something that I usually have, but with the MC, I am not surprised when anything happens...the main thing that I'm worried about is that I didn't O, and it really was me just having a fever for a few days, and then yesterday when my temp dropped the fever broke?? Again, simply speculation...and just me talking out loud.

I also found the perfect tattoo to remember my angel baby!! I have been planning on getting a tattoo for years, but couldn't totally decide what I may want permenantly. Well I have decided!!!



I am going to be doing a combination of the two pictures!! But I am so excited to be getting it...I just have to find out how much it would cost and save the money now, and then I'm good to go!! So excited...I just have to decide if I want to put it over my uterus after my babies are born, or if I am going to put it on the bottom of my back. I don't necessarily want it in a place everyone is going to see it, because it's just for me and baby J!! Oh, and I want to put a J in it somewhere.

Hope all is well with everyone!!

August 26, 2009

It has been just over a month since my loss. I have been doing ok. NTNP sucks!!! LOL...although, I'm doing more NT than NP because I really did not want to get pregnant this cycle. Weird for me to say, I know...but I just needed to give my body a rest and a break!! PLUS, I go to see the fertility dr. again on the 2nd of September, and I hope that he will let me know if he still wants to run all the original tests, and perhaps we can find something out from there. AND I wanted to try a cycle with the fermara, so that I O earlier on in the cycle. I have heard that the chance of MC is slightly higher when you O later on in your cycle...and I didn't O till CD 29 again, so was glad that we didn't try, cause that is just one day before I did last time. I don't know if I could bear to go through another loss, so wanted to do whatever it was in my power NOT to have that happen!!

I am not 5 DPO, and looking forward with happiness that soon I will be TTC again, and even though I will not be doing it the way that I wanted, and will be doing it with MA...it's a means to getting my little bundle of joy that I so want.

Things that irritate me...I found out last week (when I was visiting my brother and my adorable new neice) that a boy that I used to babysit is DAYS away from having an oopsie baby. :( How is that fair...without even trying, it just happens, and STICKS??!!! sigh...a means to an end, a means to an end...

On a bit of a sadder note...I seem to have some sort of eye infection...:( boo erns...:( I have antibiotic eye drops, and I hope that it goes away soon...I am currently doing everything one eyed...cause I didn't wear my contact in the eye that has the infection, which makes sense...

Anyway, after not writting for a month, I guess that's good!! Hope everyone is doing well...wish me luck cause in about 9 days, I can get back to TTC!!! YIPPEE!!!