Tis the Season to Be.....

Yes I know we will be hearing the Christmas music long enough. I am looking at a list I started and I am realizing there is so much to do for Christmas. In my family we have decided this year that my Brothers and sister will do a gift exchange of homemade gifts. I have the ideas and I know what I want to do for each one, just need to find the time and energy. I am also trying to complete some gifts for Alyson's Christmas as well as my Husbands family. I am keeping myself busy! I am happy with making my gifts for family as I feel that it means more to those who receive them instead of just receiving some gift from the store that has little thought or effort behind it. I am also one of those people who loves crafts so it all works out in the end. I am also going to suggest we do home made gifts every year for both my family and my husbands family. it would make life so much more delightful. So I am listing the things I need to do and I am sure that I will get everything done. I just need to get in gear. Have things to cut out, things to mod podge, things to write and things to wrap. I do also have some shopping to accomplish too.

Alyson is almost a week out from her Tubes being put in and I am thinking she is not feeling well. We are seeing her "digging" at her ears more often and she is sleeping a lot more than normal. We are going to be going in for her recheck tomorrow and I am definitely going to bring this to the doctors attention. My daughter is so hard to read. I mean she is the one that I may notice just a slight difference in her mannerism's or in her mood and that is my only information to deduce that she is not feeling well.

I am off nap time should be over soon and then we are going to do some painting for Christmas gifts!

As I am sitting down to write this I am looking at what is left of My Sweet Baby girls first year. On November 30th my mirical will be ONE! Where did the time go to. I have struggle with getting on to write my thoughts and my ideas down as she has kept me very busy.From her first tooth to her first steps and everything in between, Alyson has been a blessing to me and my husband. As we are nearing the most hectic time of year for us we are adding another event to our schedual, Alysons First Birthday Party. I am planning a very small affair with her Grandparents Aunts and Unclesand a few very close friends of mine and Pauls. Nothing grand no Pony or Carneval Rides just small and close. I have decide that I am going to decorate simple and I have some entertaining Ideas for Scrap book. I am excited, sad and kind of relieved we made it through the first year.
Alyson has learned so may things so far and i know there are so many more for her to learn. We just struggled through 2 months of Ear infection after ear infection and the resulting tubes in the ears surgery. Alyson has been a trooper through the whole ordeal. She is seldom fussy or crabby and she is almost always still smiling when i know she must hurt or feel poor. I am so proud of her. I have to say I am learning more and more myself and I am looking forward to all of the things we will do together in the future. 

A few of the things we have done this year are listed next:
4th of July fire works
Swimming in a creek
First tooth
Camping at Flandrau State Park
Flower Girl in Uncle and Aunties Wedding
A 22 hour Car ride to Virginia
The Mountains
The ocean and our first ocean swim
Washington D.C.
A 26 hour Car ride home with some stops to look at some very cool things
Seeing Kittens Born
First steps with out help
First Surgery (ear tubes)
First Halloween

WOW what a busy couple of months we have had. And those are just the highlights. Now to make it through her last "First Holiday" Thanksgiving. Just one week before her first Birthday.  I am Hoping to improve my Blogging activity now, As she is getting more predictable for napping. I am also going to add in some of Alyson's favorite foods and recipies. I have a happy eater.

My first one is:

Hamburger Gravy

1 pound Hamburger
1 small chopped onion

Fry these all up together.

1 can  condensed cream of Maushroom soup, undiluted

I add this to the meat and onion, then I add about a half to 3/4 can of milk to the pan. I like to have a thicker gravy.

All this simmers for about 5 minutes. Then I serve the gravy over mashed potatoes.

Alyson likes to eat this all up. She loves it.


That is all the time I have for today. I hope to return soon to share more of my world with everyone.

 Time to continue my story from yesterday. Alyson was a breech baby and we had schedualed our c-section for Novemer 29. I was going to be at the hospital bright and early and they had me schedualed for a 7 am procedure. My OB-GYN told me that at this late in the pregnancy a baby hardly ever flips over and that we would continue to monitor the situation. On Sunday the 27th I was in horrible pain. I felt a lot of pressure and I was not sure if it was labor or something else. I decided to tough it out and I kept track of the timing of it. It subsided and I continued to enjoy my day. Monday was my pre-op doctors appointment. I was feeling good and my labs were good, just needed to tell the doctor about Sundays pain. She asked all the questions is there movement from the baby and all that. I was assuring her baby was moving and had been having quit the round of hiccups. She ordered an ultra-sound and sure enough my baby had the hiccups and was now head down. So Back to the doctors office I go. Instead of have a c-section my doctor was going to induce my labor the following day. All right still so close to meeting our new baby.

Tuesday the 29th we arrived at the hospital got all checked in and they sent me up tp Labor and Delivery. This was it. We got to the desk and the charge nurse says we are full of women in labor and you are on the schedual for tomorrow. WHAT! I was so upset. They wanted to check to make sure that all was well with the baby and so they did an exam to check me and baby to make sure we could be sent home. Doctor ordered another ultrasound to check babys heart rate and position and we were sent home and told come back tomorrow. . I was so upset. I was planning on returning home eith my baby in my arms not still pregnant. The tree was up and waiting everything was ready to go.

Wednesday the 30th. Here we go again. Off to the hospital. We got to the hospital and we checked in. I was sent to labor and delivery. I was given a bed. Progress right? The nurse was setting up the monitors and she had a hard time finding my little ones heartbeat. SO in came the ultrasound machine a fancy one this time and an ultrasound tech. They found my darling was feet down, the baby's head was in my left ribs and the tiny little butt was in my right ribs, way up in my ribs. So now what do we do. My Ob is called and she comes to my room. She tells us well now we can not induce you it looks like we are going to be back to a c-section we will schedual you for in a few mornings. Now I am devistated. I was so hoping to take this baby home in my arms. She says she wants to check me out first and have me rest I was having some contractions all month and a few had shown up on the monitors. Now this was not a comfortable exam. The baby was pulling everything up including my cervix. The doctor never did find that in the end. However the exam put me into labor. Contractions every 2 minutes and they were showing no signs of stopping. So now she plans a c-section for 2 hours from then.  My nurse who was WONDERFUL, walked me through the procedure. She prepped me and we walked to the OR. As we walked she again walked me through the procedure. We got there and she promised me she would be with me the whole time and she would be the nurse that would take care of my new baby. I felt so at ease with her. They got me on the table, gave my the drugs and layed me down. The nurses all commented on how active the baby was and then the doctors arrived.  They opened me up and my Doctor says to me, You will never believe what happened. The baby had flipped again.

SO much for it is rare for a baby to flip in the last month. Our daughter arrived at 9:59 PM. She weighed in at 6 pounds and 11 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. She is such a joy in our lives and I am so happy to be able to enjoy my time with her.

I am a mommy of a very cute little girl who is the center of my world. I am a wife to my loving husband going on 13 years. I am a daughter. I am a friend. I am many things. I decided to give it a try at being a blogger. My most important role right now is Mommy. November 30th of 2011 I had our daughter. She has been such a blessing to my husband and I. After 11 years of thinking we would never have our own baby, we now have our baby. I was diagnosed with PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome in 2001. It was a devistating to both of us. I had always thought I would be having babies of my own. In 2010 I had a life changing procedure done. I had a Gastric Bypass. I was doing good too. I had lost 140 pounds at the 6 month mark and I was able to enjoy the things in life I had preveously thought I would never enjoy. In March of 2011 I thought I had gotten the flu. I was tired, nausous and over all felt horrible. My husband said lets take a pregnancy test and rule that out since we had always had negative tests I thought we would be in for a negative test. So when the test was positive we need to read the box 3 times before we believed it. That was March 31. I called my little sister and when she answered the phoe I said "Happy Birthday Auntie Mindy" her response was" Great who is Pregnant now?" I told her it was me. So much happened so fast I can't hardly remember it all. She was excited. We also knew we wanted her to be the baby's GodMother. The next day April Fools Day, we called my parents and told them we wanted to meet them for dinner. My mom wanted to know why I tried to not tell her but we ended up telling her or she would not agree to come to dinner. She wanted proof from the doctor. We did we got a clinic test to confirm. We would be having a baby in the beginning of December. December 3rd was our new magical Date.  Oh the excitement. We slowly began telling our family and friends. Our world was going to forever change.

Since I was only seven months out from my surgery we had to change my eating habits and my lifestyle once again. I was now going to be eating 8-12 meals a day to get enough food in to support us both. I continued to have a healthy pregnancy. My first appointment of November was a new shocker. Our baby was breech. All of our plans to have a natural birth had to change. We schedualed a c-section for the end of the month. The rest of the month flew by. It was a good time getting ready for baby and the holidays.

I will save that story for my next posting.

Hello world!