One of those days :(, but Chloe makes it all better ;)

I consciously make the effort not to blog about my health issues. Because I know that no one really wants to hear someone ramble on about how crappy they feel.  I don't think anyone really knows how I feel, becuase honestly I don't want them to.  But sometimes I have to get it all out. I have been feeling awful lately and it pretty much sucks. I haven't been to see a doctor in a long time.  I don't really see the point much. It seems all we ever get out of it is a nice hefty bill. I did have to go today though (yuck). I have been having very intense chest pain and heart palpitations daily with debilitating migranes and the usual nausea and vomiting along with several other fun symptoms that I don't really feel like going into detail about at the moment. Plus, unfortunately I had a little stroke on Christmas morning (bummer),my speech was slurred for about two hours.I have been putting off going to see someone about this, but I thought I better go get checked out. So now the floodgates have opened and let the testing (and the medical bills) begin (double yuck).  Anyway-the whole point of this post (before I got sidetracked with all that other junk) is that I have kind of come to accept my situation and am learning to live with it. Of course having little Miss Chloe around has been an enormous blessing, there is nothing that will take your mind off of feeling bad like a beautiful little baby girl. The mornings are especially rough for me, but waking up and seeing her little face looking at me makes me feel so much better.  I have to admit taking care of her when I am having a bad day, or week, or month can be very taxing, but I would'nt have it any other way. Thankfully I have my mom to help me.  Chloe has given me so much to live for and I have to try to keep myself together and take care of myself as best I can, so that I can be here for her and watch her grow.  Hmmmm, I am debating if I should even post this, but I guess this is my life and somedays are better than others.  

WHEW, I feel better since I got that out!   

Chloe and Momma sittin in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g!!!!

I probably kiss this child at least 100 times a day, but last night she decided to kiss me back.  I was giving her kisses and asking her to give Momma a kiss, she leaned right in and planted a big, open mouthed, extremely slobbery kiss right on my mouth!!!  I was so excited that I screamed and scared her.  She kissed me over and over.  I couldn't get enough and kind of wore her out with it, but what can I say, baby Chloe kisses are the best!!! 

Chloe was babbling like crazy last night.  It was definitely the most she has ever talked.  It was so funny, it was like she was telling us a story.  She is changing so much right now.  Everyday she amazes us with how much she grown and learned. 

She loves the stereo and stares up at it all the time. She bebops to the music.  It reminds us of one of those nutcrackers that has a string that you pull.  Her legs and arms go up and down so fast.  She bops along right to the beat too (so there is hope for her, we were kind of worried, with Doug being her Poppa and all, sorry babe). 

She is almost crawling.  Last night she went from lying on her belly into the sitting position all by herself. 

Another one of her favorite things to do is turn the light switch off and on.  She peeks her head around the corner into the kitchen to see if the light turned on, then she looks right at us, "hey, look what I did Mom and Pop". 

She has been eating a few different foods.  She really likes pears and rice cereal together.  We tried some mangoes this morning and they seemed to be a hit with her, so they will be on the menu more often now.  Of course she wants to try everything we are eating, so dinner time is pretty interesting.  

Our little baby girl is the love of our life. She is such a happy baby and rarely cries.  She will literally go for days with a whimper (lucky us).  I know we have smiled more in the last 7 months than we have in the last several years.  She has brought so much joy to our life and we are so very thankful for our little baby girl.

Poppa's Home!!!

Chloe gets really excited when Doug gets home from work now.  She twirls her ankles and wrists around and around and smiles and giggles as soon as she sees him.  Doug is equally as excited to see his little girl.  I can tell it makes his day for his little baby girl to be totally extatic to see her poppa. 

Aunt Maria cuddling and dancing with Chloe. 

Baby Up!!!

Chloe has learned how to hold her body up.  It is pretty amazing how long she can stay in this position.  When Doug says "baby up", Chloe pushes herself up and stays there until he says "baby down".    He is SUPER proud of their accomplishment.  She will be crawling any day now.  She is moving backwards, but has'nt quite got the hang of forward movement.  But I will say she has mastered this plank position.  She is gonna have abs of steel if she keeps this up for long :)

Chloe loves to waller all over this fuzzy blankie that Mamaw made. We put her on it after  bath time and she cracks up and wiggles all around.   

Anna Anna Bo Banna Fe Fi Mo Manna

My Cousin Anna spent a week with us.  It was so fun.  She has grown into quite the little lady.  She is absolutely beautiful and has the spunkiest little personality.   She spent the night at our house.  We had a little spa night complete with a mud facial and of course we had to get in to the bead collection and do a little bead work.  It was so awesome having Anna spend the holiday with us.II love the picture of my mom with Anna. Mom and Anna have a special bond.  She calls Mom "her Nancy".  Mom gets a certain look in her eye for Anna.  I can't explain it, but it's beautiful.

Poppa and Chloe doing the laundry.  Chloe loves riding around in the basket of warm clothes, while Poppa flies her around the room like an airplane.  Of course Doug has to make the appropriate sound effects during the entire flight :) 

We started feeding our little bear pie (that's our pet name for Chloe.  Its a combination of lady pie and baby bear) on December 31st.  She started out on bananas mixed with Mama's milk.  It took her a few feedings before she got the hang of it.  She is loving every second of it now.  She seriously chows down.  We haven't given her a lot of different foods yet.  She seems to really like rice cereal mixed with pear juice.  She twirls her ankles and wrists during the whole meal and grabs onto the spoon and hangs on for dear life. 

And out came the Tongue

 

On December 29th 2009 Chloe realized she had a tongue, and she had it sticking out all day and we mean all day!  When we were laughing at her, which was pretty much the entire day (we do quite a bit of laughing nowadays) she would stick it out even further.  She loves it when we touch her tongue too.  I am not sure why this is fascinating to her or us, but what can we say, she is just too adorable!  Her personality is really starting to develop.  She is just the right amount of sassy and sweet.