How thankful I am...

I just wanted to express how thankful I am for my family. For my wonderful supportive husband who is good to me, he is so good to his baby girl and he loves us. I am thankful for my little girl, that she is healthy, alive and well and apart of us. There are people who do not have these things, there are people who are unable to have the babies they carried....I am so lucky.

Let her cry in the middle of the night...gives me more time to hold her...to see her...because I have the ability to...

I would rather have sleepless nights, the extra weight around my mid-section, the unsightly stretchmarks....because I have her.....that beautiful baby girl who is so happy and full of life...

I love spending all my time with her and my husband...there is nothing better I would rather do.

I seriously thank God every night for my family....and pray that I will be blessed enough to watch her grow up, get married and have babies of her own....

I am thankful I had no complications during her birth, I am thankful that she has no known birth defects, I am thankful that she is growing and healthy...I am truly thankful. Not a day goes by that I take for granted having her.

I am not a rich person, I dont have 7 school degrees, I dont have a fancy luxury car, but I have Sass and I have Hubby...and I am happy.....they are my life.....and if something shall happen to me, I hope that they know how loved and appreciated they are...and that my life is complete because they are in it.

Ho hum...

I dont know what it is, but I have been going to be very late or early depending on how you look at it. 2am every morning. If I try to go to bed before then, I just toss and turn and just end up getting up anyway.....I really need to train myself to go back to sleep at a normal time, that way I dont finally pull myself out of bed around noon. I havent been getting things I need to done because of it. Sass is a lazy baby, so she just lies in bed with mommy all morning and then takes her nap, and when she sleeps, then so do I. I have seen that sleep MD stuff on tv...maybe I should try that?

In Sass news...She stood ALL BY HERSELF today!!!! And she even took a step, well let me explain. She was in her pack n play standing watching the kitty on the other end from me. I said, "Sass, do you want a puff?" and held it out. She turned around, let go of the side of the pack n play and was standing in the center of it, then took a little step so she could hang on to the other side to grab her puff!!! So this got me excited and I grabbed her walker (its a toy she can play with and push like an old lady walker). And SUUUURE enough, she was walking all over the living room!! She even stopped a couple times to come to me which for a few seconds she stood so she could fall into my arms!!! I can not believe how big she is getting!!! She will be 8 months old on Thursday..........my little baby...soooo big!

She also keeps biting her hands like she usually does, only difference is now she has teeth...and they hurt...so she cries....poor baby....

She can eat her puffs real well now. She uses her thumb and index finger to grab them, then shove them in her mouth. If the puff is in her palm, she will stick her fingers in her mouth (so she can use her tounge to get the puff out of her hand) Sometimes she uses her other hand to help her hand with the food put it in her mouth....its too cute. She loooves feeding herself...she really doesnt care for purees anymore either.

So I decided to tackle the closet in my room today....I am still working on it, I should have taken before and after pictures, but I really didnt think about it. I am taking a break from that to do this....well...off I go.....oops, just saw the time....I have to make dinner first, THEN I will finish the closet...ho hum.................

MMM...do you smell that?

Do you just love the smell of your baby?? I do....I know that might make me sound a little weird, but I do...I always have.

I pick up on pheromones pretty well...I love the way my hubby smells...I often grab onto his pillow and put my face in it when he is gone...When we were apart for a year while I was stationed here in Hawaii without him, I kept a pair of his shorts he wore and left here in my bed with me...I know that may seem gross....but hey....we were apart for a year..lol. I needed something to curl up with that smelled familiar in the world I was in without him.

I just checked on Sass in bed...she is all warm and cozy in there and she smells so good. I wish I could bottle it up and keep it, like in a vacuum sealed bag or something and open it on occasion...I probably WON'T do this....just saying is all...she smells heavenly....