It's been a while.....

Sorry for the delay in writing. A lot has been going on.
May 10 Chuck started his new job at TruGreen. He's an inside sales rep and is doing great! He's met all his goals and made commission his first week, placing 7th out of 20 for sales. I'm so proud!
May 15 we moved out of the apartment in with my parents and Lisa. It's a temporary move until we can find/buy a house that we want and can afford. I hope to have a preapproval within the next couple of weeks so we can seriously start looking. There is 1 house we definitely want but it's a bit out of our price range. The agent told me to let her know when I have the preapproval and she'll offer what we have and hope they take it. So we'll see!
This move has left us all exhausted. I can't seem to get any energy back, plus it doesn't help that I have to get up earlier and drive an hour to work, work all day and then an hour drive home. I only get to see Maleigha about 1-2 hrs every night. But I'm thankful to have a healthy baby girl, a job, and nice home to come home to.
May 17--Maleigha turns 6 month old today! Wow! Where has the time gone?? My baby is growing up. She also started staying with Holly today. Holly is a God sent person and we are very blessed to have her willing and able to keep Maleigha for us during the day.
May 20 Maleigha's 6 month old check up. She's healthy and happy. She weighs 21 lbs and is 28 inches long. She got 4 more immunizations. She took them like a trooper. She's now up to Stage 2 foods. She also woke up this morning with a cold, sneezing, runny nose and coughing. Dr Hamm says it's basically a summer cold/allergies and told me what medicine to get for her. Plus she's teething! No teeth yet, but feel like it will be soon.
May 21 We spent a good part of the previous night/early morning with her very congested, running a slight fever and not able to sleep while laying down. So she laid on Mom for a while and then came to me. I stayed home from work. She slept a good bit and you could tell she just didn't feel good. It was so sad to see her sweet little sick eyes.
May 22 Tony got married so we spent the day out in the horrific heat. Maleigha is getting over a cold/allergies so she and I spent a good part of the afternoon in the house. She still had fun just being silly! The absolute greatest thing she did today was she kissed me ---- I've been working with her for 3 weeks trying to get her to, and today, I just said, "give Mommy a kiss" and puckered my lips and she leaned over, mouth wide open and landed on my lips! Now granted, this is not a "kiss", it's the greatest kiss I've ever gotten! Yes, I teared up! And got her to do 6 times before she got busy doing something else! She then kissed everybody around because everyone was laughing and cheering her on!
May 23 Maleigha went swimming for the first time today. We took some great pics but, in the move, I've lost my camera cord so I'm going to try and find one this week and will post them later! She's definitely a water baby!

Well, that's all I have for now, it's way past bedtime and I want to try and sleep a little bit tonite. Sleep is not my friend lately but I'm trying to get better with it!

Bath Time

Bath time is always a hit at our house. So I made a video to prove it. The part you don't see is just before I started filming, she had grabbed her right foot and almost had to her mouth when it slipped and slapped the water. She looked at it as if to say "get back up here!", grabbed it again, and it slipped again. This time, the water splashed on her and she giggled. But of course when I get the camera rolling, she wants to watch me and the camera and not continue on with her foot issue! But it's still cute, at least I think so!

Easter

Here are some pics from Maleigha's first Easter. She received 6 Easter baskets and an Easter gift. Spoiled? Just a bit!

Thankful

Just wanted to share how thankful I am for my beautiful little girl. I was holding her tonite just looking at her precious face and it hit me how absolutely lucky I am to have her. She's a miracle and I hope she knows that. I hope she thinks I'm as cool as she is and I hope I make her happy. As happy as she's already made me.

Some New pics

Just wanted to share some of the newest pics. These were taken St Patricks Day and a couple from earlier in the month.

Cough cough, sniff sniff

Well, we are in the middle of Maleigha's first cold! Yes, I know I posted earlier that she was having her first cold 2 or so weeks ago, but I was wrong, I guess that was just sniffles. Because this is a cold.
I've been battling this crap, and I do mean crap, for about 3 weeks now and Chuck has the cough and stuffiness. And Granny and Aunt Lisa and Auntie Sue have all had the crud too. So, I guess it was only a matter of time before Little One joined in on the action! Lots of coughing and sneezing, which she still finds the funniest thing on earth and today she started having a runny nose. I'm hopeful this means the congestion is starting to loosen and it will all be over by the weekend. It is quite amazing though that she has maintained her happy spirit through it all and really only has one or two crankiness episodes a day, even sick. She is just a happy baby!
And, I am very happy to announce that this afternoon, March 16, 2009, she sat up all by herself for the first time, as in no leaning, no assistance. I was sitting next to her on the bed and we had just changed one of the worse smelling, messiest diapers ever and she was giggling of course! She wrapped her little hands around both my index fingers and she pulled herself up. I played with her for a few seconds and then slowly released my fingers from her grip and she just sat there and looked at me, like "what? I do this all the time!" She sat upright for about 10 seconds or so! It was great! I had tears come to my eyes....yes, I'm going to be one of "those" mommies! Chuck and I both cheered her on and she just smiled.
She's spending the night with Aunt Lisa tonite because Chuck has a job interview tomorrow and is going to a couple of other places to put in applications, so she's spending the day with Aunt Lisa. I'm sure it will be a funfilled day, because any day with Maleigha is a fun filled day! Just her smile is magnificent and there's nothing like it in the world!! Written like a true Mommy, huh?

4 month check up

Today, Chuck and I took Maleigha to her 4 month check up. She weighs 17 lbs, 10 oz, and is 27 inches long. She's making her milestones perfectly, still in the 98th percentile of her age group and a very healthy happy baby. Dr says she can start eating baby food and cereal. I did confess to him that we had already tried a bite or four of jar food on Sunday night and he said it was all perfectly fine b/c Maleigha is ready for it! I will attach the pics. It was hilarious! After the first bite, which just touched her lips, she was reaching for the spoon and enjoying it! Pics will show you! She had a ball!

She's growing so fast. Tonite we were looking at these new pics and comparing to some older ones and we just can't believe she's getting to be such a big girl so soon! Before we know it, she'll be celebrating her first birthday!

She's starting to reach for her paci, she is holding her bottle for a short time, she loves to watch the cats run around and look outside, she's pulling herself up with the help of hands, she sits up by herself for a little bit of time, then tends to drift to one side. She sleeps all night long, usually 9 or so hours, and that we are grateful!

Can't wait for the weather to be pretty so we can get outside and do some playing. We will hopefully get to get out some this weekend, and we'll of course take the pics!!!

Take care!