I haven't blogged in....well gosh I dont even know how long.
So much has changed. Alyssa is now 6 months old. She is still EBF. She's sitting up by herself, she still falls over from time to time but she has learned how to stop herself from falling. She can sit up for a long time by herself though. She is starting the movements to crawl but I don't think she will be 'going' anytime soon. Even without crawling its amazing how much she can get around. Last time we went to the doctor they just did a quick weight check (since we split up shots its not a full doctors appointment every time) she was 17.4 lbs. WOAH. Its amazing she weighted 7 0.1 oz when she was born...now shes 17.4? Time really does fly. She is still sleeping with us, and I won't be moving her out of our bed anytime soon. We've decided we will let her leave when she is ready. We LOVE having her in our bed!:) She still wears the snuza, and yes she will for a while. Our poor little girl got her first little cold last weekend, we were at a marriage retreat when she started to get sick. She was up ALL night and it was horrible for her, I felt so helpless. The next day we decided to leave the retreat and go home. I didn't want to have to drag a sick baby out to all those classes. Good thing we left too because that entire day if she was awake, she was crying. It was horrible:(
Pretty much everything that I was going to 'expect' the first 6 months, was wrong. Everyone is always so quick to tell you about the bad things they forget to tell you about the good. Of course we had sleepless nights, all day nursing sessions, a sick baby, teething (oh yes she has two teeth), the nights/times when I called my mom crying because I didn't know what to do....but seriously I hardly even remember that stuff. All I really remember is how lucky we are to have her. I do think time is going too fast though, I really truly feel like I just blinked and I had her. It's so amazing how she went from this little tiny baby that just laid around all day to this BIG baby that moves all over;)
A lot of people have been asking the question 'When will you try for another baby' and truthfully we don't know. We have talked & we agree that we do want another baby BUT that we are going to be content if we are never blessed with another child. We talked about trying earlier then we are ready just because it may take some time to get pregnant again, but we decided we don't want to rush into anything. Im not on birth control, but trying to try ovulation & periods is a joke. So we are 'whatever happens happens'. (but we do pull out lol). When we do decide we are 'ready' we aren't going to do any stressing over it. Honestly though, I really want another baby so I have a chance to give birth naturally. There are so many things I feel like I missed out on with Alyssa's birth because I just wasn't educated. But its okay, 'when you know better you do better'. Hopefully things will be better next time:)
I don't know if I wrote about this or not.... but we are preparing for our first PCS to........HAWAII! Justin is 100% excited. I am about 80% excited, 10% scared shitless & 10% to leave Texas. I'm nervous *mostly* for just the whole moving process. We did get the whole Bella situation under control and Im sad but relieved to say that my mom will keep her for the first year. Justin is deploying next summer, (which scares me to know end) so we figured we would want to go home for a really long visit while he's gone. We wouldn't be able to do that with Bella, so we will leave her with my mom & bring her back around Christmas time next year. I'm also nervous about housing, Im praying they have a house for us shortly after we get there. And totally nervous that they are going to lose or ruin some of our stuff. It really is just small worries but I know we will be JUST FINE! And seriously who can say they got to live in Hawaii?? Not many... I already found some awesome groups for cloth diapering, baby wearing, AP parenting, selling pages...& much more. So Im sure I will find friends in no time (no to mention Gen is going there, and I have some other friends there as well).
Over all, life is perfect. <3 p="p">
