Louisiana Governor calls for a day of prayer

I think we will all be praying for the victims of hurricane Katrina for quite some time. The devistation is just mind boggling. I dread to hear what the final death toll will be. I fear its way higher than the 100 the news is reporting. Two of the women from Skyla's birth board are unaccounted for and were in some of the hardest hit areas and I am praying for them and their families. on Chip's birth board all of my friends are accounted for but two of the ladies have family members that are missing. One of which is a 7 months pregnant woman.

If you can spare the cash there are people who need so much right now so please donate what you can spare.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

Such a sad time :(

She thinks she is grown

Yesterday at 5 months and 1 day old she started getting up on her hands and knees. I figure crawling is in the near future. (Chip crawled at 4.5 months.. thankfully Skyla hasn't been quite so speedy) Oh and diaper changes are getting difficult. Soon as I get the diaper off she rolls off and starts scooting away. Oh and now when she eats her baby food she jerks the spoon away from me and tries to feed herself, and she's getting good at it.

My baby is growing up so fast!!!

I am trying to appreciate and enjoy every day because it goes too fast.

Prayers for all in Katrina's path

I am so worried about everyone around Louisianna and Mississippi and even some parts of Florida are still getting severe winds and flooding.

Being a NC resident for all but 7 months of my life I have weathered quite a few Hurricanes and know how freightening and devistating they can be. I know the property damage is going to be up there because of the strength of this hurricane and the low lieing nature of the area it's hitting. Property can be replaced though .. I am really praying that there will be little to no lives lost.

There are several women on Skyla's birth board that live within an hour of NO and they have babies her age (one woman has twins) and I am so worried about them since they weren't able to evacuate.

Everyone needs to start thinking what they can start donating .. can goods, bottles of water, toiletries, clothes, blood, money .. I know the Red Cross will be ramping up to help everyone effected by this hurricane.

The blogging world is both happy and crushed all by the same blow.

Have wonderful time off Getupgrrl. Without Getupgrrl I would have probably never been inspired to start this blog.

In a blogging funk

Please forgive me for being a crappy blogger. I am just in a funk and haven't been very interesting lately. I do want to post one thing and see if my readers can help me with something.

There is an important petition going around that I would really love for all my readers to sign and pass around. This is very important to me. Thanks for taking a few minutes of your time for signing it if you do!!!


It's a petition for the Presidential Proclomation of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.

Here's the ">link. The links not working so here's the url .. just copy and paste it http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/557217746?ltl=1123900412

Reading through the list it gives me the chills because most of the signers are female and I wonder just how many have experienced the loss of a baby either through miscarriage, stillbirth, or SIDS. I figured I could count on my readers since so many of you have suffered loss(es) like myself to sign this petition. Sign it and spread the word.

Skyla's 4 month appt.

It went great :) She weighs 11lbs and is 23 1/2 inches long with her head being 38 1/2 centimeters. She's a little peanut still but I'm not surprised by that. The Dr. was super impressed with how well she was doing with sitting up and stuff. She and I went through the list of stuff they want to see babies doing by 6 months and Skyla is already doing them. She said since Skyla was doing so good with the cereal that we could start veggies whenever we wanted and then fruits just limit it to 1 new food a week. The shots sucked as usual but then she nursed and was fine. She slept the whole way home.

Holding hands  

Chip doing his Elvis impression 

Skyla chewing on her fish teething toy (it vibrates) 

Skyla's Hippie Shirt from Nana 

My New Do 

Did you know? (For those of you who have suffered a miscarriage)

My friend says she knew something was wrong before they found out the baby's heart had stopped. She said deep down she knew something was wrong even though she tried to convince her self everything was okay.

I know alot of my readers have been through one or more miscarriages. Did you know ahead of time something was wrong?

I think I did. For a month before my miscarriage I had dreams of losing the baby or I guess you would call them nightmares. I would wake up in a sweat and be all panic-y (is that even a word?).

It's gone!

My hair that is.


I got tired of 3ft long red hair falling out by the handfulls and being all over the house and the baby and everything so last night it went bye bye. It's not really short, it hits my shoulder in the back and slopes to be a little bit longer in the front and is still long enough to put in a baby ponytail but for me it's short !!! I think it's about 15 or 16" shorter now. When I can I will try to take a pic and post it.

Please say a prayer or send good thoughts for my friend

My dear friend Rina found out yesterday that her baby's heart had stopped beating about a week ago. She was 11wks pregnant. My sweet friend has two beautiful healthy boys, but has for some reason miscarried her last 3 pregnancies in the late 1st trimester or early in the 2nd trimester. I am so devistated for Rina. This baby she lost was conceived via IVF so she went through the ringer to get this baby only to lose yet another little angel. It's killing me knowing how bad she must be hurting right now.
I am so mad and sad that so many of my dear friends have faced loss after loss. I have only (haha only) lost one baby and it was the most agonizingly painful experience of my life, I can't even fathom going through it again and again. I am grieving today, for Rina and all of my other dear friends who have battled through hell and back because of infertility (whether primary or secondary).

Oh and today is the one year anniversary of my granddaddy Calvin's death :( So I am quite down and depressed today. I found out about being pregnant with Skyla a year ago yesterday but by that time my grandfather had already slipped into a coma and he never knew about her.

Happy 28th Birthday to me :)

I swear it doesn't feel possible that I am really 28!!! I stil feel like 21 on the inside!!! I hear that it's pretty common to not "feel" your age.

So readers .. tell me .. how old are you really? and How old do you "feel" on the inside.

Skyla had her first rice cereal today!

And she seemed to like it She will be 16 weeks old on Monday so I figured that was close enough to 4 months for me and she has really been interested in food lately.

I nursed her first then I mixed 1 Tbsp of rice to 2 Tbsp of breastmilk and nuked it real quick and she ate about half of it. The first bite she took she didn't act real impressed with it, but then she started going at it with a gusto.

The best thing of all is after the cereal she nursed again and then fell asleep and slept for 2 straight hours!!! This is the kid who normally naps for only 30-45 minutes at a time!!!

I'm going to give it another try tonight and pray that just maybe it might help her sleep longer at night too.

Lot's of photos today!!! Hope you enjoy :) I am enjoying showing off my babies and my adorable little nephew ! 

Bath time :)  

My teething girl. Her little fist is crammed in her mouth constantly these days. 

Skyla all smiles