Lily Ryan Davis

Now that today is almost over it's really hit me that my sweet baby is one. I've been dreading this day for weeks now. It just doesn't seem possible that a year could go by so fast, I swear it was just yesterday that I got to see her for the first time. Lily is such an amazing baby and she's truely been a blessing to have. She's the happiest baby and very rarely cries. Which after having Emilee Lily seemed like a breeze.

December 17, 2007

Casey and I woke up to go to the hospital for my scheduled c-section at 5 am. My surgery was scheduled for 7. Everything went well except for the waiting. I'm not a very patient person to begin with so when my start time kept being pushed back I got really anxious. Finally they wheeled me back to the operating room to get started. It took the dang anesthesiologist 35 minutes to give me my spinal. It was the most uncomfortable and painful thing I've ever been through, nothing like when I had Emilee. Once all that was in place they let Casey in and the doctor did his work. Lily Ryan Davis was born at 9:06 am and was 7 lbs. 6 oz and 19 1/2 inches long.

While I was pregnant with Lily I always worried that I wouldn't think she was as cute as Emilee and was scared that I would love her as much as I did Emilee. That was far from the case. It was love at first sight and she was just as beautiful as her sister. At first they really didn't look much alike but it didn't take long for that to change. I love the saying "Children fill a whole in your heart you never knew existed". That sums it all up.

Here are some pictures of Lily over the past year. I still can't believe my sweet Lily is one.

Thanksgiving and Lily's b-day party

Eating oreos

Birthday Girl

Happy birthday sweet baby girl you've been such a blessing to us. I look forward to watching you grow more and more every year. I love you Lily!

Neglected

Well I've been neglecting my blog for the past 6 weeks. I just never can find the time to sit down and write what's been going on. I'm finished with school until Jan. 20th so I'll have much more time on my hands. That is if I could stop reading the Twilight books. I'm officially hooked. I finish one and I run to the store to buy the next. It's really pathetic actually. I've even got Casey addicted now. So my house work has been pushed to the back burner along with wrapping presents. Two more to go and I'll be back to the land of the living.
Lots has happend since I last wrote, I'm not even sure where to start. We had a great Halloween. We had all of our neighbors over before hand then we all went trick-or-treating together. It was a little crazy but the kids had fun. I of course didn't take any pictures so I'll have to get some from my neighbors.
Thanksgiving we went up to DFW for the weekend. We had Thanksgiving day at my sister's in Carrollton, it was so nice. I can't remember the last time that we went out to their house. Lily was very clingy to me but other than that we had a good time. The next day we had Lily's 1st birthday party. Like the day before Lily was extremely clingy but I think she was a better birthday girl than Emilee was at that age.
I promise I'll post some pictures tomorrow afterall it is Lily's 1st birthday. :( I can't believe a year as gone by that fast. I almost cried last night and I can probably guarantee that tomorrow at 9:06 am I'll cry. It's just not right that my baby is already a year.

What a mess

One of Lily's favorite things to do is to get into the cabinet with all their movies and pull them all out. Most of the time she does it one by one inspecting each DVD. The first few times it was pretty funny but now it drives me crazy. I'm sure Granny can agree that all we do is clean up DVD's. She's still really cute while she's doing it though. What a toot.

Lots of pictures

Here are the pictures I've taken lately. Not too many of Em because she's anti-camera.

Lily and her favorite white bear on her 9 month birthday

Lily making her goofy face. (I love her little foot in the background)

Lily (with a big bump on her head) attacking Bella

When you ask Lily to make a silly face this is what she does. The more you laugh the more she keeps doing it. It's hillarious!

Lily was suppose to be sleeping and I went to check on her and this is what I found. It was so cute her feet we swinging away.

Granny got them matching pj's and I thought they looked so cute in them.

Sweet sisters

Em posing for the camera



Lily just being cute.

Weekend adventures

This past week/weekend we were in DFW. I love going home so much but at the same time it's always nice to come back to our house. If we could just pick up our house and move it to DFW life would be great.
Casey had his annual dinner for the recruiting squadron. It was fun to get all dressed up but the dinner itself was kinda boring. While Casey was in meetings all day I went across the street to the Galleria to shop. It was so nice to be in an actual mall. I almost forgot was that was like. I got the girls their Christmas outfits at Children's place and had to force myself not to buy the whole entire store.
Friday night Casey took me to Texas De Brazil for doing so good in all my classes this semester. If I get dinners like that I'll be sure to make all A's every semester. Dinner was amazing, I haven't had a meal that good in a long time.
My mom watched the girls for us while we were in Dallas and I think she had a pretty good time with them. Lily was a little toot for her but Emilee was really good. This was the first time Lily was away from us and I think it kinda freaked her out. We picked her up Saturday morning and all day long she clung to me. I was the only one who could look at her, hold her or do anything for her. It was a very long day.
So all in all we had a really good weekend. I did however become the world's worst friend and forgot Katie's birthday. I reminded myself all week of her birthday and when it came down to it I forgot. So I know I already told you once but I owe you big time. HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY KATIE!!!!!

The ears, the staph and the rash.....

Well the past few days have been incredibly exciting in our house! Ok not really but they have been a little bit more crazy than normal. Wednesday Lily started running a 102 fever that would only go down with motrin or tylenol but would spike back up as soon as it wore off. At first I just thought it was teething but 102 is way to high for just teething. So first thing Thursday I called to get her an appointment and three hours later I finally get my appointment set up. I love not having to pay for insurance but at the same time I don't want my baby to suffer. So she ended up having an ear infection. We caught it pretty early so hopefully she'd start feeling better fast. After a miserable night with Lily on Thursday I woke up to find Emilee's ankle completely swollen and oozing. I know, gross. So finally after 2 hours of waiting for people to call me back I finally got her in to see the doctor. And yes my poor baby got a staph infection on her foot. I meant to take a picture of it but with all the kaos I forgot. It was so swollen you couldn't even see her ankle bone anymore. It was kinda reddish blue and really hot. The doctor called us in some strong medicine along with some cream. Both of which she gets three times a day.
So I finally start thinking that things are going to calm down. Well I bought Lily some different food yesterday when I went grocery shopping, she really seemed to like it except for the fact that she broke out in a horrible rash. We immediately stopped giving it to her but by that time it was all over. It didn't seem to bother her until about an hour after she went to sleep, she woke up screaming uncontrollably. At one point I thought she was going to pull her ears off, so I had no idea if it was from the rash or her ear infection. I called Katie and she calmed me down she told me to give her some benedryl. It helped. I'm not sure that it helped the rash but it atleast put her to sleep.
So it's been such an exhausting weekend. I'm so glad that Granny stayed the whole weekend, I probably would have lost my mind with out her. Oh and did I mention that I have 7 tests this week?!?!?! Well gotta go my fussy baby is crying again. And I think that this weekend has sealed the deal that we're only having 2 kids. I couldn't handle a fussy baby again.

Promise to post some pics soon....

Promised post

I'm finally getting around to the blog I promised about all the things going on lately. Acutally I still don't have time to write this I'm just procrastinating my school project. (which I'm great at, procrastinating not projects) It's been a few weeks now but I took Lily in for her 9 month check up and she's perfect. She was 19 lbs. 8 oz. and 27 in. (i think, it's been too long now). She's in the 57% for her weight and 58% for her height and 64% for her head. The doctor said she looked like she was getting plenty of food and pretty much just let her have what ever she'll eat, which is pretty much everything.
That next week she finally started crawling. She had been taking a few little shuffles but hadn't really shown any interest in crawling. I was taking some pictures of her and she thought she needed the camera and there ya go, she's been crawling ever since. She's pretty good about not getting into stuff but when she does and you tell her no she just looks at you and smiles. For now it's hilarious we'll see how I feel about that in a few more months. I love that big gummy smile.
We finally have one tooth!! Actually we have one very crooked tooth and three more on their way. So there's lots of drool and running noses lately. I try and take pictures but she doesn't let me get that close without attacking the camera.
Emilee has been back at mother's day out for a month now and is doing great. We haven't had any days of crying and screaming when she get's dropped off. Maybe she has finally outgrown that age!! THANK GOODNESS. But we've traded for lots of attitude and a bazillion questions. "Mommy why is it time for bed?" "Because it's dark outside" "Why is it dark outside?" "Because the sun went to bed" "Why did the sun go to bed?" "Because it was tired". You see how that goes. She can ask 100 questions in a matter of minutes. At first it was really cute but now it's a little annoying. I try and just answer her and change the subject but she usually will start it up again about other things. Sometimes it's pretty funny how long she'll go on.
Well that's our life lately nothing else really going on. Any suggestions on school and how not to loose my mind please let me know, I'm on the verge.

Tagged

The rules: List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, and 3 facts about yourself. Tag 3 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!

3 Joys:
1) Emilee and Lily
2) Family
3) Friends I don't know what I'd do without them.

3 Fears:
1) Tornados- I absolutely hate them and after our close encounter with one this spring I'm now terrified. I pretty much stay up until the storm is passed and I know it's safe to sleep
2) Not being able to see my girls grow up. I know this is a crazy thought but I can't even begin to imagine not seeing my girls with their own families.
3) Not passing school. Right now this is all I ever do, study, study, study. My brain hurts and I'd hate to be going through all of this just to fail.

3 Goals:
1) Be more patient with my kids. Emilee is at that stage that'll wear you out, I just need to remember she's only 3 and kids aren't perfect.
2) Learn to be a better student. I have diagnosed myself with ADD and I really want to work on focussing more while I'm studying.
3) Be better at taking pictures and videos of the girls. I am aweful about doing it and I just need to remember to more often. I love looking back at old pictures and videos when I was little and Emilee has started watching all her videos from when she was a baby.

3 Current obsessions/collections
1) Blogging - I'm completely obsessed with it. Mainly reading other peoples because I just don't feel like mine is very entertaining. I always think of stuff I need to write but I can never seem to find the time.
2) Losing weight but not actually wanting to try. I think about it all the time and really want to be skinny, I just can't force myself to change. I know I need to though.
3) Shopping. With me not working we really don't have the money. But everyday I can find something to waste some money on, even if it's a dollar, it makes me feel better just to buy it.

3 Facts about myself:
1) I am a full time student for the first time since high school.
2) I like eating M&M's that are a little bit melted.
3) I can't decide between two or three kids. I love being pregnant.

Crazy life

I promise I haven't forgot about blogging, I just can't seem to find enough time in my day to sit down and write. I'm sure if I did it would probably relieve some stress I have building up, but time is against me. I have so much to blog about but it'll have to wait until this weekend. Lily had her 9 month dr. appointment and has hit so many milestones. So I promise I'll catch up this weekend.

Smart kid

I am officially the smartest person in the world. So I'm sitting here studying for my test and I decide that it's getting late and probably should go ahead and pump. I've been putting if off long enough so I got up got all the bottles and attachments ready to go and begin to look for my pump. I look and look and look, no pump. Search my whole house, my car, everything, still no pump. Panic sets in along with really uncomfortable boobs. The last place I had it was at school when I pumped at 2. My school is in a hospital which is good, but the classroom is locked, I should know because I was the last to leave so I pulled the door shut. So Casey took me up there to search the building over and find someone with keys. Luckily there was someone outside smoking and he let us in. We found a housekeeper and she said that she had seen it in the classroom. Thank god it was there!!! This is definately a mistake I'll never make again. So now I'm back home studying and pumping. Wish me luck on my test tomorrow, I need it!

Just like her Mommy

So Emilee woke up one day after her 3rd birthday and decided to develop an attitude. At first it was just little things like saying "no" but saying it ugly, then it was not listening when we asked her to do something. Now it has turned into just plain hatefulness. She mainly does it to Casey, but she find something that she knows will make you sad and do it on purpose. I'm not sure where this child came from but I'm kinda missin my 2 yr. old. She's not always like that but lately evil Em has been coming out more and more. This week we decided to really start cracking down on bad behaivor. I'd much rather deal with it as a toddler than as a teenager.

And I'm still not getting school. Hopefully one day I will, until then I'll have to stick with guessing.

It's the little things

Yes I'm completely aware that I just did a post however...... I just saw the preview for Grey's Anatomy and I'm so excited. Even though I don't get to watch tv at all anymore there will always be time to watch my Grey's. Just thought I'd let you in on the exciting things in my life.

It's been a while....

I know, I know it's been too long since I last wrote but my plate is completely full lately. This whole school thing is taking up so much of my time, and I'm still struggling. Well enough about me...

Emilee started back to mother's day out at the beginning of the month. She's back to going twice a week and I think she's really enjoying it. She's started understanding what it means to have friends. Now we have friends and we have best friends. It's so funny. I swear she comes up with the funniest things some times. I hate that I can't remember them like I always think I will.

After Emilee's birthday she all of the sudden hit the terrible three's. Well she's not terrible but she definately more testy. She's been saying no alot more and it's not the fact of her saying "no" it's the attitude behind it. If she has this much attitude at three what in the world is she going to be like at 15?!!

Lily is growing up so fast. It's hard to believe that next week she'll be 9 months. This past month she's started doing so much more. She's up on on fours and rocking back and forth. I don't think it'll be too much long until she takes that first crawl. She's also getting her first two teeth. Poor baby, instead of just going through the pain of one tooth she's getting two. She's also fighting off a cold which has led to a nasty cough all on top of teething. She's my poor little sick baby the past few days.

She's eating everything that you put in front of her. I've started trying to feed her more and more people food. I still give her baby food but I want her to get use to having something to chew on. That is one mistake I think I made with Emilee.

Well that's all the updates I can think of at the moment. I am going to try and make an effort to update this website once a week atleast. It takes all of 5 minutes and I just need to do it.

Here are a few pictures that I took the other day of the girls.

Up on all fours!!!

See my teeth!

Messy dinner girls

Our week and the Dr. visit

Well I'm officially a full time student now and it's so much more overwhelming than I had ever imagined. Three out of the five that I'm taking are eight week courses so they move faster than the others. All five involve tons of reading and memorizing. I'm beginning to think I've gotten in to far over my head.

Jackson came down to visit on Wednesday and I think he and Em had a good time playing. It's amazing the difference in play between a boy and a girl. I can definately tell I'm use to little girls. Boys are much rougher and active. But they were both pretty good thought the visit.

Yesterday Casey took Em to the Doctor for her 3 yr. old check up. Well ever since Emilee turned 3 she developed some what of an attitude. Yes, she's always had an attitude but now she's much more voiced. So the Doctor visit didn't go very well, she didn't want to do any of the things the doctor asked her to do (which is very imbarrassing). The doctor asked Emilee to bend over and touch her toes so she could check her spine, she didn't want to at all but ended up giving in. While she was bent over I guess she decided she didn't want to do that any more and jumped up. Well when she did that the Doctors face happened to be right near Emilee's head. To make a very imbarrassing story short, Emilee broke the Doctors nose. I feel so terrible for that doctor and I pray to God my child doesn't get sick because we're not going to go back there.

Well that's our week in a nut shell. Right now I'm hoping Lily will give in and fall asleep so I can study for a little bit. Wishful thinking I know.

Em's birthday weekend

So I'm a little late on posting birthday pictures from Emilee's parties. But I thought better late than never. Em's birthday was Friday August 8th, we really didn't do anything crazy. My mom and sister came down and we opened some presents and mom bought her a cake because she wasn't going to have one at her party (we did dirt pudding).

I know it wasn't Lily's birthday but I couldn't resist this picture.

So the next day we had Em's birthday party with all of her friends. I think for the most part it turned out really well. Emilee had alot of fun. She got tons of new toys. This is probably the first birthday that I asked for toys. Em wasn't much of a toy baby and even up until recently she just wasn't interested.

On Sunday Em left with Marme and Aunt Becky to spend the week in DFW. I missed her like crazy but she had so much fun. Marme took her to Six Flags, a bounce house and to ride on a train. She also had one more party. She keeps asking when her birthday is.