Thank You Granddaddy!

I will post more later about really rough week, but I wanted to say Thank you Granddaddy!!

He came down on his day off to keep Mary Alice so her mommy could get some much needed rest from a hard week and hopefully start feeling better!

Mary Alice enjoyed her day with her Granddaddy!

Visitors, Outfits, Sickness

On Friday GeGe came to spend the night with us! Mary Alice was so excited to see her when she woke up at 6:00 and her mommy and daddy were also happy because they got to sleep in!! Patrick and I also got a chance to go shopping to look for me a dress for Mother's Day. Of course I couldn't decide on a dress so I bought two and will have to take one back later!

Thank you so much GeGe for letting us sleep in and keeping Mary Alice on Saturday! I am sure she had a great time with you! :)

Sunday Matt, Crystal, and Emma came over to visit and eat lunch with us! We haven't seen them in forever so it was nice to hang out with them! They are going to be moving soon and we are sad they are going to leave our area, but we will definitely go visit them!

If you have been to our house you know that Mary Alice has a closet full of clothes. Unfortunately she has not been able to wear any of those clothes because she has been so small. Well this weekend I decided to try some clothes again and she fit in some of them!! She wore a cute little outfit on Saturday but before I could get a picture she spit up on it and then Sunday she wore another cute outfit from Nana Joan (by the way check out great pictures of my sister and her family at Nana Joan's house by clicking here). Here are some pictures of her outfit!

Last night Patrick and I were getting ready to eat dinner and we both felt like we were going to be sick. Patrick ended up getting sick, so I sent him to bed and put Mary Alice to bed as well. We both did not get much sleep. She slept well but once she got up to eat it took her awhile to go back to sleep. She has bad gas! So my mom is on her way down here to help out today so I can get some sleep. All night last night I prayed for single moms. I do not know how they do it without help at home. Please say an extra pray for us that no one gets sick as well!

Here are so more pictures that we have taken this past week! :)

Mary Alice's Second Cousin

We are so excited about Patrick's aunt having another little baby in August! This past week she went for an ultrasound and the baby, we call it tic tac because they aren't finding out the sex, was giving itself bunny ears. Kimberly told me I could post the cute picture on the blog.

Check out this picture!

Sweet Little Hannah and Mary Alice's 1st Babysitter

Today Mary Alice had her first babysitter besides family. One of the youth's mom from church came and kept her so Patrick and I could go meet Hannah! Mrs. Thain said she was perfect! She slept the whole time and woke up as soon as we got home because she was hungry! :)

We went to meet little Miss Hannah!! She was so cute! It was so weird to go back to the hospital because they are in the room right across the hall from the room we were in so it was like deja vu!

Here are some pictures of cute little Hannah and one of her mommy Katie!

Do I Dare Post This.......

So I want give a big THANK YOU to Katie!! She works with my mom and told her about the book THE HAPPIEST BABY ON THE BLOCK!! This book has been a miracle for us! Our nights and days have gotten so much better!

Mary Alice is now on a some what schedule at night. Her daddy gives her her medicine and feeds her every night at 8:30 and rocks her to sleep. She is usually asleep by 9:30. She then wakes up again between 11:30 and 1:00 and her daddy feeds her and puts her back to sleep. She will then wake up again sometime in the 3:00 hour and I get up the feed her. She is usually asleep by 4:45.

The only "problem" we have now is that no matter what time she goes back to sleep she is going to wake up by 5:30! She usually will go back to sleep for another 20 minutes but it has to be in her swing. By 5:30 she is tired of her crib. I can't complain though I get to sleep from at least 10:00 to 3:00 most every night!

So we are now down to only getting up twice in the middle of the night and waking up for the day by 5:30! I am hoping eventually she will only wake up once, but I am not complaining considering a week ago I was waking up at least 3 times a night.

Now we just have to get her on a schedule during the day... She will stay awake and play usually for about an hour after each feeding and then falls back asleep in her crib. Eventually I would like to try to keep her up more and get her take a nap in her crib. Today after we played for awhile I put her in her crib so I could go through her clothes and she put herself to sleep, but then she spit up so she woke up, so we are making progress! :)

Thanks for all your prayers and suggestions! It is hard to believe our little girl is almost 2 months old!

Hannah's HERE!!!

After a long long day.. Hannah finally made her grand entrance! :) You can read more at Katie's blog and see pictures as well!

Please keep Katie in your prayers though it was a rough day from what I have been told but everyone is very blessed that Hannah is healthy.

I don't know why but I wanted to cry when they told me! I am just so happy for Katie and Justin and can't wait to watch our little girls grow up together!

Also don't tell Patrick but it made me really want to have another (not anytime soon) but I love the joy of seeing your newborn! :)

Patrick and I hope to get to the hospital tomorrow so be on the look out for more pics on my blog! :)

Wordless Wednesday

Cute Video

Update and Pictures

UPDATE: I guess I should have waited to post until this morning! She woke up every 2 hours again last night! PLEASE PRAY FOR US!

*Sorry this is a very random post*

Mary Alice is starting to do well sleeping. I hate to update and say she is doing better because I don't want to jinx it but she slept for 4 hours at a time last night and only woke up to be fed! This is a huge accomplishment!

After her 8:30 feeding she will go down at 9:00ish and last night she slept until 1:30! :) Then went back to sleep at 2:00 and slept til 4:30!! I felt like I had a whole night sleep!

A lady my mom works will suggested the book , The Happiest Baby on the Block, and let me tell you it works! :) The main thing that has helped us is swaddling! We have always swaddled her from the waist down but now she is swaddle all the way up and she is sleeping much better. She even took a 4 hour nap the other day!

This past Wednesday my mom and Caroline came down to spend the night. Caroline was so EXCITED! She even told the lady at Target that she was babysitting Mary Alice! It was so sweet to hear that! Thursday was my mom's birthday and for her present I took some pictures of Mary Alice wearing the dress that she came home in from the hospital. I wore this dress when I came home from the hospital and my Mimi (whose name was Mary Alice) bought the dress for me, so needless to say this dress is very sentimental.

Please continue to pray for Mary Alice's acid reflux. It has gotten better but she HATES her medicine! I also believe this is another reason that she is sleeping better because she it doesn't wake her up! :)

Please enjoy these pictures! They are of the visit from Caroline and my mom and Mary Alice's photo shoot in her dress!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday MOM :)

WE LOVE YOU!

Prayer Request

Please say an extra prayer for my sister. She is trying to potty train the cutest 2 year old boy in the world and she is dealing with a very sick dog. She needs some extra prayer today!

Thanks :)

Here is a picture for you Kelly!

For Uncle Ben

Patrick's brother graduated from Clemson and bought Mary Alice some Clemson attire when she was born. Tonight after her bath we took some pictures of her wearing the attire. I don't believe her Daddy will let her wear this EVER again. She is a GAMECOCK GIRL!!! :)

She did cry the whole time she had the attire on, I wonder what that means!!! :)

Pictures!!!! :)

Here are some recent pictures! :)

Patrick and Mary Alice are listening to Metallica!

Aunt Sally made some cupcakes for Easter and let me tell you they are WONDERFUL! :) I have probably 2 a day! They are also very pretty! Check out the picture! :)

Stay tuned for pictures later this week of a special visitor! Cousin Caroline is coming to spend the night with Mary Alice tomorrow!

Easter Celebration Part Two

Today was such a great day! We finally went to church as a family! We got there early and sat in the back which was good because as soon as the preacher started preaching she started screaming! Patrick had to take her out but he did get to some back in! :) Everyone of course wanted to see her but I thought it was nice to see everyone!

Here are some attempts of pictures from this morning!

After we ate lunch we gave Mary Alice her Easter basket. We are still deciding if we are going to do the whole Easter Bunny thing or if she is just going to get presents from us on Easter. We both don't agree with the whole Easter Bunny taking over Easter! We really only got her a lot of books!






We then all took naps and Patrick's family arrived with more presents. Thank you to JuJu, Pam and Bob, Charlene, Gregg, Brittany, and Bradley, and Gege, Granddaddy, Ben, and Sally for all the gifts. We also enjoyed a great dinner!