Ear Piercing..... What an adveture

So it has been a while since I wrote because things have been going crazy. I have now made a promise to myself to write more on here because it is really helpful. So Shelley is now 5 and half months old....wow, that still blows my mind. But about a month ago I took it upon myself to get her ear pierced so she would look more girly. I know i am bad momma for putting her through that. She had no clue what was happening. I was told that as long as we took her after her 2nd round of shots it would be the best time to take her. She would be too small to cry for very long and would not tug at her ears because she would not know what was going on. This would also help with infection. So I went to Mexican night with my mom, sister, aunt and my sisters friend Lindsay Ann to the mall to get this done. The first place that we went to said they didn't do infants but the other place in the mall did. So at 8:45... the mall closes at 9... we went down to the other store. The girl there told me that I just needed to pick out what I wanted her studs to be and she would take care of the rest. I chose her birthstone...diamond for the stud that would need to stay in for around 6 weeks. I put Shelle Belle in my lap while Whitney fed the sucker (another trick I was told), Lindsay took the pictures. My aunt was trying to get her attention to hold her head still and my mom left the store to go outside and watch through the window.... that was just funny. So everyone had their little part. She was just a suckin on the sucker while the girl lined up where she wanted to put the post. The first one was put in and it was not that bad.... it was not instant. Once Shelley realized what was going on she stopped sucking on the strawberry sucker and screamed to the top of her lungs. She calmed down like 45 seconds later because she realized there was a sucker there and it tasted good. Then we went through the whole ordeal again and the screaming lasted a lot longer. Like 2 minutes later and a bottle she calmed down and feel asleep on the way home. Needless to say it caused me more pain than her. She looks darlin now... She looks like a real girl. The studs are about a week away from coming out. I can not wait to get other styles in her ears. Aunt Whitney thinks that pearls are the way to go.

Shelley's first Beach Trip

So my last week of maternity leave, mom rented a condo in Destin. It was a two bedroom two bath with a pull out queen size sofa. It was really nice. Dad was in the 2nd bedroom because his breathing mask gets kinda loud at times. Mom and Whitney were in the Master bedroom and I was on the pullout. Shelley slept out in the den with me. I took her smaller pack and play with us, her boppy pillow and all of her daily routine stuff. We started driving around 8 am on Saturday and all was good until Shelley decided to get sick in the car. I mean really sick!!! We had to pull over in the middlle of this town to basically hose her off. She was covered with nasty milk. We had a sack in the car that we had to put her clothes, diaper and blanket in there and be sure to wash it once we got to the condo. After the hosing off of the baby we continued on our journey. We stopped at a place in Clanton to get strawberries but were out of luck so we went on our way. We finally stopped someone outside of Florida and found a place. They had none thay were picked yet so we waited a little bit for the ones to come in from the field. They had strawberry yogert and we gave Shelley a little taste.... She loved it. She licked her lips and smacked them.
finally we got to the Condo. It was really nice and we set up shop. We then tried to figure out what to do about food and groceries for the next week. Whitney and I went to the store down there and got all kinds of goodies. Then as we are coming back with tons of food, mom and dad called and wanted KFC. We stopped and got them KFC.
The first couple of days were good. We went down to the beach and watched people and baked to our hearts content. Shelley even got in the water. She grinned everytime her feet got wet. She looked so cute in her little winnie-the-pooh bikini.
We went shopping a couple of the days while we were there. We got her bows and a new outfit. She looked so good in it. I will be posting pictures later.
Shelley beans first beach expierence was great. She slept through most of the night and then got up to play with Aunt Whitney and Ya Ya everyday.

Shelley 2 Months

We are so happy to say that Buck and I have made it two months without pulling out all of our hair. Shelley has officailly started nursery at Whitesburg Baptist. She is doing a whole lot better than me and Buck. The first day was a killer. I was doing fine until I physically had to leave. I was able to pack her up the night before and drive to the church but when I had to leave.... Water works started. The teacher told me it was normal and asked did I want to stay for a bit. I told her it would only make it worse. So I walked to the car and just sat and cried for a couple of minutes and went on to work. The teacher also gave me the number to call the school and check on her. She told me that there are several moms that do this daily. I wanted to call as soon as I got to work but I resisted the temptation. I only called one time and she told me that Shelley was doing great. She was just hanging out eating and looking around the room. She was " taking it all in" as my mom would put it or pulling a "Doris". For those of you that don't know, Doris was my grandmother and she was always looking around and being very nosey. I think we should have named her that as much as she likes to look around.



So Buck went to pick her up and I asked him to get all the details from the teachers about what she did. They said she was great. They gave us a little report card about when she ate, slept and went to the bathroom. They even went into the details of what kind of diaper she had. It is almost like they gave us a play by play of her eventful day. It makes me feel a lot better. I really like the ladies that take care of her. They are so sweet!



Today is day three of Nursery and of me being back at work. The drop offs in the morning are going much better. It is almost like she knows the room now. It is so bright and colorful. I am getting better with it all.

Work is so boring for me right now. I have really nothing to do yet. My boss keeps telling me that I will be doing more since I was made an Engineer but, I am still waiting to see what that is.

I will try and keep everyone updated when fun stuff happens.