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Miss Paige loves bath time! We had a big suite in Las Vegas that had this huge tub. Paige was in heaven!

Now that she can crawl she loves to move around the tub.


Sweet baby girl!
Crawling on momma is fun!
Except when she tries to wipe my snotty nose : (
Okay all better!
I love to stand up!!
Random note: poor Spike has to get put under next week and get his teeth cleaned. We are horrible pet owners who didn't clean his teeth and now he has dental disease. So hopefully things will be better when he gets them cleaned.
Fun with finger foods! Paige hates to be fed. She wants to do it herself. If I put something in her mouth - like a piece of cheese, a puff, etc...she spits it out. But if I set it on her tray, she will pick it up and eat it! Paige marches to the beat of her own drummer, that is for sure. She has never been "by the book" which caused me a great deal of stress in the early days. Now I just know that she will do things in her own time.

2010!

We rang in the new year in Las Vegas! Wait, back up...first Christmas! We had a massive snow storm this Christmas which kept us inside for pretty much 3 straight days. Not fun! Here are some pics from Christmas!

Her new chair from Pottery Barn Kids. LOVE it!!

Pat the Bunny : )

With my niece, Ava.
New little lady bug
Gift from Santa.
It was a blizzard out and we couldn't go to church on Christmas Eve. We couldn't even open our garage door. So we decided to walk down to my grandparents house. The goggles were needed! Trust me!!
My Christmas Eve outfit.

Christmas was wonderful, despite the weather. We are so blessed by Paige.

New things: Paige is crawling! Not her belly flop, inch worm crawl, but fully crawling! I am so proud of her! She is pulling up on everything. She can even pull herself up to standing. She did this for the first time on vacation in Las Vegas (we got back last night) and hasn't stopped since then! She is so brave and curious, which can be a dangerous thing! David and I are now scrambling to get our house baby proofed! We need a gate on our stairs ASAP!

We still aren't able to feed her purees, so I just skipped them! I have been giving her small bites of whatever I am eating, and she is loving it! However, I am not the healthiest of eaters, so this might be problematic! For instance, in Las Vegas, I gave her: pizza crust, sips of my milkshake, a french fry...you get the point. I need to go to the grocery store and get more baby-friendly foods. But it is such a relief to see her able to move food around in her mouth and swallow like a normal kid!

Las Vegas: a blast as usual! I shopped waaaaaay to much! But we had a blast. My parents and grandparents were there so we had someone to watch Paige at all times. My favorite part was when someone in the elevator said, "Oh! Is this baby's first trip to Vegas?" and I said, "Nope!" Haha...oh well!!

'Tis the season to be merry!!!

David's parents came up and visited us last weekend from College Station, TX. We had a wonderful time! We ate brunch at 501 Cafe, which is one of our favorites. Then we went to the mall for some Christmas shopping. Then during Paige's nap, we opened presents and drank wine and just really enjoyed their company. We then went with my mom to Red Rock on Saturday night. My dad is still recovering from shoulder surgery, so he had to stay home.
David's sister, Carolyn, also came!
Paige and some of my workout friends took our babies to meet Santa!!! I was so worried that Paige was going to cry through the whole thing! But she didn't : ) She was FASCINATED with him though, and never looked at the camera.

David and I feel very blessed this year. Paige is a gift from heaven and has brought us a kind of joy that we never knew was possible. I hope all my blog friends have a wonderful holiday season with the ones that you love : )

My busy bee

Just hanging with my bug on a Tuesday! Tuesday nights are girls night in. David is in grad school and is gone until 10:30 every Tuesday. Stinks big time!!! We were going to head to a party tonight, but little miss is still pretty snotty and I just didn't want to get her out in the cold.

Not much to say about Paige except that she is into anything and everything! She hasn't met a remote/iphone/blackberry/digital camera/set of keys that she doesn't need. Right now. When I am in Target, it is so much easier to just hand her my keys and let her suck on them. I'm sure you are thinking...GROSS!!! But it is better than a screaming baby : )

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week. It is coooool here in the 405! Bundle up!

Happy Thanksgiving!

In her Thanksgiving dress.
Loving the grass!
It is getting so hard to get good pictures of her! She is never wanting to sit still!

LOL - perfect example of trying to get a good picture of her!
Our stockings!! From Pottery Barn Kids. I love them so much!
Our holiday set-up : ) We have never decorated for Christmas before. We always went out of town. But we are staying here this year and decided to get a real tree! It smells amazing. I am so thankful to have a daughter to celebrate with this year.
Speaking of...our little bug

Hoping Santa brings us some good stuff this year!

We had a nice Thanksgiving with my family. A great start to the holiday season! I have been working on addressing my cards and hope to get them out next week. I need to get a jump on shopping too. I need ideas on things to get my bug! I am thinking a play kitchen from Pottery Barn Kids. I know she won't be into it now, but by this spring she'd love it!

Fall in pictures

My girl loves the swings. She just loves having the wind in her face and likes me to push her pretty high!
Fall family photo shoot

I love her so much

My precious girl
With my cute husband
Silly bug playing in the leaves
Beautiful girl
I love her sweet face and her big beautiful lips. I am so very blessed!!

Long over due update

As you can see, I have opened up my blog again. I had a hard time there for a while deciding what to do with it. When I first started this, it was an infertility blog. That is all I knew. Then it was a pregnancy after infertility blog. Then a parenting after pregnancy after infertility blog. And it had started to morph into a thinking about being pregnant again after parenting after pregnancy after infertility blog. So you can see where I was having a little confusion : )

I have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). It is a disease of the ovaries that, among other things, keeps you from ovulating - thus making pregnancy impossible without intervention. And intervene we did. Paige Madeline was conceived via In-Vitro Fertilization, after many failed cycles of clomid and injectables. Some people say that pregnancy can re-set your body in a way. After I stopped nursing Paige, something happened to me. I started cycling on my own, which I had never done before. I had some 33, 34 ish day cycles. It was incredible! So we decided to try on our own. It hasn't worked, and although it has only been 3 cycles, I find myself getting upset about it. I realize that Paige is only 7 months old and I am crazy for even thinking about another right now - but this is just how my mind has been trained. It has become obvious to David and I that this isn't going to happen for us. My cycles have stopped again (or so it appears). I called my OB and asked for a prescription for birth control. Why? Because I am sick of thinking about it. I just want to enjoy my daughter and not obsess. Uggggh. I filled the prescription and it is sitting un-opened in my bathroom. It could sit there until May when we go back to our RE to try IVF again. Or I could open it tomorrow.

Enough about me!! Paige is doing so well. Eating well, although we aren't doing solids. She hates purees so much, I think we are going to skip them all together. My pediatrician was fine with this, as her third child didn't eat purees. When Paige gets teeth, we will do some table foods. She is sitting on her own, and getting so so close to crawling. She can move all the way across the room, but it is more dragging her body by her arms than crawling. We guessed by Thanksgiving she would be full-out crawling, so she only has a few more days! Ha! She sleeps all night in her crib, with a few exceptions. When she cries more than 10 minutes or so, I bring her to bed with us. That has only happened a few times in the last month. We made the big transition to her crib at 6 months. It was time.

If you know me in real life, you will be getting our Christmas card soon! I used tinyprints.com, and they turned out lovely. David and Paige make me look good.

Missed all my blogging friends!! But I'll be back now for good : )