A Little late but blogger sucks!! Happy Halloween!!

Some of you may take this as me whining....Okay so I am a little. I just need to vent, bear with me and deal with it!! Why do I feel like I am doing all this baby stuff alone? Regardless of how many baby-care hours Mike logs, I still feel this way. I get so annoyed at his ability to relax..I feel like saying "didn't you get the memo? WE'RE PARENTS NOW! LOOK ALIVE!"


I know Mike works his ass off helping me. But I still have no problem feeling resentful, because when he does something with the baby it feels like he is doing me a favor. He asks me a question like, "Do you want me to feed her?" and I'm thinking, She's your baby too. Don't ask, just do it.


I'm to the point where I'm trying to figure out how to do it all:

2-3 loads of laundry a day
5-6 feedings a day
5-6 diapers, Pooping ones 1-2
1-2 hours of entertaning a 3 month with the attention span of a spoon.
2-3 hours of rocking
2 hours of cooking and cleaning up messes in the kitchen
???? who know s how many hours trying to decipher what the cry means.

Please don't anyone take this to heart. I'm tired, extremly stressed out and just want a day off. Oh, wait I don't ever get one!!

I love my husband dearly and I know he takes care of Ella whenever I ask. I'm just pissy today.....

I love you honey!!!

As I was browsing through Halloween costumes yesterday I came across this:

"Available in one size Adult standard. Adam costume fits up to 180 lbs. Eve costume fits up to 109 lbs."

Does anyone else see whats wrong here??? Adult Standard.....fits up to 109lbs......EXCUSE ME??

Adult standard for who? I don't know anyone who is 109lbs. I think the American average for women is somewhere around a size 10-12, 150-160 lbs.

Just makes you feel like a big fat slob!!

I've been working very hard that last 2 weeks trying to lose the last 15lbs of baby weight. My goal is for Dec 10, the day Mike and I leave on our cruise. So far I've lost 5lbs. So if you see me eating bad stuff, yell at me and tell me to eat a carrot!!

Random Pic: Where is Mike?

Tribute to Tomorrows annual trip to the Wineries:

Random fact I learned today:

"Honeybees have hair on their eyes. "

I know you will all sleep better tonight now that you know that.

Ella's a scootin and a moving. As most of you know Ella has been sleeping in her car seat some nights. It's the only way we could get her to sleep for a couple of hours so Mommy and Daddy could get some sleep. Anyway, yesterday morning Mike rolls over and I hear him say, "Where did she go?" Of course, I hear this and thinking someone has ran off with my daughter I roll over and ask him to clarify. He reaches down and pulls her up onto the bed. Apprently Ella wiggled herself completly out of the carseat and onto the floor. She was close enough to our bed that she was actually under the bed with just her little head sticking out!!! How funny is that?!!

Last night, we went all night without a feeding!! We have been trying to get this accomplished for a week or so now and last night was the first. She went down at 9am, got up at 4am, we rocked for about 5 minutes and she was out again. Slept until almost 7am!! Mommy was so well rested that we got up and went walking at 8am. Ella loves to go for walks and feel asleep almost as soon as we left the driveway.


As I'm sitting here, Ella is making this strange noises. I just got up to check on her and she is asleep. The only thing I can figure is that she is dreaming but here is my question. What in the world does a nine week old dream about?

Our cruise is in 9 weeks and I've been working hard to get back to pre-prego weight before then. I'm down 1.5 lbs this week, Yeah for me!!!

I think I've finally got a picture that looks like me when I was a baby:












My Little Cardinals Fan:

Check out this website: http://www.babytoupe.com/

What do you think? Should we make Ella the next Paris Hilton? How about a little Bob Marley?

So the princess had her 2 month check up yesterday and she is doing great!! She is now 11lb 5oz and 22 inches long. She got 4 shots, 2 in each leg and she was not happy about it. I do think Grandma Karen cried more than Ella did. All in all she did great though and we bought here a new toy for being such a good girl.

So the doctor says we need to be doing at least one hour of tummy time a day. Is he serious? She hates tummy time. The child lays there screaming and crying most of the time. Do I let her lay there and scream? It is suppose to help strengthen their heads. I think I would rather her have a floppy head than listen to her scream like a banshee. If any of you mommys have any helpful hints on making tummy time more enjoyable, I'm all ears!!

Ella slept in her bed all night last night. She has been sleeping in the car seat all night long but we haven't made it in the crib until last night. YEAH!! I don't know if that is from the shots yesterday or what but we were happy.

Look what me and my mom did yesterday! For those that have been to my garage, you understand why this is so exciting!!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Just a cute picture of Sigma keeping Ella warm on Daddys lap!!

Can you all beleive it? I have a car parked in my garage!!! We still have some work to do but I am so proud of the progress we made. It took us about 3 hours but it's done!!

So this morning I was doing the clothes swap, summer for winter, and decieded to torment myself by trying on a pair of old jeans.....the fit!!!! Glorious day in my house!! My mistake was trying on everything and realizing that things have shifted and nothing fits right. So Ella and I are off to shop.

Here are some new pics of the princess:

We sleep!!!!

Mommy is so happy!! After a nine hour drive, (yes people I drove nine hours with a 2 month old), we arrived at Aunt Jennifers. I was so tired, a combination of new mom syndrome and driving 9 hours, all I wanted to do was sleep. Miss Ella had different plans. After being in a car seat SLEEPING for 9 hours, she was not about to be conned into anymore sleeping. So finally at 11:30pm, Aunt Jennifer told me to put her in her car seat to sleep. It worked like a charm; in she went and out she DIDN'T come until 7:30am!!

Ella slept through the night, for the first time for 8 hours, in her car seat!! I told Jen this morning that I'm either moving here or Ella is now sleeping in her car seat everynight!!

Here is the photo that I sent Daddy in Texas of little princess sleeping soundly in the car seat.

I feel like a new woman getting 8 hours of sleep solid for the first time in almost a year. No middle of the night feedings, trips to the bathrooms or uncomfortableness. I think I'll go run a marathon this morning....okay maybe not.

This morning I've almost got Ella to sleep when the doorbell rings. I peeked around the corner and saw that it was a young girl. She was holding some sort of catalog and with school just starting, didn't want to get up to have her try and sell me magazines or candy. I ignored the doorbell and continued rocking. A few minutes ( yes people minutes, I had assumed she had already left), the door bell rings AGAIN! I get up and it is the same girl. I answered, she started to tell me about her magazines and I told her no thank you, I've already bought some. (not true but hey, she left).

Point to this: If someone doesn't answer the door, you don't stand there for 5 minutes and then try again. If they don't answer the first time, they probably don't want to talk to you. Your magazines are not as important as getting my tired baby to sleep. I should have handed her the baby and told her, now that you woke her up its your turn.

I just realized that I've become the "parent". The one I used to laugh at for putting signs on the door that said, "Don't ring the doorbell, baby sleeping."

I bought this swimsuit way back in the Spring. She is never going to wear it outside of the house so I thought I'd get some pictures before I sell it on Ebay. Is she not the cutest little watermelon you have ever seen?

I hate bumper stickers! You can usually tell what type of person is driving the car by the bumper stickers attached to their car.

For example:

My kid is an honor student at _(name of school)___: Mini-Van Soccer mom (no offense Jen)

If your bumper sticker is the Rebel Flag: Redneck, Budweiser drinking Good Ole Boy

Eat More Grits (Girls Raised In The South): Seriously........I'm not even going there.....Why would you even think that this is a good thing to display to everyone that is behind you?

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it: Women that thinks she is a Bad A@@

I Love Explosives, International Terrorist hunting permit, ect: You just scare me, Note to self, Don't make you mad!


I'm trying to get out of only posting about Baby stuff. Unfortunately at the moment, that is really all my life consists of. If you would an update on Days of our Lives, Oprah or any other daytime television show, let me know and I'll try to help!!

What is a night without sleep?

This is not what happened last night!!!


Little miss Ella didn't want to sleep last night. It was a long night, I think at one point I woke Mike up and told him I quit, being the mom. It only lasted about 5 minutes!!

We finally got some sleep 6-9:30am. Now we are here, typing this, Ella is trying to help. Time to feed her and hopefully get a little nap.

You don't realize how much you love to sleep, until you don't get it.

by the way there are new pics on the website under Aug. www.ellamariewilliams.com

I found this quote in a magazine: "Your ultimate job as a mother is to prepare your children to leave you."

Ella is only 3 almost 4 weeks old and that already makes me sad. Last night we put her in her crib, in her room, at 8:30pm. She slept there until 10:30pm when she got up to eat. Mike and I both agreed it was too early to let her sleep in there by herself. Mikes says, "what if she wakes up and needs something?" The girl has a powerful set of lungs, we would hear her. He said it was like watching your child get on the bus for the first time, we are just not ready for that yet.

I never thought my days would consist of getting up at 6 in the morning, diapering, washing bottles, changing clothes a zillion times a day (twice already this morning) and getting spit up on. You know what, I don't even mind. I look into those sweet, blue eyes and it makes getting pooped on at 3am all worth it!

Muscles

Since blogger is being stupid.....check ot www.ellamariewilliams.com and click on photos to see some new updated ones.



PS: There is nothing sweeter in life than a tiny baby asleep in your arms.

New Template

It's a boring Saturday in the Williams household so I started playing around with my blog. Do you like the new template?

Ella is sleeping away in her swing, Mike is helping his Step-Sister move and I'm doing nothing. I should be doing laundry or cleaning up my room or something productive, but I don't feel like it. I do need to go visit Old Navy and try and find some clothes to wear while my body continues to shrink. I know its only been 2 weeks, but darn it, I'm tired of wearing maternity clothes. They said it would take at least a month.....I want it to be now!!

Hope everyone has a fun, safe weekend!!

Times are a changing....

It's amazing to me that my life has changed so much in just the past 2 weeks. I can't believe that Ella is 2 weeks old today. For those of you that know me, you might find some of these changes unbelievable but trust me, they are so true.

Can you believe that I'm getting up at 6:30am every morning? Now sometimes, I do fall back asleep for an hour or two after feeding the little one, but most of time I'm up for the day. Considering I'm not going to bed until 11-12am, I have to say that is pretty good for me. I like my sleep.....I don't get it anymore. We get a wake up call at 1:30-2:00am and are usually up for an hour.

It amazes me everyday how much I can love this little human. My life has changed so much in the past two weeks, I can't imagine my life without her now.

She is doing awesome! She is awake a little more each day and she is starting to smile more!! She just stares out at the world with those big blue eyes, I wonder what she is thinking?

Soon Mike, Ella and I will be ready to rejoin the world. Doesn't she look just like her daddy?

Ella's Arrival!!

Our baby girl has arrived! Check out http://ellamariewilliams.com to see more pics and hear about her arrival into the world under news.

We got home Saturday afternoon and things have been going well. My sister has been here all week and I'm not sure what we would have done without her. Ella is fast becoming a chow hound and loves pooping and peeing on her Daddy!! He's gotten it a few times already. It's amazing to me that in just under a week I've grown so attached to this little body. She is so awesome and I can't wait to teach her all about the world around her.

Here are a few pics for now:


Ella thinking about her life so far











Ella's first bath at home

Ella's tiny foot in Daddy's hands