Spending time with Abuelito Jose

Every weekend, my dad comes over to hang out with Jadey Poo or I take her to see him. Since he is the only one that doesn't get a chance to see her on a daily basis like Al and Ma. As soon as he walks in, he greets her "Mamachita!!! Aqui esta tu Abuelito!" (Mamachita, your grandpa is here!) As soon as she sees him, she gives him a huge smile! Then the sparks come on, and that's it. The entire day its just him and her. No one else in their little world! He usually feeds her, changes her diaper and takes her out for walks or sits in the front watching people and cars go by. Most of the time he talks to her, but sometime it just doesn't matter what is said, as long as they are together. They stare off together, him in his deep thoughts and her just taking in the new world around herWhile she sits there and takes it all in, there is one thing she enjoys doing, she loves to eat her fingers HAHA , At first its a little sour...Hmm, it doesn't taste that bad...YUMMY!!!After all the deep thoughts, and all the finger munching...at the end what matters most was that they loved being with each other, and that they will meet again the next weekend, to do what they do best together.

First Halloween

We had such a fun time on Halloween. We ended up going to Pearland. Jadey had such a good time. Her brothers were getting the candy for her, because it was a little cold for her, so we kept her nice and bundled. She dressed up as a little pumpkin. Then Jaylan dressed as a Ninja! TEEHEE. It was so cute. Then there was a house im the neighborhood that had a Haunted House, on the front part of the house had a huge Reaper.

My heart...

just melts when I see this beautiful smile. :) *sigh* she is all mine :)

Jade 4 months!

My little monkey turned 4 months today. I must say that every week, she does so many new things. It just amazes me. Here is a video of her copying the noises I make LOL. Its so funny...also, notice how distracted she gets when she sees the camera. LOL

My little Aunt Jemima

She was so into watching her brothers this weekend. Jaylan dressed up as a ninja and he wrapped one of his sleeves on her head...and she loved it. She also looked extra pretty because she got her ears pierced Saturday. It was very hard for me because she got scared. She didnt cry much...I cried more than she did. Auughh

My Funny Monkey

Jade is going to be 4 months on Friday...and well we have over 1000 pics of her. Its funny how you take so many pictures of your child. Yet there is one picture in particular that just cracks me up when I see it. She is just chewing away at her little hands!

Sitting up

My little munchkin seems like she is just growing up so fast. It makes me sad sometimes, because I am enjoying her so much right now, and I just dont want her to get bigger...she is such a good baby. She is silly, and very very active hehe! Every little thing she does, all her little coo's. As a new mom sometimes her little coo's scare me...dumb I know...but sometimes I just wonder if they are coo's or if something hurts HEHE.

Me and my boo

I just love all the wierd littl faces my little munchkin makes. Here lately sha has a thing with sticking out her tongue. Here is a pic where she is doing that. HEHEHE Doesnt it look funny!

Birthday Blanket for Alex

Since Al's b-day is coming up pretty soon. I was thinking about making her a blanket. Being that she is always cold and sniffly..lol. I figure I would help her stay warm. So, wish me luck and I will post my end result on here!

Jade 2 1/2 months

My little angel pie has definately come a long way from when she was a newborn. She tries to sit up, she tries to stand up. She is just plain ol awesome. She now weights 10.13 lbs! Hehehe chunky monkey, and she is eating baby food!!

She loves to respond to you when you talk to her! I love her!

First week of work

This was my first week back at work, and I got to say it was very hard to leave my little monkey. On Monday morning I woke up and was just so heart broken. I haven't been away from her this long. When I came home, Ma said she thinks she missed me. As soon as I held her she just layed her little head on me and wanted to cuddle with me Awwww...and I loved it, because I missed her just as much.

The following day, Ma said she was alot better. Her and her Tita Alex went for a cruise and they said she loved it.

So as you can see from her expression....I have nothing to worry about while I am at work and for that I am eternally grateful to my mom and sissy! I love you guys!

Feeling Blue

So, I go back to work on Monday :(. Which sucks because I wont spend all day with my little angel. Ok, I cant really type right now...because I started to cry. :(

Watching T.V. with Daddy

She loves him :)

Sleepy Monkey

Since day one, when we got home my mom placed her on her belly to sleep. She said she did that to us, so we tried it on Jade. Since then...she has fallen in love with sleeping on her belly, however she hate light! I caught her the other day sleeping like this!
She is so funny! I moved them away, and she squeeled and put them back on her eyes. Funny thing is, when we went to do our 3D ultrasound, she was doing this the whole time. So we ended up paying 135 bucks and didnt get any pics :) She was trying to surprise us. HEHE.

7 1/2 weeks old

My little angel is 7 1/2 weeks old! She is getting so chubby and just plain delicious. hehe. She has become the center of my world. This little person depends on me 100% and she tusts me. She has changed so much since the first weeks.

• She eats alot more...she is up to 3 oz and afterwards she latches on and drinks breast milk
• She is smiling and making lots of cooing sounds, she does it alot in the mornings, to her daddy and her Grandma Rosy, and ofcourse me :)
• She loves sleeping on her daddy and Grandpa Jose's chest.
• She has her first stuffy nose! It kills me!
• She cries louder! LOL
• She has gotten in the habit of sucking on her hands and arms, apparently they taste better than the pacifier.
• She loves her stroller and enjoys taking little strolls with me
• She is up alot more now during the day, and wakes up only twice to eat at night! YAY
• She loves her bath time now, she now cries when we take her out.
• Her hands smell like cheese because she sucks on them after she eats, even after I bathe her, her hands will smell like cheese because she sucks the water off her hands HAHA
• She has a special spot in the house where she loves to fall asleep.
• She turns to look at me when I call her name.
• She is tickelish in between her little chubby legs :)
• She knows mommy loves her!

Meteor Showers

I have always been interested meteors, moon, stars etc etc. So I found this chart of when we will have meteor showers. Check it out...last night I didnt see anything but they also said that you can try it again right before midnight the following day up till the dawn of the next day! YAY

Afternoon Walks

Lupe has been jogging almost every day since he signed up for a marathon in a few months. So, since Jade is alot bigger now and since she has grown to love her stroller, we tag along with him. He jogs and ofcourse I just walk with her. Yesteday was beautiful, there was an awesome breeze, the sun was going down. Jade and I loved it. At first she fell asleep and after a few she started crying (she was hungry). This park is beautiful, it starts off as a small road then it goes over a little bridge and then once you go over the bridge there is nothing but beautiful trees, and lots of shade! I took my cell with me but today I will take my camera so I can take a better pic.

Spending time with Grandma

If there is one thing that Jade loves to do is spend time with her Grandma Rosy. It just seems that everytime Ma comes around and just starts talking to her she seems to just light up and start smiling and giggling! Which I love, because my Mom make me smile as well :) AWWW. LOL. However, yesterday Jade and Grandma just chilled. They watched TV, they playing on her swing, she went outside for a little walk in her stroller (thats a whole diffrent blog...she loves that damn thing), and at the end of the day they were both pooped and just chilled

Watching Grandma

This morning Ma & Al came over and decided she wanted to work on the garden. THANK GOODNESS...so while she was out there pounding that dirt, and planting those plants, she was really into it guys.

While she was doing that Jade, Alex and I decided to chill outside and just watch her do her thing. However, Miss Jade decided she was hot. Jade saying " I'm HOT!!"So, she decided to flash her big baby belly to the whole neighborhood! She has no shame...no shame at all. What would her Grandpa and Daddy think?

Lets be honest though...she is deliciously chubby...yummy!So all though we were all super hot...I believe we were all happy in the end

I love her <3

Jamming!

Al has always been a huge music fan. Since I can remember her favorite singer is Mariah Carey. One Christmas, she was so excited because my parent bought her a tape player with headphones. Then she got a CD player and now....she has an IPOD. Shes probably got about 1000 songs on it. Today was funny though...she had on her headphones while we were outside taking in the sun...she was just jammin! JAM ON BIG AL....JAM ON! Notice the seriousness of her face while she searches for the perfect song.

Finally...the perfect song...notice the "microphone" HAHA

Oh man...look at her, she is really into it! I think she was even busting a move!

I love this kid!

Bathtime

My little monkey has been taking a bath since her belly button came off 2 weeks ago, so I would say she is fairly new to the whole bath thing. Some days she is cool, she wont cry she will just enjoy...other days like today...she totally hated it. I just dont understand, its so relaxing...soothing...yet she hates it some days. She gets that from her Papa. Sorry baby, but your booty must be washed.

My little sleepy head

I laid Jade down for a nap this afternoon before Ma left and when we came back, this is what I saw.

She NEVER sleeps on her back like this. When I have tried to put her on her back she just moves around like crazy...but not today...today she must have been super tired, I mean who wouldnt be, all that baby stress can really get a girl down. She looked so peaceful. She was definately enjoying every minute of her afternoon nap... Look at that face! Geez....she is making me sleepy now!

As we speak she is asleep...I look at her and she is just getting so big, every morning when I wake up she is bigger (to me). She gets heavier and heavier. My big chunky monkey. I am however very proud of her. She stays up the majority of the day, usually when we wake up we go outside and look at the morning. Most of the times it would be peaceful if it wasnt for those damn Guinea Hens we have walking the streets. They are very loud. Not only do they cause a scene, but we have some Squirrel drama going on, it seems that they enjoy fighting ALOT in the morning. When Jade and I are waking up, we can hear them on my roof, just chasing each other. Eventually one will either fall off or slide off...or land in my chimney LOL.

This morning however, was a bit diffrent. Her and I walk outside in the front, I pull up my rocking chair and sit with her as we watch people walk by or cars hooking ass by us. LOL. But not this morning...this morning was diffrent. We are outside with Ma and we see 3 dogs...small in size. They are chasing each other around, playing (so I thought). When the little chihuahua dog jumps on the other dog and start being dirty HAHAHA. We started laughing! Poor Jade she saw Puppy Porn this morning.

Wonderful Afternoon in the Neighborhood

Ma comes over on a daily basis to help me out with some of my chores and with the baby. Which thank God, I have her because at this point I would be hitting the roof. I could not ask God for any better type of support, as the support I have from my mom and sister. Anywhoo... this afternoon as I was walking Ma out the door, I noticed a beautiful sight, I just love the way the sun looks as its setting. It's such a relaxing sight. It's not too hot outside, there was a small evening breeze, it was just relaxing to me.

I Hate Flys!!

Everytime I open my door, a retarded fly always ends up inside my house. Most of the time its about 4 or 5 and me and Lupe are always trying to kill them. The past weekend, we decided to stay in and he was going to grill. Our luck, we were being attacked by flies! It really sucks because they are super annoying. Especially when I am talking to Lupe and then a damn fly just decides to make a landing right on my forehead! Not cute. So I remembered, when we would go to Mexico my Grandma Juanita would cook and flys would just attack! So before she would cook, she would hang up a clear plastic bag, halfway full of water and hang it. She would actually do a few. And the flys would go away...I dont know how...but they would not swarm around us. So we tried it...I must say it was pretty successful.

I wonder...

what she is dreaming about....HMMMM.

Spending time with Al!

I don't know if I have ever told you about Al. Al is my little sister, in years of course, but she takes care of me as if I were her little sister. She is a beautiful person inside and out! Trust me, she is total hottie when she dresses up! She can pull of the bandanna look...I sure cant! She is the person with kindest heart. She is brave, she isn't scared of many things except insects and every now and then she is scared of the dark, but that depends if she watched a scary movie of not. She is kind, generous and very outgoing. She cracks me up, she is super hilarious...her and I can laugh for hours over the dumbest things hahaha. But what makes Al super special...This afternoon, I needed to go check the mailbox and I was barefooted so I asked her to let me borrow her flip flops, as I was putting them on and she was taking them off, I noticed that she folds her toes in...haha, that's how she keeps her feet from getting dirty lol!

She likes to indulge in chocolate like I do, she is there every time I need her. She lets me slap her around and she takes it with a smile!

She is awesome because she loves my Baby's feet!But besides all that stuff, she is awesome sister and my best friend...

But....the best part about her is....She is the best Aunt in the entire world! My baby totally loves her!

Lunch anyone?

So, my mom made some Carne Guisada, thats beef tips with gravy in english. She made it with some white rice....it was delicious! Ma said lunch was done and so I go into the kithcen and I see my sister eating off of her plate, and I look...its just plain beef tips...no gravy, no pepper...no nothing with some rice! I told her, her meat looked like dog food! HAHA but she didnt care...she loves it. It was just her and her meat. LOL...To each his own...to each his own!

Jade- 1 month

My baby girl turned 1 month on July 30th! I took her to the Dr. for her Well Baby, she is now 9lbs 3 oz what a big girl!! She is growing perfectly. She is on her every 3 hr feedings...however come night time, she doesnt wake up as often. She wakes up 2-3 times a night and thats it. She lets mommy and daddy sleep! YAY. She is now eating 3 1/2 oz. I have been giving her formula, since I have not been able to produce enough milk supply. I end up pumping about 6oz only.

I ended up going to my OBGYN and he prescribed this medicane called Reglan. Unfortunalty for me this was the worst medicne I have ever taken. It has aweful side effects. I started taking it on a Monday and fortunatley for me I only took 2 or 3 a day other than the 4 daily that it said to take, come Wednesday at 3am, after feeding her I almost fell back, because I got such a strong dizzy spell. I ended up getting about 4 more spells that morning along with a panic attack. Thankfully I was only on it for 3 days. However the side effects really scared me so bad that I ended up going to the ER because I was so scared of the dizzy spells, the weakness and the nausea.

The Dr said that it was out of my system, however mentally this aweful drug affected me. Yesterday I was scared to be in Babies R Us...but I managed to control it. I think that along with the med, I have been sleep deprived and have not been eating 3 meals a day, nor do I snack. So I believe it also played a big part in me feeling the weakness and dizziness. I am now feeling better, but I will start sleeping early and eating right. I will learn to relax and not get stressed over the smallest things. To avoid anything like this.

So, if you or anyone you know have been precribed this crap....DO NOT TAKE IT! It has horrible side effects and it also leaves you shaken up after a few days. I was talking to a lady that took it for the same reason I did and with in a few hours she said she felt like jumping out of her building! STUPID DRUG!!!

Reglan- WORST MED EVER

Today my sweet baby is 1 month old! YAY Happy Birthday baby girl!! And since she has been home I have not been able to produce much milk to actually feed her when she needs to be fed. I end up producing about 3 oz 2 times a day. She feeds more than that a day. Anywhoo, I talked to my Dr and he prescribed Reglan. Which was the worst medicane ever! I have NEVER in my life experienced such aweful side effects from a medicane like I did this one.

Around 2 am, after feeding Jade I layed her down in her crib and I got this aweful dizzy spell. I layed down and thought maybe I had gotten up too fast. So while I layed there I got another dizzy spell. By this point I was scared to death and was starting to sweat. I was having some sort of anxiety attack. I woke my husband up and he tended to me. I didnt know why this was happening to me. So I remembered that I was taking Reglan, and the side effects are...dizziness, drowsiness, anxiety etc...everything in the book that you can think of. My luck...I felt all of that .

Its about 8:00pm and I am starting to feel alot better now, I am tired and just a little weak, but I think its becase when you have an anxiety attack all your strengh gets drained! All I can say is if you know anyone who is having trouble lactating and their Dr. gives them this med....PLEASE....PLEASE tell them not to take this. I have looked up info on this med and it actually has long lasting side effects for those who have taking it longer.

Being a New Parent

Nobody said it would be easy, however I am enjoying every second with her. I'm still trying to recognize her diffrent types of cries. Her diffrent noises...some which scare me even though I know that they are harmless...but still scare the crap out of me. At night its still kinda hard to sleep, even though she does a great job at sleeping through 3 hr intervals until her next feeding...but I just stay up to hear evey noise she makes. I'm very paranoid. Thank God for my family who has helped me out so much, I sleep during the day while my mom watches her and then I take over the night shift.

So, while I am up at night....I have grown very fond of the Food Network.

The shows at night are actually pretty cool. I watch Iron Chef, Guys Diners, Drive-In's and Dives, Wrapped. They are pretty cool. It just seems that, thats the only channel that isnt showing anything on Michael Jackson.

The day my life changed :)

I was heading over to the L&D at 8:00pm to be there for my scheduled induction at 9:00pm. The weather was really weird, it was cloudy, windy and rainy! Before I headed out though, Ma came over so she could come with me and my sister came to wish me luck. We hugged and she went home. Look at those clouds...nasty huh?! So I get to L&D and well, they admit me and stuff...then they stick me with the IV auuughh that part sucked because they were using the new kind that was made of rubber so it hurt twice as much going in!

They gave me some Cervadil at 10pm....nothing! Then around 8 am they started up the Pitocin...the contractions came on, not as strong. They came and checked me regularly and I was only at 3cm dilated. However, the baby's heart was plunging in and out and they were worried about that. So they came and broke my water which HURT!!! Then here came the even stronger contactions! I wasnt given an epidural until 12 noon. Around 3:30pm on 6/30 my Dr comes in and says "We need to do a C-Section, seems like her cord is wrapped around her neck" He freaked me out because I was worried about her!

At 3:54pm on 6/30/09, my life changed...it changed in a way that words cant even explain. After so many years of trying, my husband hands me over my sweet little girl. I kiss her and cant even believe this is real...she is so warm and adorable and she is mine! This is the little person who would keep me up at nigh kicking me and tugging at me..LOL. She is the little monkey who would go crazy in my belly when she would hear her daddys voice. She is the one that has my heart and has totally changed my life. I just can not see myself loving anyone as much as I love her. I hold her in my arms and its still so unreal to me! But its true & its real and God gave ME this honor. I will try to be the best mom possible to my daughter, try to teach her good, and try and be at least close to how awesome my mom is. She has been brought in to a family who has waited for her for years! Welcome home my angel pie! I love you so much!

Sleepless at the L&D

Its about 2 am and I have slept maybe 1 hour which sucks cause I need to sleep but I can't lol!