How I Met Your Father

     Well, as you girls know your father and I met at Mississippi State University. We technically first met in the Spring of '06 when we both worked for a fried chicken place called Abner's. I thought your father was really cute but had a boyfriend. Your father had just gotten out of a serious relationship and one of our co-employees actually asked me to find someone to set him up with. Luckily, I didn't know anyone that I could hook him up with. My boyfriend and I broke up a few weeks after I started there and I had it set in my mind that I was going to go into work and hit on your father. Well, my did not work as he quit the night before our next scheduled shift together. After he quit, I was talking about my disappointment about not being able to try to date him, when a fellow co-worker told me he was a huge player. I immediately put him out of my mind at that point.
      Fast forward 3 months later to the start of fall semester. On August 25th I got a phone call from a friends (whom I had casually dated for a week) and one of my good girl friends to meet them at Bin612 for a beer and lunch. I should probably note I found out this day that these friends had been dating behind my back. They thought I would be upset about it so they hid it (very badly, as I totally had figured it out) from me. Anyway at lunch they asked if I wanted to go with them to the Delta Chi house for the bid day party to go down the big slip-n-slide. I of course said yes and asked my friend, William if he had any hot fraternity brothers he could hook me up with. William said he did not know what would constitute as hot. Anyway, I went home changed clothes, and they came to my house and picked me up.
      As soon as I arrived at the Delta Chi house I immediately started scoping out the guys. I finally spotted a guy I thought was really good looking and I also thought he looked really familiar. Any clue who it was? Yup your father! I was drinking some beer trying to figure out how best to get his attention when I heard someone call his name and I instantly knew who he was. I walked right over and re-introduced myself (he also knew as soon as I said Abner's who I was and admitted he had had a crush on me when we worked there). Well, basically the rest of the day consisted of me trying to act cool by hanging out with my friends and then walking up to your father and hitting on him some more. Trust me, I made it perfectly clear that I was interested in him. I definitely did not help that I was drinking the whole time and was definitely beginning to feel the effects. Your dad spent his day casually flirting and acting only vaguely interested in me. He did manage to use some great one-liners such as "you can do freaky things with this rubber ducky." Ah, your father was a charmer, hah!
      Anyway, at the end of the day your father finally asked for my phone number and I got him to give me a ride home. I really did not expect him to call as like I said he did not really act too interested in me. Well, he did text me eventually stating that he was going to my friend Amy's house. He did not ask me to go though and since I did not want to seem like a total stralker I decided not go even though I had been invited by Amy. He texted me throughout the time he was over there and he eventually said he was bored and asked if he could come over. I of course said yes and he came right over. We stayed up late watching the first season of the tv show Weeds, since he had never seen or heard of it, and eventually we fell asleep. Yes, he slept over the first night, yes it was in my bed, no we did not do anything except share one awkward kiss. Awkward because of the strange position we were sitting in. And well that is it, that is how we met. Next up is our whole dating period.

4 months old

Breezy, two days ago, August 17th was the date a year ago that I took a pregnancy test that told me we would be adding you to our family! I was so shocked to see those two pink lines since your dad and I had hardly even tried to get pregnant that month due to illness. And now you are here and, as of yesterday, are 4 months old today. It is just so surreal.

 4 months:

 At 4 months you are able to roll from back to stomach and then you throw a huge fit about being on your stomach. You love to play in your jumparoo! Your face just lights up when I sit you in there. You are starting to talk a lot. The other night, you sat and talked for over 30 minutes straight. I took a video of it and whenever I show you the video, you start talking to yourself. You are still waking up one to two times at night, but we are going through sleep training currently so hopefully those days are coming to an end. You are still a very laid back and happy baby. You are on the small size, the pediatrician said that 4 months is kind of the peak of chubbiness, and Breezy you just are not that chubby. You do have some little baby rolls but for the most part are on the slimmer side. You are currently mostly still wearing 0-3 month clothing with a few of your 3-6 month items thrown in. We for right now have decided to delay solids, but I am not sure you are too happy about that. You absolutely stare down anyone eating anything around you. I have given you a few tastes of food and you have not been too sure about any of it.Your father and I love you so much and are just beyond blessed that you are ours.

Having small children is hard

So I really meant for this blog to be updated 4 to 5 times a week, hah! Here is the thing girls, I chase after and take care of ya'll all day and while I am doing that I think of 5 billion things to write. Then it's bedtime, I finally get some time to myself and the last thing I want to do is sit down to type. I am going to work on it though as I really do hope to have a record of this time of your lives. The truth is having two small children is hard, challenging, and exhausting. Don't get me wrong, it is totally worth it and there are plenty of amazing moments throughout most days but some days I spend the day counting down the minutes until bedtime. Never has there been a more true saying then "the days are long, and the years are short" to describe motherhood. So I will leave you girls with this some advice for when ya'll (hopefully) have your own very small children.

-A happy mother makes for a happy baby, so do what works best for you, do not let others make you feel guilty if your child is not on a strict schedule, is bottle fed, sleeps in bed with you, has on disposable diapers, etc.
-If you do not bond with your baby right away it is OK, giving birth and having a newborn can be incredibly overwhelming and sometimes that makes the bonding process difficult. Do not worry because you WILL bond with your child, one day you will be doing one of your daily baby tasks and you will look at them and just feel the incredible motherly love that everyone describes and it will be amazing. 
-This was advice I was given way before I even became pregnant with you Saylor: just because you have a child does not mean that you have to sit at home, take your children and go, they will adapt to your lifestyle. I have to say after seeing so many others struggle I am glad that I was given this advice. I love that we can spend the whole day out and about if needed, that we can eat out, take long car rides and both of you do great.
-If you are going to breastfeed you have to do it for at least two weeks before you can truly decided if it's for you or not, trust me everyone hates breastfeeding at first and your nipples with heal. This again was advice given to me by a nurse and is probably the reason I was able to breastfeed both of you (so far with Breezy) successfully. Also, do not skip out of the breast pump, go ahead and fork out the big bucks for a good one.
-Bribery can be a good thing, don't be afraid to use it
-Pick your battles and make sure to let your children explore their environment and test their bodies
-It's okay to spoil your children, it is not okay to let them be brats.
-Love them like crazy, because it will go by so fast. Try not to become so busy with cleaning the house, dishes, cell phone etc. 

Alright, that's it for tonight girls. I will hopefully be back Monday night? with the story of your father's and I's relationship.

First Post!

Well I decided to start this blog for you, my children, to read one day in the future to learn more about me, your father, your life, etc. I should mention by future that I mean when you are over the age of 21 as I am sure some topics that shall arise will be inappropriate for youngins. And I named it for my children instead of daughters just in case your father and I one day have a boy. So for this first post I figured I would start off with where you both are currently. Also, I will take this time to apologize for the big bows in every picture, hah! I am hoping you will love them as much as I do, when you look back at your baby pictures but if not I am sorry :)

Saylor Grace:

You are 23 months old (just 17 days short of your second birthday, ahhhhh)! You are starting to talk up a storm and learn new words daily. Your absolutely favorite word lately has been Momma. You say it 20,000 times a day and while I love you, this is currently driving me absolutely crazy. You are obsessed with Minnie Mouse, you manage to locate every single Minnie Mouse in your location at all times and I must look at and praise each one of these Minnie Mouses a minimum of five times each. We will be having a small, family only Minnie Mouse party the day before your birthday. You are a somewhat picky eater, it can be quite difficult to get you to eat normal kid things like grilled cheeses, chicken fingers, pb&js, and pasta. This is because you have a refined palate and want to expensive and hard to make for little kids foods like: crab legs, shrimp, crawfish, and sushi rolls. You have started squealing and making high pitch shrieks over everything lately and I am trying to get you to stop it immediately! I constantly tell you that you will be the death of me. I love you to the moon and back, but as of right now you have been a high maintenance child. Although, I will say the reasons why you are a little bit of a difficult child (stubborn, hard-headed, bossy, controlling, etc) will serve you well in life if you use them for good and not evil. You are definitely your father's child in both looks and personality.

Breezy Kate:

 You are just 10 days short of 4 months. You hold your head up like a pro and can roll from back to belly. You could probably also roll from belly to back but you have a meltdown every time I put you on your belly. You so far have been the polar opposite of your sister. You are a fairly laid back and content baby. All I have to do is look at you and say two words and you just smile away. You absolutely love to talk to us and love to lay on your activity mat and kick your toys. I told your father that you will probably be a dancer or soccer player due to the fact that you have yet to master reaching for objects but you have mastered purposely kicking said objects. The only real problem we have had so far has been acid reflux. While it is not severe enough for medication, it is still bad enough that you and I spend most of our days covered in spit-up. I am counting down the days till you start solids as I am hoping this will help resolve the spit-up issue (I am currently planning to start solids at 6 months). You father and I love you so much.

I will say girls that at this point I am still in shock that I have one little girl, let alone two. It is so surreal to me. I am so grateful to your father for agreeing with me that being at home with you two is the best thing for our family. I love that I get to hang out with you girls all day and that we get to spend so much quality time together. You two and your father are my whole world!