100th post & 10 months w/Susannah

Can't believe this is our 100th post on the blog. I started this blog when I first found out I was pregnant with Jeremiah. I didn't do very well keeping up with it at first. I got better at updating once I started staying home with him and even more posts once we moved away from family. However, I have now slipped backwards a little and not posting as often as I should for family and friends. I could blame it on having a second child, the ridiculous amount of doctor appointments she had in the beginning or just realizing that there are seasons in our lives when little things like a blog just are not very important at all. Our life is getting back to a somewhat normal pace and we are just enjoying having time at home.

It's so hard to believe that it has been ten months since Miss Susannah made her arrival into our family. I've already started plotting ideas and making plans for her 1st birthday party. We'll be in Mississippi the first part of March, so I'm glad that we will be able to include our family. To me, a 1st birthday party is not about the balloons, presents or cake (even though I love a white cake with icing). It is more about celebrating the fact the parents and the child survived that first year together. Don't get me wrong....I love babies, but while you are in the trenches dealing with teething, diapers, late night feeding, constant crying.....sometimes I just wanted to give up.

I thought I learned a lot about rearing a child with Jeremiah and was pumped when Susannah came along. Robert and I just knew we had it all under control and were going to fly through this first year like it was nothing. Wham!! Susannah threw us a curve ball. I never knew a baby could cry for so long without stopping, hated to be rocked to sleep and would not fall asleep in the car (even on long car rides). Even with all the trying times, I love her so much, look forward to celebrating her 1st birthday and thanking the Lord for blessing our family with her. Without Miss Susannah, our family would not be complete.

Things I am doing at ten months:

• I'm still sleeping through the night and mastered sleeping with the cpap machine like a champ.
• I love playing on the floor, rolling around to wherever I want to go or sitting in my new pink chair.
• I'm a big drooler and teething on anything that will fit into my mouth. I have two teeth on the bottom and two more coming in on the top.
• I still take a morning and afternoon nap.
• I am a nosey little girl. I keep my eyes on everything that is happening around me.
• I enjoy cooing, babbling and talking to whoever will listen.
• I have mastered the head control and still working on sitting up.
• I love to eat!! I sit in my own high chair and will eat fruits, vegetables, meats and finger foods. I'm still working on drinking out of a cup.
• Still wearing 0-3 month clothes, but graduated to a size 2 diaper. With all the food I am eating, I should be in 3-6 month clothes soon.
• I enjoy having a book read to me and love playing with my brother.

All Smiles

Loves her new chair!!

My big girl...her favorite seat in the house!!