Go Tigers!

Lilliana is ready for Daddy's banquet



look at all that beautiful BLUE!



watching the game with Nana



the following morning, chillin with Daddy


waiting on Mom and Dad to leave


Well, even though the Tiger's lost tonight to UT we are a true blue family through and through so we are still very proud of our Tiger's. They played a great game and I wish we had been there. Unfortunately Clay had his big dealer's banquet this weekend so that is where we were during the game. My mom came down to the Westin where we were staying to watch Lilliana while we were at the dinner and then she left during half-time so she wouldn't get stuck in traffic. We were able to watch the game and Lilliana stayed up the entire time! She is becoming such a night owl. It is killing me :) I would like to be in bed around 10:00 at the latest but lately I am struggling to get her in the bed at night. She is just exhausted but she is fighting sleep. I am still having a difficult time allowing her to cry so it takes multiple attempts to get her to bed at night. I don't mind though because she won't be small forever and I am just such a push-over. I don't blame anyone but myself for this but I just love her so much.

New Pics

Baby Shower

beautiful Pi Phi's



Lilliana with one of my best friend's Angie



ready for the shower


Today, Lilliana went with me to her first baby shower for one of my friends from college. She was so good and slept the entire time thanks to my friend Lauren who held her while we were there. My friend Tai is expecting a little girl and I wish her the best of luck. I have informed her how wonderful motherhood is and told her to call me with any questions. I know she is going to make a wonderful mom, good luck Tai and enjoy every minute of it :)

8 things

Ok so I got tagged by Tricia to share 8 things about Lilliana:




1. She is truly a miracle baby. After losing Cooper in October of 2006 and then having a difficult pregnancy with her she stayed in her mommy for 36 weeks 1 day. I thank the Good Lord above and my wonderful OB, Dr. Williams for working so hard to keep her in there. :)



2. It was completely worth every minute. When I was pregnant with her I would say every time I went into the hospital or had continual contractions that I would never do this again but my feelings have changed. Having her in my life has completely transformed our lives and I would do it all over again 10 fold to experience the joy she has brought to my life.



3. She is definitely a mommy's girl but her eye's really light up, along with her fathers, when he comes home.



4. She has her mommy's personality (attitude)! We realized this pretty early on as her first 2 days in the NICU each time we would go to see her, we would receive a bad report from her nurses. They would tell us that she had an attitude and that she had been a little grumpy :) It wasn't until Saturday evening that her nurse told us what a good baby she was and how cute she was!

5. She was born with a head full of hair and still has almost all of it. I just love her hair, and she has been called Woodstock since birth because it sticks up all over the place after her bath and when she wakes-up in the morning. It is one of my favorite parts of her :)

6. She has just recently started sucking on her hand. It is usually her entire fist, not just her thumb or fingers but the whole fist. I think it is just the cutest thing ever and I try to get it on videotape all the time.

7. Clay and I could just sit and stare at her all day long. She is such a precious gift and I pray over her every night when she is going to bed and each time she wakes me up in the middle of the night. Even though I am exhausted from waking up still every 3 hours at night to nurse I wouldn't give it up for the world. I just love her so much and could hold her all day long.

8. She is pretty rotten. I can only blame myself for this and I figured it would be this way. I just feel like we wanted her for so long and struggled so much to get her here that I would be a complete push over. There are times that I just like to call her "loved" instead of rotten but we all know the truth. I just can't get enough of her and thanks God for her everyday!

2 month check-up

Well today we went for Lilliana's 2 month check-up and immunizations. I can't believe she is already 2 months old! She is growing up so fast. She had to get 3 shot's today and the oral rotavirus. She did pretty good with them as I gave her Tylenol before we left the house and then every 4 hours for the next 24 hours. She was kinda needy and wanted to be held a lot but that was ok with me :) I did better this time also, as there were not as many tears shed as the first shot. Now for her stats, she weighed in at 10 pounds which is in the 50% head circumference was 38 cm 25% and length was 20 3/4 inches 25%. Dr. Kloek was impressed with her and said that she looked great. He called her a petite little thing even though we think she is such a little chunker :) We are supposed to go back on March 1st for her 2nd synagis shot and then again on March 31 then we should hopefully be done for a while.

First time to visit brother Cooper

Today after we had our professional pictures made we decided to take Lilliana by the cemetary to see her brother Cooper. We did not purposely dress in black it was for our pictures. We are very thankful for the way things happened with Cooper and feel that God has truely blessed us with both of our children.

Professional Pics

Today Clay and I had professional pics made with Lilliana. We had an appointment with a lady from Collierville at 11:00 and at 9:30 when we were walking out of the door to head to Collierville, she cancelled on us and told me that she would not be rescheduling. Needless to say, I was livid. I had woken up at the crack of dawn to get myself ready prior to waking up Lilliana to feed her and bathe her. I think the thing that made me so mad was that I spoke with this photographer in December to schedule Lilliana's sitting and she told me that she was off the month of January and that the earliest we could set up a time was February. I really wanted her pics made earlier than that but seeing as she was recommended to us I decided to wait until she could fit us in. Well, after receiving her message I started to look for someone else who could complete her pics, preferably today. I found the website of a sweet lady online and called her around 10:00 and thankfully she had a cancellation at 12:30 so she was able to work us in. Her name is Michelle East and she is wonderful! I can't say enough wonderful things about her and I am so excited to see the pics when they are done. You can visit her website at www.michelleeastphotography.com . She was so professional and has such a cute studio just inside of Germantown. I highly recommend her to anyone in the Memphis area who wants some professional pics done :)

Eye infections, tornados, hot water tank trouble, oh my!

Well last week was somewhat of a crazy week. Clay left to go out of town on Monday the 4th and was not due to come back until the 6th. My mom was planning on staying with me at night to help out so I wasn't that worried about him being gone. On Monday when I was taking a shower and bathing Lilliana I noticed that the hot water was running out very quickly and I got worried that our hot water tank was trying to go out. When we bought our home, that was the only appliance the inspector noted was older then the rest and would possibly need to be replaced soon. I called one of my dad's old friends who was going to come over and look at it but within about 3 hours everything seemed to be back to normal so I am not sure what was going on.



Then when we woke up on Tuesday morning I noticed that Lilliana's eye was crusted over and kept watering. I called the pediatrician's office around 9:00 and at 12:30 I still had not heard back from them. I started to get frustrated because Lillie was just not acting right. She did not look like she was feeling well and so I decided to take her temperature. Well, after getting an axillary temp of 98.0 I proceeded to take a rectal temp because I just didn't trust the previous results. Well, upon taking a rectal temp I got a result of 100.2. I know that is not very high at all but Lillie is only 7 1/2 weeks old so I kinda freaked out. Ya see, the nurse in me knows that if a child under the age of 8 weeks gets a fever they are supposed to have a full septic work-up which would include an ER trip and and lumbar puncture! I called Clay crying to tell him, which completely got him worked up as he was sitting in meetings in Dallas, TX and couldn't do anything to help. I decided to call the doctor back and see if I should come in so this time I pushed the button to make an appointment so that I could speak with someone. Of course they suggested that I come in and I asked if I could go to the well baby room, even though I already knew the answer to that one! Well to no surprise they said no, and so I proceeded to tell her that it wasn't worth me to come in during RSV and Flu season and risk my baby contracting either one of those viruses. I started to cry on the phone and she probably thought I was crazy so she told me we could wait in the hospital lobby and that they would come out and get me when the doctor was ready so I agreed to come in. We were unable to get in with the pediatrician Lillie normally sees because he was not at the office that day so we saw Dr. Jones. I told him about her slight fever earlier in the day and that I had given her a dose of Tylenol and I got a slight scolding for doing so. He knew I was aware of protocol for infant's with a fever and told me that they don't always require a septic work-up especially since she is so close to 8 weeks. He was very nice about it but told me that they would have liked to know if her fever would have risen any more. He had figured out that I was a nurse after looking through her chart and asked where I worked at LeBonehur. After I told him the PICU her infromed me that the children I see are worst case senario and that he thought Lilliana looked great. He listened to her lungs and said they sounded clear which was a huge relief. I told him I had not gotten the stethescope out at home yet and I was trying to be the mom. :) He sent me home with a prescription for some eye drops but I ended up not having to get them filled because her eye looked much better the following day. He was wonderful and I figure there is now a big "H" on my chart for hypochondriac!



After all those fiascals you would think things would get better but on Tuesday night there were some terrible tornados headed for our area that actually caused a lot of damage in Memphis and Jackson, TN. It was pretty scary as I was here by myself for the first round of them but, I just took Lillie and Maggie into the hallway and we covered ourselves with blankets and pillows. I just kept praying the whole time that things would be ok and that He would shield us from the storms and thankfully we were alright.



Needless to say we were so greatful when Clay returned late Wednesday and brought with him nice weather, warm water and a happy healthy baby :) It is amazing how things turned around when he got back in town. I guess we were just all really missing our Daddy and trying anything in our power to keep him home!