Rissy is 6 weeks old now (as of Sunday) and right on cue… she’s smiling!  Well, REAL smiles.  Social smiles.  The ones that melt your heart and make her smile even bigger in return

For now, I am the center of your world I provide you with food, comfort, security and warmth You don’t quite understand why, but you know I’m important You love to gaze at my face, listen to

Wow this post is superduper late.  My daughter arrived (on her own!) on October 31st.  That’s right, a Halloween baby! I was planning to get some more posts up and scheduled between 10/31 and 11/4

I didn’t get to this as soon as I would have liked! This is a continuation of the stuff purchased before my baby shower. Baby’s First Wardrobe, Part 1 Baby’s First Wardrobe, Part 2 Get ready to be

We saw my belly start to pop in the second trimester.  Now here’s how it’s been growing in the third trimester! (Warning – I didn’t know Brian was getting my face in these pictures too

At this point, time feels fast yet slow all at the same time.  I can hardly believe our little one will be here in less than a month.  The weeks seem to go by

Another reality check closer… we met with the pediatrician yesterday as a “get acquainted” appointment prior to the arrival of babygirl.  I’ve never done anything quite like that before, but it certainly made her

Some of you (namely family) have already placed your bets on when baby Aerissa will arrive.  It’s almost hard to believe that she’ll be here in a little over a month! If you want to

We can only hope she’ll look more like her mother, but one thing she’ll definitely be is adorable! I mean, by being a combination of those two precious faces, how can she not be?

In no particular order… I have eaten at least 15 pounds of peanut butter throughout my pregnancy.  How do I know this? Because we’ve been buying the big ol’ Costco sized Skippy jars.  You get

Saturday we had our final baby related class – Bring Baby Home.  There was an overview of things to expect and watch for in the first few weeks as well as basic newborn care. Believe

Today marked the start of my twice weekly monitoring appointments, which will continue until babygirl gets here. On Monday mornings I will have a biophysical profile (BPP) and Thursday mornings I will have non-stress tests

We attended our breastfeeding class on Saturday.  We learned some basics about it such as, positioning, latching on, identifying early hunger cues, health benefits, financial benefits, etc.  We also learned about nursing bras, breast/nipple

Tomorrow I get to see my OB again.  She wanted me to come in again this week instead of next week due to the high blood pressure last Thursday.  I haven’t heard anything yet

All the superduper extra monitoring is about to start. Just for a bit o’ background info so you don’t have to try and dig through past posts: I’m 28.5 weeks now and was diagnosed with

Last weekend we had our childbirth class.  It was a couple hours long on Friday night and then about 3ish more hours on Saturday morning.  I kinda liked it that way rather than going

Today marks the start of my 3rd trimester.  It’s hard to believe it.  On the one hand, it feels like time has flown by, but on the other hand… babygirl just isn’t arriving fast

Finding out you paid off a credit card without realizing it…. and discovering it has a credit balance because you paid more than you

Don’t get me wrong, this pregnancy is priceless… but it’s not cheap either.  Babygirl’s arrival and existence will also be priceless…. and it’ll bring about extra costs that we don’t currently have. Such as: Medical bills

Today was a very long day.  It’s not easy to go to work and do all that is needed to be done on a Monday when super exhausted. I didn’t sleep well at all last