9 Months

Makayla is 9 months old now, almost half way to 10 months! She is all over the place! Weighing it at a whopping 21 lbs 7oz, my little chunker is crawling and cruising all over the place and getting into everything. Some days I just want to rip my hair out, other days she's wonderful. Currently, she has her bottom 2 center teeth in and her top 2 center teeth busting threw. You can feel the sharp little edges poking threw her gums. We are working on walking now. It's not going the way we want it to really because she has no interest in standing by herself. She is just content crawling all over the place. I figure she will just start walking on her own sooner or later.

We are fast approaching the first birthday. Oh man! I don't know how I feel about this. I want her to stay a baby. I'm she'll still be a baby but she is almost a whole year old! I'm not ready for this.

This past week I also got to enjoy my 20th birthday. Not much was really done. I missed school. Hung out with my parents, BJ, and Makayla. BJ and his family went out and got me an awesome birthday present. They got me an Ipod Touch! This thing is awesome! I really like having it. I currently have over one hundred songs on with about 6 GB of memory left. It's fantastic.

Bj's birthday is next week. He will be 21. I don't have any idea as to what he wants for his birthday. I am considerring getting him a few things, but I think I am going to go and get him a few full tang chef's knives. He loves cutlery and he doesn't have any of his own so I think this is something he will love. I hope he doesnt read this very often. I know what his mom is getting him and it is a great idea as well.

Other those few things, not much else has been happening in the world of Sammich Benji and Scooterbear.

8 Months Old

Can you believe it. We have started the countdown. There is less than 4 months until Makayla Rae's first birthday! It is unbelievable! Makayla is a crawling, mama saying, fantastic, super energized, wonderful, beautiful baby girl. This child is absolutely wonderful. She wakes up in the morning laughing and smiling and puts a smile on anyone's face all throughout the day. I could not ask for a more wonderful baby!

On a side note. I will be making a doctor appointment this coming week. I am going to be looking in to the gastric bypass or lap band surgery. My body has gotten so far out of control that I feel this is the best idea because I do not believe I can do anything for myself. I think I need this in order to jump start my healthy life. BJ isnt very happy about it. He doesn't understand why I need it but I don't want to talk to him about it. I don't care what he thinks, well, I do care but not about this. I don't think this is anything that should concern him. I need to do what is going to make me feel better as a person. and this is what will do it.

7 months old!

Makayla is 7 months old! I can't believe she is so close to being a year old. It just doesnt seem right!!! The day after she hit 7 months she started crawling around in the bedroom! It's so exciting. Since crawling in the bedroom, she has crawled from the living room to the front door and around corners, under tables and more! She's starting to get a little more independent! Now, we have to get baby gates on the cheap. Makayla has also learned hw to wave bye-bye a little bit. She will do it every now and then. She's so funny! She tries very hard to talk. A few times it seemed like she said mama and dada and bye bye, but there really is no telling if she did say any of that because most of the time when she "talks" she babbles and goes "ma ma ma ma ba baba maaaaa bababa" It's adorable either way.
Daddy and I love our beautiful daughter more than anything!

Makayla is feeling so much better!

My little monkey girl is feeling so much better. Last night she had a rough night. She went to sleep again around 1a.m. which isnt a big deal. I went to sleep around 3a.m. because she cried all thru the night in her sleep. Then, she woke up at 5! She stayed up until 6.30a.m. and slept until 7.30a.m. and was up until 12.30 this afternoon and then FINALLY started feeling better after a couple naps.

She is currently sleeping in her crib. Hopefully she sleeps through the night and gets back on to a normal schedule.

Last night...

Last night was pretty rough. Makayla would not go to sleep. She sat up with me until 1 a.m. becase she just did not want to go to sleep. It's April 8th and she's doing it again. She wont go to sleep. So, we put her in her exercauser and she played. I really hope MIL can get her to go to sleep. Makayla was on a great sleeping schedule but now, she's got a head cold, she cutting four teeth at once, and now she is not wanting to go to sleep.
I hope Makayla gets back on her sleeping schedule soon. :[

I think I need to start updating more often...

It's April! I cannot believe its already April. It doesn't seem as though it should have been this long since Makayla was born. She is now just over 6 months old, 18lbs 26.5 inches long and the most talkative blue eyed baby girl ever! She almost never stops talking!

I've been busy lately. School is still going well. English Comp 2 is a little difficult just because I am incapable of writing essays that my professor will approve of. I finally decided that I was going to go into the nursing program so my classes from this semester are practically worthless because they do not pertain to the course requirement I need to fulfill. Of course, to my excitement, I am 2 semesters away from being accepted into the nursing program! I am also about to learn how to use a sewing machine. Makayla is now cloth diapered which is wonderful! The diapers are so beautiful and its so much easier instead of going to the store every couple of weeks and spending over $50 for two items. Formula and Diapers! Ridiculous!

(One of her new cloth diapers!)

Benjamin and I are trying to work our lives out. He's trying to get back into school now and further his education. He's going to school for phlebotomy(the art of drawing peoples blood ^vv^)(<---hehe vampire) I still have the privilege of staying home but we are trying to sell our house so I will have to get a job. A friend of mine has a daughter that I offered to watch, but I don't think I will be able to with school now that I have discovered that I can't take night classes over the summer. I really hate summer school schedule. Two days a week I will be in school from 10:30 A.M. until 3:20 P.M. It means I won't get to spend as much time with baby girl as I wanted! *cry*

Now, for Makayla!

She's such a happy baby! I love her to death. Benjamin loves her to death! We could not be happier without our sweet little girl. She got to go swimming in the pool the other day. We are hoping the water starts to get warmer so she doesn't get too cold out there. She loves the water! Se's also getting so big. She tries to crawl. She'll get up on all fours and rock a little bit, but then fall back down on her belly and start crying. She also loves to stand! As long as she has something to support her weight she will stand and laugh! She's so wonderful! I bought her a jumperoo the other day at one of our local consignment shops. After buying that jumper, every time Makayla gets excited she wants to jump so you have knees and ankles going into your side and stomach. I just cannot believe how much my baby girl has grown and how fast the time flew by! Soon enough, she will be a year old and hopefully talking and walking around! I cannot wait!

Happy New Year!

It's a new year and BJ and I are going to be starting something new. We will be getting married in the middle of June this year. Not sure on the exat date, but we know we will be getting married. I am fixing to start my third semester of college and I am not looking forward to having to go to the campus for classes. Makayla will be 4 months old at the end of he month. She has a doctors appointment at the beginning of February. I am seriously not looking forward to the shots she is going to be getting but I am so excited to find out how big she is! I am going to have to get a job this year. I don't want to but it's going to be best for us and for our family.

I have a lot of work to do before BJ and I can get married. I have to get back down to a size 10. Having a horrible break up, to getting into a loving relationship and having a baby put a lot of stress (and extra weight) on me and I don't want to get married looking like I am. I want to look stunning!

Other than that, nothing else is going on. But, I will put up some more pictures.