December happenings

Dec. 18th Troy finally graduated! He got straight A's im so proud of him and he graduated magna cum laude. He worked soooo hard and i appreciate how much he put into his education.

If you look closely that is him accepting his diploma. Troy and his Grandma Jarman

Troy and his 2 sisters

love this picutre, she loves her daddy

These next few pictures are at our ward christmas party, this was the first time Lyla got sad when someone else was holding her haha

Lyla and scary santa....doesnt he look scary to you??

Me and Troy were invited to a family production of the nativity and they asked us to be Mary and Joseph.

This picture was taken on our little family Christmas (we celebrated it 2 days before christmas)

we started this tradition a few years ago to make a really nice dinner, watch a christmas movie, exchange presents. We made homade fettutini alfredo and the olive garden salad dressing and some other yummy stuff. We watched "Its a wonderful life" and made some homade chocolate fondue with strawberries.

Lyla is opening her gift from Grandma Jayne, she got a fun little toy and a portable dvd player

I got Troy some first addition church history books

And a snuggie haha, he likes it

He got me a cute headband and some earings

And when i thought he didnt get me anything else, he suprised me with this. I put Lyla to sleep and when i came out he said, " did you hear that on the roof"? and we went out the back yard to find this. I seriously love it and have been wanting one for soooo long!

Now these pictures are on Christams day at the Palmers

In her cute christmas outfit

she seriously loves looking at herself in the mirrior

playing with grandpa and grandma palmer

Christmas night we went over to my sister melissa's house, she made such a yummy dinner!

We took family pictures with all of Troy's family, this was taken with our camera

Lyla has been loving her feet

so funny

the many faces of Lyla

This is Alma, we were celebrating her 100th birthday. She is like a grandma to me. She has seen me grow up. She just passed away this morning. She will be missed

we started Lyla on rice cereal Jan. 12th. The pictures may not show it, but she really loves her rice cereal. She doesnt quite get how to eat it, she just tries to slurp it up. It has helped her sleep better through the night which is nice.

Lyla is truly such a joy! She will turn 5 months in a couple of days. She is such a happy baby and still doesnt cry very much at all! she smiles all day long.

A few things she likes to do/learned:

sucking on her feet

sucking on her bottom lip and at the same time blowing bubbles

she scratches everything from her head to my arm, on the wall ect.

she does her high pitch cute screams and talks all day long

just learned how to roll over from her stomache to back, shes been doing the other way for a while

always has to touch her binky when its in her mouth, she pats it. She likes to know its there.

puts everything in her mouth, including her whole fist, literally.

loves everyone and smiles all day long.

I went almost 5 months of pumping, i stopped about a week ago. A couple of days before i stopped pumping i was seriously only getting like a 1/2 ounce total but couldnt get myself to stop . It was so hard for me to stop, but i know that i gave it my all and tried so hard and for all those months she got alot of breast milk and that makes me happy. I do have to say i dont feel as tide down and its kind of nice not having to worry about pumping all the time. I guess you can say its bitter sweet.

Right now me and troy have been in cali since the very end of dec. and we will be here till the end of Jan. He has been working for my bro in law doing demolition again. It pays very very well but it is very tough on troy physically. But we are fortunate that my bro in law is so nice to let him work for him!

2009

Jan. 09 just newley pregnant ( i acutally found out dec. 10th)
feb 09
march 09 found out we were having a little girl
april 09 troy took his Mcat
may went to cali to work for todd, stayed with my family for a few months, i just sat all day long with my feet up it was bliss ( i was allowed i was pregnant)
june troy filling out medical applications, find out he got a 30 on his mcat which is AWESOME
july went to our cabin with almost my whole family and celebrated the 4th. Thats when i started to get wayyyy swollen
aug. celebrated our 4th year anniversary and also added our sweet lyla to our family
sep. troy started school which was his last semester, he also turned 27
oct. troy found out he got accepted to medical school yay!
nov.
dec. Lyla's first christmas!

More of Lyla

Heres little Lyla Thanksgiving day, we went to my Aunt Louise's house with my whole family and extended family. We had such a yummy dinner!!! Then that night we had pie in the park with the Mccook side of the family. Lyla was so tired she fell asleep while we were all taking pictures. Shes so sweet, shes being reverent.

Heres lyla after a bath, she loves getting her bath, she just sits there and relaxes while we bathe her. 12/7/09

Lyla and her dad playing 11/29/09

While we were driving we heard Lyla fuss a little bit and we just thought she was tired, well when i went to take her out this is what i found. It made her fall asleep
12/3/09

Just being cute and playing with her toys 12/7/09

12/8/09

Here we are that the mesa temple looking at the beautiful christmas lights, she was sooo tired it was getting to be her bed time, but she didnt make a peep the whole time. 12/12/09

Then that night after the christmas lights and after Lyla went to bed, troy went and picked up a tree and we listended to some christmas music and decorated the tree

Now a little update on Lyla. This is a journal for me so im sure i'll be writing a whole lot about Lyla and her little happenings. So She is almost 4 months old i seriously cant believe it. Even though i love every little stage she is in I get sooooooo sad that she is growing up! It just goes by so dang fast I get angry haha. I want her to freeze in time. She truly is the joy in mine and troys life, we cant get enough of her, we are constantly just talking about how much we love her and how we think she is the cutest thing alive. Lyla really really is THE best baby ever. She hardly ever cries, she just smiles all day long. Even if she is tired sometimes she may fuss but the way i know she is tired is that her eyes will get red and she wont smile at me as much. And whats funny is she never tells me when shes hungry, i swear this girl wouldnt cry even if she was starving. i have to guess and think, hmmm its been a couple of hours i bet shes hungry and of course she will chug that bottle.

She is rolling over constantly and doesnt like to be on her stomach too long so i am always putting her back on her back, but then she rolls back over again. She is getting so much more interested in her toys because she can now hold on to them pretty good. She loves to put them in her mouth and LOVES her hands and our hands too and she loves to put them in her mouth. For a while she hated her carseat but now she doesnt mind it at all, its so nice. i can now sit up front with troy. I've taken her out twice now by myself and both times she is sooooo good and doesnt even make a peep. You wonder why i have only been out twice with her??? well for the first 3 months of her life my hormones were so beyond crazy that i was, and still kind of am, a freak about germs and her getting sick. Especially since its cold and flu season. I'm getting better though. So I wouldnt ever go out and if i did i would have troy come with me so he could help. So fyi since im still a nazi about it, dont hold my baby if you havent washed her hands! or if you are sick!! biggest pet peeve of my life oh and dont be kissing on my baby, see i told you im crazy! and trust me, it was 100 times worse the first months of her life. And i do have to say that it took me 3 months to feel myself again thats for sure! anyway enough about that! More on lyla. So her sleeping habits when she was a new born were of course not good, waking up every 2 hours in the night. But then when she was 2 months or so she was sleeping 5 hours wake up, then would sleep another 5 hours then another 2-3hours after that, then would wake up for the morning and then go take a nap after about an hour or 2. Life was pretty great then. Also when i wanted to put her to sleep for a nap all i would have to do was put her binky in her mouth, cradle her, and pat her bum, so easy! Well now its a different story, she is waking up every 4 hours for a feeding and a lot of the time waking up between that because she has gas, or a burp, or just because. And she is now fighting going to bed, its hard to put her to sleep, and her naps sometimes are only 20 min long and she wont go back to sleep even if she is tired! The only good thing about that is even if she is so tired she is the happiest baby ever and just smiles at you it just melts your heart and is hard to stay mad at her. I just love being a mom and especially a mom to my sweet Lyla, she is everything i could ask for in a baby and more.

Oh, also i am still pumping every 3-4 hours during the day but i stopped doing it at night so i could get more sleep. Can i just say pumping is the worst and most inconvienent thing of my life i absolutly hate doing it, but i do it because i know how good it is for her. I do have to suppliment because i dont make enough due to some birth defect i have ( dont have enough stems in my boobs to make milk). When i do pump for 20 min at a time i only get 2 ounces with both boobs! and then, when i go 8 hours during the night without pumping i get 4 ounces all together and boy i think thats so much haha. I have to admit i wish sooooo badly i could breast feed. its so sad to me because at first she would latch on soooo great and was a great nurser. but when she had lost weight after the hospital the dr. said i needed to give her a bottle for her to gain weight. then she got used to that and would not go to my breast. i would even go to a lactation consultant a couple of times, but Lyla would get so upset that my milk wasnt coming down fast enough. so with all of that she now only takes bottles and i truly get soo sad. i have to admit i even get so jealous of other people that can breastfeed, that is one thing i wish so badly that i could have with my baby, but again i have to be thankful that i have such a good baby that there has to be one thing that isnt perfect right?? anyway im dont typing this is so long and probably so many grammer errors but oh well