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Monday, July 23, 2007

Time Flies

Our baby girl is two months old! Two months! Wow!!! It seems like just yesterday we were headed to the hospital to have our precious miracle. If it's even possible I love her more and more each day. She's such a calm, happy, easy going baby. Her smiles melt my heart. I so love being a Mom. Yes, there are times when it's tough but every minute is worth it.

Two months into motherhood and Shelly and I make a pretty good team. We take turns getting up with her at night. Which is usually around 3:00 am. Shelly's the Mom in Charge (MoC) Monday through Friday. I'm the MoC on weekends and sometimes on weeknights. I even took Miss Riley for her first trip to the Grocery Store this weekend. She was, as always, a good baby. She just sat in her seat and took in all the sites and sounds.

We are so lucky to have the support and love from our family and friends. Shelly and I have been able to have date night every week since Riley came home from the hospital. Even though we spend the entire time talking about our baby. :) And we always rush to get home to her as soon as we can. But, at least we get the time alone together.

Ok, enough gushing. How about some pictures!

Baby's first 4th! Thanks to some dear friends in New York for sending Riley this adorable 4th of July onesie! Riley was quite the party animal on the 4th as you can tell.



Here's the little Miss giving a shout out to her New York peeps. Another adorable gift from our New York friends. Riley's accumulating quite the travel shirt collection.



A few weeks ago Tate (and her Mommies) brought Talor over to meet Miss Riley. Here's a little slide show of their adventure.

23 comments:

ajs4ever said...

She is so beautiful! I'm sure you are very aware of that though! I can't wait to have one of my own to enjoy! I sure hope that he/she is as good of a baby as Riley:)

Unknown said...

She is adorable! I love the slideshow!!!

Denise said...

Love the pics, thanx for sharing.

hotomiky said...

so cute... I love the slideshow! Really cute...

How lucky you both are - get the chance to have date night every week.

:o)

Holly said...

Where have you been! Sheesh! We all need our Riley fix too!
The pictures are too cute! It looks like Riley took a couple elbows to the face! LOL!

Did you notice that Andrew wore the same shirt for his 4th of July?!?!
http://2mommies.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/attention-baseball-fans/
Riley must have great taste!

Merr said...

Man she is soooooo beautiful!!! I love all the pics, and I can't wait to see her again!

K J and the kids said...

You can tell already that they are going to be the BEST of friends :)

Thanks for posting. I always love seeing pictures of that sweet baby. and an extra bonus to see sweet little Tate and Talor.

Lucky bee-aches. Date night seriously.
I don't know whether I was more jealous of the date night part...or jealous of whoever got to hold her while you were gone :) ha ha

NiaCP said...

All 3 of those kids are just too cute. It will be so great to share all these photos with all the kids as the get older.

Wow - keep up with that date night. Sure wished we were more successful at it.

Stacey said...

Yay, an update! Riley is as cute as ever. OMG in the I heart NY one, she is making a facial expression that soooo reminds me of our Riley. :) Time flies! I can't believe she's already 2 months old either.

my--four--sons said...

Wow I can't believe she is 2 months already.

Wendy and Karen said...

Love the pictures and the NY shirt. Happy Birthday Riley!

MD&B said...

She is so cute....we enjoy reading and seeing all of the pictures

MD&B said...

She is so cute....we enjoy reading and seeing all of the pictures

Holly said...

I totally tagged you for a me-me!

Shannon said...

Happy two months! She's adorable.

ECand3 said...

Dee - the slideshow is beautiful - and funny. I do the same thing with the twins. They are always elbowing and kicking each other, so I put captions under the pix. Great minds think alike.
They do grow way too fast. We were visiting someone at the hospital the other day where I had the babies and I longed for the day they were born. I wish I could do it all over again.

Casey said...

That is an amazing network for family and friends you have - I'm so glad you have the chance to get away and just be together for a couple hours here and there. Good for you!

She is beautiful but how in the world did she get to be 2 months old already?

Jen said...

She is one gorgeous baby! Just wanted to thank you for your comment on my blog. It means alot. But seriously, much of my resolve has alot to do with having kept up with your blog through your difficult pregnancy and knowing that if you could make it, so can we! You gals are our heroes!

Boo said...

You both did such an incredible job. She is beautiful, and such a good baby might I add!! I haven't been on much but never got the chance to tell you it ws so nice to meet you in person!!

Keep up the good work!!

Anonymous said...

Wow.. She's growing up WAY to fast! We really need to see her and of course the 2 of you more often...
She's adorable in all of her new shirts, and how cute are those pictures... Oh.. I wanna squeeze all of those cute kids!

my--four--sons said...

HEY DEE!!!!! I need a Riley fix. C'mon don't leave me hangin. Oh yeah .... Love ya :)

Deb Williams said...

Dee are you intrested in hand me downs...Ella's clothes are just sitting here and due to the old clotting issues...I doubt I am having any more kids...What do you think???

Ky said...

Ok, we need another Riley fix. I bet she doesn't even look the same!

Our Conception Story

After eight years together we were pretty sure we'd spend our life with our four legged kids, doing lots of camping, and traveling the world. On August 12, 2004 that all changed with the birth of our God Daughter Tate. We immediately fell completely in love with her and soon began to re-think our decision of not having kids.

In October 2005 we began the process of trying to conceive. As soon as we started trying Shelly began having very erratic cycles which made the process that more complicated. After four tries over six months we decided to schedule a consultation with the a Reproductive Specialist. We were desperate to conceive and on a limited time frame since Shelly had just turned 41. Dee was 35 at the time but not able to conceive due to a medical procedure.

Our first appointment with the Repro Man was May 2006. He suggested we try IVF using Dee's eggs and Shelly as the gestational mother. He felt this scenario would give us the highest chance for success of a healthy pregnancy. We spent a short amount of time weighing our options and decided this was the best choice. We began our first IVF cycle in August. They did the Egg Retrieval and Fertilization on 8/31. Three days later, 9/3, they transferred three embryos into Shelly. Then the wait began.

Shelly promised not to begin the home pregnancy test too soon. Dee had to travel out of state for business a week after the transfer and asked Shelly to please wait to test. BUT, the wait was too much for her and she started testing after a week. At first there was no line. But after a couple of days testing a faint line started to appear. When Dee came home from her trip Shelly told her, "I know I'm pregnant." Dee didn't believe her and insisted the line wasn't dark enough so she tested herself to compare. There was absolutely no line. She began to believe Shelly was pregnant but still had doubt. Dee went to the store and bought another brand of testing strips. After five home tests, we were convinced we we're pregnant due to all positive results. A blood test at two weeks confirmed it; we were going to have a baby!