April 29, 2008...a day that will live in Infamy...or at least in the Quesenberry Home

This day a year ago I found out that I was pregnant with Sophie. What a life changing day!!! Never did I think that test would be positive. And let me tell you I went through every emotion possible with in those first few seconds, ha! What a wonderful blessing I was given (or more accurately, found out) that day!

It is also Sophie's four month birthday is today! She was born 8 months to the day that I found out I was pregnant. I thought that was pretty interesting. Joe not so much. Maybe it's a girl/boy thing, ha!

HAPPY FOUR MONTHS TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD!!

Bath Time...

Sophie LOVES taking a bath. She'll kick and kick. I swear this is what she did in my stomach...or at least it felt like she was :0)!

Most popular names...

Ugh...I have had Sophia picked out for my little girl for FOREVER!! Way before it became popular. One of the reasons I liked it so much was because it was different. I didn't want my daughter to have to experience the five million Sophia's in her class as I did (I obviosly experienced it with Sara though :0).) Well, I messed that one up. Sophia was the second most popular girl's name in 2008. THE SECOND MOST POPULAR NAME...oh geez! And to add to it my ALL TIME FAVORITE boy's name, Jackson, is number 6. I have had that name picked for as long as I can remember. (I got it from my favorite movie, Steel Magnolias - Shelby's husband and son were named Jackson) I love it because it is such a strong southern name. And to be quite honest, I'm still going to name my son Jackson if we have one just because I am so in love with that name! In fact, we were going to name the baby Jackson Paul if she would have been a boy. Paul comes from my great grandfather - my mom's grandfather. I never met him, but from what I hear he was such an example to those around him. Plus, I would like to honor MY grandfather, and we already have two boys in the family named after him so I thought I would go with his dad's name instead. I'm also going to name my next daughter - if we have one - after my grandmother. I'm thinking Audrey Fae - my grandmother's name is Nellie Fae. I can't really go with Nellie because I think of Nellie on "Little House on the Prairie" and I think that we could all agree that little brat has ruined that name for anyone, ha! We are not settled on Audrey because of the quesenberry, but our last name has so many syllables in it that you kind of lose that they both have "y" on the end. We'll see. Obviously, we are in no rush to be naming another child!! Geez, this is why I can't sleep at night. I start off thinking about one thing and it leads to another. I end up thinking about something totally irrelevant to what I was thinking in the first place. This is what happens when I "free" write. I'm sure my teachers loved in when I was in school, ha!...now I'm off to clean the bath rooms. Let me just add that I'm very happy with how the new cleaning system is going. I am proud to say that the house has stayed very neat since I have started it. (I'm proud because that hasn't been the case since Sophie was born...it is an accomplishment for me! I'm learning to balance things...YAY!)

Growing up so fast

Sophie started on rice cereal this week. Eating has never been a problem for her. She LOVES it. With in the hour of her being born she was eating, ha! She didn't have a problem latching/sucking and she didn't have a problem with swallowing the rice. Of course, some of it came out as she was eating it, but my mom says that's to be expected. You'll see in the pictures that her little face is covered with rice cereal.

There are a few things that Sophie has started doing that is precious/hilarious/scary:

1. Talking - she has started talking and hasn't stopped...wonder where she gets that from :0). Joe says that he is surrounded by talking women, ha! Every morning for the last couple of days I have been woken up by her talking. I will walk in there and she'll be examining her hands while talking to them. She'll spot me and give me the biggest grin! I LOVE it...these are the most precious moments of being a mom!! I always hoped that Sophie would be a morning person because I am. Mornings are when I'm my most cheerful (which some people may find annoying if they aren't morning people :0)!) and it seems that this is true for Sophie as well.

2. Playing - she is so playful and social. I love it until it's time for her to go to bed or take naps. Like her ol' mom she doesn't like to miss a thing and finds it's problematic to sleep if there are things going on around her. She doesn't like to miss a thing. She has a butterfly on her activity mat that I think she considers her best friend :0). (Good job, Dad, at discovering this) Anytime someone will grab the butterfly she'll grab it too as if saying, "Excuse me, that's mine".

3. Eating her hands - she definitely has discovered her hands. She LOVES shoving them in her mouth...as far as she can. A couple of times she has gagged herself. This is what is scary. Now I've had to watch her closely so that I can catch her before this happens.

Sophie goes to the beach

Some friends of ours have been down for the week and we decided to head to Clearwater beach for both Sophie and Blake's first time. (This was Blake's first time to the Gulf) We had such an enjoyable time!! We first went to Bahama Breeze, then to the beach, and on the way home we stopped at Dairy Kurl - which is a small, hole in the wall type place that has amazing ice cream. My family use to always go there when we lived in Clearwater. Anyways...here is the link to my facebook album for my family that doesn't have facebook. I have discoverd it is easier to post the link than all the pics on here :0)!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2059909&id=66503049&saved#/album.php?aid=2059909&id=66503049

Sophie's 3 month pics

For all my family (and friends) who do not have facebook...Sarah posted a preview of Sophie's 3 month pics. Here is the link http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=71950&id=53667308779&ref=nf

Just click on it and it will link you to the pictures.

Organized Cleaning?!

So I'll be honest, cleaning my house since Sophie was born has been difficult for me. Mainly because I would try to do it all at once and would be totally overwhelmed! There were a couple of times that I even considered calling a cleaning service, ha! That is when I knew that I had to come up with a plan. So here is my plan...organize the tasks by days. Example, Mondays: Living room and Kitchen (including floors and dusting), Tuesdays: Laundry, Wednesdays: Bedrooms (including floors and dusting), Thursdays: Bathrooms (the whole nine yards), Fridays: Laundry again. Let me tell you it has made such a difference in my life! Now my house is getting CLEANED cleaned every week as I like. Plus, the clutter is not out of hand. This may seem like a "duh" thing to most, but it really was a grand idea to me :0)!

Happy Easter!!!

We had a great first Easter with Sophie! Here are some pictures from our day...

Sarah H ordered this Easter basket for S...I LOVED it!!

Of course she had to have Easter PJ's

I love the lil tail on the rear

She LOVED this duck

I proud of this pic...you can actually see Sophie's hair sticking up...anyone who knew me as a toddler would know why I'm proud of this pic :0)

I LOVE S face in the next 2 pictures...

Yet another video

I love when Sophie wakes up. She has that sleepy eyed look still and she is just so happy (most of the time). So I decided to video it so that my family could see it as well. Here is the sleeping beauty. She does start getting a little fussy because she was hungry!

Sophie playing

Sophie has been trying her darnedest to sit up. She'll strain and strain trying to get up. It's cute, but I'm also slightly concerned she's going to give herself hemorrhoids :0). Since she loves sitting up so much I couldn't wait to try her in her exersaucer. I've put her in it before, but she wasn't too interested. I had a feeling that she would love it this time, and she did! She is so playful now and I enjoy watching her so much!

Too good to leave out

One day my mom was holding Sophie and this is the picture I got...



Ahh...I just LOVE those rolls...just how we like our babies around here!!

Sexy Thang...

A morning this week my Aunt Darlene graciously watched Sophie while I went to my mom's to shower, do my hair, and get dressed in peace and quiet. I never knew what a luxury this was until I had Sophie. I am extremely lucky because Sophie is a very content baby and is happy to just sit in her swing and look out the window. Anywoo...this is what I found when I came back to my Aunt's house...






I loved it! This was one of my cousin's bathing suits and my Aunt decided to try it on Sophie.

We've had a great time in KY! However, it always seems to be an adventure to get here! Our flight up here was delayed for THREE hours putting us getting to KY around 12:30am. No fun with a baby! My amazing husband sat with us the entire time. Sophie feel asleep at her normally time which gave Joe some time together which was nice! Poor thing...we laid her in a seat when she did go to sleep.