The Open Book of an ASD Mom

I cannot believe it...my itty bitty baby girl is 5 months old already and not so itty bitty!!! She is changing so much every day and doing so many great things!!! She is the happiest baby and is such a joy in our lives. She just adores her big brother and her Daddy is the light in her eyes. Daddy and big brother are just so in love with our precious girl!!! And well I'm Mom...everyone knows how much I love and adore my kids...they are my entire world...I get out of bed each day just for them; even when I'm so exhausted it seems like my eyes won't open!!! Bailey is still having issues with her formula and still spitting up excessively. We've tried 5 different formulas and even attempted soy when we were suspicious that she might have a milk allergy. As it turns out it wasn't a milk allergy because she did the same thing with the soy!!! So feeling a little unsure of my pediatricians I requested that they refer us to a pediatric GI doctor. We went on Friday which...

Dakota Lynn Dimmick is HERE!!!!! Steph called me about 11pm Sat nite telling me she was in labor and headed to the hospital. I got to the hospital sometime around midnight and under 5 hours later she was here!!!! I felt so honored and so grateful that I got the opportunity to watch yet another beautiful little girl come into this world. Watching my God-Daughter Phoebe born almost 3 years ago was amazing and being able to watch Dakota was just as amazing!!! Watching a perfect little life come into this world...there are no words and I could watch it over and over again!!! I love being a labor coach and being apart of such a huge life changing moment!!! I am so grateful to Aubrie and Stephanie for giving me the gift of being apart of these babies births. Dakota is absolutely beautiful...she is perfect and I just love her!!! She was born at 4:47am on July 27, 2008. 6 lbs 7 oz and 19 inches Pictures below!!! :-) and More pictures to follow as soon as I get a chance to upload the ones from ...

Tonight we took our first official trip to the ER with Matty. He has been in the ER twice before with fevers that didn't break but other than that we have been very lucky. In five years the kid has been pretty healthy and has avoided major injury. (PICS BELOW ARE NOT FOR EVERYONE, A COUPLE ARE GRAPHIC SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE TUMMY FOR THE PICS I SUGGEST TO READ THE STORY BUT NOT LOOK AT PHOTOS) lol Tonight changed that lucky streak!!! After multiple warnings from me Matty was told to NOT play with his soccer ball in the house. And like your typical five year old boy he failed to listen to all the warnings he was given!! So as I'm about to get up and start making him dinner I hear a loud crash of glass shattering coming from his bedroom. I take off for his room only to think that he put something through his bedroom window or something from outside came thru the window. Matty starts crying and holding his head and when I get to his room I see his light fixture in a mi...

July brings us some exciting changes and the month has just begun!!! Bailey officially turned 4 months old on 6/25 and that day we headed to the doctors for her well baby visit!!! She was the vision of perfect health and is growing my leaps and bounds. She was only in the 10th percentile at her 1 month check up and now at 4 months she has soared to the 75th percentile. She weighed 14 pounds 6 oz and grew to 25 inches. She's getting so big. The doctors are very pleased with my perfect little preemie!!! Her heart murmur could also not be heard so that was even more good news. She is reaching milestones with grace and some she's even reaching before she's expected to!!! As of right now she is rolling from her tummy to her back and is almost sitting by herself. She sits upright with little assistance and can even sit unassisted for a few seconds before teetering over. She loves to be upright where she can see everything and be apart of the action. She is very nosy!!! ...

I totally give up on trying to have a "weekend". I've realized its just not possible!!! This work week felt like it went on forever; most people are happy for Friday but I learn to dread them because its more up at dawn and run all day for me to the point I'd rather be at work!!! LOL As a result of it all I am sick...and it sucks so bad because I hate being sick. I don't do sick well. Every weekend it seems is occupied with baby showers or weddings or other events like Matty's activities and what not that I just can't seem to have a real "weekend" to get anything done or do anything fun with the family!!! BLAH I went into work on Friday and left 3 hours later to attend a funeral for my Aunt Kitty. She was the oldest sister to my grandfather. Out of 8 children born now my Aunt Margie is the only one left since my grandfather too has passed away a couple years ago!! I got home Friday after the funeral and ended up taking my son down to spend the n...

This statement came from my son on Friday afternoon. He told me I was a busy Mommy and I needed a vacation!!! His 5 year old mind couldn't be more right. Mommy wants to just check out and go!!! But as they say there is no rest for the weary...in my case...no rest for mom...ever. Its been super busy around here with some of our babies being born and our list of those yet to come just keeps growing with every new pregnancy!!! :-) Its exciting but exhausting and bank breaking all at the same time!!! I love all my little babies so I can't wait for them all to be here...however Xmas this year is going to be very interesting...being I have this need to buy for all my babies and kids. I feel like mother goose or that old lady who lived in a shoe haha. So tomorrow after work I go for my post-op check up. Last Friday I had my really infected and seriously damaged back molar surgically removed. Thanks to my crappy wisdom teeth on the bottom that are badly impacted...my molar was ba...

Well this had to have been the Friday from HELL!!! OMG I would not take another like it if you paid me a million dollars. My work day was fine and after work I took Matty over to Drew's house to meet his new baby cousin Joshua since he wasn't allowed to see him in the hospital for obvious reaso ns!!! He was so excited to see the baby and was bugging the day lights out of me so we went right af t er I got home from work. Matty just loves babies and was so excited t o meet his new little cousin. It was so cute...we put a sleeping B ailey next to a bra nd ne w sleeping Joshua and the end result was just so priceless there are no words to begin to describe!!! After we left I went right home because I started to not feel well. As most of you know I have been battling a nasty tooth issue with my back left molar due to some severely impacted wisdom teeth. Well they pushed my surgery back 2 more weeks of course and so they cannot remove it until June 6th. UGH So I have b...