Day of Terror

Today was probably one of the worst Miss Jorja Gray has had. It all started in the a.m. when Jorja was on our bed and I turned around for only a second and the next thing I knew she was on the floor crying. I felt terrible. It didn't take much to calm her down. A few hours later we had her 6 month well visit at the doctor's office where she received three shots in her legs. Again the tears and more crying. As if that wasn't enough....I thought I should get her ears pierced and all of the pain over with in one day. We went to Wal-Mart and I picked out this pair of light green earrings and was so excited to see what she was going to look like with them in. We sat down and Savannah, the girl who performed the piercing marked Jorja's ears. She put the gun up to one of her ears and CLICK! One ear down...but Jorja was crying and huge tears were running down her face, I felt like a bad mother. There was a small crowd standing around the counter watching and making pouty faces and we still had one ear to go. I put the pacifier in her mouth which helped a little and Savannah went CLICK again! Jorja went nuts this time. I couldn't comfort her enough. It was the saddest thing. Jorja reached her arms up to me to pick her up-like I could help her pain, when in fact, I caused it. What a horrible experience.

Decorating Casa de Martinez for Navidad

Since this is Jorja's first Christmas Moises and I thought we should decorate the outside of the house this year. Well, I thought we should decorate and Moises just went along with the idea. We headed out to Garden Ridge with my mom the eve after Thanksgiving and bought boxes of red lights and a red and white metal Christmas Tree for the front yard. Moises and I haven't ever decorated the outside of the house before so this was a first for us all. It was a lot easier to put the lights up than I thought it would be. Moises had them up in no time. I love going outside everynight as a family to view the pretty lights. Here are a couple of shots we took of Jorja and ourselves.

Turkey, Turkey, Turkey

Thanksgiving was at our house this year. Mine and Moises' mom's were here for the event. Granny Karen, Uncle David and Aunt Frances were planning on attending but Karen and David came down with that terrible virus we've all been getting. Dad and Tammy came by and brought Daniel's truck for us to borrow. Jorja was feeling much better, still not herself but getting there. We had so much food and it was delicious! I hate that Karen, David and Frances missed out on the good food and visiting. I have some pictures of our Thanksgiving Day event for your viewing pleasure.

In honor of Thanksgiving I thought I would share with you things that I am thankful for...I'm thankful that my baby girl was born healthy. I'm thankful that I have family who loves her and Moises so much. I'm so thankful that my job is only six miles from my house. I'm thankful that I still have both of my parents-and then some, still living. I have a very special husband who loves me and helps me out so much of the time. Not too many people can put up with me ya know. Life wouldn't be perfect without him. For him I am thankful.

Illness Strikes Again

When I picked Jorja up from the sitters on Tuesday before Thanksgiving she was burning up. Once I got home and took her temp she was at 103.8. I gave her Tylenol and a cool bath which brought her temp down to 101. She was a happy baby at 101. Before too much longer her temp kept going up and up, then down again. The next day her Grammy kept her and said her temp rose to 104.1. We called her doctor's office which was closing at noon (the time I called) due to the upcoming holiday. The nurse told us to take Jorja to Cook Children's Hospital in Ft. Worth immediately. Upon arriving there JG's temp rose again to 104.2. We were seen pretty quickly. They were concerned because she didn't have diarrhea or vomiting so they knew it wasn't a virus. They did lung xrays, inserted a catheter and withdrew blood. Our poor baby was screaming and crying as loud as she possibly could. Talk about breaking my heart....I know what parents mean now when they say they wish they could take the pain for their child instead. After about fifteen minutes of torture the crying subsided and our sweet child had calmed down. The doctor came in and told us she had a Urinary Tract Infection which had multiplied and gotten into her blood. She got a needle poke of antibiotics, a prescription for more antibiotics and off we went. It was a five hour experience but well worth it. We got her fever down and she felt much better after a couple of hours. I was exhausted after I got home but Thanksgiving must go on...

Hold Me!

A couple of days ago my sweet baby girl stretched out her little arms for me to pick her up. I couldn't believe my eyes. She's growing too fast. She shouldn't be old enough to do that yet. Moises and I spent the weekend passing her back and forth, picking her up and down. Poor baby must have been dizzy. Isn't it amazing how something like your child holding her arms out for you melts your heart. Moises took these pictures of me and JG sleeping. He loves to catch us sleeping the same way. Like mother, like daughter right? I promise Jorja sleeps in her own bed everynight. I'm not sure how she makes it into the big bed with mommy.

Friday Night Lights

We attended the Crandall vs. Kaufman High School football game last Friday night. My step-brother Daniel is in the band and my step-sister Carly is on the flag corp. (not sure of the official name). This was Jorja's first Friday night game. She enjoys being outside and loves the sounds and the people. She was wide awake the entire game. I've posted a picture of her and her Grandpa at the game.

Trick or Treat 2007

Jorja was sick on Halloween with a fever over 102. We weren't going to take her out trick or treating but she was in such a good mood and smiling. I hated for her to miss out on her first halloween so we put on her tights and pretty fish costume and off we went. We went by three neighbors homes whom we know well and collected treats for Jorja. She had a great time watching all of the neighborhood kids running around and making lots of noise. Once we got home we unwrapped a dum dum sucker and let Jorja lick on it. She knew exactly what to do with it. Wish I would have taken a picture of that.

Fall Festival

It's time to back track a little to before Halloween. Our neighborhood is good at throwing parties for our kids and families to get to know one another. This October, the weekend before Halloween we had our first Fall Festival. The neighborhood rented a bounce house and we purchased pizza, drinks and goody bags full of candy for everyone. Of course Moises and I headed out late that night with Jorja to the festival which was held across the street in the culdesac. Once all of the big kids were exhausted from jumping around so much Moises took Jorja and some of the smaller neighborhood kids into the bounce house. Jorja loved this!!! It was so dark outside we couldn't see Jorja's face so we didn't know if she liked it or not until the we saw the pictures. She's all smiles in them. Her Papi layed her down on the floor of the bounce house and the other kids jumped around her and she would fly up and down. They aren't really good photos due to the black netting inbetween she and I but they are still cute of her.

First Blog!

I thought I would attempt to start blogging. My friend Jammi has turned me on to this. I can't stop reading her blog. I love it! Since I'm new at this and I'm not a good writer or speller I'm not sure how long this will last. It will be worth the try though. Friends and family should be able to keep up with all of the goings on in our busy lives this way. We have tons of pictures of our 5 1/2 month old Jorja Gray that we would love to post and let you view as well.