12 Month Appointment

Today Cheyenne had her 12 month well check-up. Everything was good. Her new measurements were:

Weight: 23 lbs.

Height: 32.75 inches

She only gained 12 oz. and grew 3/4 of an inch.

Scott was reading her a book while we waited for the doctor to come in.

She got her last set of shots until she's about 4 or 5. She got 2 in her right leg, one in her left leg and one in her left arm. She was a trooper. She cried while she got them but hasn't cried or been fussy since. When we got home (around 10:15) she went back to bed with daddy and I had to wake her up at 12:30 to go to work. I guess the Motrin helped! My mom is going to come get her and she will stay at grandma's the rest of the day. Hopefully the rest of the day goes well. She wil be more comfortable there than at work with me! And get more attention!

Cheyenne's Birthday Party

Cheyenne's First Birthday Party

When: Sunday, April 1st

Time: 4:30 pm

Where: Lyons Recreation Commission

Given By: Scott and RaeAnn

Guests:

Craig & Dianna Hayes (Gpa & Gma), Jessikah, Joshuah, Joslynn

Mable Goalden (Gma), Samantha Goalden (Aunt)

Jim & Linda Goalden (Great Gpa & Gma)

Brad Goalden (Great Uncle)

Mike & Sonya Goalden (Great Uncle & Aunt), Jacob Goalden (Cousin)

Brent & LouAnn Clark (Gpa & Gma), Brittany & Staci Clark (Aunts)

Raymond & Luella Pflughoeft (Great Gpa & Gma)

Jalayne Clark (Great Gma)

Darin & Barb Clark (Great Uncle & Aunt)

Marlin & Rhonda Clark (Great Uncle & Aunt)

Chad & Wendy Comley (Cousins), Kylah, Kenan, Kinzie, & Kaz Comley (Cousins)

Cheyenne opened presents...

She really liked the money!

Then it was time for cake!

She stuck her foot in it while we were trying to take the picture!

Now it's time for her cake!

She wasn't sure about it at first. Daddy had to show her!

Now she's getting the hang of it!

Big Bite!

It's YUMMY!

Our family

Cheyenne with her Grandparents

Cheyenne with her Great Grandparents

Matthew couldn't make it for the party but he got here about 9 that evening and watched the video of the party with Cheyenne. She was glad he was here that evening!

MANY MORE HAPPY BIRTHDAYS CHEYENNE!

One Year Ago

Today Cheyenne is 1 year old. I can't believe how fast the year has gone. At random times today I have thought about what I was doing a year ago at that time. I will try to recap it as I think about it today.

At 5:45 this morning Cheyenne woke up and I thought, "I was awake at this time a year ago." I had woken up at 4:30 at the end of a dream that I was in labor and that we had a girl. Then I realized that it wasn't a dream and I felt like I was really having contractions. But at that point Scott still thought we were having a boy.

At 11:15 this morning I asked Scott what we were doing at this time a year ago. He was cleaning the house and I was just relaxing and watching the clock.

Right now it is 1:57 and Scott and I were watching Pay it Forward and watching the clock, timing my contractions. Every once in awhile he would say, "Do we need to go?" I replied with "No, I think we can wait a little while."

It's 2:51 pm-contractions were getting closer together but we decided to finish the movie before we went to the hospital.

It's now 3:42 and we would have been just arriving at the hospital. When I got there I was dilated to a 6. So I got to stay. We were ready to have the baby.

It's now 5:25 pm and I don't remember exactly what was happening but I'm assuming I was walking the halls or sitting on the ball trying to get through the contractions.

Right now it's 6:06 and I think this was about the time they broke my water. It may have been a little sooner...I don't remember the time.

It's 8:26, at 7:28 our daughter Cheyenne Raymarie was born. I was probably getting back to my room holding our precious baby girl.

Now it has been exactly a year since she was born. As I recollect about that day a year ago I get tears in my eyes. Everything goes by so quickly. I have enjoyed this year and look forward to the years to come. I do miss the little things like her sleeping all the time and just lying in my arms without squirming. Even though those days are past, we will have many new things that will bring as much joy to our lives as all the milestones we've overcome so far. Happy Birthday to my baby girl!

Softball

Yesterday my sister, Brittany, had her first softball game. This is the first year for softball. Quivira Heights is in the same school district with Wilson and they combined for a team. My dad is the coach. He has to drive the QH girls to practice in Wilson everyday. He ended up having more girls than they thought from QH so he had to get his CDL to drive the bus to take them there. It was kind of weird seeing the QH girls in purple. For softball they are the Wilson Dragons. I took off work to go to the game. It was a little cool for the first game and then it started raining during the second. The first game Wilson started out good but then fell behind by letting Russell get 5 runs in the 6th inning. They were up 5-1 in the first inning. It was starting to rain and I needed to get home because Scott's dad was at our house so I didn't see how that one ended. My sister played pretty good. You can just tell that it's been a few years since she has played. For the first game of the year they did alright. I look forward to watching another game. Hopefully the weather will be warmer!

Brittany played 3rd base.

Cheyenne was sitting in the car with my grandparents and mom.

Coach Clark, 3rd base coach

Team huddle

The clouds before it started raining.

Old Video

I meant to post this a long time ago but didn't get around to it. I was cleaning up my memory card and found it.

When my brother was home he brought Cheyenne a Valentine's present. Here is a video of her "dancing" with it.

Still here

I haven't posted much lately because I have been busy. Work has been kind of crazy with tanning and me teaching crafts and aerobics. I am also Corporate Sponsor Chairperson for Relay for Life of Rice County and I've been trying to get letters out to all the businesses in Rice County. I try to get things done at home before I come into work and I have been so tired when I finally get Cheyenne to bed (after 11 most nights) that I hit the sack too. Yesterday we started a new project at home. We tore down the walls in the basement bathroom and bought wood flooring to put in the bathroom and bedroom. Scott is at home painting as I write this. It will be a little while before we get the material for the walls in the bathroom but he is going to try to get the bedroom done. He goes back to work tomorrow so what doesn't get done today will have to wait until next week when he is off. We moved all of the things from the bedroom into the living room in the basement which makes it difficult to get to the computer. Be patient with me...I'm still here. I will post pictures of the basement when I get a chance.

Work

I was meaning to post this earlier this week but the batteries were dead in the camera and the charger wouldn't work so I didn't get the picture off of there until today. Last Friday I worked the early shift (5:30 am - 1 pm) at work since Staci was gone. When Scott got off of work that morning he came up to the rec to see Cheyenne. She was still sleeping but he waited around until I woke her up. He had a rough night at work and needed a hug from her. Here is the picture from that morning. She really didn't want to wake up!

We also have a new toy at work that Cheyenne really enjoys. Staci brought in a booster seat that has a little play thing on it. It makes all sorts of noise and counts and does the alphabet. It is nice to have the booster to sit Cheyenne in to eat instead of the stroller. It works lots better with finger food and she is more at my level. It entertained her for a long time today!

If I have her too close to the desk she pulls everything off!

Aerobics

Last Tuesday I taught my first aerobics class. I made up my own routine of dance/kickboxing moves. It went ok. I need to work on the routine a little bit. I was going to teach again last night but no one showed up. On Thursday I taught a step routine that a friend had designed when she first started teaching step. It went pretty well. I felt more comfortable with it than my routine. I worked 5:30-1 Friday morning for Staci and taught the step class that she usually does. They seemed to be ok with it. I need to practice more at home but I just haven't had time. Hopefully I have people show up to my class on Thursday and I wasn't that bad of an instructor.

Visit home

My brother came home for 5 days this week. He came home Saturday and not too long after he got to mom and dad's he called and asked if he could come in and see Cheyenne. He is her Godfather and she is very special to him. He spent as much timew with her while he was home as he could. He even babysat her on Tuesday! He lives in Kansas City and tries to get home when he can but doesn't make it very often. We enjoy the time he does get back this way. I wish we could make it up there more often but it seems like we have so much going on. We plan on making the trip before too long though. Since he was home and there wasn't a lot going on we had some family pictures taken with my family and grandparents. I'm looking forward to seeing how they turned out. We haven't had them taken for a few years and wanted pictures whilel my grandparents are still with us. While Matthew was home he also played volleyball with Scott and I and a friend from High School in the coed league in Lyons. He did good! He was a little sore the next day though! We wish we all lived closer together so we could do it more often. We don't complain about the 4 hours that we are apart. At least we can drive it in a day. We are glad that we got to spend some time with him and look forward to the next time we get together. Here are some pictures from his visit. He loves playing with Cheyenne! She loves him too!

This was Saturday when he got here.

Sharing 7up!

Playing!

Hanging out after a day together! Matthew went back to KC the next day.

One More Month

Today Cheyenne is 11 months old. Where has the time gone? I can't believe that it's only a month until she is a year old. It made me sad today thinking about it. There's only a month left in the "infant" stage. The way she is getting around these days it won't be long until she is walking all over the place. It seems like yesterday when I could just hold her in my arms and she didn't hardly move. Know it is hard to get her to sit still! I've enjoyed watching her grow and learn new things. I look forward to all the new things to come also! Here are a few recent pictures that I didn't get into a post.

Scott left a sleeve of chocolate chip cookies out on the living room floor and Cheyenne found them the next morning. She ended up eating a cookie!

This is her face after eating the cookie! Looks like she enjoyed it!

My mom and sister watched her one night and took this picture after giving her a bath.

I had to attend a meeting in Newton on Wednesday and while I was gone Cheyenne decided to start climbing up on her chair. Scott captured these pictures!

We have a little climber on our hand! I think she fell off twice but she keeps doing it so I guess it didn't hurt too bad!

Yesterday she started climbing from this chair to the little blue chair beside it!

Here is just a picture of my little girl and her cheesy smile! She looks a little ornery! Which she is sometimes!

Starting to Walk

Cheyenne has been pulling herself up to things very easily lately. She can move around things pretty well but doesn't dare let go! She has been walking behind her little car. I've cried watching her do it several times. My little girl is getting so big. Here is one of the videos of her pushing her car.

First Stairs

I was just up in the gym at the rec commission and I had to go up into the balcony/batting cage to get another mat to set up for gymnastics . As I am getting ready to come back down I see Cheyenne coming up! She crawled up the first flight of stairs into the balcony. It is about 4 or 5 stairs! This is the first time she has actually crawled up them. Usually she stands up at the bottom. It's exciting that she has done something new but also means we are going to have to watch her more closely until she learns to go down them also!

UPDATE: I went to the dr. this morning for my elbow because it was more swollen last night and today. He said it could be some tendonitis but he wasn't really sure because I could bend my wrist back and it didn't hurt when he tried to push it forward. He told me to take some Ibuprofen. I had been taking Tylenol because of nursing Cheyenne but he said Cheyenne and I should be ok if I take Ibuprofen. The pain isn't bad anymore I just can't straighten or bend it all the way. That could be from the swelling. Hopefully Ibuprofen helps and I'll be good in a couple days.

Update

I officiated my games today. The only thing I had trouble with was calling a travel. I talked to one of the coaches who is a physical therapist and he said it looked like tendonitis or something like that. So Maybe it is Tennis elbow. I will keep ice on it and keep moving it so it doesn't get stiff (even though it hurts).


On another note. It was 60 degrees when I left to go officiate at 2:00 so I decided to walk. It is only 2 blocks so why not. When I left at 5:15 it was blowing snow! I got a ride home!! This weather is crazy, going from 60 degress down to 35 in probably less than 3 hours. I'm supposed to go out to eat and to a movie with a friend tomorrow. I hope the weather just passes through.

Pain

Several weeks ago, after playing volleyball, I had a little pain in my elbow. I didn't think much of it. It didn't hurt bad and didn't last long. I just figured I strained something. It hasn't really bothered me lately. Well, yesterday it was hurting a little more and last night I couldn't sleep because the pain was so bad. I got up and put some ice on it. That helped a little. I didn't want to take any meds until after I nursed Cheyenne this morning. About 4:45 I decided to get up and take a shower and maybe that would relax me and it would feel better. I couldn't bend my arm enough to use it to wash my hair. I washed my hair with mostly my right arm. Scott got home shortly after I got out of the shower and he just said to put some ice on it and work on moving it. It is a little swollen. We talked for awhile and then I decided to put the ice on it and go back to bed. I finally fell asleep and then he came to bed and moved the covers I had holding my arm up with the ice pack. Then I had to get comfortable again. I slept for about 30 minutes when Cheyenne woke up. It was hard getting her out of her crib, especially since it is on the lowest level. I was glad she was up so I could feed her and take some Tylenol. The pain isn't so bad now but I still can't move it to grab things and pick Cheyenne up like normal. We'll see how today goes. I am officiating 2 of our youth basketball games this afternoon. Good thing I raise my right arm to make calls! I have volleyball tomorrow and Monday so hopefully I can play. There's only 3 weeks left of volleyball so I'm hoping I can stick it out if there is something wrong. I hope it's just a muscle and not a cracked or chipped bone. I'll keep you updated.

Sad Ending

Last night Quivira Heights girls played Little River in regional basketball. This game determined who went on to Sub-state and who didn't. It was a close game but Quivira Heights ended up on the losing end. They played good but missed a lot of easy buckets and free throws. With a record of 19-2 they are done for the season. They had high hopes of going on to sub-state and even state. It was sad seeing the seniors play their last game. I was in their shoes once. Your last game in any sport is always hard. I'm glad I was able to see the last game of the season. I was looking forward to sub-state and state games but I guess we'll have to wait until next year. Quivira Heights still has some young and talented girls and should be in the running again next year.

Daddy Time

Last week was Scott's week off. He went back to work last night. He tried to stay on our schedule so we could spend time together. We did get more time together but it threw his schedule completely off and he was extrememly tired at work last night. When Scott's off he tries to watch Cheyenne as much as he can. It's nice that they get to spend that time together. We hope that someday we can all be on similar schedules and get more time together as a family but for now we will enjoy the days we do get.

"Talking"

Cheyenne has really been "talking" lately. On our way to Wichita Saturday she was talking up a storm! Here is a short video of it. Can you translate?

Cheyenne Talking

Cheyenne eating pancakes

Weekend update

I know I said I would let you know how Friday night went on Saturday but we decided to go to Wichita when Cheyenne got home. We enjoyed ourselves Friday night and my cousin said Cheyenne did well for her. She didn't get up until 8:15 and they brought her home at 9:30. We had a good time in Wichita. We just did some shopping and went out to eat with family that was in Wichita too.

Back to Friday night and bowling. We got there a little after 10 and they had started bowling for us. Then we got to bowl the second game for ourselves. I beat everyone with a 168! I couldn't find a ball that fit my hand right so I wasn't sure how I would do but I did good! It's always fun beating Scott because he is so competitive!