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I'm still here, living in Hawaii with my husband, my baby girl, and my 2 furry animals. What's new? Not much is really new. Here's my average day. Abrielle wakes up around 7. I feed her and change her diaper. Then I put her on her floor toy, and she plays on that for about an hour. She then gets hungry again so of course I feed her. About this time is morning nap time. So about 9am she decides to go to sleep. Lately, her naps have varied on how long they are. Sometimes she'll take a 2-4 hour nap. Other times she'll sleep for 30 minutes to an hour. So after nap time, if it's a long one, of course she needs fed again and a diaper change. Sometime during the day I'll give her a bath. She smells so much better after a bath. I love the baby lotions I use on her. So later in the afternoon, she might take a short nap. She usually naps in her swing. I absolutely love my swing. It's amazing. At night is probably the most challenging time. She gets tired around 8ish, but she fights going to sleep. We rock her, we walk her, we try putting her in the crib, we try everything, but she fights it until the end. She finally falls to sleep around 9. She has been sleeping through the night since she was about 8 weeks old. I'd say I'm pretty lucky. The past couple of weeks she has woken up around 4 or 5 in the morning. Sometimes she'll cry a little bit then fall back to sleep. Other times I have to get up and feed her. Once I feed her and change her, I'll lie her back in her crib, and she'll fall back to sleep. I find it amazing that she'll easily go back to sleep at this time, but she fights it so much when we're trying to put her to bed. So when she's not sleeping, we spend time together. I'll sit on the couch with her and talk with her. I love seeing her smile. I'll do anything to make her smile. I can't wait to hear her laugh. I try to do tummy time with her a few times a day. She's doing so much better. She can hold her head up a lot longer, and she tolerates it longer than she did before. She actually rolls over now. The first time she rolled over she was only 2 1/2 months old. I was super proud of her. She doesn't roll over every time I put her on her belly. There have been a couple of times when she's lying on her back, and she twists her body and moves almost rolling over. I'm sure it will still be a little while before she rolls over from her back to her belly. Either way, I can't believe how time is flying. She is getting so big. I look at pictures and see the huge difference. Even though she was never really "little," she did used to be smaller. I really do try to enjoy every second with her because before I know it, she'll be a teenager talking back to me. Yikes! I am just so absolutely proud of her. I'm proud to be her mom. I love showing her off. It's amazing the things she does now that she didn't do before. I'm amazed by her every day. I'm still breast feeding. I'll probably breast feed until she's about 6 months. I'm attempting to go back to work. Since I was originally employed by a travel company and not the hospital, I have to go through the whole hiring process. It kind of sucks. I also realized I let my CPR expire. So I have to get re-certified before I get hired. That will be the longest I've been away from Abrielle. I haven't been away from her for more than a couple of hours. That's pretty bad. I only plan on going back to work part time, working 1-2 days a week. I'll work when Ryan isn't working because I don't trust strangers. I really don't want to put her in the hands of people I don't know. Going back to work will suck because I don't want to leave her, but I like being able to pay my bills. My money that I had stored up before I had her is quickly dwindling down. So I started up my workout again. I'm trying to get back in shape before I get pregnant again. I'm thinking about trying again in September of this year. I want to have my kids close in age. I want to be done having children by the time I'm 30. Also, we're moving to Guam next year in the fall or winter. I would prefer to have my next child in Hawaii. We'll see if my plans span out. I can't really think of anything else right now. I know I've talked a lot about Abrielle. That's the main thing going on in my life. So that's it.