Bald head, cuite pie pics and an update

Well, its only been about 2 weeks since my last blog. I've noticed that as time has gone on, Elizabeth is loosing her hair and its getting lighter. She wears it well! In the 1st picture, she is almost 5 months, the 2nd picture is about 2 days old.

I love going back and looking at the pictures we took in the hospital and seeing how much she has changed in the last (almost) 5 months. I go through picture taking phases too. I've been trying to get pictures of her in the outfits I love before she grows out of them. She is finally growing out of 0-3 month clothes. However, she can't fit in all of the 3-6 months yet. Here are some pics of one of the new outfits I love. I was able to get her really laughing. I just LOVE her smile and laugh. She has discovered her feet as well. She can't quite them into her mouth yet though, but she tries.

She hasn't starting sitting up too well on her own yet. She leans forward and holds herself up with her arms and not for very long. Her little arms get tired and then she eats carpet. She's a tough little sucker and just rolls over and smiles. She hasn't cried yet when she's fallen forward.

However....tummy time is a different story when it comes to crying. She'll last for about 10 minutes or so and then she is done, and I mean done! Mom and dad let her cry for a little bit, but when tears come out of those little eyes, I give in. I admit it, yes, I give in to the tears. Is there some kind of 12 step program for letting your little one cry? I can to a point, but like I said, once there are tears, I can't handle that and do what I "must" to make it stop.

A little off the normal subject of Elizabeth - I am hooked on Reality TV. I am watching "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" and I just got done watching "Bad Girls", both on Oxygen. They're both crap, yet I sat here watching them both. I get sucked into this and I don't know why!!

Anyway, her a couple of new scrapbook pages that I've done. The first one are bath pictures. I had that funky bubbly bright pink paper forever and I was finally able to use. The 2nd is her first flight. Southwest Airlines gave us a certificate in honor of the momentous occasion. Brian is going to make a runway and tower on the 2nd page. I've got to put a title on the 3rd one still. The 2nd page of that is the many different Christmas outfits she had, which turned out to be good thing since she got 2 outfits dirty that day!!

Well, I need to be signing off now. I've got to get to bed. My folks will be in town tomorrow. And Elizabeth is going to get spoiled rotten!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!

Happy Easter!!

Brian, Elizabeth & I went to the Yoder's in Omaha for Easter weekend. In addition to celebrating Easter, we also celebrated Brady's birthday. Bonnie got him a John Deere riding lawn mower for some lake property that they own. He was pretty excited about that. Brian got the chance to play the Nintendo Wii and he liked it. If he hadn't bought the XBox 360 he might have gotten that instead. I had a good time playing it too. I bowled and boxed. There were not many buttons that needed pushing so I did pretty good at it! :) Bonnie was pretty hilarious. She boxed Brad and whooped his butt and she just loved it. Of course, he says that his controller wasn't working! I don't think any guy wants to be beaten by their mother at a video game. She had a great time with it. We all had a really good time with Wii. I acutally wouldn't mind playing those games again and I'm not much a video game gal. Elizabeth did really well on the trip. She didn't do so well sleeping Saturday night but she made up for it by sleeping the entire trip from Omaha to KC (about 3 hours). She did pretty good at church too. She got a little cranky b/c she was tired but she didn't get bad enough I had to leave with her. She had the cutest dress on for Easter that my sister, Kim, sent. I found the shoes at Burlington Coat Factory of all places. I got picture happy of course. Here are all the pictures from this weekend. I hope everyone had a great weekend!!

4 month check up

We got the go ahead for cereal!! Yesterday was her first taste of cereal and she loved it and couldn't get enough. I got some really great pictures of her eating. It doesn't fill her up fast enough though. If she's hungry, eating just takes too long! She starts to get cranky so we gotta get her a bottle! Today, she really tried to help feed herself. She got very messy and had to have a bath. Her first feeding didn't knock her out like we thought it would. It actually seemed to give her more energy. I will say though, she slept pretty well (still had to get up twice to put the binky in her mouth) but I had to wake her up this morning to feed her!

Other info. from her 4 mo. check up is that she weighs 12 lb 3 oz. Still on the small size. I think she's in the 25% for weight. She's gaining the minimum still, but as long as its consistent and within the scale, the doctor is okay. I think that now she is starting to eat cereal, she might start putting more weight on.

She was recently introduced to our dog Storm. They've seen each other through the screen door, but since it was nice outside, Brian took Elizabeth on the deck. Storm was very curious about Elizabeth and wanted to lick her. Elizabeth thought she was the funniest thing and kept laughing every time Storm came over to her. Elizabeth could care less about the cats (unless she can grab a tail). Maybe she's used to them and the dog was something new!

As I mentioned in my last blog, I've gotten some scrapbooking done. I finally took pictures of them. I added them on the slide to the right. I really like this one. I don't normally mix colors like that unless one sheet has both colors in there. My local scrapbook store Archivers is doing a 12 hour crop at the end of April and I'm really considering it. It would give me the opportunity to get caught up on her album. You can see the rest of the pages I did on the slide to the right.

Well, its past time for me to go to bed. Hope everyone is doing well! Take care and thanks for the comments that you leave. I love to read them.