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.

4 MONTHS OLD!

My baby girl has turned 4 mos. old today! I can't believe how time has flown by! It's amazing seeing how much she has changed during this time. I took some pictures this evening of her in this very cute summery purple dress. We are loving this warm weather! I'm hoping that Winter is officially over with here.

I get to take a half day with her on Wednesday. My babysitter is going out of town so I get to leave work early on what's supposed to be a beautiful day and I get to hang out with my baby girl! Grammy Yoder is coming from Omaha to spend Thursday and Friday with her. Brian and I are going to see if she might be willing to watch her Friday night as well so we can have a "date night". Keep your fingers crossed! :)

We have somewhat reached a milestone. She kind of sleeps through the night. I don't have to feed her anymore during the night, however, she still wakes up for her binky (pacifier for those who don't know what binky is). It started out that she would wake up just once, but lately its been 2 or 3 times. Brian and I take turns getting up with her, but of course, I have to wake him up. He only hears her if she starts wailing, whereas, I hear her as she starts to stir.

We've also got another milestone (this is more for mom and dad then baby girl). She is now sleeping in her nursery. It's funny that before I had her, my plan was that she would be in the nursery at 1 month. It turned out to be harder than I thought. We started this on Friday and we've all done really well with it! :)

Here's a picture of her laughing. Grammy & Grandpa Yoder were visiting and got this great picture for me. I seem to have problems with my batteries dying on me. I'm trying to get pictures of her in all her cute outfits before she grows out of them. She is finally able to wear 3-6 mos. Some are still too big on her, especially a lot of the pants. Of course, she can still fit in 0-3 size as well. Some of the sleepers are getting a little short now.

She has her 4 mos. check up tomorrow and will get her final round of shots. Brian gets to take her this time. We'll find out about cereal then. I can't wait for that!

I've gotten some more scrapbooking done. Once I get a chance, I'll take pictures of them and post. I'm pretty happy with what I've done lately. I made the mistake of going to Hobby Lobby today. I went looking for a specific stamp (which they were out of, of course) and ended up buying some paper. It was hard to pass up 50% off! I was good though and only got a few sheets but I made sure that I knew specifically what I could use them for though so I don't' feel to guilty about it.

Well, I think that gets me caught up on what's been going on. We're doing good and enjoying every minute with Elizabeth. Everyone take care!!

She LAUGHED

Well, it turns out that what I thought was a laugh, WAS a laugh. I was changing her last night and I started blwoing on her tummy. She just laughed and laughed and I laughed and laughed and then Brian laughed. He got a kick out of how much I was enjoying making her laugh. I wish I had a way of including the video of her laughing. It's just so darned cute!!

This girl makes me so happy. I never thought I would feel this way over a laugh or from her rolling over or from a smile when I pick her up after work. I have such intense feelings over these accomplishments. I can't even imagine what my reaction will be when she starts to crawl and "talk". As it is, I love listening to her jabbering. She's a talker in the mornings. She tells me about the dreams she's had that night and then when I pick her up after work, she tells me how her day was.

Here are some pictures from previous blog (tummy time and her and the Spaz the cat)

We went to the KC Auto Show over the weekend. It's basically a glorified dealership with all makes and models. I thought there would be more concept cars but I only saw one really cool one. If you have $500,000 you can own it! Here are some pics of the crazy thing... That round blue thig inside is a TV screen. Because of this show I think I convinced Brian that a mini van wasn't a terrible thing. We both liked the look & the features of the Toyota Sienna.

Well tomorrow starts another work week. I hope everyone had a great weekend and that you all have a terrific week!!

Happy Weekend!

Well, Its been a while since my last week. I was sick last week. I think it was a combination of lack of GOOD sleep and being exposed to germs I haven't had to deal with for 3 months. It was my 2ND week back at work and I felt so guilty for being sick. Here I am back after being off for 3 months and I come in late 2 days and only work about 2 hours on one day. I did absolutely nothing last weekend. I don't think I even left the house. I felt much better this week.

I've got some great news about Elizabeth. She rolled over TWICE on Wednesday. I had her on her tummy and we were playing and she just rolled herself over on her back. I clapped and whoo hooed and she just looked at me like "what's the big deal, I hate being on my tummy so I rolled over!" I've really been trying to make a point of getting her on her tummy. We're bad about either holding her and putting her in her bouncer. I've got to get some pictures of her being on her tummy and hopefully, I'll get lucky enough to a shot of her turning over.

The other exciting news is that she is starting to grab and play with things and of course, put those things in her mouth. Just today, the cat's tail made it to her mouth. The one cat loves Elizabeth, he head butts her (its his way of saying, Hey, pet me) and he likes to lay down next to her. Anyway, she was sitting on Brian's lap and the cat jumped up there was walking back and forth across Brian's lap and Elizabeth grabbed his tail and put it in her mouth. It was quite hilarious. As of right now, she doesn't have a death grip so Spaz barely even noticed she had his tail. I was able to get a few pictures. I'll have to post them next time.

She has giggled a few times. They were brief and I almost couldn't tell if it was a laugh or not, but I'm pretty sure it was. I've been blessed with a morning baby too. Nothing like me or my sister (Kaci). She talks to herself and smiles at you. She's just a happy baby.

I will say though that lately, she's been cranky. I think Brian and I are boring for her. Our friend that is watching her has 2 kids that I'm sure keep her entertained throughout the day. I've been calling Isiah (he's 2) her boyfriend. He loves to hold her (sitting on the couch w/ Amy beside them) and when I come to pick her up he makes sure to give her kisses. It's soooo cute, but she's too young to have a boyfriend!!!

Haven't done a lick of scrapbooking since the last time which is about 3 weeks ago. I'm going to try to tomorrow. She's 3 months old and I've only got ONE layout done of her. I've got a ton of pictures too.

If anyone needs to buy prints online, I've used walmart.com, shutterfly.com, snapfish.com and kodakgallery.com. They all were very good. Some have better options than others but as far as quality goes, any of them are good. Just thought I'd share that.

Well, I guess I'll sign off for now. I hope it won't be so long until my next entry.

Have a GREAT weekend!!

I'm sick! :(

Well, I've got a full fledged cold now. I hope today is the worst of it since I can't really call in sick. I've been back to work for only a week and I already had to take a half day on Friday to take Elizabeth to doctor. She ran a little bit of a fever last night and she's cranky today. We'll see how she's doing tomorrow. I hope we both get over being sick.

I've decided to start giving myself scrapbook challenges. When I first started scrapping, I bought more scrapbook products then I did any actually scrapbooking!! I've decided that I need to start using some of the stuff that I've got. I think for my first challenge that I need to use the buttons that I have. ONce I have a chance to scrapbook again, I'll post the layout.

I posted on 2 peas in a bucket last night. I went through their gallery to gain some ideas for Elizabeth's baby book. It's funny that I ran across some of Leah's without knowing they were hers right away.

I'm trying to decide if I'm going to watch the Oscars tonight. I haven't seen very many of the movies that up for nominations. We saw "The Pursuit of Happyness" , "The Departed" and "The Devil Wears Prada". All are GREAT movies. I recentley saw "Because I said So". Diane Keaton's character was so over the top that she was just too annoying to watch. I was just waaaay disappointed in that movie. I thought "Music & Lyricks" and "Catch & Release" were okay. Not the greatest movies but not the worst. I think those are the most recent. Actually, Brian and I saw "Pan's Labrynth". Very weird but good. It's a violent fairy tale for adults and was subtitled. It would be hard to recommend this movie to people. Same thing with "Children of Men". It really touched since I had just had Elizabeth about a month before I saw this movie. If you don't know, the movie is about the future and no one can have kids anymore and basically the world has gone down the crapper. A woman becomes pregnant and she's trying to get away before she's used or looses her baby. Again, very good, but an odd movie. Kind of like an indy film. I would recommend "The Holiday". Great chick flick. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD. I'm trying to think of what else I've seen. "Flags of Our Fathers" is a definite must see. Looking forward to seeing "Letters from Iwo Jima". I love movies and I can just ramble and ramble!!

Well, hope all had a great weekend!!