Easter 2013

What a wonderful Easter this has been! Our first Easter as a family of three celebrating our risen Savior. We feel so blessed. It has been a really nice weekend of family time. Friday was beautiful and Abigail and I were able to go on walk. She rode in her stroller like a big girl!



On Saturday we got in some nice family time and David was able to do some more work on the exterior of the house. One thing he got to see for the first time was how I often find Abigail after a nap...



Today we were able to go on another walk and little girl was pooped out after a big Sunday...



Today was a wonderful day at church. David sang in all three services and I worked in the nursery. One special thing about today was Abigail's dress. My Mom made it, like she made her baby dedication dress. One of the recent times we were in Little Rock, I went with Mom and picked out the fabric and pattern and we got an idea about what we had in mind. Mom got right to work and got it done right in time for Easter. Since we weren't in Little Rock, it was pretty special for her to be wearing the dress. It will be something that I will treasure forever and hopefully pass down to her to use on her own daughter. Although it has an A on it, so she better have a baby with an A name. :)

After church we went and ate together at Houlihan's and had a delicious lunch. Afterward we came home and were able to take some outdoor Easter pictures since the weather was absolutely fantastic today. I'm going to post A LOT of pictures here, but when I look at my sweet little family I sometimes feel like my heart could explode! There were so many good ones, but these are the "few" that I decided to post.







Just a few. :) Happy Easter! He is Risen!

4 Months Old!

It's hard to believe that Abigail is already four months old. It seems like it's gone by in a blink at the same time as seeming like she's been with us forever. It's weird how that works. This hasn't been a really springy spring break for David. Poor guy has been working his fingers to the bone on home projects and he has almost finished repairing our wood rot on his own. We're just going to have to wait until it's a little warmer for him to finish the rest. Then we still have to fix up the yard and re-bark and we'll be ready to go!

Today was Abigail's four month appointment and I was excited to go, but not excited for her to get shots. Thankfully I had David with me this time, so I knew I would be better emotionally. Abigail did great, although she did scream her poor sweet little head off when she got her shots. She was literally smiling and laughing while laying on the table and then she felt the first shot and her face froze, the pain registered, and she started crying. I HATE it. HATE.IT. I realize it's just shots, I realize I need to be tougher, and I realize she is fine. But I hate shots, am not very tough, and hate it when she feels bad. :( Thank goodness David was there. However, I can't really complain when we got such a wonderful report from the doctor. She looks perfect.

Here are some shots from her little four month photo session with Mommy. I know, there's a ton, but couldn't you just eat those rolls up?!



This month...

--Weight: 13 pounds 8 ounces (50%)
--Height: 23 3/8 inches (15%)-sorry sugar, you clearly have your mother's height
--Head circumference: 16 inches (50%)

1. Abigail is a great sleeper. She takes a bottle of breast milk from Daddy at 8:00 p.m. every night and is asleep around 8:30. She typically wakes me up somewhere between 6:45 and 7:30 the next morning.

2. Our daily schedule looks SOMETHING like this:
7:00 Wake up, eat, play
8:00-10:00 Nap time!
10:00 Wake up, eat, play
11:30-1:00 Nap time!
1:00 Wake up, eat, play
2:00-3:30 Nap time!
3:30 Wake up, eat, play
5:00-6:00 Nap time!
6:00 Wake up, eat, play
8:00 Bed time bottle and goodnight!

3. Abigail loves to laugh and make noises. Her new sound is like an "Oooo, ahhh" sound.

4. Clothing: she is mostly wearing all her three month things, but has also gotten into some of her 3-6 month clothing and even a couple 6 month items. It's fun to start putting her in more and more new things.

5. Food: all breast milk...Mommy is working hard at it!

6. The doctor said that sometime this month we can start rice cereal and then as we inch toward six months we can start introducing baby food! I'm pretty excited about it.

7. Of course I'm with her every day, but this girl LOVES her daddy. Whenever he talks to her she just smiles and smiles and talks to him. Having David home for spring break this week has been so nice. He's such a help when he comes home from work every day, but having him here ALL day is like a dream!

8. Diapers: we've bumped up to size 2!

9. Abigail's new thing is "face snuggling." I love it and it's when she opens her mouth and just basically puts her mouth all over my face. For now, I'm going to go ahead and say she's kissing me. :)

10. She's doing really well grabbing things and her favorite toy right now is this cat that I can hang from her play mat. It's way too huge for her to put in her mouth, but she tries anyway. I guess she's a cat lover like her Mother, Gammy, and Great-Granny.

11. Sooie likes to come in her room while we're playing on the floor and just watch now. Abigail also enjoys watching Sooie, but not for long because Sooie rarely does anything interesting.

12. Abigail is now drinking 5-6 1/2 ounces of breast milk at night. Whoa...like I said, Mommy is working hard. :)

Here are some pictures of my hubby (and puppy) working in the freezing cold.



When things in the house get moved around (as they have this week since we've been working), we tend to find Sooie in odd places..."Curiosity killed the cat." Maybe it should be, "The owner killed her curious cat." :)



Somehow, tomorrow we're expecting another major snow storm. We are super ready for spring, but being from Arkansas where snow is sometime scarce, we just can't help but be a little excited about a storm. We're ready for spring, but we'll take one last blast of winter. :)

First time in the nursery

These past two weeks since my last post have been really nice. They have also been super busy. We, and by we I mean David, has been working very hard fixing things up on the house to hopefully get it on the market in the next few weeks. This past Sunday Abigail had her very first day in the church nursery. Mommy was the most nervous, but we were also excited to see how she would do. She did great! When I went to pick her up to nurse halfway through the morning she was asleep but the ladies said she had been cranky. When we came back after church was over, she was awake and looking super tired. I was so proud to go and pick her up. So our first time in the nursery went off without a hitch! Mommy and Daddy did ok too. :)

Here are some pictures from my phone that I've taken recently.

Loving on Sophie.



Our sunglasses are a smidge big, but cute none-the-less.



Getting ready for summer at Mountain Harbor!



The bouncer is becoming more and more interesting.



Working on taking our pacifier in and out. She typically pulls it out and then gets mad because she doesn't realize it was her who pulled it out in the first place.



Sweet girl napping.



In our Saint Patrick's day green before church on Sunday. Right at the end she pooped out of this cute outfit and ended up going home in an old onesie.



Two tags mean in the nursery for both Sunday School and service!



Today Abigail is four month old. She doesn't have her doctors appointment until Friday, so I'll do her four month update this weekend.

Wedding Weekend

A long time friend of mine from elementary and high school got married this past weekend so we traveled back down to Little Rock. The wedding was great and we were happy to get to see some people that we haven't seen in a while. Abigail has now officially attended two weddings in her short life! David got his girl a dress for her first Valentine's day, and that's what she was wearing to the wedding. She looked adorable.



Daddy and his girl.



Abigail has done some new things this week that I wanted to share. It's like all of the sudden she gets that she has control over her hands and arms. She can't necessarily control them, but she seems to have truly realized they're hers. She is trying and successfully grabbing lots of things now, including my necklaces, hair, face and arm when I change her diaper. That's the sweetest thing to me. When I'm changing her she holds on to my forearm. Love.

Since her first belly laugh we've had two more. So much fun. She watches everything I do as I carry her around and is becoming so observant. She is also liking to stand up now. She'll lock her chubby little legs and smile as we hold her up. Her feeding seems to be increasing as well. Not the amount of times she's feeding a day, but the amount she's taking. At night now I pump a 5 1/2 ounce bottle and she has no trouble drinking it.

I'm ready for all this snow to melt so we can start spending some more time outside!