2 months old!!

Hannah turned two months old on Monday, and to celebrate, we took fun pictures on Sunday. My friend Julia had made a blog post about how to make a tutu, so I decided to try my hand at it! I went to Hobby Lobby and bought some pretty light and dark purple tulle and ribbon... I think it turned out pretty good, what do you think? Thanks Julia for the awesome idea and instructions!!!

So, we took some Hannah ballerina pictures... we couldn't get the lighting to work very well, and she started getting fussy, so we'll have to try them again this weekend, but here a few cute ones. On the next ones, I'm going to make her tulle bow the darker purple, and we are going to try a lighter background... you can't really see all her hair on the black background! And what's the point of having all that hair if you can't show it off!

Today, Hannah had her first set of shots and it went pretty well, all things considered. She weighed 12 pounds (75th percentile), was 23.5 inches long (80th percentile) and her head circumference was 15.75 inches (75th percentile). She is getting so big, we can't hardly believe it! When it came time for the shots, two nurses came in and each of them took a leg and gave her a shot at the same time - it was pretty crazy. She flung her hands up and started wailing! Needless to say, both Eric and I cried. Now she is sleeping in her Papa's arms and seems to be doing pretty well, but we'll see how the night goes! Here are some pictures of the big day!

So, Hannah - now that you are two months old,

what have you been up to?

You have been sleeping six hours straight in the middle of the night, which makes your mommy and daddy VERY happy!

You sleep best when people are holding you and you're such a snuggle bug!

You can almost hold your head up completely by yourself... you do good for about 15 seconds, then you need some help. You love to look around at everyone and everything, so we don't think it will be much longer!

You have recently started smiling more often and silently laughing... it is so cute, it melts our hearts!

We love you so much Hannah - you are the greatest blessing in our lives!

Back to work

This past week was my first week back to work and it wasn't really like I expected. I was of course sad to leave Hannah but since my mom is watching her, it wasn't quite so scary. I have pictures of her on the fridge at work and I made a photo mug with all my favorite Boo pictures to drink coffee in (which is necessary when working at 8 AM after getting up three times a night!). I also make all my technicians tell me ten times a day that I have the cutest baby in the world. None of them have children, so they can say that :) But I have to say that in some ways it was nice to go back to work... I know what I'm doing and I don't constantly worry that I'm screwing it up, which can't be said for this whole motherhood thing. And it makes my time with Hannah that much more special, and because of that, I've been having some great times with her lately. I have the day off tomorrow and I've spent all night tonight thinking about how great it's going to be. Now this isn't to say that if I had the chance, I wouldn't drop everything to stay home with her and I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry to Eric at least once a day about how maybe we should both quit our jobs and move in with my parents. (Crazy, right?). But I do see the benefits of me going back to work and they aren't just monetary ones. On my weekends to work (such as this last weekend), Eric is with Hannah all weekend and that gives them good father-daughter time, which is so precious to see. And I feel good knowing that my mom is with her and that I'm doing what is best right now for our whole family. Also, its probably good for me to actually be forced to put real clothes on instead of just pajamas all day and to not watch The Price is Right quite so much :) So, I'm vowing to love this time in our lives just like I did my maternity leave and look forward to showing Hannah off to all my patients who come into the pharmacy. And tomorrow when I am home with her, I'm going to soak her all in.

Hannah's new cousin

We are happy to greet Lila LeClerc Way who was born today at 1:44 AM. She weighed 6 lbs 13 ounces and looks just like her big brother Brad :). Congrats Lori and Ken... we can't wait to meet her!

Bathtime

Happy 4th of July!!!

Today we went to Tahlequah for the day to hang out for the 4th. We had lunch with the fam and then we went to the fireworks at my parent's church. We didn't actually stay for the fireworks since it was late and we weren't really sure how Hannah would handle the noise, but it was fun to introduce Hannah to some of my parent's friends and we also got some great pictures of the Boo!!