1 Week

Well, I made through my first week back to work. I miss Miss Bee like crazy cakes but I have to say that I do tend to soak up all my time with her when I get home. My house looks crazy and is not clean, but I just can't seem to bring myself to do it when I get home, I would rather love on Rory! Anyway, I made it, hopefully next week will go equally well!

Yesterday, I bought the cutest pair of shoes for Rory. They are Baby Bloch and they are SO cute on her little feet! You dancers out there probably recognize the name, but Bloch is the BEST EVER ballet slipper and so now Rory has her first pair. Her's look like this (except her's are white, although I might order the pink ones for her soon!):

2 months old

Sorry this is late. I finally got my new laptop and it took me a little while to get the driver installed for the D60 camera (I still haven't uploaded the driver for the point and shoot). Here is Miss Bee's official 2 month picture. We are working at putting some meat on those legs, but they are so cute! Rory had her 2 month appt on 2/16. She got 4 shots and did 1 oral vaccine. Here she is with her band aids. There is an identical bandaid on the other leg too.

She was in a great mood last week before church, so I got quite a few cute pictures. This is one of my favorite dresses on her. It is so cute and she looks so cute in her smocked dress and pearls for church. Such a sweet baby!

I love this toothless grin!

This is her new toy. She LOVES it. She will lay there and babble and squeal at herself in the mirror and stare at the toys for a good while.

I go back to work on Monday. I can't believe that it is already time for me to go back to work. More on this subject later.

Update

Sorry I have been MIA. Kevin accidentally broke the hinges that hold the laptop screen up and it nearly impossible to hang on to the screen, hold Rory and type. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

• I am on my last week of maternity leave. 12 weeks went by so fast! I can't believe that she will be 10 weeks old on Friday. I go back to work this coming Monday. I am sad that I am going to have to be away from her for so long, but it makes me feel better that Kevin will be with her and then the sitter will be coming to our house to keep her for 3 hours until I get home on Tuesday - Friday.
• Rory turned 2 months old on the 12th. I can't believe that she has been here 2 months already. It has gone by SO fast! I have pictures from her 2 month birthday that I will try to get up soon!
• It is official. Miss Bee is sleeping through the night. She is giving us at least 7 hours of straight sleep per night, sometimes more! YAY!!!!
• Rory had her first set of shots on Monday. Poor little Bee, she got 2 in each leg! She was pitiful. Her doctor says that she is right on schedule and doing great. She weighed 10 pounds and 1 ounce and was 21.75 inches long. We have officially graduated out of newborn diapers and into size 1. Yay for our tiny girl!
• Rory will be christened in Decatur on April 5th. More info on that at a later date.
• Rory and I will be in Decatur tomorrow through Friday morning.
• I can't post without any pics, so I will leave you with this one!

To: Daddy, From: Rory

"Hey Daddy....Mommy and I were talking and she told me that today is your birthday" "She also mentioned cake, I don't know what that is, but Mommy says that it is good" "OOhhh, your HOW OLD?" "WOW....Daddy you are almost 30" "I love you, Love Mommy and Rory!"

Sorry it has been so long (didn't I say that last post too?)

I know, I am a bad blogger! We have been battling acid reflux and a formula change! Hopefully, we have everything worked out. I took Rory to church for the first time about 3 weeks ago. She was really good and either slept or sat and watched everyone. She wasn't fussy or anything. I didn't get a picture of her before we left, but I tried to get one when we got home. She was fussy because she was hungry, but I thought that the resulting picture was pretty cute. What a pout!Rory has always like to be swaddled, and I mean TIGHT! She doesn't like her arms to be restricted though, so this is what sleeping at night looks like. Both arms straight out, pacie in place and lower body swaddled tightly. Rory has started smiling and "talking" on purpose in the past 2 weeks. She and Kevin sit and and talk and smile at night when he gets home before he gives her the midnight bottle. So far I haven't been able to catch a smile on camera, the red light just before it takes the picture really freaks her out. I put this in because I thought that her hands were funny. She looks so prim and proper... This is one of the attempts at catching a smile. At least in this one, she actually looks happy. Kevin bought her this outfit from Gymboree, it says "Little Love Bug" on the chest and the pants and jacket are reversible. It is super cute (especially with a hair bow). This one is for you Mandy...Look at those cute little feet! I am posting this one for my Mom. This little apple dress was mine and was one of my Mom's favorite things to put on me. It is pretty cute on Miss Bee too! Excuse the expression, she was about to fall asleep. Rory will be 8 weeks old tomorrow. That means that my time home with her is quickly coming to a close. I am sad that I won't get to spend every minute with her. She just changes so much and so fast. Oh well, the baby sitter has been coming a few days a week for a few hours a day for the past 2 weeks so that she is comfortable with Rory and Rory (and the crazy dogs) are comfortable with her. Plus, it gives me time to do stuff like scrub the kitchen tile floors and stuff like that without having to worry about her waking up and needing me. Well, that is it. Tune in tomorrow for a special post for Kevin.

Long Time no post!

Sorry it has been so long.

• We have been having formula issues and so there has been a lot of crying...on Rory's part...no ours. We have it all straightened out now. After a prescription for Zantac and a switch in formula with the addition of a Tbsp of rice cereal...we are good to go....I think!
• I will post some pics later, I haven't gotten them off of my camera.
• Kevin hurt his knee at work so that has been fun. He went for an MRI today. We don't know the results yet.
• Guess who slept 7 hours straight last night?? Yep! Miss Bee. So far this week she has slept 5 hours on Monday night, 5.5 hours on Tuesday night and 7 hours last night. Let's hope this lasts. It is HEAVENLY to have some good solid sleep.

More pictures

Ok, these 1st two pics aren't the greatest quality, but I like them anyway. Rory was really in to her mobile today. She probably watched it for a good 30 minutes. Apparently a pacie and a mobile and Miss Bee is good to go. Rory got these PJs but they are made of fleece so it hasn't been cold enough to wear them until tonight. I couldn't resist the pink bow. It is hard to see in the picture below, but they feet look like bunny slippers. SO CUTE!!!!! Close up of sweet girl's face. I couldn't resist posting this one, she looks so surprised. I just thought that her expression was cute. Anyway, I hope that everyone is bundled up today and stays warm. See you guys later! Ciao!

1 month old and a cute picture

I am going to get to the 1 month post, but first...you have GOT to see this picture. We met Kev's parents for an early lunch yesterday so that I could get out of house. It was cold so we bundled Rory up....she looks like a little bag lady...she was SO cute in her toboggan and sweater. The sweater was mine when I was a baby. Ok, now on to the 1 month post. Rory is 1 month old today. I can't believe that she has been with us a month already. It is strange, on one hand I can't believe that she has already been here a month and on the other hand, it feels like she has already been with us. She celebrated by smiling at her Daddy....she has since smiled at me, but Daddy got the 1st one. She has already figured out how to get to him, that didn't take long! I apologize in advance for the exposure of this picture...but you can really see her eyes. Right now they are blue, I hope that they stay blue! This is the 2 of us today...I apologize in advance for my appearance...it was about 20 minutes ago and I didn't go put on make up or do my hair. Well, that is all for tonight....Ciao!

Attention all Decaturins!

As of right now, Rory and I will be in town on Tuesday and possibly part of Wednesday if you guys would like to come by and meet Miss Bee. We would love to see you all!

• ****Call me and I will give you all directions to Mom and Tim's house****

4 weeks

Rory is 4 weeks old today. I can't believe that it has been 4 weeks already. She is continuing to do well. We had a small stint this week of her fussing every time we laid her down. We have since worked through it, but it was rough there for a few nights! Kevin went back to work this week. It was great having him home with me for 3 weeks....Rory and I both miss him when he goes to work. He misses us too, I am sure. Rory and I got out yesterday for the first time, just the 2 of us. It went well, we had an early lunch and had a GREAT time. It was wonderful to get out for a couple of hours. I can't believe that Rory will be 1 month old on Monday...she is already so big and looks so different from when she was born. Needless to say, we are pretty smitten.