Oh how time flies

Lilah is TWELVE WEEKS OLD!!! Oh how the time flies. Major things that have happened lately...
She can now stay up on her hand and elbows for lengthy periods of time
She can roll over (front to back both directions)
She is becoming more aware of her hands and is grabbing at things and actually holding on.

Most of all she is just so much fun. She is laughing out loud which is one of the best sounds we have ever heard. I know one of my favorite times of day is in the morning when I get her out of bed and she is so smiley and loves seeing me. I'm sure the best part of Bill's day is coming home because she just lights up when she sees him.

The worst part about her being 12 weeks old is that I know soon and very soon I'll be going back to work. I'm very excited to see the kids and get back to school, but of course I don't want to leave Lilah. Thankfully God has blessed us with two wonderful people to watch her. Phyllis Giddings, the mother of a great friend whom I've known for years, will be watching her three days a week. The other two days she will be with a mother a student who I had for two years. Both woman have big hearts for kids and both are wonderful Christian ladies, which makes me super happy.

I finally added some videos. The are at the bottom.

Lilah doing some tummy time

Gouda and Biscuit snuggling at bed time

Lilah loves tummy time and was laughing at Chicken. You'll have to excuse the naked baby bum. She had a terrible diaper rash so we were airing it out as much as possible.

Stare down

I put up these black and white patterns by her changing table. She loves to look and laugh at them.

Looking at the patterns

She holds her hands a lot. I think it's super cute

She has her Baby Legs on. They are like leg warmers for babies and you can use them for all sorts of things like sleeves and stuff. I was sick of taking her pants on a off one day so she just had her baby legs on which makes changing diapers so much easier.

Auntie Em got her an oh so cute onsie from Wicked, which happens to be mommy's favorite musical.

In her Bumbo. She likes to sit up and is doing a pretty good job so far. Of course she can't do it unassisted but the Bumbo sure does help her get the feel of sitting up.

Beautiful

She wanted so disparately to grab the toy but just could not get her hand to it. So she just stared at it.

The first video is of her rolling over. Again you'll have to pardon the nakedness, she still had the diaper rash when I filmed it. The second video is of her playing with the cow toy.

Two Months and Counting

Lilah is over two months old!!! 91/2 weeks to be exact. I know she is growing fast but really don't realize it until people who have not seen her in a while point it out. Her buddy Alex is not much older than her and they weigh almost the same so I have no other babies to compare her to. Today we went to school for Valentines parties and everyone loved seeing her. It's always nice when people tell you how beautiful your child is, even though I already knew it. She was held by seven different people, bombarded with students, in the middle of tons of noise, and she didn't seem to mind one bit.

Important things:
She found her hands and often tries to put them in her mouth. Most of the time she just plays with them.

She is sleeping through the night. Goes down between 7:30 and 8:30 and sleeps until at least 4:00 am, and sometimes later.

She is a regular conversationalist and loves to sit and chat over breakfast and dinner.

Right now you are only getting pictures but we hope to put some videos of her up. Apparently our video camera and computer are not compatible so we cannot pull any videos off of it at the moment. Hopefully sometime soon!

We had a pair of booties that were wonderful and never came off but we could not find them anywhere else. So I took them apart and made new ones in all different colors. These are her new cream colored booties.

Chicken and Biscuit got hair cuts. They were starting to look homeless.

Love her

Lilah's buddy Alex. They do coffee together, hang out at church, go to dinner...you know...buddy stuff. Notice the matching car seat covers, they are so in style.

Ever since we got dogs Sunday mornings were snuggle time. The dogs would pile onto the bed and we would all snuggle together. Well now that Lilah is here she snuggles too. Let me just say that WE DO NOT HAVE A FAMILY BED....we just like to snuggle on Sunday mornings. Bill and I like our bed to be ours.

Biscuit just cannot get enough of Lilah. He snuck as close as her could to her.

I could not resist this photo. When Biscuit wants attention he gently lays his paw on you. He was so cute trying to lay his paw on Lilah's hand.

This is her cow that she likes to play with. Well...not so much play as just bat and laugh at. It was given to her by the Fritzler girls.

Cuteness

She has such a strong core. She is already trying to sit up by herself and has held her head up for a long time. She will even stand for a while supported. We call this Super Lilah!!!

Happy girl after bath

Playing under her play mat

Holding her favorite pig Winifred

2 months old

Happy baby

Lilah is almost 7 weeks old and it's really very hard to believe. We have had so much fun getting to know her and learning our new life with her in it. She is just a wonderful baby. She is almost sleeping through the night (she only wakes up once) and is starting to get into a regular routine. Our day is filled with eating, burping, spitting up (a lot), changing clothes (because of the spit up), walking around in the Moby carrier (which I love by the way and recommend it to everyone with babies), staring at the tapestry on the wall, pooping, and smiling. She is a very content baby and easy to take care of.

The dogs just love her and are always very interested in what she is doing. They treat her very gently and great with her. The best part is that their barking doesn't bother

I just love this picture.

This is her one month old picture. We kept forgetting to take it and I happened to remember when she was sleeping. I'm realizing that if I don't do things the second I remember them I forget ten seconds later and it never gets done. She is laying next to her pig Winifred (which is what we told everyone Lilah's name was before she was born). We bought her in Epcot in the England section when we went on our babymoon this summer. The guy who sold it to us is playing Yaxley in the next Harry Potter movie. We got our picture taken with him. It's our claim to fame.

This is a true reflection on Lilah's personality. She is just so happy.....and covered in spit up

What's up?

Chubby cheeks

We love taking sleeping pictures of her.

Sitting pretty. Isn't she just the cutest???

She woke up and was sucking on her hand and eventually found her thumb. It was too cute not to take a picture of it.

The Holidays

Here are some pictures of the holidays. Like I said in the last post it was rather a busy time for us. Lilah is actually four weeks old today! It's really very hard to believe. I think back four weeks ago on this day and it's kind of a blur. It seems like she just arrived yesterday and that she's been here forever, all at the same time.

Lilah and her buddy Alex. They were born three weeks apart (Alex is older). They love to sleep through church together among other fun activities.
Lilah and Grandpa Kenny on Christmas eve.

Lilah was a reindeer for Christmas day.
Lilah in her pretty red Christmas outfit....and resident bib. The bib has now become a part of every outfit.

Alianna's pile of presents. Lilah's was a bit smaller and of course Bill, Garrett, Jordan and I did not have any kind of pile what so ever. I have a feeling that the kids will forever be getting many more presents than us.

This is the amazing and beautiful quilt that Auntie Jordy made for Lilah. It's so pretty I'm not sure if I'll ever let Lilah play with it for fear of ruining it.

Lilah and Alianna in matching outfits that Nana bought for Christmas.

Lilah and Alianna again in matching outfits. This was not on purpose though, they just happen to have similar outfits. Lilah was very interested in Alianna.

Lilah in the Christmas hat. It says " Nana's Little Elf," but it's kind of hard to see in this picture.

Nana and her girls

Lilah's many faces....