Random Musings

As many of you know Nick and I decided (well mainly I decided and then he agreed) to use cloth diapers for Annabelle and everyone asks how it's going ... so far so good! Currently she is wearing Kissaluvs Size 0 diapers with Thirsties covers. Once she gets a little more meat on her we will switch to BumGenius 4.0.  I happen to think they look quite cute with her tiny feet and in Daddy's arms.

Thanks to a sling Annabelle enjoys being in the kitchen with me. Nick said I was more careful with my knife, so he enjoyed it too. He wouldn't like to take me to the ER again for trying to chop off my finger.

I'm starting to realize that Annabelle will soon be growing out of some of her clothes, so I'm on a mission to get a picture taken in ever outfit. So the new rule is diaper change = new outfit change. I'll work on posting the photos later, but so far this is my favorite:

In very exciting news, on June 5th - 6th Annabelle slept through the night!! 6 hours and 25 minutes to be exact. She slept more than I did only because I'm a night owl and stayed up to get some things done. When she woke me up in the morning I had to triple check the time to be sure. But unless I started sleep walking and can perfectly swaddle a baby during this sleep walk I think it's fair to say she did sleep though the night!

The other exciting event for June 6th was that Annabelle smiled and it was caught on video!

And in final exciting news Aunt Steph is on her way to Iowa to spend the summer with Annabelle ... she is looking out the window every moment awaiting her arrival ...

One Month

Plain and simple ... not quite sure how it happened, but on May 28th Annabelle turned one month old. 

Here are some pictures from her photo shoot.

Trying to be artistic.

For comparison next to her bear, next month we will work more on proper posture.

And now she's tired of all the photos and decides her bear is a comforting shoulder to lean on.

Annabelle attends a wedding.

Holy moly time does fly when you have a baby! Where did the entire month of May go? As of today Annabelle is 5.5 weeks old, Nick and I agree that we can't believe she's only that old.

Annabelle has had a busy 3 weeks since the last update, so to be fair we will break up the posts by major events.

On May 21st we attended the wedding of our dear friends Dave and Andrea Scott.

Nick was the best man and Melissa was the personal attendant. Thankfully Nick's mom and grandma attended the wedding also and took care of Annabelle during the day. The one thing I've never noticed before is the parents of babies always sit in the back and on the end of the pews at weddings, which now included Annabelle and I. Thankfully she was like this the entire wedding ceremony ...

And of course we had to take a family photo - courtesy of Annabelle's new friend Madeline's mom Jamie.

And here is a picture of the two girls and their mommies:

Annabelle enjoyed the wedding and dancing at the reception. But I think most of all she just loved being held by almost everyone in attendance and of course her pink dress!