Creating 1st Christmas Memories

Gosh, I can't believe Christmas is right around the corner!

What happened to this year, it has flown by us? I guess looking for a house, buying a house, having a baby and becoming parents will do that to a person!

One of the things I'm most excited about this year is creating our family Christmas card. I love this Christmas season and receiving Christmas cards and everything about it, well except people's craziness and the traffic. I could do without those!

But this year, it's even more exciting around here. Our first Christmas with sweet Nyla! Wow, it's so weird to be writing that we have a baby this year. Last year at this time I was in the first trimester of my pregnancy, feeling exhausted, but thankfully not sick a single day. And now, she's here! Crazy!!!

I am so excited to get our Christmas cards out this year with our new family of 3!

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Here are the cards I'm looking at for our first Christmas card as a family of 3!

Love the color combo on this card. And I could easily turn my pictures into black and white to keep this similar theme on the card. A top contender!

"Love, Peace and Joy" is what I wish for everyone this year. So I do love this one a lot too.

I'm addicted to anything with our initials on it, this is why it caught my eye.

So many choices! Which one do you like?

18 weeks and 19 weeks pictures!

Sorry we're so late! Busy, busy, busy around here!

I love my piggies!!!

18 weeks and getting used to the camera!!!

I'm 18 weeks!

What We're Thankful For...

4 Months Old

It's really hard to believe Nyla is 4 months old already. I feel like I say that every time I blog on here, but it just seems to be flying by us so quickly!

I love the age she is now. She smiles all the time, talks and coos, her sneezes are adorable and she just thinks they're so funny, she's starting to laugh, and well, she's just plain fun!

She's in 6 months clothes now and has been for the last 2 to 3 weeks. She rolls over but ends up on her stomach and hates it, so she doesn't roll over anymore. She loves to stand on us or in her exersaucer (I think she'll walk before she crawls!). She loves being kissed all over her face and her smiles are endless. She even kisses back! She loves talking and laughing with Daddy and smiling at Mommy. She's such a joy!

We are beyond blessed with this gift from God. I am so thankful for her! I didn't think it possible to love someone immediately and for it to grow so much everyday. It really is unconditional love!

Here are some of her hilarious 4 month pictures. We love our sweet girl!

We have too much fun with this girl!

And we both couldn't stop laughing when we put the sunglasses on. She didn't know what the heck was going on!

Sweet girl!

Yay for being 4 months old!

Our big girl!

17 Weeks

Big Girl turned 17 weeks yesterday!

We went to the doctor last week and go okayed to start rice cereal and then baby food (after a couple successful weeks on rice cereal) which was very good news! Nyla's been extra hungry the past few weeks, she wasn't getting enough during the day and was very fussy. She even started waking up in the middle of the night again, unusual for her since she's been sleeping through the night since she was 7 weeks old. But all is good now. Rice cereal is going well and we are supplementing with formula. I never wanted to supplement with formula but she's happier and more content and that's the most important thing.

In other news, she weighed 15 pounds and 1.5 ounces at her 4 month check-up, was 26 inches long (or the length of a 6 month old...wow). Her weight is in the 90th percentile and her length is in the 95th percentile. These percentiles are nothing new since they've been off the charts since birth. She is one growing girl!

She started rolling over about 3 weeks ago, which was very exciting to watch. She was a big time roly poly for about a week and a half, but has slowed down now. She still hates being on her stomach for long periods of time, but is getting propped up pretty well now. She's at about a 45 degree angle and she'll probably be pushing up even further very soon. She loves to stand up and see things and is becoming unhappy when we try and sit her in our lap, she'd rather stand, silly girl. :) She holds her head up so well and is becoming less of a bobble head.

Because she loves to stand up, her Aunt Erin bought her an exersaucer (an early Christmas gift) and she LOVES it! She taps her foot on the bottom (yes she can reach), looks at all the lights and colors, accidentally presses the buttons and has a funny look on her face when she does and just loves it overall. We stuff a towel around her so she can sit up well in it, the seat is so big that she'd fall forward or backward if we didn't. But it was a great early present and we're getting a lot of use out of it. It's wearing her out and helping her take better naps, which I appreciate!