Our lives have settled quite nicely since your arrival 5 short months ago. We absolutely love being a family of 4! This month has been full of fun events – a visit from the Russ family, Mother’s Day and Mommy and Daddy’s first vacation since you were born!
Health
Your ears have been doing pretty good since your ear tubes were placed in April, however, this month you surprised us with two eye infections – 10 days a part!!! It was the weirdest thing ever. You went to sleep the night of May 20th and woke at 3am on the 21st a little fussy and cranky. I hadn’t noticed your eye as it was dark. After I changed you and you would not stop fussing, I turned the lights and to investigate and saw that your eye was swollen completely shut! Of course I immediately woke your Daddy and we called the after hours nurse. We took you in to see the doctor first thing on Saturday morning and you were diagnosed with pink eye and also had an infection in the tissues around the eye. After 10 days of antibiotics, the day you stopped taking them, you got the same thing in your other eye on May 31st!!! It was so crazy.
Sleep
You are still a very good sleeper. Mommy and Daddy took a vacation to the Bahamas this month and your Aunt Rara (Tara) flew in from Florida to watch you and your brother. She had you sleeping through the night without a feeding. I was so impressed!
New Tricks/Favorite Activities
You love blowing bubbles with your mouth
You love, love, love getting raspberries on your belly. Especially from your brother! Carson just loves to give you raspberries and you both belly laugh!
You love your feet! You have started to grab your feet and more recently have started to suck on your toes! Mamma (my mom) tells me I used to do this at your age as well. Like mother like daughter :-)
You napped in your crib for the first time this month at home. You have napped in your crib at daycare a couple of times, but you still prefer to nap in your swing.
You can sit with the assistance of you boppy.
You can roll from front to back and back to front.
You had cereal for the first time this month! You weren’t extremely excited about it but you did eat it.
You still love your exercauser and any toy that rattles and makes noise.
How cute is this western outfit Pepaw and Memaw got Haley?!?!
Check out those boots!
Haley tuckered out after her photo shoot.
Just wondering what is going through Miss Riley and Haley's minds right now...ready to go shopping?? That is just what we did!
Carson introducing Haley to the world of Angry Birds...not so sure how I feel about this one. Ha!
Haley just loves to play with her feet!!!
Carson tickling Haley. I just love how she looks at and adores her big brother.
Carson reading to Haley
I just love this intense look on her face.
Sweet as pie!
Haley's first food, baby cereal.
She's thinking its not what its cracked up to be.
Getting a decent picture of the two of them is difficult. But I think this one is cute.
Mommy is hardly ever in front of the camera.
Here is a cute video of Miss Haley blowing bubbles.
I am still catching up on my posts (it's mid August and I am just now posting May, ha!). Here are a few photos from May.
I had a wonderful Mother's Day this year. Chris, Megan and Riley Russ were in town for a baseball tournament and they were here to share Mother's Day with us. It was great! The kiddos surprised me with wonderful gifts that they made at school. I will treasure these forever! And yes, I have already started a bin that is filling up of all of Carson's art work. Its so hard not to save it ALL!!!
How cute is this!?!?!
Precious!
They even made pots and potted flowers for us. I actually kept this alive for 2.5 months!!!
This is one cool kid!
Ok, I debated posting this, but its too funny not too! Needless to say, I DID NOT TEACH HIM THIS. I am sure you can figure out who did. I certainly hope he doesn't show this new skill to his teachers.
Brian and I took our first trip since Haley was born this month. If it were up to me, I would have rather waited 'til she was a little older, but it worked out great anyway! I think I worried myself sick long before the trip and ended up having a great time while we were there. What made this trip even better was that it was free (for the most part)!!! This was an incentive trip with Brian's company so we went with some of his co-workers and the owner. It was a wonderful experience.
Believe it or not, I didn't take many pictures. Here are a few.
This was us on the beach before dinner one night.
The view from our room. It was beautiful.
I am not much for gambling, but I sure had fun when I was winning! And yes, I won and took it home!!! I am not one of those to win and keep playing. I didn't press my luck! (And no, those aren't all Brian's beers. We were on a beer run for the group. Ha!)
The trip was right before Brian's birthday so his co-workers surprised him with a little celebration. See how much he enjoyed that?!?! Ha!
Brian and I have been married for 6 years. We welcomed our son, Carson, in March of 2008 and our daughter, Haley, in December of 2010. We are enjoying parenthood tremendously and can't wait for each new day with them. They bring us so much joy.
