A rough week.

We had a lot of firsts over the last week: first roll, first giggle, first day of day care and first cold/cough. Lily was taking the whole thing like a real champ until we hit breaking point yesterday and today. Yesterday I asked Colin for a little alone time at home with Lily before her first full week of daycare. He gladly said yes and this morning took off on his own little man adventure.....the book store for a few hours, the park to play guitar for another hour and then the grocery store for his girls. And then he came home to a strung-out wife and a crying baby, a baby that cried pretty close to the entire time he was gone. Every time I tried to feed her she arched her back and screamed, tried to rock her she arched her back and screamed, tried to bounce her she just cried....no matter what I did she just cried. So finally we ended up at the doctors office (thinking it may be an ear ache). Instead it was confirmed that everything we were doing was just fine and she just has a cold. So a few finally thoughts: God help us when we have more than just a cold and next time I will be more careful about what I ask for.

Broccoli from the garden as big as your head (yes I am pretty sure that is dried milk in my neck and those are my pumping rubber bands.....you got to have priorities at the end of your day).

Lily loves being in the sling our friend Whitney made for us. She can see everything I am doing and just sits there as content as can be.

Look what I can do!

Lillian rolled for her first time when Meg and Annette were in town and Colin and I were lucky enough to both be standing there watching her struggle do it the very first time. The week was crazy, she ate an incredible amount all week long and by the end of the week she had put on so much more chub that she now has wrist creases and and multiple elbow dimples. It is truly adorable. So she first rolled last Sunday and since Colin is home he has been able to see her roll daily and I come home to late in the day to get any rolling time. I was feeling so sad about missing everything and so finally on Thursday before I left for work we put this little munchkin on her belly and of course she rolled and we caught it on tape. It made my entire day and possibly my week.

Good friends and a few changes.

I had to capture Lily's first official night of "sleeping through the night" on film. It was amazing. I put her to bed at 8pm and she woke up at 4 am to eat for the first time - 8 whole hours of sleep in a row. I can't even tell you how amazing it truly was. Since then she has had a few nights that were rough but close to 4 or 5 nights a week she only wakes once typically giving Colin and I a full 4-6 hours of sleep in a row depending on how quickly we can get to bed after her. We are a whole new family and of course not to brag but she has slept-in 2-3 times until 8:00 or 9:00 am. I have not slept that much since prior to being pregos! Cheers Lily, we are so proud.

Blossoming head control and a look of "mom why is my head soooo heavy, I can hardly lift it up?"

A good friend from growing up was out to visit last weekend. She has a 10 month old and made the cross country trek from Rhode Island. We had such a great weekend of baby craziness, I am pretty sure we all needed another weekend to recover from all the fun. (Left to right Beck, Meg and Annette from MI/RI, Julie and Lily, Celeste and Quinn, Katie and Harper, Adrienne and Rosie.)

A few cute moments.

Lily HAD to wear her team shirt over to her friend Harper's house because Harper's Grandpa Bill loves the maize and blue enemy. Go Spartans!

Morning time with dad.

This is the, "Really mom do I have to keep playing? I would rather just take a quick nap." look.

Starting to grab things in front of her. Soooo cute.

Apparently somewhere around 4 months they start becoming ticklish and laughing a bit. So I tried it out, no laughing but lots of cute smiling.

3 months old- Happy Birthday Lily!

3 months old today! In the last 3 months we have learned so much from this little girl: to laugh harder, love more, be more patient, sleep isn't as vital as we thought but caffeine is our friend, and mornings aren't so bad when you wake up to smiles and coos (Colin). Just today she looked so much bigger than she did last week and when I greeted her at the end of the day she reached out and touched my face, one of the sweeter moments of my day. She has a onesy made by Katie at my baby shower, I thought 3 little pigs were perfect for 3 little months old.

We had a great weekend full of solitary bike rides and a great big family picnic (Colin, Lily, Julie and Roxie) at the lake. The sun was shinning and we just read books and played.

Talking in the bath.

The new, obscure sound you have all been hearing in the mornings and around lunch is my heart breaking every time I have to leave this little girl for work. Yep.....back to the grind and I knew it was going to be hard.....I just didn't know how hard. Colin is home enjoying every moment and trying his hardest to record the great ones I am missing. It has been an adjustment for Lily and I. The sleep schedule I worked so hard to get her on is shot because she has the best "mom radar" in the world and seriously I will lay her down and she will be fast asleep for 30 minutes and the SECOND I walk out of the house she wakes. Colin tries his hardest but it is no longer "the same" without mom home. Luckily she is so happy when she is awake and it has just made the nights a lot harder. I am sure my heart will stop aching by the time she is two and throwing her temper tantrums.....until then I hold tight to my weekends and evenings (and Kleenex). A little dramatic.....I think not.

She loves her days with dad and she is talking/cooing more and more everyday. She can roll to her side but she has yet to perform a full tummy to back or back to tummy roll. It is only a matter of time though.

12 weeks and look what I can do!

She can now lift her head up and turn it as apposed to smashing her face on the ground when she turns her head. She still protests after about 5 minutes of being on her tummy by asking to be cradled and given her binky.

Thanks to her friend Alex she now has a bumbo to sit in and see the world from a different level all the while working on that nice head control.

This is the start of everything going in her mouth! She is also in her 3-6 month clothes now......ohhh so big.

I was on the phone with Colin and she wouldn't stop cooing so I put the phone to her ear. This video brings many things to mind: 1) It is the start of many things to come. 2) We have a typical little girl that loves to talk and loves to talk on the phone. 3) I have the worst baby cooing voice in the world. 4) Colin is going to have his hands full with his 2 little ladies because we all know how much I like to talk.

Home from Michigan

I didn't have a chance to fit this in the last post. My dad has been working on building this kit plane for the last 2 years. He says he is about 60% done. The work he has done is amazing as every metal sheet has to be bent/shaped and rivot holes made then sanded then riveted. Here you can see most of the body and the vertical and horizontal stabilizer. I know this description is not doing his work justice so all I can say is that it is A LOT of work. Good job dad!

So happy playing outside!

Roxie was so happy her dad was home she greeted Colin with not just one toy but TWO.

Our transition back to Oregon was a little rough on Lillian as just before we left for Michigan her sleeping routine had much improved. So needless to say with all of the traveling she regressed to only sleeping in our arms again. The first day back was terrible with lots of crying every time I placed her in her crib and by golly I was not going to let her sleep in my arms so we played tug of war all day long. As you can tell by the picture above I clearly lost the battle. We were outside playing and I turned around to talk to Katie for a minute and when we turned back around she was passed out. My favorite is that her outfit and adorable socks from Jenny, Maddie and Aunt Carol match her quilt made by Liz. Ahh the lessons of parenting. But how can your heart not just melt when you see this little girl.....so sweet.