photo shoot

Here's a photo shoot of Lena on the floor.  She was loving it

The Patch came over to check out what was going on

and then she watched football with Daddy and Uncle Dave.

The End.

add ons

 This is us all ready for a walk in the cold.

Lena is 4 months old now.  

She has added shrieking to her repertoire of usable communication methods.  

Still working on those videos.  Cannot. Get. Them. To. Load. ARRRRGGGGH!.  

playing and yelling

hello again.

Here are some more pictures.  Lena's becoming a little spitfire that's for sure.  At 4 months she already knows what she wants.  And she has become a bit of a loudmouth (wonder where she gets that from...)  Yea, it's pretty funny, her cute soft girly baby coos have turned into these funny gargle-y yells that she does non-stop.  If I can get it on video I'll post it next time :-)  For now, here is Lena loving her stand-y play center thing:

she's super-fun.  and super-awesome.

<3

chili pepper

Happy Halloween!  

Lena was a Jalepeno for Halloween.  It was pretty cool.

 She also loves to look at her friend in the mirror.  Her friend's name is "Friend Baby".  They talk and smile and such.

And this is Lena all ready for the cold :-)

3 month mark

Lena is officially 3 months old today, October 15!  yay!  Happy birthday little girl!  To celebrate the big day mommy did a Lena photoshoot and got the resulting cute pictures.  We're also going out to dinner and renting the "Babies" movie from a Redbox tonight, that's to celebrate survival of the first 3 months  :-)

Here are the pictures:

So cute :-)  The 1st and 4th ones are my favorites.

On another 3-month-note, I'm looking forward to the time when this little munchkin will start sleeping through the night.  I CANNOT wait.  It pains me to think that I haven't slept a full night since July.  Right now she's getting up 1-2 times a night... 3 times on a bad night. no fun.  We put her to bed at 7pm and then start our day the next morning between 6-7am, so maybe 2-3 times isn't that bad since it's over a 12-ish hour window...?  Mmm, not sure about that one.  All I can say is, bring on the longer sleep cycles.

And here's the other thing about sleeping and nap-time especially, HOW is anyone supposed to know how much sleep their kid needs anyway??!  How many naps?  How long?  what if they wake up early?  must they be in their cribs?  Every parenting book touts their theory on sleep as if it was THE magic formula.  Unfortunately, all the books contradict each other so what does that leave us new moms with?  Not a whole lot.  I guess there is no magic formula.  Too bad.  

Funnily enough, Lena just fell asleep in her swing... it's 4:15 and I was going to put her down for a nap at 4:30, oh well.  I guess she was tired.  Who knew?

an interview

Hello all.

Today's post was going to be a little video of Lena hanging out and talking.   Sadly, once again my posting plans were foiled by a lack of computer skills.... Oh well.  Anyway, Lena is 11 weeks old!  11 weeks sounds like such a short time because it's felt like SO much longer.  Sheesh, what did I DO with myself before she came around?! (  1. slept at night  2. see number 1)

Anyway, enjoy these few pics.  I get to enjoy her ALL DAY which is quite the perk of being a mommy :-)

 

love, 

Kim & Lena

new skills

Laughing Lena

Hi there.

So 10 week old Lena has developed some new skills.  They include sitting in a boppy chair, smiling, "talking", and rolling over onto her stomach at 3am causing her to wail because she hates being on her belly so much.  

Here are some pictures of her showing off her skills and just being cute:

Hi I'm smiling

Crazy-haired Lena with Grami

The Lip

What "The Lip" dissolves into sometimes...

OK, below is a video of Lena.  It's her smiling and being cute and then showing us her most beloved skill at the very end of the video... so you have to watch til the end.  Sadly, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to rotate this video, so you have to watch with your head tilted sideways... sorry