4 Month Update

I can't believe Lex is already 4 months old! She is growing up so fast. She's started to grab toys, but only if they are laid in her lap. And of course, everything has to go straight into her mouth! She is such a happy girl, smiling all the time. She's especially happy in the morning. She has become more and more talkative everyday, especially when she's laying down. This morning we had the best alarm ever, waking up to the sound of her talking to herself in her crib. She did this for about 15 minutes! It was so fun to listen to her. We tried out the exersaucer today, but she's still a little small for it. Her feet don't even reach the bottom! But she seems to like all the different toys. I also bought a highchair that sits on the kitchen chair so she can sit and eat dinner with us. She hasn't started on rice cereal yet, but I'm going to ask the pediatrician about starting her on it maybe in a couple of weeks. I think she still might be a little too small right now. I had to post another video of her talking. She was just going on and on. Make sure you turn your volume up towards the end, there's a little surprise :-)

I forgot to mention before that Alexa has started to hold her bottle up on her own. She can't hold it the entire feeding but she is doing a pretty good job. Sometime she takes the bottle out and then puts it back in. I bet in a couple weeks she'll be feeding herself!

Happy Halloween!

I wasn't planning to dress Alexa up for Halloween since she's too young to even know what's going on, but the daycare was having a Halloween parade so I figured, what the heck! Instead of buying her one of the cheesy Halloween costumes from the store, I decided to put together one on my own. We already had a purple tutu for her and matching flower headband, which was a good start to the makings of a beautiful fairy. All I had to buy were a pair of wings and some tights and wahla! instant fairy! Here's a video of her from the parade. It was really quite a big deal! All the parents were there and the parking lot was completely full! The kiddos looked so cute! I was so proud of my little fairy :-)

Tanner's

This past Sunday we ventured out to Tanner's Orchard with Grandpa and GG. It turned out to be a beautiful day, although it was a little chilly outside of the sun. We got Lexi all bundled up and she looked so cute!

We've started using the Baby Bjorn more to carry her around and take her on walks. She seems to really like it and will often fall asleep. It's so much easier than carrying her or lugging the carseat/stroller around! Speaking of carseat, a few weeks ago I bought a mirror to put on the headrest in the car and it also plays music. Lexi just loves this thing! Every morning when I take her to daycare I look back and she's just grinning from ear to ear and sometimes will squeal with excitement. If she's tired it will also put her right to sleep. Greatest invention ever!

Little Miss Giggles

Here's a video of Alexa giggling. She just thinks it's hilarious when we bounce her! I can't help but giggle everytime she giggles!

Look who's talking!

Here's a video of Alexa "talking". She does this quite a bit now and it's so fun to listen to her! She really gets into it! We've taken several videos of her "talking" but I had to post this one because at the end you get to see her pouty face! I apologize that the video is so long. I'm not very good at editing otherwise I'd cut out some of it!

3 Month Update

It's been a few weeks since my last update and a lot has happened! I went back to work 2 weeks ago and Alexa started daycare. The first day was so hard. I cried on the way to the daycare and then started really crying when we dropped her off. She had this huge smile on her face like she was telling me "It's okay Mommy." I don't know if that made it easier or not! I'm pretty sure I saw some tears in Brian's eyes too :-) My Mom knew how hard it was for me to take her to daycare and how guilty I was feeling leaving her there so she offered to watch Alexa 2 days a week. This works out great because Alexa still gets interaction with other babies, which I think is really important, but she only has to go 3 days. Alexa loves going to my Mom's too! She smiles at her all the time! This has definitely made my return to work a lot easier!

So even though Lex has only been at daycare for 2 weeks (and not even 2 full weeks) she already caught a cold! She started showing symptoms on Friday and she's been pretty congested since then. I am really pretty angry about the situation! I just knew one of those snotty nosed kids was going to get her sick! The first day of daycare I visited Alexa over lunch and one of the other little girls had a nasty runny nose. A few of the other kids had coughs like they were 20-year smokers. Ugh...I knew this would happen! I guess the only positive thing is that she'll build up her immunities but in the meantime, it's heartwrenching to see her go through this. She actually hasn't done too bad considering though. She's still awfully smiley, eating, no temperature, and sleeping fairly well. You really wouldn't even know she was sick if it weren't for the snorting! I still feel bad for her though. I'm hoping it only lasts a short time. I just wish I could suck the cold out of her and take it away.

Last weekend I went shopping at the outlet mall in Aurora with my friends Nina and Abbey. We all ended up buying tons of things for our little girls and only a couple things for ourselves. It's funny how your priorities change! It's so much more fun shopping for the little ones! Here's a pic of an outfit I bought for Alexa. I just love her little boots!


Yesterday we had family pictures taken. Alexa did pretty good considering she was sick. We didn't love the family pic of us, but we're getting more done when she turns 6 months so I think those will be better since she should be sitting up by then.