Week 11

We finally had our two month check up yesterday! Aiden is measuring up very well.
Head: 38.5cm- 25%
Weight: 11lbs. 1oz.- 50%
Height: 23 1/2inches- 75%

So, as I've been remarking: Long, thin and a small head. Hahaha! Well, it works for her... She is the cutest little thing I've ever seen- even if she is my own :-)
We also started her vaccinations. We are going to be doing them in individual doses every two weeks. We started with the oral vaccination Rotavirus yesterday. It has the least effect on children. So I thought this was a good way to start. She won't start getting the injections for another two weeks. By that time, she will be three months old. The older she is, the more comfortable I feel. The doctor and nurses were very nice about it all. The nurse is even checking to see if we can split up the Diptheria, tetnus & Pertusis vaccine, which is usually administered as a three in one. Hopefully, we will be able to find a way to split it up a bit. I just think these vaccines are so hard on little bodies. While I don't want her to get sick, I also don't want her suffering from the vaccinations either. Waying the odds... argh! Why is there sickness in the world! Any way... she has done fine with this first vaccine (as it's oral). Hopefully she will do just as well with all the others!
We have been in an excellent mood for the last few days. She is happy so much and wanting to play and smile. It's wonderful to watch her be so interested in the things around her and happy to be with us. I just love it when she smiles at us! There is no better feeling in the whole world!

So it's been a while...

Dan and I switched internet providers and we are now getting internet through Verizon. While that means that we get internet wherever we want, it also means that we have a usage limit before they start charging extra. As we used it up too quickly, we've had to conserve. This has meant, sadly, no blogging updates :-( But we are back and much more aware of how we can use our new internet situation. So we should have no problems in the future getting out the regular updates.
Any way...
Since we last updated A LOT has happened!
Continuing Week 7: We got a visit from Aunt Julie, Grandma Mary, Rachel and little Miss Ella! We had a great time watching the girls play. It was so fun to watch them interact a little bit. I can't wait until they get a little bit bigger and they really get interested in playing together! It was definitely funny to see how long Aiden is these days. She isn't ever around babies near her own age. So this was the first comparison I had seen of her next to a baby near her own age. Skinny and long... taking after Uncle Matt? It's a possibility!Week 8: This was fruit picking week! It seems all the berries decided to get ripe this week. So Aiden got her first "taste" of cherry picking. Aiden really enjoyed the outside time. We are coming to find out that our little girl seems to be at her best and happiest when she is spending time out of doors. It is so fun to see her come alive and get very interested in the things around her. She has been getting very awake... she stays up and is so interactive. We are having so much fun with her these days! She is also starting to sit up supported and drooling so much!Week 9: We started sucking our thumb! It's not a regular habit... she prefers the whole fist. She has been going crazy on her fingers. In fact she has been so determined to suck on her hands that she ends up gagging herself at least once a day... oh well. At least she's not puking. She is also eating SO much. We are eating about 3.5ounces every feeding, plus nursing! Hungry girl. We also got a visit from cousin Jilly this week. Yeah for visitors!Week 10: Happy Father's Day, Grammy's birthday and Mommy and Daddy's 2nd anniversary! This was a very busy week for us! First we had Daniel's first Father's Day. Aidie and I made daddy breakfast in bed and gave daddy the old starwars trilogy special collection blah blah blah. He was excited and will now stop bothering me about getting them on DVD. Dan had to work, so we saw our daddies/grandpas early in the day. We got some good pictures and Mark actually held Aiden again. I swear it's like pulling teeth to get that man to get close to his grandbaby, whereas I can hardly get her away from the other grandpa... crazy how different two people can be. We also have the last pictures of John with long hair. He has chopped it, prior to his trip to Chicago and looks like a grown man instead of teenage kid. I can't believe it!We also had Ryan and Danae's wedding this past week. Wow was it HOT!!! Either way we had a good time socializing, the bride was beautiful, the groom was the happiest I've ever seen him (which is saying a lot as I've known him forever) and the wedding party was sweating like crazy, but I think everyone had a fun and memorable day. Aiden was so well behaved and happy! No crying fits until the last half hour before we left. Plus the violinist played her her very own solo. Inspiration? Maybe.Other big updates- She is sleeping through the night!!! Eight hour stretches. She has been waking up at 6:30 sharp every day for the last week and a half. Early, but if she sleeps eight hours, I'm happy. She is also smiling at familiar faces. Every morning, I'm greeted with a big smile. I love the acknowledgement and love on her face. It is worth everything and anything!

Week 7

We have had lots of fun this past week. Besides the fact that Aiden is now rolling over, reaching and grabbing for toys, and being awake other than for feedings, we have had lots of other fun experiences!
First, we took a trip to the Newport aquarium, which I'm not sure was worth it in the after thoughts. It was a very long drive and afterward Aiden had a low grade temperature and didn't straighten out for three days :-( But she is fine now and we have some nice pictures. It will be fun to show her pictures of her first big outing when she gets older. We did have a nice time, but I think next time we decide to take a big excursion we will have to take a few days instead of just one. That will give us more time and less rush- which always seems to be part of our lives as of late... can't imagine why ;-)
We also had Faythe's wedding this past Saturday. I can't believe Aiden and Ella slept through the whole thing! No screaming babies to interrupt the ceremony. A miracle! She was wide awake by the reception, however. We have some great pictures! Aiden absolutely LOVED dancing. It was so much fun. Dan did all the videography work. So we didn't get to spend much time together until the end, but we still had a good time. The happy couple looked like they had a great time too! All together a nice day!
After they got Faythe and Jared shipped off to Tennessee, Aunt Julie, Grandma Mary, Rachel and Ella came over for a visit. It was so sweet to watch the girls "play" together. I can't wait for them to get a little bit bigger. Ella is already taking an interest in Aiden, but Aiden hasn't quite noticed her yet. I'm sure by their next visit, Aiden will be up to a more interested interaction. Putting the girls side by side was so interesting. It makes it so much more apparent how long and skinny Aiden is... not at all like mom and dad! How funny! Maybe she'll be tall and skinny like uncle Matt?

Week 6

Lots of exciting news this week! Aiden has OFFICIALLY rolled over!!! So exciting! We have been doing lots of tummy time lately and she has been very determined to get moving and she is well on her way :-)
She has also been making lots of funny faces. She is pursing her lips, raising her eyebrows and giving us real smiles! It is so wonderful to smile at her and to see her smile back at us. I just love my baby!! It is super sweet- as if she wasn't already cute enough... she even laughs in her sleep. I just love it! It even makes up for her screaming in the middle of the night.
On that note- she is sleeping so much better these days. She actually slept for five hours straight last night. Yippee!
Music is definitely helping the sleep and it is quite obvious that she is a music loving child. My parents have a toy that plays music when you hit is on something. My dad smacked it on his hand to get it playing and Aidie's eyes popped open so wide and she smiled so big. It was so sweet. It totally made my dad's day!
I'm so excited about tomorrow. We have decided to take a trip to the Newport Aquarium. Should be very fun... or a catastrophe. Either way... we should have good pictures and great memories.

Week 5

Aiden is a whopping five weeks old today! Yet another weekly milestone. I think it's safe to say, and I hope I'm not jinxing myself, that Aiden is starting to developing a sleeping routine. It has been wonderful over the past few days. She has been going down at about 11-12pm and getting up about six hours later, staying up for 1 1/2 hours and going back down for at least another couple of hours. It has been really great. We are finally starting to get some solid sleep. I didn't think this day would EVER come! She has also started taking a nap every day when Dan leaves for work at 2:30, usually for a couple of hours. It has been giving me so much time to get things done. I unpacked more and made muffins the other day. In fact, I'm doing laundry right now and there aren't any dishes for me to do! I might even try vacuuming tomorrow when Dan is home! It's weird the things that excite me these days.
As we have now reached the five week marker, my check up is only one week away. Hopefully the doctor will give me the A-OK to get back to normal life. It would be so nice to be able to start an exercise regime. One look at my flabby tummy and it makes me want to do a billion sit-ups. Being on "rest" has just been weird. Even though I haven't been banned from going out of the house on errands, I'm not supposed to do anything that could considered strenuous (maybe because of the stitches? I don't know... Dr. Cook is always very vague). I definitely feel fine and think it is definitely time to be to get up and get cracking on shaping up!
Anyway... my little girl is sleeping. So I'm going to try to fix myself some lunch :-)

I did say that I would post photos from Faythe's shower and the meeting of cousin Ella. So, here they are :-)Wide awake and so interested in cousin Faythe. I LOVE this picture!!!


Meeting cousin Ella. Ella was so interested in Aiden. It was adorable to watch :-)


Snuggling up in cousin Sara's lap


Happy shower Faythe!


Showing off with Daddy before the shower

Update: Aiden slept six straight hours last night! Progress? I hope so!!! Wish us luck/ keep us in your prayers/etc. that it will keep up. I've had so much energy! I unpacked five more boxes today, washed dishes, and made muffins. Yay for sleep! I hope we have another good night so we can make it to church tomorrow.

She's 1 Month Old!!!

I can't believe that my little girl is a month old already! So much has happened in such a short time, and, yet, I feel that we just got home from the hospital yesterday. She is already doing so much.
-She is holding her head up so well these days that we hardly need to support her anymore.
-She has also just grown out of her first newborn romper (only in length, not girth- she's still a skinny little thing!).
-She is talking up a storm! She babbles to herself in the car and before we get out of bed to get her when she wakes up and pretty much any other time she isn't crying or have a pacifier in her mouth. Speaking of which is another blessing: I was so against giving her a pacifier because, as a nursery caregiver, I know how difficult of a habit it can be to break. Although we have been giving her a paci for two weeks now, she isn't really attached to it. She spits it out when she's had enough and refuses it when she doesn't want it. We laugh about her having a love affair with her paci, but I guess we should just call it a casual fling- as she just uses it for when she wants it and then throws it away.
-We haven't been able to get her to roll over again, but she has come close a couple of times. She is good about getting onto her side, but getting the rest of the way to the tummy takes some leg coordination that she hasn't quite mastered. But she'll be there soon. She is SO strong!
After two terrible sleeps these past two nights, we finally had a VERY GOOD one. I got my first solid 6hours of sleep since I napped at my parents house when she was just a couple of weeks old. It was amazing! Of course after she woke up that's how she wanted to stay. So I only got about 30min more sleep after that... oh well. At least we're progressing.
On another note- my class officers have scheduled an unofficial class reunion for this June to celebrate 5 years out and to reminisce and all that jazz. I can't believe that we have been out of high school for five years. Wow! Time really flies. I'm sure the next five will be even faster, seeing as we have someone to keep our hands full nowadays.
Hopefully, I'll be able to get Faythe's shower pictures up soon. I got some really good ones. I'm so excited! I can't wait for the wedding. Only two more weeks!!!