Pictures!

We really have not been up to much except the little one, so I thought I'd just throw some recent pictures on here.

This is the first picture I got with her smiling!!!

Is it mean of me to take a picture when she's crying...?

If so, then I'm a horrible mother:) But doesn't she look so big in the rocking chair?

Taking a nap with Daddy.

Snuggling with her elephant in the car seat.

She's getting better at holding things, and when she actually holds on, it goes straight to the mouth.

Another good example of that.

The other day I was showing Sean a picture I had taken of her, and he said, "I hope you are going to take as many pictures of our other kids as you do of her". I can't help that she's so cute, and that it needs to be documented!

We did, actually, go on a real date. One where we paid a babysitter (no matter that it was her uncle..) for Valentine's day. We went to lunch at the Melting Pot and then the temple. 

Oh. and Sean's brother, Stuart, got home from his mission in Switzerland. We've enjoyed having him home, and not just for babysitting!

The good, the bad...

and the sickly.

This is how we felt in our house the first part of the month. We were very fortunate, however, that it was just a cold, and didn't lead to much more for our little girl. Had it led to RSV we could have been in the hospital. Needless to say, I was a worried mama (that and taking care of a sick 3 month old for the first time...it's a scary thing)! We are all better now and much more rested.

Abigail is growing bigger, talking more, and smiling tons! We are quite enamored with her.

 This looks sort of funny, but it is so hard to catch a picture with her smiling! So this is as close as it gets.

Despite her looking angry, or like she is going to poop, she was actually having a lot of fun wiggling and talking in her bed one morning. 

Other than Abigail, we haven't been up to a whole lot. We celebrated my birthday on the 22nd with Sean's family. We had a yummy dinner, and cake and ice cream. 

Hello 2012...

and goodbye 2011. The ending of our year was great. We had a great Christmas and got to spend a lot of time with Sean's family. Abigail got spoiled with lots of toys and clothes, and slept through all the gift opening (3 times). We got to talk to Stuart on the phone on Christmas day, and best of all, we got to relax!

Abby got a cute tummy time mat/ gym from her Great Grandma and Grandpa Boardman and she LOVES it!

Shortly after Christmas, my sister, brother, mom, and my dad came into town for Abigail's blessing on the 1st. She looked pretty darn cute in her blessing dress, and didn't even cry during the blessing!

We enjoyed having my family here and are grateful we got to spend time with them! We also got to spend time with our friends since they were home for the holidays. It was so nice to see them, it's been a long time!

We are looking forward to all the new adventures and all of Abby's exciting milestones that 2012 will bring!

3 years

Today is our 3 year anniversary! It's one of those, "I can't believe it's been three years/ I can't believe it's only been three years" things. The last year brought a lot of change for us, especially the last few months of being parents! Tonight we are going to The Melting Pot to celebrate. Being a sucker for presents, we've already opened them! Sean got me a webcam (Skype anyone?), and I got him a food grinder attachment for the KitchenAid. Both things will most likely get a lot of use!


In other news, we're almost done Christmas shopping. Only 2 more to buy and we're done. Abby ended up getting more than I anticipated on buying her, but walking down the toy aisles, it's so hard to resist all the cute toys these days! Needless to say, she's spoiled. Speaking of spoiled, she even got to see Santa. The picture isn't the greatest, it's not very close and she's slumping down in Santa's arms, but you can't complain with free.

Yesterday I went back to work for the first time since Abigail was born. It was hard to leave her, but Sean was with her all day so that made it a little better. The worst was it was a super busy day, everyone's patience was fried, and it was one of my worst days working at the hospital. It didn't make it easy to come back. But I will only be working 1-2 days a week so it won't be so bad.

We're excited for Christmas and have been listening to Christmas songs all month. We especially enjoyed the Christmas program at church on Sunday with the beautiful music. It really helped us tune into the true Spirit of Christmas and remember the birth of our Savior. We are so grateful for Him and His life and sacrifice for us, and are glad to celebrate His birth.

We're are also excited to bless Abigail on January 1st. Anyone who wants to come is welcome:) I still haven't gotten her a blessing dress yet, but I'm going on the hunt this week. I've been waiting since I didn't know what size she would fit. Speaking of size, she's starting to outgrow her newborn clothes, but mostly just in length. Which makes it even more difficult to choose a size since most of her 3 month clothes are a little too big. But, better too big than not being able to get it off! Here's a perspective picture with Daddy to see how big she is getting!

We also started bring her to church with us on Sundays. She and I only stay for Sacrament, but I think she likes it!

2 months old!

Yesterday Abigail turned 2 months old! I can't believe how fast these last 2 months have gone, and especially the last one since she's been home! I thought I'd update you all on her goings on.

She learned how to roll over from her tummy to her back. As I'm writing this I can't remember if I wrote about it in the last post or not, but I'm going to include the video as proof! I thought that she had lost the ability (because of her ever increasing chubbiness) or had forgotten how, but she did it again yesterday.

She's also started Army crawl-scooting. It's the best way I can describe it. It's not exactly like an Army crawl, but she's getting around. Here's here before and after pictures, and I swear I did not move her!

Before: the way I set her down

After: the way she ended up

We went to the Dr.'s on Wednesday and had her 2 month check-up. She'd been off the oxygen for a week, and when they checked her again, she was perfect! No more oxygen!!! I'll be glad to get all the tanks out of the house. She's growing well and is in the 3rd %ile for weight, the 5th %ile for height, and the 0 %ile for head circumference. I had to laugh when I saw these because it's the charts for a 2 month old born at ~40 weeks. On the charts for preemie's she's doing great and is in the 50-75th %ile in all categories. She's now above 8 pounds and gaining it all in her thighs and cheeks, and she's 21 inches long.

The doctor gave me the go ahead to start letting her sleep longer during the night, and I love it! The first couple nights she did great and slept about 6 hours, but she's also learning how to wake up better and so it's looking like the longer sleeping might not be long lasting, at least for a while. We also got a prescription for her acid reflux, and she is doing soooo much better. Less fussy, sleeps better, and eating better. After the first day of having her medicine, she started eating almost an ounce more than she was before, which leads me to believe the acid reflux was keeping her from eating as much as she could/should have.

She also got her shots, which made for a fuuuussy baby. I know I have it easy when it comes to her, she's usually pretty calm, easy to console, and doesn't cry much, but that day she cried and cried and no amount of consoling helped. Needless to say, we do not like shots.

We enjoyed our Thanksgiving at Sean's parents and Abby got to meet her uncle Owen and friend uncle Steven. She also got to wear her cute Turkey onesie that Brenna made.

I like this one because it's so cute when she yawns! Also one of the turkey's pupils fell off. I tried to fix it with super glue, but all the glue ended up on my fingers and none on the eye. Hence, the one pupiled turkey.

The cute tail feathers!!

Anddd she's awake!