First month of baby life

The past month for us has been quite the adventure. McKay started his job two days after she was born and he has a looong commute with no sleep. I have had mastitis three times with a fever of 104.5 and I have had a cold and gave the cold to Elliette too which was miserable.  If i get mastitis again I'm either going to die or have a mastectomy.  Not really but thats what  i feel like. I guess when it rains it pours eh? But even though this is hard Im trying to enjoy the sweet little baby that we have before she grows up. So here you go, one month worth of pics and video.

When we got home from the hospital my brothers and sisters threw a coming home party for us complete with a oreo ice cream cake and a million balloons

 She is still pink and jaundiced after we came home

 McKay grew a freakin nasty mustache for his job at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  I had to twist his arm to get him to shave it off.  Maybe it had something to do with being attention deprived. :)

Her first bath didn't go over so well and here she is recovering from that traumatic experience

 This is us trying to figure out how to get a baby to sleep at night...haha.  McKay was not amused with me trying to take pictures

Ellie in her bouncy chair

Diapers and wipe gifts are cool beans

Does she look like me when I was a baby?  I think not.  I think she looks more like McKay

Diaper duty! From these pictures it looks like McKay does all the work around here. I can assure you that I pull my load. It's just im the only one who takes pictures so i cant get them of myself (not that you would want to see what i look like at this moment anyways.)

Bath time is the best!!

Ellie Belly!!

She sure hates being cold afterwards

Snuggle time! I'm sure I will miss this when she gets bigger

"Hey Aunt Maren do you recognize this outfit?  Thanks for the clothes!"

Skyping problems

We Skype with Braiden and Sharon every now and then to talk.  Needless to say it is very easy to get distracted when you have this going on in the background haha!

Pictures of Ellie

I tried to take some newborn pictures of Ellie, here is some cute ones.

These two pictures were taken later, after her jaundice wore off a little.

 This is a goofy smile...

Elliette Marie

After twelve hours of labor and three and a half hours of pushing we have a new family member join us. It is pretty busy being a mom, I barely had enough time to make this post if it wasn't for the help of my husband. So here enjoy our hospital pictures.  This first picture is us headed off to the hospital at 11pm because the contractions were getting out of control and later on the next day she was born.  I have no idea where she got her hair from.

This is the new addition to our family. This was right after she was born. The reason she is blinking is because of the eye drops they put in. She is 8 lbs 10 oz and 21 inches long. Nice and healthy!

Baby crafts

Yeah, well today is my official due date and as it turns out... no baby.  So I thought I would share with you a few projects I have been working on for her grand arrival.

First, flannel burp cloths.  My Aunt Lucinda made me a few of these and they are so nice I decided I should make more.  So I traced hers made millions, see.  YAY!

 Secondly baby shoes.  This was a big experiment and I wasn't really sure what I was doing but I think it turned out as a success. I just used fabric my mom had and followed the directions for these here. YAY!

 And lastly, I made one of these car seat covers.  I love the grey and the pink.  The underside fabric are these lovely pink and grey dots.  I think it came out pretty well.  I found the tutorial here and I made the little tabs with velcro and put bows on it instead of buttons. I'm pretty proud even though I basically guessed on the centering of it.  Ta DA!

Well, that's all for now.  I have my sewing machine put away and ready for baby to come.

McKay's birthday

For McKay's birthday I blindfolded him and took him to one of the few Texas Roadhouse's this side of the Mississippi.  I have to admit it wasn't as good as the restaurant in IF but that's ok.  He didn't even know we had one of these out here anyway.  It also turns out that he doesn't trust me when he has blindfolds on.  He kept taking teeny tiny steps and thought i was going to lead him into a tree or off a cliff or something.  All of the old people going to the restaurant laughed at us as we were coming in.

 So here's a belly picture of me... just in case you were wondering

 A random picture of my brother at his work

 Birthday cake!  

sorry this post is so random and weird.