Sleeping beauty

At daycare, my little Elizabeth is known as "sleeping beauty".  When I went to pick her up on Friday it was time for her to eat so I sat down and fed her before we got on the road.  This was also nice because I got to spend a little time talking with her teachers.  From what they were saying about my little angel, she sounds like she has her daddy's personality.  They were telling me that she is so laid back.  She loves to just sit and watch everything going on around her.  They told me she rarely cries and usually it is just because she is hungry or she wants her NUK and she doesn't really like to be held a lot.  They also said she loves to smile but has a shy smile like she wants to get to know you first before she will smile at you.  They said some of the other babies cry every time their parents drop them off and want to be held a lot.  It makes me feel so good that they think so highly of her and they even complimented me as a mother.  We are truly blessed to have a great baby. 

Of course we think our little angel is special and a sleeping beauty also!  She has started sleeping in her crib in her own room about two weeks ago.  Of course Greg being the over protective father slept on the floor beside her for the first week, but now she is all alone and sleeping like a champ!  I was reading  my friend Jessica's blog and she said when they started putting Paislyn in her crib they had to swaddle her so her little arms and legs would not fly around so much and wake her up.  Elizabeth had the same problem so we started swaddling her again.  We had not done this since she was a newborn but it works out so great. 

Ahhhh.... I'm free....

A great weekend

The weekend... oh how we all love the weekends...

As many of you know Greg works weekends.  It comes with some good and some bad but right now it is working ok for us as a family.  This also means that me and Elizabeth spend a lot of time in El Campo.  This is mostly because I like hanging out with my mom on Saturdays', but lately we have had so much stuff to do. I love Friday afternoons and getting off early from work.  This past Friday I went and got Elizabeth early and we headed to EC.  We got to have a great lunch with my mom so Elizabeth could show her all her new tricks she had learned during the week.  She changes so much in such a short amount of time.  That afternoon we went out to my Dad's house since he had not seen Elizabeth in quite some time.  After that we went to Greg's parents house for dinner! Yum!  I think Elizabeth loved seeing all her grandparents in one day!  Did I mention that I also love the fact that on weekends my mom likes to keep Elizabeth in her room and so me and Greg get some good sleep!?!  Of course this past weekend would be the time that she decided to go to sleep at 8:30pm and not wake up to early morning.  She had been waking up about 2 or 2:30am for a bottle but not anymore!  She will now sleep until around 5 or 5:30am!   I can handle that!  It could also be that Greg is pumping her full with 5 whole ounces of formula!  Both Greg and I love that not only is our baby girl sleeping in her own room but she is also sleeping through the night.  We feel truly blessed. 

On Saturday, Elizabeth got to meet Miss Paislyn for the first time.  A really good friend of mine, Jessica, had a baby two weeks before I had Elizabeth.  I sure hope that they can grow up and be friends also.  Of course this would be easier if Jess and Nathan would move back to Richmond area!  :)  As much as I would love to have them close for both me and Elizabeth, I know El Campo is a great place for them and since I am there all the time anyway, I am sure we can have weekend play dates!  So, Miss Paislyn is so darn cute and so strong! She definitely has a smile to melt little hearts!  I can't wait for our babies to be big enough to actually play with one another!  So even though my little bundle of joy was a little cranky, here is picture of them together:  (please excuse the camera cord)

Now that Elizabeth can hold her head up and sit up pretty good, that is all she wants to do.  So, she has started spending some time in her bumbo...



On to Sunday... we will be closing on our old house in El Campo on this coming Friday.  As part of the contract we had to clean out all those old barns.  When I say we, I really mean Greg! :)  Anyway, Greg took off on Sunday to go out there and see what he could do.  I kind of feel bad for him because he kind of got left with the mess when he bought the house and now we are trying to figure out what to do with everything.  I know it should have been taken care of a long time ago but the reality is that it wasn't and now we are scrambling trying to figure it all out.  Did I mention there are about 40 old tires with rims back there?  Yeah, 40!  I am still trying to figure out what he is going to do with those!  I know it will work out in the end.  I am just super excited that we won't have two electricity payments, two mortgages, and two insurance payments!  Plus, I will be getting a new car! :) 

3 months old

Well, she survived with us for three whole months on 1/5/12!  We love her so much and are so lucky and blessed to have a great daughter.  Here are pics from our 3 month photo shoot! :)

Look at them thighs... such a big girl already!

I think she was done by this time... she wanted me to quit taking pictures so she could watch a little tube like daddy! :)

Happy New Year!

Our New Year was pretty laid back because I was sicker than a dog!  The Monday and Tuesday after Christmas I was sick with a really bad stomach virus.  Then I got the worst head cold that turned into way more... double ear infection, bronchitis, and upper respiratory infection.  I was just trying not to get my baby girl sick!  I finally went to the doctor on Saturday morning and got on antibiotics.  Needless to say, I was in no mood to go out.  I was really looking forward to doing something since Greg and I haven't really went out since Elizabeth was born but I ended up sleeping right through the New Year.  I didn't even get a New Year's kiss because Greg didn't want to get sick!  So even though we started out our New Year on the sick side, our baby girl is getting big and strong and we are blessed she is healthy! 

On Sunday we went to my Grandma's for some fried chicken and blacked eye peas and cabbage.  Yummy!  Of course it was Elizabeth's nap time when we got there so Greg went and put her on the big bed at my Grandma's.  When I went to check on her awhile later, she was awake, entertaining herself.  I went in and started talking to her and then her dad walked in and my mom.  We were just sitting there talking while she laid there and low and behold, she rolled over!  OMG!  I still think it was a fluke because she can roll over to her side but she has yet to roll over again.  I know we shouldn't rush it but it is so fun watching her hit these milestones.  She also is sitting up so good now.  She is to the point now that she doesn't want to lay in your arms anymore... she wants to sit up.  She will tell you too because she can lift that head up.  She is still a little unstable and she looks funny sitting in her bumbo but she is getting there... I give her a couple of weeks and she will be sitting up good.  Of course New Year's day was the last football game for the Cowboys so her and daddy dressed up in there "game day gear".  I guess it didn't work for good luck because as we all know, they lost! 

You can't tell in this picture but she has her "game day gear" on!

Few more pictures...

Here are a few pictures from my phone I wanted to share from Christmas also...

my loves, sleeping in on Christmas morning

This is not posed... this is how she was laying... so cute.

 

Uncle Trey making Elizabeth talk to him.

All time favorite picture.  So darn cute.

Playing on the floor after daycare Friday... such a happy baby.

Our first Christmas!

Well, we made it through our first Christmas with little Elizabeth!  She was such a joy on Christmas morning.  Elizabeth has really gotten into cooing and "talking" to us.  It is so cute and on Christmas morning she was just a ball full of fun.  Elizabeth received lots of presents from all her family and should be set until her first birthday!  We were all exhausted after running around to all the different Christmas' but everyone got to see her and we definitely ate good!  Now it is diet time!

Here are a few things Miss Elizabeth does right before she turns three months next week:

• she just started drinking 4oz... but still is a little stubborn sometimes.  When she is done, she is done!
• hates to be held too much (this was hard for people to understand over Christmas because everyone wanted to hold her).  Put her on the floor or bed and she is happy as can be!
• she also when you are holding her, she wants to face everyone... she is a nosy rosy!
• loves to listen to music and look at bright lights of her toys (if she starts crying in the truck, we just turn the music up and she quits crying... it is quite amazing!)
• she was up to 10lbs 14oz about a week and half ago when I took her to doctor... getting so big!
• it wont be long before she is rolling over... she will kick over and end up on her side but she has not gotten into finishing up the roll.
• she is a necklace grabber.  Tell me how she knows at three months, but she does and she will grab it everytime she sees it!

Everyone told us to make sure and cherish it because they grow up fast and until she came along we didn't really understand that statement.  We can't believe she has been in our life for three whole months already.  She has gotten so big and grows like a weed. Seems just like yesterday Greg and I were walking down the isle!

Here are a few pics from Christmas morning (except for the first two):

This was the first meeting with Santa... she was smiling at him but we didn't catch it on camera...

This was at Greg's work and she was too busy looking at everyone else.  It is funny how Santa doesn't know how to hold a baby... both times!

The greatest gift of all...

Laying on her new quilt from Grandma B.  She will get lots of use from it since she thinks she has to be down all the time!

This is her loot from Christmas morning at my mom's.  These are both gifts from us and my parents and brother.

After a morning bath, she was exhausted from playtime with all her new toys...

Merry Christmas! Love, the Leopolds

One big milestone!

So, our little munchkin has hit a big milestone on Dec 8/9th.  She finally slept through the night!  Can you believe it?  We thought this day would never come!  On Thursday I had some work done on my teeth and was off half a day... after I picked her up from daycare, we went through a usual routine and little miss went down around 9pm.  Of course about 1:30am without a peep from Miss Elizabeth, her daddy was hitting me in the ribs to check on her, asking me "Does she need to eat?", and being just a little worry wart.  He even got up and made a bottle!  I told him that I was not going to wake her up to eat but it smelled like she might have a dirty diaper so I decided to change her.  She even slept through the whole diaper change!  I put her back down and she slept until 6am... which is rare for me since we get up at 4:30am around our house.  It was a nice little Christmas blessing!  She has been doing so good with sleeping at night now even before this... she would only wake up once a night.  We did get a repeat of sleeping the whole night last night and this time her daddy wasn't waking me up at 1:30am!  Our whole family slept right through the night.

On Saturday, the Dallas Cowboys played.  Greg was so excited about the game so I decided to dress little miss up in her game day gear so she could watch the game with her daddy when he got home.  She was so cute even if she didn't really want to take these pictures!  I did manage to get a couple of good ones though.

Sunday after me and Elizabeth went to church, the Leopold family had their Christmas.  It was a nice get together except Elizabeth was a little grouchy pants.  I think her little tummy hurt since she hadn't went #2 in about two days... isn't it funny now that I am a mom I am worried about poop.  We went from having diarrhea to my poor baby taking little poops.  Such extremes! 

She also started at a Kids R Kids (daycare) today... it is difficult to change her up now but it was for the best.  Hopefully she will still get the time and attention like before.  I am really looking forward to her growing with this place and learning so much.    One really great thing about this new daycare is that I will be able to log on and look at the cameras in her room.  I can at least see that she is getting what she needs. 

Our little munchkin loves to smile and laugh and talk to us now... here she is before her bath.  We were telling her how much she was going to love being clean and she was going to smell so good... she loved it!  We just love her so much!