The Mom Life

Baby girl and I have had fun hanging out and getting to know each other! She is my little sidekick. I'm loving the mom life. It's seriously the best! She makes me so happy. Seeing how much she's changed and grown already is amazing. She is playing more, starting to give us real smiles, is awake more during the day, and is sleeping pretty darn good through the night! She is also (kind of) fitting into size 1 diapers, and is fitting into more 0-3 month clothes! Yay! She is getting a little chubbier, even though she is still pretty dang skinny!   

I started back at work recently. I'm only working Monday and Friday 9-11:30 and Wednesday 8:30-11, so it's not too many hours. It is perfect. It's just enough so I can get out of the house a little and make some money for our family. I wouldn't be able to handle working more than that. I miss my little girl too much! I am working at a preschool as an assistant. This is my... 3rd year? I think. I love it. The kids are adorable and it's just a fun job to have. I'm so grateful that my mom is watching Jayne. I miss her when I'm gone, but it's great to know she's in good hands! I'm glad she's getting time with grandma.

I can't believe it's already September! I am so excited about things that are starting to come up! First, my best friend Courtney Cotter is marrying Dallin King on September 27th! I am so so so excited for them. We had a bachelorette party for Courtney last night. It was so fun to get together with some friends that I haven't seen in a while and just have some girl time :) On September 29th, Jayne will be blessed! I am sad we didn't get to bless her when we wanted to... When my sister was here. I guess there are rules about it having to be on a fast Sunday... Oh well. 

September will be gone before we know it, and then it will be October! Thomas' birthday is on the 26th and mine is on the 28th! It is fun having our birthdays so close together. I'm not sure what we'll do to celebrate... probably just go get free food :) Then there is Halloween! It will be fun dressing up Jayne! We are brainstorming cute ideas that the 3 of us could be :) I can't wait.

Alright now for some random pictures I've taken lately!    

Here is Jayne with her cousin, Neum! He was born August 21st, so 3 weeks AFTER Jayne. He was 12 pounds when he was born! He is a big guy! I love his chubbers. He is adorable!   

She likes the birdy! 

I love when she smiles... it kills me. So freaking cute 

Yeah, she's balding... haha. She still has some hair in the back! And a little in the front... but she's definitely losing hair! She probably got that from me. I was bald until I was like 1! Poor girl... haha 

"You wanna fight??" Haha I put mittens on her quite often because I don't want her to scratch herself, and also I don't really want the little nieces and nephews touching her hands...  

Sleep smiles!

My brother, Mason, holding Jayne. Precious :) He'll be a good daddy someday 

She cracks me up! 

She's getting a little chubbier! 

Ok so the other day I tried out a new recipe (yay me! this is huge... I like never cook it's so sad... my poor husband haha) called buffalo cauliflower. It was SO YUMMY! It's like this batter stuff you dip the cauliflower in and then you cook it, then dip it in wing sauce mixture and cook it a little longer. It's delicious! 

I love the mirror on the headrest so I can see Jayne when I'm driving. It's a genius invention. 

Cutie pie in her strawberry jammies with her matching strawberry rattle! 

The other day I told Thomas that I wanted a video camera so I could record videos of Jayne. His camera is too high tech for me haha, and my phone takes crappy videos, so we bought this for less than 200 bucks! It's awesome! (Now I just need to figure out how to get the videos from there onto the computer...)

1 Month

Jayne is one month old! 

She is now...

8 lbs. 6 oz. (25th percentile)

22.25 in. long (90th percentile)

35.7 cm head circumference (25th percentile)

Our 1 month old! (We have a Lalaloopsy doll next to her to compare size... I'll put it next to her each month so it's easier to see how much she's grown! PS I stole this idea from my sister... thanks Donelle haha)

I still can't believe sometimes that we have this little girl in our lives, and I really can't believe that it's been a month! Time has flown by. It's been a crazy month. I've never experienced so many emotional moments. There have been lots of hard times, lots of tears, but mostly happy tears and good times! I love being a mom to this little angel. She is precious and makes us so happy. 

I love spending my days with Jayne! We have had some struggles sometimes with nursing, but things are definitely improving! She has been a great sleeper during the day, and is also awake quite a bit, and has been sleeping 4-6 hours through the night straight, and then will sleep another 4 hours or so after that. Yay! I'm starting to get her on a schedule, so hopefully soon she'll be sleeping 8 hours straight. It's crazy though because I think there has only been one day where I was really tired during the day. I thought I would totally be getting less sleep during the night. I guess my body is in mommy mode now and doesn't need lots of sleep! It is definitely hard to stay awake though for middle of the night feedings haha. Luckily she's been sleeping longer through the night, so I usually feed her around 11 and she sleeps until about 5 which is when daddy is up getting ready for work anyways. And then sometimes she'll go right back to sleep until like 9... which is super nice for me to get some more sleep too :) 

It's been a fun week spending time with Payton, Donelle and Nick! Payton is seriously so freaking cute. It's so hard living so far from them! They live in Texas... so we don't see them very often. Payton and Jayne are 8 months apart. We got matching onesies for them at Target and took some pictures the other day. I love the difference in size! Haha and I love that Jayne is swimming in the onesie and it's newborn size! She is long and skinny! After I wash it I'm sure it will shrink a little and fit her better. 

 Cutest sad faces! haha I think they were sick of taking pictures... :)

Thomas took these pictures of Jayne probably a week ago. 

 I love these bunny slippers! 

 I love when she stretches and it makes her shirt come up so I can see her cute little tummy haha 

 Jayne has a new cousin! Thomas' sister, Maria, had Neum on August 21st. He is 12 pounds! He is so cute and cuddly!   

 Jayne loves her daddy! She really does. And he is obsessed with her. 

 We have given Jayne a bottle a couple times. Thomas loves feeding her. I pump so that she'll take a bottle for when we have to leave her with people. 

 I love this cute little halter dress!

 We went to Organ Stop Pizza the other night. Payton and the other cousins LOVED it. 

 And Jayne slept the whole time haha. How do babies sleep through all that noise?? 

 Big yawn!

 I love cuddling with this girl! 

 This flower is huge! haha 

 Daddy helps burp her sometimes. This girl burps SO. MUCH. Feeding takes forever sometimes because of it! It's getting better though :) 

 Payton loves In-N-Out! 

Jayne had to get a shot today at the doctor :( So sad! 

Everyone is telling us how it seems like yesterday their baby was born. They say it goes by so fast. I don't want it to go fast! I want her to stay little for forever! No, I'm excited for when she's a little toddler running around and destroying the house (hopefully she won't be too naughty haha) but I'm loving this newborn stage. I love that she sleeps a ton and is just so cuddly. It will be hard when she gets older and doesn't want to cuddle as much. But each stage will be fun for different reasons. I'm excited to watch her grow up and learn.