Holiday Card Bloopers

I promise that your cards are coming. For some reason Shutterfly delivered half of the cards and then waited a week to ship the other half. O'well. It will be a nice after Christmas surprise.

Here are the bloopers from the photo shoot :) which proved to be very difficult and a whole lot harder than I thought it would be.

I couldn't get the lighting right and then Belle wanted to stick everything in her mouth.... great idea Sara. Electrocute your child.

Then she wouldn't stop looking at them. Love how she is fascinated!

Then my mom these on her and let her play. They just make me laugh.

Kinda cute but I wish she had a red bow in her hair!

Again with the bow for the rest of them.

At least we both have a great time doing these and I get a chance to do something a little more with her! Hopefully my photos will continue to improve but I have to admit that this stuff isn't easy.

Tchau,

Sara 

Big Week

Last week was such a big week for development!! She started her rolling... every time she is put on her back. Then she got het first tooth on Sunday morning. Now she want to put her feet in her mouth!! She really is growing way to fast which is good and sad.

Excited to see what is going to happen this week and kinda scared. Maybe she will sleep through the entire night... Wishful thinking.

Tchau,
Sara

Cold Much?

Ha! Nate is cold and I am just fine! I have had some time to adjust to the weather and now that Nate is in town he needs to get used to the freezing temps!! Makes me smile :) ..... A lot!!

Tchau,
Sara

Doctor Review

The shots on Monday went pretty good. She had to get 4 (*&^%^&****) shots instead of 2. In Brazil they used the combination shots and the doctor here didn't have them :( 

Belle's US doctor actually spent quite a bit of time with us! I was honestly surprised that I got the chance to ask so many questions. In Brazil spending time with the doctor is a given but you have to wait for it.

Her stats:

Weight: 15 lbs 8 oz and in the 70th percentile (up form 13 at 2 months) 

Height: 25 inches and in the 80th percentile (up from 24 at 2 months)

I didn't see the nurse measure her height but I really think that she grew more than 1 inch in 2 months. I will have to break out the tape measure this weekend.

We have the ok to start solid foods. I asked his opinion on which foods to start, because I read a few things about rice cereal not being the best to start out with, and he said that anything really would be great. If I chose not to feed her solids then I have to at least give her vitamins so she can get iron and vitamin D.

 Her first spoon full of food will be sweet potatoes that I am going to steam and add a little milk too to soften them up a little. I promise to get some good photos of her!! 

Nate is back in town but right now both Belle and him are sleeping so I cannot wait for their reunion! I love them both so much. 

Tchau,

Sara

Nate

Nate arrived in Houston on Monday and will get in to Tulsa on Saturday. The time we spent away from each other has flown by but with each passing day I miss him more and more. I really cannot wait for him to just be around and catch every little minute with Belle. 

I know that he misses us the same. I just really hope that we don't have to be away from each other for this long again. A month and a half really sucks. 

It was the right thing to do and now both families have gotten the chance to watch Belle grow and spend so good loving time!

Get home Nate

Tchau,

Sara

Ready for Santa

Yep. I am a sucker for marketing!

Tchau,
Sara

Shots?

Did someone says shots? I don't wanna go!!!

4 month check up today which I am positive it will end in tears for everyone!! I am making my mom go with me since Nate isn't in Tulsa yet!!

Tchau,
Sara

Moved!

So far everything has gone on schedule! The movers packed up everything in our house then waited until the morning to drive to Rio and start unloading into our new place.

When the movers showed up, all two of them, they were pretty pissed at how much stuff we had. Despite several attempts to have the company do an evaluation of our house before the move, the company insisted they knew what they were doing. Poor guys, I would be so made at my employer. Two more guys showed up late in the day to help move all the packed boxes to the truck. Good thing since our elevator was broken again (thank god we are moving from the money pit).

Total time to pack up our apartment and pack the boxes in the truck was a little over 12 hours. Makes for a long day for the movers!

Our stuff in the new place!

The last items on the list include SKY cable and internet with NET which both have already shown up on time. SKY let us bring our old cable boxes to the new place and is being set up now. NET, which boasts fast internet than what we previously had and is cheaper, seems to be having problems setting up our router. No worries. I am just soooo happy our stuff made it on time and that both service companies showed up when they said that they would.

The cable is working!!

Life is great in Barra.

Nate will be flying in Houston this Sunday for meetings then fly into Tulsa on next Saturday and will stay in the US until mid January when we both will go back to our new home in Barra Rio!! Yeah- cannot wait!!!

Tchau,

Sara

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Tchau,
Sara

4 Month Photo Shoot

Where did my little Belle go? She really is so amazing. The past two night she started sleeping through the night. Her bedtime is around 630 but sometimes 7 and sometimes 6. She wakes up once to eat and then wakes up for the day around 630 or 7 am. It's completely ok with me since I get a 6 hour stretch somewhere in the night!! I know that maybe it won't last and that's ok because I am soooo refreshed right now!

I was talking to my mom the other day and sometimes when you hold her you just want to squeeze her so tight because you love her so much! It's like in Of Mice and Men when he kills the rabbit. Of course I won't harm Belle ever but just to give you an idea of how huggable she is!

What she is doing these days:

She isn't on any sort of schedule these days. When she is hungry she eats and when she is tried she sleeps. The hard part comes in play when I try to read her cues.

Usually her feeding is every 2 1/2 hrs to 3 hrs

Her sleep is about every 2hrs of awake time but she has started to tolerate longer periods of being awake without fussing.

She watches everything you do and stares intently at you when your eating

She drools so much that I have to change her outfit!

She blows raspberries all the time and then laughs.

I can get her to belly laugh by tickling her tummy

We read together and she helps turn the pages... well she really just wants to put them in her mouth

She can grab things with more purpose that before

Her hair is getting thicker and blonder

That seems to be about it for now. Everyday I feel that she is growing so fast and I can't imagine how much Nate will be amazed at her growth. He should be coming into town next Saturday to be with us until mid January! He will get some good daddy time in then. I can't wait to see her smile ear to ear when he gets here. Gosh I miss that boy! Only one more week and a couple of days!

Tchau,

Sara