Belle Laughing

She does this all the time!!

Tchau
Sara

Tired

I can't believe how much I am slacking on writing in the blog. It seems that with Belle getting her two front bottom teeth and running around for the holidays I have zero energy left to write.

Her sleeping has gone to crap once again and she was up every 3 hrs last night. I am pretty sure that things will be better once we are not all sleeping in the same room. Nate snores and I roll around and Belle cannot seem to sleep through it all.

One day, probably when I die, I will sleep again.

Tchau,
Sara

Belly Sleep

Now that she can roll over she found a new way to sleep!! A few bad nights of not knowing what to do and now she has settled in. Maybe now I will get some sleep. Yea right :)

Tchau,
Sara

Merry Christmas!!

Here is the past three days in photos! We are so blessed to have such great family. We love you all!!

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