Our little sleeper

In my last post I confessed my love for sleeping...well, I'm not alone in this obsession. My lovely little girl has the same love for sleeping that I do. I have been very lucky from the beginning with her sleeping habits. For the first couple of months I would only have to get up once in the night to feed her and then she would sleep for a few more hours. Now it's a whole other story (but a good one). On Thursday night she was really hungry at 7:20, which was early, so I fed her, and then she was still screaming so I figured she must be tired. I laid her on our bed and at 10:30 she was still sleeping. Wes was ready for bed so I grabbed her and put her in her crib and worked around the house because I figured she would be waking up any minute to eat. Finally I didn't want to wait any longer, so I went to bed around 11:15. Wes woke me up at 7:00 am with a hungry baby. WOW, that was the longest she has ever slept in one shot. Almost 12 hours. And then Saturday night she went to sleep around midnight and didn't wake up until 9 am during church. I fed her right after the sacrament was passed and she fell asleep until 3:45. That's almost 15 hours minus her little break to eat ONCE...I wonder how I got so lucky. I have heard a lot of moms say how tired they are all the time. That's not something I have had to deal with. She sleeps as much as me, if not more! :)

Our little sleeping angel






The spike...again.


And just like mom...she can sleep in any position! :)

It's all worth it...

I don't know about everyone else out there, but I hate waking up in the morning. I would sleep in as long as I could everyday if I had nothing that I needed to wake up for. This morning after I fed Mikayla I put her in my bed and then I did a few things around the house then went back to bed with her. She was supposed to eat around 9:30. So when I woke up at 9:30 and she was still sleeping I figured I would take advantage of that, so I fell back to sleep. Not 15 minutes later I heard her squeak so I looked over at her and she was staring at me with the biggest smile on her face. Usually she wakes up hungry, but she was ready to play and smile and talk and tell me all about her dreams. Moments like that melt my heart like nothing else in the world can do. I love all of her smiles, especially when she is smiling at me and I'm not even looking, then I know she knows who I am and she loves me as much as I love her.

Milestones

I have had so much fun watching Mikayla grow physically and mentally. She always seems to be doing something new and always seems just a little bigger than the day before. Every time Wes comes home from work he comments on how much bigger she is getting. On one hand it is so sad that she is getting bigger because I had so much fun with her when she was a new baby. Granted, all she did was sleep and eat, but I would spend all of those first days just holding her, staring at her, and admiring all of her beauty. She doesn't sleep quite as much nowadays, but she is doing things that she didn't do her first month or so of life. She had been talking (cooing) like crazy. It seems like she always has something to say. I think she's going to be a little talker! She is also standing up so well! All I have to do is hold her hands and she can support the rest of her body. Her neck is super strong also. She has been sitting up in her bumbo chair for quite a while now. She loves to sit in that chair and look around at everything there is to see. She is going to be just like her father: He takes in ALL the information that he possibly can and he saves it all somewhere in his brain (I don't know how he does that, but I'm jealous). Sometimes I think that she doesn't want to go to sleep because she wants to look around just a little while longer to see something new.

Her bumbo...taken when she was only 2 months old.


Yesterday has to have been the most eventful day of Mikayla's life so far.

-One of the things that she does that I love so much is stick her tongue out all the time. She has slowly been mimicking me when I talk to her; she will talk back to me. Well, yesterday I think she started to understand mimicking even better. She was talking to me more than she has ever talked before. And when I would stick my tongue out at her, she would stick hers out back at me. I couldn't stop laughing, we were having so much fun.

-She also made a pooping record! :) She pooped five times. I'm pretty sure the most she's done that is three times in one day. And for those of you who hang out with us regularly, you know that she has a minor problem with her poop coming out of the back of her diaper and getting all over her outfit. It's actually not that minor. It's happens more often than not. Out of her five times she only got it all over one outfit! Yeay! That saved me a lot of scrubbing time!

-The best part of my day yesterday was her laugh. It's not technically her first laugh, because she does it quite often in her sleep. But it was her first conscious laugh. Her and I were playing, talking, doing what we normally do and I decided to flip her upside down. At first I think she was surprised at the change of scenery. Everything was upside down. Something must have caught her attention because she started laughing. I hurried and flipped her back around and she had the BIGGEST smile on her face. I was completely taken off guard. That was the last thing that I expected, but the best part on my day! We did the flips a couple of times and accomplished a few more of the cutest laughs in the world...and then she had enough, and we had to change games!

Needless to say I am loving be a mother, and I am always looking forward to the next new thing that will be coming our way!

The Spikester

I don't know how Mikayla got so lucky with a dad that loves her more than any daddy I have ever seen. He comes home from work and loves on her all night long. A lady from our ward got her this little outfit and it fits perfectly. All she has to do is hear the sound of her dad's voice and she is almost instantly quite. She definitely has him wrapped around her little fingers!

Her dad calls her Spike---and for a very good reason!

The above spike is all natural...but Aunt KK helped her out with these spikes!

At the Hospital

On July 1st, when I woke up, I was having the weirdest feelings in my stomach and back. I had never had feelings like these and I was so close to my due date that I was positive they were contractions. I had a doctor's appt. in the morning and he said I wasn't dilated yet so I didn't know how long I would be having these contractions. At 9:00 pm I arrived at the hospital dilated to a 6. After a bunch of pushing, some complications, and and emergency C-section, we were given our little baby girl. She didn't come until the 2nd, at 2:35 am. She weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. and was 21 inches long. And for a bonus she had a head full of hair. Here are a few pictures from those days in the hospital.

I don't know if I'm ready for this!













I'm Here!!!!!!!!!!













I think my daddy loves me!













We were stuck in the hospital on the 4th, but she still wanted
everyone to know that she was daddy's little sparkler!



















This is my cousin Taya...she is only 12 days older than me.


I can't wait to get home and sleep in my own bed!


I'm outta here! This is the outfit mom chose for
me to wear home. I think I'm kind of cute!


When the doctor cut mommy open, she got me too!

Our lives in a nutshell

All right, I have about five years to catch everyone up on, so I will make it short and sweet. Wes and I met in January of 2003 in a very interesting way. I was dating his room mate (which didn't last long once I met Wes). By July we were happily married and settled into our first home. We lived there for 2 1/2 years and then moved into a home across the street from my parents. I don't know about Wes for sure but I loved living that close to my family. I got to see them much more than I am able to do now! We were only in the second house for about six months because we decided to build a new home, which was complete in the summer of 2006, where we live now. Wes graduated from school in December 2005 in Computer Information Systems. He has been able to use his degree while working at Farmer's Insurance. I just recently graduated in December in Elementary Education. I was able to use my degree for half a year while teaching Title I. I will now be using that education to teach my children. We now have the wonderful opportunity to raise our own little daughter. She was born a couple weeks before our fifth anniversary. But that is a whole other post!

It's about time.....

After convincing two people not to start blogs because they are scary...here I am. I know, I am quite the hypocrite. But I can't help looking at all my friends and families blogs and wonder why I haven't started one myself yet. It's so fun to keep tabs on people through their blogs so I want to have one as well that my family and friends can check up on me with. And now that I have such an adorable baby, I want to show her off for the world to see! Thanks to everyone that takes the time to make your blogs so cute so as to tempt me to start my own! :)