Daddy sleeping

So I went in Annabelle's room to see if Lee was able to rock her to sleep and this is what I found. How cute is it that both of their heads are tilted the same way? By the way, she's sleeping around 6-7 hours at night...yeah!!!

Thanksgiving

Lee, Annabelle and I had a very quiet Thanksgiving at our house. I made my first attempt at dressing...not bad, I must say, and the turkey was quite good! Annabelle wore her Thanksgiving dress that Juju made her. We put up Christmas decorations and enjoyed our time together. I am thankful for a beautiful, healthy baby girl, my wonderful husband, and family and friends that love me so much. Happy Thanksgiving!

Dessert and New Activities

Annabelle has found her hand in the past couple of days and it proves to be a pretty good dessert. She spends a good few minutes after most meals munching on her hand and getting ready for whatever the next activity is going to be. We have been on several little drives lately too--she likes going to the grocery store. Since the flooring is tile in part of the store, it lulls her to sleep and she just snoozes through the rest of the trip. We walked downtown yesterday too and Annabelle was nice and comfy inside of Daddy's jacket despite the 30 degree weather. These two pictures show you how much she likes her carseat and that she is ready for Thanksgiving!

Post-meal

One of our favorite times with Annabelle is right after she eats. In this video she is more awake than she usually is after eating. We get a few good stretches, a few licks of the tongue, and then an occassional fuss after she is done. As opposed to this video, the alternate is a total food coma with curling up on Daddy's shoulder to get burped and then (maybe) take a nap. She is six weeks old today!

Gametime/Bathtime

Annabelle is a good game partner--although this picture looks like she is rooting the Bulldogs on, she is usually a good napper during the afternoons. She has had a good weekend thus far, lots of naps and some almost-smiles at Mom and Dad. Annabelle really likes her bath time. We are on the once every other day bath time routine (barring some type of poo or spit-up disaster). She loves to sit in the water while Dad runs water over her and Mommy bathes her. After the bath can be a little tricky to avoid the fussiness while toweling off, but she is getting more used to it now. So here are some pics of our little 5 week old!

What's in a name

You may be wondering where we got Annabelle Agnes from, so here it is! Heather's great grandmother's name was Annie Bell Barwick, so we made that into Annabelle. Agnes was Heather's grandmother that she grew up next door to and loved dearly, so we named her Agnes in honor of her. There you go!

Annabelle's one month birthday!

We survived one month! We're still working out some feeding issues, but she's gaining weight and we're getting there. She loves her bouncy seat and is not so sure about the swing. Tummy time is not so fun...just the mention of it makes her cry! We love her so much!

Annabelle and Aunt Jenny

She was being really good this night!

Here are some pictures of the grandparents visit and Annabelle's little "monkey" face in her Halloween costume.

1 month old

I guess Annabelle has kept us busy because she is one month old today and we are just now getting our blogspot up and going! Annabelle celebrated her first four weeks of life today by doing plenty of eating, taking a few pictures, and welcoming trick or treaters to the house in her little monkey costume. Heather and Lee are back "on their own" since Lee's parents and sister Jenny left this past Tuesday. We have handled it pretty well I think--Annabelle is starting to get some round cheeks and a little round belly, so we must be doing something right! We anticipate a potentially rough night tonight since she slept a lot during the day today, but hopefully it will be less than another 4 weeks before we get around to another post.

We have a blog!

Here we are...8 days away from the due date of our baby girl! We decided to join the 21st century and start a blog to share our baby girl with our friends and family, so here goes!