Audrey's First Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas. It was so special for us because we had already received the best present ever...our precious Audrey. Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

(Audrey in her red velvet jumper on Christmas Eve)

(At my parents house, with my dad and my grandma Malak)

Since Audrey was just born about 2 months ago, and had 5 baby showers, there was nothing that she really needed for Christmas. So Bryan went out and bought her a couple little toys and I did the same. We each wrapped the gifts that we had separately bought her and then on Christmas morning I opened the gifts Bryan had bought her, and he opened the ones that I had bought. It was a lot of fun opening up the surprises that we each picked out for her. We did this while she slept in...she is such a good little sleeper.

(Christmas morning on our way to Grandmas house)

(Aunt Arianne spending some quality time with Audrey)

(My Mom, Dad and me oooing and ahhing over her)

(Napping with Aunt Lara)
(With Uncle Eric)

(Our little family)

2 Months Old Today!

Time is flying by, our little girl is 2 months old today.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! Things have been so busy...The Holidays with a newborn requires lots of multi-tasking and blogging has not been that high on my priority list. So here are some pictures in a short post. I will post more later with today's and tomorrows festivities.

(Our Christmas card)

(Audrey sleeping on Santa's lap)

We had a Christmas get-together which my camera was dead for the party, but I charged it the next day to take some adorable pictures of our close friends son Colin (9 months). We had a great time with Randy and Iva...and Colin loved Audrey. He wanted to play with her, but 9 month olds don't exactly understand "gentle."

(Colin Walker Rose - a cutie!)

(Colin and Audrey)

Here are some pictures I took this week of Audrey in some of her Christmas outfits. She is a lot of fun now...she smiles a lot and really likes for Mommy to act silly and sing and make funny noises.

(Check out that smile and that hairline that keeps moving back. She has the same hairline as my dad!)

Audrey Update

Audrey turned a month old the day after Thanksgiving. The three of us decided to go out to eat at our neighborhood On The Border to celebrate...plus I have been craving Mexican food for weeks! This was our first restaurant experience with her and she slept through the whole meal so Bryan and I had a hot meal that we could both could eat at the same time. It was so nice!

We went to the pediatrician this past Monday because Audrey's umbilical cord still had not come off (it finally fell off yesterday)...they weighed her and she is weighing 9.5 lbs. She is still eating every three hours and playing first then sleeping between feedings. We have our good days and then our not so great days...like today she just wants to be held, which I love to do, but it doesn't make for such a productive day. (Although, I'm getting pretty good at typing with one hand.) Usually she loves to lay on her mat by herself for almost an hour just staring at the hanging toys and kicking away.

(Her play mat. She loves just staring at the flowers & butterflies on the sides.)

(In her swing...she only likes it for about 10 minutes, if were lucky!)

(Swaddled...she usually fights it at first, but eventually gives in and falls asleep)

(Napping in her bassinet with her Mommy Sounds Bear...which she loves!)

At night we do our last feeding around 11pm. I nurse her in our chair and then swaddle her and rock her to sleep. She is sleeping in her pack and play that is set up right beside my side of our bed. She is now sleeping from 11:30pm till about 6am, then I feed her and put her in bed with Bryan and I. She falls right back to sleep and we sleep till around 9:00. This is how a typical night looks...Nighty-night!

(Mommy, Audrey, Millie, and Sadie (usually lower on my legs) asleep)

Thanksgiving Day

I love Thanksgiving! I love everything about it...I love sleeping in (when it's not my turn to have it at our house), I love the food, family and giving thanks for all that we are so lucky to have in our lives. This year we have so much to be thankful for...we have our little miracle. Thanksgiving is the best holiday!

We went to my parents house where Bryan's family joined us. Here are some pictures of how we spent our day.

(Bryan and Audrey started of the day sleeping in a little)

(Audrey decided to sleep a little longer!)

(All dressed up in her Maroon corduroy dress and rosette tights)

(With Grandpa Baba)

(Me, Audrey and my mom...Grandma Weenie!)


(Audrey's Great Grandma - My Nanni)

(with Grandma Marcia and Aunt Arianne)

What do you do after a huge turkey dinner? You claim your spot on the couch!

(My brother Eric, his girlfriend Amy, my little sister Lara, and Arianne with Audrey)

There is no such thing as too many kisses!

The Aggie vs. Longhorn game got moved back to Thanksgiving day this year. Even though we knew it wasn't going to be a very good game for the good ol' Ags, we were excited to sit down and watch a football game on Thanksgiving with family that we actually cared about. Audrey did a wardrobe change and sported her little Aggie cheer leading outfit and sat with daddy to watch our Ags lose 49-9.

(Audrey sporting her A&M outfit)

(Daddy & Audrey)

(2nd half of the game we decided to snooze!)