Wednesday, April 29, 2009

14 Weeks Old - Time Flies


I love spring time!

Dad bought me this new hat, its makes walks so much more fun!

At grandma's house we have the "clubhouse."  Emily played Dinosaurs with me for a while.


Friday, April 17, 2009

A busy week - picture updates!

Sevyn has discovered the Joy of Cartoons!

She was refusing a nap (the reason she is swaddled) but cartoons held off her temper tantrum.

Today Sevyn tried out her Jenny Jump Up.  She liked it better than the one minute test that we did yesterday.  She spent about 10 minutes before she started crying.  Still some growing room to do, but a new activity nonetheless.

Went to Brady's 8th birthday party last night, at Incredible Pizza (which was AWESOME!)  Jim and Sevyn hung out while Brady did some bowling.

Sevyn's first Ranger's game.  Only one foul ball even came close, and she lasted 6 innings before she started to scream.  Woo hoo!

Our first family pic at the game!  Sevyn's rockin her rangers hat.  Her outfit that we had for her is still too big!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Happy 1/4 Birthday, Sevyn!

Sevyn turned 3 months today!  Woo hoo.  Time is going by pretty quickly, but we are enjoying every moment of it.  Her personality is developing each day, and we can easily see what she does and does NOT like.  Here is just a few things that we have learned about her:

1. Roll over - although this has happened only once, it happened!

2. Smile - she smiles at us all the time, but NEVER when the camera is pointed at her

3. Talk - we have a chatter box, who would have thought, guess who her parents are (even though her dad is mute for a large majority of his job.)

4. Toot - she constantly has gas, its really adult-like, which leads us too . . .

5. Poop - she blows up diapers on a routine basis, and for some reason it only happens in "epic proportions" when its mom's responsibility to change the diaper.

6. Spit Up - we're not talking about just a little bit here and there, we're talking about full feedings, clothes drenching, car seat soaking up-chucks.

7. Self-Entertainer - Sevyn entertains herself very well, she plays on her floor mat and in her swing and car seat for long periods of time, which is very helpful for a stay-at-home full time working mom (ha!)

8. Baths - she loves baths, and will easily spend 20 minutes soaking in the baby bath, or in the bathtub with mom.  Bubbles make baths even more fun.

9. Mani/Pedi - she's a girl at heart, and loves to get her feet rubbed, have her toes painted, and on occasion get her finger nails clipped (as long as mom doesn't accidentally clip her finger, ouch!)

10. Sleep - This girl loves her sleep, at least at nighttime she does.  Sevyn has slept through the night for at least 7-8 hours since she was a week old.  Sevyn typically goes to bed around 9pm gets up at 5:30am, eats for 15, goes back to sleep til 7:30, eats for 15 mins, goes back to bed and wakes up for good around 10am.  The only problem with her sleep schedule is she HATES naps during the day, and is perfectly content to go ALL day sleeping about 20 minutes at a time.  

Our little girl is pretty incredible!  Couldn't have asked for a better little girl. 

Sevyn's very FULL Easter Weekend!

This past weekend was a super long, and FUN weekend.  Aunt Michelle flew in from D.C. and spent the weekend with us.  Aunt Kristine and her family came in town from Guymon, OK to look at houses because they are moving to DFW.   This was the first time both aunts got to meet Sevyn.  

We also took family pictures this weekend (on Thursday actually.)  And had an Easter Egg Hunt and family dinner at my mom's house.  

I think Sevyn was pretty exhausted by the time it was all over.  Here's a few pics from the past few days.

Getting ready to take family pictures. 

After the photo shoot waiting on the pics to print.
Taking pictures is EXHAUSTING work?

More pictures, mom?

Cousins Stephanie (left) and Caroline (right) hanging out with Sevyn.  


Savannah (cousin) holding Sevyn.

Sarah (cousin) holding Sevyn.  (Poor Sevyn was tired and didn't want to take anymore pics.)

Aunt Kristine met Sevyn this weekend.  We can't wait for Kristine and her family to move to the DFW area! 

Aunt Michelle came in town for Easter weekend.  It was the first time Sevyn had met Michelle, and Sevyn loved every minute of it. 

The Big Hunt!
On your mark, Get Set, Go!  (Game faces on.)

Dad, what do you want me to do with that?

Sevyn loved the eggs. 

Sevyn's entourage for the easter egg hunt.

Sevyn's easter egg hunt findings.  She made out pretty good.

Twinkies with Emily.


On my way home.  Long and exhausting day!



Monday, April 6, 2009

Updated Comparison


1 Week vs. 11 Weeks

A new feat!

Sevyn rolled over for the first time today.   

She was laying on the ground while I was working on my computer, when I turned around (because she was making lots of noise) I saw that she was on her stomach with one arm tucked underneath.  I got on the ground to encourage to pull that arm out, and she did just a couple minutes later!!  

She is 11 weeks old, and already rolling over . . . wow how time flies!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

A Really fun weekend!

We had a really fun weekend.  Jim and I decided a while ago that when we had Sevyn we weren't going to stop our lives, or put them on hold, just because she was here.  She would just have to get use to tagging along for the ride.  She has done a really good job of adjusting to different situations, and even though she isn't always "all smiles" she usually is a pretty fun little gal.  This was one of those weekend's where she just had to adapt to what we had planned, and we had a lot of fun. 

We drove up to Oklahoma City on Friday afternoon because Jim was working the Thunder game that evening.  Here are a few pictures from a fun two days this past weekend!

Hanging out in our suite at the Oklahoma City Thunder game!
(Look close I had my first pedi!)

Rocky (Denver Nuggets) holding Sevyn.

Champ in the air making a dunk!

Dad (a.k.a. Champ) with 8 other NBA mascots, at Rumble's birthday party. We had a lot of fun.
Sevyn and I having a great time in the suite.  

On our way home Jim had an appearance to do at Texas Motor Speedway, so we dropped him off at TMS, and then Sevyn and I went to Brady's baseball game where we saw him nearly hit for the cycle (minus a single!)

Aunt Val was there too.  Hadn't seen her in a long time!


After the baseball game, we stopped by Aunt Shelly's house to hang out with Brady and Emily. Sevyn stayed with Aunt Shelly, and Cousins Brady and Emily while Jim and I went to the Nationwide race at Texas Motor Speedway (too loud for baby ears!)



When we got home from our busy weekend, it was bath time . . . Sevyn's favorite.  We decided to do a really nice bubble bath.  Sevyn laid back with her ears completely submerged (which is a big deal when it comes to back floating for babies - that's the swim instructor coming out in me!)