First overnight stay....

Well Samantha had her first overnight stay with Grandma and Grandpa (Dan's parents) last night and she did great...She got up once at 3:30 for some food but other then that smooth sailing...

Dan and I had all these great plans of things we would like to do and we just ended up going to dinner then home to relax and probably fell asleep by9:30...We are so lame but trust me the sleep was super nice...Then we picked her up around noon....It was a nice first night away...No panic attacks (from me) or anything..I did call around 9 when she goes to bed and then again as soon as we woke up in the morning....Again not too bad...

I think we will be doing that again real soon.....

It would have been perfect had our other little one (our dog Chewy) didn't get up twice in the middle of the night....ughhhh oh well.... She did love being the only child at home for the night as she got all the attention....

Well that is it for now but more to come.... as both sets of grandparents are out of town next week so what am I going to do....help!!!!! hahahah I am sure I will be fine.....

Back to work in 2 weeks.....

Here is a picture of her yesterday....Again she is so trendy in a little outfit that my dear friend and sorority sister April Jackson gave her.....So cute......

2 Month Check up

So today we had Samanthas 2 month check up (even though her real 2 month birthday isn't until tomorrow)...

She is 12.2 pounds which is 90th percentile in weight
She is 23.3 inches long which is 90th percentile in height
Her head is in the 75th percentile.

So overall she is a tall healthy little girl. Who woulda thunk the tall part????

She received 4 shots in the legs today.....Her little face scrunched up and turned bright pink but only for a few seconds and then she fell asleep and she has taken some nice long naps today....Gosh all that fussing and getting shots really wore her out...

Then we spent the rest of the day with GG and Papa John (aka my parents).... I helped my mom with her name GG and my dad well he named himself...he really wanted to be the grand poba but apparently that means you are the king or something so we had to nix that one and he settled for Papa John.... So funny how much work they put into these names before our adorable little niece Alyson was born and really Alyson may start calling them something totally different....Only time will tell...

I am on the official countdown back to work in 3 weeks.... I am cherishing every minute....Well and looking forward to only being on night duty every other night (hehehe Dan and I will be switching off nights when I go back to work)....

Also our pediatrician Dr G has asked us to get Samantha on some sort of a schedule.... So that is our next project. She is on a great schedule in the evenings and night but really no schedule during the day.... So we will see what works.... I have heard this is really hard....

Also one more big newsworthy event Samantha will be having her first overnight stay with her grandma and grandpa (that is Dan's parents) this week. I am really looking forward to it...I honestly have no idea what I will do with myself....hmmmmm maybe take a bubble bath and read a book perhaps and go running...I don't know the ideas are endless...In reality I bet Dan and I sleep.....heheheh

That is all for now....

Sam is 8 weeks....

Sam was 8 weeks on TUesday...I personally can not believe it...Also my own random question is when do I stop talking in weeks????...The whole pregnancy was in weeks and now her age has been in weeks but I think I will cease talking in weeks because quite honestly it is sometimes very confusing....So as of this coming Tuesday Sam will be 2 months...yeah!!!

She smiles a lot....That has become my new obsession trying to catch pictures of her smiling....And let me tell you it is hard because the minute she sees the camera she turns those smiles off immediately...I had gotten a few so here you go....

Isn't she cute??????

Also we have been trying to train Chewy to stay off the chair in Sams room when we are in it...

Look how well that is going.........

I just took this picture of Sam a few moments ago...Look how big she is.....She looks like a real person.... Gosh where does the time go... Don't worry she is not sitting up on her own I have her propped up with pillows...

I am home for 3 more weeks and then back to work.

I am within 15 pounds of getting back to my pre-pregnancy weight....

It is really hard work but I can't wait to get there..

Hope all is well with everyone and I will update again with new pictures as often as I can..

I know I know....

Well we have been a tad busy getting the hang of this whole parenting thing and recovering from the c-section.... But I think we are getting back into the swing of things.

So here is our past few weeks in pictures...

This is our first family picture on Fathers Day.

Sam getting her first "real" bath once her umbilical cord stub fell off... It took forever but it finally came off, yes I admit I played with it a lot I mean it had been 4 weeks. Sam really enjoys bath time. She seems to just relax and enjoy the warm water and she makes lots of funny faces at us.

Sam enjoying some tummy time. She likes tummy time so much she usually falls asleep...Oh well we still continue to try it every day.

Dan caught Sam and I snoozing when he got home from work one day. We had had a very busy day of mall walking, running errands, etc. Yes I have become one of those darn mall walkers but it is really hot outside (it is June in Texas) so we have to do some exercise and mall walking is the easiest....

Sam in her very trendy clam digger shorts...Yes my daughter is more trendy then me at the moment. How cute is that.

Well a quick update on me I have lost 28 of the 45 pounds I gained. I have been cleared to start working out again last week and I hit it hard. I started running immediately and have run 1 hour every day for the past week. I have to go back to work in 5 weeks and I refuse to buy a new wardrobe so my butt will be back into pretty close to pre-pregnancy size when I return to work. I am only allowed to weigh myself once a week on Saturday.

We also had Dan's sister "Aunt Amy" in town for a week and Sam loved getting to know her Aunt. Sam has now met all her immediate family and loving spending as much time as she can with everyone.

I also had my first bad mom moment. I was cutting Sam's nails last week and I nipped one of her fingers...Of course I was devastated and cried my eyes out. She was sound asleep when it happened and her face all crunched up and her mouth was wide open with no sound coming out for 10 seconds then she wailed for about 30 seconds and fell back to sleep pretty quickly. Of course that is the day I went in for my 6 week check up so I had put a band aid on her finger and everyone asked what happened. Everyone assured me that is very normal I just felt horrible about it.

So that is about it for us I will try and update on a more regular basis now that I am getting into some sort of routine.