2 Months Old

My baby is already 2 months old, I know I say this in every post, but I can't believe how fast time is going by. She is so much fun to have in our home. It's so fun now that she is smiling and so much more alert. I took her to her 2 month appointment yesterday and she is growing very nicely! She is 11 lbs. 9 oz (85th %), 23.2 inches (90th %) and her head circumference is 40 cm (85th %). I don't really understand how they do the percentages because I really don't think she has a big head! Oh-well, looks like we will have another tall girl.

Around 7-8 weeks she finally started giving us some really big smiles - so cute!

The past few nights she has been going to bed around 12:00 - 1:00 am, and sleeping until between 6:00 - 7:00 am, then going back to sleep for another 3 hours. It has been nice, now if we could only get her to go to sleep around 10:00 pm I would probably be feeling even better!

She still wants to snack - I feed her about every 2 hours. She only eats for 5-10 minutes so I don't complain too much! I have sparatically been giving her the reflux medicine. Not quite sure if she needs it...

I painted her nails for the first time last week and they made me smile. There is something about making my girls look really girly that just makes me happy!

She is generally a happy baby especially if I am holding her. (This picture was taken when she was 8 weeks old).

Me and Anastyn - 8 weeks old

Anastyn and Papa, all dressed up from being at church. We babysat the Tippetts family when Taeya was 6 weeks old while Brian and Amy went to Europe. They brought this adorable dress home for Taeya. I think it is so cute and I am so happy I get to use it again. (Anastyn is 6 weeks and 5 days old in this picture).

Swim Meet

Last Saturday Gordon participated in a"masters" swim meet held in bountiful. This meet was a little more competitive than the summer games meets. He swam the 500 free, 200 IM, 200 free and he was on a relay team as well. He ended up with 1st place ribbons for his age group in all the events, and he took 1st place overall in the 200 IM. I really do enjoy watching him swim. He makes it look so easy. I know he was a little disappointed on his 200 free time he says he was really tired by the time the event came around (I think it's just because he is getting old!), but he still met his goals. His times were: 500 free - 5.37:14, 200 IM - 2.21:29, 200 free - 2.08:03, he was really happy about the relay, he swam the 50 free in 24.9 seconds.

He was really looking forward to this meet because he has actually been training. He swims on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights from 8:30-10:00 with a group at the AF pool. It really is kindof crappy to have him gone those 3 nights but do you really tell your husband "no" when he wants to work-out? The deal is he has to have Taeya in bed before he can leave! I think now that he is training he will try to swim in more meets, he says its good incentive, that will be fun because Taeya and I enjoyed cheering him on.

Getting ready for the 500 free. He is the one in the middle.

"Swimmers take your mark." (3rd one from the left)

He is the 5th one from the bottom in this picture.

Gordon and Taeya

Anastyn, Gordon, and Taeya after the meet.

This one was so cute I had to put it in.

Birth Announcement

My extremely talented friend, Carrie, made this beautiful birth announcment for me. She is so great to always help me with christmas cards, birthday invitations, birth announcements, etc. I should probably just learn to use photo shop and then I wouldn't have to bug her but she just does such a great job, why would I need to do them myself?!

My Cute Girls

Taeya looked so cute on November 3rd as we waited for Stephanie to pick her up for school. She really loves school and is doing so well. Her teacher says she takes a lot of time to do her work and sometimes gets a little upset when she doesn't finish in time. She also told me she was very smart, which as a mother I always thought that but it makes me feel better to hear it from someone else. I went and watched her do show and tell the other day and I was impressed with all the kids in the classroom, and how well they played together and cleaned up together. Now if I could just get her to cleanup at home we would be doing great! Any suggestions?

After school I had to get a picture of my girls together. Anastyn is 7 weeks old now, and just starting to smile. There is something so rewarding to see your baby smile for the first time. It somehow makes all the sleepless nice worthwhile!

Taeya is such a big sister, I just really love having 2 cute girls!

Stroller Ride

We thought it would be fun to see how well Anastyn fit in Taeya's baby stroller, she looked so big. Taeya loved pushing her around, and I don't think Anastyn minded at all!

November 5th, 2009 - Anastyn 7 weeks and 2 days old to be precise!

Jump on It

We were introduced to the Mom and Me class at Jump on it in April of 2008, then starting in September there was a large group of us who would go to the jumping aerobics class. This was great, it was $5.00 and the kids got all the benefits of the mom and me class, but less people, and a babysitter, and I got a great workout. We usually ended Aerobics with a trip to McDonald's for the kids. Sadly we stopped going in April of 2009 when half of the class was pregnant, me being one of them. Now, with babies sleeping in their carseats, we are excited to be back to the mom and me class. We have really missed it these past months!

Taeya and Brielle

Taeya, Kira, and Brielle - we all love jump on it - you can tell by their smiles. Anyone is welcome to join us!

Trick-or-Treating

The Halloween week-end began by trick-or-treating at Ultradent on Friday afternoon. I love doing this each year because it is nice and warm inside and Taeya gets lots of candy so I don't feel like we have to hit a lot of houses in our neighborhood. After ultradent we had a little halloween party at our house with Taeya's friends. We played a few games and decorated cupcakes - it was a little crazy, but fun. Saturday night we went to see my mom and dad, trick-or-treated at a few houses in the neighborhood, put Taeya to bed and watched a movie. It was great!

I know I wasn't so festive this year, but I figured I had an excuse with a new baby.

My cute little flower fairy.

Taeya and Anastyn at Ultradent. Anastyn used the same costume Taeya did when she was a baby. These 2 girls look so much a like as babies!

Halloween night - Taeya was being a little crazy so I couldn't get a perfect smile, I think she was excited to go trick-or-treating.

Gordon, Taeya and Anastyn

My nice and warm little catapillar.

Taeya, Brielle, and Livvy - what cute girls.

Pumpin Carving

We invited the Mehlhoff's over for our annual dinner and pumpkin carving. We had yummy Cream of Broccoli soup in pumpkin bread bowls, wassil, and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. After dinner we got to work carving pumpkins. I think it is safe to say we get better at it each year.

Taeya had fun painting her pumpkin this year - she has no clothes on because she got paint on her clothes!

Landon and Micah cleaning their pumpkins out - you can tell by the look on Landon's face that this is his least favorite part!

Ariel getting ready to start her witch face.

The finished pumpkins - Me, Anastyn, Micah, Ariel, Gordon, Taeya, and Landon

Isn't halloween a fun time of year!

School Carnival

On Thursday, October 29th, Taeya had a little performance at school. All the kids dressed in their costumes, sang a bunch of cute halloween songs then had a fun carnival afterwards. It was so cute. It kind of seemed like Taeya didn't really know they songs that well which suprises me since she loves to sing, but it was still so fun to watch. They went all out with the carnival afterwards. Taeya loved the blow-up slide, the jump house, and all the carnival-type games she was able to play. I am really happy with her school and she really loves it too.

Taeya and Ashlynn getting ready to sing.

Taeya would't let me take a picture of just her in her costume, this was the best picture I got at the carnival. I think her favorite thing about her fairy costume was the makeup and sparkles that went along with it!!

6 Weeks old

Yes I know I post way too often about my sweet little Anastyn, but this is my journal, and at the rate things are going, my scrapbook also! So here is the info on my babe. As of October 27th, she is 6 weeks old. She is getting fuller and fuller in the cheeks - my guess is she weighs 10 or 11 pounds! She still snacks, I feed her every 2 hours and she eats on one side for about 5 minutes - tops. I have been giving her the medication for reflux based on the lactation specialists opinion on her eating schedule and rapid weight gain, who knows if it's helping. She is wide awake at night from about 10:30 til at least midnight, sometimes even later. She sleeps until around 6:00 am, then wakes again between 8:00 and 9:00. If she wakes up before Taeya does I can usually get her to go back down again, if not I don't get much done in the morning!

She definitely likes the nuk binkis, thank goodness for my awesome friend Heather for making me so many coordinating binki chains!

Anastyn is very aware of her big sister, since she is constantly laying on her and talking to her. I wish Taeya was a little more helpful with Anastyn in the car. When Anastyn starts crying I will ask Taeya to put the binki in her mouth for her, and she will say "I'm too tired," or "I can't reach it," (she sits right next to her), sometimes she just flat out says "no." Every once in a while she will help out and it makes me smile!

She is starting to smile a little bit. Not always on cue, but each day she gets better.

Taeya always wants to hold her hand. She rips her little fingers open just to get her finger in there! She is always holding her hand in the car (maybe that's one of the reasons she can't help me with the binki).

Gordon is still so awesome with the girls. He comes home from work and takes over, which is so nice because by then my house is usually a disaster, and my back is killing me from holding one of the girls all day long! (This picture was taken on October 26th - Anastyn is 5 weeks and 6 days old, Taeya is 3 years, and 3 months old. Gordon and Anastyn are actually asleep but Taeya wanted to pretend for the picture).

Frightmares

We were tempted to skip out on Frightmares this year, but decided we couldn't break the tradition, and of course we had a great time. Taeya kept telling us she wanted to go on the roller coaster so we took her to the puff roller coaster first. While we were waiting in line she said to me, "Maybe lagoon is more fun than Cowabunga Bay." (Gordon took her to Cowabunga Bay in August while I was on my girls trip to Vegas, and she can't stop talking about it, but apparently we have found the substitute).

We have a picture of Taeya on the Merry Go Round when she was about 3 months old, so we thought we would take one of Anastyn at almost 6 weeks old.

Taeya and I laughed and laughed on music express.

I love my Taeya...most of the time!

She was really excited to ride the sky ride with her dad.

The Monster Mash show is always a "must see."

Taeya and Gordon on the "egg drop." Earlier in the day I took Taeya on the rock-o-planes and she had her first sensations of "butterflies" in her tummy. She got this scared look on her face every time we dropped, and she told me afterwards that she didn't want to go on that ride again. Despite her fear of the rock-o-planes she didn't seem to mind the the egg ride and the lady bug ride (I can't seem to remember the official names).

The chain saw dancers were quite friendly this year.

Towards the end of the night all the kiddy rides were line-less, Taeya rode the planes all by herself, she loved just walking from ride to ride.

One last time on the roller coaster, she wanted to go alone this time.

From the look on her face you would think she was a little scared. I hope next year she will be just a fear-less as she was this year. She wanted to go on everything, of course she was too short for all of the big rides, but she was disappointed she couldn't go on them.