2 months!

Our little girl is 2 months old (this past Saturday) and she is 9 weeks old today—and I can hardly believe it!  These past few months have flown by for me, but at the same time I can’t imagine a life with out Little E.  I waited to post her 2 month photo until we went to her 2 month checkup.  We did that this morning and she is doing so well!  Yay E!  It was pretty heart breaking though to watch her get her shots—poor baby!  She cried and cried, turned the deepest red, and then fell asleep and is still sleeping 3 hours later.  Bless her little heart!    

At 2 months, E is 14 lbs. 4 oz. (99%) and 25 in. long (99%).  What can I say?  She’s a good eater!  She is a happy, happy baby (as long as I don’t eat chocolate!)  Her hair has gotten even more crazy—it no longer does a natural mohawk, but sticks straight up all over her head.  She still loves being outside, the sun, and a breeze.  She coos and squeals and smiles all the time.  When she doesn’t want to eat or take her pacifier she makes this gagging sound—it’s hilarious!  She’s no longer a big fan of tummy time.  I need to be better about making her do it anyway—it’s hard being a mean parent!  She loves her parents!  Sometimes when we’re ready for her to wake up from a long nap, we go in and stare at her cute little self sleeping.  Speaking of sleeping—she’s doing more of it!  She is starting to do 8 hour stretches at night.  Yay E!  She loves when I sing to her, and will almost always start smiling really big when I sing “I want to be a friend of yours.”  I have never been happier!    

Is there a word for this kind of love?

Multnomah Falls.

Brian was gone all last week on a high adventure for scouts (needless to say, I don’t’ have a very strong testimony of scouting—I hope that will change by the time I have a boy in scouting, but for now I’m just really not a huge fan of my husband taking off for a week without me!)  On one of the days he was gone, my sister-in-law, Heather, E, and I went on a hike up to the top of Multnomah Falls.  It’s a great hike—all up hill on the way, but all shaded, with an amazing view at the top.  We had a fun time together!

Heather, E & me at the top of Multnomah Falls looking out over Columbia River—it’s quite a drop on the other side of that railing!

                                                                                         Me & Little E                                                                      Heather

E in her nursery.

This is the last set of pictures that Kristy took—of E in her nursery.

The quilt she is on was made by my mom, her Grandma Elna.  It’s gorgeous!

I want to take some pictures of the nursery as a whole—when I do, I will post them—I love her nursery!  And I love her!

Bend, OR & 8 weeks!

This past weekend we drove to Bend, OR for a wedding of a family friend of the Harris’.  We had a nice drive there with Heather and DeWin in our car.  They were patient with our need to stop several times to either feed or change E.  On our way there we drove up to Mt. Hood.  It was beautiful!

Changing E’s diaper at Mt. Hood—we did a lot of changing E’s diaper on the trunk during this trip.

Outside our hotel.

On Saturday we went to a swimming hole at the Deschutes River—this is E’s first swimsuit picture—she’s not very happy in this picture, but she sure is cute!  We had a fun time wading in the very cold water (E did not).

At a lookout point overlooking Bend.

At the wedding.

We had such a great time! 

The next few pictures were taken of E at 8 weeks (yesterday):

My dad commented that I may be overusing the word “cute” on my blog…but isn’t she?

Little E

Here are some more pictures of our girl by Kristy!  She did such an incredible job! 

Family photo session.

When E was just 12 days old, a friend of ours—a fabulous photographer—took some beautiful pictures of our family and of E.  We LOVE them!  Thank you Kristy! 

They were all amazing (which really is amazing since I don’t take amazing photos ever and E was crying during a lot of them), but here are some of our very favorite family ones—I’ll do ones of just E in another post: