Dallas + february

around january/february prim started to get fussy around 6pm until she went to bed. she would cry if anyone but me would hold her. my theory is that from birth until then so many people had held her for me that she just wanted to be with her mommy. at either her 2 or 4 month appointment we talked to her doctor about it and she recommended we start putting her to bed earlier because maybe that's all she wanted. we started putting her down at 8 instead of 9 and it really did help!

we went to dallas the first week of february to visit john and kat before they moved to arizona for the summer.

 this is a no judgement zone everybody. prim loves to fall asleep like this. she will fuss and fuss until we put a blanket over her face and she'll go right to sleep.

aw two bald babies. while kat stayed home and watched the babe, the three of us went to hot yoga. it was so hard....and hot :)

 stephanie and thad had a ball to attend so they stayed in a hotel and we (kat mostly) watched their kids. steph kept her eyes peeled for a bloom highchair for sale and found us one! much to our delight, she gifted it to us!!!!!! she is so sweet.

 i can't remember why i took this photo, i think it was chuy's? whatever it was, it was yummy. steph and thad live in downtown dallas so they're in walking distance to everything.

 we were up there over Super Bowl weekend. we had been inside all day and i finally talked them into going geocaching for fresh air! jon, thad and i with primmy went along this little walkway to find some caches which we actually never found. it was lined with bamboo! it was so cool, we could hear it growing.......

 i rarely ever offer to people "do you want to hold the baby", usually because i don't think about it and i guess i figure they'll ask if they want to. thad asked to hold her so many times on sunday and was sooo cute with her. she was still in her fussy state but she was really happy with him. i love when men love babies.
the weekend as a whole was tons of fun! we love spending time with john and kat and our recent reuniting with stephanie+thad+babies has been awesome.

 

 this is prim's new thing. yowtch!!!

 doesn't this look like a professional photo? i worked with cassidy at pure posh and she was actually the first friend i told that we were expecting. she totally guessed it "you're eating AGAIN?? why are you so hungry..???" prim loves miss keke!

 life on the farm. john and kathy killing our roosters for sunday lunch.

 prim and i went to a baby shower for THREE pure posh ladies. she was so fussy most of the night but loved miss andrea so much (can't you tell? haha)

 such a cuddly little baby. she would fall asleep on me like this almost every night.

 little neck!!!!!!!

i took this photo for my sisters and when i looked at it, it was clear she had a receding hairline and a bob.

 we walked along the river walk and found these beautiful art pieces! who knew!

 our neighbors cowwies had three babies!!!!! she invited me over the night one was born so i could just take it in, and i did. i really did.

 

 we promote independence and fresh air. ;)

 our valentines day baby in the shirt from papa! we went out to dinner and took the babe and each took turns standing and holding her while the other ate. true romance.

so much mail!!!!

 this sick thing always finds the worst places to lay, poor neglected kitty.

 this is the first time i wore her facing out and i think she dug it. look at her little ears. the weather was starting to get nice, so we were spending more and more time outside.

 my favorite jammies.

 we took primrose to the san antonio rodeo in her little cowgirl outfit from mike and kim! people couldn't help but stare at her with those headphones on, haha. the vibrating of the speakers put her right to sleep and she slept through most of it.

 this is the only time she liked this swing. waste of money.

 our pretty water baby.

and the piece de resistance of the month, her passport came in the mail! i can't!! she is such a doll.
we have no international travel plans yet, but my passport was expiring so jon and i both got new ones and we got the baby one just. in. case.

January 2k15

at this point in Prim's life, most of the pictures i took of her were her looking cute in her outfit of the day since that's pretty much all she could do.

i got this little outfit out just in time! katie got it for easter thinking i'd have a little baby like hers. nope! her happy easter (with a bunny on the bum!) fit three months early.

i got two gender neutral shirts at my baby shower that said things like 'just arrived'. a couple weeks before she was born, i returned them and got a different gender neutral shirt and this very girly shirt.

little booties from her great grandma woodbury! she wore those all the time.

dressed up for church.

sitting out back with the puppies. it is so beautiful here.

her two month check up!!!! she is such a little dolly.

10 pounds 6 ounces, 95th percentile for height and 25th for weight!

she started smiling a lot around this time and i loved it so much.

my watch from jon when he graduated!!!!! it was lost for 5 months and jon thought it was gone for good but i kept praying it was around here somewhere. we were cleaning behind our bed and he found it on a box behind the bed. i am so happy!

can you even?? she is simply pleasant.

lizzie and i decided to train for a 5k together. we worked out together in different states when i lived in california and it actually helped to have a motivator. this was day one of my couch to 5k and it was hard and felt amazing!!!! i am so proud of my body. i kept thinking "if my doctors could see me now."

jon and i are part of a museum club and they were having a picasso event a night jon was at school so we decided to go. everyone there complimented me on how well behaved Prim was the entire night. the picasso pieces were enormous tapestries paid for by Rockefeller which don't sound interesting but actually really were. they filled up the wall floor to ceiling and prim would just stare at all the colors. 

hehe i always thought she looked like baby grinch when she would cry. once we started feeding her formula, she only cried when we would burp her halfway between her bottles. rarely ever any other time.

jegggggins

we went on lots of walks together for fresh air and exercise. she looked particularly lovely this day in her little summer outfit.

Primmy's little area of of our room (while packing for dallas):

we bought her furniture at ikea a couple months before she was born and had so much fun putting it together! the pictures- top left: a frame i bought before she was born, middle top: another frame i bought before she was born knowing i wanted to frame her little feet. silver right: from jon's aunt karma and grandma (picture every month of her first year). two left pictures: funny little framed pictures that were in our bedroom growing up. middle: painting from nana (jon's mom) to primmy for christmas. middle right: a picture of my mom, who prim was named after (teresa). left bottom: painting amanda made me for christmas. it said "all is well." because my granny used to say that to us all the time. every time she wrote me a letter or ended the conversation on the phone she would say "and i hope all is well with you guys.." bottom middle: from kim bird! I am a child of God. Bottom right: a cross stitch kathy made for Prim with her blessing date on it! everything is so special to us.

the top of her wardrobe is covered with stuffed animals that people sent us and gifted prim. the chevron painting is from kaitlyn that was at my baby shower. the wood blocks are another gift from kim. the gold picture is one i bought right before she was born. a little girly, i'd say. ;)
pink piggy from lyndsi and silver from aunt karma and grandma. teddy from brittany that smells like a baby nursery!

this is the chalkboard mal made prim. it hangs above the dresser from my gran's house. and i put the picture of jesus there so that she could see him every day.

and to end, are you serious? here we are all ready for our 5 hour drive to dallas. i can't believe how beautiful she is.