Post-Church Photo Shoot

For the first time in quite a while, we brought Anna to the church nursery. I volunteer there, so I get to go in with her and get her settled before leaving. When I brought her into the room, I sat her down next to another baby, and she gleefully squealed, "hi!" to the little girl.

After church, she was still all smiles!

We had such a gorgeous fall...

...making most days ideal for photo shoots with the new cam!

Though she's not crazy about posing. She'd rather cruise.

Even dad got his hands on the new camera!

Fun stuff!

Baby Cheeks!

I found a new camera to play with!

Baby on a Quilt

Anna received this quilt as a gift...

...and I think it makes the perfect backdrop...

...for sweet baby photos!

How Time Flies!

Wow. Well, I've been living in the just-had-a-baby-and-the-rest-of-the-world-sort-of-ceased-to-exist reality for just about two weeks now. We've been at home for 11 days and I can't, for the life of me, figure out where they went! They're sort of a blur of sleeping and waking, visitors, television (lots of football :) and feeding, feeding, feeding.

Michael goes back to work tomorrow, which I think he is ready for. It's a little hard on him that most of time I'm the only one that can give the baby what she needs. He's really looking forward to her being a little older and more reactive.

I'm a little sad to have him go back because it means this phase of hunkering down in our home and focusing on nothing but settling into our family is over. But I'm really excited that my parents will be arriving very soon. I can't wait for them to meet their first grandbaby and I can't wait to just see them. I've been really lonesome for my family.

Anna is doing well. On a typical day, we all rise between 8:30 and 9am, which sounds good until you tally the total hours of sleep until the night before. Our mornings consist of getting her fed and us caffinated! Which I need to work around nursing, which is tricky! :)

We like to get out and walk and have found the sidewalks to be bumpier than we realized and the neighbors all drive much faster than is appropriate. :) She's now big enough for the front carrier which she seems to like!

She gets up about 3 times per night and the biggest challenge is getting her to eat enough. As far as newborns go, she seems to be a good one, usually going back to sleep when she's done eating.

Here she is on a very special quilt made just for her:

All snuggled up...
...and snoozing with her dad...

...while watching the Vikings!

Kissable

So that baby I can't stop taking pictures of?

Yep, that one.

Well, I have an excuse.

Skype is broken as our computer got a virus of the worst kind...

So Grandpa and Grandma need to get their baby fix some how!

Vintage Baby

This little blue outfit was mine when I was an itty-bitty...

...and my mom pulled it out and brought it for Anna to wear! So of course, we needed to have a photo shoot!

Not sure anything could be sweeter than those toes!

Her Daddy thinks she looks like the Swedish Chef from the muppets. :).

I'm thinking she wears 1977 Vintage pretty darn well!