3 Months Old!

This little gal is 3 months old!

To celebrate, we did absolutely nothing! We slept in, we watched football, and we took a nap. It was the laziest Sunday in quite some time, and it was GREAT! Allie LOVES watching football! Here is her and Daddy watching the (tragic) Broncos game today:

It was nice to do nothing after such a busy week, and it's only going to get busier. Saturday, we took Allie to do Santa pictures for the Christmas card. FotoFly does a great shop at Thanksgiving Point, where Daddy can dress as Santa, so you don't end up with the terrified child photos some mall Santas evoke. Here are a few of the shots:

I love this last one, with her little pinkie toes spread out! But being a model is tough, and she tuckered out as we waited for our prints. That afternoon, I ended up at South Towne Expo Center to do some volunteer work for Junior League selling cookbooks. After a quick dinner of Chilis-To-Go, it was bedtime.

Today, I thought it was time to take some more photos of baby girl, so we had a little photo shoot:

I got the ruffle romper when we found out we were having a little girl. I'm glad we pulled it out today, because it probably won't fit for very much longer! We tried a wardrobe change, but Allie decided it was naptime. Being pretty is tiring work!

While she was asleep, I finally got her nursery cleaned up enough to take some pics. I've been waiting to photograph it until it was done. I'd gotten a few prints for the walls, but not the frames. I finally picked those up last night, and voila! Her room is done!

Her dresser doubles as her changing table. Note the "bird's nest" where we keep diapers, lotion, and extra wipes. This picture also most accurately represents the color we painted her room. I didn't want to do pink, so we went with a purple for her "enchanted forest." The trees are vinyl stickers, so they come off easy in the case we want to redecorate or sell the house.

I'm happy with how this all turned out. Her room doubles as our computer room (small house) so it's so nice to sit in here now that it's clean again and finally complete. Once baby girl woke up, she had just a couple more pictures in her:

Happy 3 month birthday, Allie!

Lazy Sunday

Party Animal

The last few weeks have been pretty quiet around this house, save for a few events. Allie celebrated her first Halloween as a lamb. It was hard to find costumes small enough for her. It came down to being Snow White or a lamb. I figured once she's introduced to Disney princesses, she'll be a princess every year for Halloween. So the lamb won out. And it was so cute! I only put her in it for the day, and we didn't go anywhere. She's too little to trick-or-treat. She didn't so much like the hat, it was a little big for her.

We've been trying to get down a decent schedule during the days. I think we're finally to the point where I can get her and I ready in the mornings, have some time for a couple chores and feeding, and then head over to Grandma's house for the afternoon until Daddy comes home. Unless it's Monday or Friday, and then Daddy relieves Momma so she can go to work. So far it's working, except Luke and I pretty much only see each other on weekends now.

November 2nd is Josh's birthday, so we went to the Fox house to celebrate. Allie wore the very first dress I got her: blue with zebra stripes. It's still a little big on her, and a little summery, but with a onesie underneath, she was ready to party in her party dress.

November 10th is Lucas' birthday, his first birthday actually. And Allie was invited to her first birthday party for a peer. Of course she had to get a new outfit for the occasion:

And after strangers keep referring to Allie as "he," Momma also got her a few bows for her hair. It was a fun party, with pizza and lots of kids. There was even a pinata! Allie has a new BFF, nearly-3-year-old Sam. He took to Allie, giving her a kiss and talking to her throughout the night. At one point, he got up off the couch and said "I'm going to get a book to read to Allie," and proceeded to read to her all about dinosaurs. It was so cute!

One day, Grandma took some pics of Allie in this cute outfit we got from a friend at work before she outgrew it. Which probably happened the next day with how fast she's growing up!

At the end of October, Allie had her 2 month doctor visit. All is well! Doctor checked out her umbilical hernia, and said it's a big one, and she'll probably have it until she's 3 or 4 years old. She said there's nothing to worry about, even had me stick my finger in it to feel how small the actual hole is. Allie is now 22 inches long and 11 pounds 12 ounces. Though now she's probably closer to 12 pounds. Still not bigger than the cat! She's 67% for weight, but only 27% for height. She also has a small head. Sad news with 2 month checkups--shots. She got three of them and an oral immunization. But she only cried for a minute before she was happy again. 

Well, Little Bear is talking in her crib, wanting Momma to come hang out. Gotta run!

Interim Post

No, I haven't forgotten about the blog. I want to get a few more pics of Allie in her lamb costume when I have Luke to help me with her, which is why I've been postponing the latest update. In the meantime, I dare you not to "awwww!" over these pics :)