Poor Elzie, I hope that her hair starts to grow in a little bit more in these coming months. She’s totally rocking the insane old man comb over but it would be nice if some cute little curls or at least a few strands started to grow to help fill in the obvious gaps. Oh little girl with old man hair how I love you so!

This past Sunday, March 29th, was my 30th bday and Jon organized a fabulous little family surprise party for me at my parent’s house. There were presents, amazing food, cake, and a sick baby As luck would have it, Elzie got her first cold on my birthday. She was sneezing, coughing, and over all just out of it. I felt so bad for the little girl. She was so brave though. She really only got upset when she coughed because I think it was hurting her throat. She has since gotten much better. We took her swimming yesterday for the first time and that seemed to do the trick. The pool was nice and warm and the area was steamy so all of her nasal passages got cleared out. Today she slept in nice and late and all afternoon she was back to her old self again.

Here are a few videos from my bday. Once you have a child even your bday is an excuse to get them gifts. Jon’s mom got Elzie this adorable hopping, singing bunny. It is amazing to watch her interact with it. Right now she just wants to make out with it, but I can only imagine that as she gets older she will want to dance and sing with it too!

Here are a couple more from my bday extravaganza!

I wanted to post a few stats about the little nugget from her 4 month peds visit.
Height: 24.5″
Weight: 13lbs
Head Circ: 16″
Cuteness: 100%
She is in the 25th percentile for weight and 50th for height. Not that I care at all about percentiles, but I figured I would post them so I can look back one of these days and marvel at how small she once was.

While at this visit, it was suggested that we start Elzie on some rice cereal. I had hoped to wait until 6 months to introduce anything other than breast milk, but I decided to give it a try. I went to whole foods and got some organic rice cereal and it turns out that this little girl can’t get enough of the stuff. Here is a video of her eating. It’s the cutest thing!

Below are various videos from the past couple of months. It’s MEGA POST TIME!!!

4 month update:

Elzie Sits Up!

Little Elzie Giggles!

Here are some pics from our recent adventures as well. I am posting a gallery because it is SIGNIFICANTLY easier. That is part of the reason I am so slow in posting, it takes for ever to upload individual pics. The downside to gallery, as you will see, is it just gives you little thumbnails of each pic. You have to click them to get the full image. With all that said, I have promised myself that I will post at least every other Wednesday from here on out. We will see if I can stick with that! ENJOY!!

Here are a few pictures and videos from the last month of raising the little girl.  She has so many fun  new tricks.  She has started to laugh which I have yet to get on video, but it the most glorious sound I have ever heard.  It comes straight from her belly and she will only do it if the mood strikes her and if I am doing something that would embarrass me, and if you know me, you know that I don’t embarrass easily, so when I say I am making a fool of myself, you know I’m not kidding!  She has also learned to roll from her tummy to her back which I also can’t show you on video but it’s pretty awesome.  She does a lot of screaming and talking and just recently she has discovered that she has feet.  It’s so cute to watch her grab them and try to put them in her mouth.  She hasn’t quite figured it out yet, but I can only imagine she will be making a foot sandwich by the end of the week!

Here is the cat being her rascally little self. We are lucky that Niff’s computer was not destroyed. Notice the full cup of coffee that gets knocked over 7 seconds into the video!

Jon and Elzie have their first intellectual discussion about the state of the world!

Here is the 3 month update!

Here’s a fun little trick we learned. Her pay back is an extra cup of drool every time.

Here is the 10 week update!

Thanks Chris and Naomi for the awesomely stylish bib!

Here are two hats I made for the girl!

Elzie and her boy toy, Cole Smith, get a little handsy!

Here is Elzie and her friend Hannah!

Looking at me as if to say “that’s gonna be MY next trick!”

Flying high with dad!

Auntie Lauren!

Bath time hair dos!

“hey mommom, can i put my whole hand in your mouth?”

Here are a few pics from the last few days.

How cute is this hat?!!?

This is just about as cute as it gets.  I LOVE when she does this.

Just three seconds before this photo was being a total TERROR.  You would never guess it by how angelic she looks in this photo.

Look at that identical hand placement.  What a daddy’s girl!

This was one of those days where we were rushing to get out of the house but had to stop for the photo op!

Elzie is smiling like crazy now and cooing all over the place.  It’s so amazing to hear her little voice.  I really hope she can sing as beautifully as her dad can!

I hope everyone enjoyed the photos! I really can’t believe that Elzie is already 2 months old.  Where has the time gone?

Happy New Year!!

Here are a bunch of pictures from the past few day’s adventures.  Enjoy!!

Elzie meets Santa for the first time and sleeps through the whole thing!

Realizing that she was missing it all, and that Santa’s beard was falling off, Elzie made an attempt to wake up!

Attempt failed…right back to sleep!

We even tried to entice her with a story but she insisted on sleeping!

Our Christmas Cutie

I couldn’t resist a little photo shoot in this outfit!

I scored the dress at Ross for $3 and the tights at Target for $1.  There’s nothing I love more than a bargain!

Here we are at Shelly’s Parent’s house.  I couldn’t help posting all of these little family shots because Elzie’s faces are so hilarious!

This is by far the funniest I have ever seen her look!  She discovered her tongue recently so now she sticks it out as often as possible.

I’m not sure why her tights are not on in these pics

We join in the face making!

Jon thought it would be funny to torment our poor girl.

Ok, in this picture she looks like some sort of weird muppet that I have seen somewhere but I can’t remember where.  Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, can you leave a comment with what character it is?

Here my dad is enticing Elzie to make faces at him.

It worked, look at that huge smile!!!

Elzie was covered in milk, puke and poop.  We had to come up with something on the fly to bathe her in.  I scoured my rent’s basement and found this perfectly sized bowl.  I laughed and laughed when we put her in.  How flipping cute!

Today I put Elzie in the Bumbo for the first time.  She liked it down in the living room.

But then was unsure about it in the bedroom.

Then she decided she definitely didn’t like it in the bedroom!  Hopefully once she is a little older she will start to like it more!

Here we are playing a little “I’ll stick my tongue out if you will” game.  Elzie is getting very good at making me look like an idiot all of the time now instead of just some of the time!

I hope you enjoyed all of our photos from the holiday.  I will be posting videos soon!!

GG and Elzie maxin and relaxin in the glider

Babies in hats rule!

This was the first picture that made me say “hmmm, maybe she does look like me”

This is Elzie’s first, of what would be many, blowouts leading up to Xmas!

Our friend Olivia made Elzie this fantastic hat. The pom is so big!!

There will be more pictures and videos to come as we celebrate the holiday and get some much needed down time at BD and GG’s house!

Here are a few from our first Thanksgiving adventure at Great Aunt Sandy’s house.  Elzie was such a trooper the whole day.  She was so excited to see so much of her family.

Since Elzie has so much hair, I find that hats look a little funny on her.  To make this hat look less weird, I added a little felt flower.  She loves wearing it!

On Saturday of last week we spent Thanksgiving #2 with Jon’s family where we had the great pleasure of burying the placenta!  It has been sitting in our fridge since the birth and it was starting to go bad…GROSS.  Below you can see the burial process.  The placenta now has a new home underneath a tree that was planted after Jon’s first Christmas.  It has been growing for the past 25 years so we thought what better place for the placenta than under a tree that was planted for Jon as a baby!

This week Elzie and I got to spend time with a friend of mine from college, Mackenzie and her daughter, Livy.  They brought with them some very sweet and generous presents for Elzie!  One of which was this shirt and hat!  How cute!  I managed to capture some of Elzie’s best faces while wearing this outfit.

Here’s Livy!  Isn’t she so super cute!  She is 9 months old and looks so much bigger than the little tiny Elzienug in the swing.

Today we were finally able to find some down time to relax and catch up on some sleep.  We also gave Elzie a bath because she was one stinky baby.  While Jon was changing her diaper this morning she managed to poop on herself not one, but two times!

Hope you enjoyed all the pictures!!!

Here is a video of Elzie making her favorite face of all!

On Saturday we had the pleasure of attending Jon’s sister’s wedding.  Allison looked beautiful and she and Jay were both beaming all day long.  We managed to snap a few shots throughout the day! My favorite is the one where she is socking it to me in the jaw.  What a way to treat mom!

Monday the 17th was my grandmother’s 89th bday so I took Elzie to meet her great grandmother for the first time.  It was fantastic to watch mommom react to Elzie.  They loved each other so much!

Today I took Elzie on her first stroller ride.  She LOVED it.  Here she is in her cute little outfit and hat making some ridiculous faces as usual!