Angelica's First Picture - 1 Year Ago

Today is the one year anniversary of this picture (our first ultrasound at 5 weeks)...


And here's a picture of her, taken today...


And as promised, here's her, playing with her toes (taken earlier this week)...



Really puts a lot in perspective, huh?

Angelica's Song

Had such a great morning today. I slept like garbage last night (I have been ever since she learned to roll over and started doing it in her sleep...I feel compelled to check on her every couple of hours, and my body forces me out of sleep to do so...), but Angelica woke up at 5:45...fed her a bottle, cuddled, played, and then snuggled and snoozed on the sofa for awhile, until I had to get ready for work. It was great.

It was a nice break from how things have been this week. She's having a rough time of it...a growth spurt combined with teething has made her really cranky. Night before last we had a four hour period of screaming that started around 8:30 or 9:00...it ended sometime after midnight, and then she was awake again at 4:15. She went down to bed around 8 last night and slept straight through to 5:45 this morning.

I haven't written about this yet, but sometime in the past week she discovered her feet. Now she plays with them all the time and tries to put them in her mouth. It's absolutely adorable. I have a picture of it, but it's still on my camera...I'll have to download it from the camera and post it soon.

Somewhere along the way today, got this song stuck in my head...haven't thought about it in years but I think it may be my new song for her. Coincidentally, the release date for this CD was a year ago yesterday.


Baby, It's alright
Stop your cryin' now

Nothing is here to stay
Everything has to begin and end
A ship in a bottle won't sail
All we can do is dream that the
wind will blow us across the water
A ship in a bottle set sail

Baby, It's alright
Stop your cryin' now

There was a weakling man
who dreamed he was strong as a hurricane
A ship in a bottle set sail
He took a deep breath and blew across the world
he watched everything crumble
woke up a weakling again

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
just because they feel hopeless
but you don't have to be a thing like that
You'll be a ship in a bottle set sail

Baby' It's alright stop your cryin' now
It's alright so stop your cryin' now

You'll be a ship in a bottle set sail
(Baby by Dave Matthews)

Angelica: 1 Year Ago Today

I can hardly believe it's been a year since this picture was taken (forgive the blurriness, it was taken with my camera phone). One year ago today, at 3:10 pm, Scott and I found out that we were going to be parents for the first time. So much changed right there in that instant.




Scott and I both said instantly after I took the test that we both thought it was a girl. I guess there really is a such thing as parental instinct! Just look at that beautiful face, too. We are so lucky!

Angelica's really shaping up to have some personality, let me tell you! These days she sits in her bumbo seat, yapping away at me, giggling, pulling my hair...she's now rolling over completely (over and over and over...I often go in to check on her at night and find she's rolled over a few times in the crib)...she's teething (that's not such a joy, because she screams and cries so hard when her teeth are bothering her) and she's now discovered her feet! It's crazy how much has happened just in these three months.

Here's to a lifetime of more magical moments!

Angelica's first clothes get packed away. :(

Tonight was a bittersweet night. Now that Angelica is over 3 months old, it was time to pack up the clothes that she's worn for the first 3 months of her life to make way for the next batch of outfits. All of her 0-3 month sized outfits have been washed, sorted, and either stowed away for safekeeping or put in the "donate" pile for Aunt Stefanie to pick through for cousin Anna (the rest to be donated to charity).

Hard to believe my little girl is so big now that she's already started to outgrow stuff. Hard to believe her first year of life is already a quarter over. She's getting to be so big, so smart, and so aware of everything. She smiles and talks and coos and screams and cries.

She's also teething. It's heart-wrenching, ear-piercing, and hilarious all at the same time. If you're wondering how teething could be hilarious, here's how: my little munchkin takes just about anything she can grab onto and puts it in her mouth and goes "nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom" in little monster voice. It's like "garrrwwwwwwwwwwaarrrraaahhh". Things she puts in her mouth include: her hands, her toys, my hands, Scott's hands, her clothes, her teething ring, and she has even tried to put my face in her mouth once. She grabbed my cheeks and tried to pull it in with mouth wide open. It was funny.

The heart-wrenching part of it is when her poor teeth get so sore she screams. And screams. And screams. And nothing can console her except for her daddy. That's right. She's a daddy's girl for sure.

The cute thing she does now though is reaching for stuff. I got her a Bumbo seat, and she'll sit there and I'll hold rattles or other objects up and she'll reach out for them. She's getting the point now where she's almost always successful. She just has a little ways to go with that hand-eye coordination.

And on that note, it's back to doing some baby laundry. Sigh. My sweet little baby is growing up too quickly.

Pictures to come in the next post...

Angelica's favorite show

Okay so maybe not her favorite, but I like it!

Other than Stefanie and Will...any other parents reading this ever watch Lazy Town? Holy crap I am so addicted to it. I DVR'd a few episodes after watching my nephew dance around (sort of, despite his shyness) to a song from it and now I can't stop watching. It is probably the cutest show I've ever seen with some of the catchiest music. Like seriously, I may have to buy the soundtrack to take to the gym with me. I am 28 years old and can't stop listening to songs from a kid's show. Totally Crazy.

My favorites (other than the theme) are Twenty Times Time, You Are a Pirate, Cooking by the Book...then again, those are just the songs from the episodes I've seen so far.

Like look at this...how can you tell me this is totally not addictive??

Angelica is three months old...and catches her first cold :(

Happy three month birthday to my baby girl (though I'm a day late on this post). I can't believe how quickly the last three months have gone, nor can I believe how cute my little girl is growing up to be!

I'm so glad we got the pictures done yesterday, though, because we woke up today to a very cranky, sniffly, slightly feverish Angelica. I think she picked up something at daycare (one of the other little girls looked sniffly) and so she came down with it to. (And I think I am as well, my throat is sore and I'm a little congested too). I feel so bad for her, listening to her cry with that sniffly, nasaly cry and not being able to help. She's sleeping now, finally...she had to be held pretty much all day today by one of us otherwise she would just cry and cry. I hope she feels better tomorrow!

At least one cute thing about it...at one point, Scott wiped a a boogie out of her nose, and after it came out she goes, "Ahhh..." like this real sigh of relief. It sounded so un-babylike and it cracked me up.

Other exciting news...Angelica got to spend time with her GG Melba this past week, and they both had a great time together. She gave her GG lots and lots of smiles and cuddles (and cries and fussing, too, in true Angelica fashion!) Don't the two of them look so happy together? Notice the dress Angelica's wearing, too...that's the dress we bought for her to have her pictures taken at the hospital in. When we put it on her in the hospital, it almost wouldn't stay on her. She wore it again at her Aunt Stefanie's baby shower in June, and it was still big on her. Now it fits her like a charm...just perfectly.

This picture probably shows it even better. Such a pretty dress on such a pretty girl! I can't believe it. It's getting to the point now where some of her outfits no longer fit well, and I just can't bring myself to pack them up. I can still remember dressing her in 0-3 stuff when we brought her home and thinking how baggy the stuff was. Now it doesn't even fit anymore...they grow too fast.

It's been an exhausting day, so I'm gonna go rest now and hope that both Angelica and I kick this cold pretty quickly!