three months of pure bliss

Hey, it's me, E. Since I've been talking so much lately I may as well take over this blog my mom's got going and tell you a little bit more about myself... 

I'm three months old, finally! This life earth side sure does go by slow 'specially in this tiny little body I've been squeezed into. Buuut I guess it's not so bad since I got my memory swiped and I've got to learn all the things I knew in heaven all over again, some kind of test or something, I can't remember. But hey, I'm cozy most the time and my parents give me lots of kisses, it's pretty much all my mom does all day long. I've got a pretty sweet set-up, I sleep in a cradle next to my P's and usually my mom will let me sleep with her in bed when I get hungry around 4 am. I like cuddles, it makes me feel all safe n' stuff. Well, I'm off to bed now 

Things I love//

Pretending I'm running while laying on my back 

Staring at bright lights

Bath time

Smiling really big

Eating my fists

Scratching my face accidentally 

Feeling the hair on my head with my left hand mostly

When Mommy and Daddy sings to me

Talking, goo-ing and gurgling

Playing with and munching on my bear

Standing and showing how strong I am

Morning awake time

Getting my diaper changed

Having my bum patted

Things I'm still learning//

To take longer naps during the day

To drink from my bottle

Things I've learned//

To roll from my tummy to my back

To suck on my pacifier longer

To wriggle my hands out of just about any burrito-wrap swaddle

To mimic mommy sticking her tongue out at me

To grab and pull things to my mouth or knock things with my fist using my left hand

Things that scare me//

The shopping carts at Walmart 

When someone blows their nose

Being held face-out and walking down the hallway - I'll tighten up, clinch my fists, hold my breath and then burst out crying

Loud sounds

Funny and cute things I do//

Rub my nose in mommy's chest cause my nose itches

Choke on my own spit and my eyes get all big, red and puffy instantaneously 

Smile up at mommy when I'm suppose to be sleeping, gets her every time. 

Breath in and out really quick when I get excited

My big stretches when mom unravels me after sleeping. I curl my legs in, stretch my arms straight up and arch my back. Oh it feels so good!

I like to hold onto my shirt with clenched left fist

Things mommy + daddy love about me//

My soft tummy skin

My pouty face

The "ksh" sound I make after I yawn 

When I get so excited I hit my tummy with my arms and it makes a ploop sound

My chubby frog legs

My dimples

My cold clammy feet

And basically everything else I do. These peeps are wrapped around my finger. 

My stats that my mom is guessing on//

About 15+ lbs

25 inches tall

Notes from my mushy Mom//

3 months eh, little bud? That's crazy!  Here I have a three month old baby and I don't even remember what being pregnant felt like. As every parent knows, time flies once they're out of the womb. Likely due to the fact that the days are so full of a beautiful simplicity and having a ray of sunshine in your home make the day seem to run and bedtime comes all to quickly. Once he's asleep I rush to do all the other menial tasks I put off doing while I instead played with or rather gazed at my cooing-drooling-kicking chub-of-joy during the daylight hours. The dark hours feel more like milliseconds and I find myself awake far too late once again. Once his shifting settles and all I hear is the hum of the fan and my tasks are done I sit and reflect upon our day and miss him while he sleeps. Hoping his sleep doesn't help him to grow big too fast and yet my prayers plead for his good health, strength and happiness. I love this time I have to get all-the-more giddy about being his mom, talking and laughing with Phil about all the cute things he does. We go to bed with smiles on our faces knowing we've never felt more happiness in our lives, never felt more complete. To think of all that time we would have wasted if we had waited to bring him into our family makes me all the more glad he came when he did. To think of all the "me" time or "only us" time we could or would have, it sounds so bleak and lifeless. I cherish the past for all it has taught me about love and life. What a beautiful reward for faded black memories turned grey, turned white. I am so blessed. I deeply love our little family and know there truly is joy and rejoicing in our growing posterity, and it's only just begun. 

And what you've all been waiting for... 

Pictures of Moi//

When Baby E was in my Tummy

My wonderful friend Kali Poulson* took these glorious maternity photos of Phil and I when I was 39 weeks pregnant.

(*We were in Yearbook together and now she has really taken off in her photo business! Hit her up if you're looking for pictures she'll make you look incredible! Find her on Facebook)

It is already hard to recall that this ever happened and that this was me carrying a tiny baby who is now nearly 3 months old and far bigger than tiny. My body doesn't ache anymore and my tailbone isn't as bad as it was when I was pregnant, which I didn't think was possible. I no longer feel little feet kicking the right side of my belly and little boy hiccups from within. I now get to see him kick as if he were riding a bicycle mid-air and still hiccup every morning just the same. Life as we know it has changed entirely and yet it somehow doesn't feel any different, it feels absolutely normal, yet more complete. Being a mother is greater than I could have imagined and I feel so blessed every moment of every day. My smiley-kid and sometimes grumpy-non-sleeping-kid is such a light, I could just kiss him and study him all day long. Mmm... and boy does he smell so yummy! Family truly is the most important thing in this life and the next, I'm so glad I get to be with mine forever!