Ainsley's Digital Photobook

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All Dressed Up

We went to a baby shower at school yesterday. It was the perfect opportunity for Ainsley to wear her pretty flower dress that Amy got her. She looked so cute! Most of the people at work had not seen her yet and everybody said she looks just like Stuart.

Sitting Pretty

I love the Bumbo chair. I don't know if Ainsley likes it quite as much because it's still hard work for her to hold her head up, but it seems to be getting easier. I just think it looks so funny because she's little but she looks kind of like a big kid sitting up.

Hangin' Out With Daddy

Here's Ainsley watching Sunday Night Football with Daddy. (She isn't smiling because she was still upset over the Cowboys losing.)

New Car!!!

We got a new car yesterday! Actually it's a little bit used - we got it at Carmax which we are now huge fans of. It's an Explorer with only 18,000 miles on it and the payment is only $40 a month more than the payment was on my little Focus . I love it, and it's so much easier to get Ainsley in and out.

Ty's New Move

This is Ty doing an ollie over a concrete block at the Woodward Skatepark. He was super excited!

Happy Birthday Stuart!

Stuart's birthday is today so we're going to see Eagle Eye (his choice) tonight and my mom is going to watch Ainsley. Today is also payday and he got birthday cake at work and the principal sang him Happy Birthday! We had his party Sunday at my parents' house and he got a cool TAPOUT shirt from the kids and I got him a George Foreman grill and a magazine subscription. Guys are so hard to shop for. (Ainsley didn't make it in any of the pictures because she was super fussy that afternoon.)

2 Months Old!

I can't believe my baby is already 2 months old. She is getting so big (13 pounds 8 oz.!) and we're having so much fun with her. She had to get a few shots at her checkup today so she wasn't feeling great. I hate that she didn't feel good, but it was an excuse to hold and cuddle her all day :)

Ty's Mustang

Ty built a model car this weekend. He did an awesome job!

Just Like Daddy

This is a picture of Ty from Kindergarten and I thought it was so cute because it reminds me of Ainsley. Stuart took the picture of her last week right after she finished eating. They definitely got Daddy's smile!

YAY!!!

She made it! I was aiming for 9-5 and she actually slept until 5:30 and then I couldn't stand it anymore so I went in and got her. Hopefully it was not a one time thing and she'll sleep again tonight.

Long Night

I'm working on getting Ainsley to sleep all night (or at least 8 hours) without waking up for a feeding. For about a week now she has only been eating an ounce or so at her nighttime feeding, so according to the pediatrician and the sleep book that means she's ready to start sleeping through the night. When she wakes up and wants to eat I'm supposed to let her try to calm herself down and get back to sleep and if that doesn't happen in 5 or 10 minutes then I can go in there and comfort her but not pick her up unless she's really upset. I wasn't planning on starting this until the weekend but last night she lasted until 4 a.m. so I figured why not go ahead with the plan since it was only going to be one more hour until it was time to feed her anyway. It ended up being much harder than I thought. She was fussing a lot and I waited outside her room (by waited I mean sat in the floor and cried) for nearly 10 minutes and then I couldn't stand it anymore so I went in to "comfort her". I think that me being in there just made it worse and confused her more and I ended up picking her up because she was crying really hard. Now, at 8 weeks she already weighs 13 pounds so I know logically that she is not going to waste away overnight, but I felt so bad because I knew she just wanted to eat and I wasn't letting her. She calmed down some when I picked her up so I put her back down and patted her some more. She stopped fussing around 4:45 and I could hear her sucking on her hands (she hasn't mastered the thumb yet) and I went back in at 4:55 so I could change her diaper before I fed her at 5. She seems fine today so I guess she wasn't too traumatized by the whole thing. I'm already dreading doing it again tonight. It's supposed to only take a few days for them to adjust their schedule and sleep through the nighttime feeding. I've got my fingers crossed!

Daddy & Ainsley

She loves napping with Daddy!

Bookworm

Ainsley and I have started reading every day. She is so cute and if I can catch her in the right mood she will sit and listen and look at the book for a long time. (Well maybe not really a long time, but a long time for a 7 week old.)

Little Monkey

We love our monkey PJ's!

Dallas Cowboys Fan

Ainsley watched her first Cowboys game today! Here's a picture of her in her new Cowboys outfit waiting to go to Granny's house. I don't have a better picture of her clothes because she spit up all over herself as soon as we got there. We'll try again next week!

Skateboarding

Stuart takes Ty skateboarding every Saturday at the skatepark in Grapevine Mills Mall. Here he is all ready to go!

Pretty Flower

Here is Ainsley all clean after her bath. What we did not take a picture of is what happened next. I learned that it is VERY important to get the clean diaper on the clean baby in a timely manner. She made a huge mess and had to have another bath. I will not make that mistake again!