Fun Play Date

I am doing a Bible study on Thursdays at church and after it's over each week, a couple of friends and I eat lunch together. We had been going out to eat, but that gets expensive quickly so we're going to start rotating houses. Today we were at Mary's house. Mary's little boy, Ethan, was born the day after Karys so we're enjoying the first-time mommy thing together. We laid them on the floor side-by-side to prove that Karys is longer than Ethan (probably by a good 2 inches) and they were so adorable I had to snap pictures. :)

We attempted to get them to hold hands :)

We eventually had to move Karys down a little bit because Ethan's hands were just a little too active and kept hitting her in the face!

We Love You, Aunt Misty!

Ryan's sister, Misty, mailed Karys this onesie last week, along with a matching burp rag and bib. Isn't it just adorable? :)This other picture is one I took on Monday at a Bible study a few friends and I do together. I put Karys on my friend, Jennie's, bed to take a nap and when I went in to check on her, this is what I saw:

Girls Can Wear Blue Too!!

I would LOVE to know why when strangers see me out and about with my baby, they automatically assume she is a boy. She can be wearing the pinkest of all outfits and they stare right at her and call her a "he." It seriously happens pretty much everywhere we go. Usually if they ask a question about her I'll make sure to clearly say the word "she," but if they just make a comment about how cute "he" is, I just smile, say thank you, and go about my business. I mean, it's not like it's really going to affect them one way or the other to know that she's a girl instead of a boy. The reason I bring this up is because it just happened twice on our trip to Walmart. The above title is because the outfit she is wearing happens to be blue today. Normally, I might say that I understand since she's wearing blue, but this was one of the girliest outfits possible. It's one of those sunsuits (I think that's what they're called) that looks like a dress, but only in the front.

The outfit in question

So, the first woman to mistakenly identify her gender sees me in the formula aisle. She asks how old the baby is and then says something about him being a big baby...how much does he weigh? To which I reply, "At her one month check up, she weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz." which gets the reply of, "Oh, it's a girl?" Bear in mind that this woman is looking right at Karys; the outfit is trimmed in pink and she is wearing white socks WITH RUFFLES!! Her feet are very easy to see, in case I give this woman the benefit of the doubt and say maybe it was hard to see the whole outfit when she was strapped in her car seat. It's not hard to see her socks! The second woman to do the same thing is one of the employees handing out the free samples. As I'm walking past, she steps away from her post to come peek into the car seat and very confidently says, "Awww, it's a little boy." Aye yi yi!!


For those of you who haven't seen our car seat, here is a picture of it:
I picked this one because I thought it was pretty gender neutral. It didn't really scream "boy" or "girl" to me. The colors might be a little more masculine, but I thought they were balanced out by the polka dots...a little more girlie. Plus, I didn't want to get a car seat that was girlie because our plan is not to just have one baby. And should a subsequent baby be a boy, he would not be riding around in a pink car seat.


I guess that is the end to my rant. :) My question is this: does an infant girl have to be drowning in pink in order to be identified as a girl??? :)


See, even mommies can wear blue! :)

On a fun note, she has started "talking" back to us sometimes when we talk to her (meaning she makes her sweet baby noises on purpose). We caught some of this on video the other day and I tried to upload it. However apparently our video camera creates files that are too big for Blogger. So here's just a cute video I captured one day last week. Hopefully I'll get a "talking" video up here soon. Hope you enjoy!

Just Some New Pics

I keep wanting to post a new blog, but I really don't have any information to give. Well, Saturday night, she slept from 10:30 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.!! :) However, it's still the exception and not the rule because last night she woke up crying at 2:15 which happens randomly usually once a week. Oh well. :) She was officially 7 weeks yesterday. Here are some cute new pics:

Ryan took this picture after I finished her bath the other night before I got to brush her hair because he thought it was funny. :)

Because It's Been A Few Days

I took a couple of pics today, basically because I found this outfit in her drawer (completely forgot about its existence) and thought it was so cute that I wanted to remember forever how cute she looked in it! :)

Karys had her first nursery experience today. I'm working with a group of 3's and up for our church's MOPS group and today was the first meeting. Ryan had to be at work before I was going to be back, so Karys came with me. From what I hear, she was great! :) Apparently she spent most of the morning in a swing, perfectly content (which is great, because at home it's usually 20 min. maximum!). We got a little off our normal schedule, but I think we're back on now and things should be great for the rest of the night. I was just so happy to know she did so well. This Sunday she is definitely going to the church nursery! :) I'm ready to be able to pay attention in church again, and take my notes during the sermon.

Oh yeah, she'll officially be 6 weeks tomorrow. At first time felt like it was dragging slightly, but now that we've pretty much got things figured out I can't believe we're already to the 6 week mark! I just love this sweet little baby so much!! :)

Here You Go...

Karys and I were upstairs playing in her room and she was being so cute that I started taking some pictures. So here she is, at officially 5 weeks + 1 day old. :)


I swear I was starting to see some real smiles today. I think she looks kinda "smiley" in this picture. :)


Wassup, people? ;) (I think that's what she's saying with this expression. :)


This next picture is especially for my friend, Alison. Alison made this blanket for Karys and brought it to the hospital the day she was born. It's hard to see in the picture, but at the top of the blanket she stitched Karys's birthdate and each of the black circles is made out of different material, to provide Karys with different textures to explore. Too awesome, huh? :)

And it was extra cute to put her next to her name. Check out that 22-inch-long body!

I also used my digital camera today to make a short video of her. This is like my first time videoing EVER, so hope you enjoy :)

What A Big Girl! :)

(I haven't taken any new pictures yet, so here's the up-close picture of the one I posted last week.)

As of Saturday, I am now the mother of a one-month-old baby. And as of yesterday, she is now 5 weeks old. She went for her one-month well check-up at the doctor's office today. I have been saying for the last couple of weeks that I thought when we went back to the doctor we were going to be told that she weighed nine pounds. I was right, plus some! She was 9 lbs. 6 oz. which puts her in the 45th percentile for weight (at her 2 week check up, she was in the 19th percentile at 7 lbs. 6 oz.). If anyone is reading this and doesn't understand the whole "percentile" thing, it means that for weight, she weighs more than 45% of babies her age. For length, she was 22 inches long (up from 20 3/4 last time), which puts her in the 75th percentile (up from the 66th percentile). Her head circumference today was 14 1/2 inches, which doesn't really mean a whole lot to me except that the doctor said that it was normal for her size. Everything still seems to be going well. We were told that in this month she will start to smile (actually on purpose, instead of these half-grins when she's falling asleep!) and possibly even laugh. I can't wait for that! She'll also start to track us with her eyes when we are up walking around the room. Lots to look forward to! :)