We had a wonderful mass and baptism for Ellie! Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us. It’s too bad it was incredibly hot and humid.
“I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.” She barely flinched!
“Receive the Light of Christ.”
And the group shot, minus sneaky Uncle Mark and Aunt Martha. How is it that he always skips out on pictures?
I can’t believe I’m going back to work next week! Wow. I knew my 12 weeks would fly by, and it certainly has. A lot of people have asked me about it. Honestly, I’m ready to get back to work to have a little adult time. However, I’m not ready for the hecticness of juggling work, kids, a house on the market (STILL), making dinner, etc. I’ve been there before, and I know how exhausting it is.
Anyway, Ellie is certainly becoming more aware. When she was about 8 weeks, I decided that it was high time for a mobile. She was still small enough for the bassinet, but I wanted to go ahead and move her up to a crib so we could use our mobile and aquarium. She loves her mobile. I don’t remember if Samantha liked it as much as Ellie does. It comes in handy. I didn’t have batteries for it yet in this picture, but here’s her bed. I painted the crib and got new bedding. (And yes, there’s actually some pink! Just a little. I also bought a pink sheet, and really, that’s way too much pink for me.) I made the dust ruffle and I really like how it turned out.
Ellie also is really enjoying Freddie the Firefly. She loves to look at the backside, which is black and white. She laughs, coos and goos at her new friend. It’s really fun to watch.
I’m back to policing nap time on a regular basis. That’s another thing I don’t want to juggle when I come home from work. How come Samantha will take a 2 (or even 3) hour nap for anyone but me? After Ellie was born, it was too much for me to police nap time and work on feeding Ellie too (which if you’ll remember was A LOT of work at first). I asked our babysitter to keep Samantha through her nap which gave me a few more hours each day to spend focusing on Ellie. It was great! (Thanks Paula!) However, this week, I started picking up after lunch again and we’re back to knock-down-drag-outs again. That girl. Seriously. It’s not that she’s ready to give up her nap, but geez, I’m so sick of this that I might just do it.
Samantha likes to hold Ellie. This morning she actually started moving her around a bit, and that made me really nervous because she makes no attempt to support Ellie’s flimsy head. I’ll have to work on that next. In the meantime, Sam says “I hold Ellie.” Then “Take a picture.” I guess that’s what I do whenever Sam holds her!
Ellie loves to be held and can snuggle with the best! She prefers to be warm, or even hot to sleep. She is the happiest spitter-upper I know! 🙂 She has lost most of the hair on the top of her head. She is becoming more aware of her surroundings, and not sleeping as much. She is smiling a little and even cooing a bit. And I can’t believe she’s already 8 weeks old!
Another Betbeze Seagrove beach trip has come and gone. We had fun, even though it was killer hot. I’m so glad the oil had not made it to the coast yet, but sad the the Gulf is being ruined.
Some Betbezes:
the great-grandchildren:
I didn’t take any pictures because my hands were full (of sand and saltwater among other things)! So, thanks to Brian, we have a few pictures to document our stay.
Little E didn’t go outside the house. Luckily, there was usually someone who would watch her for a bit so we could go to the pool or the beach.
We should have taken a picture of Samantha’s room. It was our closet! It was huge! It held a crib/toddler mattress, 2 suitcases, and had room to read books on the floor! She loved having her own space!
Brian went fishing again this year. He didn’t catch 2 sharks like last year (my dad caught the one shark and one grouper) but he had a good time catching the limit on snapper. See Alex’s fishing trip picture.
