Visit from Family and Friends

I have not disappeared! We are alive and well. I feel like I say that every post. Lately we have been so busy that I haven't had time for blogging, and when I have had I time, I just haven't been able to muster the energy to write anything. These days I feel like I can barely keep my head above water. I know feeling like this has a lot do with being a working mother, and that I will always have a millions things to do, and not enough time to do them. If only I could function on less sleep and there were more hours in the day! Anyway, we have been extremely busy lately, and I think I hope things are going to slow down for us soon.

Last weekend, my sister in law and her family came in town, and Eliza got to spend some quality time with her cousins. They moved to Charleston last year, and we don't get to see them as much as we used to. We miss them so much, and it was such a treat to be able to hang out with them the whole weekend.

We also had another friend in town last weekend that we never get to see. One of my best friends from college came to visit from Kentucky, and she got meet Eliza for the first time. Our friends, Caroline and Trenton, had an oyster roast on Friday night, and we got to hang out with everybody at their place. Caroline did a great job hosting the party. The food was awesome and their house looked great, and she did all this while taking care of her three month old! I only took one picture from the night, but thankfully Caroline let me steal some from her Facebook to share with y'all. (The sweet little girl in the pictures is Caroline's daughter, Sutton. Eliza was at our house with the babysitter.)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day friends! I hope you are spending it with someone you love. This weekend we made Valentines to send to our family. As you can see, this was no easy task, but they turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.

 

 

4 Months

I’m only two and a half weeks late on this post. Sorry y'all, but these days I'm struggling to do anything on time. I'll try to do better with the next monthly post. :) Eliza is now 4 months old. She is such a happy baby, and this is a really fun age.

At her four month check up she weighed 14.19 lbs (49th percentile) and she was 24.5 inches long (50th percentile). Her clothing size is all over the place. She can wear some 6-9 month clothes, but she can also still fit in some of her 3 month outfits. We just switched to size three diapers this week. Eliza is becoming more alert, and loves to look around and take everything in. She is rolling over from her stomach to her back, and she can almost roll over from back to stomach. She is grabbing for her toys and seems to notice them more than she used to. I love watching her hold her toys and try to eat them.

She doesn't have any teeth popping through yet, but she is drooling ALL the time. Dr. Mathias felt her gums at her appointment and said they were swollen, and that she could have one or two popping through sometime soon. We started her on rice cereal about a week ago, and this week she tried peas for the first time. She’s not crazy about the rice cereal, but she seems to like peas. We have been making all of our own baby food, and it is much easier than I thought it would be. I'm going to try to keep it up because it's good for Eliza and it saves a lot of money.

As far as sleeping, it’s hit or miss. She started sleeping through the night at about ten weeks old, but in the past couple of weeks she has started to wake up again during the night. I'm hoping that she will get back on her regular nighttime schedule sooner rather than later.

Ryan and I are so blessed to have such a sweet little girl. I love her more and more everyday, and I can't believe how fast she is growing. Happy 4 months Eliza!

Mountian Weekend

Last weekend we went to the mountains with some friends to celebrate a couple of birthdays. We were there the whole weekend, and it was the first time we left Eliza for more than one night. I missed her so much, but Ryan's mom was keeping her, and I knew she was in good hands. We had a great time in the mountains, and the entire weekend was so relaxing. Sorry for the picture overload! I went a little crazy with the camera. :)

Big News

Hey y'all! I'm back, and I now have a functioning computer! No, the big news is not that I'm pregnant. I know I got pregnant three months after I got married, but did you really think I'd get pregnant again four months after my first child was born?! I'm not that crazy.

The big news is that our house is under contract! We are so excited because we have seen a lot of houses in our neighborhood sit on the market for a long time, and we were worried that our house would be one of them. Once everything was finalized with the contract on our house, we made an offer on another house that is just a few streets over from where we are now. We are set to close on both houses on March 15th. We plan to renovate the house we are buying, so we are currently trying to find a place to rent.

Knowing that we will be moving in just a few short months is bittersweet. While I am so excited that we will be moving in to a new house with more space, I am really going to miss our little house and all of the memories we have made in it. I can't wait to show y'all our before and after pictures! Since I don't have those for you now, I'll leave you a few that I've taken of Eliza recently.