Catching Up

with daddy

with mommy

Britain was born at 3:27 pm on May 4, 2011.  She weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces and was 19 inches long.  It was the best day ever.  She made six people grandparents; (all of whom are still young enough to have kids at home), created six aunts, five uncles and two people the happiest parents alive.  Leading up to her birth I was scared and confused and feeling a little bit crazy for having a baby so young... but holding her, was like everything stopped. She became my world and I wouldn't change any part of my life for anything.

more sleeping...

Summary of my Britain's life leading up to today: Sleep, sleep, sleep, wiggle and try to eat, but ultimately more sleep.... then there was the week of torture when I accidentally trained the princess to wake up every 2 hours...to eat, then more sleeping.  Then we went back to sleeping and -so exciting- sleeping through the whole night! I never thought I could love 5 am... but I do.  Every night that she makes it all the way to 5 am, I am a very happy camper.

happy bath time

Bathtimes: bath time was a very miserable experience for several weeks.  Then when she was about a month old, something clicked and she realized that she is a water baby like her mommy.  Now she loves her baths and only yells at me when I pull her out and cover her little bum back up. Aunt Tessa and I were able to take her swimming last week (for probably less than ten minutes...) when we were in Bozeman, MT, which was so fun! Although the water was cold even for us, so it was understandable when she acted paralyzed and stared at me like I was a nut case.  But still, my daughter will love to swim, I just know it. :) Plus, she was totally styling in her GAP tankini... unfortunately, the pictures were not on my camera- so I don't have those to post just yet.

So tomorrow we are off on our very first family road trip.  It's a mini one, but our family is mini still so I think it works out perfectly.  Tomorrow we will drive to Laramie, WY; I'm told it's a six hour drive.  We will look at the school and drive around to apartments-get a feel for the town.  Later at night we are going to dinner with our friends Ryan and Bri.  Then Thursday morning we are heading to Rexburg, ID to re-tour the campus and check out some housing options there.  Basically the plan has been to go to the University of Wyoming since we got married, but now my heart is missing the Burg, and to be quite honest, I'm dead set on Idaho.  So we will see how we are feeling after our trip.

Well, tootles, the baby calls (cries-whatever baby noises are called!)