When Did We Become GrownUps : Graduation & Baby Blessing

Graduation

He did it!! After 4 long years of BYU, Brett graduated with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Public Health. Brett's parents were able to come down to Provo for commencement and convocation too! We all got to see him walk across the stage and get his diploma. Brett had a couple of old roommates that got married around the same time as we did and we have stayed close throughout our BYU journey. It was really great to get to see all of them graduate at the same time as well. (Congrats Jeff & Claire and Mike & Ally!!)

Ellie's Baby Blessing

Ellie was blessed on April 27, 2014 by her father. Most of our family lives far away but we are grateful for the friends and family that were able to make it. We were nervous about how it would go but Ellie didn't make a peep during the whole blessing.

It was also special to us that Ellie was able to be blessed in the same dress as both my mom and myself. Below are some pictures of the 3 of us on the days we were blessed.  **all of us had a good amount of hair and all of us weighed about 9 1/2 lbs when we were born

 Karen                                               Julie 

July 7, 1957                                      July 7, 1991

Ellie

April 27, 2014

The 3 Things Babies Do

EAT: Ellie, like all babies, likes to eat. Not gonna lie, breastfeeding was pretty frustrating and painful the first week. It didn't help that Ellie was a little jaundiced at birth and the fastest way to remedy that is for her to eat more and get that digestive system working. As hard as it was, I'm really grateful we've stuck it out so far. I think that the benefits already outweigh the cons for our family. Ellie just had her 2 week check up with the pediatrician and he said that she is in the 90th percentile for both height and weight, I'm taking that to mean that she gets enough to eat haha, and her head size is the 80th percentile.

SLEEP: Sometimes people ask if Ellie is an "easy" or "hard" baby; I guess the best answer is that I haven't a clue. I don't have much to compare her too but I do know that when she is asleep or awake and happily just looking around I can't take my eyes off her and when she isn't, she is completely inconsolable it seems. Aside from the fact that she is determined to be angry from about 11 PM - midnight each night we can't complain too much. She is pretty good at going right back to sleep after I feed her every 2-4 hours in the middle of the night.

POOP: Ellie likes to let us (and everyone around) know when she poops ... even in sacrament meeting. Luckily is seems like she is the kind of baby that poops a little bit a lot of the time rather than saving it up for a poop explosion. 2 weeks and no poop leakages yet. (as long as you exclude the couple of times that she has pooped mid diaper change) The joys or parenthood :) We have really enjoyed reading the messages that friends and family wrote on diapers at my baby shower though. They are especially amusing and encouraging at about 3:30 AM.

... and a few more miscellaneous pictures of Ellie courtesy of Claire Falco Photography because I'm one of those parents.