Lily 5 months

Lily is now 5 months. She is growing so much. Here are some fun things about Lily at 5 months:

-we have started her on rice cereal. She doesn't eat very much each time, but she seems to like it alright. Sometimes she will open her mouth for you to feed her.


-She loves walks...I just don't know what we are going to do in the dead of winter. Sometimes I wish we moved somewhere that is always warm :) Here she is on a brisk day all bundled up. Cute hat made by my friend from Making Memories, Amy.


-she is really good with her hands. Always watching them move and grabbing things. She loves to grab faces, and she can finally reach the butterflies on her jungle thing


-she might have to get one of those baby helmets to reshape her head. She has a flat spot. ahhh....I am kind of broken up about this. We have an appointment with a specialist next month. We will see what they say. I really hope she doesn't have to wear one. I don't think she will like it at all.
-she has the cutest smile...but it's nearly impossible to get it on camera. Here is a little smile...


-she is getting ticklish and will laugh when you tickle her
-that sleeping thing I mentioned in her 4 month post....hmmm...it has gone away. She usually only sleeps for 3-4 hours at night at a time anymore. She used to sleep for 8 hour spans. :(
-she LOVES her dad. She gets the biggest grin on her face when he talks to her.
-She eats her toes


-her hair...what do we do with her hair. It's so cute!



-she loves watching Bear. She reaches for his tail and ears. She has gotten a hold of them a couple times. Bear isn't too happy about it. But he is learning to keep more of a distance.
-we just love her so much. Not a day goes by when we don't say she is sooo cute. We are so grateful to have her.
-she is 12.1 pounds.

Bear demanding to be pet

When Bear wants to be pet, he barks or growls at you. Here he is sitting on caleb's lap. When Caleb stops petting him, he barks or growls at him.

holiday cards

Shutterfly has launched their holiday cards. This is what I work on for probably...75% of the year. It feels like we are always in holiday mode. Here are a couple that I designed. You can see more petite lemon cards (ones that I designed and some other designers on our team here and here.











We had a calligrapher do the elegant phrases and worked them in to card designs. Melissa Esplin was the calligrapher we used. She is amazing and really helped make our cards stand out from the rest.

Surgery

About a week a half ago I had surgery. I had polyps in my nose and I had them removed. Polyps are fleshy teardrop shaped growths of inflamed tissue lining the nose (nasal mucosa) or sinuses. Here is an image of what they look like...the left side has the polyps.

The doctor said my polyps were a normal size, but that I had the most he had ever seen. yikes!!! The surgery was an in and out the same day surgery. I went in at 8:15 am and was home by 1:30 pm. Caleb took me in for the surgery. I had it done at Avenues Surgical Center with Dr. Joshua Bradley. He was recommended by my allergy doctor. While I was out of commission, my parents came up to watch Lily so Caleb could still go to work. It was soooo great to have them here (as always). They were so helpful and it was nice to not have to worry about taking care of Lily and dinners and the day to day stuff while I was recovering.

I have allergies and they aren't terrible, but with the polyps I was always congested and I could rarely smell anything. For the last couple years, I have known I had the polyps, but have been treating them with cycles of prednisone and nasal steroids to shrink them. I don't want to be on steroids forever so decided to get them removed. I have had this surgery before...about 10 years ago. I knew when I got the surgery previously that I would probably need to get it again...I just didn't know when. The polyps usually grow back.

As for now though....hopefully another 10 years....I can breath! I smelled my baby for the first time the other day and she smelled sooo good. I am so glad I had the surgery and hope it gives me relief for at least 10 more years.

treehouse

We went up to Logan to help my sister and brother in law build a treehouse at their house. Caleb helped build and I helped watch the kids and just hung out.

Boondocks & Tepanyaki

A couple weeks ago, we took Caleb's brother and his wife Stacie out for the night. They helped us paint our deck. We went to dinner at Tepanyaki & then to boondocks for some Mini gold, go kart riding and arcade games. We had a great time. We were the last ones on the go kart track so they let us ride as long as we wanted to. We ended up going for 15 minutes.