It's Official!

Jonny just got accepted to the Master of Science in Human Resources program at Utah State University! We are very excited!

He visited the campus a couple of weeks ago and met with the director, administrator, and other head people of the program. It was very promising, so we were pretty confident he would get in. In fact, they told him not to apply to any other schools :)

We had a list of 5 schools he was going to apply to, but his top choice was Utah State. I thought it was kind of funny that we looked all over the country but his favorite program was here in Utah. He was going to apply to places in Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. They all would have been a much bigger move, which I was excited for. It would have been nice to go farther east for a while before we settle down in the west. But now that we are accepted I am really excited about Logan!

We ended up not applying to the other schools because we were so confident in Utah State. If he hadn't gotten accepted we would still have had time to apply to the others. Looks like we don't need to though!

There is a 10 week business program that he will complete before the semester starts, so we'll be moving in about a month and a half! Yikes! Time to start apartment hunting and getting ready to leave.

I am so excited to start this new chapter in our lives! Go Aggies! :)

See the resemblance?

Yep, Sophie looks like her dad. Love it :)

Do you see me in her at all?? I don't!

One Month!

Oh my goodness, the last month has flown by! My little girl is already a month old!

Things are going so well and Sophie is happy and healthy. She had a fever one night (which about scared me to death) but other than that hasn't had any problems. She is also sleeping much better during the night. She usually sleeps 4-5 hours, gets fed, then goes down for another 2-3 hours. The other night she even slept for 6 hours straight! It is so nice!

She is also one of the happiest babies ever. People who have spent a lot of time with her are so surprised that they've never heard her cry - because she rarely does! Just recently though, she started to cry/fuss. It really only lasted a day or 2 and now she seems back to her happy self, so hopefully that stays!

Here are some updates about Sophie:

-At her 2-week appointment she was 8 lbs and 20 1/2 inches (50th percentile for both height and weight)

-She loves to smile. She's starting to smile more now, not just when she's sleepy. She smiles so big it looks like she's laughing!

-She also loves to grunt. She grunts when she's happy, sleepy, angry, hungry... pretty much all of the time. Silly girl!

-She loves getting her hair brushed and her feet rubbed. I give her little foot massages and her eyes roll back in her head :)

She makes this face a lot. It's so funny!

-When she was only 2 1/2 weeks old I went in to check on her while she was sleeping and she was laying on her side! She had almost rolled all the way over from back to belly. She is pretty strong!

-She giggled for the first time. I'm pretty sure my heart melted into a puddle. It was so cute! (she hasn't done it since though)

-She has to sleep with her hands above her head. If you swaddle her with her arms in the blanket she'll squirm her way out so she can sleep like this...

-She loves to go to the bathroom when you take off her diaper. We learned the hard way that we always need a diaper under her bum while we change her, otherwise things might get messy :)

-She loves to be sung to. When she fusses (which isn't very often), she'll calm right down once we start singing.

Well, that's all I can think of for now, so here are some pictures!

Her belly is really starting to fill out. It's getting pretty round!

All Dressed Up!

We decided Sophie looked too cute the other day, we just had to document it!

It didn't take long before she got real sick of taking pictures though..

Good thing the binkie makes everything better!

This is what happens when you spit up all over your mittens when mom is bundling you up for bed...

You get to wear socks on your hands :)

The Many Faces of Sophie..

Sleepy

Hungry

Happy

Really happy

Really really happy

Not so happy :(

Serious

I'm not sure what this one is, but it's still cute :)

Week One

Where do I begin? Our first week with Sophie was quite the whirlwind. For one thing, we noticed this...

She has webbed toes! How weird! They kinda creeped me out at first, but now I'm used to them :)

Mommy enjoyed the stay at the hospital because Sophie was in the nursery during the night -they just brought her in when she needed feeding.

But, it was eventually time to go home, which meant we were on our own to take care of her. Let's just say, our first night home with her, I don't think she slept at all. At all.

The day after we brought her home, she started living in this:

She had jaundice and had to be under bili lights. Because the lights can be harmful to her eyes, she needed constant supervision in case she pulled her mask off.

For 3 nights Jonny and I took shifts sleeping so one of us was up with her at all times. Thank goodness her levels are now back to normal!

The bad thing about the lights was that they made her very sleepy, which made it very hard to feed her. She couldn't stay awake long enough to eat! But that is no problem now. If there were an olympics for breastfeeding, Sophie would take the gold. They told me to feed her for about 15-20 minutes in order to empty me. She can drain me in 5 minutes flat! I was worried at first that she wasn't getting enough but as of Monday, she had already gained back 4 oz and my Dr. said she must be eating like a champ :)

Little Sophie also had problems going to the bathroom. After 2 days of being plugged up, we had to use a suppository (I made Jonny do it). It was gross :( Thank goodness, it did the trick and she goes just fine now.

So now that she's eating and pooping just fine, that just leaves...

sleeping.

She sleeps just great during the day. A little too great. We can't seem to get her on the whole "awake during the day, asleep at night" thing. Any suggestions on how to do this are more than welcome :)

On top of a few eating/sleeping/pooping issues with Sophie, I got mastitis. It hurt worse than giving birth (not an exaggeration - it really did). Luckily, that is cleared up now as well.

So life with Sophie started off with a few little hiccups. They really weren't bad at all - nothing serious. But anything dealing with your baby seems like the end of the world when you are riding on birthing hormones (they finally seem to be going back to normal, but it was pretty bad.) So it of course made everything seem a lot worse than it was.

Now, however, if we could just solve this sleeping problem, I think life would be perfect. I'm not sure how much longer I can go with getting 2 hours of sleep a night.. It's a good thing my little bean is sooo worth it! I mean, just Look at her!

Yep. Totally worth it.

PS- Today is her due date and she's already 10 days old!