Merry Christmas!

We had a great 1st Christmas as a new family in our new home. Matt's parents came down to spend the holiday with us and made us some fabulous meals! Abby is at her "6-week peak" cranky/fussy stage...so she was a bit of a challenge most of the time. We were very thankful to have 2 more people on hand to walk around with her (the ONLY thing that seems to soothe her!). But we still love her. :)

Of course we tried to get a few pictures - none of which really came out that great. haha One of us was always doing something goofy. But I thought I'd post a few of the "better" ones.

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

Abby trying to eat her outfit for dinner.

Wardrobe change #2 of 4

(we can't keep anything clean today!)

Should I be worried about the way she is

eyeing the champagne???

Announcement

This is the announcement I sent to all my coworkers, etc. I thought it turned out pretty good. It's a bad scan...I promise it looks better in person!

Spa Day

"I'm all ready to go in my robe -

so how does this spa thing work?"

"Steam room...check. Mani/Pedi...check."

"But I wanted the AROMATHERAPY massage!!"

Such a big girl...

Today was Abby's 1-month Pediatrician visit and she weighed in at a whooping 10lbs, 3ozs! She's in the 75th percentile for her age. So she's a little bit above average.

That's our little overachiever. :)

Baby Pictures...

Here are pictures of both Matt and I as babies. We got them out to do a little comparison with Abby.

What do you think...does she look like Mommy or Daddy?

Shannon:

Matt:

Abby:

VOTE! ------>

Daddy and his little Mini-Me

Snowing in Austin??

Since we are due for snow on Friday, Abby and I decided it was time to break out the "baby Uggs" and her cute little outfit from Great Grandma Heign.

She's such a show off... :)

Da Bears

*Thank you Great Uncle Jeff and cousin Jeff* :)

Mommy's first outing...

Yesterday marked 2 weeks postpartum after the c-section which means I was given clearance to drive! Yeah! So my big outing today was to Target.

On my way home I get a call from Matt. Of course I'm assuming the baby is upset/mad/hungry/cranky or all of the above. But as it turns out, it was Daddy that was upset/cranky/mad. haha

Abby is very "regular" in that she is going through diapers like a crazy baby. Sometimes she goes a couple times even while we are changing her! But today was the best day of all. Matt got to experience the first projectile poop diaper change...and he was all by himself to handle it! Apparently she did such a good job, she even got poop 3 feet across the room onto the door of the nursery as well as the carpet. :)

Good job Abby - way to break Daddy in (and while Mommy is away....)!

Here is how they both felt about it:

Our little ducky