Elizabeth has been having a huge growth spurt the last week and a half. Her sleeping has been a little off and she has been a bit fussier than normal. Not to mention her appetite has been unbelievable. It seems that as soon as she is finished with one feeding she is ready for another and is very vocal about it. Adam and I actually gave her a little rice cereal on Saturday night to see if that would help fill her tummy better and it did. She slept until 10:30 Sunday morning. We mixed it really soupy but she would open her mouth for more each time she saw the spoon coming. Everything seems to be moving so fast with her I just wish she would slow down a little. This week she seems to be falling back into regular routine with naps and eating so hopefully our rather large growth spurt is over for now.

She has also found that she likes putting everything in her mouth. I am lucky to still have a arm these days. You can see in some of the pictures that she is mouthing everything. Also you will see that the neighbors wanted to pull her in the wagon and she was having nothing of that. One of the pictures is Elizabeth with Emily and they are reaching out to each other. I thought this was too cute.

We thought we would share our little angels first video with everyone. Just ignore the noises I am making in the background and focus on her. She is so cute laughing and smilling. You can't help but smile :) Enjoy!

Well, I think I might finally have a few minutes to update the blog. The last few times I have tried just didn't work. Elizabeth is a stage where she does not like mommy to focus on anything else but her. I had no idea that this would happen so fast but it is here so it is like a circus sometimes trying to get anything accomplished. With that said though I am enjoying every minute of her. There is something new everyday that amazes me. I never thought that I would be in such of awe of our daughter. God has given us an amazing blessing that brings us such joy each and every day.
Ok, enough mushy stuff. Over the past few weeks we have been busy. Elizabeth got to meet her great grandmother and great aunt for the first time. They of course were smitten with her. She also got to see her grandmother (my mom) again. We were so excited that they got to come and visit. Elizabeth enjoyed it of course bc she was held the whole time they were here and that she loved. We have also had our first road trip this last weekend to Indiana. Daddy graduated from Purdue University this past weekend so we went to see the comencement ceremony. Elizabeth did fairly well with the trip. She did get tired of her car seat and was thrown off schedule a little but otherwise she did great. We were very proud of Daddy but it was clear all weekend who daddy was proud of. Adam was the proud dad showing off his little girl. I believe the wrapping has already began :)

Good morning everyone! Since I last posted Elizabeth has gotten a new high chair and is now sitting at the table with mommy and daddy for dinner each night. We decided to get the high chair bc when it came time to eat she would begin to fuss and we would have to take turns eating to passify her. So we thought if she could see us she might not fuss and we could eat in peace. Well, so far so good! Yeah!
We have also been to the ENT doctor for a second opinion on having her little tongue clipped and he felt as though hers was not tight enough to be clipped. As far as speech problems in the future he did not feel that she would have any issues. Mom and Dad were glad to hear this news. No big deal we know but all the same we are happy it did not have to be done.

The past few weeks she has really started to talk and interact with us. We can talk to her and she will coo back and smile. I cannot explain the joy that this gives us when she does this. I can sit for hours and play with her. Sometimes you even get a little laugh. Precious! Also she has slept through the night 5 times over the past week. Mommy really enjoys this new accomplishment :) Last night we started with replacing one feeding with a bottle so she will get use to taking a bottle. She did well. Dad warmed the milk a little and I think that did the trick. In the past she would not take a bottle well so we are hoping that she is learning now to like it. Well I think that is all we have for now. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

This past weekend we had our friends Craig, Jessica and their little girl come up to visit us and to meet Elizabeth for the first time. Addyson was so cute with Elizabeth and loved to tell the kitty cats no no. She would walk over to the cats and say no no like they had been bad. She is adorable. A couple of times when Elizabeth cried Addyson would get a bottle out and take it to her like she was going to feed her. We visited the pool again this weekend and Elizabeth made a splash this time. Well not really but she did get in the pool for the first time. She was a little fussy at first but once she got use to the water she was fine. Also this weekend she found the mirror above her swing and bouncy and loves to look in them and smile. Over the past week or so she has started cooing and really talking it is so much fun to listen to her. Just listening to her makes you happy inside. I can already see a personality shining through. Adam and I cracked up last night while we were walking she was sitting kind of crooked in her seat and every once in a while we would look down and she would have one of her legs propped up on the side of the stroller. She was very comfortable and enjoying the ride:)
Oh I almost forgot that we got our shots on Thursday of last week. There should be a better way to give immunizations to infants. She did ok but it still hurt her and me. I told Adam the new deal was that if I had the baby he had to take them for their shots. He kind of ignored me on that one:) After her shot she did run a temp for a couple of days but nothing to high. Come Saturday she was back to herself again.

Hi everyone! I guess it has been about two weeks since our last post except for a few pictures. Since then our family has been to visit and Elizabeth has started sleeping up to 6 hours at night. Yeah!!! While our family was here I think she got so worn out that she couldn't help but sleep longer. We took her to the pool for the first time but she did not get in. Dad was a little hesitant on that idea so we will wait for a while. Maybe by the end of the summer when she can hold her head up better we will try getting in. We had lots of fun while they were here going to the pool, batting cages and Dave and Busters. Elizabeth wishes that we lived a little closer to all of her cousins so we could see them more often. After everyone left we have just been hanging out and getting back to our normal routine. Yesterday daddy worked with her on pulling the handle on her bouncy that makes it play music. She pulled the handle twice by herself. I do not mean that she reached up and grabbed the handle on her own but we placed her hand on the handle and she pulled. We were proud of course of this little accomplishment. Not much else to tell this week. I will try not to wait so long for the next post.