Hello solid food!!

Today was Cheyenne's 4 month appointment! She now weighs 15 lbs 15 oz! She's 25 1/4 long. In the last 2 months she has gained 4 pounds and grew 3 inches! She's getting soooo big! They say that she is the height of a 6 1/2 month old, weight of a 5 1/2 month old and has the head size of a 7 month old! 

We also tried giving Cheyenne solid foods for the first time! She got some bananas, and while she wasn't exactly sure what to think of them at first, not she cries if we don't get them in her mouth fast enough! She loves them!! I took some pics as I was feeding her to see her different reactions... At one point she actually grabbed the spoon out of my hand and brought it to her mouth herself! Albeit she was holding the spoon vertically but still! And the best news of all? It seems like giving her solid foods has practically stopped her spitting up!!! That alone is a blessing all in its own!

What in the world is this?!?!

Bananas!!

Here, just give that to me I'll do it myself!

Where you going with that?!

 

Give it back!

 



     

Cheyenne's first Easter!

Cheyenne's first Easter was so much fun! Here are some pics of her with her Easter basket!

My Revelation!

When I was a kid, I used to think that parents were just the two people that raised you, they were just mommy and daddy, that's it... the end.

Now, on the eve of Cheyenne's first Easter, as I sit here putting together her Easter basket and listening to Jay snore on the couch ( =O) ) It hit me...

Mommies and Daddies are no different than two people (hopefully) in love with each other. They are the same as boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, your best friend and her husband... They are just regular people! When I was a kid I never realized that my parent's were in love with each other! Don't get me wrong, they always showed each other that they loved each other, when my mom got sick my dad was hopelessly devoted to helping her, but at the time that she passed away, I was only 10, so it never dawned on me that my parent's were in love with each other, probably because I didn't really understand love at that point.

So I sit here... Cheyenne upstairs asleep, my wonderful husband on the couch across from me, and I realize... Wow... One day Cheyenne is going to look at us as just her parents... but we were two people in love before we were ever parents. And while one day she will think that we have all the answers, and will only really think of us as "Mommy and Daddy".. I'll be able to look over at my husband and smile, because we both know that we have NO IDEA what we are doing, we are learning as we go, just as I'm sure my parents were... and we are unconditionally in love with each other... just as I'm sure my parents were...

And although I thought I couldn't possibly be anymore in love with anyone other than Jason... it seems like Cheyenne has taken that spotlight. Even when I met Jason, and knew that I was head over heels in love with him, now that Cheyenne is here, it kinda seems like I had no idea what love was until I met her.

Weird... how you can go from man and wife, to daddy and mommy in, what seems like, the blink of an eye, and you have this tiny little thing depending on the both of you to stick together, and work together to make sure she has the life she deserves to have... when in reality, before she ever came along... you were two people who fell in love...

Me and Jay about a month after we started dating...

About 2 months before we got pregnant...

5 days into parenthood!!! We don't look like parents do we? Just two people in love that happen to be holding the best thing to ever happen to them!!!

some videos/photos to catch up!

I've been absentmindedly forgetting that not everyone that is looking at this blog has facebook also! And the fact that this is meant to help document Cheyenne's amazing little life so far I should have everything on here also!! So now much talking to do for today, for now I will share with you all some videos/photos from the last few days!!

Cheyenne with cousin Jade

Cousins!! Jade, Brandon & Cheyenne

Brandon and Cheyenne

being silly!

 

learning to sit up!

Bath time!!

She LOVES to stand!

Bath time!



Now... time for some videos!!!

This is the "alarm clock" I woke up to the other morning... I did not hear my actual alarm... so she decided to wake me!

I thought I had more on my computer but I have to upload them from my phone so I will add more in a little bit!!

it's the little things...

I'm pretty sure the most awesome thing about parenthood is watching your kids learn something new. Even the most mundane thing that you and I do is the most fascinating thing when a baby is doing it.

Cheyenne is learning how to sit up by herself now! I put her up on the floor and she will sit there for a good couple seconds before she gets too excited about it and falls over hahaha. I was going to put up a video I took tonight of her sitting up, but then my phone went crazy and I had to restore it so now it got erased and she's in bed so I guess that will have to wait for tomorrow =O(

But everyday, she learns something new, and it's the most exciting thing to see her learning! She discovered her feet a few days ago too, so now whenever she's getting changed she lays there and holds onto her toes, and it's like, how did she not know they were there? You'd swear it was the best part of her day to find out she finally has feet! I could only wish I could get that excited about something like that!! I can't wait to teach her everything!

Today has been a pretty rough day on me so I will keep this short, but I will be posting pictures (and hopefully video) soon so stay posted!!!

Here comes Cheyenne Cotton Tail!!!

Okay this is starting to get really exciting now! Cheyenne was born 5 days before Christmas, so of course we didn't really get to do much with/for her, Mommy was still recovering from bringing her into this world, and Daddy was still... well just recovering in general haha. So Christmas was pretty chill, then Valentines Day came, and again she was really just too little to "do" anything with.

But now here comes Easter!!! And now that Cheyenne can hold her head up herself and she is really starting to react to the world around her, Easter is going to be exciting!!!! And I didn't even realize it!  A few days ago my Mother-in-Law asked me if she could take Cheyenne to an Easter Egg Hunt... HOLY CRAP!! I didn't even realize it, but she could totally go to an Easter Egg Hunt! why not?!?!? I mean obviously she cant run/crawl around and find the eggs, but why not take her out and play with her? I think it would be just as fun!

So now I am super excited, and searching every website and newspaper I can to find some local Easter Egg Hunts.... so far, I can't find any =O( But I will... ohhhh I will!!

TUTU's!

For those of you who don't have facebook: Cheyenne's first tutu pictures!! Made by mommy =O)

cranky butt (literally!!)

Never in my life did I ever think I would care so much about what came out of someone else's butt!!! Haha people told me that being a mom means you will obsess about every little thing, but I didn't think they meant EVERY thing! Poor Cheyenne is constipated these days and while normally I personally get a laugh every time she poops because of the noises she makes, it's hard seeing her go through all that effort and not get any results =O)

A few days ago I started thinking maybe she was getting sick, because she was spitting up a good majority of her milk and she was such a CRANK POT!!!!! She was just miserable all the time! So we called the Dr and they suggested we cut back on how much milk we're giving her from 6 oz, to 4 oz. See, she went through a growth spurt a week or two back and she wouldn't eat anything less than 6 oz, and she still wanted that much so thats what we gave her. Apparently we were overfeeding her, we cut back to 4 and she's fine and not spitting nearly as much as she was before, and she's a MUCH happier baby now too! We also stopped giving her cereal at night, I think maybe it was too soon and that might have been bothering her belly also.

I had no idea that after the growth spurt was over you were supposed to cut back on how much they ate again, guess it was a rookie mistake. Anywho, so we're good on that front, but we also switched her formula back to Enfamil A.R. to see if that would help with the spitting issues, which it did, but now she's constipated... apparently, if you stop things from coming out of one end, it stops it from all ends haha.

So just got off the phone with Dr again, now they want me to give  her some apple juice to see if that helps move things along...I can't imagine was kind of face i'm going to get when she tastes apple juice for the first time haha but I will definitely be recording it! Waiting now for daddy to come back home with it and see what happens.

So now most of my day will be consisting of waiting for Cheyenne to do her business and make sure all checks out... Who would have thought you'd care so much about poop!?!?!?! =O)