trying to crawl!!

Soooo.... Cheyenne was trying to crawl tonight!
This was about 10 min before she went to bed so needless to say she was a little cranky, I will have to try it again when shes a little more awake, but I think she did pretty good for a first timer! She just needs to figure out that she has to lift the top of her body along with the bottom! haha

catch up!

My gosh I can't believe its been over a month since I updated on here! So sorry!! So here's whats been going on lately!

Cheyenne is now sitting on her own! YAY!!

She started sitting on her own Memorial Day weekend!

     I've said it before and I'll keep saying it... it is CRAZY how fast time is going by! In just 7 days Cheyenne will already be 6 months old! I can't even believe it! 

     It is surprising to say, but I think Cheyenne is starting to look a little more like me! I can't put my finger on it, it might be the eyes, but I'm very excited that I can see myself in her a little bit =) Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that she looks like Jason, but I like it now that she seems like a good blend of the two of us =) 

Here is my baby pic, I'm not sure how old I am in this pic, I'd imagine somewhere around Cheyenne's age now:

I think especially in this pic she looks just like me - people that have seen me sleep will definitely agree with this! haha

For some reason the videos are taking forever to upload tonight so I will just upload this one.. This is my fovorite video of her, I'm considering putting it in to America's Funniest Home Videos haha, my favorite part is around minute 1:30... enjoy!

I had to compress the crap out of it to get it to upload quickly so I will post a better version of it when I get some patience for it

We have a roller! part 2 (the video!)

I told you I'd get video!!

We have a roller!!!!

Ahhhh!!! I can't even begin to explain how happy and proud I am of our little boo boo!!! Today she rolled over for the first time!! And just to make sure I saw it right, I put her back on her stomach... and she did it again!!! Ahh!!!

What a fantastic gift she gave us for our anniversary! Today was our 1 year wedding anniversary, and its so hard to believe that last year at this time she was just this big!:

and now she's this big!:

It was so hard to watch her struggling to push the rest of her body over when she was trying to roll, I so badly wanted to just grab her legs and push them over so that I could show her how to do it, but I just sat back and let her do it on her own time and with the help of Daddy and Uncle Josh, sure enough she figured it out!! 

I'm going to try to get a video of her doing it to post on here, but for now you'll just have to take my word for it =O)

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!!!