Summer time

How can summer already be coming to an end? Where does the time go? My baby turned 2 months old yesterday! She changes every day too, I can't believe how fast babies grow. At her well check appointment yesterday everything went well, she is up to speed with her development and her acid reflux is being kept in check.  The Dr. did say that Lila is a little on the lean side though for how long she is. Somehow I'm supposed to "encourage" her to eat more at each feeding...any ideas on how to do that? This kid decides when she is done eating, I can't force more milk down her throat. And usually if she does eat more than normal she spits up everywhere. So I dunno how I'm supposed to fix that issue...maybe my baby is just skinny? Other than that she is healthy and happy, all the nurses kept commenting on how cute and pretty she is, I couldn't disagree with them :) ! Seeing her get immunizations was horrible, my poor baby did not like that at all. She didn't get a fever or anything though afterwards, she just went right to sleep, I'm sure getting three shots in your thigh is exhausting!

Tage and I managed to have a pretty fun summer, even with juggling a baby. We were able to go camping with Tage's family this last weekend and my family a few weeks before, which was a lot of fun. I'm horrible with the camera though really, I only remembered to take a few pictures and now I regret it! Even when Melissa was visiting from Florida I neglected my camera, I'm kicking myself for it now. I'll upload a few of what I did get.

Tage and I have a few more things planned before the weather turns cold. We want to try to make a trip to Moab in October and Tage wants to go ride his four-wheeler at the Knolls for his birthday in September, sounds like fun to me! We also need to get some family pictures done, I'm such a slacker!!

School starts in a few weeks, I'm going to have major separation anxiety from Lila....and I need to really start working on my stockpile of frozen breast milk...yay. Let's hope I can do this full time mommy AND student thing, and still squeeze in a little fun family time with Tage.

Aunt Melissa and Lila :)

beautiful baby on her blessing day

Tage thinks its hilarious to put pants and diapers on Lila's head...it kinda is hilarious haha.

cute hat that her aunt Erin made for her

all snuggled up while camping.

such a sweet face!!

This is what I call Lila's "Tage eyes" haha

My happy 2 month old girl!

Acceptance.

Tomorrow Lila will be 7 weeks old. Time really does fly, I don't know why that keeps surprising me either ha-ha! Life has been busy busy busy, I thought I would be bored being a stay at home mommy, but it seems like I never have a spare minute. That's a good thing though, I don't like having too much down time!

About 2 weeks ago Lila started some pretty intense screaming sessions. They were rough! She was really trying my patience, and it was so sad to feel the frustration I felt towards her, even sadder to not be able to comfort her. She just cried and cried...So off to the pediatrician we went, after I described all of Lila's behavior the Dr. laughed and said, "Welcome to life with an acid reflux baby! Luckily for you it's treatable." I had to hold back tears, I really thought she would say what everyone else had told me - That It's just colic, or it's "purple crying", or to just let her cry it out. What a relief to be able to do something to help her! So now she is on the up and up, I've got my sweet, happy Lila back, she is just TOO CUTE. I've also discovered (with a few helpful tips from my wonderful sister-in-law) that this little girl really needs her beauty sleep or she is mega cranky! She needs to eat, play for no more than an hour, and then go right back to sleep or else a crying session is in store for me. I've been doing this for just 2 days and I can already see an improvement! I'm getting this mommy thing down!

I'm starting to level out in the emotions department too. I still cry over the silliest things...I think that just comes along with motherhood though. Someone made a good point, they sort of put into perspective that becoming a mommy takes you through the grieving process...you are grieving for your non-mommy self, which sadly, is gone forever. This may not affect some people that way, but it sure does for me. I'm adjusting to this new phase in life and leaving the non-mom behind. I think I'm in the acceptance phase now. I'm a mom, life is totally different...and I'm finding a way to be happy with that. And today I sealed the deal...I got rid of my little car and got a mommy car! It's probably silly to make a big deal over parting with a car, but hey, I sure did. I shed quite a few tears over selling my cobalt.  It was a part of my single, independent days, and today someone drove it away. Ah...nostalgia. The last three years have been such a crazy ride, and I had the cobalt to get me to where I am now! I was so proud of myself when I bought it brand new and was able to pay for it on my own. Who gets attached to 3 year old car really? I'm such a sap! Anyway, it still stings a little that Baby (I know, not a super unique name) is gone. We got a pretty sweet dark purple Equinox that I will like just fine, it's practical. It will be fun making new memories with this car...and we won't be so squished. :)

Back in 2009 when I used to wash this car once a week! HA HA

She can't fight the swings' awesome powers for long, she conks out eventually!

such a pretty baby!! LOVE HER!

Lila's First camping trip!

camping is exhausting :)

Honking Daddy's train horns!