Heres lyla after a bath, she loves getting her bath, she just sits there and relaxes while we bathe her. 12/7/09
Lyla and her dad playing 11/29/09
While we were driving we heard Lyla fuss a little bit and we just thought she was tired, well when i went to take her out this is what i found. It made her fall asleep
12/3/09
Just being cute and playing with her toys 12/7/09
12/8/09
Here we are that the mesa temple looking at the beautiful christmas lights, she was sooo tired it was getting to be her bed time, but she didnt make a peep the whole time. 12/12/09
Then that night after the christmas lights and after Lyla went to bed, troy went and picked up a tree and we listended to some christmas music and decorated the tree
Now a little update on Lyla. This is a journal for me so im sure i'll be writing a whole lot about Lyla and her little happenings. So She is almost 4 months old i seriously cant believe it. Even though i love every little stage she is in I get sooooooo sad that she is growing up! It just goes by so dang fast I get angry haha. I want her to freeze in time. She truly is the joy in mine and troys life, we cant get enough of her, we are constantly just talking about how much we love her and how we think she is the cutest thing alive. Lyla really really is THE best baby ever. She hardly ever cries, she just smiles all day long. Even if she is tired sometimes she may fuss but the way i know she is tired is that her eyes will get red and she wont smile at me as much. And whats funny is she never tells me when shes hungry, i swear this girl wouldnt cry even if she was starving. i have to guess and think, hmmm its been a couple of hours i bet shes hungry and of course she will chug that bottle. She is rolling over constantly and doesnt like to be on her stomach too long so i am always putting her back on her back, but then she rolls back over again. She is getting so much more interested in her toys because she can now hold on to them pretty good. She loves to put them in her mouth and LOVES her hands and our hands too and she loves to put them in her mouth. For a while she hated her carseat but now she doesnt mind it at all, its so nice. i can now sit up front with troy. I've taken her out twice now by myself and both times she is sooooo good and doesnt even make a peep. You wonder why i have only been out twice with her??? well for the first 3 months of her life my hormones were so beyond crazy that i was, and still kind of am, a freak about germs and her getting sick. Especially since its cold and flu season. I'm getting better though. So I wouldnt ever go out and if i did i would have troy come with me so he could help. So fyi since im still a nazi about it, dont hold my baby if you havent washed her hands! or if you are sick!! biggest pet peeve of my life oh and dont be kissing on my baby, see i told you im crazy! and trust me, it was 100 times worse the first months of her life. And i do have to say that it took me 3 months to feel myself again thats for sure! anyway enough about that! More on lyla. So her sleeping habits when she was a new born were of course not good, waking up every 2 hours in the night. But then when she was 2 months or so she was sleeping 5 hours wake up, then would sleep another 5 hours then another 2-3hours after that, then would wake up for the morning and then go take a nap after about an hour or 2. Life was pretty great then. Also when i wanted to put her to sleep for a nap all i would have to do was put her binky in her mouth, cradle her, and pat her bum, so easy! Well now its a different story, she is waking up every 4 hours for a feeding and a lot of the time waking up between that because she has gas, or a burp, or just because. And she is now fighting going to bed, its hard to put her to sleep, and her naps sometimes are only 20 min long and she wont go back to sleep even if she is tired! The only good thing about that is even if she is so tired she is the happiest baby ever and just smiles at you it just melts your heart and is hard to stay mad at her. I just love being a mom and especially a mom to my sweet Lyla, she is everything i could ask for in a baby and more.
Oh, also i am still pumping every 3-4 hours during the day but i stopped doing it at night so i could get more sleep. Can i just say pumping is the worst and most inconvienent thing of my life i absolutly hate doing it, but i do it because i know how good it is for her. I do have to suppliment because i dont make enough due to some birth defect i have ( dont have enough stems in my boobs to make milk). When i do pump for 20 min at a time i only get 2 ounces with both boobs! and then, when i go 8 hours during the night without pumping i get 4 ounces all together and boy i think thats so much haha. I have to admit i wish sooooo badly i could breast feed. its so sad to me because at first she would latch on soooo great and was a great nurser. but when she had lost weight after the hospital the dr. said i needed to give her a bottle for her to gain weight. then she got used to that and would not go to my breast. i would even go to a lactation consultant a couple of times, but Lyla would get so upset that my milk wasnt coming down fast enough. so with all of that she now only takes bottles and i truly get soo sad. i have to admit i even get so jealous of other people that can breastfeed, that is one thing i wish so badly that i could have with my baby, but again i have to be thankful that i have such a good baby that there has to be one thing that isnt perfect right?? anyway im dont typing this is so long and probably so many grammer errors but oh well
