What a difference a year makes

It was a year ago now that our sweet little Raya was making her hard fought journey towards my egg and she beat out the other millions :) !!

Now she is a strong 3 month old developing such a beautiful personality. She is a smiley, quiet (most of the time) little girl that I just want to look at and play with all day everyday!

She started giggling just a few days ago, OMG adorable!!! Shes holding her head up better and definitely went through or is still going through a bit of a three month growth spurt. Which means her naps are longer and she's been fitting in an extra feeding each day. She's definitely grown in length, we're going to have to transition her out of her bassinet soon!

We still swaddle her at night but she somehow whips herself around and just the other day we found she had done a 180 degree turn in her sleep, so funny!!

Her favorite hobby right now is chomping on her hand, nom nom nom, she will often rather chomp on her hand than eat, haha.

Drumroll.....she's finally out of newborn clothes!!! BUT she is still only 10 pounds, she's our little sweetpea! She amazes us everyday and we just love her to pieces!!

Look alike?

These were the best side by side comparisons I could find right now to see who our little R looks like more.

Top images are Raya and Tim both in hospital bassinets and bottom two are Raya and I both at 2.5 months doing tummy time.

It is obvious that she got that head of hair from dad ;) I also think she has more of Tims face structure. She might have my mouth and eyebrows? Our noses are similar so it's hard to tell there. So far we have a lot of people telling us she looks more like dad or is a good combo of both of us...either way she is a beautiful little baby who is growing so fast!

Lobstah

As some of you may know Tim's mom is from Maine and he still has some relatives that live there. His cousin Terry was visiting San Diego from Maine this past week for a teacher convention that was taking place downtown. Following the convention her and two friends stayed with Tim's mom for some sightseeing of San Diego.

As a thank you for her hospitality on their final day they shipped in live Maine lobster for family to enjoy!! I am glad we were invited and available that day :). We had a little lobster cookout/BBQ and enjoyed the summer sunshine! Too bad I'm STILL not pool ready :( but Raya does enjoy dressing up in her summer attire!

Cousin Marty had a good time showing Baby Raya some toys he thinks she would like to play with, he's very good at sharing!

35 years of Wisdom

Happy Birthday Tim!!

On Saturday Tim turned another year wiser :) It is so crazy looking back and realizing I met Tim when he was just about to celebrate his 27th birthday and how far we've come in 8 years!!

This year was a rare occasion since Tims birthday fell on a Saturday and he actually did not have an event himself to work. We were able to celebrate together with family and friends.

We started the day at Hash House, http://www.hashhouseagogo.com/ for breakfast-YUM!!! Its becoming a little breakfast tradition now, my last birthday we ate there :)

Then after some digesting and relaxing family time (and Tim did need to make a quick stop in to oversee an event set up), what better way to spend the early evening than a good ol' pizza party??!  We headed over to URBN in North Park, http://urbnnorthpark.com/. When you're our age pizza parties include cocktails and kiddos who don't at pizza yet :) Soon enough those birthday pizza parties will be for friends kids and our little Raya, I'm not complaining I LOVE pizza and parties :)

Wishing you a wonderful year Tim. Its been an honor to be by your side over the years and watch you become you man you are. Looking forward to many more birthday celebrations! Love you!

LOVE

This smile can turn every frown upside down, love this little girl!!!

2 Months!

Raya has just celebrated her 2 month birthday on Sunday and has had quite an eventful month!

Some of the things she has been up to;
Enjoying social smiling
Sleeping GREAT and does 5-7 hour stretches at night
Enjoys bath time
Moved to size 1 diapers even though they are a little big
Newborn clothes are getting snug
Got her first diaper rash and is dealing with baby acne :(
Loves playtime on her playmat
Neck is getting stronger
Still gets hiccups a lot, gripe water helps calm them
Makes cooing noises and sounds like a dove
Took her first trip to the aquarium and SD Zoo

At her 2 month well baby appointment she measured in at;
9 pounds 3 ounces, 5th percentile for weight (a bit low but I think she's got daddy's metabolism..or like her doctor said she might be a little lazy when eating)
22" long, 27th percentile for height ( good old' #27 ;) she's on target here)
15" head, 44th percentile here, so that's great!

She did great with all the reflex tests the doctor did and she said to start keeping a close eye on her because it may not be long before she's really trying to roll, she's a mover and a shaker!

The shots she didn't love and screamed like I never heard before but she did great and they put cute pink camouflage bandaids over her booboos for being such a trooper. She slept alot yesterday after all the excitement, slept from 4-7 PM, 9 PM-4 AM, then 5-9 AM. I'm not complaining ;)

A Good Day!

It only took 8 weeks but we are starting to settle into a little groove, how long before it goes off course?? Probably not long so I want to remember the little normalcy I had :)

Everyday is a great day but Friday was fantastic and the beautiful sun was out in San Diego! Tim left for an event setup around 8 AM, after Rayas morning feeding she relaxed while I made the bed, then we got changed and took Zara to the dog park. On the way home from the dog park R fell asleep so I dropped Z off at the house and headed to the grocery store to get ingredients for some yummy recipes I found on Pinterest that I was going to attempt for dinner. As we were getting home R was waking up and it was feeding time, she patiently hung out in the Bjorn carrier (thank you Michelle for letting us borrow it and showing me how to use it!) while I put the groceries away. After she had her lunch we watched her 'my baby can read video' which she enjoyed, I think! She sat through the video and tracked with her eyes...such a good student already ;).

Then I sat her in her mammaroo chair ( we love that chair!) and she hung out while I started prepping some of dinner. It was time for naptime and she didn't resist being swaddled and set in her bassinet for some Zzzzzs. As she napped I was able to respond to some emails, finish prepping dinner and read a little...I think I even got a load of laundry in there too!

My favorite part of the day was around 4:00 PM Tim came home and I was able to actually go for a jog by MYSELF...woohoo first time in probably 10 months that had happened :) I got home and showered, we ate dinner, R had eaten just before I ran so she was content until just after we ate. She then had her dinner, had bath time, daddy read her a few books and she was down for the night and slept for 7.5 hours!

It felt so good to have a day that seemed to flow so well and feel just a little productive!