More gifts!

Chris's mom and sister brought a few more gifts for the baby with them, from Chris's brother and sister in law as well as from Grandma Marcella and her friend Carol. Thank-you everyone!!!

Little Miss Buggito also received a few packages in the mail this week. Package number one was from my cousin Stephanie, a sweet pink pair of baby converse runners! Very cute, I will have to search out a funky outfit to match once shes big enough to fit them! Thanks Steph!! Buggito is already turning into quite the fashionista!.

Then the very next day a packaged arrived from my Aunt Debbie containing a few very cute summer outfits for the baby. Thankfully they are in the next size up so she will be able to fit them next month!! Thanks so much Deb!!! They are adorable!. With the rate she is growing I'm trying so hard to get her into each outfit at least once before it no longer fits her. I'm also trying to get some photos of her in each outfit~ the problem this week she has managed to spit up on or poop on a few before the pictures could be taken. I'm still going to make a gallant effort though :).

6 week check up..

This Wednesday we took Buggito to the doctors office for her 6 week check up. We discovered our little Buggito is in the 98th percentile. She is 12 lbs (right on the nose) and 22.4 inches long. I was also able to talk to the doctor about secondary pregnancies after my c-section. She said now that my scars have healed anytime were ready will be a good time. I already know we want to have a few children and Im not getting any younger, Im pretty sure once Buggito's first birthday rolls around we will begin actively trying for number two. That way the babies will be about two years apart, It makes more sense to me to have one at least walking on their own before you add a second one to the picture. Plus that gives little Buggito enough time to revel in the spotlight before she has to share the stage.

BEST NEWS EVER!!!! My Mom and Dad are planning to move to Halifax this year once they find a job to bring them out this way. That means Chris and I will be trying to finnish renovating this house in time to put it on the market next year to move closer to them. Until we do however we can visit them every second weekend and vise versa, so Buggito will have family near by and my parents will get to watch her grow up. Im so excited, its been too many years only seeing my family once a year if Im lucky. Chris is going to look into getting a job in the trades just as it will be more relaible work all year long rather than long stretches between contracts like he is dealing with now. Hopefully this will mean we will make enough money to afford making trips back to Saskatchewan to see his side of the family more often as well. Thats the current plan, hopefully things stay on course this time. :)

A visit from Grandma!

Chris's Mom and Sister came down to visit this week and meet the baby. We tried to take them around the island to see a few things like Baddeck, the Fairy hole, Fort Louisbourg and the Cabot trail. On top of that we did some local shop browsing and visiting around home with the baby. They picked a great time to visit, the weather was pretty nice most of the week and more importantly the baby is starting to enjoy interacting with people a bit more. She still sleeps allot but she enjoys listening to people talk and watching faces, were even getting big gummy smiles pretty frequently now.

Chris's parents got the baby a nice high chair and baby activity center, which will be great in a few months when she is able to support her own head fully (Thank~you Grandma and Grandpa). With the way she kicks her legs around shes going to love the activity center. Chris's mom also brought his baby album, Buggito is a carbon copy of her daddy when he was a baby, I will post some comparison pictures sometime this week once I scan them in. We had a great visit with them both and hope they had fun visiting us as well :), fingers crossed we will be seeing them next spring or summer when we go to Saskatoon (if we can afford it) for a friends wedding.

One month today!

Buggito,

You are now an entire month old. Wow time sure is flying, you look almost double the size you were when I first held you in my arms. You have begun to put on a layer of little baby fat giving you sweet chubby little cheeks and little rolls on your arms and legs. You are more alert as of late, you look at your surroundings and really seem to enjoy interacting with Mommy and Daddy. When I wake up in the mornings and look down at you I am greeted with little gummy smiles and you gurgle and coo at me. Your little clothes fit you nicely now and you have officially outgrown a few of your newborn onesies (which used to be the only things that fit you properly). You still love to snuggle all the time and prefer to be in someones arms rather than in your swing or left in your bassinets. You love going for walks in your stroller and especially love being carried about in your snugli under the cover of a receiving blanket or my poncho.

I'm so amazed at how big your getting the only thing I can do is try to capture as many moments on camera to try to save these sweet baby moments forever. I am taking the advice of the elderly people I meet with grown children and grandchildren of their own, I am cuddling you, kissing you and enjoying every single moment I can. You don't sit in a crib "to cry it out" you are held and loved and cherished as often as possible because I know there will be a day in the not so distant future where I miss these moments indescribably. I sniff that sweet baby smell on the top of your little head like a junkie snorting coke because that too will be nothing but a memory in a few short years. I do not want to look back and regret not spending enough time with you and enjoying these years. You will not always get the things you want in life, but you my dear girl will never hurt for love and attention.

Happy first fathers day Chris!!!

Today is your first Father's day, you will have been a father for a full month tomorrow, you have most likely changed at least 100 diapers, you have fed the baby 1 bottle of expressed milk. You have burped your daughter as many times as you have changed her. You take care of the literal crappy jobs more often than not, but you also took care of some of the most important ones. From the moment our girl entered the world YOU were the one there to hold her, protect her and love her in her first few hours of life when I was in surgery. You are there everyday for her and as a reward for all those crappy jobs you get those sweet moments where you two snuggle up on the couch together. As time goes on the sweet moments will last longer and the crappy jobs will be replaced by new ones :). But one thing will never change, your a dad now! you have a little person who loves and depends on you and you have a little girl I know you love with all your heart. Happy fathers day Baboo! I love you and I know your a great dad and you'll only continue to be the best dad Buggito could ever ask for.

Our first meeting....

Today is June 19th and its my Birthday, but I think I would rather share a quick clip of Buggito's Birthday. This is me two hours after my c-section I am FINALLY able to meet my baby despite being bone tired I forced myself to stay awake and see the little person I had been anxiously awaiting to meet for 9 months. Daddy caught it on camera for me, Thanks Daddy!.

Thank Heaven For Little Girls

Great song!