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!

whats new???

Buggito now fits most of her newborn size clothing without needing me to roll up the sleeves or loosing a foot in the leg of a sleeper. She can even start to sport her 0-3 month clothing without drowning in the fabric~score!. I may have mentioned she is developing a bit of a neck rather than just pug folds of skin separating her head from her shoulders. When we burp her she tries to hold her own head up all the time, we have to keep a steady hand on it to avoid her getting away on us. She is finally big enough to fit her cloth diapers so we are looking forward to testing those out this week, especially with how expensive disposables can get. Buying packages of newborn size cost $15.00 for a package of 30 diapers. When you go through 10 or more diapers a day, it adds up!!!!.

I have introduced Buggito to the snugli sling (much less scary than the other ones for watching her neck position for suffocation). We have been using it around the house when I want to tidy and she wants to cuddle, better still we have used it on a few nature hikes already. The baby is starting a bit of cooing now when shes awake. You can tell she thinks shes pretty funny when she fakes me out on latching during feeding time. She gets close like shes going to latch then she swings her head away from me with a big wide mouthed gummy grin and repeats for a few minutes. She is staying awake for longer periods of time.

One of the girls from work gave me another big box of baby clothes which is awesome!! The baby's wardrobe is pretty much complete for the next year of her life, I cant even justify browsing the baby clothes sections anymore. Another nice surprise one of our neighbours (who we have never even spoken to before)saw Chris this morning and gave him a gift for the baby. A pink bunny with a blanket and a card! He brought Buggito over after to introduce her to the baby and say thank-you. I guess this means I have to be a bit more friendly to the neighbours rather than ignore and avoid them. Other than that not much to report, life is pretty good for the moment.

Think Pink!

I always knew I wanted to have a daughter, anyone who doesn't believe me can ask my mother in law about all the little girl things collected over the years I have stored in her basement, some were mailed to me and others still reside there for the time being. There is something magical about little girls ,not to say little boys don't have their own brand of magic. But little girl magic is the kind I have always hoped I would be given the chance to relive through a child of my own.

Unicorns, pretty little dresses, tea parties, glitter, fairies, bow ties and lace. While little boys are off playing war games little girls are imagining falling in love, and being a princess. The best part of having a daughter is that you can have the best of both worlds. She can have fairytale tea parties in the afternoon and still enjoy playing hockey in the driveway with dad before dinner. I can only hope that my sweet Buggito and I will be as close as my Mom and I are when she is an adult. Father/ daughter relationships get allot of buzz and hype and I'm glad for all those girls who do grow up with a great loving father in their life ( my daughter included) but there is also a special bond between mothers and daughters that gets forgotten at times. The bond that comes when your teaching your daughter about life and being a woman and passing on your values and experience.

Being a mom is a pretty good job, I'm just starting to get those smiles of recognition when she wakes up and sees me there and its only a hint of the good times to come. I'm looking forward to reading all the Disney fairies books I have been collecting for her together, and dressing up and having picnics and doing crafts together. I'm hoping to give her the longest, happiest and most enchanted childhood possible. I want her to experience nothing but unconditional love and security from her family, the magic and wonder of fairy tales and make believe, the adventure of discovering everything in the world for the first time. Bittersweet is a word I think only a parent can truly understand, its a strange thing to simultaneously rejoice and mourn a child's growth.