Mommy Moments

So my baby girl is 9 weeks old today! In a way that seems like such a short amount of time, but on the other hand I feel like it's been so long! She is getting cuter and cuter everyday. The longer I have her the more I love her. 

I love being a mom. There is just a special feeling when I pick her up from her bassinet after she's been crying and knowing that I'm the one that gets to hold her close, comfort her and make her feel better. 

She has the most classic pout look I've ever seen. Even though I know she's not happy when she makes it, I can't help but laugh and just tell her how cute she is. We've been trying to get a picture of it, but still have succeeded in getting it just right. 

A couple of weeks ago, I was feeding her, but was looking away elsewhere. All of a sudden I look down at her and see her just looking up at me, smiling. I love that feeling! It was so cute. It's moments like that, that make it worth it to have a baby. 

Other times, when she's either just waking up from a nap or in her car seat at the grocery store, I'll look at her and smile and she smiles back! Her whole face just lights up and it's adorable. Can you tell I love having a baby? :)

Now, for the not so fun-lovey moments. Her peeing on her changing pad right as I'm about to put on her new diaper. Or when she has these explosive sounding poos that leak out of her diaper and onto my pants. Or her oh too often throw ups that get all over me, Dan or the carpet. In the last 9 weeks I've been pooped on, peed on, and thrown up on, all by someone a 1/10 of my size! But that just comes with the territory, I guess. It's at times like these, where I have to remember the cute, lovey, cuddly times. After all, it's not her fault. I feel so blessed to have her in my life.

Life updates...

I  got married a little over a year and a half ago to Dan Phelan (pronounced Fay-len). We are currently living in Lancaster, CA. We moved out here a year ago because Dan got a teaching job. He teaches high school art. 

Right now life has changed drastically for us because the second most important event in my life happened (the first one was my wedding day). Two months ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Her name is Anna Bree Phelan. She is absolutely precious. I just love looking at her and knowing that I'm her mom and she is my little baby. I'm so grateful to have her in my life. 

Let's back up here a bit and give some details on pregnancy and delivery. I had a relatively easy pregnancy. I never had morning sickness. In fact, I only ever threw up 3 times over the course of nine months. One of those times though, I think I ate something bad and it made me throw up. Compare this to my sister who is 6 months pregnant and has probably thrown up close to five hundred times (no joke). One day she told me she had thrown up seven times! I worked my whole pregnancy and felt fine. I worked out my whole pregnancy as well (I highly recommend it. It helped out a lot). The last few weeks weren't much fun because I just felt so huge and couldn't sleep well. For some reason, only at night would Anna extend her legs up into my ribs. It hurt so much, I couldn't lay down. Other than that, pregnancy was pretty good, although it felt so good afterwards not to have a baby in me.

Delivery was even better. I went into labor at 5 pm and she was born at midnight, after a half hour of pushing, and 7 hours of labor. It was great and even better once I had the epidural. I feel very blessed, compared to other stories I've heard. 

Anna was 8 lbs 2 oz when she was born. I was extremely surprised because I thought for sure I had a 7 lb baby in me. She came out with red hair! We still aren't sure where that came from. I hope it stays, but we'll just have to wait and see. Either way, she's just so cute!

From the looks of things, we'll be in California for a while. It's not bad here, but I do miss not having any family close by. The closest family is in Utah. I guess it makes  you appreciate them that much more. :)