Father's Day

We spent the day before Father's Day at my parents house. AnnaBeth had a fantastic time with her Grammy, Grampy and Aunt Geli!! While we were there, we also celebrated Kent's birthday and he was super excited about his Sears gift card!!

Being tickled by Grampy's moustache

Playing with her Baby Einstein radio that plays classical music

Getting held by her Uncle Matt for the first time on Father's Day! Her face is not a true reflection of her mood...she was actually quite happy!

Father's Day was not only Kent's first Father's Day but it was also his 27th birthday!! I put this frame together back in May and had it hiding under AnnaBeth's crib until it was time to give it to Kent. He LOVED it and wants me to do another one next so we can compare the two and see how much she'll have grown.

Sporting the father/daughter widow's peak hairline :)

Getting really good at blowing spit bubbles

Deep in thought about how to spend the rest of her day

3 months

AnnaBeth is now 3 months old and growing fast!! She's starting to play with toys (mostly her leap frog caterpillar that hangs in her crib) and she jabbers quite a bit these days! I had a lot more to say last week when I started this post but then accidentally deleted the text and now my mind just isn't functioning as well today.

She came home from Nana's last Thursday (June18) and suddenly seemed a lot bigger! Its as if she had done a whole lot of growing that day.

I tried to get the video to flip but wasn't successful :(

Exersaucer

AnnaBeth played in her exersaucer for the first time last weekend. She's still a tad small in it but she seemed to enjoy it for a little while.

Sees her bink and trying to figure out how to lift her arms up over the seat and grab it

Loves the shiny, dangly butterfly!

Approaching nap time

Woods Canyon Lake 5/31/09

Two Months (two weeks late)

AnnaBeth had her two month check up a couple of weeks ago and weighed 10.6 pounds and was 22 inches long. She's only in the 25% for each of those but she is gaining weight and growing at a steady pace so there's nothing to worry about. She also got her shots and thankfully she didn't cry for very long. I brought up her standing, arching and screaming during burping and her doctor said it sounded like reflux so she prescribed some zantac for her. So far it seems to working for her for the most part. There are still days that she has very difficult feedings which may be partly my fault. I think that maybe dairy is causing her the problems so I'm going to have to cut it out of my diet (well, I'll try really hard to) to see if it helps. Her doctor also said to try soy formula (we give it to her at bedtime) to see if there's any improvement. On top of the reflux, she also has ezcema. Its mostly on her belly and I now have Cetaphil soap (I cheated and bought the cheaper Walmart brand) and Vanicream moisturizer (Costco sells it, I just had to get it from behind the pharmacy counter). I just got them after confirming the ezcema with the doctor today so we haven't tried the soap yet but I put some of the moisturizer on her tummy and its already made a huge difference!! Other than those two little things, our little girl is super happy and growing fast!! She's found both hands and likes to chew/suck (sometimes VERY loudly!) on them. She's doing wonderfully with tummy time. She often scrunches herself up and rocks and almost rolls over but her arm gets in the way. She also manages to scoot forward (and sometimes backwards) and slowly rotate herself during her tummy time. She jabbers ALL the time and even tries to laugh.

Snuggling with Daddy one evening

Isn't this the cutest thing??

Tummy Time at 9 weeks

I have another video of her tummy time but the file is too big :( oh well, one is better than none!

Mother's Day (LONG overdue!!)

Let's see how well I can remember Mother's Day weekend since it was almost a month ago =) The day before, my family came over for a little while before Kent and I took AnnaBeth to meet his grandparents for the first time. They were thrilled to finally see her!

Grandma Locker LOVES Winnie the Pooh so Daddy dressed AnnaBeth up in a onsie that had Pooh's face on it.

Grandpa Locker sure is proud of his grandson and great-granddaughter!

We spent most of Mother's Day at Wayne and Julie's with Kent's side of the family as well as Julie's mom and step-dad. We had lots of YUMMY food and had a great time!

Papa always insists on holding AnnaBeth against his chest

And this is the aftermath of his insistence...she always leaves a little gift on (or down inside) his shirt!

Learning from her Nana

Smiling at her Papa. I'm sure he was making one of his silly noises at her.

Hanging out with her Tia YaYa and cousin Jacob

Mother's Day weekend was so busy that we weren't able to celebrate by ourselves. So the following weekend we went up to Wood's Canyon Lake for the day. It seemed totally over run with people but still were able to enjoy a short hike. AnnaBeth snoozed the whole time in her little carrier pack. My Mother's Day gift was a coffee mug with a collage of pictures of AnnaBeth and it also says "Happy First Mother's Day 2009" on it.

6 Weeks Old!

AnnaBeth is now 6 weeks old and I can hardly believe it! She has grown so much already and is such a sweet little girl. Not a whole lot has been going on lately but here's a few pictures from the last week. Snuggling with Daddy Playing in her new activity gym before bed. She generally doesn't care for it that much yet. She prefers the movement of her mobile. For whatever reason, this picture will not load properly but its cute so here it is. This morning I was playing with her in her crib after she ate. Our playtime consisted of me making little noises and having her stuffed animals give her kisses, and more often than not, she smiled in response to each one. The giraffe was by far her favorite (over turtle, hippo and elephant) and she loved looking at his little face.

If you care to hear the song, Sweet Jesus, playing in the video, you'll have to turn it up quite a bit. In doing so, you'll also hear Kent's alarm to wake him up :) AnnaBeth had fun playing with her giraffe and gave her legs lots of exercise (but that's nothing new...she loves to kick!)