The life of new parents

We have been so blessed to find 2 amazing nannies for Miss Maya. Sara is a friend of my sister Brie’s and so she’s been around since Maya was just a few weeks old. She now watches her 1 afternoon a week because her schedule has gotten very busy since she’s at the end of nursing school. She’ll graduate in May, way to go Sara! Don’t forget the little people when you get your nursing gig!

Maya gets so excited when she see’s Sara. Even when its been over a week you can tell she knows exactly who Sara is when she walks in the room. Maya just lights up. She knows she’s going to get her undivided attention & be held as many snuggles as she wants.

And here’s Katie. She is wonderful & Maya is already starting to attach & this was just her 2nd week with us. Katie has had a couple classes with my mom, that’s how we met her. She’s starting nursing school in the Fall so hopefully we’ll have her around for awhile. Throughout the day, I can hear her playing with Maya & teaching her things. They read, & play on the activity mat, & look at pictures & rock. Do far things have been going wonderfully, she’s great to have around.

Lots of rocking.

Here’s my sweet one looking all innocent.

And here she is, craning her neck to see the TV that’s above the fridge. I purposefully turn her so she’s not facing the TV. This girl has a problem! If there is a TV on in the house she can find it & it totally captivates her. She doesn’t just glance at it and then move on, no she stares at it until you turn her around or turn it off. This is going to be quite an issue when she starts crawling and I can’t keep her from watching. I think there will be a lot more music & book reading around here, but that actually sounds refreshing.

Somebody is missing her Grandma J. Good thing we get to see her next weekend!

Practicing sitting up. Its not working so well thus far.

Last night Maya & I went to watch Kate’s program at school.  She was a little tomato, so cute.  We had a good time.

Cousins

Here’s baby girl in her new jumper toy. She’s not quite big enough for it, her feet don’t touch the floor, but we thought we’d try it out anyway and she loved it!

And here she was just before the big event! She was playing on her activity mat and grabbing the toys & looking in the mirror when she decided to arch her back & roll on over! It was the first time she was able to make it all the way & get her arm out from under her all by herself. I was on the other side of her reading on the floor, she wasn’t reaching for anything or looking at me, she just decided she wanted to roll over! Very exciting…

Maya in her Sunday dress with icecream cone tights.

Yesterday afternoon we went over to Liz’s house for a visit. Glorie is now 15 months old and was very sweet to Maya.

Saturday’s are for bath time! Who’s a healthy baby?!  It now takes 2 of us.  When she was smaller we bathed her in a little hammock that attached to her tub, but now we’ve got to help her sit up while we wash her down.  She’s starting to kick & really enjoys making a mess.  Won’t be too long before we can transition to the big girl tub!

Glad to be done.

The stats are in:

Height: 25 7/8 (92%)

Weight: 17 lbs (95%)

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No, no! Not those shots again!

Don’t worry baby girl, it’ll be ok!

So today was the 1st day I had to leave Maya all day and work outside of my home office. I’ve been working from home since she was 12wks old and it’s been going great. We found an amazing nanny named Katie. More on her later. We still get Maya’s 1st nanny, Sara, once a week too. Anyhoo, neither girl was available today to watch Maya, and I couldn’t miss work because my co-worker flew in from Canada to train me to take over for her…so daddy to the rescue! He planned to WFH (work from home) the 1st half of the day and then drop her off at our friend Emily’s house for the afternoon. Emily only lives 10 min. from the site I was at today so I planned on leaving for lunch & nursing Maya. Apparently that wasn’t good enough. Maya woke up at 11am (she still prefers her Aunt Brie’s schedule of staying up late and sleeping in) so daddy warmed up a bottle, but Maya would only take a tiny bit of it and just fussed until she decided to take a nap. d was keeping me in the loop via text messaging and I was getting a bit frantic worried that my girl was starving & contemplating quitting my job and never leaving her again. (As you can tell by the recent pics, this isn’t a real legitimate concern as my girl might be just fine skipping a meal from time to time). At this point d was going to bring Maya to the office for me to feed her before dropping her off at Emily’s…but in the meantime little miss decided to take a 3.5oz bottle so we could relax for the time being, but that was it! For the whole day! Until I got home. Poor little sweet pea. daddy decided to keep M with him all day so Ms. Emily didn’t have to deal with the hungry baby and the weather was yuck here in KC today so another reason to work from home. Daddy coming in a strong #1 for daddy of the year after a long day with a tired & hungry 4 month old baby girl.

And if that wasn’t enough of an eventful day…we decided to go out to dinner. We went to Johnny Cascone’s & everything went great until our remote wouldn’t open the jeep door & we were stuck at the restaurant. The key wouldn’t open it either because it was damaged when someone tried to steal it awhile back. So daddy, in 20 degree weather, walked to Hy-Vee looking for a battery for the remote…no luck. Then he went to K-mart…no luck. Baby was getting hungry & needed to be changed but there was no baby changing station in the bathroom & no real good place for me to feed her at the restaurant. So we waited. Finally d went to Micro-Center & came back to get his girls with a working remote in hand. Did I mention it was dark & 20 degrees? We all got a lesson in patience today, even baby girl.

Does she look hungry to you? Mommy guilt is no joke…

Sweet baby on her 1st V-day wearing an outfit from Grandma J. There’s a heart on it, but this pic doesn’t show it. But take my word for it, M was very festive.

Flowers Maya & Daddy bought for Mommy.

Bebe girl after her jog.

Cousins!

Here is a Jacobsen if I’ve ever seen one! Beautiful! I can see her Aunt Niki, Grandma J. and her daddy in this pic. Is it just me?

Thanks Grandma J. for the Valentine’s gifts! I love my new outfits and my new pink teddy. Thanks Aunt Niki for my soft heart outfit! I’m wearing it today in anticipation of my 1st Valentine’s Day!

Here’s my sweet girl trying out her bumbo for the 1st time, it was a big hit!

Sunday was very sunny, but super freezing this past weekend. Here’s Maya all ready for church.

Mommy & Maya trying to decide what to order for brunch at Bob Evans.