First Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the best dad! Lucy is so lucky to have such a helpful and supportive father. He is a great example of a godly husband and I love knowing that she will grow up watching how a husband should love and serve his wife. Her future husband will have big shoes to fill one day!! I love how his heart's desire is to love, protect, teach and provide for our little one. I couldn't have gone through the past 2 months without him!

Lucy's Quilt

My mom made this beautiful quilt for Lucy! She is so talented and I love how the quilt has so many fun colors and patterns, it even has her initials! We used it this morning for our playgroup- all the babies loved chilling on the quilt! (too bad I didn't take a picture!!)

2 months old!

 My sweet Lucy is 2 months old!! Can't believe how fast time has flown!
She is 22 3/4" inches (75th percentile!) and 10 pounds, 7.5 ounces (50th percentile), with her head circumfereance in the 25th percentile (I think 37 cm).

She is so smiley and happy in the mornings- her smiles and cooes bring tears to my eyes and melt my heart! She has the neck strength of a four-month old with hardly any head-lag, when pulled up to sit. She's not a huge fan of tummy time, but loves to push up and hold her head up when laying on my chest. She likes to tease her mommy with occasional nights where she sleeps 6-7 hours, but lately she has been waking up every 4 hours or so... still trying to work on sleeping all the way through the night.

Fun things this month:
- sucessfully gone on her first camping trip with Daddy's roomates from college and their families! Yay for air-conditioned cabins! She also loved swimming in the salt-water pool while we were there. (more to come on another post)
- attended Uncle Sergei's high school graduation at the Dallas Convention Center
- gone to church twice (not quite in childcare yet....this will start next week!)
- taken her first trip to Waco for Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Daniel's birthday celebrations- she did great in the car to and from!
- did great with transitioning from sleeping in her Pack and Play to sleeping in her crib!
- finished up Square One with mom, a new moms class at Watermark. We met many new friends while in the class and hope to continue to meet as a playgroup!
- visited Aunt Liz in Denton for lunch
- visited Aunt Amy, Uncle David, cousins William, Nathan and Kathryn in Fort Worth to watch Daddy and other family members help build a new fence
- attended lots of Serna family celebration dinners (May and June are big birthday days!!)
- attended her first Bachelorette watching party at Aunt Paige and Uncle Marcos's house. Loved her snuggle time with Grandmommy and slept for 7 hours straight!!
- was a trooper getting her 2 month shots, although she was really fussy later that afternoon and evening- Mommy had Daddy come to the doctor's visit for moral support for the shots.

We are loving our sweet Lucy- she makes us smile every day and is such a joy!

First swim suit!

Our pool registered 78 degrees and it was quite warm and toasty outside this weekend, so we thought we'd attempt Lucy's first pool experience.

My first swim suit! The hat's a little big...

She wasn't too happy with being in the water (I think it lasted all of 10 seconds!). But, we'll keep trying, and hopefully by the end of the summer, she'll at least like being in the pool! 

A week of new things...

Little Miss has certainly given her mom and dad a run for their money this week. She was doing great with sleeping 5-6 hours straight at night for the past two weeks, then all of a sudden, she started waking up every 1-2 hours at night, wanting to eat (I think I got up with her 5 times on Tuesday night- definitely had Mike up a couple of times that night to help!). And eat she did! She's also been fussier in the afternoons and evenings and spitting up more often.

But you'd never guess it from these sweet pictures:

Who, me? I'm perfect! I have no idea what Mom is talking about!

Peace, dude.

Thankfully, though, last night she went back to sleeping her 5 hour stretches, giving her Mom and Dad a much needed break! I think she's going through her six-week-old growth spurt (at least that's what everyone says is going on, and it does make since).

A couple of firsts this week:
- first car trip to and from Waco last weekend to celebrate Uncle Daniel and Aunt Carolyn's birthdays (sad day, we didn't take any pictures!). She did great in the car (up until we exited Campbell to our house and then we had a minor meltdown, but all things considering, she was great!)

-Lucy and I rode out the nasty storms on Tuesday night (read tornado warnings for over an hour!) by ourselves, as Daddy was trapped at DFW airport trying to get home to us. Thankfully his flight was one of the last that landed before the storms hit. He just had to wait on the valet people to go and get his car (an hour and a half later!!). Funnies from the stormy evening:
1. Trying to figure out how to best keep Lucy safe if a tornado should hit. My thought process was: "Would the car seat be safer (it's kind of like a gigantic football helmet- she'd be pretty safe in there, except what if it flew away in the storm?" "Probably best to strap her to me in the Baby Bijorn in case the tornado picks me up, at least she's strapped on tight."
2. Me trying to clear out half the garage quickly to try and get my car in to avoid hail, all the while Lucy is strapped to me in the Baby Bijorn. Difficult when there's lots of tools and heavy things in there, and hubby is trapped at DFW.
3. Drove the car with Lucy strapped in the Bijorn around me. Difficult to reach the steering wheel with the baby wrapped around you. Safety note- I only drove the car into the garage, no laps around the block or anything.
4. Trying to figure out what to put in our tornado safety spot: I ended up with the diaper bag, several blankets, a flash light, a candle and matches and water. Also the iPad. That is a must. :)

Thankfully, we didn't have any tornadoes, didn't have any hail damage, just had lots and lots of rain, thunder and lightning.

Now back to the firsts....
- We finally went back to church this past weekend. She's still too young to go into the nursery, and was quiet for most of the service. Mike jumped up when she started to fuss and kept her happy in the back of the church for the rest of the service. Afterwards we joined our good friends at Holy Frijoles and Lucy experienced her first Mexican trip outing. (and her mom got to enjoy a margarita and not have to count the number of carbs in the tortilla chips or in my Mexican platter! Oh, the joys of not being pregnant and having diabetes!).

-Lucy and I survived Mike's second business trip this week (although this one was just one night away, thankfully!) It went pretty well, except for her "Bewitching Hours" on Monday night. There is just something about him being home- he certainly helps me SO much when he's here, that when he's away, it's really hard to be alone! It's like being "on" for 24 hours without a break.

-Lucy has graduated from newborn-sized diapers to size one. She has also grown out of her newborn-sized sleepers. Sad, sad day! How is my little girl growing out of newborn stuff??

- I did buy Lucy her first swim suit this week. Let me just say it is hard to find a swim suit for a little baby. My pedi said we should go the swim-shirt route, which is what I've been looking for. However, I have yet to see any swim shirts with bottoms in her size. I have looked everywhere. I finally resolved to a regular swim suit and then I can use the swim shirt with the bottoms instead of the top. Anyway....

So that's been our week. Lots of new things!

One Month Old!

Well, technically, she's 5 weeks this week, but this picture was taken last week on her one month birthday.

She weighed 9 pounds even and was 21 1/4" inches long! 50th percentile for weight and length, and 25th percentile for head circumference.

The pediatrician said I must be making buttermilk because she is growing like a weed!  :)

First events

Here are some of Lucy's first events. Below is a picture of her first Easter (and our first family picture of the three of us- I couldn't believe we didn't get a family pic of all 3 of us in the hospital, but it didn't happen!).

We spent Easter Day lunch at my parents' house and then took our first trip to Fort Worth to spend Easter evening with Mike's family.

First Family Pic

 This is Lucy's first Easter dress! So cute! Love me some Target.

First Easter Dress

 Mike took a great picture of Lucy sleeping- I just love this picture of her!

Not a first, but a really cute pic!

 Lucy and I on my first Mother's Day. For Mother's Day, Mike watched Lucy so I could sleep in on Saturday, then brought me Starbucks and a sausage biscuit for breakfast, and then watched her that afternoon so I could go get a pedicure. We went out later that evening for Date Night and enjoyed yummy Indian food while Lucy was taken care of by a sweet friend (who is also a pediatric nurse!). On Sunday, we had Mother's Day/ Liz's birthday lunch at my parents; and then went to Mike's parents' house that evening for a visit.

First Mother's Day with my girl!