2 months old

Happy 2 month birthday to my sweet baby girl!

I can't believe it's been 2 months since Allie was born. She changes so much every single day.  Her sweet (and at times, diva like) personality are really starting to show...as are her fat rolls.  She had her 2 month Dr.'s appointment yesterday and she weighed in at a whopping 12 lbs. 3 oz.  She's in the 80th percentile in weight, and 50th percentile in height.  Look at my little chunky monkey.

She's recently started to coo and giggle, and it absolutely melts my heart every time.

I was singing "you are my sunshine" to her and she was trying

to sing back to me

She still loves sleeping on my chest, and I'm not complaining. These are some of my favorite moments that I will cherish while they last.

aren't those cheeks ridiculously kissable?

I've started story time too and I think she likes it.  It's supposed to help develop her language skills early...I'm hoping to have a little baby genius.

Being 2 months old is really exhausting.

Happy baby

After several attempts and lots of time staring at Allie with camera in hand trying my hardest to make her smile...I finally captured a happy baby!

I also took Allie to Morgan Keegan last week to visit my work friends and she loved all of the attention.

And our first attempt in the bumbo seat...maybe a little too soon.

Thursday we had a play date with Gina & Wills at the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro.  Allie was a little (ok a lot) fussy on the way there and sweet Wills reached over and held her hand to make her stop crying...and it worked. It was so adorable.

Allie's Newborn Pictures

I'm a little late sharing these, but better late than never.  Allie had her first photo shoot at 8 days old and she was an absolute pro.  I'm pretty sure she's gonna be a model.  Here are just a few of my favorites since I can't share all 68 pictures on the blog.


(photo's by the talented Jenny Cruger)

Capturing moments

So I just spent the last 30 minutes laying on the floor with my camera trying to catch a picture of Allie 'smiling' and I was completely unsuccessful.  It's very frustrating.  She's just now getting a little personality and I want so badly to capture it on camera and by the time I get to my camera and take a picture...she's stone faced.  But one of these days I'm gonna catch her when she's least expecting it. 

But in the meantime, here are some recent non smiling pictures of Allie.

No smile...but a yawn? Still cute

Her eyes are getting so big and bright

And a little temper tantrum...she was fed up with my photography that day

bundled up for our morning walk. I think I over did it a little

it was like 85 degrees that day.  Oops.

She loves bath time, even though she looks a little frightened in this picture, I swear she loves it.

Allie's first 'nap' in her big girl bed.  It lasted about 15 minutes tops. Baby steps.

 

She likes tummy time...

And someone felt left out and wanted to join in tummy time...

She's already a Vol fan

And that's how she felt about Saturday's game against GA

My pretty little princess

She loves her aunt Jenn

And she finally warmed up to uncle Mike on the third try

And some more play time

And my absolute favorite...Jeff and I were eating dinner the other night and Allie was in her swing and we looked over and this is what we saw...

And of course our first reaction is to grab the camera instead of helping her get the bow off her face.  And I continued to take pictures because this was too cute...but I finally helped her out once I had all of the photos I needed.