Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Funny

Here are two pictures of Chelsea about a year ago. She's changed a lot, and not much at the same time.


And here she is a couple nights ago.

I can't get enough of the bath photos. She's grown SO much! Not long ago Chelsea's bath photos looked very much like Brienna's current ones. I can't wait till I can put them in the tub together.
It must be nice to be as bendy as this too. It's hard to tell, but she's really bending backward quite far, the goofy girl.

Bathtime isn't so traumatic anymore. Brienna seems to almost enjoy it. That is, until the water gets too cool and her chin starts to quiver and shiver. Then the screaming begins. Lotion is still no fun, and neither is getting dressed. But it's getting better! Seven weeks old today! Time. It's a crazy thing.

Look at those cheeks! I wish I could read her mind to hear what she is thinking. I bet it would be really funny.

'Sup.

Hi Mom!

My Baby Beaver.

She smiled right after I snapped this. So of course I didn't get a picture of it. :S Oh well. At least she stopped crying for this shot. Short sleeves and November in North Dakota don't mix. The shirt didn't stay on long. :)

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Blessing Day/One Month Old

The lovely baby in her beautiful blessing dress. This is the same dress that Chelsea wore for her blessing. Chelsea was also swimming in it, though she was bigger to start with and was about twice Brie's age when she wore it. So Brie is really swimming it in, but oh well. It made it really easy to get her in and out of it. :) Grandma Heit made the dress. Thanks Grandma!

I don't put too many pictures of myself up here, so here I am. You can also see the blanket Grandma Kelly made for Baby. Thanks Grandma!

A kiss for Baby Sister. Chelsea loves to give her hugs and kisses. You have to really watch her to make sure she doesn't love the baby TOO much, or too hard. Babies don't like to be squished and I don't think Chelsea realizes her strength.

Which camera are we looking at? Chelsea was very uncooperative while we tried to get a decent family photo. This is as close as we could get.

Random photo of Baby Brie asleep on my overnight changing station. I hate to risk waking Chelsea up during the nighttime changes just to use the changing table, so here's where we get cleaned up. Right in front of the entertainment center. Perfect spot. Meh. It works.

One month milestone! This is actually one month and one day old, but oh well. Close enough.

How cute is my baby? She's starting now to have pleasant expressions more often, and she even gave a little coo to me the other night. She's officially an infant now, no longer a newborn. Ah they grow up!

Halloween!

Halloween celebrations round one. Here we are all decked out for the ward Halloween party. I was a jailbird. Not too creative, I know, but oh well. Chelsea is Minnie Mouse (with Pluto) and Rick is Mickey Mouse and Brienna is a pink leopard! Aren't we just cute!?

She got the hang of these picture taking things at the zoo, but this one she just didn't understand that we wanted her to stick her face into the hole. Meh. Still cute!

What's with closing your eyes in all the pictures, Chels? If we had thought ahead, we could have put together a Disney costume for me too. Maybe I could have been Pluto or something. Or Brie and I could have had coordinating costumes. Oh well. Maybe we'll coordinate costumes ahead of time next year.

Trick or treating to some of the rooms at church. Good thing we had a pretty small basket. They had tons of candy to give away and told us to grab handfuls at each door. We don't want to have that much candy onhand. That just means it will get eaten by us who don't need it, or we will be pestered by Chelsea who would eat it all at once if allowed.

This is a funny picture to me. It looks like she's sticking her face way out like, look at me here I am! So cute! Brie didn't get to go the the party. She stayed home with Grandma Kelly while the rest of us went. She was just a little too young to take out yet. But we still dressed her up anyway. So worth it!

Full body shot. Good thing she can't really move yet. I didn't even notice that she's laying by the edge of the couch until after I took the picture! (We were in a hurry to get going. I had to feed this little one before we went to the party and we were running late because of it.)

Halloween celebrations round two. This is trick or treating at the mall. Chelsea loved it. Brie got to come along this time but she slept the whole time and didn't get any candy at all. She didn't seem to mind though. :)

My Minnie! Adorable, as always.

We stopped by a few select houses to trick or treat. Here we are with Great Grandma Heit. Chelsea got candy and Brie got a special gift too. (Blanket and some bibs, very nice) Mickey and the jailbird stayed home, but a pair of cloaked wizards came along.

Here at Grandma Heit's house the girls sat on the couch together. I love how their arms are positioned in the same way. Can't tell they are related, can you?

It was very cute of Chelsea to try to comfort her baby sister by holding her hand when she cried. It didn't do anything to calm Brienna down, but it was a nice gesture anyway.

Last stop of the evening was Grandma Kelly's. I took this picture mostly to show the cute little tail on her costume. Love it!