Feeling torn?

I am! Sophie is currently bundled up in her pack & play taking a "nap." Actually, today she is talking to her stuffed animals. It is most certainly nap time for her and after she didn't rest much yesterday, she needs all of her naps today. I really just want to pick her up and snuggle her to sleep but I'm afraid of a couple things: 1- we both fall asleep. This is a problem because I wouldn't get anything done while she's snoozing (like, taking a shower which just isn't fair to the people who have to be around me).    2- And much worse than the first, I might roll on her. 3- I encourage her to get in the habit of needing to be snuggled in order to go to sleep. Gah! It's so not fair. 

Instead of snuggling her to sleep, I think I will attempt to get the journaling part of her baby book done. I have something like 15 pages ready to be glued as soon as I get those notes done. They're not really anything exceptionally special, but maybe I'll post some pictures of those later.

Sophie is 6 Weeks Young!

Can you believe it? It has been 6 weeks since miss Sophie Brooke joined our family! As of her 6 week check up, she is has grown from 7 pounds 12 ounces to 9 pounds 6 ounces and 22 inches long. (Basically she is tall and skinny. We'll see if this trend continues...) Sophie currently has strawberry blonde hair and when you take her out in the sunlight, it is a very pretty shade of red.

When I told Craig it was his turn to post about Sophie, he said, "Sophie is cute and snuggly and fluffy and has a bum and toots and burps and poops and sleeps and eats and cries. Don't write any of that, please." I'm sure I'll be in trouble for including that. He is a very good daddy who obviously loves his little girl very much. She loves it when he reads her stories and sings her songs before bed at night. Craig doesn't understand baby shoes but he does appreciate a good pair of tights with a "ruffle bum." Headbands are starting to make a little bit of sense to him. A little.

Sophie loves her daddy, putting on pretty dresses & accessories, visiting Aunt Erin, Uncles Grant & Bryan and the cousins, snuggles and movies in bed with mommy & daddy and playing with Grandpa Merrill.  Sophie misses her grandma and grandpa and Uncles Andrew & Jeb-eye (Jeffrey) in Connecticut.

Yesterday Sophie went to Walmart with Grandpa Merrill & I. She and grandpa stayed in the car to eat & play. When I came back out of the store, she was sleeping with a happy little smile on her face holding grandpa's finger.

My sister, Erin, took these pictures of Sophie on Thursday afternoon. I asked her if she's planning on doing this professionally (or even semi-professionally) but she says not yet. If/when she decides to, I'll be sure to share her information with you. She took our engagement pictures and does fantastic work with babies & children- as you can see here! Erin- you need a website!





Here are a couple more of my favorites. There were SO many good ones it's hard to pick just a few to post!

P.S to answer a question already asked, yes, I made the headbands. When we were in Connecticut, I tried putting the flower one on Sophie to wear to church and dad kept telling me she didn't like it and it looked silly. I think they're cute for pictures. :)

Midday break

I'm actually right in the middle of a rather involved cake project so naturally, I'm stopping to blog. No, I'm not going to go into detail about how I have now ruined not one but two complete batches of buttercream frosting (okay, mom calls it buttercrap- I make it with shortening so I can decorate with it but she's right-it's not very tasty.) Really, all I want to do on this little break is post a few pictures my sister took of Sophie yesterday. Trust me, many more to come!

Because it's Wednesday!

I just feel the need to share with the world that Sophie is 6 weeks old. Not only is she 6 weeks old, but last night she only woke up ONCE between 11:00 pm and 6:30 am. Amazing? I think yes!

In other news, while Sophie was resting on the bed next to me this morning, she had the biggest baby belly laugh followed by huge grins when she woke up. Yes, I think it's going to be a happy day :)


p.s one of these days I'll update the world on all of the goings-on of the last month. Lots of stories and even  more pictures & projects to share!

Just Pictures...

Per request of relatives who haven't seen Sophie, here are several pictures of her since her birth 3 weeks ago.


Sophie all dressed up in her teddy bear outfit ready to go home from the hospital.

I think Sophie would rather stay snuggled up in bed.

Sophie and daddy getting ready to leave the hospital.

Sophie meeting Great-grandma Peterson. Sophie's first social visit.

Sophie sitting with grandma and showing off her little sock mitts.

Sophie with Great-grandpa Peterson.

Sophie holding daddy's finger. Look how small her little hands are! 

Sophie in her Christmas dress from grandma Kyne (Nasson)

Sophie's blessing day. 26 December 2010. She was blessed by Craig with her grandpa, Pres. Starr, Bishop Siebers and Bro. Reid.

Sophie's First Dress

It's pretty easy to have a lots of firsts when you're only 12 days old. Sophie had a few firsts today- first day to church, first real bath (her cord fell off yesterday)- but the most important being that she got to wear her first dress!

As the pictures show, she had a darling red, smocked, fluffy Christmas dress. She had a giant red flower headband on for a while, but daddy and grandpa both protested enough that I just took it off. (Don't expect that to happen again soon!) She also got to wear her little white "ruffle bum" tights and lacy white shoes that were given to her by her great aunt Linda (thanks, Linda!!). She looked darling!

...Sorry for the odd picture placement. I still haven't really gotten the hang of placing multiple pictures in my blog aesthetically. I think I really just need a photo album!

Connecticut!

Just a little update this morning. To begin with, we're in Connecticut! We left early afternoon on Thursday- about two hours after my last final. On the way to the airport, we got stuck in the crazy traffic on I-15 north that was caused by the semi/5 car accident. Thankfully, Craig's dad knew some other routes other than the interstate to get us around the traffic and to the airport exactly 1 hour before our flight. Craig was concerned about us hauling a baby, baby car seat, three checked bags, a rolling carry on, diaper bag and large backpack through the airport. He obviously has NO sense of adventure! Instead of attempting that, we used skycap even got our boarding passes (including Sophie's) right outside of the car. Amazing? I think so. I have been pretty apprehensive about going through security as I have a pretty strong opinion about TSA's new equipment and screening procedures. Craig was just worried about getting through in time. Luckily, neither one of us had any reason to worry about anything. We didn't have to wait in line (there really wasn't one!), no one harassed me about having a baby, no one harassed Craig about his request to have the formula and milk examined rather than be x-rayed and surprisingly enough, the TSA employees were actually as helpful as they were allowed to be.

The biggest bump in our day came in the form of some slight delays in and out of Denver but even those weren't bad. Sophie didn't have any problems flying. She wasn't interested in being woken up to suck on her pacifier or anything during take off and landing. In fact, she was perfectly content to just be snuggled the entire trip. We did get a mild little fuss out of her when we were changing her diaper on our laps- she doesn't appreciate cold wipes on her little behind, but really, who does?

We are now settled in and attempting to get caught up on some sleep while grandma spends some time with little miss Sophie.

My very own little princess

I love being a mommy. Hormones and all. I never really imagined I could fall so madly in love with someone- a very small someone- so quickly and hopelessly. She is everything I dreamed of and then oh so much more! I could just snuggle with her all day! (Wait... that's what I've been doing. Hmmm...). Oh, for those who have requested more pictures, below is a link & password to a couple professional ones that were taken at the hospital yesterday. Still not enough? Don't worry- we have nearly 100 on my computer already! I am doing my best to resist the urge to post every single picture we have of our darling little miracle.

Website: http://www.bellababyphotography.com/login

Password: 1207sophiepeterson

Announcing...

The birth of baby 

Sophie Brooke Peterson!

Born: 

7 December 2010 at 6:25 pm at American Fork Hospital

Weight: 

7 pounds, 12 ounces (exactly the same as mommy!)

Length: 19 Inches

A rather frustrating Friday

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a few things that really ought not be messed with. One is chocolate. The other is my schedule. Sometimes things need to be rearranged, changed or entirely done away with from time to time, that's fine. It happens. But when you have been planning for weeks to have something major happen like, oh, have a baby, on a certain day and then you don't, that is just totally un-cool. I have been on the schedule both with my doctor (the only one on her list) and the hospital (only 4th in line of a bunch) for several weeks to be induced. I've been slowly but surely progressing towards labor, been getting increasingly uncomfortable, don't enjoy the contractions (I guess you're not really supposed to but lets just say they've gotten old) and am about to lose it over the number of people who are constantly nagging me about when i'm going to "pop" or why can't they "see their baby yet?" I'm not even going into all of the unsolicited advice that continues to flood in.  Really, it's enough to drive anyone nuts.

I guess what I'm saying is that yesterday was really just the proverbial cherry on top.  We had to keep our entire day wide open since we could expect a call any moment telling us to come in and if we weren't there within a short time our spot would be given to someone else and we'd be put at the end of the list. As such, Craig couldn't go to work since he works too far away. I couldn't go to class- the one day this week that I actually had the energy to go- because if they called, I wouldn't have cell service. So, I missed my 5th day of class this semester, Craig went a bit short on hours and we don't have our baby.  Wondering when we found out for certain we wouldn't be going in? That would be after 6:00 last night. I got a call asking if I'd just like to be put on their list for next week- right in the middle of a final. Yes, that sounds PERFECT to me! By the way, there is no guarantee that we'll get in then, either. It's going to be the exact same thing as yesterday- keep the day entirely open. Don't go to work, don't go to class (or in my case, take a final) and just wait for a call.

Yes, I fully recognize the fact that I'm grumpy. Yes, our baby is fine where she is at the moment. Yes, we are incredibly thankful she's healthy and apparently comfortable. Sure, go ahead and even call me selfish for wanting to be induced at all (I've already heard it a few times.) Anyone who has been pregnant and been given a "stop-date" and then not had it happen likely understands exactly what I'm feeling. So, until she decides to come on her own- which at this pace won't be until January- or we actually get in, I'm off to do some more Christmas decorating and projects. Christmas lights on the bushes, here I come.