and a little video

Here is a video of Avery before bed laughing with us.  She likes to laugh at peek-a-boo games and herself in the mirror.

4 months

Our sweet little girl is four months old! holy cow!  She is getting so big and she is still as sweet as ever.  I started piano lessons again and she just chilled listening to the music the whole time.  She is very mellow and rarely cries.  She got her four month shots on Monday.  This time it went much smoother than her 2 month appointment.  We were able to get in faster, before she got too tired, so she wasn't upset the whole time.  Only after they gave her four shots in her chubby little legs.  Her whole head turned red!  But once I picked her up she calmed down and didn't hear a peep the rest of the day.  When we got home she laid on the floor playing with a toy and acted like nothing had happened.  She's so tough. :)

I got her on a pretty good sleeping schedule most of the time.  She still struggles with only taking half hour naps, but she sleeps amazing at night, so I'm not complaining.  Since my last post, she hasn't woken in the night, sleeping at least 10 hours. 

She still hates church!  Luckily I still don't have an official calling.  Though subbing for the organ and for the piano in primary the staying after for choir practice was tough.  Kade didn't have to teach in young men's so he had her the whole time.  

She loves to blow bubbles and droll everywhere..

Can sit in a bumbo! But not without it...

She is always smiling and giggling.. I went visiting teaching to a friend's house that had a little dog.  When that dog came out and was jumping and running everywhere, Avery was laughing like crazy!  It was hilarious.  I'd never heard her laugh so much!  She loved it when that little dog would come close and try to lick her.  It was the cutest thing ever!

 She has officially rolled over, and does it all the time now.  She rolls from her back to her belly, but hasn't figured the other way out yet.  Most of the time she rolls to her side to sleep.  She's usually rolled up into a little ball in her crib, super cute!  The first time she rolled over was in her crib.  I put her in her crib on her back for her nap.  When I went in to get her she looked like this...

The she looked up at me...

and gave me a big smile!

Sleeps in her crib all the time now!  We finally got her sleeping in her crib a couple weeks ago after she stopped waking up after a half hour at night.  And sleeping in her crib didn't change how long she sleeps at night.

At first, people were saying she looked like Kade or a Crawford baby, now I'm hearing she looks like me.  So I found some pictures of me and Kade, I think she is a mix.

Either way, she's a cutie and we love her to pieces!!

Official stats:

Head diameter - 16 inches, 54th percentile

Length - 25.25 in length, 84th percentile

Weight - 12 lbs 9.5 oz, 16th percentile

And a little video of her sucking her thumb.  When her pacifier falls out, or she pulls it out, she tries to find her thumb.

three months

big smile for daddy when he got her in the morning

Three months already?!  Each month goes by faster than the last, it's crazy!  We are doing great. She is still an angel.  I'm pretty sure she knows when I'm going to write about her, because she is always being great right around her month mark.  In between, however, she makes me go a little crazy wondering how I ruined my great sleeper who rarely cried.  At the beginning of the month we were battling midnight to one in the morning bedtimes.  Just last week she started waking up 2-3 times a night.  We figured out it was because she was getting cold.  A space heater cured those night awakenings   And after starting this post, she woke up and decided that she didn't like to sleep anymore!  Not at night or during the day, in her crib, in my arms, nowhere!  Luckily it only lasted a few days.  She must have been going through a "phase."  Or so I read.  Kade makes fun of me because when Avery is having a bad day, he comes home to find me feeding her and googling baby sleep stuff.
For the past few days, she's been falling asleep around 9, and sleeping in until 8.  She also falls asleep on her own for her naps.  Very nice. Hopefully it lasts.  She still hates church though, won't sleep, and is too tired to eat properly.  But luckily, once we get home, she passes out, so we can too! :)

*Is finally sleeping in her crib.  At least for naps, at night we put her in her bouncer because she sleeps longer.  On good days, I can get her almost asleep and lay her in her crib for her naps and she will sleep for a couple hours.  On other days I resort to her swing to get her to sleep.
*still hasn't really rolled all the way over.. she loves to pull her legs up and roll from side to side though.  I call her my little rolly-polly.  It's super cute.   She has full control of her head, which is impressive considering how big it is compared to the rest of her body!

*she has pretty much grown out of 0-3 month clothes and is still wearing size 1 diapers.
*we finally got her to take a pacifier! it only took 3 different kinds to find the right one.  She still isn't very thrilled about the pacifier, but it can calm her down and help her fall asleep if we can keep it in her mouth. She does love her thumb though, when she can find it.

thumb sucker

*still has no hair :)
* smiles all the time, and if she is in a good mood (or loopy from lack of sleep) she will laugh out loud.

I've been trying to get her laugh on video, but it's so hard unless I carry a camera everywhere.  Kade was able to get this one night on his iphone.  It's kinda dark.

*loves to talk and sing
*I am considering starting piano lessons again, because she is pretty patient and doesn't cry much.
*can't swaddle her anymore, she gets out of it in less than a minute because she freaks out too much.
*has experienced her first real rain and snow fall, too bad she's too little still to enjoy it!

not sure on her stats.. can't get my scale to be consistent...

two months

big yawn after a long day at church 

Our little girl is already two months old!  I can't believe it.  She is growing so fast.  It seems like every time I go to get her after waking up from a nap she has grown even more!  A family from the other ward in Winnemucca had a little girl two weeks ago, and we got to meet her.  I couldn't believe how little she was.  Was Avery really that small only 6 weeks ago??  I also couldn't help but notice how bald our baby is!  Good thing she has these adorable ginormous cheeks to make up for her very bald head.

I had set her on the couch and came back to find her slouched down like this.  I couldn't help but bust up laughing.  She just looked too cute with her squished up cheeks and big belly. 

What sweet cheeks has been up to at 2 months:

*I must admit, I have a very good baby.  The night of 8 weeks she slept 11 hours straight from 9 PM to 8 AM, and so did I!  It was pretty awesome.  She has been pretty good at sleeping through the night since about 3 weeks.  Most nights she sleeps at least 7 hours at a time, sometimes longer.  Her bedtime is pretty inconsistent, depending on how well she napped during the day.  

*Her naps are also very inconsistent.  I'm still trying to figure out how to start up piano lessons with her schedule so wacky (if you can call it a schedule).  Though after sleeping through the night, she almost always feeds then takes a 3-4 hour nap in the morning.  This gives me time to run, shower, and eat breakfast.  But after that nap, who knows when she will sleep again.  She does what she wants.

*She still doesn't cry too much. Though, like all babies she was having major fussy times in the evenings right around 6 weeks.  But they have gotten a lot better.  A couple evenings, I was worried she was going to pass out because she would stop breathing because she was crying so hard.  I wonder if she got that from me.. When I was little I would pass out from crying so hard and not being able to breath. 

*She can pretty much hold her head up on her own.  Most days she doesn't like tummy time, but she can completely lift her head up and look around.

*Right at 6 weeks, I for sure got a smile out of her.  Kade didn't get to see her smile until about 7 1/2 weeks.  Now she smiles all the time.  We love that she can now focus on our face and smile.  

I know it's blurry, but I caught her smiling!

*She's almost grown out of newborn size and has been wearing size 1 diapers for a couple weeks.

*She has officially gone to all 3 hours of church, and so have I!  It only took 8 weeks.  She only slept for about 20 minutes in sacrament meeting and fell asleep for 5 minutes as Relief Society was ending.  She was pretty good, only crying a little in Relief Society because she was tired.

looking so pretty for church

 *She has traveled 5 hours in a car to Utah.  We went to her cousin's baby blessing.  She was very good on the trip.  She slept through the night, though it was a little harder for us with her in the same room.  She is really noisy when she is sleeping.  Every couple hours she would wake us up with a cry.  I'd get up to get her only to find her completely asleep.  She also got to meet her uncle Aaron and aunt Ashley.  They were awesome and came to Kade's sister's house in Lehi Saturday night to see us.  And how did I not manage to get a picture??

I did get a picture of Avery in her cute dress before church 

*Still won't take a pacifier, though occasionally likes to suck on my finger.  I caught her one day sucking on her thumb.  Didn't last long, but it was cute.

*Loves hanging out with her daddy. 

*Seems to constantly have her tongue out.  So cute.

*Was very tired at her 2 month appointment, so she cried the whole time.  When the doctor picked her up, she stopped and gave him a big smile.  It was cute.  Screamed her head off when she got her shots,  but then slept most of the day after her appointment.  She's pretty tough.

Stats:

Weight: 10 lbs, 7 oz

Height: 22.25 in.

Here are some pictures her Aunt Jennie helped me take.  

We sure do love this little girl and are so grateful she's all ours.  She is such a special little girl.

1 month

yummy!

I can't believe Avery is already a month old!  Time sure flies with a new baby.  Days and weeks seem to all blend together.  I'm still in awe that this adorable little girl is all ours!  She is such a sweetheart.  We love her so much!

At one month she is getting much better at holding up her head.  She can turn her head completely during tummy time and she successfully rolled over onto her side all by herself.  She also is better at focusing on our faces rather than looking past our heads.
She's been smiling at us since the beginning, though I'm told its because of gas.  But I'm convinced I got a real smile yesterday.   :)
She still loves to scratch her face, so we are still putting socks on her hands.
She got her first diaper rash yesterday.  Poor girl.  We've been loading her bum up with Desitin and it seems to be helping.
She is sleeping really good.  At about 3 weeks she started sleeping 6-7 hours straight some nights.  And now she consistently sleeps 6-7 hours at night.  Though it is not at a consistent time each night.  Sometimes I go to bed with her at 7 or 8.  But I'm very grateful she is sleeping so well.  I was very paranoid about being kept up all the time before she was born.  She's awake more during the day and likes to feed more often, too.  She is kind of on a 3 hour feeding schedule now, but sometimes its sooner, sometimes later.  It usually depends on how well she naps and if she is trying to get out a poop or has gas.
During her first week, she barely made a peep.  She is definitely getting fussier, but she is still a really mellow baby.  She has a short fussy period right before her long night sleep.  She will cry pretty good for a little bit and then fall asleep for the night.  Even though it makes me sad when she cries, she looks so cute when she is fussy.

Other than going to the doctor, she hasn't been out much.  I'm still scared to take her out.  Partly because of getting her sick, partly because I don't know where we would go or do and how she would handle it.  She has been to church once for her blessing, been on a few walks around the neighborhood, and over to her grandparents house a few times.
Looking back at her hospital pictures, I can really notice how much she has grown.  Her cheeks are getting chunkier and she has the cutest little double chin.  She's also got quite the belly!
Her eyes are still blue.  I hoped she would get her daddy's blue eyes, and so far it looks like they will be!
As for me, my body started feeling back to normal around 2 weeks.  The first week was pretty brutal.  Although she rarely cried, I didn't get any sleep.  By the time I would be able to fall asleep, she would wake up ready to be fed.  By Sunday, I was a mess.  Luckily, I had both Mom and Kade to help.  They sent me to bed after I cried all day for no reason.

Avery's birth stats:
Weight: 7 pounds 2 ounces, 37th percentile
Height:  21 inches, 93rd percentile (no wonder all the nurses kept saying she was so long!)

One month stats:

Weight: 9.6 pounds, 38th percentile

Length:  22 inches, 59th percentile

i love her cute little face

blessing day

We decided to bless Avery last weekend while Kade had some family in town.  It was nice to have all his brothers in the blessing circle.  It was kind of a bummer that none of my family could be there, but I'm grateful that Mom and Dad were able to come out to see her.

 I was really worried about getting to church on time and Avery being fussy all through sacrament meeting.  Luckily, we made it to church a little before 9 right after I fed her, so she was a little angel.  And miraculously she did not have any explosions in her gorgeous little dress!  

Kade was a big help in making sure we were there on time.  He got Avery all ready to go while I showered and got ready.  After he got her dressed, he brought her in to show me.  I just couldn't help myself, she just looked so adorable! 

Thank you Mom for the beautiful dress, it worked out perfectly!  Kade's sister let me borrow the cute white bow, since I didn't have any.  

The blessing went great, Kade did an awesome job.  He's such a great dad! 

an adorable little girl

  

Avery Elizabeth Crawford was born on Monday, July 16th, at 3:11 p.m.  She weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 21 inches long.  She has dark blue eyes and a little bit of brown hair.  She decided to come 8 days late.

I started having contractions in the middle of the night after feeling crappy on Sunday.  They weren't very consistent contractions, and after having fake ones so many times, I wasn't sure whether we should start driving to Reno just to be sent home.  Kade was very anxious.  He was getting pretty frustrated with me not wanting to go yet.  He let me time a few contractions and take a quick shower before we left.  Mom was sitting in the hallway when we came out of our room.  It seems like she knew it was going to happen that night!  We got to St. Mary's at 8:30 but I was only dilated to a 2 so the nurse told us to walk the halls.  After 2 laps and lots of painful contractions later, my water broke right in the hallway next to my room.  It was actually pretty funny.  Kade called the nurse and showed her what I did.  After my water broke the contractions got really hard and painful really quick.  After yelling and crying through very painful contractions that never seemed to go away, the nurse came in and said they would get me ready for an epidural.  After what seemed like forever, the anesthesiologist came in to give me the epidural.  I've never been more happy to see someone in my life!!  The epidural was awesome.  I don't know why anyone would ever turn one down.  After getting the epidural, I was still only dilated to a 3, so they gave me Pitocin.   After only a few hours, the nurse came in to check on me and I was all ready to go, dilated to a 10.  My doctor was at another hospital delivering, so we waited about a half hour before pushing.  After only a few pushes she was out!  It was absolutely amazing!  She was the cutest thing I'd ever seen in my life.  When they were cleaning her up, Kade kept looking from me to her.  He said he wanted to make sure I was ok but he wanted to look at her, too.  It was so cute. 

I'm so grateful everything went good.  We made it to Reno, and before my contractions became unbearable!  She's a perfect little angel.  She rarely cries, though she is getting fussier in the evenings. And I had Mom for 2 weeks to help and answer all my questions.  She is amazing!  

The first week was pretty brutal.  I couldn't fall asleep and by Sunday I was a mess.  This week has gone much better though.  We are all sleeping better.  

getting ready to go home

  

tiny little feet

sleeping on daddy, is that a smile? 

loves to sleep with her hands over her head

And here are some videos of Avery in all her cuteness :)

So we think Avery has her daddy's nose and mouth.  Here is a baby picture of Kade.  I need to find one of me....

my due date

I made it to my due date, yesterday, July 8th.  Still no baby!! I remembered to take some pictures after it had gotten dark.  It was such a nice night, Kade and I sat on the grass for a while watching Roxy run around.  Here's to hoping she will come any day now!!

belly update!

I'm 37 weeks this week!! Baby can come any day now.  Nuts!  I've already had some contractions, in my back, so I'm not looking forward to this.  I had to get some more pictures in, I've grown a ton!  Here I am at 37 weeks in front of our beautiful flowers.

my baby bump

Lots of people have been asking for baby bump pictures, so I finally decided to put some up.  I was planning on taking a picture every week to see my progression, but that didn't happen.  I started taking pictures at 21 weeks and right now I am 30 weeks.  

21 weeks

23 weeks

28 weeks

30 weeks

Looking at these line up next to each other, I am amazed at how much I've grown.  And I still have 10 more weeks!