Oh what fun!

We've had a busy two weeks! Aunt Frances arrived on Friday and surprised Camille and Wylie by bringing Papa! Frances was supposed to meet me at the car and I tried to surprise her by waiting at the gate. Luckily my surprise failed (out of only two baggage claims I was at the wrong one!) We met at the car as planned and as we were exiting the airport Frances told me to slow down and I saw this man on the side of the road and initially thought to myself "you want me to pick up a hitch hiker?" and as we approached the man I saw it was my dad! This is the second time they've managed to pull something like this on me! They are very good at surprises!!

So Aunt Fran, Papa and Wylie had a great weekend together! Papa fixed Wylie's fan in her room and was right on schedule with Wylie and her naps and Aunt Fran brought more bedding for her nursery too! We were all sad to see them go and are already planning our next visit.

Wylie is starting to enjoy her swing and her new bouncy chairs too. Which is allowing mama time to exercise (two days in a row now!) With the departing of our visitors, it was also time for mama to go back to work. Of course, Wylie was well prepared in her Tickled Paint uniform! We've survived the first two days okay! It's a little chilly at the store so Wylie gets wrapped all snug in her handmade blanket by Aunt Kat!

And as for Wylie, she's growing fast! We've caught her smiling big a few times lately and she is making a lot more "cooing" sounds too! My video was too big to upload, so I'll try to catch it again soon!

Happy Birthday Wylie!

Today Wylie is one month old! We celebrated by baking her a cake....well, baking Joe a cake! (He claims she requested it this morning when he got her up!) Despite the fact that we both need to work on getting back into shape, I decided she deserved her first cake anyway! Of course, I decided this late in the afternoon, so it's not my best work, but not bad for a last minute homemade supreme white cake with homemade buttercream frosting too!

Our little girl has slept through the night (6 hours) for the past two nights! I wondered if it was too soon for this and I was quickly told by my sister that I should be dancing in the streets! So I'm definitely not complaining! And according to our home scale, she's weighs 10 lb 6 oz. today. She's also starting to enjoy her swing...well, a few minutes longer each time!

She really is so sweet and I can't wait for everyone to meet her!

One month already...

Can someone please stop time?!?! It is going by WAY too fast! Wylie is growing so fast - already getting too big for newborn clothes. According to our home scale, she's about 10 lbs now. She loves to hold her head up and look around and is actually quiet good at it already!

Aunt Katherine came to visit last week and we had a great time doing nothing! Kat finished knitting an adorable blanket for Wylie and we just enjoyed hanging out with Wylie.

This week Camille's friend Mary Beth came to visit. Flew from New York and then drove to Muleshoe from Dallas! Hopefully Wylie will someday get to visit her in New York too! We had fun touring Muleshoe, the Clovis Walmart and the dairy - a first for both Mary Beth & Wylie (the dairy, that is)! We've enjoyed everyone's visits and are looking forward to Aunt Frances' next weekend! Wylie is certainly spoiled with great friends and family!

So much for the excessive sleeping!! Wylie is doing great having more awake time! She'll stare at you, the lights, the walls...just taking the world all in! Of course, now this means she's having to learn to go to sleep after being awake...we're working on her doing this without aids (pacifier, rocking etc.) and sometimes she does it and sometimes she doesn't! We'll get it down soon though I'm sure.

She loves to spend her afternoon awake time chillin' with Daddy!

Grandma Carole came to visit this weekend and we assembled her swing from Mary Beth, Julie and their moms. Hoping she'll like it eventually...it didn't get the response we were looking for the first few times, but we'll keep trying! Grandma also brought her an organic clown (to go with her circus theme room) that mama slept with so it'd have my scent...and it might have actually worked!