Mikaela is One Month

Mikaela is just over one month now and I wanted to post a picture of her when she was just born and some from now to see how much {or how little} she's changed.

Day 1. Sleeping with Daddy. Can't really see much of her in this photo and unfortunately what they say about your second baby is true! We really haven't taken a lot of pictures of her.

One Month. Having some "tummy time." Doesn't she look cute?! Thanks Kristen for the cute onesies! Yesterday she rolled over twice during her tummy time. It was pretty exciting but she probably won't be really rolling over for awhile yet.

Here's a straight on shot. She has definitely lost her newborn looks and is getting much chubbier. I think she looks A LOT like Tafton did at one month. I think it's easy to tell Tafton and Mikaela are siblings, they have the same nose.

Couldn't post without a picture of Tafton. Here he is in his cowboy hat {thank you Charissa!}. He's never been big on wearing hats, he pulls them off as soon as you put them on. This last week though he's been wanting to wear his cowboy hat every day. I think we're going to dress him up as a cowboy for Halloween. I've been teaching him to say "Trick or Treat!" but it comes up like "duh da duh dun" but maybe it'll sound closer by Halloween!

Chance to Serve

Hi everyone! Spring Semester is coming and we've signed up for all of our classes. I am still working at Wadman Corporation and so we need help from anyone who is willing to watch Tafton. If you're available to watch Tafton during the week Monday thru Friday from 8-5. Any days or hours please let us know! Thank you so so much for your help. We love you!

We're Back!

Hey Y'all,

Ok, so we've had internet at home for a couple of weeks now so there are no more excuses for not posting. We certainly are busy which means we probably have a lot to blog about. For sure the biggest thing going on with us is Tafton. I was warned but I could not have possibly imagined how much it changes your life to be a father. Megan has been back to work for three weeks now and it has been just Taft and I staving off disaster at home. Each day I get a little better at it and now I can manage not to make the house a complete mess. We spend most of the mornings eating sleeping and watering the yard (no auto sprinklers yet).

Tafton is growing so fast, I know that people say that about babies but it's exceptionally true for him. He skipped size three-to-six months and is wearing mostly six to twelve month sized clothes. He is in the 90th percentile for both weight and height. It probably shouldn't surprise us since we eats really well and has started to eat some rice cereal.

Still the mellow happy baby, he is getting closer to laughter and loves his goofy dadda. He is almost four months old now and just as cute as we could hope. Sleeping through the night almost always, and really doesn't give us any trouble as long as we talk to him and tell him how awesome he is... it's true he is AWESOME.

School Starts on Monday and then the Taffy-Daddy duo will be put on hold for a bit, I have school Monday, Wed, Thur, Fri, and work some of those nights. Just about everyday I think of that country song by Trace Adkins "Your Gonna Miss This," and hope that I am not wasting the time I have with him.

We sure do love him.

Our IKEA trip went all right. We ended up going without Shirley and took little Megan instead. We got the dresser we were looking at for us and we ended up getting a different dresser for little Taffy. It's the same style as our dresser but in white. It took FOREVER to put together too. The reason we got the bigger, nicer dresser is because we decided to get a seperate changing table. So now he has a changing table and a bigger dresser that he can use for years to come. Also the changing table he can put a TV on top with a DVD player in the open part when he's older, it'll grow with him that way. We're pretty excited about our purchases. We just need to get everything in place now. Like I said the dresser took forever to put together but it looks really nice and I washed all of his clothes and have put them away. I thought we had a lot of clothes but now I'm not so sure. Good thing for showers!

We were going to put the changing table cabinet (above) together but when we opened the box, the front door of it was cracked so I went and exchanged that yesterday. and I have to say - IKEA - not so great about exchanges. It might've been easier if I wasn't seven months pregnant but they weren't too helpful. I had to keep searching for someone to help me lift everything. Oh well! We have a new one that isn't cracked so I'm happy :)

We decided on Saturday that instead of having Tafton downstairs with us, we'll have him upstairs in the carpeted bedroom from day one(or three by the time we get home from the hospital). I've just read that transitioning a baby from your room to their nursery is hard and I'd like to avoid that. But now - we have more work to do to get the room ready for him and we only have 57 more days! (woo-hoo!) We need to pick a color to paint his room and get it painted and get everything situated. Any suggestions on paint color are appreciated! Well I'm at work and should get back to it.