Yummy Yummy in My Tummy

Dear Hannah,

Today we gave you your FIRST "solid" food {besides the little tastes of stuff Uncle Justin and your grandma gave you without mommy knowing}. You didn't hate it but you didn't love it, you were just interested. You didn't even really make too many faces like I was expecting.

Can't believe it!

One year ago today I found out the most exciting news, today was the day I found out I was going to have a baby! I was going to have you! I remember the day so clear, almost like it was yesterday.  I remember peeking at the pregnancy test expecting to see a negative but instead with great unbelief, seeing a very light second line. I could not believe it! I was smiling so big, but I still could not believe it. I had to take a few more tests to convince myself. Finally  a few {okay maybe five} tests later I finally convinced myself it was true! No words could describe my excitement!

 Waiting for your arrival seemed like an eternity, and now you are here laying in my arms! It so hard to believe your arrival seemed so far away and now as I look back I can't believe how fast time went. Now you are my big 3 month old {almost four!} You have quite the little personality! You are such busy baby  and you keep me on my toes! You are very opinionated as well! We love you so much sweet girl! I can't believe you are mine forever! I still can't believe it was just one year ago that we learned of our little blessing growing inside of me!

Love you Princess

Miss Independent

Dear Hannah,

You have become our little Miss Independent ALREADY{?}. Once upon a time you would let me rock you to sleep or snuggle you until you fell asleep. NOW you just won't allow it. Somedays you will still let me but for the most part you would prefer that I just lay you down in your bed. You don't even cry. As soon as I lay you down for your nap or bedtime you nod off pretty quick. Its a little bitter sweet for me. I love that you can fall asleep all by yourself, but I also miss being able to snuggle with you until you head to dream land. Although I won't complain, I am just happy you fall asleep so easily! No need to let you cry yourself to sleep {which I totally disagree with and never would do so anyways!}


Sweet dreams my love!

Music to my ears!

Dear Hannah,

Today you laughed for the first time! It was so stinking cute!!! I was playing with your cute little fit {that I cannot get enough of} and you just let out the cutest laugh! I wanted to get it on video, but there was no video camera near by and I was having too much fun to stop and find one! Grandma was able to get a picture though :)

3 Months!

Dear Hannah,

I know I say this a lot BUT I still just can't believe how fast time is flying!My Baby Girl is 3 MONTHS!? You are getting so big so fast and you are changing so much, almost daily! You are definitely not my tiny little newborn anymore, which is a little bitter sweet!

You have become quite the little stinker lately. Once upon time I could snuggle you up in your blanket and sit in my bed to rock you to sleep. Now {even though you are soooo tired} when I snuggle you in your blanket and lay you in my arms you get so mad, especially if I am sitting down. I have to stand up and walk around and sing to you in order to get you to sleep. Speaking of sleep, you have been sleeping sooo good at night. You usually get up once or twice, depending on the night. Either way that feels so amazing! Especially when compared to the every hour or two!

Not to mention when you are awake, you would prefer us to stand up {with you facing out and dangling your legs} and walk around or bounce you. You love to be on the move!If we lay you in our arms and cradle you, {like we did when you were teeny tiny} we are quickly reminded that is not allowed :) You want to be up and part of the action!

You definitely love to be held! and I am okay with that, because I love holding you! so much that Daddy and Grandma tease me that your head is getting flat from "never holding you", of course its quite the opposite! {nice and round}. The downfall of you thinking Mama's arms are more comfortable is that {lately} when I lay you down to sleep, you wake up very quickly! Don't get me wrong! I do love holding you {reread the beginning of paragraph to reconfirm that ;)} It does make it hard to get things done when you are not sleeping. BUT then again, you will only be this little once, so the laundry and dishes can wait!

I'm definitely loving this new thing about you... You KNOW who your Mommy and Daddy are! without a doubt. You will easily smile at anyone, even strangers, but we can get the biggest smiles out of you very quickly. Especially Daddy, all he has to do is look at you and within seconds you are smiles galore! Lately when others are holding you, you look for me, and sometimes you are so happy with some people holding you. You go from zero to sixty very quickly and only Mommy can calm you down.


You have become my little "inch worm". When you were 10 weeks I put you on the floor and you started to try and push your self forward. You couldn't quite figure out your arms but you would push you butt up with you legs and then slide forward, making you look like a little worm. SO funny! Once you figure out those arms I am going to have to keep those floor VERY clean!

You are growing right before my eyes! When I pick you up now, you feel so sturdy! I love it! Also {much to my dismay} some of your cute 3 month sized clothes are too small! So sad! Time for them to retire!

I can't believe how quickly you are developing and growing! These past three months have been amazing! I look forward to the many months ahead of us and to see what adventures you are going to bring us!

Love, Mommy!

Other fun facts about Miss Hannah

• you have a love-hate relationship with your binky
• You want your fingers SO bad, and you are getting better at getting a hold of them (which I believe is the cause of your the love-hate relationship of the binky)
• You have started to drool so much!
• of course you still love to "talk" to us!

Nicknames:

Princess
Monkey
Drool Monster
Hanners
Sweet pea
Beautiful
Baby Girl

Two months!

Dear Hannah,

Right now I am laying in bed with you sleeping in your bassinet right next to me {I probably should be sleeping too} I can't help to think about how blessed I am to have you in my life and how thankful I am to be your mother. I'm going to be honest it still feels a little weird and very surreal, in a good way of course. Time has flown! I feel like it was just yesterday I was staring with an unbelieving smile at that positive pregnancy test. My pregnancy seemed to drag on and now here you are just a few days short of TWO months old! Time is going too fast now that you are here! So fast that I feel like I can't take it all in!

Hannah, you are getting so big! You can hold your head up pretty good; you've really been able to do that since day one, but your getting so much better at it everyday. You also rolled over from front to back a few weeks ago {7 weeks old!} You are our strong little girl!I've tried to get it on video for proof, but you always roll over right when I put the camera down! Little stinker!

You are so curious about everything around you. You love it when we hold you in a sitting position or better yet up on your feet so that you can look around. Oh, you love to look around. Whenever you find anything of great interest, you will focus in and stare for quite sometime. You still especially love to stare at our bedroom curtains in the mornings with light coming through. You also have been focusing on us a lot more too! You will just stare at us when we talk to you AND you always reward us with that beautiful smile of yours! Not only to we get rewarded with your smile, but you have definitely been chiming in with your own little stories with your little gurgles and coos. I love it! I love just sitting there having our mommy & daughter story time.

Nights have been so nice lately! You used to wake up every two hours to eat, now you will sleep anywhere from 3 to 5 hours! I'm definitely loving that! It is for sure a step up from the 2 hour stretches! Right now your bed time is anywhere from 10-12 and you usually wake up 4 or 5 hours, then you will sleep for 3 hours. Keep it up sweet cheeks :) {or better yet, lets make it only one time during the night :)}

Hannah baby, I can't imagine life without you! You are my angel! I feel so very lucky to have such a sweet baby girl! I can't wait for all the adventures we have ahead of us!

Love always,

Mommy


Two months Sats:
11 lbs 4 oz (61%)
23.7 inches (91%)
15.5" head circumference  (66%)

Nicknames:
Princess
Beautiful
Sister (mommy)
Monkey (daddy)
Sweet pea

One Month Old

Dear Hannah,

One month ago today we welcomed you to the world! One month ago today we fell in love! The moment you were place in my arms was the most amazing moment ever! I can't believe that was a month ago! How are you already ONE month?! Time has flown! You are already getting so big. You already have to many funny little quirks AND much to my delight you are already a momma's girl! {lets keep it that way ;)}

One of my favorite little quirks that you have is when you are done nursing you bury your face into the crook of my arm and fall asleep. So funny! You also are still trying to figure out how to nurse, you do okay for the most part but sometimes you get a little confused and look for your "food" on my arm even though its right in front of you. You practically bend backwards to my arm. Silly girl.

My most favorite thing is your smiles! You always smile in your sleep, or you will be looking the the wall and smile. BUT today you smiled at me! I love it!

I love being your mommy and I can't wait for the many more months and milestones to come!

Welcome Baby Girl!

Dear baby, 

You made your grand entrance today! Oh my, am I in LOVE! You are so beautiful!  So sweet! We couldn't have asked for a more perfect angel!

Hannah Noel Nielson

 

October 3rd, 2011

12:37 PM

7 lbs 12 oz

22 in 

 

We both are so smitten!

38 Weeks!!

only 2 WEEKS and counting!! (unless you are the select few that think I am going to go over my due date).. I feel HUGE and so ready to have this baby! I am getting very anxious to see my baby girl and to hold her, I hope she decides to come soon!

 Some things about baby girl:

• She has calmed down a lot, and doesn't move quite as much as she used it (although it may be the lack of room she has in there)
• She gets hiccups a lot! At least everyday! 
• She apparently likes to keep her hands near her head, because quite frequently I get a tickle on my bladder or nice little jabs to my pelvic bone. 
• She still likes to stretch her feet close to my ribs, luckily I haven't gotten too many kicks, just some discomfort.

All about the pregnancy:

• I though I hit the uncomfortable stage months ago, but now I really am in the uncomfortable stage! Everything hurts! My back, ribs, legs, hands, etc...
• the heart burn SUCKS! I wake up every night with heartburn! I have gone through a whole bottle of tums with this pregnancy, and I am starting on my second one... yuck!
• Oh the insomnia! I am so tired from not getting ANY sleep! I guess I better just get used to it. and Hey if you ever need to talk at 3 AM, hit me up! 
• I am so ready to be done, although I know I will miss some things about being pregnant... for one, I have an excuse to look "fat" I'm carrying a little human inside of me! which brings us to number two, I am carrying a HUMAN inside of me! It is so weird to think of and so amazing at the same time! Three: i love feeling baby girl  move around in there! I know it will be amazing to actually have her here, but I still will miss feeling her kicking and moving all day and night long! 

Anyways, let the countdown begin! I hope she comes sooner than Later!!!!

28 weeks!

Today is my 28 weeks mark! These past few weeks have been going by so fast!! It also probably helps that I have been keeping myself busy, because even though it is going by fast I am starting to feel so impatient to be able to hold my little one!

Right now we are slowly getting ready for baby. I kind of feel like we are not quite ready and don't even have close to what we need! Hopefully we get some good stuff at my baby showers to help me feel less stressed. Although I can tell you this much, baby girl has a lot of clothes to dress her for quite awhile :) I am having way too much fun with all this baby clothes shopping!

Well at 28 weeks Baby girl has become quite active! Even more active than she was before. She pulls some crazy stunts in there, which I absolutely love feeling, besides a few small exceptions, like when she decides to kick dangerously close to my ribs -OR- when she decides to be awake and crazy active at 3 AM. But other than that I am in love with all those crazy gymnastic stunts she trying out in my belly.

According to "what to expect" My baby is:

•  17 inches tall and close to 3 pounds
• Her wrinkled skin is smoothing out as fat deposits underneath her skin
• Her "living quarters" are getting pretty tight now, so any jabs I feel are going to be mostly knees and elbows. 
• She is getting stronger, which also means so will her kicks 
• She will respond to different stimuli; sound, movements and light. 

As for me:

• I feel like I am starting to get at the uncomfortable stage, well I feel like I have been there for awhile but its getting worse. 
• My ribs HURT, even if baby girl is no where close to them, they just ache.
• I have had heart burn galore. I have actually had it for the past couple weeks unfortunately. 
• I feel like I am HUGE! My mom and sister ask if I am sure I don't have two in there. Which wouldn't surprise me if I did. ;)