miss millie

you are such a neat gal!  we were a little hesitant/worried/sick/petrified when we found out we were going to be a family of four, but then you came and it was love at first sight!  what the heck were we thinking?  it was conference the weekend before your birth, and there was the sweetest spirit in our home in anticipation of your big arrival.  i think there were angels with us, i tell you!  your birth day followed suit and was just lovely.  my epidural could not keep up with you, you wanted out.  i quickly forgave you since you had such a small head.  the big hospital drama was your name.  after a stressful (and tearful, bless my unstable heart) final morning, we knew millie was it.

you really really like to be held and rocked all day long, and when we finally think you're a goner and lay you down, you like to wake up about two minutes later.  BUT it's okay because you reward us by sleeping long stretches at night (and even slept from 10:45pm to 8:00am last week!).  this has taught me that there ARE good and bad sleepers because that was nothing that i did.  i'm sure of it.  you have excellent, dramatic dancer hands that are always by your face.  and you recently grew little eyelashes!  i really wish i could hold you more - your brother is quite the time suck and piece of work these days, as all toddlers are.  he runs in my room every morning to check on you and pets your head/kisses you about 1000x a day.  he's going to be a really sweet big brother, i can already tell.  you smile!  you smiled at me first at four weeks exactly and have slowly started flashing those gums more and more these past couple of weeks.  it's the cutest.  your dad cannot wait for you to sit, giggle, roll around, etc.  he calls this the "no neck" phase and is not its biggest fan.  but don't take it personally, he says that about all babes.  i'm going to try and be better at recording your charming personality and milestones, but cannot promise anything.  a woman needs her sleep!  we love you doll.  you're a keeper. 

millie overload in 3 2 1.  dead serious - posting every semi cute picture of her ever taken, mostly for pat.  let's be honest, i may never be back with instagram taking over the world.  

meeting wells.

 

not the most flattering outfit, angle, position, 48 hours after giving birth.  i'm not THAT fat, i promise.  my only picture of the coming home party.

    

happy two months, love!

 

oh wells

oh my word.  there is so much to catch up on - new york, (which was near perfection, btw), a quick little trip to austin, and all the terrific final moments with the three of us this past month or so.  but since it's crunch time (the babe is coming wednesday!) i am going to focus on my wellsley - 

how i have loved these past nineteenish months!  we are best friends.  i love watching sesame street and eating ice cream together everyday after your nap, talking in our little gibberish language all day long, how you have learned to very proudly bring me a diaper and put the dirty one in the trash, how you spill your drink 1000x a day because you insist on drinking out of a regular cup, our lunch dates, how you spend our entire time on walks trying to walk up to people's front doors (matt and i are excited for halloween so that we don't have to stop you), talking/singing to you in your crib when we put you to bed each night - you are so charming right before you go to sleep!, and how i'm the only person that you'll kiss on the lips.  we are a great team!  you will always be my little man.  even though it absolutely kills me that this sweet time is over, i guess we should give this girl a chance :)

thanks for being the coolest kid i know.  

we love you! 

  

    

this summer

we said goodbye to our little grapevine abode.

and ward.

and moved into the city.

built a lot of ikea furniture.

met baby knox.  these boys are not thrilled about the new babe stealing their thunder.  he stole my heart too!

went to the july 4th parade in highland park.

flew to sonoma.  just gorgeous!  don't even get me started with this magical place, you'll never hear the end of it...

lunched and lunched again.

ate a LOT of popsicles.  sometimes 4 a day thanks to pat.

ran up to bear lake.

went to the arts festival.

had dinners with some terrific people.

and many other fun things that i of course did not capture.  and some not so fun things like getting very very fat.  still cannot believe that summer is over and this little gal will be here in 6ish weeks.  ahhhh!  scary.


ps she is currently breech :(  please tell me your tricks of getting your little babes to turn.