Anna is 3 months!

Hello everyone! Anna turned three months last weekend! My in-laws visited this weekend so I am finally getting around to posting some pics from her third month.

 Anna's happy face greeting me in the morning--she is SO excited when someone comes to get her from her crib in the morning or after naptime.

 More smiles from the happy girl

This is her favorite place to nap--snuggled up with mom!

smiley girl!

Anna and her friend, Lincoln. He is 9 weeks younger than Anna.

Love tummy time!

The weather is turning colder and Anna looks adorable dressed up to go outside.

Anna and daddy playing. She loves "talking" to him and the funny noises he makes.

getting big and showing off her cloth diaper!

Anna dressed up as a snowflake for halloween--it was a hit.

After bathtime. Baths really help her calm down so she can go to sleep.

Wide-eyed!

Anna is a drooler! 

More of Anna's personality shows up all the time. She is really aware of what is going on and very trusting. She does not like to be left alone and will often just look around to make sure someone is there with her. If someone isn't there, she'll squawk until someone comes, and then coo and smile when she sees you. She loved having grandma and grandpa Lovett come visit and especially loved playing with grandma. She is happy and very easy-going, and we couldn't ask for a better baby!

Anna--2 months

Anna is 2 months old! Before I share pics from her second month, I want to sneak one in from her first month--it's our first family photo, with Anna being 11 days old.

 Anna with mommy and adoring daddy. 11 days old

And now on to the pictures from her second month. I've left out a lot, (you can thank me later) but I think I got the best ones! A little about her second month. At the beginning of her second month, she weighed 9 lbs 12 oz. At the end, she weighed 11 lbs 14 oz. She has a little rash on her face, which comes and goes, but usually doesn't look too awful. She started smiling at about 5 weeks, and now she is smiling a lot. She is very smiley in the mornings and when getting her diaper changed. She also smiles big when daddy comes home from school. 

She has learned to make noises that aren't crying, and loves to have conversations with both Alexander and I. She coos and we interpret it as we wish. Sometimes she says some pretty crazy things, like that she wants to go to Disney World soon! She loves her play mat/gym and gets really excited about the toys that hang down from it--a ladybug, a cardinal, and a duck. She kicks her legs and coos at them as she bats them randomly. She likes tummy time and is getting really good at holding her head up to look around and pushing with her arms. 

She is very alert and awake. She loves to just look around and see what's going on. She hates going to sleep because I think she feels left out. She is, however, sleeping really well--usually from about 10 pm to 7 am. It is really nice to get all that sleep!

September 3, 2011. 5 weeks

September 5, 2011. 5 weeks 2 days.

 September 11, 2011. 6 weeks 1 day

September 13, 2011. 6 weeks 3 days 

September 17, 2011. 7 weeks

September 18, 2011. 7 weeks 1 day 

September 24, 2011. 8 weeks

September 29, 2011. 8 weeks 5 days 

September 30, 2011. 8 weeks 6 days 

the good stuff.

here's an update for y'all

• we made it to Illinois! yay! we have a nice apartment and we live in a good part of town.
• we welcomed Anna into the world on July 30, 2011!
• this is, of course, why i'm sure you visited our blog, so we'll get to the good stuff: the pictures of Anna.

Anna's first encounter with Mommy. 3:20 am. after 25 hours of labor.

Anna's first encounter with a scale. She doesn't seem to care for it too much.

Anna's first encounter with Daddy. she seems to like him just fine.

16 hours old and starting to look less like an alien.

Anna and mom, 4 days old

8 days old.

Anna and grandma Flo, 9 days old

17 days old

Aunt Patti visits, 25 days old

Anna likes the bath, 4 weeks old

Daddy and Anna, 1 month old

Anna smiles, 5 weeks old

Pregnancy Pics

For Lauren, who harasses me endlessly for preggo photos. Here you go.

8 weeks--anniversary date at This Is the Place State Park. They do an awesome pioneer Christmas.

13 weeks

21 Weeks, at the Hoover Dam bridge

28 weeks, 3 days, at work.

Annnnnnd, for your viewing pleasure, a little glimpse of the little nugget coming your way the end of July.

Anna Margaret Lovett, 27 weeks 6 days.

Our Apartment

Well, I promised Lauren these pics months and months ago....so, here they are!

Front Room, from the front door. Proud of the valence I made. Also proud that our plants are still alive.

Front Room, to the right. Yes, those are Star Wars Christmas figurines. sigh.

Front Room, from the kitchen. Trunk serving as coffee table.

Kitchen, business end.

Kitchen, from the business end. w/d to the left in a closet. Yes, we did hang the shelves and pot rack. pretty cheap from Ikea

Bathroom. Don't be deceived, it doesn't actually have a portal into a quaint French street. unfortunately.

Bedroom.

massive closet.

you're missing a picture of the office, because it's not in a picture-taking state. plus, it's not all that exciting.

So, there's our place! We love it here, and plan on staying as long as possible! (which may not be too long, since Alexander has at least one acceptance letter: Texas A&M!)

i guess...

it's time for an update on this blog (6 long months later). here you go.

1. I am no longer in graduate school, after a long and complex (and traumatic) experience. I'm so glad to be out of the lab and to not be doing something I dislike so much!
2. Now, I'm working part-time at a retail store, and I love it. It's not stressful, the people I work with are super nice, and the store itself has a really great environment.
3. Alexander is GRADUATED!!!!!!!! Hurrah! He also has applications in to 5 grad schools. They are: MIT, Purdue, Texas A&M, UI at Urbana-Champaign, and Georgia Tech.
4. The now-graduated Alexander is looking for jobs in Civil Engineering and spending the interim scanning all of our old school notes and papers so we can recycle them and reduce the amount of stuff we'll need to move when we go to grad school.
5. yes, it's true, I'm pregnant! This is another reason that I'm glad I'm done with grad school for now. I'm due July 29, 2011. Here is our first peek at the little one:
(you can see it's fingers right above the face. awwwwww)
6. We're spending a lot of time relaxing, organizing, cooking, and really enjoying the last time of our lives that we'll be able to do all of those things sans children.

So, there's our update. I'll try to blog more, and maybe take some pictures of our apartment for Lauren :).

Cheers!