Our Anniversary

Nick and I just celebrated our 3rd anniversary! We had a low key day and decided to go out to dinner to celebrate. We went to the Blue Lemon and spent the evening at City Creek. 

What a fun night! It was nice to have a good reason to go out to eat!

It's been a great three years! I love you Nick!

One Month

In her first month of life, Maylee...

Loves to sleep on her side. We lay her on her back and she immediately changes her position so she's on her side. At first it freaked me out, but she sleeps so much better on her side/tummy so we have lots of naps with her during the day. 

Stares at our picture of the Salt Lake temple multiple times a day. I know she's still developing her sight, so I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but it's pretty funny!

Loves to be outside! If she's fussy (which isn't too often), we can usually calm her down by going outside.

Sleeps a good 4 hour stretch at night. THANK YOU MAYLEE!

Is so content! She doesn't fuss much and she spends lots of time just hanging out!

Loves her NUK binkies. She didn't want a binkie too often at first, but she really started to like them when we got home from the hospital. She does the "Maggie Simpson" suck often and it cracks us up!

Likes to ride in the car with the radio on. That's a given. But she really likes it when the radio is on!

Is so snugly! She loves to snuggle up to your chest and fall asleep!

Still wears newborn diapers and clothes - although we can tell she won't for long!

Just a few more things...

Maylee's hair is lightening up, her eyebrows have darkened, and her eyslashes have grown at least 5x.

She is squirmy! During the night sometimes she'll squirm so much she does a 90 degree turn and wakes up all squished (she's sleeping in a cradle).

During tummy time, she rolled from her tummy to her side. 

We can't figure out if she sleeps better with her arms swaddled or not - we swaddle her whole body tight sometimes and other times we leave her arms out - both seem to work alright. If she's not going to bed quickly, we switch up how she's swaddled and it usually fixes the wide eyes.

She's a good little eater. During the day she usually eats every 2-3 hours.

Maylee has changed so much during her first month - not only has she started to look different, but you can just tell that she is learning and taking in so much.  She sure is cute and we're having lots of fun with her!

Maylee's Newborn Pictures

Linda came to Cedar to take pictures of Maylee when she was 5 days old. 

They turned out so cute! 

Here are a couple of the pictures she took!

Motherhood

Over the past three weeks I've learned a lot about being a mom. Maylee has been such a good baby - she really only fusses when she's hungry or needs a diaper change (I know this could quickly change, but as if now we're counting our blessings), she sleeps well, and she is really happy and content when she's awake. 

Last Thursday Maylee had a rough time eating before bed. When I got up with her a few hours later, she had a hard time again. After I tried to get her to eat for over an hour, I decided to lay her back down and attempt to feed her an hour or so later. She wasn't interested in going back to bed, and she started to cry... Big, long, loud cries...

A few hours later we were both exhausted and both in tears. We had a pajama party day, and I tried to calm her down the best I could. I checked her temperature, read her books, took her outside... nothing was helping. After a long long day, Nick and I began to discuss what could have been bothering her all day. 

Then it hit me. We had Cafe Rio for dinner! I didn't even think about how thy meal could affect Maylee's food and mood.

It's kind of funny now, although it was a hard day at the time... But this is what it looks like when you baby has a sweet pork salad. 

Not good. I've still got a lot to learn about parenthood. Thank goodness I now know how much what I eat affects my baby! I won't be doing that again!

Luckily after 24 hours our happy, content baby is back :)

Maylee's Birth

We went in for my 38 week appointment, and I'm so glad Nick was able to come with me.
Our little baby decided she didn't want to stay head down like she had been for the past little while....
Silly girl.  No wonder I was feeling so sore a few days before, she was somersaulting around in there!

My doctor explained that due to my fluid levels and how far along I was, it was very unlikely for her to turn head down again.
Who knows how she changed her position in the first place....
He said he'd do a version if I wanted to go that route, but after he explained some of the risks I wasn't sure how comfortable I felt with trying to get her to turn.

We decided to wait until the following Tuesday, June 25th, to see if she flipped back.
If not, we were going to move forward with having a C-section on June 27th.

She hadn't flipped back, so we were able to make plans to have her on the 27th.

39 weeks

We got to the hospital at 5:00 am - neither of us slept much the night before since we were so excited!

The C-section was scheduled for 7:00 am, so we had a couple hours to get prepped and hang out.
They wheeled me to the operating room at 6:45 and gave me a spinal block.
The next thing I knew, Nick was in there and within a matter of minutes we heard a few coughs and a little baby cry.  

Maylee Ann Shober was born at 7:09 am and was 6 pounds 7 ounces and 18 inches long.

Nick went over to see her while they finished putting me back together.

Our parents were all able to be with Nick in the nursery when she was bathed, weighed, etc.  

Before long, Maylee was wheeled into my room and we all took turns loving on her.
Nick and I spent 4 days at the hospital, and we made our way home on Sunday afternoon.

Maylee had lots guests during her first week and was able to spend lots of time with her grandparents.
We were so lucky to have my mom come spend the week with us and we were so spoiled!
Linda was also able to come down and take a few cute baby pictures.
We've had a good week at home and are getting adjusted to taking care of our sweet little Maylee.
Nick and I are so grateful to be parents to Maylee and we're loving spending time together as a family :)
What a wonderful week it's been!
I can't even explain how blessed we feel and how much love we have for Maylee.

4 more!

 

Just another weekly photo.... :)

Update

I have been awful lately at taking pictures of all the things Nick and I have been up to....

I kept thinking we'd have more time when they semester ended to do fun things and stay up on blogging, but somehow the weeks are flying by without me even realizing it.

Here's a 32 week picture -

 I've definitely been getting more tired, and I'm exhausted when I get home from work.

We went up to Salt Lake in the middle of May for a baby shower, and we had a really fun weekend!  

My sister-in-law Bree and and I took some pictures, but neither of us were thrilled with how we looked in them..... It's fun that we're due at the same time though and we're excited for our girls to be friends! 

 We were definitely spoiled at the baby shower and were given so many cute things for our baby!

It was fun to hang out with our families and make one last trip up before the baby comes.

Here's a picture from 34 weeks.... it was taken at night, after the exhaustion had kicked in 

(if you can't tell by the look on my face!)

Nick and I had a nice Memorial Day weekend in Cedar City and we were able to catch up on a few projects and lots of sleep.  It's always nice to have a 3 day weekend and no firm plans to occupy your time!

We took a little picnic, enjoyed some frozen lemonade, and tried to give our legs a little color thanks to the warm weather.

Other than that, we haven't been up to much!