Birthday

So Happy Birthday to me 2 weeks ago. I turned 23 on the 13th which was a Sunday. My good friend Annalee's birthday was the 9th so we planned way back when that we would go to the Utah State Fair for our birthdays. Allie and her sister came up from New Harmony and we all went to Tucanos for lunch and then off to the fair. We had a good time minus the moments where Bailey cried and cried, but whats new. lol. Shes cute anyways. Best part of the fair was when I went on a ride and left Bailey with Annalee and she started crying. She decided to hold her and when doing so, Bailey decided to let her bowels go and bam. So I get off the ride and Annalee tells me that she might be poopie, so I leaned down to smell her and I said, "yea, I think she is." So Annalee pulls her away and there was bright green slimy poo all down Annalee's shirt and all over Bailey. hahahah. She was a good sport about it and it came off easily with a baby wipe.
Anyways, we left the fair and Allie and her sister Megan stayed the night at my house. My actual birthday was on Sunday so that day we just relaxed and our families came over that night for cobbler and brownies. It was a good weekend.

The following weekend Katy, Jason, Kyle and I went to the Boyz II Men concert, yes for the 3rd time. You can call us groupies if you want, I don't even care. I didn't even really take pictures b/c I have plenty of them, I just enjoyed the show. Bailey went with us and she enjoyed hearing the R&B music that she remembers from the womb. hee hee

Update with Bailey: She rolled over 3 times in a row from her belly to her back on September 18th. I was so excited I ran and called Kyle and then I tried to catch it on video but she is way too quick and then got real cranky and wouldn't perform again.
I took her back to the doctor today for a check up on her birthmarks. She has a another one covering the whole other side of her belly. Made an appointment with Primary Childrens Dermatologist.
She weighs 12 lbs 10 oz.
She LOVES her fists and I find herself choking herself b/c she is trying to place her whole fist in her mouth.
She loves the mornings and usually wakes up with all smiles.
When I talk to her she talks back and I swear she says "Hi". lol
She loves to watch sports with Kyle and I on the couch, really she just loves the TV.
Her hair looks like it is growing in red....oh dear!
She is getting more fun each day but is still colicy.

Here are just some of the latest pictures of her. She is so adorable and looks just like her daddy. I think she does have my big smile though.

2 Month update

Yes, Bailey is 2 months old already... I know, she is such a big girl. She is becoming more fun each and every day. I love being her mommy. I took her to the doctors yesterday for her 2 month check up.
weight: 11 lbs 50th percentile
length: 22.5 in 55 percentile
head: 39.5 75 percentile.
She has had an infection in her eye so we got some drops for that. Also, she had a birthmark show up at about 3 weeks old and then another huge one across her whole belly showed up a few weeks later. I called the Dr. and they said not to worry unless the kept growing. So then another showed up on her arm. When I took her in yesterday her pediatrician said he had never seen anything like it on a baby and went to get the other Dr. in the office to look. They both said..."Hum, interesting." They said they had never seen such large ones before. The Dr. then told me I should get a better evaluation from Primary Childrens Pediatricians just to make sure. I have 6 birthmarks so we are just hoping its hereditary but there is a neurological disease, where the only symtoms are multiple birthmarks. So hopefully everything will be okay with that. Kinda scary. Bailey then recieved her 4 vaccinations. I always see mothers crying with their babies when we give shots in the ER but never knew why...well now I do. I didn't cry but I was very close to it. You should have seen Baileys face. It was heart breaking. She only cried for a minute though and then just wimpered a little and then fell right to sleep and slept the rest of the day and night. She's my little tough girl.

• Bailey is now trying to roll over every time I changer her diaper. This makes things a little more difficult.
• She has never once had a little poo, this girl has talent and has major blow outs!! The only diapers that can handle her contents are the generics surprisingly, my wallet loves that! She pooped out of every single Pampers and Huggies diaper.
• She loves her play mat. It is bright colored and has a sun that sings and lights up and she gets hypnotized by it she starts to whine because she can't look away. haha, its cute.
• Usually every morning we have a nice long 2 way conversation with lots of smiles and cooing.
• She has now slept 4 nights this week for 6-7 hours. I usually wake up automatically now but to my surprise, she is still sound asleep.
• She's out of all her newborn clothes and fits most 3 months.
• her feet are still extremely large and when I put her socks on, all her toes go in different directions and get stuck because they are so long. lol, like mother like daughter. Sorry hun!

Well, I have pictures I will add later, my batteries are dead so I can't upload them. I love being mom and I have to go back to work part-time in 2 weeks which is going to be so hard. I won't lie, I think I like 2 months old better than newborn. All I was was a milk machine then, but now I actually can interact with her and I feel us bonding more and more each day. I love every minute and look forward to every day with her. Who knew a heart could love so much.

Blessing Day

Sunday the 9th we decided to bless Bailey Mae Johnson. Since no one in my family except one brother could participate, I asked that he come out here. He gladly said yes and bought his ticket. His best friend Dave, which is kinda my adopted sixth brother decided he would come out as well. They both flew in on Thursday and my father also came out Thurday. I was very stressed for the weekend b/c we planned on feeding about 50 people for Sunday brunch. Anywho, we had to show my brother and Dave a good time so they went shooting, boating, b-balling, to a baseball game, and bagging. I think they had a good weekend. Sunday Kyle blessed Bailey and did a fantastic job. He was very nervous but pulled through in the end. Thank you for all those who came to support Bailey, Kyle and I.

Here are some pictures of Sunday afternoon.

Peggy Petersen made her blessing dress and it is so beautiful. Thank you!!

4 generations

So you ask, What is bagging?? There is a place called Rock Canyon Park in Provo and its a huge bowl. This is where everyone goes sledding in the winter time. Well in the summer time, they turn the sprinklers on every night around 10pm. So you go buy the heavy duty trash bags and tear a hole for your head and arms and place them on. Then, you get a running start and slide down the steep hill on your belly, back, or like Morgan did, you can roll 100 times down the hill. lol. Its a natural slip and slide and it is a BLAST!!

Photo shoot

So we took Bailey in for a photo shoot last week with Shawn and Alicia Bunderson. You are suppose to get these pictures done in the first 2 weeksof their life and now I know why. Bailey was 5 weeks old and made for a difficult time. Bailey would cry every time we moved her but we got real creative with how to make her stop crying. All in all, I love the pictures and am so glad we did this to have these forever. She is adorable and I love her so much.

Oh and if you are wondering, both Kyle and I did get peed on. I was just waiting for the #2 to come out all over the pretty blankets but she held it in :)

3 weeks old!

(Baileys famous pucker up lips face)
(we took her fishing, she nursed 95% of that time)

(Kyles birthday celebration)

(Park City Olympic Park)

(The moose head at Kyles work, great photo shoot Kyle)

(Micheles photo shoot with Bailey on our red sleeping bag)

(Michele and Bailey)

(she loves her arm straight up in the arm)

(smiles for the camera)

Bailey is now 3 weeks old and I can hardly believe it. Life as a mommy is exciting, exhausting, rewarding, and hard. But I love every minute of it and wouldn't trade it for the world.

Week 1: I was on the new mom "high" and everything was perfect and wonderful. We had my dad in town, then my grandparents came to visit as well. There was never a dull moment around the house. Bailey slept a few hours and then woke to be fed. I seemed to never sit her down, even when she was sleeping. Breastfeeding was much harder than I thought. Advice to all expecting mothers...prepare your nipples before hand, its very painful! Kyle and I just loved being parents and Bailey didn't do too much to not be loving life.

Week 2: My friend Michele from Florida came into town to help out with the Baby. I was stressing a little more this week because I needed to run all the errands and get all the paperwork filled out of a new baby. Bailey was being so good and only crying when she needed to be fed or be changed. We took her up to Park City for a full day of go, go, go, in the hot sun. She had a few melt downs but it was nothing a little milk couldn't fix. I was finally getting the hang of being a mom and felt comfortable and then week 3 happened.

Week 3: I took Michele to the airport Monday morning and got home. Soon after, Bailey decided to start screaming and shreaking. I had no idea what was going on. It continued the rest of the day and she did not sleep that night. I held her in my arms till 5:30 am until she finally dozed off for 2 hours. The next day, same thing. Crying and more crying. I looked up Colic and thats what it sounded like. I started to panic b/c after 1 1/2 days of crying baby, I was ready to throw in the towel. It was too much to handle. I called the Doctor and they scheduled me for that same day. She had no infection or anything so he said it was probably just gas. I was very emotional this day b/c I was at whits end. Sorry for all those that had to hear me cry. lol. Kyle got home from work and I happily handed him Bailey and I took off to Wal-Mart for the gas drops. I made sure I walked around Wal-mart a few times just to take more time. I arrived at home and of coarse, Bailey is sound asleep and quiet! We tip toes around the house and she slept for about 30 minutes and was back to screaming. I gave her the drops and it seemed to calm her alittle. Well, a few hours later, my stomach started to ache and the bathroom was calling my name. I then understood why my poor little child was crying so bad. The stomach cramping almost put me in tears. She finally slept that night but I didn't. Now its me who has been sick with a fever and in pain. I felt so guilty being mad at her for crying when I was the one who caused it. She is doing much better and is sleeping 4-5 hours at a time. Very nice! I love her so much and I'm glad that she is feeling better.

Sadly/Funny story: I called my mom in desperate need of some Malloxx. She said she had some and would be right over. She got to my house, and gave me 2 big spoonfulls of what we thought was Mallox. Keep in mind, I was already having bathroom issues. She asked me if it had started helping my tummy and I said NO! So a few hours later we went to round 2 of the medicine. Luckily, I looked at the bottle and I said...."MOM, this isn't Malloxx, this is Milk of Magnesia!!!" She said, "OH NO!" For those of you that don't know, that is a laxative and a great one at that. I was up every 15-30 mins last night cleaning out my system. THANKS MOM!!!!