Updates

Millie started really sucking her hand these past couple of days. She is putting it in her mouth and going to town making all these cute sucking noises.

We have started trying to put her to bed earlier but not sure if it will stick with her. However last night she gave us the longest night sleep ever! Despite her long naps in the car ride home Sunday, she slept 8.5 hours last night! It was fabulous! We will see if our magic did the trick again tonight!

Millie smiling (video)

Gator Game Day

It was a great game although Millie and Mommy didn't attend. We had fun tailgating and enjoying the Florida campus (and FL heat!) Enjoy the pictures!
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Gatorrrrrrific! (slideshow)

As Tom Petty might say "I'm learning to smile"

Animal Kingdom and Disney Hollywood Studios (slideshow)

Tuesday (slideshow)

We did alot of hanging around today. Enjoy the pictures!

Epcot (slideshow)

Will write more later! Enjoy the pictures!

Chillin at the Gator Den (slideshow)

With the help of Grandma Terry, we packed up and headed to Gainesville. Millie did great under the circumstanes. She slept most of the way. We stopped for 2 feedings. She seemed to like the car ride. Enjoy the pics!

Gator Game Day

We went to Sidebar today to watch the first Gator game of the season. Millie slept for the first 3 hours of the game and then was awake for the end. She was very responsive and enjoyed all the man-handling of Mat's friends. Enjoy the pictures!

Millie has been pretty fussy in the evenings. It's been since birth and we have been struggling ever since. Grandma Terry got a taste tonight! She starts up around 6 or 7pm and crying about a whole lot of nothing. We haven't figured out what is going on. She eats almost once an hour or 2 and is crying the rest of the time. She takes 15 min cat naps at the most. Could be 1000 things but it's hard to get her calmed down. She is sleeping when we put her for bed but we haven't really figured out what's going on in the evening time. It could be cause she is sleeping so much during the day? Who knows but we will keep troubleshooting!

Heading on our first vacation tomorrow to Florida! We will be there for a week.
We will have to say goodbye to Grandma Terry. She has been wonderful this week! We are sad to see her go!

Millie is trying to smile!

I can't stop thinking that Mat and I made one cute kid! We still look at her and are like, holy crap! We made a human! It's so surreal...still!!

Mat made up these cute "house rules" for Millie.
#1. No crying when your eyes are closed (insinuating sleeping)
#2. No shooting poo or pee at Daddy (or Mommy) when they are trying to change your diaper. She has done this one several times!

I am still amazed at how "easy" breastfeeding is going. So glad about that.

Millie is starting to smile. I haven't been able to catch her on camera yet. It's so quick and I don't know if she knows she is even doing it! I will get one soon I hope.

Millie has fallen in love with the mobile above her changing table. Sometimes we put her there just to entertain her or calm her down if she is crying. She loves watching the monkeys spin around and around. Her eyes follow the monkeys. Today she was cooing at them for like 10 mins.

She is rolling her head left and right to see where certain sounds are coming from. She also follows you around the room with her eyes.

She is growing up so fast!

Today was another lazy day in Atlanta. Mat and I checked out another daycare this morning, Canterbery School. They have an opening so that is promising. It's the last daycare I have on my list to see. We are checking out a couple nanny or nanny-share situations. The ladies went for some errand getting a new coffee maker and other little things. Grandma Terry gave Millie a bath which she seemed to enjoy.

We took Millie to Trader Joes. I took her there a couple days ago and she flipped out. I didn't know what to do so I took her out of the car seat and played with her a bit. That didn't help so I just got her back into her seat and got outta the store ASAP! I figured we would try it again since Grandma Terry would be there. She did great until the end and she had had enough of Trader Joes. So no more trips to Trader Joes for Millie! Guess she doesn't like it!

Millie the Philly

Today Grandma Terry watched Millie so Mat and I could go and see some Daycare centers. We went to Kidzz First and Sheltering Arms. They are both close to our house which is nice. But we had problems with both. We are still figuring out what to do. We have a couple more to see tomorrow and the next day. Hopefully we will make a decision soon. It's a bit stressful since my days are numbered until I go back to work. Things will work out I am sure.


Sounded like Terry and Millie had a fun day of hanging out at home! We got an interested package in the afternoon. A trojan horse of sorts! Check out the pictures! A couple of coworkers also stopped by to meet Millie. I think Millie fell in love with Nicki's British accent! She thought it sounded familiar from Auntie Pavan! We all went to Bhojanic for dinner and Millie was great until the end. I don't think Indian food was her thing. Her diapers should be interesting tomorrow!

Comments

It has come to my attention that my comment feature has been turned off (Thank you Andrea!!)! I don't know how I did that but I turned it back on! Feel free to leave a comment to me, Mat or Millie! Let me know if you would like directions on how to do that!

1 month check up

Today we packed up and headed 1 mile to the doctors office. Dr. D gave Millie a clean bill of health. She is a healthy 8 pounds, 6 oz!!! Can you believe it? We had no idea she had grown that much. But we are excited for her! Her ugly butt rash came back a couple days ago so we have to continue with the ointment. But Dr. D didn't seem to think it was anything serious. We discussed her upcoming immunization shots, I am dreading those for many reasons. We go back at the end of next month!

Hopefully Mat and I will be able to go out and look at those other daycare centers tomorrow. If not, we will hire Grandma Terry for a few hours while we get some business done.

Sunday photoshoot

Today was a nice easy Sunday. After lunch with Uncle MO and Fluffy, we did a little photo shoot, see the pictures below. Millie had a great afternoon of lounging around awake. She is so pleasant when she is just hanging out and looking around. She doesn't need to be entertained. She tends to be a little bit more fussy at night, after 7pm or so.
I made some homemade baby wipes which was much easier than I thought it would be. Hopefully the will work and won't get stinky. They sure smell nice right now!
We are getting ready for Grandma Terry's arrival! She will get here on Tuesday evening.



Enjoy the slideshow!

One month old today!

No cake or ice cream but today Millie turned one month old! I am sure by 11 months this might get old but so far it's kinda fun celebrating your one month bithday!

Posh, but too posh?

Millie and I went for a walk this morning. It was a good walk, nice and cool. It's been so nice here in the past couple days. After our walk, Millie and i got ready and headed out for a lunch date with Antoinette and her son Will at 6 Feet Under. She was great until the very end and she had enough so we left. But she zonked out in the car and was nice and pleasant.

After Mat came home we went to interview a inhome daycare provider here in our neighborhood. Megan with Posh Tot Daycare. She is VERY close and seemed truly wonderful. She has a beautiful home that is open and spacious. Mat and I would have no problem leaving Millie there tomorrow if we needed to. Megan was very sweet, open, and honest. However her prices and way out of our price range. So we are going to have to talk about some things, see what we can do. We are going to a couple more daycare centers tomorrow. We will see where we stand after that.

Tonight we went over to Katie and Mikes to watch a movie poolside. We watched Oceans 11, the original. Millie did really well and seemed to enjoy the movie and the music.

Out and about around town

Today was an exciting day!

#1. Millie slept for 7 hours last night!! Woohoo! Maybe Neil and Lila spiked her bottle but she slept and it was really nice to get a full night sleep!

#2. Millie and I got up early to go on this stroller walk with a mom's group at Atlantic Station. Since she slept so long, her feedings were a bit off. I was worried because the walk fell in between her feedings. But she slept right through and we fed after the walk. The walk was less than a mile which made me question why we got up so early. Next time, I don't think there will be a next time. The real next time is going to be a walk around our neighborhood.

#3. We went for our first play date! I met Trish (daughter Kara) and Jen (son Jack) at the breastfeeding meeting I went to last week. Our kiddies are around the same age so we decided to meet up on the off week of the breastfeeding meeting. So today was the first play date! We all met at Jen's house along with Jen's friend Shanna (daughter Katie). It was really fun. The kids didn't do much playing amongst themselves but the mommies had a good time socializing!

That was our day!

Millie hits up CNN for some lovin'