The Sweetest Girl

Lately we've been having fun with all of the developments of our little girl. She has rolled over, today she accidentally crawled, and as seen in the video below, loves to talk to her Daddy!

Teresa and Daddy decided to have a chat while Mommy was getting the bath water ready. Be sure to turn on your speakers and crank 'em up!

Moving

We've been spending most of our time recently either getting ready to move, moving, or unpacking. We have WAY too much stuff. Even after getting rid of tons of stuff, we still have too much. We just moved across town, to an apartment that is way less expensive, and not on the third floor. I definitely wouldn't recommend moving out of a third floor apartment in 102 degree heat! I felt a little guilty asking people to come help us, but we were lucky to have lots of volunteers show up to carry stuff down three flights of stairs. Anyway, I just found our camera again, and we've been having lots of fun taking pictures of Teresa. Poor baby has to deal with the camera flashing in her face all the time. She was so good while we were moving - she actually napped a good part of the moving day, which is unusual for her. She's doing some moving of her own - she rolled over on Friday. I put her down for some tummy time, and after a few minutes she started to complain about it. She stopped complaining not too long after that, so I looked over to see if she had fallen asleep. I was pretty surprised to see her on her back. She seemed pretty surprised by it as well :). She's also started sleeping on her side now, which I'm thinking she's not supposed to do. Here are some recent pictures:



I had been trying to decide whether or not I wanted to start pumping. Marc had bought me a pump right after Teresa was born, and ever since it had just been sitting on top of our entertainment center while I tried to decide whether I should use it or return it. I had pretty much decided against using it when I happened to read something about what a great bonding experience it is for Dad's to be able to feed their babies, etc...which made me feel kinda selfish for not letting Marcus have that opportunity. Here he is feeding her for the first time. (Actually, the only time so far, we've been freezing the rest). Anyway, the book I was reading about introducing a breast fed baby to a bottle had said that it would probably be a hard adjustment, and that someone other than Mom should try to get the baby to take a bottle, and to not get discouraged if it took a few tries for the baby to accept a bottle over her mom. I was a little offended when Teresa had no problem adjusting right away. Apparently I'm easily replaced ;).

The next few are just some of Teresa in her cute Sunday dress.



I love her face in this one!


She's so smile-y now, we love it! We love trying to coax a smile out of her when she wants to cry, she comes up with the awesomest (yes, grammar police, I know it should be most awesome...) combination's of smiling and crying. These pics are just regular smiles:

We've been enjoying a lot of this lately:


(sorry for the black and white, Marc changed the settings on the camera and I don't know how to change it back)

We were pleasantly surprised this week when Teresa decided to start sleeping 6-7 hours at night. Sunday night I put her down at about 8:30 and she didn't wake up until about 3:45. Causing us to have the following conversation:

Tara: Wait, is this the first time we've gotten up with her tonight?
Marcus: Umm...I think so...I don't think I remember getting up before now...

Our brains still weren't fully functional at that point I guess. Anyway, we figured it was just a fluke, since she'd had a pretty intense weekend, what with the blessing and all the relatives passing her around and such, but she's kept it up all week. She still doesn't nap very well during the day, but how can I complain about that when she lets us sleep so long at night? Here's hoping she keeps it up...

Blessing Day

We had Teresa blessed in church this past Sunday. We were excited to be able to have her blessed the same day as Ciaran. It was fun to have so much family in town as well. Marc's parents, and his sister Melissa and her family were able to come, and my parents, Fiona and Zac, and of course Aislinn and her family were there also. Unfortunately, Erin and Rob and their kiddos had already gone back to Poland, so we missed them. Teresa wore the same gown that all of my sisters and I were blessed in. Fiona and Erin's little girls were also blessed in it. Of course, she looked absolutely adorable in it ;)





After the blessing with Granny and Grandad...



and Gigi and Poppie



Mom holding her two newest grand babies



Ciaran tried to borrow Teresa's pacifier...