Natalie News...

I apologize for not posting more photos lately. But here is a cute one that I snapped the other night right before bed time. She's in her pj's with her "sleepy bear". Makes me yawn just looking at it!

Here's a brief update on what we've been up to lately:

• One major milestone (since we're on the subject of sleep) is that Natalie now sleeps in her own room, in her own crib, usually for 8 hours straight! She's great at going to sleep at night. We're still working on daytime naps. She gets very sleepy during the day and if she doesn't take at least a short nap every 2-3 hours, she gets cranky--and that's not a pretty sight.
• We've been working on the bottle thing (since I'm going to back to work in a month!). We've gone through 3 different types of bottles but she just plain doesn't want to have anything to do with it! Nothing compares to mommy I guess... I've researched some tips from other moms who've been there and I hope we can make some progress this week. Wish us luck!
• She's smiling more and more. Today she had a record number of smiles which was great because we were visiting Grandma and Grandpa Yost so they got to see her smile at them. She's also loving her "jungle gym" I told you about earlier and able to bat at the hanging toys and even get the music to play! She couldn't do that a week ago...
• This weekend we went to Monmouth to visit the Yost/Vyers clan. The whole family came to meet Natalie including her her great aunts Jane and Tammi, great uncle Jimmy and Char (and Char's great grandson Jackson), Aunt Shawna with cousins Jared and Chloe, daddy's cousin Brandy, and of course Grandma and Grandpa Yost. It was so fun to see everyone! We celebrated with a family baby shower and boy was she showered! Lots of cute outfits and necessities, even a new stroller! Unfortunately, we missed the Curtis Salgado concert down the street due to a blow out diaper and then a mini meltdown from all the excitement. She was much happier on Sunday though.
• Nat and I are going to attend our second "Baby & Me Pilates Class" this Thursday. We went last week and while I struggled to make my abs work again, Nat was content to lay by my side, obviously entertained by my lack of grace, strength and coordination. There were a dozen or so moms and babies in the class and while most of them cried, she was an angel the entire hour. She liked looking around at her new environment and at new people.
• Nat is scheduled for her 2 month check up at the doctor's next week. She hasn't been weighed since her 2 week check up, but I often get asked how much she weighs now. If I remember this week I'll attempt to weigh her on my scale. I think I'll have to hold her and subtract my weight which involves math, so who knows how accurate that will be! She's definitely getting chubbier, mostly in the thighs and cheeks. When I look back at her early baby pictures, it's amazing to see how much she's grown and matured in 7 short weeks!

Whew! That was a longer update than I anticipated sharing, but now you know what we've been up to. I have been testing out the video camera and once I figure out how to upload videos, I'll share a few with you.

xoxo