2 Months old!!!!

Our baby girl is 2 months old. Here are her 2 month stats

• Weight 11 lbs 12 oz - 75 percentile
• Length 23 inches - 75 percentile

She is growing so fast. I know I promised some pictures last week but I just haven't had a chance to upload them. I am finally going to be sending out birth announcements in the next couple of days. Better late than never, Right??

Ainsley got her first set of vaccines today. It was not fun for her or me. Patrick usually goes to the doctor with us, but he is out of town, so it was just the girls today. She was in the best mood this morning, just smiling and laughing. Then they gave her five shots. She started screaming, it was the saddest little cry. I almost cried. I just knew she was thinking "mommy why are you letting them do this to me?" and that killed me. Next time its daddy's turn because I don't think i can do that again.

Well I do have a little bit of a funny story that happened on Wednesday night. It has been raining down here all week, and Wednesday evening the rain had stopped and it was pretty cool outside, so we decided to take Ainsley on her first walk. We put her in her umbrella stroller since she can hold her head up now and its a lot cooler than the big one. We put her mosquito net on the stroller and we were ready to go. We walked down to Deer Lake and just hang out for a little bit. As we were getting ready to go back home, Maverick found a stop on the side of the road where some animal dug up a turtles nest. There were little baby turtles all over, but they were dead or so we thought. One turtle appeared to be moving, so Patrick picked it up. It was Alive!! Patrick took it over to the water to rinsed him off. He said that the turtle looked okay and that we could take it home. While we were focused on washing the turtle, Maverick ran back to the nest and grabbed a dead turtle and processed to eat it. Maverick has a very weak stomach, I mean very very weak stomach. Sometimes he even throws up his special dog food. He frequently leaves up little surprises all over the house. This is not a dog that can just go around eating dead things, and he ate a dead turtle. Patrick tried to get it from him but it was too late. After that we started back home. Maverick was lagging behind and I turned around to see why. I saw him pretty far behind up rolling all around on his back. Patrick went over to see what he was doing and discovered that he was rolling in a dead skunk. Yes, that's right, I said SKUNK. I was like "you have got to be kidding me, what else is this silly dog going to do". He smelled awful, that is definitely a smell like no other. I knew they had some products at Petco, but I wasn't sure how late the were open. I was praying it was until at least 9pm because it was already 8:15. We got home and Maverick decided to dart in the house as we walked in. Patrick literally threw him out the door. I grabbed my purse and headed to Petco to get some Shunk odor remover. Let me tell you, that stuff is a miracle. The smell was instantly got, once Patrick put it on him. All in all it was a pretty interesting evening.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Life has gotten a little busy with me being back at work and having a baby, a husband and a dog to take care of. I have decided that I am going to try to at least post once a week so I can keep everyone updated on Ainsley and our life with her. I've also decided that I am going to post a picture of her each week so that everyone can see how much she is growing. I don't want anyone to miss any part of her life just because we don't live close. She is getting so big, everyday she seems to be a little bit bigger and I'm starting to understand why they say that "they grow up so fast". Its because they really do. It seems like just yesterday that she was born and now she is almost 2 months old. She is really a good baby, we got so lucky. She's always happy. She only cries when she is hungry and even that is rare. She has finally started to increase the amount of hours she is sleeping at night (knock on wood). I don't want to jinx it. Last night she slept for 8 hours. Of course, I didn't sleep for eight hours, because I still have to get up every 2 hours to check on her. We've been taking tons of pictures of her, and I want to post them all, but I just don't have time. My mom and sister found this website called snapfish.com. Its very cool because you can upload your pictures to this site and then you can share the photos with your friends and family. All you have to have is their email address. Also, once you share your photos, those people can order copies of your pictures for only 9 cents a print. That's a lot cheaper than walmart or Walgreen's. If you would like to be on my list of people to share photos with, please email me at redsrt@gmail.com and next time I upload pictures I will share them with you. I had planned on doing this post last week after I took a bunch of pictures of Ainsley, but I just didn't get to it. So here is her 7 week old picture. I'll post her 8 week old picture tomorrow. We love and miss you all.

What else can happen this week??

So Ainsley has been in daycare for 2 days and she has already been exposed to the chicken pox. Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but what can you do. Hopefully everything will be ok, because Ainsley didn't interact with the girl that had them, but of course we are still worried. So far she is fine, just pray that she stays that way. I wish that we could afford for me to just stay home with her, but that is definitely not an option. So for now we just have to pray that she will be ok.

Tropical Storm Edouard

Or as Patrick likes to call it, a rainy day with a name. I have to admit I was a little nervous about my first Tropical Storm, but it turned out to be pretty weak. About half of my coworkers didn't show up on Tuesday due to the storm, but really we've had worst thunderstorms. We got some rain, but that was about it. There wasn't even any strong winds. I kinda wanted something interesting to happen, but on the other hand I'm glad that nothing bad happened and that we didn't lose our power again.

Home Sweet Home....

So we were on our way home from New Braunfels on Sunday afternoon, when we ran into a thunderstorm in Montgomery. The wind was blowing really hard and there was a lot of lightning. When we finally got home the storm had passed but we came home to no electricity. This was the 2nd time in one week with no electricity. We went in and I fed Ainsley while Patrick drove around camp to see where the lines had gone down. After he drove around he called to inform me of all the damage. There were trees and limbs down all over camp. Two of which took out power lines and one just happens to be the line to our house. No exactly what you want to come home to when you've been out of town and you have a 6 week old baby. Patrick talked to Tom and he said he had already called the power company and that it would be a least 7pm before they could get to it. It was about 5pm at the time, so we decided to go get some dinner. We ran around and did a few things while we waited for the power to come back on. At about 9:30pm Patrick got word that there was still no power. So we came home got our things and headed down to conference center. It was a mess because we needed to get Ainsley's things together for her first day of daycare. Plus I needed to do some laundry before my first day back to work. Of course I didn't sleep well in those hard beds at the cabin, so I was pretty tired for my first day of work. We dropped Ainsley off and I headed on to work. Patrick was off so he went home to empty our freezers and take our food up to the conference center kitchen. By the afternoon we still didn't have any power so Steve and Laura insisted that we stay with them. By that time we didn't have water either because we are on a well system. So no power means no pump to pump the water. Needless to say I wasn't excited about having to spend another night away from my house and bed. We spent the night at Steve's and at about 12:30am Ainsley woke up. I got up to check on her and I heard something outside. When I looked out I saw 3 electric company trucks. I woke Patrick up and told him and he jumped up and went out there. By the time he got out there they had turned around. He chased them down the street, but done of them saw him. I told him that he needed to call him them and get them to come back. He went to his truck to get something and they had come back, so he took them and showed them where the breaks were. At about 3:30am he got a call saying that everything was back up and running. Finally, we were going to get to go home. Tuesday morning Patrick took all of our things back home and I got to come home to my house Tuesday afternoon. It was really good to be home.

A fun weekend!!

Look, We have a restaurant!!

This past weekend was the last weekend before I started back to work, so Patrick and I decided to go to New Braunfels. His grandparents live there and so we thought it would be fun to take Ainsley there so she could meet her other great grandparents. We also really wanted to go to Schlitterbahn. Patrick made plans for us to stay with his cousins in San Antonio and then they watched Ainsley while we went to Schlitterbahn. It was hard to leave my little girl for the whole day but I knew she was in good hands. Of course we called to check on her a few times just to make me feel better. We had plans to go to dinner with Patrick's grandparents after Schlitterbahn, but is was so late that we ended up just going back to his cousins house and going to dinner there. We went to a restaurant called Houlihan's. I thought that was so cool. It was a much nicer restaurant than I expected it to be. The food was really good. I had to take a picture of the sign so that I could prove that we have a restaurant named after us.

We had a great time with Patricks cousins and also at Schlitterbahn. Hopefully its something we will get to do everyone year.