It's a little dark, but still totally worth watching!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Aliyah is now 4 weeks old!
Wow, has time flown by! Our little Aliyah who started off so teeny is now 8 lbs 4 oz's and growing everyday. It's amazing to watch her grow and to be honest, it's a complete trip! We've literally watched her head grow! And her eye lashes! She is so amazing and totally loveable and snuggable.
She has learned to hold her head up for a decent amount of time and this morning she moved it to her left all on her own-so cool! She is discovering how her hands and her tongue work and she smiled at me yesterday in response to my smile!
And last night she slept through the ENTIRE night!- oh ya and I woke up at 6am, fed her and we went back to sleep until 9:30am! Very cool!
She has learned to hold her head up for a decent amount of time and this morning she moved it to her left all on her own-so cool! She is discovering how her hands and her tongue work and she smiled at me yesterday in response to my smile!
And last night she slept through the ENTIRE night!- oh ya and I woke up at 6am, fed her and we went back to sleep until 9:30am! Very cool!
Look at me life my head!
I'm smiling now!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Austin's Painting
Austin made me the most beautiful painting ever for my birthday (June 21st). Him, me and Aliyah, isn't it amazing?!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Aliyah is 2 weeks old!
Our 2 Year Anniversary!
Austin and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary yesterday, July 15th, 2008. It was such a great night. Grandma Mel came over and watched Aliyah while Austin and I used a gift certificate from our friends Meg & Ben to go to this nice Italian restaurant called C'Dario. It was so hard to leave Aliyah, I definitely stalled big time and then cried all the way to the restaurant. But once we were there, the Lord really blessed us with an amazing dinner. We had so much fun talking and encouraging each other, cracking jokes and eating amazing food! Austin, my super amazing husband, pulled out his journal and read some entries from when we first met. It's so amazing to see how we got to where we are now. We are so in love and I am so thankful for all that we have. I am blessed to be married to such an amazing man of God. We were totally designed for one another and being able to take the time to remember that was awesome! Thank you Mel for watching our baby girl so that we could fall in love all over again!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Aliyah's 1st Week
First of all, Austin & I are so blessed by friends and family for bringing us meals and checking on us to make sure we have everything needed.
This first week has been so much fun! Having a newborn is amazing, she is so sweet and fragile and the poor girl has to try to communicate to 2 people who have never done this through crying only. She does a great job and makes things very easy on us. She sleeps lots, usually through the night. I have to wake her up to feed her! She was having a hard time the first couple days waiting for my milk to come in, but thankfully my mom stayed 2 nights with us to help with rotations of making her little life a little easier. She is now a super happy, well fed little bug who still sleeps lots. But when she is awake, she is so much fun! She looks all around and makes lots of cute faces and is so curious.
Also,to make life interesting, our power went out periodically 3 of the 5 first nights. As our friend, Ander put it, "nothin' like roughin' it with a newborn" ;).
Austin's work gave him a week paternity leave and also a week from working from home so that he could be here to enjoy this new time in our lives. Thank you Postition Tech!
Pretty much our lives consist of breastfeeding, diaper changes, getting rid of gas bubbles in poor Aliyah (aka no more beer for Dara, sad days), Austin & Aliyah going on walks or sitting on the patio getting sun and Dara & Aliyah taking lots of naps. There is not much room for anything else, though we try. I try to get a call/email or two in a day and Austin is trying to get the Curtishots blog updated (blog.curtishots.com) before he goes back to work.
She loves to sleep like this.
Aliyah's 1st bath
This little outfit I thought for sure was going to be too small and is wayyyy to big, but she looks so cute in it anyways. :)
This first week has been so much fun! Having a newborn is amazing, she is so sweet and fragile and the poor girl has to try to communicate to 2 people who have never done this through crying only. She does a great job and makes things very easy on us. She sleeps lots, usually through the night. I have to wake her up to feed her! She was having a hard time the first couple days waiting for my milk to come in, but thankfully my mom stayed 2 nights with us to help with rotations of making her little life a little easier. She is now a super happy, well fed little bug who still sleeps lots. But when she is awake, she is so much fun! She looks all around and makes lots of cute faces and is so curious.
Also,to make life interesting, our power went out periodically 3 of the 5 first nights. As our friend, Ander put it, "nothin' like roughin' it with a newborn" ;).
Austin's work gave him a week paternity leave and also a week from working from home so that he could be here to enjoy this new time in our lives. Thank you Postition Tech!
Pretty much our lives consist of breastfeeding, diaper changes, getting rid of gas bubbles in poor Aliyah (aka no more beer for Dara, sad days), Austin & Aliyah going on walks or sitting on the patio getting sun and Dara & Aliyah taking lots of naps. There is not much room for anything else, though we try. I try to get a call/email or two in a day and Austin is trying to get the Curtishots blog updated (blog.curtishots.com) before he goes back to work.
She loves to sleep like this.
Aliyah's 1st bath
This little outfit I thought for sure was going to be too small and is wayyyy to big, but she looks so cute in it anyways. :)
Grandma Mel & Austin playing with Aliyah
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Welcome Aliyah Sky Curtis!
Aliyah was welcomed into the world Wednesday, July 2nd at 4:26am. She weighed in at 7 lbs 1 oz. and 20.4 inches. She is absolutely beautiful and we are so happy that she is here! Here are just a few of the pictures that we have taken...
Day 1
Snugglin' with mommy.
Proud daddy!
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She really loves her hands and is already interlocking her fingers, it's so adorable!
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Daddy getting her some sun on the patio.
This is just the cutest thing ever! She is so tiny that her hats are a little bit big ;).
Aliyah LOVES her daddy!
We'd love to have lots of visitors, but we're still getting used to things, so we're asking people to patient and promise that everyone can see her very soon!
Thank you all for the prayers, we definitely felt them during her birthday!
Day 1
Snugglin' with mommy.
Proud daddy!
She really loves her hands and is already interlocking her fingers, it's so adorable!
Daddy getting her some sun on the patio.
This is just the cutest thing ever! She is so tiny that her hats are a little bit big ;).
Aliyah LOVES her daddy!We'd love to have lots of visitors, but we're still getting used to things, so we're asking people to patient and promise that everyone can see her very soon!
Thank you all for the prayers, we definitely felt them during her birthday!
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