sweet lucille

while we were in sandpoint, i finally had a couple minutes to take some real newborn shots of lucy. i tell ya, im just no pro at newborn shots! it's hard. i wish i would have just hired someone. but i am happy with how these turned out!

Lucy, 12 days old

Lucy, 14 days old

Lucy, 15 days old

i made kenzie be my assistant and i caught this while she helped calm lucy down.

how sweet are they?

the big brother

i love this series because it's just so sweet how enamored he is with her. he loves her little toes and fingers, he loves holding her, he LOVES to be a part of what we're doing. the way he interacts with her is absolutely adorable, it honestly just melts me. he would have sat in this chair forever if we let him, he just did not want to give her up, even when she was cranky.

max, 3 and a half. lucy, 14 days.

my boy. i'm so proud of him. he made me a mother, and there is just something so special about your first baby. i still can't believe he isn't THE baby anymore, but he will always be MY baby. =) Im just as in awe of him as I was when he was an infant; his sweet face, every little eyelash, dirty fingernails and feet, his perfect little lips. oh max, i love you. don't forget that, even though we are busy with baby sister. ok? the night before lucy was born, i came in while you were sleeping and snuggled up in bed with you and cried, and cried and cried. i was so excited to meet her, but i couldn't believe that days of just you and me were coming to an end. i dreamed my whole life of you, and you're our whole world. you're my little dude. i wanted to soak up every second of being just YOUR MOM. i can't exactly express what that time meant to me, but it was so special, almost sacred to me. as much as i'm absolutely loving this next phase of life, i will always savor our one on one time together and be so proud of my little man. i can't wait to continue to watch you grow into the big brother and amazing man you're already becoming.

Lucy, 13 days old

enter max: joining in on the fun!

he is sooo pleased with himself. obviously. haha!

sandpoint.

after one week of being at home with baby lucy, we decided to go on a little vacay. =) i had a reeeeally hard time deciding if i should go or not- on one hand i thought it would be crazy to fly with my ONE WEEK OLD BABY, but on the other hand, i thought it might actually be easier to go spend a week at the lake house with my whole family than stay at home alone with my two kids! i was right. the whole week was a complete breeze and so fun and relaxing! i had a houseful of entertainers for max and everyone looooved holding miss lucy. my siblings and parents were all there, plus my grandparents and some really great family friends that are more like my aunts and uncles. max and lucy were the only kids, so it was great! sometimes the house would get a little too busy with people in town visiting as well as my family that lives in town coming over, so i would just leave max playing with my cousin maddy and go sit in my room with lucy. i sat in my room a lot with mackenzie, feeding, changing and burping miss L while we watched shows on the computer or just talked. it was soooo fun and we had some great laughs! plus the lake house is just so peaceful. it was just what i needed.

here's my lucille, (10 DAYS OLD!!) waiting at the terminal for our airplane.

my auntie gretchen came to pick me up and i spent sunday at her house. it was sooooo fun! i never get to spend time with her it seems like. and we were so glad aunt debbie came over to visit too, she has the touch with newborns, i tell ya. i love my mom's sisters!

max had the best time playing in the lake with nana and bapa and "driving the boat." he thought he was sooooo cool!

max giving uncle tyler a ride!

the best was max swimming in the hot tub. he would put his goggles on and paddle around in there! he can totally swim under water short distances. it's amazing.

i was so happy lucy got to meet her great grandma marilyn. they spent lots of time together! max loves my grandparents too and calls them "deat dama and deat dampa" because he can't say his "G" sounds. =)

a RARE moment- lucy with her eyes open! i might be biased, but man is she beautiful. she literally would only be awake to eat and for maybe 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening. she slept constantly and was soooo easy. nobody could believe how content she always was! she really NEVER even cried. and i love this little shirt my mom got her, i had to make the headband just to match this. =)

me and kenz and luce at dinner

mackenzie elizabeth and lucille mackenzie! it's true love. i'm so glad we named her after her favorite auntie!

me, dad, and lucy.

i was so glad i got to come and spend time with my brother jordan, who is back from his mission in madrid! he served a truly amazing mission and we are so proud of the amazing person he has become. he has grown up so much... but you wouldn't know from this picture! haha! we had a fun little outing together hitting some thrift stores (our favorite!) and he couldn't resist trying on the jacket. =)

lucy and nana!!!! i am so so so so so lucky to have such an amazing mom. she stayed with me for a whole week when lucy was born and then took care of me for a whole other week at the lake house. she has absolutely done everything from making me food to blankets for lucy and helping me decorate. she is seriously the kindest, sweetest, funniest nicest girl and she is such a good example to me..... ugh. she. is. amazing. I LOVE YOU MOM!!!

do you just die over these pictures? lucy loves her BAPA!!!!

dear summertime,

is it really time to say goodbye? i feel like you slipped right through my fingers this year. you know, given the bed rest and the new baby and such. i know two toddlers who will especially miss the sun.

thank heaven for favorite aunties, who think of good games and turn beach towels into capes and silly things like that. max and heather ran around the backyard for probably an hour like this while she chased them! it was the perfect thing for a busy body boy who's mommy was on bed rest at the time. we love you kenzie!

lucy, 8 days old

get real. at this point, i'm basically just shamelessly bragging about my girl. i love her, and to me, pictures are love. so here's to more of that. love. and pictures too. =)

oh, and the picture of lucy girl making her kissy face? it's her signature move. she makes that face all the time and we just die over it every time! even max will say, "baby sister, she aaways do wike dis!" and makes the kissy face. i can't even handle it!

lucy, 7 days old

is there anything more beautiful than a sleeping baby? i could just eat her sleepy self right up. lucy just finished a biiiiiig meal and was so content i decided to snap a few pictures of her snuggled up on my bed. you would not believe what a heavy sleeper she is, she slept NON. STOP. for the first two weeks of her life straight.

example. my mom and i took her to the pediatrician's office when she was five days old. she was due to eat right before our appointment so i nursed her on one side while we waited for the doctor to come in. after the exam, the plan was to feed her on the other side while we sat in the car. ooooooh, no. we tried EVERYTHING to wake her up. rubbing her feet, tickling her back, i was DYING. my milk had just come in and i HAD to feed that baby. we literally stripped her NAKED and rubbed ice cubes from my water on her body while the AC was BLASTING!! i felt sooooooo mean, and guess what? IT DIDN'T EVEN WORK. =) oh, and my boobs? they exploded actually. thank you for asking.

anyway, here's my sweet girl napping the day away.

i especially LOOOVE the funny faces newborns make. i could watch her sleep for hours. she's just perfect.

lucy, 6 days old

at this point, lucy girl is still sleeping a LOT. and by a lot, i mean CONSTANTLY. so when she decided to wake up for like 10 minutes of her life, we had to hurry and bust out the camera to get a couple shots of those baby blues!

me and max holding our girl- he allllways wants to be the one holding her! he also had to use this tiger pillow every time he held her. it's his favorite! max is always looking forward to lucy being awake. one of the things he says the most about her is "She's awate??!" (weather she is or not) then he looks at her eyes and if they're not open, he kindly uses a finger to open them for her. nice.

of course the wakeful moment didn't last long, so when we wrapped her up to go back to sleep, max wanted to be wrapped up for a nap with her. and as you can see, he tried reeeeal hard to sleep too!

my sweet babies! you will notice that in 75% of the pictures of max and lucy, their faces are touching. that's because kissing and smelling lucy is max's full time job these days! he never, never, never get's tired of it. i'm not sure i can say the same thing for lucy though...?

Lucy, 4 days old.

I spy with my little eye...

Baby Lucy!

This is not an uncommon scene in our house. He just can't get enough of her! If she's sleeping, eating, crying, doesn't matter. Max wants to witness it all and be right next to her. He never really seems jealous of the attention she gets, but he does not like to share HIS baby with guests! But just look at her, I don't blame him! I love my pretty pink Lucy in her pretty pink blanket. Auntie Melissa and Tessa the gif brought it over and I just love it! Little Giraffe makes the softest blankets imaginable. Max has a blue one and he loves it still!

I can't even handle this blanket from Natalie- she knit it herself and it's GOOORGEOUS!

I had to snap a few pictures of the little lady wrapped up in it.

Note. I must learn to knit.

Sweet Lucille's four day old foot. So tiny and narrow, and those tootsies are LONG!

sweet dreams.

just a couple of nights after being home from the hospital, i laid in max's bed with both of my babes reading stories before bedtime. it just made me so happy to be the mother of TWO and i felt so peaceful and content to be right where i was in that moment. two babies snuggled in my arms reading curious george. i never want to forget that night, how right it felt, how happy i was, and how much the three of us were just loving each other and being together. i hope it's like this forever. my boy just loves when his baby sister lays with him in his bed. so do i. =)