Life With Lyla: 3-Month Update
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Our Lyla Brooke is 3 months old! Time sure is flying and I’m trying to savor these moments as they come. Time is a thief, and I hate how quickly our baby girl grows up. On the flip side, I’ve loved watching her reach new milestones with each passing month.
Life With Lyla: 2-Month Update
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Lyla turned 2 months old yesterday! I can hardly believe it’s been that long already! It feels like just yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital. Our little girl is thriving though! Last Monday, she started daycare and she’s been doing amazing! On the other hand, I was crying before we even left the house. Thankfully, they sent pictures throughout the day, which helped A LOT! Her daycare teachers are wonderful and they told us that they’ve never seen an 8-week-old smile so much. This makes my mama's heart so happy!
Life With Lyla: Weeks 3-5
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I hope you all are doing well! I am back with another Life With Lyla update! As all new parents know, life with a newborn can be a bit chaotic. Kent and I are hanging in there though! As crazy as life is, we love learning about our girl and seeing her grow with each passing day. Here is what Lyla has been up to the last few weeks!
Life With Lyla: Week Two
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I hope you are all doing well! Another week has passed with our sweet girl! Kent and I are learning fast how to survive on little to no sleep. Lots of caffeine for him, and don’t ask me how I’m surviving because I literally have no idea! Haha! I wish I were a coffee drinker in times like these, but I’ve never been fond of the taste. However, I’ve managed to power through sleep deprivation. I might be half asleep while showering or nodding off during a feeding session, but I know she will only be this little for so long so I am trying to soak up every minute of it.
Second Trimester Recap
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How are you doing? I’m officially in my third trimester! Yay! We have less than 12 weeks to go which both excites me and makes me nervous. We’ve made a lot of preparations for baby girl, but I still feel like there is so much left to do! And let’s be honest, no parents to be are ever 100% ready. It will be a huge adjustment and take time to establish new routines. However, I’m so excited to meet our little girl and I can’t wait to hold her! :)
Second Ultrasound | It’s a Girl!
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I hope you are all having a good start to your week! If you have been following along on social media or saw my Gender Reveal Video, then you know Kent and I are expecting a baby girl! We had our second ultrasound on March 4th, and it was amazing to see how much she’s grown! Throughout the whole appointment, she remained positioned on her side, which made it difficult for the ultrasound tech to get clear pictures of her spine and kidneys. However, from what she could see everything looked healthy! Our little girl was also a little camera shy on this day and kept putting her hands and feet up by her face. Our ultrasound tech was able to get a couple of face pictures, but she was using my placenta as a pillow so we could only see about half of her :) At one point, I was nervous we weren’t going to be able to find out the gender since she kept moving her legs up, but luckily she moved enough for us to get a clear picture.
First Trimester Recap
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I can’t believe January is almost over! Does anyone else feel like this month flew by? As we move into February, I wanted to take a moment and do a recap of my first trimester. Every pregnancy is different and I feel very fortunate that my first trimester was fairly easy.
Our First Ultrasound
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I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Kent and I were fortunate to have Monday off in honor of MLK Day, so we spent the day shopping for a few home items and binge-watching a Netflix show. Have you guys watched Archive 81 yet? If you like mystery thrillers, it’s worth giving it a watch. It was a little hard to follow at times, but I thought it was good overall. Kent and I love these mysteries because we enjoy coming up with our predictions on how we think the show will play out. We enjoy seeing if our predictions are spot on or if we're completely wrong, haha.
How I Told Kent About The Baby
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Happy Friday! How are you all doing? Aside from the waves of tiredness that pregnancy has brought on, I’m doing okay. Today, I wanted to take a moment and share how I told Kent about the baby. If you watched our reaction video, then you’ll know that I didn’t film Kent’s reaction. I did this for a couple of reasons. One, I had a feeling if I pulled out my camera that he would know immediately something was up. Two, the more I thought about it, I really wanted that moment to be an intimate moment between the two of us. After all, it is our first baby and a special time. I wanted to take it all in without focusing on recording.
We’re Pregnant!
The day was November 17th, 2021. It was a Wednesday, and I remember sitting at work preoccupied with my thoughts. I couldn’t focus on anything except that my period hadn’t come. My cycle has always been regular. Could it be? Is this the month? We’ve only been trying for a few months. Am I sure I’m ready to be a mom? All of these thoughts anxiously crept into my mind as I waited for 5 o’clock to come.