bonus pic post

forgot to add a few more pics to the post below...

ashlyn n mommy on 2/24/09


ash trying to eat my face yesterday


'yay - i heart my toes!'

4 mo appt

just a quick update, more as a note to self than anything else..

ashlyn had her 4 mo check-up on 2/25, which makes her actually almost 4 1/2 mo, but who's counting, right? anyway, she weighs 14lb 2oz and is 25" long, which puts her in the 50th percentile in both catagories. her head circumference is 16", so she's in the 75th percentile there.

the doctor said that ashlyn is the first ashlyn she's ever met, that she was her favorite patient of the day and was thrilled that she was her last...said she was the best way to end the work day :) she also said that she will be crawling before we know it based on her head and neck control, and the way she handles tummy time (which ash still doesn't love, but is getting better at every time we try it...she started rolling from her belly to back, too, which is super-fun to watch and hopefully i can get it on video one of these days). she said she's developmentally like a six mo old, which is awesome to hear and set my mind at ease about how she measures up to other babies i read about her age.

she said we can start her on cereal around five months if we want, but that exclusively breast-fed babies really don't need the additional iron (or anything else for that matter) until six months. when the time comes, we'll try rice cereal first for a few days, then oatmeal (both single grain). once she's used to both, we might do rice in the morning, oatmeal at night (as rice is a binder and oatmeal should loosen things up - the two will help regulate each other). orange veggies like squash and carrots will be introduced next, one at a time for 3-4 days before a new one is given, then green veggies and finally fruit.

obviously that stuff is for my own records, and what better place to put them, right? the baby book you say? hogwash...who has time to actually write something down these days ;)

in other news, ash used to think her fingers were the coolest thing on her body, then it became obvious that her tongue was waaaay cooler and she stuck it out and showed it off to everyone. now she has moved on to bigger and better things...her toes! she found them yesterday and thinks they are awesome!

and since i've been awful about posting pics, here are some from my cell phone from this month (since i'm not as good about taking them w/ my camera for some reason...shame shame, i know)...



ol' blue eyes


ashlyn's first valentine's day!


four month pics - pic of a pic taken w/ the cell


that warm day we had on feb 10...took a walk in the moby wrap

Baby Chicken Dance

Here's Ashlyn having a lil dance party with her aunties...

She'll be four months old on Friday and getting sooooooo big! I really hope to be able to blog more as time goes on, but things sure are pretty busy these days with baby girl to tend to. We'll see if I can start devoting a little time to it soon....
In knitting news, I finished her blanket FINALLY but of course haven't photographed it yet...soon, though. I think my next project will be a sleeve for my laptop...haven't looked up a pattern yet, though. Maybe I'll just wing it...any suggestions?

Happy Snowdays!

this makes me laugh...

what makes me laugh even more is that my sisters, brother in law and i were going to buy them to be funny until we realized that w/ shipping, they were $18/snuggie. we're dorks. and we know it lol

Happy Holidays!

Better late than never, right? Right.

Here's the birth announcement/holiday card we sent out this year (designed by my fabulous sister Melissa aka Auntie Shops for her obsession with buying Ash anything she wants - not sure if the baby knows what she wants yet, but Auntie Shops sure does lol)...


Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!

too busy bein' a momma to blog

ok, so i know everyone is asking for pix and details about ash's birth, but i seriously get online once every couple days and can barely read my emails, let along reply to them, and reading or posting blogs is out of the question lol

however, just to hold you over til i have some more time, here are some cute pics of ash taken w/ my cell phone starting w/ the most recent and working backwards...enjoy!

Our baby girl is here!!

Ok, so I know this post is LONG overdue, but being a new mommy is time consuming and exhausting, so blogging (reading and posting) has been the last thing on my mind.

And yes, I said being a new mommy...as you probably guessed, our lil pumpkin has been born!!! Our beautiful baby girl made her debut on Monday, October 13th at 6:23pm, weighing in at 7lb 13oz and measuring 20.5 inches long. She's the most wonderfully precious thing I've ever laid eyes on and I love her more than I ever thought I could love anything...seriously! We named her Ashlyn Sarah and our last name starts w/ H, so she is often referred to by her initials and planned nickname, Ash :)

I don't have time to post anything in the way of her birth story right now because my lil princess just woke up in her bouncy seat next to me and is going to want to eat any second now, but I didn't want another day to go by without officially announcing her arrival to the blog world!

More posts to come when I get back on the computer for more than two seconds at a time :)

Our first family picture just after Ashlyn was born.


Ashlyn in the hospital w/ her cute lil mohawk hair-do and proud Grandpa B (my dad) in the background.