Week 8

Adelie went on her first looonnnnggggg car ride this week. The car ride was torture alright, and she slept most of the way until we had about two hours left to go. That's when we hit construction, she was tired of being in her carseat and O ya, she had a massive meltdown.  Totally worth it to see her uncle Jory graduate from Lineman School in Trenton Georgia!  On wednesday AM we piled my granny, aunt Jo, Aunt Jam, Adelie and myself into my car and followed my dad and gma Carol severalhundred miles south and turned around friday AM and made the trek home. We are exhausted to say the least.  Since we wanted to make as few stops as possible I opted to feed Ads formula. We have been supplementing when I am out shooting or on the go. Great idea in theory, not so much in reality. The specific formula we choose, sensitive on the tummy yada yada. It really hurt her tummy. Adelie is the most non fussy baby there is and the poor little munchkin was extremely sad. I could tell she was in pain and her quivering lip broke my heart :( However, once we switched back to straight breast feeding she was right back to her normal happy self! Knowing that I was going to have to supplement due to my busy schedule we tried a new formula on Saturday night when Babes stayed overnight for the first time so B & I could enjoy a night out to celebrate our 3 year anniversary :) It was tough.  We talked about her countless times and contemplated picking her up several times but I made it until 8:30am the next morning.  It was fun to have some grown up time, but I realized two things.

1. I am now a very VERY cheap date.

2. Being at home with Adelie is SO much more fun than any bar scene.

Tuesday Ads friend Natalie came over to play!!

If you have never tried Kale chips, you must! They are like a healthy potato chip! And for a fraction of the cost!

First stay at a hotel! Chattanooga TN

On tuesday I had a Midmomcrisis. 

I didn't think I would miss my belly button being pierced, but I was wrong. So Adelie in tow I marched into this little joint called the Screaming Needle<--yikes and some guy with a few an ungodly amount of tattoos and piercings shoved a needle through my bb.

Happy 3 year Anniversary Honey

Definitely did a #pumpanddump the morning after our date night. Contemplated giving it to the dogs so it wouldn't go to waste. But I didn't. Don't worry. ;)

Age:  8 weeks

Weight: 12lbs

Height: 22 inches

Eating: She is eating about every 3 hours. 90% BF 10% formula when at home. When we're on the road it's about 50/50

Baby's Sleep: Sleeping great! If she wakes up I usually just give her, her binky and she drifts back asleep.

Mom's Sleep: Still Sleeping great

Milestones Reached: She turns her head and follows me, immediately stops crying when she comes to her momma. Almost rolled over from her back to her belly and I didn't have my camera so i pushed her back to her back. She never tried again.... #waytogomom

Nicknames: Ad's, Babes, Miss Ad's,  tootsie, sweetie, sweetie sugar tootsie sugar sweetie bottoms

Week 7

Adelie and I are becoming quite the crafters! You should literally see our craft house corner, it is overflowing with sequins, felt and all kinds of girly trinkets! This week we played around with different headbands and onesie designs and drove out into the middle of no where to pick up some amazeball furniture for me to paint. And yes. I did sell them. I have this terrible problem of buying fun pieces, redoing them in fun colors and deciding they look best somewhere in my house. I may or may not definitely have a furniture painting-sequin glueing-pretty things making obsession.  Perfectly enough Babes is right on board with all of this. Brandon....not so much..UNTIL I started actually selling the things I was creating. Now he's all about it ;)  One of the biggest things that happened this week was Saturday when Brandon had Ad's all day long! (I had a wedding!) I had only pulled into the parking lot when I got the call from Brandon that we were out of milk in my frozen stash in the freezer. son-of-a. Long story short he had to take Babes into the store and buy formula. #waytogojacee She actually gulped it down no big deal! Phew. The other HUGE thing that happened was her sleeping straight through the night, three nights in a row!!! Now she's an awesome sleeper anyways but holy crap. You go Babes! 11p-7am

((Insert Happy dance here))

DID I FORGET TO MENTION IT WAS SHARK WEEK!???

She thinks those birdies are the funniest things ever!!

Mama's new MAC

Another one bites the dust.

Lewis has officially chewed up the majority of her binkies.

Age:  7 weeks

Weight: 10.3lbs

Height: 22 inches

Eating: She is eating about every 3 hours. 90% BF 10% formula

Baby's Sleep: Sleeping great! If she wakes up I usually just give her, her binky and she drifts back asleep.

Mom's Sleep: Sleeping great, I am too too knock on wood this continues. blessed with this girl

Milestones Reached: She notices things dangling from her play yard,  carseat, swing and bouncer! She laughs at them throughout the day. She also notices our faces from a greater distance

Looking forward to: Our 10hr car ride down to Georgia to watch uncle Jory graduate! 

Nicknames: Ad's, Babes, Miss Ad's,  tootsie, sweetie, sweetie sugar tootsie sugar sweetie bottoms<---i have no idea

Week 6

This week was a HUGE week for the Beck family! I was finally able to let the world know that I will now be taking pictures full time! I am now a  STAY-AT-HOME-MOMTOGRAPHER!! Seriously could not be happier! Saturday was also my first wedding back! I dropped the babe off at G&G Beck's house because Brandon was golfing in a tournament and headed south to the wedding. Hardest drive I've had to make in a while, but once I was there, I quickly got right back in my element and was fine, until I checked my phone and saw her picture. Or received one of the numerous texts from my mil with her picture attached. or the drive home...ha. In all seriousness, everything went great :) Brandon picked her up after he was done golfing and I got home a few hours later :)  100% loving being at home with this cutie, taking pictures on the daily and crafting to my hearts content!

Thank you Brandon!

What a great Hubs

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We are LOVING these slippers!!

When I take a shower, the boys babysit :)

Our new headbands for Notre Dame Football Season!! Go Irish!!

The day Adelie decided she didn't want to be put down. At all.

She realllllyyyyy loves her cootie

And her doggies

Our favorite part about bedtime :)

Age: 6 weeks

Weight: 10lbs

Height: 22 inches

Eating: She is eating about every 3 hours. 100% BF

Baby's Sleep: Sleeping great! Waking up about twice a night to eat, and i usually change her the second time she wakes up. 

Mom's Sleep: Sleeping great, I am too blessed with this girl

Milestones Reached: She is getting MUCH more vocal, she loves sitting up and staring around, she's really starting to notice the toys hanging on her carseat/crib/swing

Outings: To mom's 6week Dr. apt, which went just fine :) and to grandmas for some much needed cuddle time :)

Nicknames: Ad's, Babes, Miss Ad's,  tootsie, sweetie, sweetie sugar