Just for Fun

I have been wanting to do a post about Everly's first bath that happened this past weekend - It was a whole family affair! But I still haven't taken the pictures off my camera yet - sheesh!! Last night I was looking through some of Aliyah's infant pictures and thought this was fun:

 ALIYAH

EVERLY

In 12 Days...

I’m fairly certain I’ve gone mad with love.

Not surprisingly, Everly likes to sleep. Which gives us plenty of opportunity to stare at her in wonder and say out loud about a thousand times a day “Isn’t she perfect?” and “I love her so much!”

Oh those lips - those sweet baby lips!!

The sisterly love in this house is just too sweet for words. The beginning of a beautiful forever friendship.

And our Aliyah. I can’t even believe how grown up she suddenly feels. She is becoming a little girl at a faster rate than ever before - and in twelve days she went from our only one to our “big” one. Our oldest. I am so grateful for every lesson she’s taught me so far about motherhood.

And that my friends, is what we’ve been up to for the past 12 days.

A Special Gift

Tyler and I were talking the other night and realized that our girls will have something we never had... a sister. and that is a pretty special gift - all siblings are.

One Week with the New Babe

I come to you feeling rested and insanely, over the top in love. I’ve spent the last week staring at my new little girl for hours, marveling at how suddenly grown-up my oldest daughter seems next to her, and using the phrase “our children” gratuitously.

I have so much I want to write about - our incredible birth experience, Aliyah's interactions with Everly, the way it has felt for my heart to quadruple in size and scope in the past six and half days - but I am feeling a bit tongue tied by the greatness of it all.

Physically and mentally, I’m feeling really good. My recovery has been drastically easier than it was with Aliyah and I have so much more confidence in my abilities to care for this tiny little being this go round. I feel like the first month of Aliyah's life was a blurry haze as I cautiously navigated my first lessons in mothering. But with Everly, everything has come more naturally and I am enjoying experiencing all of the tiny little newborn things that I had somehow forgotten (despite my efforts to soak up every moment).

I love the puppy noises Everly makes when she wakes up and stretches her tiny arms over her head. I love the little wrinkles she gets in the corners of her eyes when they blink and try to adjust to the daylight pouring in through the windows. I love the frantic, open mouth, back and forth motion Everly does when she’s hungry and knows she’s close to my breast. I love how impressively strong the grip of those tiny little fingers can be.

I know just how quickly this stage will pass us by and I am promising myself that I won’t forget these little newborn gestures again.

I’ll be posting sporatically over the next few weeks as I want to squeeze every last ounce out of this uninterrupted, completely devoted time I have with my family to do whatever my heart desires with my husband and children. Responsibilities and the real world will come calling again soon and I don’t want to miss the opportunity to make the most of the time we have.

And with that, I’m off to nurse my golden haired girl - I can hear puppy noises coming from my lap as I type this!

Aliyah Says...

We watch Aliyah pretend to pick up something and sprinkle it over Everly multiple times.

Me: What are you putting on your sister, Aliyah? Is it pixie dust? (She loves Peter Pan)
Aliyah: No. It's cookies and sprinkles

Hello Baby

Everly Jean Inzer
9lbs 15oz and 20.5in long
born at 11:30pm on Monday, August 13, 2012

Our divine little lady decided to join us late on Monday night. She came fast (I was only in labor for 2 hours) and on a beautiful cool night.

We’re so in love with her we hardly know what to do with ourselves. Sorry the blog has been so quiet - we have really been soaking up our time as a family of four before daddy goes back to work. More details and photos to come but I just wanted to share our beautiful girl with you!

Entertaining Ourselves

Silly Girls...