2 months old!

Our sweet girl is 2 months old! What a month it has been! She is such a sweet girl and is developing such a sweet personality! Below are some pics and recent milestones.

At 2 months Elizabeth is....

*cooing all the time. It often sounds like she is responding back to us. 

*smiling like crazy. She loves to smile and is starting to smile when we are acting silly. It's so great seeing her beginning to respond to us.

*drooling all over herself. I didn't know 2 month olds could drool, but she is!

*sleeping about 6 hours at night and taking short naps during the day. Ill take the long nights, though!

*eats about every 2.5-3 hours, averaging 3.5 to 4 ounces

*looks JUST like her daddy and even has some of the same expressions

*starting to track moving things with her eyes

*completely enthralled with her mobile. She will lay in her crib for about 20 min and just stare at it and laugh and smile as it goes around. Absolutely adorable!

Love,

Jenny

Life with Lizzie

Life with our sweet girl is so much fun! She will be 2 months old on Friday!? I can't believe it! She is developing such a fun personality. We've had a busy few weeks with family and friends coming to visit. Nancy, aka Nana Na Na, came and stayed with use for a week and we had the best time. Elizabeth and I were both spoiled and we miss her terribly! Last weekend my Grandma, Aunt Debbie, and Uncle Lee came to visit. We had so much fun playing, eating, and hanging out!

Here are some pictures of the past few weeks.

Love,
Jenny

Elizabeth June Triplett

Our sweet Elizabeth June Triplett was born on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 5:35 p.m. She was born on her due date (just like her mama!), she is very punctual! She weighed 6 lbs. 5 ounces. and was 19 inches long. My water broke at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. I had just been up about 30 min before going to the bathroom and went back to bed when I felt that the bed was wet! (TMI, sorry, you might not want to read further) I told Drew that I thought my water had broke and to get a towel. He answered "ok" and went back to sleep. I then, quite loudly, said again, "MY WATER JUST BROKE, I NEED A TOWEL!!". He then got the message got me a towel and we got our stuff and left for the hospital.

My contractions didn't start for another couple of hours. I didn't get my epidural till mid morning. It felt great and I thought that was that and I would just coast through delivery, wrong! To make a long story short, the epidural would not take very well on my left side. It would last for about an hour or so then wear off. Eventually it became evident that it was not going to work and I would have to just deal with the pain. I remember at one point Drew and I looking at each other when we both realized I would have to do this without the epidural fully working. Thankfully, he and my mom gave me amazing support. I truely would not have been able to do it without them. Going through this made me love my husband so much more and made me so thankful for my mama!

Elizabeth was born at 5:35 p.m. and they placed her on my belly and then quickly took her away because her cord had been wrapped around her neck. Thankfully, she was fine and her daddy stayed right by her side the whole time. The whole experience was very surreal. I was in a lot of pain and pretty delirious for a couple hours. However, I couldn't believe this sweet baby was finally here and that we were a family of 3! We had prayed for a baby for a long time, and God blessed us with this sweet blessing.

I can't believe it has already been 3.5 weeks since she was born! SO much has happened since then. We are adjusting to life with a newborn. I am starting to feel like I am a sane person again. ( I was a little concerned there that I was going to be crazy emotional forever!) There are moments of frustration when we don't know how to help her and then moments of pure amazement as we look at this miracle that God has trusted us with. I feel like it sinks in a little more every day that this is our baby and that we are really parents! It's a little scary, but I know with God's guidance, we will be just fine. Thank you for all your prayers, comments, meals, cards etc. We have been overwhelmed with so many blessings from people! What a wonderful example of the hands and feet of Christ!

Sorry for such a long post, I am going to try and update this weekly so family and friends can keep up with sweet Elizabeth! Below are some pictures of our journey so far!

Love,
Andrew, Jenny, and Elizabeth

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!

Hello readers,

Its only been 3 weeks since my last post! I'm getting better, right?? ha! Maybe not.

Anyways, It's been a gorgeous day here and I am finally sitting down to recap our fabulous Christmas. Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love everything about it, the decor, food, spending time with friends and family, and of course celebrating the birth of our Savior.

This year was a little different because we didn't see my family over Christmas. I know, I'm 26 years old and need to grow up a little, but that's another issue for another day. Thankfully we got to see all my family (minus Steph) over Thanksgiving.

We spend a week and a half in Kansas City for Christmas. Usually, we are only able to stay 3 or 4 days, so staying that long was such a treat. We truly had a BLAST! It was so wonderful to spend time with friends and family. AND Drew's family through us a shower!! It was so amazing. The decor, food, and gifts were incredible. We felt so very loved! Below are some pictures from Christmas and our shower! Enjoy

Me and Sylvia, I just love this little girl!  

Poor Sylvie, we kept her up very late!

Sienna and Drew enjoyed watching some movies, she was way too busy to get her picture taken!

Maryn on Christmas morning! She was so excited when she came upstairs!

It was so wonderful being apart of Maryn and Harrison's Christmas morning!

Williams/Triplett family! We missed Kyle, Hannah, and Vivi.

We were able to have lunch with one of my college roommates Lexi and her husband Eric! Love these two! Lexi is due two weeks before me with a little boy.

Yummy cupcakes and cookies that spelled out "Elizabeth".

The hot chocolate bar was so good on such a cold day.

Pops holding one of his grandgirlies

I love my hubby!

Everyone was making predictions on when Lizzie would be born and how much she would weigh.

Grant came up with a game where Drew had to guess the baby food. It was hilarious, I thought Drew was going to throw up!

Yuck! He was a trooper!

Our awesome gifts!

My sister in law, Melissa, made Elizabeth this gorgeous blanket. I cannot wait to wrap her up in it.

Grandma, Aunt Anne, and Sylvie

Sienna LOVED all the sweets at the shower! Uncle Drew might have given her a few behind her mama's back! ;) Sorry Krista!

Some of the fam!

Sorry for all the pictures and some of them aren't formatted correctly. Can't figure that out! Anyways, Elizabeth is due in 5 weeks from Tuesday! It's going to be here before we know it! We cannot wait!

Love,

Jenny