3 Months Down...

I can't believe how fast the past 3 months have gone. It seems like we just brought Noe home from the hospital last week. The little lady turned 3 months old on Tuesday! If I had to guess I'd say she weighs somewhere around 16 lbs. I'll have to weigh us and find out.

I returned to work last week and Noelani started childcare. I found a wonderful woman that lives just a few miles from us here in Redmond. Her name is Tonya and she has 3 girls, Ava 6, Emma 4 and Sarah 2. Noelani loves watching the girls and seems to be enjoying her new friends. Fortunately my work is allowing me to work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a few months so we only need care for Noelani 3 days per week. I must admit I shed some tears the first morning I left her at Tonya's but I called a few times and was reasured she was in great hands. When I come to pick her up she has the biggest smile for me as if she's so thankful that I came back to pick her up.

Everywhere she goes she seems to make friends! Last week she even laughed...she's giggled a little once or twice prior to this but she was always sleeping. When I call her Lil Stinker she smiles really big and starts to laugh. Seeing her smile makes all the late nights and the waking up every few hours worth all the hard work.

Even though it's only been 3 months I feel like I can't imagine how I ever existed without her in my life. She truly is a blessing to both Ray and I.

She loves for me to hold and her jump up and down and as of recently is amazingly calmed by my rendition of Itsy Bitsy Spider rolled in with a little Twinkle Twinkle.

I've included some pictures of our most recent trip to Bainbridge Island to see Auntie Tamera and cousins Spencer and Teia.

As you can see we finally got the ladies together for their first of many photo shoots.


I can't wait to see these little girls grow up together!! Good thing they've got Spencer around to protect them and show them the ropes. :)

I can't believe Noelani is only 6 weeks older than Teia. In some of these pictures it looks like she could eat Teia!! I call them my 3 Amigos!!!

My parents are in Chicago today and having a wonderful trip. They are posting pictures and keeping us updated daily. I in turn have printed some pictures and have a picture of Papa and Grandma on my desktop and Noelani loves to look at the picture and smile. She misses them almost as much as I do...Almost! :)

I love this picture that we took the morning we met them for breakfast before they hit the road. She is so lucky to have such awesome Grandparents!!!