365 Days...

So much can happen in one year.

ONE YEAR.

I can't believe I even typed that. Bailey was born at 1:17am on December 2nd. You can read all about that experience here :).

We stayed up until 1:17 the night of her birthday and snuck into her room to sing a very quiet Happy Birthday. Matt's version of quiet isn't the same as mine so she woke up. But I didn't complain about that one bit. I rocked and sung her back to sleep, and sobbed my eyes out.

365 Days. Day 1 felt like it would never get here. And it was blissful. She was the sweetest little newborn, and remains an incredibly sweet baby. Or I suppose I should say toddler since she's running full speed all over creation now. Day 4 I snapped her little foot inside of her onesie. **Facepalm** And around Day 217 I thought I would drop dead from sleep deprivation. But we made it! The three of us survived our first year of parenthood without more than a scratch :)

Matt worked late the night before Bailey's birthday. So poor Bean had to wait a few hours for Daddy to wake up before she could open her presents.



So she stared at them. And pulled the bows off :)



Touched every package...



And carried the smallest one around for a good half an hour :)



FINALLY!! Daddy was up and it was time for presents!!







At this point she needed help haha. So Mommy put the camera down and we played with toys :)
We then went to see SANTA at Bass Pro Shop.

Here we are getting ready to go see Santa. See my sweet happy Birthday Girl?





And this is how her first Santa experience went.



Not so great. She was NOT a fan. We decided to use her free kids meal coupon at Islamorada for a yummy grilled cheese. She LOOOOVES grilled cheese sandwiches :) Apparently on her birthday, she decided she hated grilled cheese. She even threw a piece of it at the back of some poor man's head! Her applesauce was dumped on the floor. She spit her milk out all over me, herself, and my sandwich. Then she decided it was a good idea to scream on the top of her lungs until we took her out of the restaurant.

Lesson Learned: Bailey HATES Santa.

All in all, restaurant melt down or not... Bailey had a wonderful first birthday. And her party was even better!! :)

Remeber.. November :)

Since I've been battling morning sickness since the end of October, Matt and I made a deal. If I got all of the wet ones- he would get the stinky diapers!! It only lasted for a week and we went back to our old "you get one, I get one" deal. But I had to document the present she gave Matt for his first turn!



Impressive huh? She truly is her Daddy's daughter :)



We enjoyed some nice snuggles with Daddy.



And Bailey got her first Birthday presents in the mail! She loved ripping the wrapping paper off and had so much fun opening her presents from Aunt Jennie and Uncle Jake :)

*THANKSGIVING*

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. Both sides of our family got together at my dad's house and we had an awesome meal. Catie and Matt and a Turkey cook-off and each made a divine turkey :) I have never liked turkey one bit, and I thought both were awesome. It was the first Thanksgiving I've actually eaten turkey. I'm not sure if my sleepiness was from cooking the rest of the meal, washing the dishes, a tryptophan coma, or first trimester exhaustion. I'm attributing it too all of it. But all in all the food was great, the company was pretty enjoyable and Bailey's first Thanksgiving turned out perfectly!

Bailey got her first Ritz Cracker. They were a hit!

She was the first one ready to eat :)



Trying my pumpkin bread while I set the table and finished baking some of the goodies.



Turns out, she LOVES pumpkin bread!



Happy Thanksgiving love! <3 This makes 2 Halloweens and 2 Thanksgivings in a row that I have been pregnant. :) 37 weeks last Thanksgiving and 9 weeks this Thanksgiving :)



Daddy and his munchkin :)



"Look at all of my teef Mommy! Can I have some Turkey?"



Puppy kisses from Lipton. I'm sure he was licking some kind of food out of her hair.



Daddy on Stinky Duty!!!!



Little Monkey learned how to play the piano while we were at Papas :)
Looks like we may have a big purchase to make in a few years!



I have so many things to be Thankful for this year.
First and foremost my Savior. My amazing family and friends. My wonderful husband Matt Alt, my sweet little Bailey, and our Little Sprout!

SURPRISE!!!!

We got a big surprise in October- we are expecting again! :) We are so thrilled to be making Bailey a big sister. We were planning to wait another year or two, but Bailey and her little sibling will be 18 months apart :) We are so excited to be bringing another baby into our family. I am almost 16 weeks and we should find out whether Bailey will have a little brother or sister at the end of January.

Here is little Sprout at 8 weeks :)

October Catch Up

I am failing miserable at keeping up with the blog. Bear with me, there is a LOT going on in the Alt household :) Update BEGIN!!

We went to visit Daddy in West Virginia while he was working there for six weeks :) He worked at night, and slept during the day- so we tried to keep Bean quiet while Daddy slept. That ended up with us spending lots of time at the pool! :)



I did everything I could to tire her out so she would be nice and quiet in the hotel room. Looks like it worked :)



At home we did lots of fun things to keep ourselves busy while Daddy was away! (Including trying to get Bailey used to the grass!) We went out to eat with Papa and Catie, spent lots of time with friends and went to Storytime at the Library :)



I did some crafty projects :) This is Bailey's re-vamped bow drawers. I finally got on the board with ModPodge! I see many more crafty projects to come!



I finally got Bailey to eat noodles!!! I have tried everything, tomato sauce, pesto, butter and parmesan, macaroni and cheese- finally homemade fettuccine alfredo with broccoli and chicken was a hit!



We had dinner at Papa's house :)



Daddy got home just in time for HALLOWEEN!!! I spent LOTS of time making Bailey's costume and I'm so glad it turned out as cute as it did. She looked precious and everyone got a kick out of our costume. Unless she was by herself- then they thought she was a bunny. Oh well. :)



It was freezing and Bailey was KNOCKED OUT after the ward Halloween Party :) But she had a blast and Mommy & Daddy ate all of her candy. Whoops!



Pumpkin I carved all by myself :)



Oh actual Halloween night it was rainy and cold outside! We went trick-or-treating with our good friends the Ramseys since Daddy was still at work. We lasted down one cul de sac and then took the babies inside!



October was a fun month of Mommy-Daughter bonding time, but we were so happy when Daddy came home!!