My sunshine

We recorded Daisy singing a new song. This time "You are my Sunshine" 

Enjoy!

3 Months

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Daisy from the past month:

Last time wearing her newborn clothes

Visiting with Auntie Caroline

Wearing the jacket and hat my mom made me when I was born

Enjoying a smooth car ride

Shirt says it all: Daddy's sweetheart

She actually fell over, but it looks like she is cuddling the bear

She loves to siting her bumbo!

She sits in the bathroom with me while I do my hair

Rockin her 3 month sticker

The camera distracts her now and she won't smile

Cutie pie :)  

Baby hand and foot print

Materials:

clay

plaster

plastic strip about 12 in long

ribbon

2 plastic straws (like from McDonalds)

flat surface

sandpaper 

Elmers glue

Steps:

1. Soften your clay so that you can roll it out onto a flat surface and be able to push a hand or foot print into it easily.  Some clay might need extra water to make it soft. 

2.  Wrap the plastic strip around the outside of the clay.  Make sure the plastic is taller than the clay, at least half an inch. 

3.  Press your babies hand and foot into the clay so that it leaves a nice imprint. If you mess up, it is easy to smooth over the clay and do it again.  

4.  Stick your 2 straws through the clay near the top.  These will leave holes in the final product to let you pull ribbon through it so you can hang it up. 

5. Pour the mixed plaster over the clay making sure it doesn't flow over the plastic strip.  

6.  Allow plenty of time for the plaster to dry.  I let mine sit for about 4 hours.  

7. Carefully remove the plastic strip from the outside border.  

8. Slowly peel off the dried plaster.  It'll have a nice thin layer of dried clay on top of it showing the details of the prints.  At this time you can also remove the straws.  

9.  If you want, you can use sand paper to soften any rough edges that the plaster or clay have made. 

10.  Use Elmers glue to glue your ribbon to the outside of the final product.  Ribbon looks a lot nicer than just white plaster.  

11.  Tie some ribbon through the straw holes, and your project is ready to hang!  

Optional:  Before you pour the plaster over the clay, you can write anything you want (Date, name, etc).  But just remember you have to write it completely backwards.  If you don't, the final product will be backwards instead!!  So my advice is to write what you want on a plain white piece of paper, then hold it up to a window and trace it.  It'll be good practice, or you can use it as a stencil.  

Twinkle-twinkle

We have found out that Daisy loves music!!  I played my cello for her the other day and she absolutely loved it. She was smiling and singing back the whole time. And when I sing to her she likes to sing back.  It is the most adorable thing ever.  I recorded her singing her version of "twinkle-twinkle little star" so you all could see.  Enjoy!

Our little sweetheart

I guess like any mom would, I wanted Daisy's first Valentines Day to be special.  But I honestly had no idea how to make it special for a girl who is not even 3 months old!  Luckily, I got some help from family.

Not too long ago Daisy got a cute little Valentines Bear from her Grandma Mitchell.  She loves it!  When Matt is at work, I'll get her bear and let her play with it (even though she really just stares at it and smiles).  I try to make it fun for her by making it dance, or use weird voices.

My mom, Grandma Breffitt, got Daisy some really cute outfits as her Valentines present.  She looks so cute in them!!! And they are warm which is perfect for all this cold weather we've been having lately! 

It looks like she has no neck, but she is just getting SO chubby!!!  I hope she stretches out a bit! 

Daisy got a nice pair of PJ's in the mail picked out by her Uncle Andrew.  Matt especially loves them because he always calls her his "little monkey." They look so adorable on her! 

I went to target the other day to hopefully find some jackets or sweaters for Daisy to keep her warm, but they don't sell jackets by themselves for babies her age, so I had to buy a whole new outfit.  I bought her a cute little outfit just for Valentines Day.  It says "Daddy's sweetheart" on the front.  Perfect!!!  

I don't have a picture, but while Daisy was asleep I traced her hand and made a card for Matt.  On the front it said "Daddy, guess how much I love you?"  Then when you open it up, it was a long strip of paper connecting the 2 cut-out hands that said "This much!!!"  It was cute, and a good keepsake of how small her hand is now.  

But overall I think Daisy's first Valentines Day turned out pretty special. She is by far the cutest valentine I've ever had :) 

Play day

Today I baby-sat for my friend Melinda.  Allie is about 3 years old and the cutest thing ever.  In their house they have a play room so I took Daisy and Allie up there and they played for a bit.  It was so cute seeing how excited Daisy got around all those toys.  Many of them were for older kids, but they had some that were great for Daisy to play with.  Here are some pictures of her playing:

I want to get one of those car things like she is sitting on.  She loved it even though she tended to tip over every now and then.  The greatest part of play time was when Allie would sing to Daisy.  She would sing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle.  She kept singing those two songs over and over.  So cute!  I wish I would have recorded it, but it was just making me laugh so much, I forgot!  

After I was done baby sitting, I had to go pick up Matt from work, but while we were waiting for him in the parking lot, Daisy was having fun playing with her little bird on her carseat.  I recorded a video of it: 

 

Since I baby-sat for Melinda, she "paid" me by giving me their old Bumbo.  So when we got home for the day we put Daisy in it right away and SHE LOVES IT!!! She loves being able to sit up and just look around at everything.  And the best part is she would hang her arm out the side like she was cruising down the boulevard with her hand out the window.  

Then She got tired of sitting up, leaned over and started sucking on it.  Cutie pie. 

Love from Grandma Mitchell

Daisy is so lucky to have such a wonderful grandma like Grandma Mitchell!!  She sent a box to us with little things for everyone. We got some lovely handwritten cards, yummy smelling candle, some snacks (I'm a HUGE snacker!), an out fit for Daisy and a cute bear for her too.

Here are some pictures of Daisy with her gifts from Grandma:

So here's to you Grandma Mitchell, WE LOVE YOU!!!  And thank you so much for the great package :)  

First time sick

Daisy is only 11 weeks old and is already sick.  My poor baby!  She had a little bit of a fever the other day, but we gave her some infant tylenol and it went away.  But now she has the stuffiest nose.  I've been using the nose bulb on her a lot.  Luckily her snot is runny and not too sticky, it makes them easier to suck out.

I worry about her the most at night.  I haven't been sleeping well because I just want to make sure she is okay. It's so hard for her to breathe and I don't think she is used to breathing through her mouth.  So every now and then I'll hear her sniff in too much snot that she coughs on it.  And the other night it sounded like she was weezy a bit too.

Since she has been sick, she has been sleeping a lot during the day because she doesn't sleep well at night.  Sometimes it's been hard for her to fall asleep in the swing, so I'll just sit on the couch and hold her.

Since her nose is so stuffy, she has been sneezing a lot too.  Every time she sneezes I quickly get the bulb and suck out some of the snot.  It seems to come out a lot better then.  But other times I don't need the bulb because she sneezes out the snot herself (leaving her with a snot face...kind of funny actually)

She is starting to get a little better.  I'm glad she only has a stuffy nose and isn't in any pain.  I know it's hard for her, but it could have been a lot harder.  She is still my happy little baby who loves to play and smile.  Yesterday she even started laughing! It was the best thing ever hearing her laugh!!!  It was the first time I've heard her do it, and I can't wait to hear it some more.  It was simply so precious :)