A long time comin..

Well it has been a while since my last post. Our internet has been down for like 2 weeks and we have been waiting for it to be back up and working. I didn't realize how much I relied on the internet until I didn't have it anymore. I felt like I had lost touch with the entire world! Anyway...
I can't believe that it has already been a month since Christmas. Time is flying and I have some catching up to do.

First off..

Abbey is now 3 months old! I can't believe how fast she is growing and how much she has changed this past month. I know it sounds silly saying she is only 3 months old, but it seems like she is just getting so big so fast!


Facts about Abbey at 3 months!



She is one smiley girl!


This picture kills me! She just looks so big!


She has the cutest shy smile.... well at least I think so, but I am a little biased


She loves bath time!


She is an excellent sleeper!



And she loves anything that lights up or is musical... which makes hearing that music all the time really fun for us! ;)

School Days...

Well my teaching days are over... for now. Back in December I made my final decision to not return back to work. It was a lot harder to make that decision than I thought it would be. I absolutely loved teaching and I loved working in the school where I taught. I had a really hard time saying good-bye to my students, but I know that I am so much happier staying home with Abbey. Growing up I always thought that teaching would be a great job to have while raising a family. Yours hours are good, you get summers off, plus all the extra days during the year, it always sounded so perfect. But.. really its not. Teaching to me is a 24/7 job. It is so hard to leave your work at work; at least it was for me! It is such an emotionally draining job, and it requires so much extra prep time that I really didn't know how I was going to manage being a wife/mother and a teacher. My time was going to be divided somewhere and when it all came down to it, I didn't want to miss anytime with Abbey. I have so much more respect for all those working moms out there. I spent 2 days at work in January and boy was I exhausted by the time I got home. Working and raising a family is one tough job, so hats off to all those working mothers out there! I will miss teaching, but most of all I will miss my interactions with the students each day. They brought so much joy to me each day and I sure will miss all the funny things they say, but I am so excited to be able to stay home with Abbey and watch her learn and grow as she gets older.

Holiday Catch up

We started off our Holiday family parties with a pre-christmas eve party with my family. We started this tradition a few years back and now it is one I look forward to every year! We always start off the evening with dinner and then it is followed by a rousing game of Christmas musical chairs, and let me tell ya it can get pretty competitive!

Here we all are, all set to play

There is never a dull moment when you are playing musical chairs!

Family Photo of the evening

All the girls in their cute little hats! Abbey was not too thrilled with it!
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Christmas Eve

Another tradition that was started a few years back was sledding with Cam's family on Christmas Eve Day. We didn't do much down hill sledding this year, but Abbey got her first sledding experience by having dad pull us around in the sled! wooohoo!!

Then it was off to the long running tradition of Cam's families Christmas Eve Party. Each year someone in the family is in charge of a Christmas eve story. This year it was Cam's brothers families turn and it was hilarious. We all sung the 12 days of Christmas as family members acted out each of the 12 days! Way to go Seth and Nikki, it was very creative!

Abbey's first gift exchange. Abbey gave to Halle

And Brittani gave to Abbey

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Christmas Day

Our Christmas day started out very unusual, yet very exciting. It started out by Abbey sleeping ALL NIGHT LONG!! Cam called it a Christmas Miracle! See Abbey was not sleeping well AT ALL prior to Christmas Eve. She was very colicky, and had bad reflux. So really the majority of the night was spent trying to get her to stop crying and fall asleep, and coming up with ways of propping her up so she could sleep without the reflux bothering her too much. Well my Mom heard from a family friend about these beds they were making for infants now with colic, reflux, gas... you name it. Everything that was keeping both me and Abbey up at night. Anyway it is called a Nap Nanny and it is worth every penny let me tell you! Ever since she has been sleeping in her Nap Nanny she sleeps all night and is a much happier baby during the day! I love this thing more than sleep itself right now!

Abbey just sleeping away on Christmas morning!


Smiley girl after a good nights sleep!

Abbey was also 2 months on Christmas.

2 months stats
10 lbs 4 oz.- 50th percentile
21 3/4 " long - 30th percentile

Christmas family Photo

Christmas nap with Dad!

Also over Christmas I was able to get together with some friends and their little girls. It was crazy how many of us welcomed new little girls into our families this year! They are all going to be so close in age it is going to be so much fun in the years to come!

Us and all our cute little girlies!

Blessing

We had Abbey's baby blessing a couple weeks ago. It was such a good day. I was worried that she was just going to cry through her whole blessing, but she didn't even let out a peep. Cam said she was just wide awake and content as ever while he blessed her. He did such a great job, and I am so thankful to him and everything that he does for me and Abbey. I didn't think it would be such an emotional day, but I have never felt more blessed in my entire life. I just couldn't believe how blessed I am to be the mother of my beautiful baby girl. She is absolutely so precious to me and I really don't even remember what life was like without her! I am so excited to watch my little girly grow up and to be apart of her special moments ahead.

Here are a few pictures from the day.

Us with great grandma ad Grandpa Tait

Me and my little girly

Me and Abbey with all her grandma's! She is one lucky girl!


Our little Family

1 month!!

** This post is a little late for her 1 month posting, but it just took me so long to finish it!

I can't believe that my little baby girl is already 1 month old! She is changing so much every day! She is still trying to get her nights and days all figured out. Some days I think she is finally got it and then somedays she is just a wide eyed little girl at night. She is a bit colicy and has a little bit of acid reflux, which makes for some unhappy moments for her. It just breaks my heart to see her cry, so I just savor the moments when she is just so peaceful and content! Just so I remember here are some facts about Abbey at 1 month.

*She loves to snuggles and be held, and we love to snuggle with her.

*She is starting to make eye contact with people and will just stare you down if you talk to her.

*She loves to just lay on the floor and look around and will stare at lights forever!

*Her hair is growing by the day, and getting lighter also!

*She loves to take baths.

*She loves to be bounced.

*She is a very sound sleeper.

*She finally grew out of 1 newborn outfit, but still won't fit into very many 0-3 month old clothing.

*She loves her car seat, which makes traveling from Logan to Salt Lake very nice. We will cross our fingers that it will stay that way.

*We still can't decide who she looks like more, me or Cam. She resembles us both very much from when we were little.
*She makes the funnest faces while sleeping and when awake and cracks me up with her faces every day!

*She has a love/hate relationship with her swing and her binki.

Here are some pictures from the past month.

Snugglin' with Dad

Swinging contently

I just love this picture, I just can't get over her

absolute cuteness!!

Wide eyed after a bath

These are just rare moments with her eyes open.

I realized when I went through pictures of her, that usually

all the pictures I have of her she is asleep. So I was glad when

I found these two!


And this is how Dudley feels about her!

Thanksgiving!!

I just couldn't get enough of this girly in her turkey outfit!

Snugglin' with Aunt Kailey



And now we are getting all ready for Christmas!!

An early Surprise!!

Well last weekend we went down for what we thought was going to be our last time in Sandy for a while. I had 2 baby showers on Saturday and then we were planning on going and getting the rest of the baby stuff we still needed and just being so prepared for when she did arrive. Well... she had a little bit of a different plan then we did! Saturday night, well I guess technically Sunday morning, at 12:30 am my water broke. I woke up thinking I had to use the restroom and well next thing you know my water broke and I was waking up Cam in a panic because I didn't know what to do. He sat up so fast and said excatly what I was thinking... "What do we do??" Well we hurried and called Logan Regional Hospital and asked if they thought I would make it back in enough time and well the lady I spoked to seemed to think I was an idiot and my water really hadn't broken, but I was just experiencing a late pregnancy symptom. Well after explaining to her again what just happened she realized that my water did break and told me to get to a hospital as soon as possible for them to check me and see if I could make it back to Logan in enough time. Well as soon as I got to the hospital and they hooked me up to all the monitors I wasn't going any where. There was no way I was driving back to Logan in the middle of the night not knowing what was going on with my baby. So we stay and well I finally started having contractions and quickly progressed to a 4, but then stayed at a 4 forever!!! I went through 3 shift changes while I was there, and the first nurse told me I would probably deliever around 7 or 9 that morning. Well... 7 and 9 rolled around and I was still at a 4. Then the second nurse said that she hoped I would deliever before 3 when her shift ended, and I thought she was nuts in thinking I wasn't going deliever before then. Well again at 3 I was dialated to 9, but stayed there until about 7:30

Us just waiting, and me eating the only thing I could

Finally at 8:20 that night she joined our family!

Abigail Brooke Tait

6 lbs 1 oz 18 inches long

Proud Parents!

Proud Daddy!

My parents, excited for thier first Grand baby!!

Cam's parents, Happy to add another Grand baby to the mix!

Poor thing has jaundice and had to be put on these lights for 2 days! It was so sad. She had to be like basically strapped down to this bed and could only be wearing a diaper. We were only allowed to take her off if she needed to be fed or changed! We finally got the green light that she no longer needed the lights on Friday and were happy to finally return home with our new baby girl!!

She is just the cutest and has the cutest head of hair ever!!

We just love her to pieces!!

8 down 1 to go!

Well as of yesterday I officially have 1 month until my "due date." I can't believe that she will be in here a month!! I am so excited, but feel as if time has come to a stand still because of it! I feel like I have had a pretty smooth pregnancy, besides the morning sickness in the beginning, but after that I have felt pretty good the whole time. The past couple of weeks however I have developed some pretty unusual symptoms. One thing, that I guess really isn't that uncommon, but for me it is, is that I am always HOT!! It has sure cooled down over the past week, but for me it doesn't seem to phase me much. Those who know me best know that am generally the type of person who gets cold easily! The past couple of weeks we have been sleeping with our house set at like 62 degrees at night because I was getting so HOT, and Cam has been sleeping with 2 or 3 blankets on top of him while I sleep with nothing! It is as if we have traded places.

I feel like we are almost ready, but do you ever feel completely ready?? I feel like I have read everything I need to know and more about pregnancy, but what about afterward when the baby is here? People just keep telling me, "Oh you'll figure it out" OK... I don't want to be consulting a book every five minutes and thinking... is this normal... is this the way I should be doing it?? So maybe it is one of those things that you just figure out. Is there anything that any of you mothers out there feel would be very beneficial for me know?? If so let me know!! :) As for me I will wait in anticipation of our new baby girl!! (by the way, she does have a name, but you'll just have to wait and find out!)