2 1/2 weeks

Little Sweets

Aila is doing really good. We are enjoying her more and more everyday. So far being a mommy has been everything i'd expected and more! Sleep is pretty much over rated and you don't get much "you" time anymore, but thats the way it goes. When you see your little one looking into your eyes you want to be no more than a second away from them at all times! Aila is such a hardy feisty girl. She may be a dink, but she's a tough one :)

I LOve to watch Todd with her. He's so happy and proud daddy. He's a natural with her, most guys freak out about babies around and how to hold them. They learn to take care with time but not Todd..He was great and so natural about it right from the start. He kicked into Daddy mode real quick and takes such good care of us. 

We are one happy little family!

Lil "Pee" nut

There is something about Aila right now that just makes me laugh and get a bit frustrated. It seems that every time I go to change her diaper she starts to Pee...and all over! I laugh because its cute and it just comes out of nowhere! REALLY she couldn't have gone a second before I take off her diaper!? Haha! Silly girl! And the frustrating part is me having to clean everything she pee's all over! Time and time again! These are the cute things I will jot down for memories, so when she's older we can laugh about it :) Till than I'll be learning to change her diaper just a little bit faster!

She's absolutely "Perfect"

Well we think so anyways! Aila is 11 days old today and already I see little changes in the way she acts and looks. She is without a doubt a clone of her mama. The other night we were looking at baby pictures of me and yup, she looks exactly like me it's so funny! I'm sure with time and growth sperts that she will start changing, but for now she's my Wittle Cloney :)

Yesterday I was a little bored when Aila was taking her nap so I whipped out my camera and just took a couple photo's of her sleeping and the cute faces that she makes. She smiles a lot and I caught some of her smiling. She is just so perfect and adorable! So in LOVE!!

She's here and we are in LOVE!

Aila Leeann Walker was Born August 20th @6:45 a.m. Weighed 5lb 9oz and 18.2 Inches long! She is just "Perfect". She was Born 2 weeks early on a saturday morning, perfect timing if you ask me because I was so worried and stressed out to hear that I had a mild case of Pre-Clamsia. A very serious thing that I do not quite understand fully, but that I had high blood pressure and protein in my urine which is not good at all! SO needless to say I was pretty Scared/Happy/Anxious/Freaked out/Worried and feeling like I wasn't prepared when I got the call from my doctor saying that They were going to induce me a.s.a.p on friday Aug 19th. My labor took about a little over 16 hours and I pushed little subborn Aila for 4 Hours!! Honestly the pushing part took the cake, Up till than I could handle it. But of course once Little Aila finally made her way into this world it was all worth it. Being a mommy is awesome, I love it! Todd and I are so happy to have Aila in our life! We still can't believe she's really here! :)

Cookie Experiment

Today I decided out of nowhere to make Chocolate Chip Cookies from scratch because their easy and I was craving something sweet. The only problem is I was missing 2 rather important ingredients that goes with making cookies...Baking soda and Vanilla extract.

I had the butter, Egg, Sugar, flour and mini chocolate chips already, but of course when do i ever make anything from scratch that I would already have baking soda and vanilla extract. That didn't stop me though...I was determined to make cookies and somehow work around it haha.

So here is how I made my Chocolate mini chip cookies today!

1/2 cup Butter

1/4 cup Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 cup Flour

Powered sugar

1/2 cup Chocolate cake mix

Put them into a mini cupcake pan and baked for 15 mins on 350 temp.

Here is how they turned out...A little stiff, but not bad tasting! Haha!

I do know they could have been A LOT better if I have had the motivation to run to the store, but half the fun is experimenting with what ya got!

36 1/2 weeks

The countdown is here and soon Aila will be cuddled in our arms!

I cannot believe the time is coming to a close of not...

-Having a big-0-belly

-Not being able to sleep on my stomach/back

-Peeing every 10-15 mins

-Not being able to bend down often to pick up something without grunting or feeling that your smothering your babies poor head

-Not worrying/stressing as much about eating the right kind of foods

-Not having to worry that NOTHING fits

-Having no ENERGY

Things i'll miss Im sure about pregnancy:

- My big-0-belly

-An excuse to go shopping cause NOTHING fits ;)

-Feeling her move inside me

-Sleeping in and taking naps a lot

-Having an excuse for a lot of things because of being pregnant(haha)

It's been fun, but soon me and the belly must depart and I am looking very much to that moment!

We cannot wait for Aila to get here!

She's about to "POP"

••Our Baby Shower for Aila was this past saturday and it was a blast! I must admit, I did a lot of planning and arranging my own Shower but thats just how I am. I like things a certain way sometimes and so most times its just more successful to do it yourself! PLUS I love getting creative and making things.

••My Shower was really cute, The theme was -{She's about to "POP"}- I actually got the idea of course online, but they really didn't get all to clever with the idea, so I took it to a whole new level haha. If anyone needs an idea for a baby shower...this is such a cute/fun/creative idea! Everything had to do with the word POP! SO we had Popcorn, CakePops, TootsiePops & Pop drops, Chocolate Popsicles, Pop'ems donuts, Lemon cake Popper's, Popcorn shrimp, Jalapeno Popper's, Salad with Poppyseed dressing, Pop chips, Soda Pop, and more. SO fun and we really had a fun time doing it. My mom and sister Winter were a huge help of course, I couldn't have done it without them!

••We got so much stuff for our Aila, she is going to be one stylish babe thats for sure! She has clothes coming out of our ears! We recently just set up her little area in our room and we cannot wait to meet her. Thanks to everyone who came to my shower, tons of fun! Todd & I both appreciate all the goodies and Love! xo

Last week of work

Well the time is nearly here for me to say farewell to good ol Nordstrom, who I have been with for a good 5 1/2 years. It's been bitter sweet towards the end and if I wasn't so tired, Restless and Pregnant I would be of course still working haha. But since I am going to have our precious Aila, work just wouldn't fit in our schedule for awhile. This week is going to be a good week! Friday is my last day at work and Saturday is my Baby Shower, which by the way is going to be SUPERRR cute I must admit! I'm way excited about it and all the goodies we got planned for our guests! I love getting creative and crafty! I'll get lots of photo's of the shower of course :)

Pregnancy recap: 1 month and 18 days

Depending on Aila and when she really wants to decide to pop her cute face into this world, we have 1 month and 18 days to go till my due date. Chances are she won't arrive on that day, but the time is getting closer and closer to meeting our baby girl! As a woman who has yet to learn the paths of motherhood I can however express how wonderful it is to feel this precious jewel growing in my belly and waking me up in the early hours of the morn! She is for sure without a doubt going to be an early birdy! I can be a morning person, but I just choose not to be...Sleep is much more valued haha. I won't have much say once she's here so I have been stocking up on my Zzzz's! I am beyond excited for my baby shower coming up in about 2 weeks. I'll have an update on how that went and details! It's going to be so cute!

Maternity Shoot

Last week my awesome Photographer sister Winter took some Maternity Pictures of me and my Belly at 30 weeks! We went to downtown Redlands to a park area where it was really pretty and green. This park had some really neat areas to shoot and we had a lot of fun with it! I love how they came out! She took em and I edited them, cause she's busy with other projects and plus I love to edit so it worked out♥

(Here are a few)