Alena Saylor Eats...18 weeks

Alena is now 18 weeks old. She started watching what we are eating and waking up twice a night instead of her usual once a night so we started feeding her rice cereal. She spits it out so we had to put it in her bottle. We also got her a bumbo. It's a cute little chair that helps her to sit up. She is not crazy about it right now, but I hope she will get use to it...it's so cute.

She had a busy week. We went to the pool on Monday, the library on Tuesday, played with my mom on Wednesday, went to the store on Thursday and then to San Marcos on Saturday to meet her new friends - my June birthday girls and their kids. Sunday we went to Rachel's birthday party and then up to the North campus at Gateway to say goodbye to our teaching pastor and friend, Ted.

Alena's pics from last week are below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nichols.juliana/AlenaAt18Weeks

Alena's growing up

So Alena Saylor is 17 weeks and she is getting so mature. Her nanny flaked again this week so Tammy stepped in and saved us. She took care of Alena for 5 hours on Wednesday - Rachel's birthday. She did okay from what I hear. I was so nervous because she is a mama's girl right now, but she was smiling away at Tammy and the kids when I picked her up. We celebrated Rachel's birthday that evening.

We put her in the nursary at Gateway on Sunday for the first time and it went well. They didn't have to call me out, which is impressive.

Our good friends Brandi and Joseph were in town this weekend and it was so great to see them. They spoiled Alena with some great clothes.

Alena is starting to scream at the top of her lungs everytime we go out to eat, it's very strange.

We celebrated Father's Day on Sunday with my family. The following is a link to pictures from Alena's week 17.

http://picasaweb.google.com/nichols.juliana/AlenaAt17Weeks

Alena Saylor is 4 months old (16 weeks)!

Alena is a total tummy sleeper these days. She slept 12 hours straight two nights in a row this week. I had to wake her up because she didn't wake up for her night feeding. She is getting cuter and sweeter every day. Yolanda is working with her as far as letting other people take care of her without Aman or I in the same room. I think she is starting to make some improvement there. I can also tell that she is doing better spending longer periods of time by herself, which is fantastic and will hopefully help me with work! Her 16 week pictures are on the link below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nichols.juliana/AlenaAt16Weeks

Alena laughs at 15 weeks

Alena Saylor just turned 16 weeks today. I can't believe she is already 4 months old. She is going through a crying stage. Everytime we leave her with someone else she cry's. I hear they start to grow out of this around 6 months to a year, but I really hope it happens sooner. She may cry, but she is also laughing. Aman and I took her to the grocery last week and she laughed as she was sitting in the cart at something Aman was doing. It was the best! She is also sleeping totally on her tummy (not good, but what can I do) with her tush in the air - it's pretty cute. Her 4 month check up is next week and I can't wait to see how much she weighs. She is definitely getting heavy. I have to say, when she smiles, it makes my entire day! I have pictures from Alena's 15 weeks below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nichols.juliana/AlenaAt15Weeks