Sorry it has taken me so long to update....here is the past month in review...

Beautiful Blessing picture (courtesy of "Auntie Tanya")

Happy Girl! 3 Months old

The Start of our Utah Journey...2am we finally made it to the hotel and she was out for the night!

What's for Breakfast Daddy? (Day 2 of our long journey to Utah)

Mikayla in her new cute purple dress....12 months size!

Sleepy girls. snuggling for a nap.

Mikayla meeting her cousin Madeline for the first time! Was a little overwhelming to her but everyone was so happy to meet her!

"The G.G. Posie" (Grandma's Galore!) with Mikayla

Mikayla had a Build'a'Bear Puppy made -she had no idea was was going on but Mommy and Daddy had fun making it! & Daddy has a fun sound in it to remind Mikayla to give her puppies "snacks" and it is named "Rina the Noni" (for Corrina the Spinone)

Mikayla with Uncle Ryan she seemed to take right to him!

Mikayla chilling on the way back on the short part of journey home. We stopped in Cardston at the Temple and sat out on the grass and relaxed for a bit. She was so happy to be out of her Carseat! only 3 hours left after that and we were finally home. So happy to be in our beds! and to get our puppies back. Sadly enough our puppies weren't so excited to see us because they had a nice big yard to run around in from our friends house that so graciously watched them.


Mikayla 4 weeks old! the day after her shots....and seems to be doing much better. Her legs have a little "ouchy" soreness to them but other than that she is her happy self!

here are a few new videos....

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4234032680405116304

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7473344851909902254

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4562651326779888111

Well Mikayla is on her way to being able to sit up on her own
as well as roll to one side. She has gotten so much more alert in the past few weeks.
She is a total Mommas girl right now and knows my voice so when she hears me she either smiles because she can hear me or cries because i'm not holding her! We are having so much fun with her. I gave her a bath the other night and put a few bath toys in the water and she was splashing and smiling so much! Its fun to see her new excitement of life! Things seem to be going pretty well here for us. Jonathan is getting ready to turn the big "2-7" this Sunday he will be an old fart soon! (wait....if he is an old fart what does that make the grandparents?....just kidding. Anyways happy end of August-
here are some more fun pictures of Mikayla and her first play date (the three babies are Sophia (6 weeks old), Mikayla (3.5 months old), and Brooklyn (4.5 months old).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6378862582060630564&hl=en

Mikayla had her baby blessing this past sunday and saw some family that she hasn't met before. She seemed to do pretty well being held by a few more people than normal. She seemed to settle right into Grandpa and Grandma Bakers arms! And giggled a little when being tickled by "Duncle" (Uncle David)...

She looked so cute in her beautiful blessing dress that Grandma Curtis brought up...and She had some glamour shots taken by her adopted Grandma and Aunt (Cynthia and Tanya). We bought her a bumbo chair to help her sit up and she seems to like it. So we took a video clip for you to see her. The funniest part of it all is she seemed so happy and smiley during this video. Right after this video was taken I knew I needed to check her diaper well.....lets just say that Daddy had an excuse to "do the dishes" because she had the BIGGEST EXPLOSION diaper yet! I'm sure that their are plenty more of those to come but it was a big supprise to me. Luckliy a bath was all she needed! and I am sure that her babbling and wines during her bath translated into 'my daddy is to much of a wuss! to change my bad diapers!' luckily she is cute! Happy 3 months old Mikayla! http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5268798492869346054

This is of Mikayla in her new chair.... turn your laptops sideways (sorry!)http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6678985994582372675(Smiles for mommy)

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4554275889974734938

(update on how the puppies are doing)

Attack of the Killer Shard

Def of SHARD- the combination of a Fart and a Sh@..poop
This morning when Mikayla woke up from her nap I was holding her and getting ready to feed her. She was soooo smiley I thought she was just in such a good mood. All of a sudden she scrunched her arms and legs and out came the explosion of the poo all over Mommy and baby. Then when I went to change her she seemed to be a little happier so I stood back to watch her a minute and she let out the biggest toot and scared herself and started crying. The joys of being a baby! She is much more playful and alert now when she is awake so I took a video of her...here she is...
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7851064931798186880

Too Hot for Clothes!!!!!!!!

We dont normally say anything about it being too hot up here in Canada but when it is....we miss things like Air Condition...swimming pools...and any other necessity of the summer in the states! Anyways Mikayla is 11 weeks old and today she finally had her first sucessful thumb sucking!!!! It sounds like a small thing but to us its pretty big when for the past couple of weeks she balls her fist up and tries her hardest to find her thumb! She is much more alert than she use to be so she has started recognizing Mommy and Daddy and smiling lots more.

Here she is....

Mikayla is 10 weeks old and growing like crazy! She had a very cute lady bug dress that I purchased for her when she was a few weeks old...and I thought I'd wait and let her wear it to church ...so thinking since it says "0-3" months that she was okay for a few more weeks. Well Daddy put the dress on her and off we went to church. During sacrament meeting I was holding her and I looked down to see that the bloomers were cutting into her chubby legs! Ahhh so needless to say she ended up half dressed and will never wear the cute little dress I bought! She has started cooing and babbling a little bit so this has been fun to see! She also has this little fake cry when she wants to be held or have attention that Jonathan and I just laugh at. She has started sleeping in her crib for parts of the night and last night Jonathan and I attempted to play a few board games while she was asleep. All of a sudden we heard this scream that sounded like a child playing outside or something because Mikayla's cries have never been that loud and went up to find our little Missy almost like she had a bad dream!

anyways I'm getting a few more hours of sleep and feeling a little more confident of this whole mommy thing! WE love Mikayla!