Maternity Leave ...

Maternity leave has been nothing short of amazing. To be able to spend this time with sweet Ellary has really been the ultimate gift, the only thing that could make it better is if Dad could be with us!  Thankfully he did have 4 weeks home with us ... but those 4 weeks sure did fly by!

I have made many trips into school which everyone makes fun of me - I'm the one who doesn't HAVE to be there yet choose to come back, strange I know.  But I'm not one to sit still so sitting at home by myself all day just is not my idea of fun. :)

Here's what we've been up to in the last week ...

We wore our first Michigan outfit - GO BLUE!

And enjoyed an outside BBQ {before the darn mosquitoes got too bad!}

Ellary turned 6 weeks old {time slow down!!}

I turned 32 {again, time slow down!!}

We took lots of stroller rides! 

We went out to eat at The Franklin with Grandma and Grandpa to celebrate my birthday ... it was VERY windy ;)

Aunt Annie finally got to hold Ellary! Annie and Matt were the first ones to visit us in the hospital when Ellary was only hours old but they never held her!

We introduced Ellary to the TC marina and the bay - a place we both love and can't wait to have more memories with her there! 

I was curious of how much Ellary weighed and wasn't happy with the results from our home scale {holding her and then not holding her and finding the difference} so we used the food scale to find out she weighs 8.5 pounds! {and yes, she was safe during the whole process}

We had a couple HOT HOT days so we hung out in our diaper a little - and got our activity mat out of for the first time! 

We took our first big nap in the crib! {sorry for the upside down picture}  Little miss has not been a fan of her crib so she's been sleeping in the rock and play.  We're slowly trying to introduce the crib for naptime in hopes that soon she'll be in her own room at night.

She slept for an hour and a half in there, and yes I was the creepy mom who kept checking on her even though we have a video monitor. :)  As I'm typing this she's in her crib again for her morning nap going on an hour an a half again - hooray! 

She wore some cute outfits - this whole having a girl thing is fun to dress her up ;) 

And that was our week so far - we like to keep busy and thankfully little miss is pretty good at going with the flow {unless it's her witching hour at night - then watch out!}