Busy, Busy!

The title of this post pretty much sums up why I haven't updated in a while.

Lately, it has been pretty busy here at the Sutton Household.  Tyson is busy finishing up his degree.  He's making it a goal to graduate this August, so he's been furiously working hard.  When Tyson's not in school, he's working, working, working!  Again, I feel so grateful that Tyson helps as much as he does being so busy and all.  LOVE my hubs!

While Tyson has been busy with school and work, Brynlee and I have been busy going on little adventures and visiting family.  My mom came down for Mother's Day weekend.  I had a good first Mother's Day.  I just spent the whole weekend with my mom and I treated her to lunch and she treated me to dinner for Mother's Day.

While she was down here, we went to visit my grandparents.  Brynlee got to meet her Great Grandma and Great Grandpa!  My grandmother couldn't believe her little grand baby had a baby of her own!

This past Monday, Brynlee and I went with family to the Houston Zoo.  Brynlee's first zoo trip!  She had so much fun spending time with her cousin, Braxton!  Too bad she won't remember her first visit, but I have a picture to prove it!

Braxton wanted to sit in Brynlee's stroller, so they traded for a little while...  hahaha!!!!  Let's just say Braxton's legs were crunched into his chest, he couldn't fit in the carseat locked into the stroller.

Brynlee and I have been spending a lot of time over at her Gram's and Pi Pi's house, swimming and working on our tans.

Well....Mommy has been working on her tan.  Brynlee has been chillin' in the shade by the pool taking cat naps.  Gotta protect that sensitive, baby skin!

Brynlee is now 8 weeks old and will "officially" be 2 months on Thursday.  People are right.  It FLIES BY!!!!

I would just like to say what a JOY our little girl is!  Tyson and I are falling more and more in love with her every day.  She's such a talkative, sweet, happy little girl!  It's already getting better for me and it's already becoming more fun.  I keep hearing that it just continues to get better from here, and if so, I'm SO super excited because I'm already having so much fun with her NOW.

All I can say is that things continue to change so much.  She's slowly working out of that newborn stage as we continue to work out the kinks.  I've noticed her fussing and crying has gotten a lot better.  I can now set her in her swing while I shower, brush my teeth, put on make-up, etc. and she'll either go right to sleep or be perfectly content just rocking in her floor swing while she watches mommy take a shower and listens to the sound of the water.  Sometimes she seems to be in awe of what I'm doing.  It's so sweet to watch her watch me put on my makeup.  A little princess in the making, watching her mama put on makeup.

I can also put her in her swing if I need to eat or do something, and she'll just coo and talk to herself.  It has honestly been very refreshing to have a baby that now can be left alone for a good period of time, not too long, but longer than one minute.  It was just absolutely horrible at the beginning.  Of course, she'll fuss when I haven't been in her sight for a long time.  All I have to do is walk over to her and talk to her and she'll quiet down.  I LOVE that I can do this.  She seems to be recognizing me and my voice.  Sometimes, she'll start talking to me and smiling at me once I come over to her.  It's like she just needed some company.  She's the CUTEST.  THING.  EVER!  I love playing with her and talking to her, and I love giving her a big good morning cuddle.  After she's had her breakfast, I'll just hold her tight and snuggle her and, of course, kiss her to death.  I just can't help it!

So, we're moving a little further away from the constant crying and fussing...

To a happy, smiley baby...

It's not absolutely 100%, yet, but I can seem some gains we're making!

This little girl talks, and talks, and talks, and talks.  She coo's and oo's and gurgles at me like crazy.  She even makes little faces at me.  I just love when she oo's.  She'll round her lips to a tight, little "o" shape, raise her eyebrows, moves her head, and at the same time, smiles at me.  She just loves Mommy and Daddy's company. I have a couple of videos with her smiling and talking, but until I can figure out how to post them to this blog, those videos will have to wait.  :(  When she talks, she moves her mouth and tongue furiously like she's trying to get the words out, and she kicks her legs like crazy.  It's SO MUCH FUN to watch her try and communicate with Tyson and me.

As far as her other developments, Brynlee has one heck of a strong neck.  She's raising her head during tummy time and when I lift her from a lying position from her arms, she can keep her head aligned with her body and then keep it steady and straight up when I bring her up to her feet.  Yeah....I said feet because she refuses to sit and pushes up with her legs.  This little girl ALSO has strong legs!  She absolutely LOVES it when I do this little trick with her.  She loves to stand and look at the world.  Her face just lights up and she gets excited.  As excited as an 8 week old gets.  She has also discovered her hands.  She's been tightening them up into fists and putting them in front of her face.  She'll also talk to her hands.  I think she's starting to bat at objects, as well.  I have little toys dangling from her playmat thing, and she'll be punching at those objects at times.

Tyson and I have been very lucky with Brynlee's sleeping, lately.  She's being "sleeping through the night."  I'll usually get her down between 9:30-10:00 and she will sleep straight through until between 6-8 until her first "middle of the night" feeding.  She has actually been doing this for quite a few weeks now.  We're feeling very blessed and very lucky to have such a great night sleeper, so far!  It definitely makes for a happier and more refreshed Mommy and Daddy.  I personally think this double swaddling technique I've discovered has helps immensely.  I started doing it last week, and I think it's given us an extra hour to two hours of sleep.  I'm not getting too excited about her sleep habits, though, and I haven't been going around "bragging" about it.  I've been keeping it hush hush because I'm still in disbelief that she's doing this.  I keep waiting for the earlier middle of the night wake up times.

Overall, I'm enjoying my time off with my little girl and being able to watch her grow.  I can now see where it's going to be hard to go back to work in August.  Our daughter is, like I said, just an absolute JOY!  She's SO beautiful and has the most BEAUTIFUL crystal, blue eyes.  I just love staring into them.  I stare at her in complete awe and can't believe I grew and carried her.  I enjoy staring into those beautiful blues and talking to her.  I think she loves her mommy....  :)

Until then, folks!  Hopefully, I will have a post up next week and it won't be as long as this last time!  Sheesh!  I'm being bad at this.