The Cuteness Continues

Here are a few more pictures from our photo session with Sara.  I just love this one with Bella clinging to Jason's leg.

Bella looks so cute in this picture.

A pensive moment...

I loooove this picture.  It just so captures Bella.  She loves her baby dolls and she takes such care of them.  For her, having a baby brother is like having a real life doll.  She LOVES him.  She will put her babies to bed, feed them, change them, dress them, and obviously comb their hair!

This is one of my favorites out of all of them.  I love our little family!

Jude's Newborn Pics

When Isabella was born, Jason had gotten really in to photography, so we just figured 'eh, we will do our own newborn pics'.  And so we did.  And they were great, thanks honey!  But everyone I knew had gotten professional ones done, and they were SO cute and well done and I just knew I had to do them for our next child.  

So when Jude was getting close to making his debut, I looked through a ton of photographers that had been recommended to me, and settled on Sara Seeton.  (http://saraseeton.com/ if you are interested)  I loved her photos and had her highly recommended, so I got an appointment set up and we were good to go!  When Jude was 9 days old, she came over and did a photo shoot.  She had a ton of stuff with her, like two huge suitcases full of props and everything!  I had no idea how much stuff it takes to make a good photo shoot!  She was so good with him, I told her she was the baby whisperer.  I was SO happy with how our photos turned out and wanted to share some of my favorites with you here!

I am mostly putting ones with Jude as the focus in this blog, but I will put up another blog with other family pics and some of Bella.  Don't want to overload you with cuteness all at once! =)

This says it all...Bella LOVES her baby brother.  She is constantly kissing on him.

This one cracks me up!

Jason would kill me if I didn't include this one...

I got this idea from a friend and just loved it!

Jude's First Few Days

 Bella started back to school today for the summer, so I think I might finally have more time to blog!  I wanted to post a few pics of Jude's first days in this world.  My water broke at 6am March 2 and I think I did a fist pump in the air and said "YES!".  I was SO ready.  He was born at 11:22am that day, so super short labor.  Our parents barely had time to make it in town!

We got to our room by lunch and had a great stay at Presby Dallas.  I love that hospital.  They are so great there I would highly recommend it!  The nurses are so nice, it always makes me think I should have pursued a career as a baby nurse, if only I didn't hate blood, needles and science.

Here is Jason right after Jude was born.  When Bella was born, Jason put an OU beanie on her, so I told him Jude was wearing A&M, no discussion.

 

Here is the first time Bella met Jude.  She was SO sweet with him.  She kept kissing him and saying "I got all his kisses!"  Side note, this picture went on Facebook and everyone thought that was me in it.  I so appreciate the vote of confidence that I might look this good right after giving birth, but no...that's my sister.

 

 

Jude sleeping with me sleeping in the background.

 

 

So sweet... 

Here is Jude in his going home outfit.  It was newborn size, but it swallowed him!  He ended up being able to wear it for Easter and his Sip n See!

First time in his car seat

You know he has to have a Mickey Mouse onesie. =)

Here is the first time we let Bella hold Jude.  He is obviously digging it...

Bella has decided she loves her old bouncy chairs...

Here is an example of how much more laid back I have been this time.  When Bella was little, I would never have let her take naps in her bouncy seat.  She had to be in her crib!  I was a little crazy.

When he was little, he always slept with his hands up by his face when he wasn't swaddled.

Enjoying a little tummy time.

Here is a more recent picture, I just wanted to show how much he has already grown and filled out.  It is amazing how fast time has flown this time around!  He is really such a good baby, and I am so much more laid back this time, too.  It is hard having two kids, but I am loving the dynamic!  It is like our family is complete now.  Oh, and I LOOOOOOVE having a son.  I know I have told many of you that I wanted another girl and cried when I found out it was a boy.  But I mean there is just something about little boys.  They are so cute and sweet and he has just stolen my heart from day 1.  I love you Jude!

Second Child

Well, we all know I have never been the best about keeping up to date with my blog.  But add pregnancy brain, followed by an actual baby, and I am pretty much like 'what blog?'.  Poor Jude, he is already getting the short end of the stick as the second child. 

So I figured I could just try to rewind a few months and catch up on everything you've missed.  Hopefully I can start catching up so Jude won't feel totally neglected! 

First off, I don't think I had a single belly pic posted.  With Bella I had about 27, so I figured at least one was in order.  This is me at like 8 and 3/4 months.

Here are a few pictures of Jude's nursery.  Believe it or not, I have planned to write this blog for a while so these pictures were taken before he was born.  So the nursery isn't totally done in these pics, but you get the idea!

We went with an elephant theme so we got these cute wall decals to start.

My awesome friend Jessica made me these cute pictures with little elephant cut outs.  Did I mention she had a three month old at the time she made these?  No idea when she had the time, but she totally rocks.

Got these cute little pictures on Etsy to go on each side of the window.

Another Etsy purchase.  There is so much cute stuff on there!!

Here is a shot with the book shelves mostly set up.  We basically moved all of Bella's old furniture in to Jude's room for him and got her all new stuff.  One of these days I will show all her new stuff!  Got to get her room done first.  I can at least say we got Jude's room totally done now!

Here is a bigger view of the room.  I have now spent many night time hours in that rocking chair.  It reminds me so much of when Bella was a baby and rocking her in the same chair.  I don't know if it is because I know it is the last time I will do it, or maybe because Jason takes turns with me this time so I am not 100% exhausted all the time, but I hardly even mind getting up and rocking that sweet little baby back to sleep.

Well that is it for now.  I would say from now on I will do better about writing, but I mean who am I kidding?  I have two children now.  I have trouble remembering if I have brushed my teeth in a day, so we'll just have to see.