Two Weeks!

Well here's the update (sorry for the MASSIVE post):
-Hallie passed her hearing test
-Hallie found her lungs! She still doesn't use them very often, pretty much only when she is STARVING, and realized she slept too long.
-We are still getting close to 4 hours of sleep at a time...keep your fingers crossed
-Hallie has discovered her hair, and occasionally strokes it (see video below)
-We took our first family outing to the Springville Quilt Show yesterday, it was a quick in and out, but worth the trip.
-Eric introduced Hallie to BYU football yesterday, and insisted she wore her BYU outfit ALL DAY!
-Hallie has her first doctor appointment on Tuesday

SLEEPING....as always

FYI: in case you were wondering...this picture is shortly after Hallie threw up all over her bed, and she does not sleep in our bed... I was cleaning her bed up :)

After bath time

Our little Olympic baby

Little toes

Finally awake (after throwing up all over her clothes!)
First BYU Football game

Hallie Found Her Hair:

Back to School

So as much as we all denied the day would come...it has. Eric started back at Utah Valley University (that just sounds weird :)) today, and like any other semester you think you have everything all figured out only to go to your first class and realize it just isn't going to work. So I have spent the last two hours trying to find Eric a new class, because his english class just isn't what he thought it was going to be. Even though getting back into the routine of school, and having Hallie could be interesting, I'm sure it will be fine. It has just been so nice to not have to worry about school this summer.

In case you were wondering BYU doesn't start until September 2nd, and I am just planning on taking 6 credits on-line (at least that's the plan for now). Eric may end up taking a class up at BYU if we can get everything worked out with admissions, but it may not be until next semester.

One Week & Our Little Squeaker

Today was my official due date, but a week ago today Hallie joined us, can you believe it?! Because I sure can't! We have had such a great week with her, and she has been such a joy in our lives. Hallie has continued to be such a relaxed baby, and makes our life easy as parents. We sure do love her.

Since the day she was born Hallie has never been much of a crier, just a squeaker. She doesn't necessarily squeak cause she needs anything either, sometimes she just does because she can. This was the case this morning. So we thought we'd share. Sorry it's a little fuzzy, we don't have a video camera, so this is just off of our normal camera...

We Didn't Think It Was Possible!

So I know we've posted A LOT today! But the funniest thing just happened, and Eric wanted to share. (Sorry, it's kind of gross, but we got a good laugh)

If you would have asked us half an hour ago if a three day old, little girl could shoot a fountain of urine at someone, we would have said "no, that's what little boys do." Let alone a shoot a projectile poop at you, but we just experienced both. Eric was changing Hallie's diaper, trying to wake her up to eat, and got her all cleaned up. He turned to grab a clean diaper and found himself showered in urine and covered in baby poop, as I watched it all happen not knowing what to do. Of course it was all over everything that I had just washed, (we've found out very quickly that our washer is never going to stop running), but we were both laughing so hard we couldn't really do anything. Gross...yes. Funny...yes. Did we ever think it was possible?...absolutely not!

Our First Night and Hallie's First Bath at Home

Sorry for the massive posting today, but we just want to share! :)

Hallie has been so good, we were almost expecting the tables to turn, and for it to be a rough night. But she continued to be amazing. We fed her at about 11 before we went to bed, she woke up around 2, then again at 6:30! Can we say AMAZING! I was worried we wouldn't hear her cause when she did wake up, because she is so quiet, and doesn't really cry. But she woke up, cried just enough to get our attention, then as soon as I picked her up she stopped, ate, and went back to sleep. So I am loving that right now!

This afternoon we decided to give her a bath, which she was not such a fan of. She does not like to be scrubbed or cleaned, but she loves to be rinsed. But now we are all sqeaky clean!

Home!

After waiting for the hearing specialist to come on Tuesday, and Hallie having her ears checked out again (her left ear failed the hearing test both times, so we have to take her back in a week or so), it was time to head home. She has been so mellow and so good, we're almost wondering if it is real.

Eric and Hallie waiting for the hearing specialist

In their matching BYU outfits.
Still waiting...
Finally time to go, and suprisingly (or not so much) Hallie squeaked for a little bit getting her in the car seat and we didn't hear another peep from her. She just went right back to sleep
First time in the cradle
All ready for our first walk outside!

Just Some More Pictures

Daddy's First Diaper Change

This is how you can find Hallie a majority of the time. She is so relaxed and mellow.

Sleeping.

She is our little Buddha baby. She loves to have her feet and legs all scrunched up close to her, and occasionally rests her feet on each other.

Hallie and Aunt Kare'na

Hallie is one happy baby and we couldn't be happier with her here!

Hallie Mae Patterson

So Hallie Mae Patterson was born 8/17/08 at 10:31 am. She weighed in at 8 lbs 10 oz and was 20 in long. I suppose the most suprizing thing was that Kylie only gained about 12 lbs during the pregnancy...Hallie accounted for almost all of the weight! So far she is very quiet and loves to observe her surroundings with her jet blue eyes. Plenty of family have come in to visit and she has been well behaved then too. Kylie is doing just fine and has been recovering quite well. We like to take strolls up and down the halls with Hallie to show her off and get loose. We are so excited about our baby and new life. We really have been blessed.

Well, Hallie found her hands early on and has been sucking on them ever since.

She did not appreciate the spounge bath but she loved the rinse.

Before...

After...

Hallie does well on the heating table.

One proud daddy!

Mommy's Girl!

Booyeah!

Look at those tiny hands.

Hallie likes to play peek-a-boo.