2 months old!

Mia is now 2 months old. I wonder where those 2 months have gone, it truly does feel like yesterday I was fed up being pregnant and willing her out! But she is already growing so much, no longer like that little newborn I brought home! Here is her 2 month shot!

And for comparisons, here is Dakotas. I am starting to wonder why I always put her in hats for those photos, but she was pretty much bald. So Mia definitely beats her in the hair stakes!

Hugs for Mommy!

It's been strange for me the past few weeks. I have been feeling incredibly down about a couple of things - I honestly have no idea if it has to do with not being blog active, but it's a reasonable guess.

This place really is like my outlet, I love looking back at old posts and I have so many things I could post about right now, I just can't motivated. So I am honestly going to try harder :)

One day last week Dakota saw me looking down and came over and gave me a great big hug- I think it is amazing a child so small can understand and grasp emotions so well. I mean, I wasn't crying or anything, she just sensed it and came over to try and make me feel better. I know everything thinks their child is the greatest and smartest in the world, but I honestly do believe I have such a little bright spark in my life!

She is so affectionate with Amelia as well. She wants to help and do everything with her she can. I am just getting a post together of pictures of them together and the way Dakota treats her. She hasn't been jealous barely at all, she has her own baby and she burps it, changes its dipe & takes it out walks the exact same way as I do with Mia!

She is still my little wild child, I don't think I will ever calm that. But her maturity, just, shocks me. It's sad, yet so amazing to see her growing up and understanding much more every day!

Wordless Wednesday - Full of giggles!

We swapped their beds!

Dakota is now in her own big girl bed and Amelia is in the crib! So far, it's going great. Kota is taking it all in her stride and actually doing really well with having her own room, I even set up her own baby's "crib", so her room could be the same as ours! She is doing great with it. Mia was getting a bit big for the basket and she transferred to the crib really well, so well she slept for the longest stint yet (5 hours) last night! Yay!

A comparison!

Dakota at one month


Amelia at one month!

I think they look pretty alike. You can't really see there because Dakota had a hat on, but Mia has a lot more hair than she ever did at that age. Mia looks slightly longer and thinner than Dakota too, but I'm not sure how true that is because in my records Dakota was actually bigger than Mia is. I love doing comparison pics though, it's amazing to see the differences and similarities.

Some Baptism Photos

That's really just a selection. If you have me on facebook there are more there, but I didn't want to overload the blog with things.

We had a wonderful day - it made me really happy to be in Poland. I didn't think I could ever say that but I did, it has only taken me 10 months to get used to it all but I really do love this country now. Of course it was also great to be surrounded by my family and all my new friends I have made here too. Life really isn't so bad sometimes!

My life at the moment!

I know I haven't been keeping up so great and for that I really apologize. I miss blogging, I really do!

I have such a backlog of pics I just want to share with the blogging world I can't see to get moved on to. Being a Mommy of 2 is tough! But I will be back & I will get used to this. I'm just enjoying the last week with my parents here before they have to return home & then hopefully I will be back with all the wonderful stories of their time here and the new things the girls are doing! I just haven't had time for the net full stop recently.

Amelia still isn't sleeping great and I'm starting to get pretty tired with it. I've been feeling really lethargic and my Doctor has advised me to try and start gaining weight. I know, one month pp and already being told I need to put some on again. It's just hard when it seems all my battles are with gaining weight. However, I do know breastfeeding is not doing me any good and if I want to keep on breastfeeding I need to try.

So I've started on a new diet with more protein and carbs and things - I also hope I can get back into jogging soon because it helped me an awful lot before with building muscle and things. So wish me luck! I don't mean to be sickening but I often feel like my problems trying to gain any sort of weight must be the same as trying to lose it. I know that feeling of sheer desolation when nothing seems to work.

But I look back at pictures of me now before I got pregnant with Amelia and realize I was too light - the whole move and the stress took it out of me completely. I don't want to get that way again.

- Anna