Little Lady: One Month

So, I am over here stressing out about when this baby will technically be one month old. She was born on the 30th of January, but there is no 30th of February. On the 27th of February she was four weeks old, but when is she one month? Can you see my problem? I've decided her one month mark is today.

Things of note:

• She is incredibly strong. She's been able to hold her head up for good amounts of time since she was two days old, she seems to be trying to sit up sometimes, and she's accidentally rolled herself over once.
• The longest she'll sleep at night is about 4 1/2 hours. We'll keep working on that.
• She is the loudest sleeper in the world: she grunts, and grunts, and grunts, and squeals. 
• She LOVES to be held and hates that we're trying to get her to go to sleep without it. 
• She won't fall asleep without her pacifier in her mouth, but she doesn't need it any other time.
• She has been smiling from day one, and we have doctors that will confirm that. It's a very real smile, and it is so cute. 
• She claws at her face pretty badly, but we can't get the mittens or socks to stay on her hands.
• Poor girl has had some nasty baby acne. 
• She suddenly didn't fit her newborn pajamas anymore about three nights ago.

I'm not trendy enough to have those popular monthly pictures planned out, but I can slam quite a few pictures on to this blog from her first month. 

This little tongue kills me.

Now that she's one month old I finally ordered the birth announcements. I did decide to purchase a picture from the newborn shoot at the hospital so that I could it use it for the announcements. Below I'm sharing some more pictures that I'm not paying for and so they have the stupid thingy right across the middle. You'll see what I mean by 'stupid thingy' in just a second. 

Happy one month, Little Lady! 

October 2013

It's past time for October leftovers, and I kind of don't care, but Mr. Mitchell says I should catch up on everything that I meant to do so that I don't give myself the slacker speech later.

We started October with a surprise party for my niece who turned 16. She loves everything vintage, so, my sister put together an awesome vintage, sweet 16 party. Mr. Mitchell dressed as a greaser, I was a 40s casual girl, and Sprout was a beatnik because that was the best we could do. No pictures, unfortunately.

We did family pictures. One of Mr. Mitchell's coworkers took them and I edited them. This is my first time doing something like this, and I'm not entirely pleased with the way they turned out because I know they could look better; I just haven't learned how. If you have suggestions I am happy to hear them, but no criticisms.   

Then there was Halloween, of course. We went to trunk-or-treat as pirates because we always seem to be ready with pirate costumes.

On Halloween we carved our pumpkins just in time for our trick-or-treaters. We had all of 7. 

And then, of course, there's just the random stuff that is life.

He has turned into quite the climber.

He's already done with this phase.
Glad I captured it.

Bonding over electronics.

Sprout loves suction cup kisses from Daddy.

Pictures and Cards

We are sooooo married: we sent out Christmas cards this year! I wanted to do it last year, but Mr. Mitchell was a little 'anti.' After we received Christmas cards from friends and family he agreed that I could send out Christmas cards the next year. Yay!

In September my wonderful friend from BYU, Lindsey Cardoza, agreed to take FREE pictures of us. Mind you, she did this while she was 8 months pregnant. I decided since we'd been married for over a year it was appropriate to have family pictures taken and that we could use one of them in our Christmas cards. Now that the cards are in the mail I am excited to share some of the other pictures with everybody! (It was tricky picking a picture for our card because Paul and I were both being fussy about them. We ended up choosing one that didn't really show either of our faces. Convenient, no?) 

Here are some of the pictures:

I love my Grumpy Gus. Anyway, we couldn't afford to print as many cards as we would have liked so that we could send one to lots and lots and lots of people. I've decided to instead share the little gem on here. 

I was super stoked to have postcard Christmas cards and it just made my day when they arrived in the mail. I waited a few days to mail them out so that I could just have them for a bit. I'm weird like that.  Anyway, even if you didn't get a postcard from us, we probably love you! (Unless you're a stranger taking a peak at our blog...we don't love you...you are welcome to keep on peaking, though.)

We wish everyone a Happy Christmas and hope you'll check back for our Christmas updates!