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Vera’s Three Months Old!

November 19, 2010 by Aliesha

Dear Vera,

Happy three months!  We’ll never forget how precious it was meeting you for the very first time three months ago today.  You were so tiny then, and we have loved watching you grow!  You are getting to be more of an “arm-full” and soon I won’t be able to carry you with just one arm.  You have the most beautiful blue eyes your Daddy and I have ever seen!  They are so big and blue.

We love making you smile and giggle.  You love it when we sing to you, especially when Daddy sings “Come Thou Fount” to keep you from crying.  You like it when we bounce you and carry you around while we do things around the house.  You love being smack-dab in the middle of everything we’re doing!

You love it when we read to you.  You seem to enjoy looking at the pictures already.  We hope you’ll love reading as much as we do!

You have lost your newborn cry, and you definitely look like a baby, not a newborn now.  You still have almost all of your hair, except for a little bald patch in the back. (We think it’s pretty cute!)

We love playing games with you and cuddling with you.  You are so beautiful and precious to us!  Everyone who meets you tells us how pretty and sweet you are.

We love you and are so thankful for you!

Love,
Mommy & Daddy

Filed Under: milestones, Vera

Vera’s Two Months Old!

October 19, 2010 by Aliesha

Can you believe it?  Baby Vera is two months old today!

Milestones:
-rolled over (at 5 weeks) and now rolls regularly when she has tummy time
-weighs approximately 12 lbs.
-enjoys stroller rides, babywearing, and lots of cuddling!
-slept for a record 8 hours straight at 6 weeks (averaging 7 hour-stretches most nights)
-loves being read to (current favorite book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle)
-“talks” a lot: cooing, ooohing, ahhing
-smiles a lot, especially when we try to coax it out of her (and we think she’s on the verge of laughing!)
-loves being sung to and tries to sing along
-experienced her first family car breakdown on the way to the beach
-has now traveled to Virginia and South Carolina
-saw the ocean (Myrtle Beach, SC)
-“swam” in the heated indoor pool (worn in a baby sling)
-visited an aquarium

We love our sweet baby girl so much!

Filed Under: milestones, Vera

Blogiversary One!

October 18, 2010 by Aliesha

Today we officially celebrate one year of blogging at Feathers in Our Nest!  
We love looking back at all of the posts over the last year and are thankful that we’ve been able to chronicle so many family memories and milestones.  
We now have 93 followers on Google Friend Connect, which is awesome since when we started we think it was just our parents reading our blog.  (Though we are super-happy that they did and still do read it!)
In the last 365 days, we have posted 340 times (counting this post).  We started tracking visitors in the middle of January, and since that time we have had over 42,600 visitors and over 80,000 page views.  We’ve been excited to see visitors from all over the world! 

Our original blog header
 We started out as two…
On our honeymoon in Charleston, SC

…and now we are three!

Here are some of our most popular posts:

–Nursery Project: The Big Reveal!
–Mantle Re-do: Fall Edition
–The Meaning of Her Name
–Love at First Sight
–Vera’s Newborn Photo Shoot
–Frugal & Fabulous: Saving Money on Groceries
–The Great Rib Debate

And here a few of our most popular recipes:
–Autumn Chowder
–Mozzarella Chicken
–Apple Crunch
–Angel Rolls
–Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcakes
–Fondue for Two
–Coffee Beef

Hope you’ve enjoyed reminiscing with us! Have any of you been around with us since the beginning?  Do tell!

Filed Under: blog, milestones

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