Things to do with a baby in Denver

Bridget has been a woman on the go these past few months. Not only did she make two trips to Denver, but she also got to see Laguna Beach, CA (a future blog post) and she turned 4 months old.

Her first trip and first flight was in early August for Sarah's wedding shower. She was a champ on the flight there and had a little bit of a tougher time on the flight back. That may be from all the action she had, which included meeting several new friends (Ben, Evelyn, Owen, Lizzy, John and Jace), making a trip to Boulder to see some of Mom's old coworkers and Aunt Sarah, checking out some food trucks with Aunt Meghan, brunch at Nonnie and Papaw's house, meeting Mimi and Poppi's friends, visiting the Denver Art Museum, meeting the Colorado Phillips (Sean, Jane and Owen) and Cousin Jeff and more.

Bridget napping on her first flight, arriving at DIA and meeting Lizzy

Hanging with Aunt Sarah and Ben

 

 

 

Sarah's wedding shower

Outdoor time with Papaw

Meeting Oreo

Mimi and Poppi

Great Aunt Jane, Great Uncle Sean and Cousin Owen

 

 

Lunch with Aunt Meghan

Bridget's second trip to Denver was in early September for Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mark's wedding. Her second trip was equally as eventful and this time Dad/Mike got to join us. It's amazing how much difference a month can make. She went from napping anywhere and everywhere, to fighting naps to socialize and she has become so much more observant. It made some of the busyness a little trickier, but we still had a great visit.

Great Aunt Amy, Evelyn and Cousin Luke

Great Uncle Bob

Great Aunt Terry and Great Uncle Bob

Evelyn loves Baby Bridget

The newlyweds

Father-Daughter Dance

So far, her fourth month has brought a lot of amazing moments, including a lot of "talking", her first real laugh, many attempts at rolling over, grabbing at everything, which is immediately follow by her sticking it in her mouth, finding her feet and smiling all the time. Mike and I are having so much fun with her and I think some of her four month pictures really highlight how much she's changed. Not only is she growing like a weed, reaching the 90th percentile for height and weight, but her personality is really starting to shine through. 

Checking out the shoes...

..."talking"...

...grabbing her feet...

...looking pretty darn cute...

...and oh so adorable

Bridget's 3 Month Photos

I'll admit I am a little behind. The little bean is going through a phase of only napping while being held, so it's making it tough to get much accomplished. Mike keeps describing it as "a cute problem to have." Here are some shots we took for her 3 month birthday. She turned 3 months on August 5, but we didn't take these until August 11 since her and I were in Denver. We'll post pictures from that trip very soon.

Milestones and Adventures

Over the past several weeks things have gotten progressively easier and our Little B is changing and growing every day. She's starting to fall into a routine, minus a crazy night last night. Mike and I felt like we were in a movie as she decided to stay awake for about 6 hours straight, which meant she fell asleep at 2am. This was only after we finally decided to take her out for a drive at about 1:30. I guess all the cliches are true because she resisted any other efforts to lull her to sleep. In addition, Bella (the dog) decided to puke on the carpet around 1:00am. We sort of felt like we were living in a movie. We have her fingers crossed that she will return to her 11:15pm-ish bedtime tonight and we are just grateful that she chose a Friday night to stay up all night so that Mike could help and not be completely exhausted for work.

We've been having a lot of fun watching her change and meet milestones. She rolled from front to back on Mike's birthday (June 2) and we are also starting to catch some smiles. These were the result of Mike kissing her before he left for work earlier this week. She also is grasping on to toys, but not really reaching for them yet. We tried introducing a bottle of pumped milk a few weeks ago, so that I can maybe get a break from time to time, but it's been a bit of a challenge so far. We are hoping by the time Aunt Sarah's wedding rolls around that she will be more willing to take a bottle.

Smiling from Daddy's kisses

A bit tacky? Yes, but we couldn't resist.

Holding on to her toy

 

First bottle

We've been reading, singing and talking as much as we can and we did our first Mommy and Baby yoga class this week. We were planning to go as a family this morning, but scrapped that after our adventure last night.

Baby yoga

Baby yoga

I caught her napping like this after yoga. I think she was putting her new skills to practice.

Bedtime story

The whole King family visited a couple of weeks ago, and she took her second trip to the Hotel del Coronado, and went to her second restaurant to celebrate Dad's birthday.

Aunt Emily and Uncle Brian

All the Kings

Mike got to celebrate is first Father's Day with his Dad in town. We all went on a picnic at Presidio Park, and Bridget slept through it. Bridget truly has the best Daddy around.

Last week, Papaw (Steve), Nonnie (Ronnie), and Great Aunt Diane visited. We went to Balboa Park, make a third trip to the Hotel del Coronado (I guess this is where you take visitors) and had our first trip to the San Diego Zoo.

Smiling as she dozes off

"The Del"

Balboa Park

With Mom at The Del

With Dad at the zoo

The whole group at the zoo

Flamingos at the zoo

With Mom at the zoo

I've been trying to capture all of her tiny little features as much as possible, and these are a couple of my favorites. She is growing so fast. I tried to pack away her newborn clothes the other day, and it made me too sad that she is already grown out of them. We are trying our best to soak up every moment. I am pretty convinced that she is Mike's mini-me based on some pictures that Mimi and Poppy brought of Mike around the same age, and when Mike is holding her (or sleeping next to her) I see a lot of similarities.

Mike as a baby

I'll try my best to keep the updates coming!