Gotta Love Grandparents

Alexis has had her fill of grandparent time recently. My parents (Grandma and Grandpa Adams) came to Springfield a week ago to visit for the day. They hadn't seen her in over a month and couldn't believe how much she had changed. I was thrilled that she willingly let them hold her, sometimes she gets super clingy with me and her lower lip comes out and she begins crying until Mommy comes to rescue her. She snuggled up close with Grandma and hung out with Grandpa too.

The day after my parents visited, Greg's mom (Nana) came to stay with us for a night. Alexis was very happy with Nana too.

A few days after Nana's visit, Alexis and I went up to the Portland area to stay the night with Grandma and Grandpa Adams. Alexis got to hang out with her cousin Macie and her Uncle Ty and Aunt Katrina too!

Macie seems to enjoy Alexis more and more each time we see her. I think the feeling was actually reciprocated this time around. It is so neat to see them interact with one another. Macie thinks it is pretty funny that Baby Lexi will reach for her and "talk" to her now.

After a busy day with family, we hit the hay to get up bright and early with Grandma Adams to go meet Aunt Nikki and Grandma Teune in Woodburn. We all traveled to Newport to go to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Alexis sure enjoyed the bright colors of the fish and watching their movements in the water.

The only picture I have of all four of us was from the souvenir picture Grandma Teune bought, so please excuse the "picture of a picture" quality.

Valentine's Day

To make Valentine's Day special this year I had to get super creative and not spend any money from our budget (times are tight in the Teune household, but God is good and we trust in his faithfulness). I wanted to give Greg a Valentine from Alexis, but didn't know how to really make it from her personally when she is too young to color or scribble. I thought I would be brave and do a little hand print. I found 75cents in our junk drawer (enough to cover the cost of the 57cent white paint at Wal-Mart.) Next I cut out out hearts using my Cricut machine and put together a little Valentine for Daddy. Actually getting a hand print from a 4 month old proved to be quite difficult, but we did okay if you don't count the thumb that didn't want to straighten out :)

We had planned to meet Greg at his work to have lunch (the Hilton had Qdoba cater for lunch). I felt a little bad that I hadn't done anything for Greg from me as a gift, but figured his daughter was the best Valentine ever. Before we left to visit him, I saw a friend post to Instagram that Dutch Bros was having a special...

I couldn't help but feel like God was looking out for me. I raided our kitchen for some canned food and we set off to get Daddy an Iced Vanilla Latte and bring him his Valentines.

Once we got home, the sun was shining so I got out the stroller to go for a walk. I saw the blanket sitting in the stroller that we always use on our walks and realized it was very fitting for Valentine's Day. We had an impromptu photo shoot...

Hope all of you had a very Happy Valentine's Day!

4 Months Old

Alexis at 4 months: This photo shoot has proven to be the most difficult in the sense that she didn't want to cooperate. The first day she refused to smile and sat looking at me stoically the whole time and fussed on and off throughout it. Then I had us take a little break and she fell asleep. We tried the photo shoot again the next day and things went much better. Alexis has been using her hands to hold onto toys, blankets, Mommy's hair, and bring everything to her mouth. She is officially a crib sleeper now and has been sleeping in her own room for quite a while. We love that she is sleeping so well, but she uses thumb sucking to help soothe... we hope this doesn't become an issue later, but for now it's adorable. Alexis continues to smile and giggle at things that Mommy and Daddy say and do. She is very close to rolling over from her back to her tummy and can lift her head up very high during tummy time now. Spitting up is an hourly if not half hourly event, so she has been able to get a lot of use out of her bibs lately. I know these next few months will bring many more changes. I am of course excited about that, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for so much change to happen to my baby!