There are no words

This photo defies all words. So. freaking. AWESOME!

Professor Zing Zang

The kid has more nicknames than anyone I know! Elyse C., Ely, Buzz Buzz, Buzzard, Turtle, Bug, Boober, Professor Zing Zang (Jason's creation after a Bloody Mary Mix!)

She is so awesome! She started sitting up on her own around my birthday. Her pediatrician said she should not be able to do that yet and was quite impressed. Since we have known she was a child genius since birth, we were not surpised at the report.

People randomly stop us to tell us how cute she is, then she will flash her toothless grin and make them swoon even more! She has made lots of friends via our play groups and Gymboree! Life is fabulous with this little girl!

Family Pictures

Oh, I have been SO bloody busy! We turned a corner and I have been fully sucked in to the mommy vortex and mommy mafia!! Elyse and I have joined two playgroups and are members of the Children's Museum and GYMBOREE!! I sing and blow bubbles and havejust fully surrendered. Elyse is the best kid on the planet. Jason and I marvel about how lucky we are. Check out the gorgeous pictures Ande took!! This was June 12...

Smiles!

She is smiling! She does what we call the "silent laugh" and has this big sh^tty grin across her face and busts the gums out. My god, she is gorgeous!!

Smiles!

She is smiling! She does what we call the "silent laugh" and has this big sh^tty grin across her face and busts the gums out. My god, she is gorgeous!!

14 weeks and cuter than ever!

She is so adorable!! She loves to stand on her chubby little legs and check out the world. She is sleeping for HUGE stretches now--we are so happy. We give her a bath around 8 pm and she is usually down by 9. She sleeps from then until 3:30 then takes a bottle and sleeps until 7am!! She loves her balloon and her jumper. I swear she said BALLOON last Thursday--Valerie, her babysitter, heard it too!

In FABULOUS other news, I am going to be an AUNTIE! Ande and Jen are expecting!! We are so excited--our Christmas is going to be so awesome!

Easter

Here are the pics from Easter. We had a fab time at bruch! This weekend we took Elyse to San Antonio! She hit the Riverwalk and Sea World at the ripe old age of 10 weeks. We had a great time, I will post pics soon!

Easter!

We had such a wonderful Easter with the family! Elysie and I spent the weekend in Spring with Grammy and Papa Dawg. Jason joined us Saturday and the whole family went to brunch Sunday. Elyse looked so CUTE it was ridiculous!!

Two Months!

She hit her two month mark last Mondee. We were told that six weeks is a magical turning point and that she would begin to sleep and settle in to a schedule. We were lied to. She is a nut and has gone as long as 14 hours during the day without napping. Then she will sleep for about 5 hours. I dream of hiring a night nurse. Thank god for my paretns, who relieve me at least 2 times per week and J Dub, who is a wonderful daddy.

She is so freaking funny, though, for being a psycho insomniac!! She has started screaming when she is pissed and makes a very impressive guh-guh sound. We think she is going to be a real hell raiser.

For the most part, she's really content--she can sit (while not sleeping) and just check everything out, no fussing. She does great in the car and at restaurants.

My family has been so awesome with helping me with her. Thank god that we are so close!!! Elyse will never have to ask, "What can brown do for you? She will know."

Yo Gabba Gabba RULES!!

We love Yo Gabba Gabba! Elyse freaks out and dances her lil cheeks off when we put it on. It is so freaking funny!!

Week 5

We still have no schedule. Not even a vague semblance of a schedule. I think this is normal. She is cuter every day--I cannot get over it. She's a gassy lil bugger. We think she may have a milk sensitivity, so I am giving up as much dairy as possible as a semi-vegetarian, this is harder than it sounds. I have found some fake milk that's not bad (almond milk) and am experiementing with rice milk products. Maybe it will help me lose weight...

Jason and I are doing pretty well at working as a team to take care of her. We are still figuring things out, however. Hopefully once we get a schedule things will calm down.

The little thief

We have been calling her the little thief because she steals everyone's heart and adoration! We have been sooooo lucky to have my family, each of whom is crazy about the child. Grammy spends the night every Tuesday, Aunt Lisa on Friday, Papa Dawg comes by all of the time and Aunt Jen and Ande are wonderful with her!! Aunt Kathy adores her too!! Things are getting a little easier, I dare say. She is so full of life and alert. She has been smiling which utterly melts me...

Scary stuff

She had the scariest exorcist spit up/puke today. She was covered from chest to toes. I reacted as any reasonable first time mother would by calling my mom in tears and screaming for her to call the pediatrician and calling Jason in tears and being unable to speak due to my hysteria. I was convinced it was the end and was paralyzed by fear. Thank god our pediatrician RAWKS. He called me to assure me that exorcist pukes are only worrisome if the baby's head spins around and she starts speaking in tongues. Dr. Wollens is tres cool and funny! I have resolved to review infant CPR everyday this weekend. This parenthood thing is not for the faint of heart...

Fabulous Daddy

Jason is such a wonderful dad! He has been taking the first couple of night shifts and giving Elyse pumped milk in bottles, takes great pride in developing new strategies for getting her to sleep and loves to give Elyse "salon style rinses" when we give her a bath. It is such a beautiful thing to watch the daddy daughter bonding. I am just stupid in love with my family...

Gorgeous George

Went to my post partum visit with Dr. Nanda today and found out that everything looks great! These pics are from today. The child is so fabulously gorgeous I just have no other words...

Newborntitis

Holy hell fire. Having an infant is so freaking hard. Everyone tells you that you will have no clue what hit you no matter how much you read and think you have prepared for it. Everyone is right. She is worth every hour of lost sleep and bout of tears. But it is SO HARD...

Happy Birthday Elyse!!

We got home from the hospital on Friday (2/6) and had an awesome welcoming crew! Jennie came in from Austin and brought candy and wine to celebrate the homecoming! Jen and Lisa came over as well, we all had dinner and I had lots of help with the baby.

On Sunday (2/8) Grammy Aguilar threw a beautiful birthday party for Elyse! We had yummy food, lots of family and a wonderful afternoon celebrating the little bug. Ande took some awesome photos, which I will post separately. I am posting my amateur ones now.

Elyse's B-day story

Elyse Caroline Dyer was born at 6:46pm on February 2, 2009. She weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces and measured 19.2 inches long. She is the most beautiful child ever to grace the planet. EVER!

On February 1, 2009, Jason and I headed to the hospital for Elyse's birthday--there was not a lot of action Sunday night--the real fun started on Monday. I had been dilating steadily all morning--when I reached 4 cm, I started thinking of asking for my epidural. I was trying to be tough and hold on for a while on my own. Big mistake. By 11:30, I requested the epidural. I was told I was next in line and that it would be 15 minutes or so. As luck would have it, there were 3 emergencies that popped up in the hospital between my request and my epidural which was administered TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER. By that time, I was pyschotic. I could no longer speak English, my olny means of communication was a repetative moan. The anthesthesiologist actually asked me if I spoke English (what a skank!). After the epidural, I regained the ability to communicate in my native tongue, only to find out that Elyse was not descending into the birth canal. I had dilated all the way to an 8, but she was still at a minus three station. To quote my doctor "Elyse is in Dallas and she needs to be in Houston." So, I agreed to a C-section and was wheeled off about an hour and a half later. The C-section was scary as hell. I have never had surgery and had no idea what to expect. I think I had a mixture of a bad reaction to the anthesthesia and a huge case of nerves, so I was shaking violently the whole time. There was some strange techno music jamming in the operating room, which did nothing to dispel the freakiness of the event. Jason came in in his "bunny suit" as they called it, and was able to watch the whole procedure which only lasted about 2 minutes. He said Elyse came out, took a deep breath and then cooly looked around. Then she screamed bloody murder, which means "hello!" in newbron language. They popped Elyse over the tent so I could get a look at her. Jason said she was perfect. It happened quite quickly, then Jason was asked to leave the room. Apparently, my placenta retracted and the doctors were having a hard time putting Humpty back together again. After about 30 minutes, I was rolled in to the recovery room. It turned out that Elyse was facing the wrong way to descend into the birth canal--she was "sunny side up" as Dr. Cook described it. A natural birth would have been a disaster.And thus, the great adventure of the Dyer Made began.