Pictures of the Early Days of Bailey

Written 1/12/12

We were in the hospital for 6 days before we were released to Austin. 2 days later we headed to Meridian so that we could see Tori who was there watching the Meridian vs Santo football game and also, see Franny again. Tori was in 8th or 9th grade here? Franny loved showing off Bailey so soon after birth! She even did night duty so I could sleep more!

These are some of our favorite Bailey pictures. I think they are in chronological order.

Blue doing some babysitting for me : ). 

Bathtime!

This was actually her birth announcement picture. Katie had given her this sweet little night gown.

This was around 6 weeks old when I joined Square One at our church. It was a group of girls with kiddos born within 4 months of Bailey (either earlier or later) who met with 2 mentor moms. It was a wonderful time of fellowship with other moms going through the same stage of life as I was.

A family photo at Frannys.

 

In late January we headed up to Kansas to see my grandparents and then to Beaver Creek, CO to see Walt and Brandon, and then to Elizabeth, CO to see Luke's dad. We drove up there, remember me saying Bailey was an easy baby?

Me & Bailey with Meme and Papa

 

My meme's name is Dorothy and she lives in Kansas, so I grew up thinking she was the actual Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. In her hometown is a Wizard of Oz museum, which only furthered my beliefs.

The Mezger Munchkins visiting the museum

Bailey and I after a day of skiing. Bailey had a fun day at the drop in daycare.

Here we are at the Denver rodeo. It was so fun, until the next day when I realized I had caught a stomach bug there and we had 15 hours of driving home to do. Thankfully Luke drove the whole way home while I puked every 30 mins to 1 hour. Only to have Luke & Bailey catch it from me when we got home- ughh.

 

At a basketball game where Santo was playing Meridian and I came up to watch.

A good opportunity to see two sets of grandparents at once.

 

Sitting up

Hanging out with a little bitty Emmy and accidently hitting her.

 

Learning to crawl

 Loving the exersaucer!

First Kite Festival with the Fosheas

Bailey's First Christmas

Written 1/12/12

Bailey would have been 3.5 months old her first Christmas. 

Both were taken mid December.

Our first stop that year was my parent's. They had just moved out to Santo and this was our first year to celebrate it in their newly remodeled house! This was our Christmas card picture that year.

Andrew, Tori, Luke, Bailey, and I went to the mall one day while we were there and got some snapshots with Santa. This was back before Luke told me how he found out Santa wasn't real, how angry he got about it, and that he didn't wanted to lie to our kids about it.

 

And then Christmas Eve at my Nana's house. I can't believe how few pictures I took.

Next we headed to Franny's house in Meridian.

Franny took this as we got to met Owen and Kyle & Ali got to meet Bailey for the first time. I remember that we got there a couple of days before Kyle, Ali, and Owen did. On the day for them to arrive Luke and Franny were dying for them to get there, and by dying I mean calling every hour and checking out the window even though they knew they couldn't be here yet. Can I just say how glad I am that y'all move to Austin!!!

 Next it was time to get Owen in his matching jammies thanks to their Nana. Owen was the first baby besides Bailey for us to spend alot of time with. It was interesting to watch the similarities and differences. It was this exact moment that we had a break through with tummy time by propping Bailey up on her elbows and using the boppy. Owen was still not a fan of tummy time.

 

Also, while taking these pictures I started noticing how much Bailey was drooling and how she was chewing on her fingers. Sure enough a month later she had two bottom teeth coming in.

If you look closely, you can see a white speck on the bottom gum ridge. This was taken in January.

Back to Christmas, I love this picture. Franny had waited so long to get to hold both her grandbabies at the same time.

Bailey playing her first game of Settler's of Catan. I forget about the days when we could play games.

And apparently we played it more than once. Bailey (or Owen ??) is to Luke's left in the bouncy chair. I remember that it was this trip that she started pulling the little creatures off and thus the grabbing phase began. And that Kyle got Puerto Rico, another fun strategy game.

We took lots of pictures!

Other things I want to remember/take note of: 

• Bailey & Owen will be the only grandkids to have celebrated a holiday or been in Franny's house in Meridian.
• Somewhere out there is a video of a Bailey blowout, where Franny turns on the fan to help with the smell, which only helped to circulate it, but leaves the room.
• Franny was given peanut brittle from a sweet elderly neighbor who had accidently used pinto beans instead of peanuts. 
• And Franny made us listen to a very country CD of some Christmas songs, more than once.

Next we headed back to Austin and met up with BB, Bailey's great grandmother.

And then we headed to Camp Buckner by way of another great grandparent's place- Great Grandpa Robert and were surprised that alot of Bailey's 2nd cousins were there.

Here we are at the amphitheatre at Camp Buckner. Luke was really sad, maybe even heartbroken, that they closed it down as a summer camp and that our kids will never be an Apache. The debate is still out as to where our kids will go to summer camp.

Halloween

Written 1/11/12

Can you imagine how giddy I was when I found out that my due date was in September, because that meant that I would have a little bitty baby for Halloween? As hard as it may be to believe, I didn't plan anything big except a Halloween potluck with our old neighbors. We had just moved the previous August from our house on Woodview to an apartment, while our new house on Idlewild was getting remodeled. We had lived in our Woodview home for 4 years and had come to dearly love our neighbors and how closely knit they were! But let me back to up to some pumpkin patch picture first.

These were taken the week of Halloween.

And this was back when Blue got pictures taken of her too. She was our first baby, but is now our dog.

So the story behind the pirate themed costumes was that a friend was going to let us borrow a newborn parrot costume. So we went and bought pirate costumes for us to go along with it, but then the friend accidentally let someone else borrow the costume, so Bailey ended up just being a pirate also. 

At the time, she was just getting the baby acne that some babies get. She was my only one to get it.

She slept through the whole potluck.

One of my favorite things about this night was knocking on Joel & Katie and Tara & Rob doors and surprising them with our costumes.

Moses Boys Reunion in Chicago

Written 1/11/12

When Bailey was exactly 6 weeks old, we took her on her first airplane ride to meet up with some of Luke's college buddies in Chicago. Sean & Harmony were living up there at the time and it was perfect for a reunion as it had probably been 4 years since all of the boys had been together. Looking back I can't believe we did that and I can only shake my head at how easy of a baby Bailey was. Thankfully, she was and we enjoyed a great trip catching up with old friends.

This was taken on the airplane of Bailey sucking on Luke's pinky finger. She definitely took a pacifier at this point, but this must have worked for the time being.

Not exactly sure where we were, but I have always liked this picture and I know it was close to the University of Chicago where Harmony was getting her Masters Degree.

There was lots of silly moments.

Harmony holding Bailey.

The bean.

Here's most of the gang, minus Brandon who was taking the picture.

There was LOTS of walking.

It was really cold (to a Texan) so we kept Bailey bundled up!

Luke & Mike.

I can't remember why Walt wasn't there at first, but he joined us a day or two late. Here he is meeting Bailey.

Bailey's first trip to the zoo.

Where's Luke???

At the time I was wondering when and if I was going to get my brain back. Sadly, I haven't.

Wrigley Field, obviously.

Jose was the baby whisperer of the trip. He is so good with babies! Bailey just sacked out on him.

This was a funny moment when Mike, Harmony, and I had just gotten done doing the superman dance in the middle of the street and I think we were showing off our best pouty face???

Good times!!!