Our Baby Girl

Our Baby Girl

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

One Month!!



It is so hard to believe that Liliana is almost a month old. She has done so much this month including meeting family, friends, and going on outings. Two weekends ago Adam's parents Barry and Lynn and his sister Natalie came to visit. Last Saturday, Liliana got to meet her Great Aunts Judy and Carol, her Great Uncle Bruce and her Great Grandmother Ruskie. Liliana loved being held and posing for many pictures. We look forward to Nick and Melissa (visiting us from NY) this weekend.



Liliana on March 15, 2009... Her original due date!























On Sunday, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and took Liliana to Biltmore Estate!







Adam and Liz are adjusting fairly well to life with a newborn. Liliana is starting to have a 2-3hour alert period during the day. It has been fun to see her big eyes. We have been taking advantage of this time to sing to her and show her the black and yellow picture book that Aunt Michelle got her. We also set up her Bobby swing for her to play in while she's awake.





On St. Patricks Day, Liliana took her first stroller ride in the park with Mommy. It was a beautiful day and Liliana loved sleeping in the stroller.





Liliana had her newborn pictures taken March 18th. It took her a while to fall asleep, but once she did we were able to get wonderful pictures. The photographer was very patient and takes beautiful pictures. She also did Liz's maternity pictures. Check out her blog to see a sneak peak of Liliana's newborn pictures.
http://katycookphotography.com/blog/
(Liliana's pictures are under 03/20/2009 titled Spring, lots of newborns!)






On March 20th, Liliana had her 3 week checkup with the Dr. Chu. He said she was growing great and seemed very healthy. He said that he will see her next at her 2 month checkup. Oh, yeah... she weighed 6lbs!!!

Adam went back to work last Wednesday and is excited to begin working from home now on Mondays and Tuesdays!

Here is a final pic of our little girl sleeping and her cute little smile she does when she sleeps!



Friday, March 13, 2009

It's a Girl!

After months and months of waiting, Adam and I finally got to meet our baby and it was a Girl!! Our precious Liliana Marie Smith was born at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC at 1:50pm on February 27, 2009. She weighed 5lbs, 3oz and was 17in long.



After a brief stay in the hospital for an infection, Liliana finally got to go home to a new house.























Once home Adam, Liz and Liliana experienced many firsts...

First time sleeping in the cradle: (the one Adam also was in)































First bath:





































Adam's first time changing a diaper:

















Adam also had the joy of celebrating his 28th birthday as a Daddy! We chose this special occasion to take Liliana out for the first time. We had dinner at Fatz Cafe and she slept the whole time!

























































Each day that passes we are cherishing. We realize she will only be this little once and we are trying to take every moment in. Here she is already holding her bottle at 11days old.