Teach them to Pray.

My sweet, sweet girl. You were doing this all by yourself and i had to run and grab my cell to capture it. 

Thanks.

Dear Lydia, 

Thanksgiving is kind of a thing in our family. a thing that we like. You see Grandpa Bozarth passed away 2 days before thanksgiving and his funeral was the day after. For a couple years i was not its biggest fan. and then there was the year Daddy and i started dateing. I invited him to thanksgiving with me family, we were not even official yet but he missed his families party so i thought he should come to mine. Thats when it hit him. amidst our crazy family he somehow decided he wanted to marry me. He didn't tell me until latter of course, that would have been weird. ;) Now i love Thanksgiving. Here is a picture of you at your first one. about 12 days old. ish. 

Love Mom

Newborn Photo Session.

You were having a sassy day... you were just hungry.

The day you met Alexandra Noel Burke

Dear Lydia,
This is Alex. First she was Hermana Burke, my favorite mission companion. one of the best blessings i took home from my mission. She loves you.
Love Mom
 

 

So i don't look so hot. hey, i just had a baby.



Baby kisses. You alwaysed kissed back. :) 

 

 

 

Splish Splash.

Dear Lydia,

This was your first bath. Daddy did it.

I took a still too. just to make sure to capture it.

You really didn't like nakedness there for a while. even when we were just changing your diaper. 

tough love. 

Love Mom

Jaundice.

I didn't know what that was. they had to prick your heal so many times. (it didn't hurt you because you didn't have nerves yet) but you cried because you liked to have control of your feet. can't blame you. I cried too. but only when you cried. We had to go to the doctor like 5 times for them to do it.

Annoying.

Just in case you are wondering, I will tell you what it is. I had never heard of it before and apparently its a Lofgreen thing. Everyone gets it. So here goes. 

When a baby is in the womb they need a special type of blood cell that can take the oxygen from the mothers blood cells and transfer it. When a baby is born and can breath these cells are useless and need to be disposed. There can be too many for the liver to handle so as a plan b some of the cells are transferred to the surface of the skin so the sun can eliminate them. This is why a Jaundice baby can appear yellow. There is a point system that doctors use to measure the number of cells it goes to about a 25, thats where it gets dangerous. You never get that far but you capped at about 17. It does not hurt at all. 

You got a little tanning bed you were supposed to be in all the time. You didn't let that happen. 

We got some pictures though.

Hospital Party

 Sorry you had to wear hospital clothes. :) You rocked it.

Then Dad took some on his Iphone.

 Until we went home, then you wore a vintage (mommies) crochet dress.

Everyone came to see us, sadly we didn't get every picture. But i'll make you a list.

 Creepy Uncle Kevin was there.

 And he brought your favorite Aunt Kaley.

 (he was there a lot, creepy) ;)

 Aunt Ali came. and took the pics. love her.

 Grandma West was one of the first to hold you.

 Of course Grandma and Grandpa Novak were there. Grandma watched you being born, as you can tell from her voice in the video. (there was an awkward moment where Grandpa John and Uncle Austin tried to come in my labor room, that was the only time i yelled.)

Grandpa Dave and Uncle Derek were there too. Everyone was so excited to meet you we just had everyone, for sure the biggest party in the hospital at 5:30 in the morning. and i am sure they waited a few hours.
  You are a big deal to your family, my love. 
 Over the days we had Great Grandma Shirley, Uncle Dustin and Aunt Juls, Uncle Josh and your Great Aunt Vickie. Aunt Candis brought you (us) Flowers and a beautiful little poem (should be in your book). My besties Jessica, Whitnee, and Lacey came. and everyone else we know came to visit you in the weeks that followed.

 Can you see Uncle Danny and Aunt Brooke with T and Z on the ipad?

It was such a happy time.

11/11/2011 or something like it.

Dear Lydia, 

My Our water broke November 10th. which was pretty cool for me because it was my Daddy's birthday. The last message i sent to him was written on a balloon that I let go of at his funeral. I told him to take care of his grand babies.
He loves you.

Hello pictures!

Disclaimer:
this is actually the iphone video Daddy/Grandma Judy took. if you don't want to see your actual birth don't push play. ( you can't see any of my parts)

and there is this one that i love too. 

 then we cuddled a lot. 

and Daddy too. (that was the first time he ever held you.)