Millet's

I just couldn't stand the fact that I hadn't updated our blog in over a year. I love looking at other people's blogs and wait for updates, yet I rarely take time to update this one. I've got to be better, I'm terrible at keeping a journal so I better do something. So here's a few updated pictures of our family to start out. Ahhh, I feel better now.

I can't believe how fast these past 6 months have gone by. I've been meaning to post an update for a while now. Here it is. Juliette is now over 6 months old. Our first month or 2 we struggled, I was nursing her and she had a very sensitive stomach. I finally figured out that I couldn't eat dairy or bread. Well that's pretty much all I ate. I struggled with what I could eat. Finally we got it figured out and we were both happy. She is such a good baby. Here she is month by month. It's crazy looking back at how little she was, she's growing way too fast! Sorry I don't know how to put them in a cute collage.

6 Months

5 months

4 months

3 months

2 months

1 month

New born



Here are some fun facts about our little lady.

She rolled over at 4 months, she can roll her way into trouble very quickly now.

She loves having her diaper changed, She loves the personal attention plus she doesn't like to be wet.

She loves men, she smiles a lot more at men then women.

She is a wonderful sleeper, she sleeps 11-12 hours straight through the night.

She laughs the most at Denton. She loves her brother!

She HATES peas. She spits them out the second she realizes what's in her mouth.

She looks everywhere for her Daddy when she hears his voice.

She gives me big hugs when I get her out of bed. She grabs onto whatever she can to get closer so she can hug me.

She is such a sweet girl, it's so much fun to see her personality developing. I just wish I could freeze time so she stays little.

Denton has been taking swimming lessons for the last couple weeks, he is doing great! The only part he doesn't like is doing back floats. He doesn't like the water in his ears. His favorite thing to do is dive for a carrot toy, he always comes up with a smile. He has had a lot of fun doing these lessons so I think we will try to get him into a sport soon. Here are some video's of his swimming.

Well it's about time I post about our wonderful addition to our family. Juliette Marie Millet was born July 18 weighing in at 7lb 15oz and 22 1/2in long. No wonder why she was always in my ribs.

I'm very lucky and blessed to have such great pregnancy's. The first trimester I pretty much survived on potatoes and milk. That was all I could really tolerate without getting nauseous. The only problem I had in the second trimester was I was always stuffy and that lasted right up until the end. Third trimester Juliette was very comfortable in my ribs and of course I just got more and more uncomfortable.

If you don't want to read about my labor and delivery skip over this part. There wasn't a ton of progress by the time I was at the 40 week mark just enough to make me feel comfortable enough to get induced. We went to the hospital at about 3 and got things going. The nurse told me at about 4:30 that someone was going to come in and break my water. We waited and waited. Finally I called the nurse in because I thought they had forgotten about me, she told us that there was an emergency c-section and then 2 more c-sections before they would be in. At about 7:30 the anesthesiologist came in and gave me my epidural and shortly after that the Doctor came in and broke my water, I dilated pretty quickly after that and I pushed through 3 or 4 contractions(about 10 min) and our sweet little girl was here.

I had the best nurses! My good friend that I met in AZ who lives here was my nurse. It was a little weird having my friend do all the dirty work but at the same time it was great, we sat and chatted and laughed throughout my whole labor and delivery. I really mean through the whole thing, between pushing we were all laughing. It really was a fun experience. How many people can honestly say that about their labor and delivery.

Denton likes to help when she's crying. He gets upset if he's not the one who gives her her binky. He did want to move her but now he just wants to hold on to a corner of the blanket when I'm moving her some where. He's been really sweet with her, if she's upset and I'm busy he brings her his favorite blanket to try and comfort her. He isn't interested in holding her at all though, he has only held her once for 30 seconds maybe. I guess holding babies is just not his thing.

So far she has been a great baby. Her and Denton have been taking naps at the same time every day so that means I get a nap too. She will have a 5-6 hour sleeping stretch in the night too which is wonderful.

So far we are all adjusting well.

I think having a girl brought out all of my craftiness. I've made quite a few things for our little lady to wear and also for her room. Be prepared for a ton of pictures.
First of all Darwin's Mom painted these AWESOME paintings for the baby's room. Originally I was going to paint the 2 small ones and she was going to just paint the big one but I was having way too much fun sewing to paint. She ended up painting all of them. I love them.

Karen(my sister) re-painted my rocking chair and I made a seat cushion for it.


Karen also re-painted this dresser too and sprayed the handles and the 2 frames on top green. This is the cutest color of green! I can't get enough of it. I also sewed some material to the back of sheer curtains to keep the room darker.


I sewed the teething rail covers and matching crib skirt from scratch. I also recovered the bumper.

This is what the bumper looked like before...



Now for the most intimidating and biggest project, the carseat. I took it apart peice by peice and cut new fabric to recover it. We didn't buy gender neutral obviously so I wanted to make it extra girly because by the time we have another baby this carseat will be expired and we will have to buy a new one anyway.

Here's the before pictures.




And after.....



I love how it turned out! Now if you look too close you can see that a beginner did it but I'm proud of how it turned out, flaws and all!

Here are some skirts I made. Onsies I embellished and bows(that I have pics of) that I have made.







I still have a few more projects to do. I have more decorating projects to do for her room. I also want to make a couple of little tutu's for her and some other fun crafty girly things for her to wear. I'm telling you I just can't get enough of the frills and bows!

I got most of my patterns and ideas from other peoples blogs and tutorials on line, if you're interested in any let me know and I will send you a link.

I am SO excited to have a little girl in our house....if she would just get here! I hope the new addition post will be coming very soon!

And here's what I'm looking like now days.