Monday, December 13, 2010

My 8 Month Old!

Alas, another month has passed already!

New happenings in our little world:

  • She can wiggle, roll and slide to get pretty much anything she wants. Which immediately goes in her mouth! No crawling yet, but she might as well.
  • So close to crawling. She can push up on her hands. Just hasn't figured out how to use her legs yet!
  • She gets so much joy out of removing her socks. Immediately after I put them on. Seriously, big money could be made with a product that could get baby socks on!
  • We've moved to Stage 2 baby food. She likes this much better. She actually laughed with the first bite I gave her. Kinda like I'd been holding out. So far she loves all vegetables and only likes bananas in the fruit department. She obviously doesn't get her taste buds from me!
  • Favorite real people food: Mashed Potatoes! She actually cries when we are finished.
  • We are back to waking at night to eat. No fun for Mommy! I got that sweet taste of sleeping through the night and I'm not a fan of waking up now! We are working on it though!
  • She wants something in her hands all the time. Especially if it makes noise!
  • She is constantly wiggling her wrists back and forth like she is revving a motorcycle! She even sometimes makes the sound effects with her mouth!
  • First word: "Mama" (although its more like "MaMaMaMa Ma Ma Ma Maaaa")
  • Loves her Daddy's rock star display of Christmas lights on our house!
  • She has pretty much mastered the pincher grasp with eating, although sometimes said pinched item gets lost on her chin/lap/cheek and never makes it to her mouth.
  • Loves to grab fistfuls of my hair to just pull or even eat. Seriously if you see me with some bald spots, you'll know what happened.
  • This month she had her first Thanksgiving and her first visit with Santa! (I'll post more about each of these later!)
She had so much fun playing in a friend's ball pit! She would just keep getting deeper and deeper until all you could see was her little eyes peeking up through all the balls!

Candy Cane Baby!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Christmas Cards

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I've always loved the idea of Christmas cards. Sending and receiving cards from long lost friends and family, seeing how families have changed since the previous year's card. And I love looking at an entire display of Christmas cards... it really makes you feel loved! This will be our first year sending out Christmas Cards. It really is amazing how a baby will change everything! And since I have a huge problem making any kind of decision (especially since this card will be how people remember us for an entire year! no pressure!)
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Monday, November 15, 2010

My 7 Month Old!

New things with our 7 month old!
  • She can sit up on her own (with a few balance checks.)
  • She has suddenly turned into the independent, wiggly little girl. Wanting to jump all the time.
  • We've moved on to baby food. So far we've tried: green beans (yuck!), carrots (okay), sweet potatoes (yummy!), squash (yummy!), apples (okay) and bananas (super yummy!). She also likes baby MumMums (little rice cakes) - and will hold them like a big girl, then proceeds to suck it dry until it finally gives up and dissolves!
  • Wears 6 month clothes. 9 month PJs and 3-6 month dresses.
  • Is the happiest, most smiley little girl ever! She seriously finds everything in life funny!
  • And (on an unhappy note) we have our first cold. I really, really, really don't like that my baby doesn't feel good. Or the amount of snot I am constantly wiping off her face!
A few other pictures from the past month:

Happy girl!

Happy girl playing in the leaves!
The one picture without leaves in her mouth!


I love my daddy! What are these things on our faces?
Yep, you look as silly as me!

The amount of pictures I had to take to just get 'the one!'

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Help

Tattoo "helped" me take some pics of Ellis today.
I use the word "help" loosely.
He remembers the day when he was always the focus of my camera (and attention).

I'll be sad when those cute baby cheeks go away!

I still managed to get some cute photos...
please ignore my dirty house and Tattoo in the background!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Hoot Hoot!

Sweet Baby Owl

Sweet Baby Girl

Halloween 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Pumpkin Patch

We took Ellis to the Pumpkin Patch last weekend. Apparently we weren't the only ones that had this idea as approximately 9,437 people and their kids were there. We literally walked up snapped a few pictures and left. I actually think the walk to and from the car took longer! We had fun though. Ellis tried to eat everything, including the baby pumpkins and some hay.

And just in case you didn't know... Its impossible to get a picture of 3 kids 3 and under. Our sweet friends, the Murrays were along for the ride. Its tradition we all go together every year. Next year we plan on going early to hopefully enjoy a less crowded experience and possibly some actual Fall weather (since it was 90 degrees out this day).

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Jumping!

A little video of E jumping and yelling all her energy out!
Notice how she does a little hang-time (legs up) in the beginning and then stops to "yell" at Dad about 3/4 of the way through.

This pretty much sums up our little 6 month old!