8 month-aversary

This may never happen again. I'm getting this posted within 24 hours of the baby's 8 month-aversary passing by. Yesterday marked the big 8 months for baby girl, and my oh my she's growing by leaps and bounds. Let's get to it.

Baby girl - you are nothing short of amazing. Your smile lights up a room, your laugh is infectious, and you have this whole family wrapped around your little fingers.

You've had a big month! We celebrated your first Thanksgiving, decorated for your first Christmas, and a handful of other things. You're an official "crawler" now. Last month you were mobile but it was mostly the "army" crawl, now you're up on your hands and knees and on the move. As predicted you're into everything and unstoppable.

Operation "baby-poof" is in full swing. You're also eating mostly solid foods now. You decided it was much more fun to feed yourself than to be fed by mama and daddy. You're an independent little thing...go figure. You're also drinking out of a sippy cup now.

You can get yourself up sitting all own your own. This is one of your favorite ways to sit. To me it doesn't look to comfortable, but hey, you seem happy.

Oh and that thing you're doing with your toes here...you get that from Mama...Daddy can't do it.

You have 7 teeth now. 4 up top and three on bottom.

Excuse the sweet potatoes and cheerios in the mouth, this is apparently the only picture we have that show all your pearly whites. And speaking of teeth, there is nothing you won't chew on. Neither of your brothers were big on finding things and sticking in their mouths...but not you. Socks I think are your favorite. You love to "help" mommy do laundry, and by help I mean grab all the socks and slobber all over them. However, anything you find is fair game - including random berries attached to flowers in the craft store that you grab while in the cart and quickly maneuver into your mouth forcing yours truly to fish it out with the little "hook swipe" method I learned years ago in lifeguard training. You are truly something else - I couldn't love you any more.

You wave to everyone and I swear you are trying to say "bye bye". You've graduated out of your little bathtub now that you're sitting so well and sit in the regular tub. You love to just sit and splash. Wow...you really have been busy this month.

As always we just couldn't love you more and I am cherishing every second I get with you. You're growing up so fast, and before I know it you're going to be a year old. Seems hard to believe. So happy 8 months baby girl...can't wait to see what you come up with next!

7.5 month-aversary

I'm not even going to pretend I got this in even somewhat "on-time". I know I'm usually late with these postings, but this one is just REALLY late. The pictures were taken just a few days after she turned 7 months, it's just been getting them up on the computer - and talking about them. Okay, enough with my sob-story, here we go.

Baby girl, you are now 7 months old and boy oh boy have you been busy. Your biggest news - you are officially on the move!! While your not text-book crawling, you're definitely on the move, and have to be watched at all times.



You also had 2 more teeth come in, giving you a grand total of 5 pearly whites! #6 is about to break through any day now.

You talk ALL the time. Ba ba, da da, ta ta, na na...you get the idea. You just babble all day and can't get enough of being talked to. You LOVE to play peek-a-boo. It's precious. You are still a great eater and have yet to turn anything down.

Now the list includes squash, peas, bananas, avocados, black beans, peaches, pears, crackers, cheerios, even some graham crackers - oh and pumpkin bread!! Yes it appears that mama has loosed up a bit when it comes to the "what babies should eat" timeline. There is no doubt about it - you are a third baby!! Soon we're going to start on some of the meats. You've got the chewing down and are very interested in everything that we are eating. You also figured out how to feed yourself which is cute, but also very messy!

You are hovering right in-between 6-12 and 12-18 month clothes. The 6-12 size is just too short - seems you are getting longer baby girl. You're still in size three diapers. You're a champ at sleeping through the night, and have a (somewhat) regular nap-time schedule.

You love to be out and about - although you don't love being put into your car-seat. Once you are in it you're fine, it's just the buckling part you are not a fan of. You are also not a fan of wearing socks, or you just really love pulling them off...then sticking them in your mouth - silly girl. You still love bouncing in your bouncer, but now that you can move where you want to go, you prefer to be on the floor. You are fascinated with Bella (the family pup) and follow her around constantly. You really like to listen to us read to you. We can't get enough of your laugh. It's the sweetest sound in the world and just melts our hearts.


You are such a precious little girl and a joy to our family. I'm quite certain you know how loved you are because your little face just lights up when you see us. We are all quite smitten with you. We love you a hundred times over baby girl and are so blessed God chose us as your family here on earth!

power hour

I must have set up my auto posts wrong...or didn't get them set up at all. Whatever happened they didn't post. But oh well...I'll get there.

Can I just say that I LOVE this time of year. That one wonderful night when we are given the gift of extra time!! That wonderful extra hour that is given to us. Of course I'll be cursing it in the spring when we have to give it away, but boy oh boy did I enjoy it this AM! For the first time in I don't know how long I got 9 hours of (mostly) uninterrupted sleep. It.was.glorious. Of course I went to bed at an almost embarrassingly early time - but it was worth it.

Last weekend we had the joy of witnessing God's amazing grace as we had our beautiful daughter baptized. Of course she has no idea what this all means yet, but to the hubs and I it was amazing. Words can't really describe what we were feeling, or how much it means to us, and if I tried to do so I would fail miserably. So I'll show a few pictures from the big day and let those do the talking.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone be found boasting. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:8-10

God's grace is a gift that is so overwhelming, so big, so AMAZING. We are so blessed.