Monday, November 23, 2015

My Favorite 6 Month Old

The babe is six months old.  A half a year already!  She's pretty fun:)  Usually.


She just started cereal about a week ago.  We give it to her right before bed in hopes of her sleeping all night.  And I'd say it definitely helps, but so far she just can't quite make it to what we think is an acceptable hour of waking up!  If she goes all night with no feeding, then she'll probably start making her presence known around 6:30-7:00.  It's just not quite enough sleep for her (who am I kidding- it's not quite enough for ME!) and when she wakes up that early it kind of throws her off and she tends to be a little extra tired and/or cranky for the day.  Whereas if she has a little middle of the night snack she'll sleep until 8:00 or so.  We'll just keep working on it I guess!


She's also officially sitting up!  She can do it unassisted but is pretty unstable still and doesn't last a real long time.  But if she's sitting at her little piano she can sit for a long time playing the piano and just looking at the great big world around her.  She thinks she's pretty hot stuff too:)


Aaaaand it might not be too much longer before she's crawling.  Ho hum.  I hope she holds off on that for a while longer!  At least until after Christmas so I can have one nice peaceful year of Christmas decorations.  I would much rather her just sit and look at all the pretty shiny things than try to tear them down and eat them.  But this girl does planks quite regularly.  Sometimes getting up on her hands and knees and sometimes her hands and toes.  So it's just a matter of time before she figures it out and takes off.  Aye yi yi...  Bring on the baby gates and plastic outlet covers!


What a goofy girl!

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

And Now For The Rest Of October

I have to say, this October was way better than last October.  Last year I was on the couch all month trying to get through all the nausea that came with being pregnant.  This year we had a beautiful fall (my favorite season) that I could enjoy with my baby.

One of my favorite things about fall, and really one of my favorite things in general, is harvest.  I had been back to visit Illinois a lot so I didn't feel like I could really justify another road trip just to ride in the combine.  So I decided that if my cousin who was expecting a baby had said baby before harvest was over, I would go.  And she came through for me!  Off we went- just me and Summer.  I was pretty excited to take her on her first combine ride.  I'm pretty sure she was just as excited:)



She did like it... that corn is pretty mesmerizing to watch!  She watched for quite a while and then took a nap while I continued watching.  And talking to my brother.  Way back in the day when we were both single, we would talk for hours.  Even after I moved out of my parents house, we had about the same hours at our jobs and it was common for us to call each other on our morning commute.  Then he got married, I moved away, life changed and so on and so forth.  So to have the chance to just sit and talk again was pretty special to me.


And of course we had to meet little baby Archer!


One weekend we took a little date to a corn maze.  It wasn't the most challenging maze since the corn really didn't grow this year...


Then we came home and carved pumpkins!


And while I sure don't like all the gory stuff of Halloween, I have to say it was really fun to dress up the babe!  (She was a gumball machine, not a clown.)  Oh- and to have trick or treaters!  I've never had them in my life and I was really excited!  But our candy ran out about halfway through:(  So then we shut all our lights off and creepily sat in our bedroom while we watched everyone walk by in their costumes!


Happy October, everyone!