6 Months

Happy half birthday to my big girl!!

This past month has probably been one of the funnest with her,

she's learned so many new things!

First is that she's now sitting up like a champ,

which makes photo shoots soooo much easier.

(I like this next picture because it shows off her little

tootsie roll arms quite nicely)

Sitting up also really helps with keeping her entertained.

We can just plop some toys in front of her and she's good to go.

However, now that she can have a nice view of the world,

she really hates lying down while she's awake,

which doesn't help with our problem of her still not rolling over haha.

Oh well, I figure it'll come sooner or later.

The absolute BIGGEST, most exciting news for this month

is that she finally slept through the night!!

I've been waiting for the day for what seems like forever

to actually get a good night's rest.

I thought it might be a fluke the first time, but so far it's

been about five days in a row, so fingers crossed!!

She laughs a lot more,

wiggles around a ton (especially during her cute "diaper dance"),

can find her pacifier in her crib and plug herself when she's cranky,

has extremely smelly toots now that she eats solids,

is starting to get separation anxiety when I leave the room,

is starting to babble (I'm convinced she says mama on purpose!)

and is starting to reach out for us (too precious!).

This is one of my all time favorite pictures.

Her little pink fluffy princess dress absolutely kills me, it's so adorable.

Oh, now that she sits up, the possibilities are endless!

She can finally be in a grocery cart without having to lug the car seat in, hooray!!

Aaaaand, she had her first big girl bath!!

Sometimes, we match by accident.

I really don't mean to, but when it does happen, I think it's pretty cute haha.

Oh and this is what Scarlett decided to leave for me

for her six month birthday.  Love it.

She really is a bouncing queen.

As if we need her thighs to be any bigger, they are going to get

so strong with how much she loves to jump.

If it's not in the bouncer, it's on our laps, she goes nonstop.

Well, until she is so tired that she falls asleep in it...

She's just getting cuter and more fun by the day!

Happy 6 months, little love!!

SO Proud!!

Today is a beautiful, glorious, momentous day!!

One for the record books, hence why I'm dedicating a blog to it.

Because today....well....last night...

she did it...it happened...

SHE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!

Hooooorrraaaayyy!

Can you tell I'm just a tiny bit excited about this?

Scarlett is almost 6 months old and has been

waking up every 2-3 hours for nearly her whole life.

It's been exhausting, to say the least.

She fell asleep at 10:00 last night

and I woke up at 5 in the morning wondering

if I was so out of it that I fed her and didn't remember.

It's quite possible, but I don't think that was the case.

My body wasn't used to going so long without feeding her,

so rather than enjoying the extra sleep I had to wake up to pump.

When I got back in bed and turned on the monitor,

I about screamed when I saw her wide glowing eyes staring straight

into the camera.

She was wide awake and flailing around.  I figured she

would for sure start crying since it'd been so long since she ate,

so I just stayed awake waiting for her to make some noise.

But after about a half hour of wiggling around,

she fell back asleep!!

And she slept until 9:00 in the morning!!!

I seriously couldn't believe it, I thought it was too good to be true.

I never thought I would be SO excited and proud about

something like this...

but after six months and feeling like it was NEVER going to happen,

I am one proud and rested mama :)

Hopefully it will become a more regular thing!!!

5 Months

My little love is growing up!!

This needs to slow down, it's going by waaaay too fast.

It's been the best five months ever-

She always brightens up our days and makes life so fun.

 

 

 

We finally got her in to see the pediatrician-

she's a whopping 16 pounds 13 ounces,

85th percentile for weight and length,

and a gigantic 98th percentile for head circumference!!

That's ok, more of that precious face to love on :)

 

 

 

She took her shots like an absolute champ

and even had enough smiles to finish out the day with a photoshoot.

 

 

Little Scarlett Claire is getting more social and interactive;

nearly everyone she meets says she's the happiest

baby they've ever seen and that "she never cries".

Hahaha, little do they know :)

But it's true that she is very good-natured and smiles nearly all the time.

 

I was so excited to try out my new backdrop for some pictures,

but once we finally got it all set up, it was cranky nap time.

I decided I'd put her in front of it just

to test out a couple quick snapshots,

and she surprised us all when she stopped crying

and gave lots of big smiles!

She makes this photography thing pretty easy :)

 

Aren't her thighs magnificent??

 

Scarlett rolls from her tummy to back

but still can't quite go the other way.

She loves to grab, especially our faces and Chris's arm hair,

and she's getting quite strong...ouch.

 

We're also working on sitting up,

maybe by next month's post she'll have it down!

 

She started solid foods for the first time

which was pretty adorable, and extremely messy.

 

She also loves to stare at people,

she will just sit and study your face forever.

Some of my favorite moments are sitting in silence and looking back

 into her big gray-blue eyes.

 

I just adore being her mama!!

Happy 5 months, little munchkin!



 

 

Baby's First Solids

I realize I may over-document

my daughter's life...

but I can't help it,

I want to remember everything!

Even her first try eating rice cereal :)

 

All ready to go in her high chair and bib!

Mistake #1- leaving her in her cute outfit

for the first attempt of using a spoon, fail.

 

 

She was really not sure what to think of it at first.

 

 

But she got the hang of it!

 

Day two went much more smoothly,

and we learned our lesson and stripped her down before we started.

My baby's growing up too fast!

Christmas Part 2

So the second part of our Christmas vacation

was going to beautiful, sunny California!

Chris's family was hoping that

we would come visit, but sly

little Christopher told them that we wouldn't be able

to make it.  I think my mother-in-law

was heartbroken and it was SO hard to keep

her in the dark, but in the end, it was worth it to surprise her.

 

 

Mammo was in heaven with the little bean.

 

 

Yes, this is real, it was 70-85 degrees the whole time.

We almost didn't come home.

 

Scarlett unfortunately had a rough couple of days when we

first got there.

She had a fever, a cough, was SO snotty, and

kept grabbing at her ear so we thought she had an ear

infection.  We waited for a while

but she wasn't feeling any better and eventually

had to take her to urgent care and got her some antibiotics-

she got better quickly after that, thank goodness.

It completely broke my heart seeing her so miserable.

Like I mentioned before, we got some Bob Ross

supplies and put our painting skills to the test!

And when I say skills...this was our first time attempting it haha.

 

But I think for our first try, they turned out pretty good!

 

Mammo took all the grandkids to build-a-bear,

so precious.

 

We also got to see a few of our friends

who also have baby girls!

I think it's the sweetest thing ever

seeing my husband and two of his guy friends

holding each other's daughters and talking all about being a dad :)

 

Chris thinks I'm a hopeless romantic,

and I decided I wanted to go take pictures on

the beach at sunset.

(I also wanted to rent a convertible and drive along

Pacific Coast Highway, but that didn't happen)

Anyway, this was our pretty sunset :)

 

Random poopy fog! I was so mad!

But Scarlett had so much fun stepping in the bay's water.

 

Ah, my favorite temple, aside from Timpanogas, where we got married.

The San Diego temple is so gorgeous!

I'm glad I was finally able to go to this one.

 

We got to go to a delicious Indian restaurant

with the family, it was so pretty.

 

We loved being able to spend time with Chris's side of the family.

We love them so much!!

 



Christmas Part 1

What a wonderful and beautiful time of year!

I'm sad that it's already over.

It was so great to spend the holidays with our families

this year- it'd been too long since we'd seen everyone.

Games, snow, music, food, hot chocolate,

and loved ones...what more could a girl want?

Even though Scarlett is still a little young too

understand anything about Christmas,

it was still so much fun to have a child to shop for

and make the holidays special for.

 

 

 

We spent Christmas eve with all my siblings and their families.

Sadly, all the kids were sick as could be

and had to wear masks the whole time haha.

Scarlett got some cute PJs to match the other

grandkids, but hers were a bit too big.

 

We had a family talent show,

who knew all of my siblings AND their spouses

were so musically talented? Loved it.

 

We went to the mall on Christmas Eve

(definitely the time to go, there was NO one in line for Santa)

and Scarlett most definitely pooped her pants while

on his lap.

I didn't notice until a little after, so hopefully it

didn't get all over him :)

 

A lovely Christmas Eve dinner of Panda Express

 

Chris's favorite gift, a collection of Bob Ross

DVD's.  I thought he was such a nerd for liking

it, but I will admit they are pretty amazing,

and we may or may not have gone out

and gotten the supplies and did a painting :)

(pictures to come)

 

Christmas day!!

 

Scarlett's very own stocking

 

I was  pretty excited about opening up my gift and

finding a baseboard!  Because I knew what it was for...

 

Chris built and got supplies for my own little photography studio!!!

By far the best gift EVER.

We will be trying it out today for the first time.

I really really want to get better at photography.

 

My brother and his wife are the craftiest people I know

and gave these silhouettes of all the grandkids

to my parents...

I've been telling Chris that I think Scarlett's

head is misshapen and this proves it!

Bottom left, still a bit of a cone head haha.

 

Poor babe was so wiped out from all the excitement.

 

But that didn't keep her away from our late night game of Shanghai.

She's got quite the poker face.

 

I love having a sister

that is such an experienced and wonderful mama.

I can ask her advice on anything,

and it's been so fun living closer to her now.

I also love our girls' little bomber hats :)

 

I just can't get enough of this little doll's face

 

We went to dinner and to the temple lights

the day after Christmas,

I was so excited to dress her up in her

awesomely warm bear outfit.

 

Best of all, I love spending time with

this awesome man I get to call my husband :)

 

Merry Christmas from Utah!

 

 

Had to include a video of Scarlett

opening a gift.

I know...pretty exciting stuff!! :)