6 months

I visited a newborn a couple weeks ago.  Actually a 1 month, but she seemed tiny to me - more like a one week old.  I still feel like I have a newborn, but I do not. at. all.   My baby is 6 months old.

Annie is now 15lbs. 7oz and 26 in.  She is trying to sit up on her own more and more.  She loves to play on her tummy.  She does not have any teeth yet, but she is a pro drooler.  She loves to watch her Caroline and lights up when she sees her.        

This month we dropped the sleep sack.  Now, Annie likes to sleep on her left side or her tummy. 

  She started rice cereal and then baby food.  Now taking baby food 3x per day.  So far so good.  We have only tried pears, apples, bananas, squash, and prunes.  Likes them all right now.  I have dropped to only nursing her once a day (in the mornings). Then, she has 3 bottles a day of about 6-7oz of formula.   

Annie is exhausted and ready for bed by 7pm.  Sadly, I cannot seem to get my act together very much  to always get home from the park, pool, etc and have her bathed and fed by 7pm.  So, a lot of the time we bring her bedtime bottle and pjs with us.  She falls asleep in the car and then seems to transition fine to the crib.  She is sleeping from about 7:30pm to 6:30am.  Her morning nap is about 1.5 to 2 hours.  And afternoon nap about the same.    

Annie has all of a sudden become very loud.  She is quite the squealer!  She has just learned the "bababababa" sound and repeats it all the time.  She wakes up babbling that every morning.  Such sweet sounds even if they are loud. 

I cannot believe you are 1/2 a year already Annie! We love you and love watching you grow and change each day! 

Vacation in Pictures Part 2

Phone Pictures

Vacation in Pictures Part 1

We recently joined John's family at the beach.  It was glorious!!! I was able to go down several days early with the girls and then John joined us for Memorial day weekend + the following week.  I say it over and over, but time away is so good for our family and for our marriage.  John works very hard and I am very grateful for that, but there are only a couple times a year he is really able to unplug from work.  This trip was one of them.  No work laptop and no work email for 8 days! I realize is it not reality, but it is so so good to have trips and times like this when we can.

More pics to come from my phone in the next post!

Things to Remember 1

Just like any other mom out there my days are draining.  Many days I count down the minutes until afternoon naps, when John gets home from work, and then bedtime.  But a lot of days are very sweet too. 

My girls are changing constantly.  There are many things they are doing now that I do not want to forget.  I want to capture this season with some of my favorite times with them.  So, this is part 1 of those sweet things to remember.    

1. I love when Caroline wants to take care of Annie and/or do things to help her.  

2. Annie's rolls.  Nothing much better than sweet baby rolls.

3. Caroline's voice.  I love it when she just talks and talks and talks.  

4. Caroline "makes" a pinata almost everyday.  She saw a Curious George episode where they make a donkey pinata with strips of paper mache (s/p?) for a party.  Ever since she has been tearing up pieces of toilet paper to do the same thing.  I thought she was crazy when she brought me toilet paper one day and asked if she could make a donkey pinata?! Took me forever to put the two together!  It has turned out to be quite the creative activity around here.  It makes a mess, but it is worth it.   

5.  This is a perfect picture to describe Annie.  Just along for the ride.

6. Annie loves to curl her feet together.  

7.  She always wants to hold onto something to sleep...her giraffe, my finger, a burp cloth, anything!

8.  When Caroline gets tickled at words she makes up 

9. Even if the picture did turn out blurry, they can both look at the camera at the same time.  

Texas Wedding and Mother's Day

These events were several weeks ago, but cannot go undocumented.  My friend, Hannah, got married in Dallas and it was a fabulous weekend!  Hannah is a college friend and I have posted about her and all her awesome talent before.  But, if you missed those posts, just click here to see what she has been up to (besides getting married)! 

We arrived Thursday evening and started early Friday morning for mimosas and manicures/pedicures.   It was for Hannah's wedding weekend, but it was pretty nice to be pampered, kid-free, and with my best friends on Mother's day weekend.

Rehearsing.  Isn't she adorable?

Yummy mexican food at the rehearsal dinner.  Have to when in Texas.  

Morning of the wedding we lounged, pampered some more, and ate like kings at the Bride's home.  We are not the type of bridesmaids that you worry about passing out because they didn't eat much during the day.  

Somehow Hannah needing to polish her ring turned into everyone polishing their rings.  Kind of silly, but seemed appropriate for our girl time pre-wedding.  That is lot of weddings right there!   

Beautiful Bride!

Mr. and Mrs. Lance Villio 

Oh, and sidenote, our husbands/fiancés all loved being together for the weekend too.

I always leave so full and refreshed after being with friends who know me so well.  But, I did love coming home to my sweet girls loving on me for Mother's Day.

We made these pots for my mom and mother-in-law and they turned out pretty cute.  Caroline is loving helping me with crafts these days so this was a perfect one for her.  I tried to let my perfectionist tendencies go and let Caroline slap her hands on there the way she wanted (missing a finger and all)!  They were made in love though.  :)