Happy 10 months, Baby Girl

Breeley,

You are a mover and shaker now. In the last month you have conquered crawling, started standing for a few seconds at a time, and cruising. It's getting to be a challenge to keep up with you. I love to watch you map out the house. The excitement on your face as you round a corner and find the person you were looking for makes me laugh.

 

You are eating everything now. Cheese, pasta,bananas and green beans are among your favorites this month. You also had your first grilled cheese. You ate almost a whole sandwich.

You are trying to stand up from sitting on your own. As we found out on our trip south, you hate to have anyone help you. If we hold your hands as you try to stand, your legs immediately go limp. Sitting here you though you might be able to do it. Instead you slid off the rock.

You are exploring everything around you. And it all goes into your mouth. You also are learning to tear things. A corner of a page of the book of Judges went in yesterday. Today it was a piece of this daffodil.

Your favorite games now are "So Big" and "Peek-a-Boo". You also love to play hide and go seek with the big kids. You are love your shape sorter and pop-up toys. You also hate books. You quickly flip the pages and get upset if Mommy takes to long to read it. We're working on it. :)

You are in a mama's girl phase right now. Although the only person who's name you you know and say is "Da-Da" You have started saying it every day when he comes home from work. You love weekends when we all snuggle in bed together. I love to watch your face light up when daddy comes in from work.

We can't wait to see what new adventures you are on to explore. Love,

Mommy

*Thanks, Meg, for your help with the pictures. 

The Photo That Belongs on WW

But I couldn't wait to put it up.

Sigh, Sniffle, Sob

Breeley is three months old.

It's just not fair that there isn't a pause button for little babies. I so want to capture this time with her, bottle the new baby scent, keep that skin so silky-squishy soft.

Sigh, Sniffle, Sob...

Breeley has outgrown all her newborn clothes and most of her 0-3 month sleepers. I want to forever remember her being small enough to curl up on my chest. Her head small enough to fit in the palm of my hand. I want to feel her little fingers that are too small to curl all the way around mine.

It would be so easy to want her to stay tiny forever, but there is so many wonderful discoveries with her growing up.

She was only two weeks old when she flashed her first grin. Now they come so quickly.


Just in the last few weeks she recognized me from Daddy. And loves to hang out with Ty, Becca and Hope. She even let Becca rock her to sleep the other night.


She loves her toys now. Her frogs and butterfly toy bar is a favorite: for both Bree and Hope. :)

She and Daddy so much fun at bath time. Daddy has the patience to let her play and play. She even tolerates a few splashes when Daddy is around.

She hates the pool. I think it's the whole wet diaper thing. As soon as I put a dry diaper on her she's fine. Thankfully Grammy and Papaw have a portable swing we kept poolside for her.

And last but not least, she has the most adorable fat roles. I love lots of dimples and chub and she has it! Dimples at on the fingers, elbows, knees. Rolls on the legs, arms and wrists. Pure baby kissing delight. :)

When I get done putting away those newborn sleeper and pulling out the big 3-6 month clothes, I'll go kiss me some baby fat and thank the Lord for my healthy, growing girl.


Somebody pass the Kleenex, please.

I'm Becoming One of Those Moms

It all started innocently enough. Browsing a popular mom blog and seeing her gorgeous baby wearing skills. Then I started looking around and found other mom's blogs. When I stumbled across Four Little Men and Girly Twins and saw her wearing her twins I decided to look into it a little more. My only experience with baby wearing was a Snugli. I have nothing against the brand, but it did not work for me. A homeschooling friend of mine started talking about wearing her little ones in a homemade wrap. Since she had literally worn her old wrap out she made a new one and gave me one of the extras.

(this is the only baby wearing picture I have. bleh!)
She showed me the basics; that was enough. I am so in love. Wrapping makes it possible for me to grocery shop with all four kids and only one cart. It's so nice not to lug the car seat to the mall, store, or fair. No strollers to mess with either. I'm on my way to addicted though. :) I'm a saver by nature, but when it comes to stuff for my kids it's a different story. My poor husband needs to be forewarned. I could easily spend a lot of money on this stuff. After all, look at the money I'm saving. No stroller..... um, I'll work on that list. ;)

Now I just need to work on eating with her in this. Breeley was covered in powdered sugar after I tried to eat a funnel cake at the fair last month. Oops! :)