18 Months a month late...

My baby turned 18 months last month. She is now 19 months. I wanted to post the cute picture I took of her when she turned 18 months. She has the biggest blue eyes. She is just a doll. We love her like crazy. She is just so fun. She started going to nursery. She loves it. She will walk right in and sit down with out a second glance at me. She is getting very good at letting us know what she wants. If you ask her a question she will nod or shake her head. She has become quite the screamer, which none of us like. She has also started throwing crying fits when she doesn't get what she wants. You just can't crawl across the counters....I am sorry, but you CAN'T. You can't pull your sister's hair....I know you think it is fun to hear them scream, but it is not NICE. You can't take your little chair and get in the cabinets....I DON'T want you in there. She loves to play outside and swing on the swings. She is such a dare devil. She will climb up to the top of our playhouse all by herself and go down the slide by herself. She scares us! She says lots of words (bye bye, night night, dad, mom, eat, no, shoe, up, etc. etc.) She will sing a little song from Dora The Explorer....Co Key Co Key. She will also tell you if she doesn't like something by crinkling up her little face and saying "EW". We love you little H.

Kids can nap anywhere....

I went to take a shower one day and when I was done I came down stairs. I didn't find screaming kids and a big mess like I usually do. I found this. My baby asleep on the stairs. She doesn't usually take morning naps, so this was a big surprise. I had to hurry and take a few pictures before she rolled down the stairs! She looked so cute sleeping there, but I didn't dare leave her, so I moved her up to her bed. I swear kids can sleep just about anywhere.

An icecream bucket....

Even an icecream bucket can be fun when you are 1!!!

Piggie Tails...

Little H finally has enough hair for piggie tails....Yipee!

Playing stink bug....

I thought this was a funny way to try and put on your shoes.

Someone has a shoe fettish....

Can you guess who?

My santa babies....

My sister took the most adorable picture of her first little boy in a Santa hat when he was a baby. I kind of stole her idea and did the same thing with all my girls. I am so glad I did. They are one of my favorite Christmas decorations. Aren't they cute!

My own little Curious George

My baby loves the pantry. She tears it apart on a daily basis. She has emptied the fruit snack box and the microwave popcorn box. Ruined countless paper cups, napkins, and styrofoam bowls. She has searched diligently and found a few snacks in there for her to munch on. And my least favorite....she emptied a complete box of 600 plastic spoons! Even after all of her destruction and mess, I still let her play in there. It is the only way I can get dinner made. I have moved a few things up to higher shelves though.....like that box of spoons.

Happy Birthday baby girl....

My baby turned one yesterday (WAAAHHHHH!!!). I am happy and sad all at the same time. She is such a fun baby. I just don't want her to grow up. The other day I was sorting through her clothing and pulling out the things that were too small. It made me so sad. She is at such an adorable stage right now. I would just like to freeze her here for another year or so. Here are some pictures we took in the morning (before she smeared cake through her hair!)




I must have taken 50 pictures. She was too busy inspecting the slide, the grass, the sky, the dirt, the sandbox, and anything else besides the camera. That is just how she is these days.....BUSY. She loves the cupboards. She is always in the pantry tearing things off the shelves. I made her up her own little bowl of goodies to play with in there (a spoon, canning lid, spices, egg seperator, etc.) That keeps her busy for a while, but then she is off to tear my blender and my Scentsy candle stuff out of their respective cupboards. I can't keep her out of them!



She learned how to walk the day after she turned 11 months. She is cruising all over the place these days. She is still a little tipsy, especially when she is tired. We went to a party for my grandparents yesterday and she slipped on the gym floor and crashed right on her nose. She gave herself quite the bloody nose. I took her into the bathroom to clean her up and 4 of my great aunts were in there. They gushed over how cute she was and I told them it was her birthday. They all spontaneously started singing her happy birthday right there in the bathroom. It was so sweet!


All of her busy-ness is not bad though. She has started to help clean.......here she is helping dust the railing.....


with her tongue!!!! She also has started taking care of our noses. She will hold a wet wipe up to her nose and blow, and then hold it up to yours to do the same. She isn't saying much these days, but she sure will let you know when she wants or especially when she doesn't want something by squaking! I am constantly telling her sisters to leave her alone because she is squaking at them.


We had a fun teddy bear birthday for her to celebrate her 1st birthday. Here is the cake I made.

H seemed to like it. She started attacking the frosting even before we could cut her a piece.

Yum yum yum!!!
She didn't quite know what to do with the presents. She was more interested in the video camera than any of her gifts.
Luckily she has plenty of sisters that were more than willing to help her figure out her new toys. I don't think H got to play with any of her new things today.

It was a fun day. I kept looking at her today and thinking, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR'E ONE!!!" Before I know it she will be going to school. WAAAHHHH!

11 months old today....

Our little baby is 11 months old today. Her first year is almost over. HOW SAD!!! She is just as cute as ever though. She has the cutest little grin. She crinkles up her nose and shows off her little teeth....it just melts your heart. She is super busy these days. Like right now she is in the bathroom. Just a minute while I go remove her.

I thought I would post some pictures of her adventures this last month.

We took her for her first swim. It was a little cold for her! Her little OH OH OH's were sure cute though. She wasn't really fond of the water, but she loved the paddle boat ride.

Nothing quite like sand and skittle juice all over your face to make a cute picture.

I know what you are thinking. Look at that sweet innocent face. Don't let it fool you. As soon as you aren't looking she throws her food or her sippy cup over the edge of her high chair and stands up and starts doing the "Look at Me being rotten" dance in her high chair. I guess that is why dad tried to feed her to an alligator this week....

She had much more fun sitting on its head. And speaking of....if I ever lay down on the floor that is where she goes....straight for my head. She will sit on my head and pull my hair. Obviously she isn't over her hair fetish yet.
See that? That is what she does ALL THE TIME. She sucks on her thumb while she plays with my hair. I don't think she likes it wet though.

And while we are on the subject of hair. Check out hers! She is our little porcupine. No matter what I do that hair just sticks straight up in the air. It is so cute though.

She is into everything these days. She takes after her big sister K and likes to pull out the pan drawer and climb right in to play with the pans. She loves to climb into anything these days. The other day she was in my paints container sitting on all of my craft paints. She has discovered that there are treasures to be found in the cupboards, so now they are all held shut with rubber bands (yes, low budget child-proofing).

She can stand independently. She loves walking around furniture and with anyone willing to take her for a stroll. She also loves running around with Dad.

She definitely keeps us busy running around and cleaning up after her. She is so precious and sweet though....especially when she is sleeping.

Back to School & Ten Months Old

My girls started school this week. M will be in 2nd grade this year and A will be in Kindergarten. It will be an adjustment having them both gone. I will sure miss them. The younger two won't know what to do with themselves since their big sisters won't be there to boss them around.

A is so excited for Kindergarten. I think she is just getting bored at home. I think she just NEEDS something else, and something just for her. She has watched her older sister go to school for 2 years and bring home fun stuff and I think A has always been a little jealous. Now she gets to go do all of those fun things too. She just had testing this week and will actually start next week.
I am not sure if M was excited to go to school or not. This is her third school in three years and I think it has been a little hard for her. She has one little girl in her class she knows from church. I am glad that she has a friend to play with at recess. The funny thing is that she has a boy in her class that was in her Kindergarten class. We have moved twice since she was in Kindergarten and this boy moved too. It is funny that they ended up in the same class again.
Little H turned 10 months old on the first day of school. (What a big day for everyone!) She is sick this week and a little cranky, but still has the cutest smile. She has been doing better lately at sleeping in her own bed.....and that makes Mom and Dad very happy. I think she was just hungry. Now I give her a snack before bedtime and she sleeps much better. She is still infatuated with our stairs. She even says, "up" when she starts up them. She is learning how to climb down now too, but is still not too stable at it. Her favorite thing to do lately is get in cupboards. She is super determined too, so if you take her away from one, she goes RIGHT back.

Baby H turns 9 months this weekend...

My baby will turn 9 months old this weekend. We will be gone playing, so I thought I would do her 9 month post before we left. She is growing so quickly. I thought I would share some of her new things and things we love about her.

This month she learned how to go up the stairs....

Now we just need to teach her to go down!! I have been trying, but she doesn't like to go down only up!

She loves new things. Here we are feeding the ducks. She loved it!!

She is working on her 4th tooth. I will be glad when it finally comes in because she will sleep much better at night. The last couple of nights she has been in our bed. None of us have been getting quite enough sleep.

See that rat next to her in this picture....it is actually her hair piece. It is a substitute for my hair. She still loves to play with hair while she is sucking her thumb. This is her new piece. The other one had been so loved we had to get her a new one.

She does not like her diaper changed. She will try to roll away while you are changing her (I think she rather likes being naked). I started telling her uh uh uh when she would roll away. She has started doing it right back. It is so cute.

She is saying mom and dad. Sooooo sweet.

She is such a fun little baby. We will miss these baby days.

8 Months old today...

My baby is 8 Months old today. She is growing up too fast. She is such a joy to our family though. She is always happy and smiling. She is crawling all over the place these days.

She is quite the little busy body, so most of our pictures these days turn out like this....

She is finally getting accustomed to our new house. She had a very hard time at first and just wanted to be held ALL THE TIME. She loves our door stoppers. (Please excuse my hoarse raspy voice in these videos, I have had allergies so bad lately.)

She now has three little teeth, and is working on a fourth. This makes her not sleep very well at night.

She is obsessed with hair. She will go to sleep in two seconds flat if she has her thumb and my hair. She hasn't been too happy since I cut mine all off. I thought it would help end the obsession, but so far it hasn't. Now I am just getting a kinked neck bending over so she can still play with it.

We just adore our little one. Happy 8 months baby H. We love you!!

Hey blue eyes...

Here is our little baby H at 6 months old. Check out those beautiful blue eyes. I have always wanted all of my girls to look different. Those eyes are definately different. No one else in our family has them. She must have got them from her Grandpa B!

Baby's First foods....

We finally started baby H on solids. I like to wait until they are about 6 months old. I figure the more calories they get from me the better! We started her with rice cereal....for obvious reasons. :) She loves it. I tried to give her oatmeal yesterday, and she was not too fond of it. We have also given her some pretzels, apple slices, baby carrot sticks and crackers to suck on.
She is loving real food. If you are eating something she gets all kinds of mad if you are not sharing it with her. She will sit and watch every bite as it enters your mouth and then scream. I guess she can be my diet police!

She will turn 6 months old on Friday. We will be busy, so I will have to post some new pics of her next week.