{Beach Visit}

{Zoo Visit}

 

{Hodgepodge of pictures}

Here are some things that have happened in July - 

My dear friend Megan that I've known since high school was in the area and the girls and I got to spend some time with her! So fun to see her! (check out the faces on my girls! HA!)

Quiet Time = reading quietly to herself on the couch when she's too tired, worked up, or gets hurt and needs to "reset". Yes, she initiates quiet time. Smart girl learning to take a breather when life gets hard. I should take notes.

  

Evette and I went on a mommy-daughter date! It was awesome! We went to the "dragon movie"! Evette has seen posters for "How to Train Your Dragon II" all over the city and has been begging to see it. After we rented  the first HTTYD and watched it at home, we went to go see the second in theaters. It was a great. It was so fun to be able to spend some one on one time with my big girl.

We also had my aunt and uncle and their two girls drop in for a quick visit! They were nearby visiting family and spent a day touring the city and were able to spend the night with us! Evette always loves an adoring audience and it was fun to see them, it'd been about 2 years since the last visit!

At our church building there is usually a "free" pile in the kitchen. The other week there was this board game. Of course, being the gamers we are, Sean picked it up. It's Evette's favorite game. She calls it "the jungle game" it's adorable. It's about the story in the Book of Mormon and how the people are trying to get to the temple - basically a shoots and ladders type of game. Evette wants to play it all the time. And she does! We roll the dice, count the spaces, draw the cards - the works. And she wins. Every. Time. seriously. 

Miriam has 2 little baby teeth! Maybe you can see them a little bit in this picture.

Playdough

concerts in the park

Practicing her ABCs!! She loves it! She loves "school" and learning. She asks to do it all the time. She said she wanted to learn how to write her name. so we did.

I wrote her name on top, she traced it, and then free handed it. AMAZING! She's not even 3 yet! Smart girl. She loves loves loves to read and to learn and at this rate she'll be reading Shakespeare on her own before Kindergarten.

Park dates!

 I love this girl.

My dear friend from Dallas, Emily, came into town with her husband for a Dr conference thing and we were able to see them! Emily and I spent the afternoon together with our babies and we went out to eat with them one night as well. Love those guys and their sweet baby!

{Happy 6 Months!!!}

Last week Little Miss Miriam turned 6 months old! I cannot believe how fast time as gone by! Her half birthday has come and gone!

We visited the pediatrician for her well child check up and she's doing wonderfully! She's still my little baby. Miriam is around the 75th percentile for height and around the 15% for weight. What a little lady.

At 6 months she's still in 3-6 month clothing. We moved her into size 3 diapers just because she kept leaking through during the night. She still is a little small for them so we have to cinch them up real good :)

 

We're inbetween 2-3 naps a day so that's kinda tricky. She still is not a very good sleeper at night. She is never "awake" and wanting to play, but she just wakes up frequently and loved to nurse back to sleep. I was worried that she was still so tiny and that she needed to nurse so frequently. The pediatrician told me she is FINE and should be sleeping through the night at this point. SO - night training has started. It's going pretty good. I slept for 7 hours straight which is the longest I've slept at one time in over 6 months - so I'm feeling good! Send happy thought over our way so that she can figure it out and we'll all be a happier bunch! 

She's a good little nurser and loves food. LOVES food. She likes to eat "real" food much more than the pureed baby stuff. For example, she loves to suck and chew on nectarine slices, or a tomato slice, or zuchinni. 

She learned to sit up! About a week after hitting 5 months she was sitting up on her own! Big girl! We still have some face plants and toppling over, but she's gotten better about just rolling over and dealing with it lol.

Her eyes are changing colors! They used to be pretty blue, but lately they've been dark blue on the outside, green in the middle, and a golden brown on the inside - they're beautiful!

Her first tooth came in as well! Her bottom right! (and it looks like her bottom left is starting to poke through as well!)

She is just as happy and smiley as ever. She is a beautiful, beautiful baby. I cannot get enough of her little face. Sean and I frequently remark about the love bullets that shoot from her eyes when she smiles. You can physically feel the love she is sending you - it's pretty amazing. 

She is a special, blessed little angel baby.

A look at the last 6 months!

Flashback to Evette at 6 months!!