Growing Up - Miss E., 6 Months

Life with Elly at 6 months:

• You are a little piggy! You started eating cereal just a week or two into your 6th month, and have already progressed to eating a serving of veggies too! You're a good, clean eater, the main mess maker is me ; )
• Your cheeks seem to get pudgier every month! I guess it's a good thing, people seem to adore them : D
• You officially sit up now. Your balance is better every day, and you're so much happier now that you can do it yourself....and play with toys on your own.
• You love to stand! I don't think there will be much crawling in our household this time around either.
• You're verbal skillz are growing...but we seem to be branching into an area your daddy and I would prefer to leave behind...WHINING. You spend a great deal of the day doing this!
• You are straddling the line between 3-6 and 6-9 month clothing, it won't be long now!
• We recently had to switch you from Huggies Snug and Dry to Huggies Lil Snugglers because you were leaking through! Now Mama's considering a switch to clothe. We'll see.
• You're smiles and laughs continue to highlight our days : )
• You love to watch Baby Einstein's Baby Neptune. This is my sanity saver when you keep scooping the loop in Whineyville.
• You love to dance with your family. I hope this is a love that lasts a lifetime!
• You love to look at yourself in the mirror : ) If I were as pretty as you, I guess I would too!

Jump, Jive, and.....

Those crazy kids can dance! The parents aren't too bad either ; ) This past Saturday was National Dance Day. This is something that is common in our house every weekend, but recording it was a little tricky, and a little embarrassing!

We Love Cheese

Wheel or wedge...

On a toothpick, with fruit...

Sliced or shredded...

Baked...

....and in many other forms and flavors. But our favorite, our absolute favorite, is this:

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It's a classic for a reason; Ham and cheese ; ) Notice how his hand is up in both pictures? It's becuase along with the "cheese" comes the camera click!

Captivating

I think I mentioned that Elly likes to be read to. Is this not the cutest thing!?

Growing Up - Miss E., 5 months

Life with Elly at 5 months:

• You're eyes are still blue!!!!
• You are still chewing on everything you can, but no teeth to show for all your effort! I think we've just about exausted all our teething avenue's w/o finding you much relief : (
• You love to grab at things now that you've figured out how to *kinda* hold on to them. Tonight you took Mommy's water bottle away from her!
• You are finding yourself and your brother HILARIOUS.
• We have finally moved you into a size 2 diaper; with that change came a change in your diapering demeanor.....meaning you no longer like them! I blame Max.
• You've figured out how to roll from your back to your tummy, but for some reason you don't like to show this new talent off!
• We've started some Baby Einstein videos and you are slowly starting to pay a little attention; you are finally playing more independently for longer periods of time too! (Yay for macro breaks!)
• You've really discovered your voice and love to exercise it before bedtime : P
  
• You're hair is starting to get noticebly longer (to me anyway!) and I've started to daydream about hairbows : )
• You are liking to be outside a little more now; I think you figured out the scenery changes more frequently!
• We cannot take you anywhere without at least one person mentioning your cheeks! I confess, I love to kiss them!
• You cheered the ICubs at your first baseball game ; )

At your last well baby appointment (6.29.10) you weighed 14 lbs (75%) and were 25 inches (80%)=combined 50%. I took you in a week later for an ear check and you had already gained an additional 6 ounces and grew another 1/2 inch!!!!! WHAT!

As a side note...this is our/my 100th post ; ) It took me almost 2 years, but here we are. Hopefully we'll be adding to that count considerably more often in the near future. Tell me, how do the other mommy bloggers do it??? I can't seem to find enough time to sit down and put a post together between my two (and I will not be making a habit of doing it at 11 pm as I have tonight!).

Bird Watchers

There was an untended baby bird in my parents front yard this week while we were visiting. Max thought it was pretty cool to see a bird so close. Tweet tweet!

Elly wasn't as interested ;)

An Update in Pictures

Father's Day

Getting ready to paint!

This picture makes me want to sing, "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine..."