Ten Months

(photo courtesy of my sister Chrystal)

Taylor turned ten months yesterday. I can't believe she is just a couple months away from being one, crazy! In the last month three of her teeth have come in, her bottom two centrals and one of her upper centrals. Her other one is starting to come through too. Needless to say all of these teeth are making her a little crankier than usual. She also seems to have a runny nose all of the time, which someone told me was from teething but I don't know if that is true or not? She is pulling herself up on everything and wanting to explore, which is really just a nice way of saying she is getting into everything! Yesterday I put her down for a minute to try and put my makeup on, two seconds later I turned around to find that she pulled herself up onto the toilet and started unrolling the toilet paper. Lovely, huh? She is still sleeping really well and is so quick to smile and laugh, which is one of our favorite things about her. She smiles at everyone who looks at her! Let's just hope the recent crankiness is short lived...

Redneck Fun

We had such a fun weekend this last weekend. Friday night we got to go on a date night with m sister Chrystal and her husband. We went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner and then back to our house for dessert and games.
Than on Saturday Chrystal watched Taylor for us so we could tube down the river with our good friends Cami and Scott. We have discovered as we are telling people that we did this that it must be a very redneck thing to do and they kind of look at us like,"You floated down the river, that is digusting!" Well we did, and we had so much fun! Maybe we are a little redneck at heart. It's great though, you all get your tubes and then you get one extra tube to put your cooler in. Then we tied them all together and just relaxed as we floated and ate and chatted. At the end there is this one part where you have to get over to to get off. So we were all trying to scoot our tubes over and some how Rob fell and got tangled in the rope. We didn't realize he was tangled and just kept dragging him trying to get over. It was funny. We were all laughing the whole time. Maybe it just made us feel younger, like we were back in college!

Rob could probably pass for a little redneck with his hat in this pic. :)

Cami & Scott

#1 Mom Moment

So last Friday I was at the craft store with my sister. We were in the line to check out and we were both turned looking at something on one of the shelves on the side when I heard a noise. I looked over to see my baby on the floor and then she started screaming. I think I froze for a split second , like what just happened here! She somehow flopped herself out of the cart. It was HORRIBLE! I felt so bad I wasn't watching her. I didn't think she could get out if she wanted to. I just picked her up and left. By time we got out of the store she had already stopped crying but I was still feeling frantic. I called Rob and then the doctor. They told me I should bring her in just in case. Remarkably she was fine. She must have caught her head because she didn't have the tiniest bump or red spot. Thankfully! Luckily the nurse didn't make me feel bad and tried to tell me it happens all the time. I am sure I was way more traumatized than Taylor.

Death to scorpians...

Since our first encounter with scorpions when we moved into this house last November we have been having the house sprayed and had not not seen a live one since. I say had because last night we found a live one. Rob was in the closet changing after work and he looked over and saw it on one of my skirts. How it got on my skirt that was hanging up, I don't know! Thinking about it really just disturbs me. We were both so cranky. It almost makes us uneasy to be in our own house! I called the exterminators this morning and they can't come out till Saturday. How am I supposed to feel comfortable putting any of my clothes on?!!

Playing at the "beach"

Our neighborhood has this pool that everyone calls the Beach pool because they have brought sand in to make it feel like the beach. Taylor is getting to an age where it if fun to go. She likes sitting in the sand and playing in the water.

9 Months

Our girl turned nine months on Monday. She is becoming such a little person. Over the past month she got her first tooth and started crawling. She wants to be on the move and playing all the time. She had also started doing this funny almost fake laugh when she is really excited. It is so fun to watch her grow.

Laziness...

I am so behind. I wish I could say it is because we have been so busy and traveling, but this is not the reason. I've just been lazy.

We have just been trying to enjoy our summer. Same old routine. Rob's busy working, and I am at home doin' the deal with Taylor! We have been venturing more into the world of babysitters and that has been great to get out and go on dates with Rob more.

A few pictures to catch up:

We celebrated our 6th year anniversary.

Marrying Rob was the best decision I have ever made. He is my very best friend and we still laugh all the time together. I think that we become closer and I love him more with every year.

We had a low key 4th of July. We had a little pool party at my sisters, Taylor is really starting to enjoy swimming. WE decided it wasn't worth keeping her up to watch fireworks so we went home and put her to bed and Rob and I just watched a movie! We actually had a lot of fun. It was just nice to have Rob off of work for a few days.

Taylor always seems to have this face in pictures. Her eyes look like she is surprised and her mouth is always opened!

She is eight months now, I can hardly believe it. She is getting so big and it is fun to watch her little personality coming out more and more. She wants to be moving and exploring everything all of the time. She is so anxious to crawl, but she is not quite there. She kind of army crawls right now if there is something she wants to get to. It will be crazy when she is really crawling! I am not sure I am ready for that and all that it entails...