Six Months

I think the theme of this past month of Taylor's life would be:

What can I put in my mouth?

She has become so aware and curious of her surroundings and she wants to touch and grab EVERYTHING and as soon as she gets it goes straight to the mouth. She gets most excited when she gets her hands on paper. Her whole little body gets excited like she can't even stand it.


Milestone

Our biggets milestone- this last week I started to feed her rice cereal for the first time. SHe hasn't quite decided if she likes it yet. We are still working on the whole process. I think I am still trying to get used to it too. Just nursing seemed so much easier. Now I have this whole new thing to do with her and I feel like I have no idea what I am doing. Which sounds pretty stupid because your probably thinking How hard can it be?

















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She has this great hair that sticks straight up.















Her cute little pre- cry face

And all of her chubby little rolls and wrinkles, of course!

Busy Having Fun

A Visit from Family...

We always love having company. Last week Rob's sister Heidi and her family came into to town to visit. We had such a good time hanging out with them and it was so fun for them to get to see Taylor. The kids could make Taylor laugh so hard she would practically lose her breath. It was SO cute. We mostly did a lot of swimming. I think the kids could have stayed in the pool all day. One day Rob and Tim went to see Terminator, so Heidi and I took the kids to a peach farm and picked peaches. We had a good time and made a yummy peach cobbler later.

Peach Farm...

Memorial Day Party...

Since Rob's sister was here Memorial day weekend we thought it would be fun to have a BBQ/ Pool party. Rob and I love having these little get togethers at our house.



Rob came up with all of these games to play. We set up this homemade water slide in the front yard. Then we played pool games. Toothpick: where you put toothpicks on the bottom of the pool and everyone stands on the side waiting for them to float up. When you see one you have to jump in and grab it because if you don't get one you will be eliminated. It was So fun. Then we played Watermelon: where you grease a watermelon with Vaseline and then you throw it in the middle of the pool and each team try to get it onto the other teams side. Much harder than it sounds! And so violent when you play with men! The whole week we felt like we were going non stop and we had such a good time. It was nice because Rob had a 5 day weekend so I loved having him around.

Happy Mother's day

Me and my beautiful girl who made me a mother

Easter

We had a really nice Easter Sunday last week. We went to church in the morning. It was a really nice meeting, and I really wanted to focus on what Easter is really about. I have been so inspired by other peoples stories of how they are trying to refocus on what Easter really means, I want to be better. Especially all the cute ways to try to teach your kids. I hope I can do that with Taylor someday soon. I admit I am not really good at trying to focus on whats important, but I have been really thinking about the Atonement lately. What a truly amazing gift that I cannot even really understand or wrap my head around. I just know that I am endlessly thankful and know I owe EVERYTHING to my Savior and His amazing sacrifice for me, who feels terribly unworthy.
Anyways...
It was a lot of fun to have a little girl to dress up. After church my family came over and we had a big dinner and than some games and Easter activities after. I was in charge of buying the ham. I had to laugh to myself because as I was buying this 9 lb. ham I thought about how I used to buy this little bitty ham for Rob and I. It really couldn't have been more than a pound. That is what we did our last few Easters together. It has changed SO much. Those Easters were great too, but it was nice to have a big family dinner ( we missed you Amber & Scott).

Here is Taylor with her cousins. It is hard to tell, but these are the matching shirts my sister Chrystal and I made for our girls. They were cute together, but Taylor had to go down for a nap so this was about all we got of them and we could not get Taylor to smile. Not much else is going on. Taylor is getting so squirmy. She wants to put everything in her mouth. Her newest thing is that while she is sleeping she rolls herself over onto her belly. Well when she wakes up she remembers that she hates being on her belly and starts crying. So I have been getting up a few times each night to roll her over and then she'll fall back to sleep. I have tried propping blankets around her and everything, but somehow she still manages to roll over. I am hoping that this little phase doesn't last long!

A visit to my dentist

So yesterday I got to go to Rob's office and experience being the patient. I had this little bud of a wisdom tooth all of my life and for some reason when I got pregnant with Taylor it decided to come down. So Rob said he'd take it out for me. I have to admit I was kind of nervous. I hadn't had any dental work done since I was in like 8th grade! It was fine though! I hardly felt his shots and it took him literally 1 min. to get the tooth out. Then he was checking my other teeth and I had a couple other cavities. I was kinda sad about it. He went to fill one that looked small and it turned out to be a mambo one and I had to get an inlay. I just don't know what happened to my teeth. I used to never get cavities!! It was a lot of fun to see Rob at work and meet all of the people in his office. In a way I was amazed at how good he has become and how comfortable he is with everything and with the patients, but in another way I always new he would be great. It was fun to see.

Birthday week

So a couple Thursdays ago I had my 26th birthday (getting old, I know!) It was really a birthday week though. Every morning starting the beginning of the week Rob left me a sweet little note and a present. Like the first morning a rose and the next some chocolates, etc. Than on my birthday he has these Beautiful flowers sent to the house since he was stuck at work All day. They were so pretty and it was so fun to get flowers because I have never had flowers sent to me before! For lunch that day my Mom and sister Chrystal and her two girls came over with food, presents and a cake. It was a lot of fun to hang out and eat and very sweet of them to come over. My mom got me a gift certificate to a spa and Chrystal got me fun sewing project (which will be a funny post for later...) anyway I loved both of the presents! Then the next day on Friday some girls from thee ward took me out to lunch. I always love going to lunch! I also got to go get my toes done with my good friend Cami. We had such a good time chatting and getting pampered. She is about to have a baby any day so she really needed it too! That night Mom watched Taylor so Rob and I could go to dinner, I ate out a lot if you hadn't gathered that yet! On Saturday Chrystal watched Taylor during the day and Rob and I went down to Tempe Town Lake and went long boarding along the lake and the walked around this festival/ flea marked down there. It was so fun. It felt like we were dating, just running around doing whatever. It was such a fantastic week. I had so much fun(I know I keep saying that, but ti did) and my family and friends made it wonderful!

here are some pics. from our lunch...



Taylor and her cousin Ashtyn. The cousins are SO cute together. Taylor is always smiling and laughing at them and they just love her. It is so precious to watch.
Some other random happenings...

Lately when I have been checking on Taylor while she naps this is what I find. I know it is blurry but I did not want to wake her up with the flash. She loves this little stuffed animal blanket now and always falls asleep with it. Well now she pulls it over her face everyday to go to sleep. It is so funny that she likes it that way.

She has also found her feet and is very entertained by them. It is nice, kind of like an attached toy.

This is after her 4 month check up a few weeks ago. I just think that the little band-aids are pitiful.

And my new Favorite- the bumbo chair. I Love this thing. Taylor had gotten to the point where she wanted to up and looking around at everything, plus the Dr. Told me she has a flat spot and to avoid laying her down on her back for awhile. I would try to prop her up on the bobby and she would just fall forward. This thing is Do great. It hold her in So good and she loves to sit there and watch everything going on. So I just set her up on the kitchen counter while I do dishes or make dinner or on the bathroom sink while I am getting ready. It is great!

My sister, Chrystal, and I also made this shirts for our kids. This is one of the ones that I made. We went in on a sewing matching together and our trying to teach ourselves to sew. If I am feeling brave Maybe I will post some of our other projects that haven't turned out so well!

What's new...

Recent Family pictures...

My cute Mom and sisters

So other than our trip to Mexico and family pictures not much else is going on. Taylor is four months now and getting really fun. She is just so smiley and laughs all of the time. She is very wiggly too. When I lay her down she rolls and wiggles all over the place.

This is an example of what she does when I lay her down!

Sorry SO MANY pictures!!