3/25/13

baby elle at 4, 5 & 6 months

 baby elle is getting big. fast.
so i thought i'd better get some more pictures of her up before she's walking ;)

at four months this little gem was as sweet as ever and happy as could be and all the littles above her were still very much in love with her.
how could they not be?
she wasn't doing much other than baby stuff.
LOTS of sleeping, laughing, and being pleasant in general.
and sleeping.







she celebrated 4 months on new year's eve in SLC.




poor little miss got sick with RSV and had a rough couple of weeks, but didn't get nearly as sick as some babies do, thank goodness.  still, i've never had a baby so sick and miserable.
sad.


at five months little dab decided the world was worth waking up to.
she started to be more aware of what was around her,
like her, apparently, very captivating hands and feet.



more sleeping






baby learned to roll from front to back.  more of a tip-over, i'd say.  my babies take forever to do anything since they spend the majority of their first six months asleep, so tipping over is quite exciting.


and this is the face i'm greeted with whenever i enter the room.
she's president of my fan club.


six months brought a few more grams of cheek chubs, may favorite kind,


and some experimenting with baby food.  she's not a fan of the mushy stuff, but prefers things she can chew, so we've kind of skipped baby food altogether and moved right to solids.
i don't blame her.  that gunk is kind of gross, which is exactly what gwen thought too, and made her opinion on the matter all too apparent by gagging and puking on the floor whenever she saw elle being fed baby food.
nice.













she gets going CRAZY in this thing.  it's so so funny.



doing some pretty awesome sitting,


and looking pretty proud of herself.






this has been an official overload of photos.
your welcome.



1/23/13

hot steamy mexico

it's been so unusually cold the past few weeks.  i know. i know.  it gets a LOT colder in lots of other places, so i shouldn't be complaining, but we moved to boise to avoid this kind of ridiculousness, for heaven's sake! it just seems wrong sending your kids to school when it's 1 degree out.

i've been dreaming of tropical climates and remembering our trip to mexico last may.  that was warm.  and fun.
and warm.












i'd go again just for one day.  even if it meant i had to do it 6 months pregnant again. not that that was hard when all i did was sit at the pool and beach reading and drinking slushy drinks all day.

1/17/13

some christmastime pics

a teeny bit of what went down this Christmas.


angel?  we'll see about that


someone looks a little disappointed at being typecast as the donkey...again.
it's only natural.


Mary and Baby


look lively, shepherd. 


Joseph and the bright shining star


our tree was really small this year, but i wasn't complaining since it went up quick and came down even quicker.
it was cute.


stocking check


getting her nails done did early Christmas morning.




first Christmas!!  aaaaaaaw.












why not?

it was nice and mellow.  just the way i like it.