6 Months- LDM

On January 13th, Lila turned 6 months old.  Lila is truly the happiest baby, and I am enjoying every moment of this age.

Weight:  14 lbs 15.6 oz  (~28th percentile)

Height:  26.5 inches  (~75th percentile)

Head:  16.5 inches  (~42nd percentile)

At 6 months, Lila.....
- is wearing 6 month clothes and jammies, but several of her 6 month pants are starting to look like capris.
- is wearing a size 2 diaper.
- is wearing a size 1 or 2 shoe when she wears shoes.
- takes a 6oz bottle ~ every 3-4 hours during the day.  She is still waking up once per night and gets about 4oz usually between 2:30-4am.
 - is holding her bottle by herself for the most part.
- still really loves her paci.
 - we started solids over Christmas break.  Right now she just eats them once per day, but we are getting ready to move to a breakfast and lunch routine.  So far she has eaten sweet potatoes, carrots and zucchini.
- her hair just keeps growing and growing.  It is still a very light brown or dark blonde color.
 - has started showing a lot more interest in playing with her toys.  She really loves tummy time if you put toys on her blanket with her.
- is scooting and moving to get to her toys.  I can tell she wants to crawl so bad.  She lays on her belly and does the worm to scoot where she wants to go.  She is also starting to try to get her knees up under her, but we aren't quite there yet.
-is such a wiggle worm.  She loves to stand and roll and squirm around in your arms.
- laughs and smiles all the time which is one of my very favorite things.  She has huge dimples that are so precious.  She is really ticklish on her neck and just cackles and laughs when you kiss her.
- has turned a bit into a mama's girl.  Usually as long as I am holding her, she is perfectly content.
- is still sleeping in the rock and play in our room.  Her doctor told me at her appointment, that I really need to move her to the crib so I guess I am going to bite the bullet and do that very soon.  She usually goes to bed between 8:30-9 and wakes up once to eat sometime in the 2:30-4am range, then back to sleep til 7-7:30am.
- likes to read books and really pays attention for 2-3 short books. I have started making more of an effort to find time to read to her.  I used to read to Addie all the time and want Lila to love books like her big sister.
- speaking of her sister, Lila loves Addie and tolerates all her affection very well.  She watches Ad and just grins and laughs at her.
-has started babbling quite a bit.  She says dada and baba (although hasn't made the connection of the sounds with the objects yet so I don't really consider those being "first words").
-celebrated her first Christmas.  She did great getting passed around and being thrown off of our routine.  We loved having her with us this year.  She did great driving down to the Valley to spend Christmas with my family and on the flight home.  She really is an easy-going baby now as long as her belly is full.


 Happy 6 month birthday baby girl!! Mommy and daddy love you so very much!

Gloomy Weekend

Last weekend, the weather was cold and rainy and overall gloomy so for the most part we decided to stay bundled up in our cozies and enjoy the comforts of our heater.  Jason and I did get to have a date night on Friday night which was so nice, but other than that, we just hung with the girls at home.  Here are a few pics of our snuggly weekend.

Addie got play-doh in her stocking this year, and we played with it a TON this weekend.

Nothing better than napping on a cold, rainy day

Doing a little cookie baking

Just a little taste before lunch  :)

Lila ate sweet potatoes instead....sorry baby bean  :)

It's ok...they are pretty tasty Mom

Addie was trying to point to get Lila to look at the camera.  She loves to help with Lila and really is the best big sister.

More snuggles.  Soaking up this sweet baby love.

jumpy jumpy

Ad decided she needed my gloves and her hunting beaning to watch her movie.  haha

Sweet sisters....these two melt my heart

NYE

This year, we decided to not get a babysitter for NYE and just hung out the house with our kiddos (we live on the edge, I know).  Dan, Monica and Jackson came over and brought Margie's homemade gumbo, and I made a few sides to go with it.  The gumbo was delicious as always, and we enjoyed just getting to hang out with friends.  Jackson is toddling around now, and he and Ad had a blast hanging out together.  We celebrated the new year around 9pm before putting the kiddos to bed.  I told Ad that we kiss and say HAPPY NEW YEAR!  She and Jackson proceeded to kiss, and Jackson just kept puckering up his lips as far as they would pucker.  It was soooo hilarious.  We all kept laughing so they of course kept kissing.

They would kiss

Ad would laugh

and then do this.  It was so funny.

Then they would rinse and repeat.

 

I wouldn't trade these moments for all the NYE parties in the world.  I love to think back on the year and feel so blessed.  During 2014, we bought a new house, had a new baby, remodeled our house and are truly settling in as a family of four.  Of course, there are always difficult things we encounter throughout the year, but God has abundantly blessed us during 2014 and for that, I am so very grateful.  I hope that each of you have the best 2015!!

Yum Yum Lila

Since Lila was fast approaching the six-month mark and I had some time on my hands, I loaded up on all kinds of fruits and veggies after Christmas and stocked our freezer with tons of homemade baby food for Lila.  I loved making Addie's baby food and plan to do the same for Lila.  To start, I made sweet potatoes, carrots, kale, spinach, squash, zucchini, beets, pears and apples.  I had also bought blueberries, but Ad decided to polish those off before they became pureed.  :)  I will be able to mix and match these to make various concoctions once she has been introduced to them all individually.  We started out with carrots below, and she did ok with them.  There was the normal about of gagging and spitting, but she did eat a few.  She is still getting used to the textures, etc but is getting better each day.  Hopefully, she will learn to be an adventurous and healthy little eater.

Christmas Break

I was fortunate to take off work this year from December 19th until January 5th.  It was just what the doctor ordered.  After all the Christmas craziness subsided, we did a lot of relaxing and playing with the girls.  My parents came in town for a few days which Ad was so excited about, and we all just re-charged before jumping back in our normal routine.  Below is a photo dump from our Christmas break:

For a few days, we started introducing potty training before I realized that we were spending our Christmas break confined to the tarp I had spread out in the living room and just weren't having much fun.  I rationalized that we pay enough tuition for Ad to go to school, that I would just let her teachers do the potty training heavy lifting and re-enforce at home.  She was so proud of the successes she had on the potty though.

And how cute is she in her panties.  :)

Mom and Dad kept the girls one night so Jason and I could have a date night.  We actually went to the movies which was the first time I had been to the movies in over 3 years....crazy I know.

Morning snuggles with MiMi and Papaw

One morning, we headed to the mall to get out the house.  Addie had a blast.

Riding the train

We played with some of our Christmas toys

Shooting baskets in our high heels...no biggie

We bundled up and went on a couple of walks around the neighborhood

We took the girls to Kinley's 3rd birthday party.  It was a painting party which Addie loved.

The girls used their chairs from Deanna, and I bet Addie watched the old Disney movie from my child hood, Robin Hood, no less than 10 times.  She's obsessed.

Then it was back to school and back to reality in January.

But aren't my babies so cute and cuddly in their winter gear!

Christmas Decor

Before I get too far removed from Christmas, I wanted to post a few pictures of our house looking festive (mostly because it makes it so much easier to back and look next year when I am trying to decorate).  Since this was the first year to spend Christmas in our new house, I had a blank slate to work with.  I used all of my same stuff but found new places for it all.  For the most part, I am a neutral décor lover, but at Christmas time, all bets are off, and I embrace the "the more sparkle and glitter the better" approach to decorating.  Below is a glimpse of what our house looked like for the month of December.

The entry way was adorned with garland and sparkly Christmas foliage.  This picture doesn't really do it justice.  I actually really loved our entry table this Christmas.

I was so happy to have my big Christmas tree back from storage this year.  We have 10 ft ceilings in our front living room so this became the tree's home.  I loved having it in front of the window so you could see it from the street.  I bought a few more sparkly sprigs to add to the top this year, but everything else was the same as past years.

I bought these flat glittery ornaments on sale and tied them to all my packages under the tree.  It made a huge statement and really made the tree so pretty.  I wish I would have taken a picture of it with all the gifts under it before they started being opened.

Buffet in the front room just got some garland and ornaments sprinkled about.

The bar housed our nativity scene and some greenery

The girl's Christmas art and cards from school were tucked into the shelves in my kitchen.  I just love seeing their sweet little hand and foot prints.

A small touch of Christmas in the bar area of the kitchen

My babies feet and some sparkly snow man also lived on the kitchen counter

We taped up the Christmas cards in the kitchen and filled a few apothecary jars with some festive filler.  I tucked some greenery and such around the jars and added a yummy smelling candle to the tray.

I put our small tree that we used at the rent house last year up in our other living area so we would have a tree in there too.  I also bought us new stockings this year which I really love.

Just a little more Christmas on the end table in the living room

 

I love having the house decorated for Christmas.  It makes it feel so warm and cozy, and I love sitting on the sofa in the evening with the little white lights of the Christmas tree illuminating the room.  I loved that Addie wanted to help decorate this year and will always look forward to the magic that comes along with celebrating Christmas.