Carly's Six Month Pics

Here are Carly's sixth month pics, taken at Kiddie Kandids:

I LOVE this one...this is how she looks all the time...so smiley

Here's another of her "famous" looks:

This is one of my favs, such a serious little pose

Carly...You're Seven Months Old Now!!

Dear Carly-sue,

You are seven months old now!! (And I am only a day late in posting this...woo hoo!!)

You continue to be the sunshine in our lives, by smiling and just being irresistably cute almost all the time. Now I cannot lie, there were a few days in there that you were NOT a happy camper, and you cried quite a bit to let us know. But, POOF, a tooth popped out (Saturday, April 18th), and you were back to your sweet baby self.

You continue to be a breastfed baby, and it seems like that if you have your way, you'll never stop...LOL. At least you have not used your new found tooth against me! And after your several weeks baby food strike, you now voraciously eat any and all baby food. Last night, I made you a yummy concoction of sweet potatoes and green beans...you ate every last bit. I have also started giving you the little Gerber puffs...you stare very intently at it, pick up perfectly with your little finger and thumb and plop it in your mouth. Like you have been doing it forever, silly girl!

You nap pretty regularly every day somewhere between 4 and 6 o'clock. We just put you in your swing and you fall right to sleep. Why don't you do that at night??!!

You sit up VERY well now. And the other day, you leaned forward and were almost on all fours for about 10 seconds. Maybe you'll crawl soon?? I try to give you floor time every day and not hold you all the time, but you are so small and cuddly, it is hard.

You love your jumperoo and now you fit!! You just jumo, jump, jump all the time. As a matter of fact, when I put you in your excersaucer, you start to jump up and down, because that is how it is supposed to be...LOL.

The other day you went to the nursey at church for the first time...you decided that you wanted to lead the sermon, so I had to take you out so the others could hear the pastor...LOL.

I can't think of anything else new that you do...except grow just a little more hair!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE to dress you up in your dresses....you look so dadgum cute!

I love you my silly little princess!! Oh, by the way, you have your daddy AND brothers wrapped around your little finger!!

Love you much, sweet baby girl,
Mommy

Oh--did I mention your temper?? Because if I try to take something away from you, especially my keys, you sure do let me know that you are NOT having any of that, and give it back now (please)!!!

Look What I Made!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I made a little slideshow of Miss Carls...thanks, Jill, for the idea!! I love the smilebox thingie!!

Happy Half Year!!!

My sweet little baby girl...



My how time flies! You are now six months old, and what a glorious, wonderful six months we have had together.

Here are all you new "talents" and firsts:

--You started on solids. You tried cereal (not a fan), bananas and applesauce. At first you didn't really get the hang of eating, you were always sticking your tongue out and spilling the food. But something clicked on Saturday, and now you know how to eat babyfood!! And you seem to like it, as you open your mouth wider and wider for more!

--You are still a breastfed baby. As a matter of fact, you only drink about 10-12 oz of expressed breast milk at Angela's or with Daddy while I am at work...I am guessing it is enough to stave off the hunger. And then you nurse, nurse, nurse when I come home.

--You sure do know your Mama! As soona s I come home, if I do not immediatley go to pick you up, you start to cry. And, sweetie, I have to change out of my nasty scrubs before I hold you.

--You purposefully play now...you look at a toy, and grab at it to play. You put all toys and such into your mouth...and that includes your toes, too...LOL.

--You CAN roll, when you WANT to!

--You sit up very, very well. As a matter of fact, when you lie dowm, you strain your neck up like you are trying to sit straight up.

--You screech and babble, and pretty much entertain us all with your "commentary!"



You are such a joy. You smile at everyone and everybody, and everytime we go somewhere, people always stop me to comment on how cute you are! You have the cutest little dimple by your eye...weird, but it's there and it's cute!



You weighed 14lbs, 13 oz and were 25 inches long at your six month appt. You did great with your shots, and are the picture of health!!



I love you so very much and am glad that God blessed you into our lives!!



Love,

Mommy

Well--I was waiting to post until I had pics,but those will have to come later!

Letter to Carly--Month Five

Dear Carly,

You turned five months old today!! What a big girl you are! I did an "unofficial" weight...yeah, it entails Mommy standing on the scale with you and then without you...you weigh about 15 pounds now! You are soooo much fun! You love to smile, will usually grace us with a small chuckle here and there, and you LOVE to "talk." The other day, you started screeching at us while you talked....it is very cute!

You hardly ever cry, unless you are very, very tired and need help getting to sleep. Or when you have a dirty diaper...I sense an obsession with cleanliness in my future...LOL. You are still only breastfed, and, boy, do I hate to pump. The other day, I was holding you while pumping, and you starting mashing the "increase" button with your fist...I thought my pump was malfunctioning, but, no...it was you!!

You haven't turned over since the first time. (EDIT...you turned for Daddy 2/25) You love your jumperoo...you are too cute when you bounce in it. Only one of your feet will touch, and it is really only a couple of your toes, but you still manage to jump, jump, jump away!! You also still love your bouncy, and are also perfectly happy to lie on the floor and play. Your swing is now only used for when you wake up in the morning and we still want to sleep (or are getting ready for work), as you are up and at 'em between 6:00am and 6:45am every morning...even on my days off...*sigh*

You are now in love with your hands and feet. You stare hard at your hands and turn them around while watching in awe. You love to touch your toes, and have even sucked on them a couple of times...silly girl!! You are at the point where you can look at a toy, reach out and purposefully (is that even a word???), grab at it! You can also scoot around. If I put you down on the floor, at some point you end up in the opposite direction!

Well, I moved your crib in your own room, but now you sleep in my bed...it is just so much easier to feed you at night and to get some MUCH NEEDED sleep. I will move you to your room in the next month or so...we'll see...

I love you so much, my sweet Princess. You and your brothers make my life complete and are my world!!

Love, hugs and kisses,
Mommy

Post partum depression?

I don't know...all I know if that I feel like I am barely holding on. I get so mad at the littlest things...I feel like I am evil mom most of the time. Maybe it is just being so bone weary tired with no end in sight...

Anyway, as we have already established in previous posts, music is very important to me...I use certain songs to verbalize what I feel and to help me "get over it" so to speak.

So this song pretty much sums up what I am feeling right now...



Now this song talks about being broken hearted in a "love" sense, but sometimes I feel broken hearted about other things in my life...know what I mean? So I am not having problems with Steve or anything...I just can't explain why I feel "broken hearted."


Interesting note, Lifehouse does not classify themselves as a "Christian" band, but they do profess to be Christians and theie songs do have Christian themes if you look. The lyrics to this song say:

I'm falling apart, I'm barely breathing
With a broken heart that's still beating
In the pain there is healing
In Your name I find meaning
So I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on, I'm barely holdin' on to you

Success!!!!

Let me tell you a little back story, as it will make my success seem even sweeter!

It all started when Landon was a little baby, he had numerous, numerous ear infections. He would wake up every hour crying, so to preserve what little sanity I had, I let him sleep in my bed. This trend continued until he was three years old and Ryan was born. Move one out, move another in...Ryan started to sleep in my bed because it really was easier to feed him in the middle of the night with him so close.

Fast forward two years, for the past several months, we have had Ryan still in our bed and Landon sleeping in a toddler bed in our room. Landon was "scared" of his room and, with a new baby waking me up all the time, I needed sleep, so I let them continue on so I could get snatches of glorious sleep here and there without having to deal with the crying and whining.

So last week, Steve took Landon's mattress off the bed during a tornado warning and never put his bed back together. Saturday night, Landon feel asleep on the mattress on the floor while watching TV. I left him there. And I put the kicking and screaming Ryan in the toddler bed. I was NOT going to give in that night. And guess what?? It worked!!! Ryan slept all night in his bed and Landon slept all night in his own room!!

And now, three days later, the trend continues!!!! Woo hoo!! (Except now Carly is in my bed because that's the only way I can get some sleep....move one out, move another in....LOL)