6 Months Old!!!

Rolling everywhere!

I sit up so good!

Can you believe it??? Blake turned 6 months old on Tuesday. These first 6 months have flown by, I don't even want to think that in another 6 she will be a year old. She is as cute as ever. She is rolling over both ways which so far equals bruises. Seriously though she is doing really good, she is sitting up and rolling and trying to push up onto her hands and knees but ends up putting her bum in the air and her face into the carpet instead, it is funny. She had her dr's appt today and she is doing well. She weighs 17.6, is 26 inches long and has a head that is in the 90% :). She is actually kind of thinning out. I realize she is still a big chunck but she hasn't gained like she did before, she is just mobile now so she can't just sit around and get chunkier!! It is funny though, I will sit her up with toys to play with and I will come back into the room a few minutes later and she is in a completley different position, sometimes on the other side of the room. She has also started babbling a lot more since she got her tubes in, and after one naughty night we got her not only sleeping through the night but sleeping through the night in her crib, yeah!! I finally gave in a put her in there and now I am so glad that I did! She is so much fun and we just reallly love the heck out of her, we can't get enough of her sweet little smile and fun personality.

Blakeley's First Easter

Easter Morning

Janet gave her this darling Funshine Bear
dressed up as a bunny, she LOVES it.

My first 4wheeler Ride with Grampy Chad

Hunting for eggs with Dad at the Brian's





Easter Sunday





We had such a fun Easter with Blake this year. We celebrated all weekend, Blakeley had 2 fun easter egg hunts, got spoiled by her grandmas, and looked so cute in her Easter dress!

Tubes for Boo

Playing in my cute gown

She fell fast asleep before she went in

All snuggled down, it's all over!



Today our sweet little Blake had to get tubes placed in her ears. We have had a pretty rough past month or so. Blake has either had an ear infection or fluid on her ears constantly since her 4 month appointment. She stopped sleeping through the night shortly after that and we have had some "fun"nights ever since. So all this resulted in our decision to have the tubes placed. The anticipation of the procedure was much much worse than the actual thing. I have been really struggling with the idea of handing my child over to perfect strangers so she can have surgery. I know Im not the only one who has ever done this but it was a still big deal to me. We got there a little after 6 this morning and Blake was so happy, she had no idea what we were up to, she was cooing and laughing in the waiting room. (Just a quick side note, people are so intelligent- I realize my daughter has a boyish name that is no suprise but how can you look at a baby in purple and pink pj's with a pink blankie and a heart binkie in here mouth and call her a boy. Every single worker called her "Brian" or "Him" first, Rob and I probably said "this is a little girl" 10 times this morning. Its funny, I feel bad, she needs hair, and I guess a bow even when she is getting surgery:) Anyway we filled out a bunch of paperwork and they did some vitals on her and we put her in this cute little gown and then we just waited for the doctor to arrive. Thank heavens my sweet baby ended up falling asleep before the nurse came to take her into the OR so that helped because she didn't even know, the nurse just took her from me and away she went. 15 min later Dr Bikhazi was out in the waiting room telling us she did great! 5 minutes after that Blakeley was back in her parents arms! She was quite upset for that first 30 min or so and a bit fussy this morning, but since then she has been pretty happy! We will see where this leads us, at least now we know we have fixed that problem, the fun part is getting her back to the good sleeper she once was, stay tuned for that :)...

Blakeley's Latest Pictures

Blakeley's New Pictures

We got Blakes pictures taken again on Saturday in her Easter Dress and some nakey ones too. Cathy just emailed me a few as a sneek peek, so I had to share a few of my fav's. There will be more to follow after she gets them all done...

Blakes First Cereal!

Today was a fun day, we gave Boo her first juice and rice cereal. It was the dang cutest thing ever. I bought her this cute little sippy cup that is like her bottles and she grabbed ahold of it and went right to town on her little white grape juice. Then when Rob got home from work we tried the rice cereal it was so cute. She was covered in it, but we think she got some down. She liked it she didn't pull any strange faces and she knew right what to do-what a smart little punky huh! I hope this helps her big tummy stay full. It seems like she is getting hungry lately so the Doc said give the cereal a try! Anywho it was sooo cute. This parenting stuff is a blast, every stage is bitter-sweet. I want my little Boo to be little forever but at the same time its so fun to watch her learn and explore new things.

PS- Im still working on getting Blake an actual high chair/booster seat so she wont have to use the Bumbo forever. Not really the safest seat on top of the table :)

St. George

We went to St. George this past weekend. We had a great time. It was so so warm and it helped me get rid of my winter blues! Blake had a good time too, we went to Robs softball games and it was so warm so she could just be out in the sun and actually feel what it was like-she hasn't been outside at all pretty much since she was born. She loved it and she was so good. The drive down was terrific. It only took us 4 1/2 hours to get there, that included a 1/2 hour break to feed the monkey, Im know realizing that Rob may have been going a little fast.
So i thought we would be fine on the way home.... Well thats what i get for thinking. It took us 6 1/2 hours to get home and these are just a few of the highlights...

• Because of my awesome bladder I had to pee in Cedar City
• Blowout in Beaver (Blakeley not Rob) It was bad, it got in her car seat, on me, and Rob.
• Feeding in Fillmore, this was actually our only planned stop.
• Stoped in Santaquin because of -Blood Curling Screams-comming from the back seat
• Cried from Draper to Bountiful (Blakeley... and I might have too)
• She finally fell asleep after 3 rounds of "The ants go marching" and any other songs we could sing that seemed to make her stop crying.

What did I ever have to complain about in the car when we didn't have a child? Im not sure, but I do know I did. Anyway we didn't let it ruin our trip because we really did have a fabulous time. I just thought this story was too good not to share.