Beautiful Baby

We went to the park today near the Orange Park City Hall in between Lexi's book club and improv classes. There was a patch of clover by an oak tree that I thought Skye would like to sit in, she has never sat on the ground outside before. She was so curious about the clover and kept rubbing her fingers in it, I bet she wanted to eat it. Anyway, she looked so adorable in her dress and sweater I just had to get out the camera.


I love the way she holds her hands together when she has nothing else in them!

I love my chubby baby! You can see her left eye is swollen and red, this is from the scratch on her eyeball. Later that evening I took her to the e.r. because it looked so bad, she had to have dye put into her eye and the doctor looked at it with a u.v. light, it was a pretty big scratch. She has some ointment and is now pretty much healed. She also got her first tooth this past weekend, so between the eye and the tooth it was a rough few days for her!

Still trying to smile even though her eye and her gums hurt!

Attempting a Bottle

Mommy gave me too many bananas and I had to have some prune juice to help me go potty. I don't have any sippy cups yet so mommy put it in this thing called a bottle. The nipple was nice to chew on! It wasn't like anything I had ever had before and I couldn't suck on it right. The juice was coming out way too fast and I kept sputtering and coughing!

After a few minutes mom gave up and took the nipple off and just let me drink it like it was a cup. I did much better with it this way! Mommy says we will get some sippy cups this week and start practicing drinking from them. Then all the milk she pumped and froze won't go to waste! My eyes got really big everytime the juice went into my mouth, there was water added to it but it was still really sweet!

This makes a great chew toy, messy, but great!

I can hold it by myself! But I am still just chewing on it!

My attempt at sucking ended with me being covered in watered down prune juice! See it running all over my face, that stuff just came out way too fast!

I really have a lot going on right now! Here I am with my big sister wearing my very first pair of jeans! Mommy didn't leave them on me for though, she was afraid that they looked uncomfortable. I thought I looked cute!


This is my sign, Mommy makes me a new one every month! Of course I am chewing on my yummy shirt so I'm not very concerned with the sign. I'm not sure what it says but I think it has to do with how old I am! I'm getting pretty old I think, look at me sitting all by myself! And I can roll and even do a bit of what Mommy calls a "combat crawl". I can't wait to crawl for real, I am going to try to go up the stairs and get into all of my sisters interesting looking toys! They are small and colorful and they look like things I would like to put in my mouth. I keep hearing Mommy say something about a baby gate when I start to crawl, I sure hope that doesn't mean they are going to block the stairs!



Well Mommy kept taking pictures so I decided to look down to see what the sign said. I can't read so I still don't know but it sure is a bright, pretty color! Hmmm....wonder what it tastes like!

My first meal in a high chair! Mommy and Lexi went to Mellow Mushroom and I got to go with them! They have this stuff called avocado there, Mommy was very excited to hear that it is fresh and they don't even cut it until you order it. She asked for some mashed avocado in a bowl. I really dig this stuff, it is super yummy! And it doesn't make it hard to poop like bananas do! Mommy says she is glad I like avocado because it is tasty, cheap, and brain food. I don't know about brain food but I sure like to eat it!

I am sitting in my little bath now, it won't be long before I am using my little sitty thing in the big tub! Mommy says she is going to use my sink bath for as long as possible because bending over the big tub makes her back hurt, she is so old! I like to play with my bath toy, Mommy puts clean water in it for me so if I drink some it won't be dirty water. Bath time is my favorite time of the day right behind nursing, playing, and eating! I love bath time because when I am all done Mommy puts me in a fluffy towel and lays me on my changing table and gives me a massage with lavender lotion then brushes my hair and dresses me in warm, cuddley pj's. It is such a great way for me to relax at the end of a long day of exploring, playing, and learning new things!

Things I do

Here I am sleeping after a hard couple of hours of playing with my toys and rolling all over the place. I just rolled onto my side, stuck my trusty thumb in my mouth and out I went!

I'm gonna knock you out.....er, chew on you until you are a slobbery wet mess! Either way you can't get away from me little orange elephant!

Yeah, I got muscles, and yeah, I'm gonna pull this big 'ol thing outta here and throw it on the floor for the millionth time today. And I'm gonna jump because the noise will startle me then I will laugh like a loon until I realize it isn't there anymore then I will cry until you put it back so I can do it all again........and you will like it!

mmmmm...this is my very favoritist thing in the entire world to do. I love these soft thingys mom calls hands, they are so chew-lish-is! If mommy has a clean knuckle I like to chew on that too. I think I might get something called a tooth soon, I drool so much I have a little drool rash on my chin even though mommy puts petroleum jelly on it a billiondy times a day!

Woo-hoo, I can sit! Not for long though, I weeble and wobble and slowly lean forward until I am on my tummy again!

So Skye has this new thing she does. It is called standing up and she wants to do it all the time. She just has no desire to bend her hips. When you hold her in your lap good luck getting her to sit! I went to put her in her carseat the other day and here are the results! She locked those knees and those hips tight. I had to use both of my hands to very gently force her to bend her hips so I could sit her down and buckle her up! Already a stubborn little turkey.........

I was so worn out from all the activity on Christmas morning that I fell asleep right in the middle of Mammaw's living room! I looked so festive wearing my new jammies. They said Babies First Christmas on the front and had little reindeer, snowmen, and santa's all over them.

I love being Mommy's big helper! We were wrapping big sister's Christmas presents. Well, Mommy was wrapping and I was helping by sitting in my bumbo and being cute! Mommy thought I was so funny sitting there with all those gifts behind me. Especially when I put my face on my hand,Mommy said I must be thinking "I wonder which one is mine"

THAT is what you are going to feed me? I don't know about that........

Well, I don't really know....

Ew, ick, this is NOT what I ordered!

Oh boy, you aren't going to make me eat anymore!!

Today I had my first bit of rice cereal! Mommy mixed it with my favorite booby milk so it would taste familiar but I still wasn't very impressed. Mommy only gave me 3 bites, she said she felt so bad about the faces I was making. I ate it though so maybe I just need to give it another chance in a days and give myself some time to get used to it. Mommy is going to make some homemade rice cereal for me next time, she found out you can ground up brown rice and cook it then keep it in the fridge for feedings, it is a lot better for me than cereal made from processed rice and I bet it tastes better too! I go to the dr. next week for my 4 month shots and Mommy is going to ask Dr. Thornton if I can have mashed avocado and bananas within the next few weeks! So many exciting things are happening to me right now!