June 28 - Six Months

We spent the day in Logan today for Nichelle's wedding.  It was so great to spend time with Gma & Gpa Allen and the rest of the family!  We are blessed to have wonderful families!

And this little tot turned six months today!  SIX MONTHS.  I blinked and she turned six months.

She is so happy.  She sleeps for ten hours at night.  She is quickly growing out of needing to be swaddled during sleeping times.  She wears size 3 diapers & size 6-9 month clothes.  She loves her brother and her sister and her Mommy and her Daddy.  She puts everything in her mouth.  She is ticklish on her biceps.  She is almost always smiling or happily watching the world move around her.  She has tried some solid foods and so far banana seems to be her favorite.  She is a sweet little doll and we love her to the moon & back.  A million times.

June 27 - Personality

Nora has the sweetest, most calm & happy personality.  Both of our other kids hated the grass.  They'd cry & pick their legs up until we picked them up.  This totally shows her personality.  "Well this is new.  It seems pretty neat.  Thanks for showing it to me.  I love you."

We went to Seven Peaks for the first time this Summer tonight!  Which means Nora went swimming for the first time ever!  She wasn't a fan at first, but by the end she was eating her hat (that she pulled off her head), splashing, laughing, kicking, and babbling loudly at all the kids!

This was taken at 10:30 pm.  Just awake.  Not sad.  Just awake.  And she found a new way for her bink to hang out in her mouth.  Like a baby gangsta.  We just love her so much.  She brings so much happiness to our lives & home!

June 26 - Loves

Nora loves her stander toy!  She is growing too fast.

Andlie & Haze love popsicles.  (Can you tell which flavor they each had?)

Haze loves doesn't love naps.  But he sure does need one.  This is usually what happens every night around 7 if he doesn't take a nap.

Haze loves his date with Daddy that happened tonight!  They also went bowling & for ice cream!  In this picture, Haze said he was "making a crazy face!"

While the boys were out, the girls went to Costco & Target.  When we got to Costco, we noticed that Nora's ear was full of blood.  Both me & Andlie got a little bit nervous.  Then Andlie looked tenderly at Nora & told me, "Mom, I feel like I'm gonna cry," and then she burst in to tears.  She was so sweet with Nora & made me proud to be her Mommy.  (Don't worry, it was just a little cut in Nora's ear.)

June 25 - Water, Grass, Bowling

Andlie & Haze are in swimming lessons!  Today is their third day.  Andlie loves it.  I mean, that's probably an understatement.  Haze hates it.  And that's also probably an understatement.  Andlie can float by herself and do bobs and she just loves every minute!  Haze gets out of the water every time it's not his turn to swim with the teacher and snuggles with Momma.

Tonight, Andlie & Daddy went on a date!  While Mommy & Hazey were lighting "worm fireworks," Nora was busy discovering the grass.  Afterwards, she had a little nap while me & Haze went for a bike ride and played with the neighborhood kitty.

Andlie & Daddy went bowling & to ice cream for their date!

June 24 - Napkin & Summer

Nora hung out on the floor inside and the other two kids rode bikes outside.  I ran back & forth checking on and playing with all of them.  While I was out with Andlie & Hazey, Nora accidentally had a napkin snack.  (Clearly this is our third kid because I stopped to take a picture before I grabbed the napkin out of her mouth/off her face.)

Tank top: check.  Popsicle: check.  Outside: check.  Messy hair from playing in the water: check.  Little sunburn: check.  We love Summer around here.  Nore: When eating a popsicle, be sure to get every last drop of juice out.

June 23 - Happy Baby & Books

Sometimes Nora distracts me.  I mean to take just one quick picture of her and then she smiles and makes cute noises and acts proud of herself for sitting up and smiles some more and laughs.  And before I know it, I've taken 35 pictures of the same pose.

During Nora's nap today, me, Haze, and Andlie jumped into our bed and read stories.  After we read, "Smelly Socks," we obviously had to smell the book to see if it was smelly because of Tina's stinky socks.  Yep.  Yep, it was smelly.  These are our faces after smelling the book.

June 22 - Proud

Pretty proud of her new skill.

Proud to be wearing Mommy's sunglasses at church.

Proud to have copied the kid on the block bag.