Christmas with Scarlett

Our first Christmas with Scarlett was so much fun! I still love to wake up as early as I can just so Christmas can last as long as possible! This year I let Rob sleep in until 6 a.m until I woke him up haha. We were able to get through all of our presents for each other before Scarlett woke up. In fact, we had to go wake Scarlett up because we couldn't take it any longer! She usually wakes up at 7 every morning, but of course since we wanted her up she decided to sleep in.

After waking Scarlett up, we showed her all of the new toys she received. As soon as I handed her one she just started shaking with excitement and was overwhelmed so I just decided we needed to wait a bit longer haha. So we headed over to my in-laws (an hour later… thanks to the 10 inches of snow we received that night having to be shoveled). When we got to my in-laws house Scarlett was much more awake and as soon as we set her down in front of the presents she just went crazy and climbed on top of as many as she could!

We set up all of her toys and it was so funny to see her react to all of them. I was so surprised at how well she did with her walker. As soon as she got ahold of that thing she just started giggling and she walked as fast as her little legs let her! It was the funniest thing to watch! Thanks Charli and Jeremy she will be walking in no time now i'm sure! She has had a lot of crashes on it so far, but she doesn't seem fazed by it one bit and will just get right back on it!

This one a Christmas we will never forget and I am so excited for all of the ones to come because I know they are just going to get better and better!

We didn't get a bunch of pictures of Scarlett from the morning because we were having too much fun with her, but we have some. And of course we have some of all of her cute little Christmas outfits!

Baby-Led-Weaning

After reading numerous blogs about baby-led-weaning, I decided to try it out for myself. Scarlett has always stared down Rob and I as we ate so I thought this wouldn't be a bad idea at all! Baby-led-weaning is so fun for Scarlett, but it also gives me nightmares of her choking. Literally... I still have nightmares and wake up from them so scared I can't sleep even though I have a real tough guy right next to me. Maybe I'll grow out of them someday. ANYWAY, because of that I still haven't gone all in with it.

She has been doing so good with handling the food and just taking little bites out at a time. I have been so glad that there hasn't been any choking yet. (Knock on wood.) This has been so much to see her try out new things and love (almost) everything that I have given her.

For breakfast lately I've been giving her eggs, fruit, and one day I made some blueberry banana muffins. The first time that I gave Scarlett the eggs she loved them! But ever since then she hasn't been as interested. The blueberry muffins were okay but she would just pick the blueberries out. So lately I have just been giving her some fruit. Her favorites are bananas and STRAWBERRIES. She is so obsessed with strawberries, she has to have one in each hand when she eats them just to really get the full experience.

Her mom it's too early for pictures face.

Despite her face she really does love strawberries so much!

For lunch/dinner I have been doing peas/avacados/green beans/and I just tried some tortellini. She wasn't really interested in the tortellini and I gave her some of my chicken that she wasn't as into either. So for now I will just keep putting it in front of her until she tries it.

Right now she is just into eating some, and then throwing it all on the floor and looking at it from there. But I will take what I can get. Whenever she seems to not eat a lot I just give her some strawberries and she goes crazy!

It's been so fun to let her try out all of these different things. It feels good not being the only source of food for her, even though she eats about the same, it still feels different! I feel free!!!! Lol.

Family Pictures

Awhile ago I won a free giveaway from Kallie Porter Photography! I was so excited!!! I never win anything and I had been wanting to get our family pictures done! So it was just perfect and she did an AMAZING job on them. She is so great at what she does!!

I wanted to post some of my favorites on here because I don't want to blow up instagram anymore than I already have :).

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9 MONTHS!

Weight - 16.8 pounds-26th percentile

Height - 27.5 inches-42nd percentile

Head - 17.5 inches-67th percentile

We went to her appointment this week and as soon as the nurse laid Scarlett down to get measured her little lip started to quiver and her big eyes started to water because she was so sure she was about to get some shots. Thank goodness she didn't have to any this appointment!!

Every time I look at Scarlett lately I am so amazed at how big she looks and how different she is every day. She learns and picks things up so fast! She makes me so happy… even when she doesn't haha. Every day there is something new that she is doing or saying or eating. They seriously eat everything they see? The other week I was feeding her some food and Rob swore he saw something in her mouth. I checked and there wasn't anything so I kept feeding her. Then Rob saw it again. She stuck a candy wrapper in her mouth and just kept it in her cheek the whole time she was eating! That takes some great skill… I can't even keep my gum to the side of my mouth when taking the sacrament at church without getting my bread all over it.

Anyway, here are some of the new things that Scarlett has been doing!

1. She said her first word "mama" about a month and a half ago and that was the only thing she would ever say. I think it was starting to get to Rob… haha. But now she has been saying papa, dada, and a bunch of other things I haven't quite figured out yet.

2. She crawls the real way now and pulls herself up on about anything she can! She walks along everything and I'm just waiting for the day she gives herself a black eye. She bangs her head on about anything she can bang her head on and never makes one peep about it! 

3. I've been feeding her different kinds of table foods lately and so far she LOVES blueberries, avocados, and eggs! She did so good with eating everything I would put on her highchair the first couple of days, but now she is more into throwing her food on the floor and just staring at it from a distance. Oh and today she tried to lick it off the floor… mom win.

4. She also loves Diet Coke… thanks to both grandmas ;). Okay just little sips is all don't worry.

5. She has the cutest/cheesiest smile I have ever seen! She scrunches her nose up and smiles as big as she can. It looks like a fake smile almost… maybe it is… haha.

6. She loves to pull on Rob's hair and just yank it as hard as she cans. She thinks it is the funniest thing and so do I! Until she tries pulling on mine.

7. OH! And she has 2 teeth!! Whoooo!! After months and months of drooling they finally popped through!

She really is the happiest baby and always has a huge smile on her face! Happy 9 Months Scarlett!