Photo Shoot

By now Scarlett is used to having her pictures taken 24/7. Poor girl always has a camera in front of her, but she is too cute to not document!!!

This last week she was being extra cute when we were taking pictures. My mom stood behind the picture taker and was making her giggle like crazy it was so funny! She gave us some of biggest grins I have seen! So we all had to get in on the fun.

   

Fear the Beard

To start off all of the Halloween fun, Robs mom threw a Halloween party for all of the cousins. Scarlett  didn't participate in any of the fun games, but she looked cute watching!

Two months ago we were at the cabin with Robs family talking about what all of the kids would be for Halloween. Rob brought up dressing Scarlett as his favorite basketball player/second love/man crush James Harden. I automatically shot it down! There was no way I was going to dress up my sweet little girl as a boy with a beard! 

So Robs parents got her the cutest little chicken costume and I just added the feathers to the front of it. It was so dang cute! She wore it for the Halloween party Robs mom threw and for pictures of course! Then the night before Halloween Rob and I were just talking about doing something funny all together for Halloween. We talked about a few things and then he brought up the James Harden idea. After he said the idea again I thought to myself why not?! It's so fun to make memories together and this would be one we would never forget and it would be something that would always make us laugh! So later that night we got one of her onesies and made it into James Hardens jersey. Then the next day i was on a mission to find some beards and black hair dye. 

Oddly enough there wasn't any beards for babies but we found one and made it work! Yes I put black hair dye in my babies (barely) hair, don't judge it was a necessity! When it was all together it was the funniest thing I have ever seen! She wasn't a fan of the big beard, but who is? (sorry Rob). But it gave everyone some good laughs all night long! And now looking back at the pictures it makes me laugh even more! 

Hopefully she will appreciate our sense of humor when she is older and looks back at the pictures...

Doesn't she just look just like him? Hahaha. The first Halloween with all three of us was one that we will never forget!!

7 Months

Scarlett is 7 months old and weighs (according to my scale) 18 pounds...

Well I don't exactly think Scarlett has gained 3 pounds in one month so sadly I don't know how much she really weighs... BUT on the bright side that means my SCALE IS OFF AND I WEIGH LESS!!!  WHOOO!!!! 

About a month or so ago I kept seeing all of these moms posting about how "their baby sleeps 12 hours a night" and I just felt like I was doing something wrong because Scarlett was still waking up 3+ times a night. I thought it was my fault because I have always fed her to sleep and thought that was making her too attached. So I started the good ole cry it out method to put her to sleep at night.

The first night that we started this was HORRIBLE. Rob kept making fun of me because I couldn't stand to just sit and listen to her  cry. But really who likes to do that?! After the first couple of times it wore on me and she has been getting so much better. It only takes her a couple  minutes to soothe her self and then she is out. She still wakes up about 2 times to feed, but I will gladly take that! 

I had to keep reminding myself that all babies are different, and to stop comparing the way I do things to the way other moms do theirs. Everyone has their methods and mine has been working great for us. I love Scarlett and I love the bond that we have (even if it means she is a little attached to the goods). Now I just remind myself to always do what's best for us, and what makes Scarlett and I the happiest. So now she is going to bed at 7:30 which is FABULOUS because that means me and Rob get a lot of time together which is SO important to me. And it also saves my sanity most days.

Scarlett has been SO fun lately. She has always been such a happy girl, but now she is learning some new tricks and her personality is growing more every day. Here are some of the new things going on lately.

1.  She is scooting herself around as  much as her little arms will let her.

2. She plays this game that she made up where she will yell, and then wait for you to yell back, and then yell again, and then giggle because she thinks she is so funny. It is so dang cute.This usually goes on for a whole 5 minutes before she gets distracted and shoves her foot in her mouth.

3. She LOVES food (of what she can have) whenever me and Rob are eating I have to make sure that I have something for her to eat on the side or else she stares us down the whole time with her big blue eyes that I just can't say no to.

4. Nights have been getting much better as I was saying above, she only wakes up about 2 times a night for her snacks! But really she just cries until i pick her up and then when I do she keeps her eyes closed and keeps her mouth open just waiting for me to feed her addiction. Thinking about it now makes me laugh... But I never really laugh when she does it at 3 am. 

5. She loves Mickey Mouse clubhouse and always has since she was 3 months old. She gets a huge grin when the song comes on at the very beginning and then again when the hot dog song comes on. Rob also has goofys hot dog dance down to a T and it entertains me and Scarlett for hours.

6. She is such a people person. She loves to be around anyone that will look at her and tell her she's cute.. But really if you see her she will stare at you seriously until you tell Her she's cute and then she will give you a smile. It's hilarious. She's a great shopping buddy!

 7. She waves all of the time! The first time she did it was when Rob left to work one morning. He waved to us and said by and she just waved right back with a cute little  grin on her face. It melted me.

I have so much fun with her every day! She is a little bundle of joy that I love so much!

Happy Half Year!

Scarlett is already 6 MONTHS OLD! I don't know where time has gone!

15.4 pounds - 36th percentile

26.25 inches tall - 66th percentile

Head 17 inches - 78th percentile

Don't let the happy face fool you, this picture was right before she got her shots. She is starting to even out but is still so skinny! I guess it's time to pull out the twinkies. 

She is always such a happy little baby and I couldn't ask for a better baby! Here are some new things going on with Scarlett as of lately.

1. She rolls like crazy! If she sees something she wants across the room, she doesn't try to crawl… just rolls right over to it haha.

2. She just started to sit up in a shopping cart… :( It is so much nicer to go shopping now, but it still makes me sad to see her so big.

3. She sleeps through the night! LOL JK. That was fun to write though. Maybe ONE day we will be able to sleep for more than a couple hours at a time, but for now I will cherish our late night boob snacks.

4. She will only sleep on her stomach with her face smothered in the bed. She sleeps exactly like Rob.

5. She sits up, but only when she wants to. She is getting quite the personality lately.

I feel so lucky to have been blessed with Scarlett as my baby. She makes this parent thing a lot more fun then I anticipated.

Wedding bells

This last weekend my brother got married to my beautiful sister-in-law and it was the prettiest wedding! It was so fun to be with my family again, two times in one year is a lot for us! Kaili looked so pretty and it was such a fun wedding!

Their were so many people for Scarlett to look at, and for them to look at her so she was in her prime.

I just love our little family so much!

4 Months Old!

12.9 pounds - 24th percentile

25.5 inches tall - 90th percentile

Head 16.5 inches - 86th percentile

She is still just a skinny tall thing. It freaked me out a bit that she was so skinny! But the doctor told me she is doing great since she started out so small. It's hard to know if I am giving her enough food, but she seems just happy so it calms my nerves.

She has been such a little jabber box lately and makes the funniest noises.

She rolls like crazy!

And she hates getting her shots, but who doesn't? Luckily I have the secret weapon to calm her down ;)

2 Months Old!

10.4 pounds - 30th percentile

23 inches - 86th percentile

Head - 15 1/4 inches - 70th percentile

About a month before this check-up I went in because she kept throwing up! I thought she was already skinny enough she didn't need to lose any more weight already! But the Doctor solved all of my problems by just telling me I was overfeeding her… Whoops!

She hates her pacifier, I have tried literally 10 different kinds and she has given me the thumbs down on all of them. So I gave up and just let her go at her hand, she seems to really enjoy it haha! 

She loves to take baths! She just splices and splashes her heart out!

Whenever Rob gets home from work I will go up to him with her and she will have the HUGEST smile on her face. It makes my heart melt a little bit each time.

She is just a little skinny tall thing and we love her!