As of Lately...

Lately I've been feeling super stressed about the upcoming months. Scarlett still is waking up 4 times a night and still won't go back to sleep until I feed her. They say 12 months is the time you can start weening them off, and now Scarlett is 10 months old so the time is shortly creeping up!

I know I don't have to ween her off exactly at 12 months, but this no sleep thing really is getting ridiculous. Every day I tell myself, "Okay tonight I will let her cry it out every other time she wakes up." But then when the time comes, I'm so tired I just want her to sleep so I go and feed her.

So here it is, tonight I WILL let her cry it out every other time she wakes up. Maybe this should be my New Years resolution lol. Now that it's said and out there, I have to do it. I know in the back of my head that this isn't normal first off and second it will only take a couple of days for her to get the message.

Anyways, that wasn't exactly where this post was going but I just needed to get that out there haha. Scarlett has been doing even better at this baby-led-weening and it gives me hope that maybe eventually she will be weened off of me! Usually when I put new things in front of her to eat she is hesitant and it takes her a couple of minutes to try it. But once she does she loves it! 

Lately her favorites have been...

 Wheat Ritz crackers with a little cream cheese on top. At first she just sucked off the cream cheese, but once she ate some of the cracker she didn't stop. Oh and I gave her mixed veggies but those didn't go over as well as I had hoped. 

She loved them lots. :)

Yesterday I bought some of those baby Gerber meals (I know,I know...)  and tried one of them yesterday. The first one she tried was the spaghetti o's with meat sauce. At first she was hesitant so I put some on a wheat cracker and then after that it was game over. She couldn't get enough of it! 

                                          

Pasta (she devours this and it usually ends up covering her whole body).

Homemade chicken noodle soup! Especially the carrots so that's good to know she already likes her vegetables. I was afraid she'd be like me and never eat veggies or fruit!

Tomatoes, she just tried them the other day and wouldn't put them down. She definitely has Robs taste buds!

Oh and here is Scarlett's first pony tail. :)

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!

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!!