Easter Bunny Time

Time for another update. It takes forever to load pictures. Shane and I talk about getting faster internet but we never seem to get around to it.

Delphia LOVES stuffed animals! She loves to chew on ears and noses until they are soggy. This is a teddy bear at my mom's house and Phia loves to chew on his scarf. I think her favorite part of any toy, especially stuffed animals is the tag on thier bottom! She will try and try to get it in her mouth only to keep it there for a few seconds!

These next pictures just crack me up! Grandma Freeman gave Phia a hat for Easter and when we at my mom's on Tuesday we were playing with her toys on the bed and showing Grandpa her new hat. Later I just flopped it on her head to see what she would do and this was the result.

Not only that, she sat on the bed for 45+ minutes with the hat on her head like that. My mom was singing Do You Know The Muffin Man to her. She cracks me up! She doesn't mind at all if you put a hat on her or a cup on her head. She just hold still and it amazes me how long she can keep things on her head! She also loves cups and she got the cup in the picture fo Easter from Grandma Freeman.

This is the first picture with the hat.

My mom had as Easter egg hunt for the grandkids on Saturday. Each granddaughter had a certain color egg. Phia's color was green. They each had a bucket with a cute little book, bubbles and some treats for the parents. They all went outside to look for their egg color. My mom hid them hard, especially since Delphia still has one somewhere in the yard. There was also 4 bigger eggs for the adults that had money in them. I unknowingly picked up the green one thinking it was Phias and I shook it and I wondered why my mom was giving Phia change. She then pointed out that it was an adult egg. I gave it to Shane and he asked why I picked that one up and told me he didn't want that one. He wanted the orange one that had $20 in it. My dad told him he could rehide it but that wasn't really fair. I found 3 of the 4 eggs, all but the $20 one until the end. Phia wouldn't let go of her easter bucket f or anything!

This is her 7 month picture.....

Shanes mom did her Easter egg hunt on Sunday and it was a cool but sunny day, hence all the pictures of Miss Phi squinting! She got a hat, a bubble necklace, a lipgloss necklace, a chirping bird, a whistle, a cup and lots of eggs full of Gerber cereal puffs which she loves! We had just bought two containers the night before!

This is a waking from naptime picture. I am constantly trying to get a good picture of her floofy hair but none of them ever do it justice!

Phia has a love of watches! Sometimes I will take my watch off and let her play with it but then when I take it away she cries! The outfit in this picture was way too small and we ended up washing her 12 month clothes so she would be more comfortable! It's amazing how much the sizing varies! Childrens Place and Sprockets run small aand Carters runs bigger.

This is the outfit I changed her into later that day and it made me giggle! The pants and shirt are a comfortable size but the hat and socks that go with it are way too small. The heel of the sock goes to the arch of her foot! The hat won't even fit on her head! I love the outfit though, it is comfy and cozy and soft!

This is one of her dresses for 6-9 months and she probably wore it for the first and last time that Sunday! All of her 6-9 month dresses ran small so we are moving into the 9-12 month dresses! She looks so cute though! On Sunday we just sat her on the floor during Sunday School and she just played with her toys until 15 minutes before Relief Society ended! Everyone was amazed at how good she is and what a happy baby she is!

Last night we were at Costco and we decided to get pizza forr dinner. Phia was sitting in the cart just giggling and miving her feet and the guy at the table in front of us commented on what a happy baby she was!

Top 10 Childrens Books

I absolutely adore childrens book! I love buying childrens books and reading and rereading them. I don't care about buying novels etc because I won't read them more than once. I love going to bookstores and could spend hours in the childrens section. I am trying to instill in Delphia a love for reading and so far I would say that she definitely love books. Her eyes just light up when I get a book out to read to her and once we finish a book she cries for more. So, here goes my top 10:

1. Jamberry

2. Any of the Mercer Mayer books

3. Any book in the Bear Snores On series

4. The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear

5. Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

6. Any book by Sandra Boynton

7. Love You Forever

8. Guess How Much I Love You

9. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

10. Junie B Jones series

Once Upon An MD Appointment

Phia had her 6 month appointment yesterday with the pediatrician so here are the stats. She weighed 17.75 lbs (72%) which the pediatrician said was great. He told me to keep feeding her whatever it is I am feeding her. She was 24.8 inches and went from the 8% to the 10% percentile. What can I say, she has short genes. Her head is in the 91% percentile. The MD was a little concerned about her not bearing weight on her legs or rolling over so we are supposed to work on that before her next appointment.

She loves to sit on the bed and play with her toys. Pretty much she just loves to sit up. Sometimes we will be getting her dressed and she will cry just because she wants to sit up.

This is just a funny picture we took because she was being fussy and the camera makes her smile pretty much no matter what her mood.

Phia wore her capris the other day even though it was like 40 degrees outside. I miscalculated the time frame for some of her clothes and so a couple things are more summery. We were in the house all day so I figured she was fine. We just threw some socks on and we were set for the day. She just looked kinda silly with her striped socks.

This picture was an attempt to get her sticky up hairs to show themselves so they could be scrapbooked for posterity! I love her little hairs, they are so soft!

Miss Hootymae and More...

Delphia has started to shape her mouth into an "O" shape and it cracks everyone up. My mom made the comment that she looks like an owl trying to hoot. We have started to call her Hooty Mae and it fits quite nicely!

Here she is showing off her new talent. Sometimes she will make a huffy noise and it makes me laugh! It doesn't help matters that she also has hair like a little owl. She has tufts of fluffy owl looking feathers on her head. Her hair doesn't lay down, it just sticks up no matter what we do.

She is absolutely the happiest baby in the morning and we have our own morning routine. She wakes up about 6:20 every morning and talks and plays in her crib until 7:00. I go and get her and change her diaper and then she lays on the floor and talks while I make the bed. We head into the kitchen and she sits in her highchair while I fix our breakfast. She has rice or oatmeal cereal mixed with a fruit. Then we sit down and eat and then we wipe her up and I load and possibly unload dishes depending on the day. We head into her room to pick an outfit, get her in the tub, play for a little bit and then she gets a bottle and goes down for her morning nap about 8:30-9:00! We are working on a schedule for the rest of the day still. Afternoon naps vary and she just lays down somewhere between 12:00 and 3:30.

She is currently loving her baby food. Just this past week we added cereal and fruit in the morning. I had only been giving her 1 oz fruit and 1 oz veggie in the afternoon and felt like she wanted more food. She didn't really like avocado initially along with sweet potatoes and green beans. We have retried sweet potatoes and avocado which she will now eat. The other day I mixed banana with her avocado on the suggestion of a baby food website and she absolutely loved it! She had her mouth open again before I could refill the spoon! Yesterday we tried mango as her new food and she really liked it. She ate about 1/2 of her mango and sweet potatoes and then I mixed them together and she ate it really well. It is time to try more new foods and so on Tuesday we made peas, mango and butternut squash! I really enjoy making her food and she even gets in on helping.

We took this picture on Saturday and it makes me smile. It's Phia and her two cousins Ruby and Emma. Once Phia sees the camera she is all smiles!

This was taken this morning! She loves sitting up and playing with toys! It is so nice because I can get some things done while she plays as long as I still talk to her. She loves her fishy rattle and stuffed animals. She loves chewing on her bunny Patty Cottontails ears and the tag! She is such a happy baby and I love getting to stay home and raise her. She is so sweet and easy going.

She loves the icemaker and really anything to do with water. She loves bath time and gets water all over me. She loves drinking out of her sippy cup and a real cup when we let her. She is amazed with the ice maker and will just sit and grin at it if you stand by the fridge. It makes Shane and I laugh.

Tomorrow my mom, Ashley, Ruby and Emma are coming out to visut. It should be a fun day. I need to get chili made tonight for lunch tomorrow to go with cornbread! Well, Phia is awake!