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!

Getting Behind

Oh boy! It is so easy to get behind in blogging! I actually typed a post up a week or so ago and was going to post it when I got a second, but then my computer restarted to download some updates and well, there went my post. So, here we go again!

This might be quite the garbled mess of the last few weeks, but AI promise to post more regularly!

Yesterday was Shane’s day off from Costco and he got home about 10:00 from seeing patients. I was feeling wanderly and so we decided that we would go into Orem to University Mall to look for me a dress. I dislike Sunday just for the fact that I have no dresses that I like and get sick of wearing the same ones. Before we left I was doing some stuff on the computer and Shane was holding Phia and I took these pictures.

It’s a CD case that she is holding and she loves to play with it. She just moves it around in her hands and looks in the clear cover. They are amazed by such small things! I was excited that I actually found 2 skirts and a shirt at Mervyns. One is black with white polka dots and the other is cream with red flowers along the bottom. We went to lunch at Zupa’s and then headed to the mall. Shane went and changed a diaper while I wandered around Archivers. It was funny because everyone we passed in the mall would say, “She looks like such a happy baby” or some other comment about how smiley she was! She loves her stroller and she was an angel the whole time!

Last Saturday my parents were on vacation and Shane was getting ready to head to work and I was in tears because I was lonely. I usually go up to my mom and dads on Saturday and visit. Shane told me to call Ashley and so I did. She told me to come up and we could hang out because she hates when she is feeling lonely and doesn’t want anybody to feel that way. I headed up to Salt Lake and after dropping Shane off Delphia and I headed to All My Memories. It was the first time I had taken her out by myself and I was so impressed by how good she was! I will have to take her out more often! We headed over to Ashley’s where she made me an excellent peanut butter sandwich and a granola bar. It made me laugh because she asked what I wanted to drink and I told her water was great. She brings out this giant cup that was filled about halfway full and she hands it to me and says, “We’ll start you with this much!” You can tell she is around a 2 year old all day! We played Lost Cities and visited and Delphia enjoyed Emma’s swing. We decided to head to Costco to get out of the house and I had just fed Delphia and set her on the couch to pack her bag and she was out! It was so cute! Ruby promptly climbed up next to her and was trying to talk to her and tried opening her eye! But, no one was going to wake her up! She even slept through the whole Costco trip!

We went back to my mom’s afterwards and hung out till Shane was off and I ended up getting a horrible migraine and calling Ashley and Jed to go pick Shane up because I knew I couldn’t drive. Dallen got home a little after 8 and he took Phia until Shane got home. He sat in the chair with her and played her Disney songs on his cell phone.

Last Friday Ashley and I went to my mom’s to visit before they left on their cruise and we laid Emma and Delphia on the floor next to each other. It is amazing the difference that 3 months makes! They are so cute together and I can’t wait till they can play together and have fun!

Last week I was getting Delphia ready for bed and she was just being her funny self. She was smiling and giggling so I went and got the camera. She is such a slobbery girl lately and her onesie was soaked with slobber but she was still happy as could be!

We took this picture last Tuesday when Shane was home! She is such a happy baby and she just starts grinning the second I get the camera out! I have to apologize for the dark pictures. I took Adobe off my computer and haven’t had time to re-install it.

Valentines Day came late for us this year. We celebrated on Friday. I was going to have Delphia wear her Valentines outfit on the 14^th but because of snow and wind the road was closed to get out to Eagle Mountain so we ended up staying over at my parents. Luckily we had enough diapers and outfits for Delphia since we way over pack for her. We had nothing for ourselves though! Dallen was kind enough to give up his bed and we put Delphia in the office in the pack n play. My mom had extra deodorant and stuff but it’s not quite like being in your own home. So because of all that, no outfit on Valentine’s Day. She wore it on the 15^th and she came with Shane and I to Geckos for lunch and then my mom watched her while Shane and I went up to the U for my MRI.

We don't have Church until 1:00 this year and have kind of made it a goal to get up and get ready so that we aren't rushing to try and get ready at 12:00 and get out the door on time. We took these pictures a couple weeks ago.

It took a couple tries to get a good one of her and I but we got a good one the first try with Daddy!

She is getting really good at moving around in her bed. The other morning I walked in to get her up for the day and found her like this.

Her body is normally going the opposite direction and by kicking her legs she had twisted herself upside down and into the corner of her crib. I took one look at her and knew I had to get a picture to show Shane. I went to get the camera and she started to cry. I came back with the camera and she understood where I had gone.

She is starting to really enjoy toys and she loves to chomp on her piggy bank coins. We spent about an hour playing with the coins and listening to the songs a couple weeks ago.

We did a little photo shoot a while back and she pulled the shyest little face! She is no where close to being shy so I don't know where the look came from but it made me laugh!

Shane's mom brought out a Johnny Jump-Up and an excersaucer 2 weeks ago and Delphia hated the excersaucer! We put her in it and she was okay for a minute until Shane squeaked the crab and then she just lost it! Now everytime we try to put her in it she just cries. Funny thing is she really enjoyed her cousin Emma's last week. It must have toys that are more fun! She likes the jumper but still isn't sure what she is supposed to do in it!

Last Friday she turned 6 months old. I can hardly believe she has been in our faimly for 1/2 a year! It is so much fun to see her do new things and watch the world around her! She is starting to sit up really well but she still has no desire to roll over. She loves to kick her legs and play with peoples faces. She loves pulling Shanes chest hair and loves going for waljs in her stroller. Last week she started making a new noise. It kinda sounds like Ernies laugh on Sesame Street, something like Geeeeeeeeeeeeeee. She is getting more hair and it has a mind of it's own. It just sticks straight up and doesn't like to lay down. She loves eating her baby food but has a color issue I think. She loves bananas, pears and yams but doesn't really like avocado, sweet potato or green beans. She just likes colorless food! Next week when we go grocery shooping we will pick up some new foods and see what she thinks! Here is her 6 month picture!

She is also getting to the point that she is content in her highchair so that I can do dishes or eat some lunch. She loves it when I give her lids from the tupperware to play with!

On Monday we had Ashley, Ruby and Emma ove to our house and we had a grand ole time! We read some of Delphia's books, played with toys, made an attempt at watching Poppins, ate chili and muffins and went for a little walk around the neighborhood! We will defintely have to have them out again soon!

Well Delphia is up from her nap so we are going to go play on the floor and then take a walk later this afternoon!

New Things

In my post earlier today I told how Delphia is sitting up and realized I don't have any pictures of her sitting by herself so I took some this afternoon. She looks so proud of herself. In the one picture she is sucking on her bottom lip. She always does this!

These are the new clothes I got....I figured I needed to be included in my blog and not just Miss Delphi!