Friday, November 9, 2012

Happy Halloween

Halloween kicked of the first of the "holidays" for 2012.

Raya was starting to sit assisted so we were able to have some fun with pumpkin patches, even in our own front yard. There were several Halloween celebrations we attended and as they progressed Raya got more scared of things...poor little girl :(

Raya and I visited the pumpkin patch with my friend Amber and her son Easton. She was in a great mood and had lots of fun looking at the big orange circles. Pretty sure that's all she acknowledged pumpkins as.

A friend of ours had a pumpkin carving party that we went to and as it was getting dusk and the fog machines and monsters were going she was not too thrilled. This was her first sign of "being scared". She turned away and would nuzzle into our shoulder, so cute ;)

Then came Halloween day!! She was our little Elephant...so darn cute! We have an amazing neighborhood for trick or treating, I can't wait (Zara too!) until next year when we can walk around with her. But she hung out with me while I handed out candy and looked suspiciously at all these strangers coming to our house. Tim always does the house us with lights and music (naturally) so she was a little spooked but was a trooper. Ella and Marty came over to trick or treat in the neighborhood, it was fun to have the kids here and watch them get excited..,priceless to watch kids innocence :)

BOO!











Half Birthday!

Some of my friend know that I LOVE half birthdays. It was a nice tradition my mom started when I was younger because when you're a child it takes FOREVER to get to your next birthday so every April 10th I would get half the happy birthday song sung to me, half a birthday card (shed litterally cut one in half), half a birthday treat, you get the idea :) and as I mentioned in a previous post Tim proposed to me at a surprise half birthday party.

Now with our own special daughter I plan to continue the tradition! She celebrated 6 months/her first half birthday on October 24th and how exciting it was for her! Besides the crummy shots she got at her 6 months doc checkup :( she got her ears pierced and opened cards and gifts from family and friends!

Yay!! Thank you all and Happy Half Birthday Sweet Pea! XO

Thursday, November 1, 2012

All fours!!

She's up on all fours...she knows how to bring her knee forward but hadn't put the hand forward coordination together yet ;) she ends up kinda face planting when she doesn't know what to do next (hence the foam mats)... It's only a matter of time before she truly lives up to her new nickname of "scoots"

For now she Definately scoots sideways or rolls to where she wants to grow, it's crazy how fast she is learning and growing!

** UPDATE** scoots is officially crawling!!! On 11/5 she decided to take a few crawls towards Tim's cell phone and she's been on the move!! We had to purchase a larger area rug so she wasn't falling on the hardwood. She's starting to pull up on things! Oh boy!!!