8 months

Mary is 8 months now and she just gets more and more fun as she is growing and learning.
She is officially crawling and loves to pull herself up on anything.
Another first for her she has gotten sick :( We're on day 6 of this nasty bug which I've had with her and now Ryan has joined in on the misery. Nothing worse than being sick yourself and having a sick baby! I'm definitely learning the saying moms give that moms don't get days off. I went to work on Sunday with a temperature over 100 and came home to take care of her. It's amazing what our bodies can do when we just have to push through things and do what needs to be done. Hopefully she (a long with Ryan and I) are all better by the weekend especially since my sister and brother in law with their two kids will be in town and getting family pictures taken.

Foods she has tried
blueberries, greek yogurt, zucchini, pineapple, apricots, rice, chow mein noodles, and all were yummy to her!

Fun facts: She is using her voice lots, will put her arms up now when she wants to be picked up, will lean towards us if we put our hands out to her. She is so fun to take pictures of she definitely knows what a camera is.  She understands ''no-no'' and some times starts crying when I say it to her.

Loves: eating whatever we're eating and is like a little birdie opening her mouth for a little piece. Loves to throw things and hear it fall on the ground and make us pick it up for her..over and over again.
Watches tv..when she can sneak a peak!

Hates: getting her nose wiped (what kid doesn't though)

and no picture updates since they are all on my phone..I have slacked on using my actual camera. And shocker...my phone is dead! ;)

Summer Fun

Play date with Kaylee. MJ's first time in the kiddie pool and loved it!

I babysat my nephews and nieces for a couple of days. We sure had some fun!

Caleb: "Hey Aunt Jannali! Supa Powa!" these two crack me up

Watching fireworks for the first time at Taylorsville Dayz. She loved them!

All tuckered out from an exciting evening

4th of July Parade in Park City

Yum nothing like fresh watermelon!

haha yeah I'm pretty sure she's a fan of watermelon!

Fathers Day

There's nothing better than seeing the man you love, who long ago was my first love, the boy who sang me a love song, was my first kiss, who may have been the reason for many nights coming home past curfew, the boy I said farewell to I'll see you in two years at the mission training center, who danced with me and looked at me with such loving eyes on the our wedding day, the father of our baby. I'll love him always for being the amazing husband he is and for giving me such a precious beautiful baby girl who has us both wrapped around her chubby little finger and can make our day with just a smile. I'm so grateful for these two loves.

say what?! 7 months..

Where on earth does the time go... Baby girl is now SEVEN months old  Can I just say HOLY COW!

It has been a bit of a rough month..Where once I could brag how easy she was to put down to sleep has come back to nip me in the butt. No longer able to fall asleep in my arms at church = leaving to drive around till she falls asleep, giving in and laying her in our bed till she drifts off than walk ever so quietly and slowly to her room and hold my breath as I lay her in her crib praying she doesn't wake up. Wanting to shed some tears trying the Ferber Method and lasting only 5 minutes till I can't handle the screaming anymore. Got the picture? I know woe is me.. 

Other than her change of bed time she is still such a happy going baby. She is beginning to venture out and slowly getting to her knees wanting to get to outreached  toys. Soon it'll be time to baby proof our place, yikes!
She enjoys sucking her thumb through the pacifier hole..smarty pants. Loves being around other people, playing with bubbles and went swimming for the first time which wasn't as successful as I thought but the pool wasn't very warm so who can blame her. 

She loves Ritz crackers and will only eat sweet potatoes with them, still has to have her wubbanub at all times, she is already little miss photogenic; you hold a camera up and say cheese and she certainly grins from eat to ear. Is a big girl and sits in the grocery cart, if given a toy and a non toy object of course she goes for the non toy.. She loves playing with my hair and face when I'm laying next to her haha so cute.

Hates: still is such a girl and hates sitting in her dirty diaper for very long, cries when you leave her alone in a room even if she can still hear your voice! Not a fan of laying in the grass on her back she doesn't cry just has a funny expression on her face.

6 months

A bit behind, MJ turned 6 months on May 20th

Stats:

weight: 15 pounds
height: 25.5 in

She is staying in her 25% percentile growing, her pediatrician said she is doing amazing for being able to sit up on her own with out wobbling and tipping over and has good function with her eye hand coordination playing with toys.

Fun Facts: She has found her thumb in the last week...oh no.. I can handle her being a binky baby but having a thumb sucker is a totally different ball game as I have seen one of my nieces who loved her thumb. She loves tv, she will do whatever she can to watch it as in arch her back while sitting in her bumbo..any closer and she'll be doing a back bend!

She sleeps like her mama, one leg under the covers and one on top. Cracks me up.

She is apparently like how her daddy was as a baby, she is very content to just sit and play with toys and has a very easy temperament.  

Wearing 6-9 month clothes although she can still fit into a few 3-6 month items, wearing size 2 diapers and eating solids like a champ.

She knows her mama loves her sleep so she will sleep through the night for 10 hours and wake up around 6 to eat and than typically sleep for another couple of hours.

Loves: her wubbanub, they are bff's. listening and 'singing' to music, playing with her feet and is quite the flexible little thing. We are both enjoying this weather and having lots of walks, she loves to observe her surroundings as well as people around her.

Hates: hmm I can't think of anything right now! She is such an easy baby. She still doesn't like having a dirty diaper (Who can blame her though) 

Being a Mom

What a wonderful first mothers day I had this year, I am finally a mom and am loving every bit of it.

I get to wake up each morning to the cutest most smily little girl and have an amazing husband to help me. He is my rock, I don't know what I would do with out him. These last 5 1/2 months have been so amazing for us as parents and as a couple we have learned so much and are so grateful to have MJ.

I have an incredible mother to look up to who is an incredible example and hope to be that same kind of loving mother and example to Mary.
And for the last year and a half am blessed to have a mother in law who loves to spoil MJ and is so giving to us


                                                   (Are these sunglasses to die for or what?!) 

                                   Right now I am happy and my life is complete
                                  with a wonderful husband and beautiful baby girl
               

Look who is sitting up!

Oh my goodness some one needs to stop growing so fast! In just a couple of more weeks Mary will be 6 months..half a year old! This little girl is such a joy, I can't imagine our life with out her.

I could nibble on these lil legs and kiss this face all day long

MJ loves her present from Grandma and Grandpa O.

Awful/Awesome

Awful:
Baby blowout on our bed twice in a week.
hormonal break out all over the chin
Some times I hate texting because people can misinterpret what is ment to be said, than a long comes anxiety because I don't do well with confrontation or anything like that.
I loath TMobile. They sent me a message on my phone to receive an update after this so called update my phone radio no longer works so when calling out or receiving call all you hear is static and clicking noises. They told me on the phone it was their fault, there were bugs in the program and I'm not the only one who was dealing with this. Long story short their customer service blows.

Awesome:
MJ got a johnny jump from Grandma and Grandpa O.
Granny and Papa D are back home from being away an entire month!
Saw The Avengers at 12:35 am and totally worth it! Go see it
A friend volunteered to watch MJ so we didn't have to take her with us
Baby chubby legs and wrist rolls, love em!
Thanks to my sis for watching MJ all day long while I worked

"Sweat is fat crying"

Well folks, Summer is just around the corner and that means...summer clothes and swimsuits. Last Summer I was pregnant and this year I still have baby weight to loose and know I wont fit in to my shorts and definitely not swimsuit worthy. So instead of spending money on clothes that I can't afford and that wont be wearable forever I have decided to let go of the hope of the weight falling off and started exercising. Where we live there are tons of hills to go down and up to get some good cardio in. I am definitely not in shape. I want to enjoy summer and not hide behind baggy clothes and not go swimming with my daughter because of my own insecurities of my body. No more excuses, no more ''I'll start tomorrow'' It's plain and simple, I'm just not the kind of woman that has a baby and that looks back to normal 2 weeks later, or 2 months later or even coming up on 5 months later. Breastfeeding or not doesn't do jack, only taking control and working out and eating healthy will do it. I don't care about what the numbers on the scale say, or the number on my pants. I just want to look at myself in the mirror and feel good about the way I look, and not cringe when I look at my wardrobe just wanting to wear anything baggy and blah.
I know what is realistic for my body and know I can't compare myself to others (even though it's so hard not to!)
So here to is to new goals and make over!