Sloane // Seven Months Old

Oh, my little lover butt. I know I shouldn't say this out loud, but holycrapsheistheprettiestbabyever! She is starting to form a little girl's face and doesn't look like an infant all of a sudden. We went to Carmel over this last weekend so we were traveling home on the 22nd; technically she's 7 months and 1 day here. Over the weekend while we were away she was so cranky! She cried every single time we put her in the car, I stood out front while she cried at dinner, she screamed the majority of the time we were out in public, she was a handful on the airplane rides and was overall a lot of work. But she was apparently working on a bunch of baby things because she crawled and clapped while we were there! Now that we're back home she is back to her sweet, playful self so she must've been really thrown off being out of her quiet routine.

She is starting to really enjoy eating solids. I hate baby food and for many reasons decided to do baby-led weaning, starting with manageable whole pieces of foods from the start. She is loving bananas, avocados and frozen mangos in her little mesh food holder thingie. Technical term. We got her a new highchair 10 days ago which is helping a ton. I couldn't bring myself to use the highchair both boys used because it will never come totally clean again.

She is still in size 2 diapers and just moved out of 3-6 month clothes. Unfortunately most brands I buy go to 6-12 so her newest clothes are pretty big on her. You can see here she's still fine in her 0-6 month tights and is wearing a new sweater dress. A sweater dress.... :)

She can go from happy to crying at the drop of a hat though. She was lying here and in no time she was DONE. It is so cute though. ;)

Sloane // Six Months Old

I am crying right now. Okay, not really, but I totally could if I tried. Baby girl is already six months old today! This couple weeks or so has seen some changes in her. Her teething is seriously the story right now. She will try to get anything in her mouth she can possibly grab onto, and stuff she can't grab onto. She is getting so grumpy, I'm sure because it can't feel great to be teething. She took a 15 minute afternoon nap both today and yesterday. She is mad when you put her down, mad when you don't sit with her just perfectly, not wanting to sleep and still giving all the giggles in between. I don't take the attitude personally. It must be rough to be a baby. She ie'ls starting to sit like a tripod too. She falls over after just a few seconds, but it is beginning. She is still rolling all over the house and when she gets mad enough she'll push off a little like a crawl. And when I don't pick her up for a minute of her screaming she'll throw some "MAMA!"s in the mix. She's starting to give big open-mouthed slobber kisses when we ask too. I loooooove that. Oh, and toes are in the mouth at every diaper change.

She was so insanely happy today when I took her photos though. I have a bunch more to go through that I'm so excited about. Right now I have SO many balls in the air that this one photo and blog was all I could manage between everything else. As I type this I have to click over every few sentences to upload reports and do a million other things. It is tough with the kids here and working, but I would be crazy to complain. At this moment I am wearing Sloane since she wanted nothing to do with being on the floor anymore, Carson is (kind of) doing his homework right beside me on the desk and Max is on the other side of me having a snack and watching the iPad. We are all happy and healthy, our house is a mess, but we are so good. I always worried that #3 would break us, but she couldn't be further from that.

LOOK AT THAT CHUBBY LITTLE BITTY FACE!!!! I could just eat her up every minute of every day. The rest of the photos to come soon....

Her happy place

Last night I was wearing Sloane while bouncing on the ball at my desk and working. She fell asleep since it was quiet and she looked so insanely sweet. It is nearly impossible to take a selfie with one hand with my big camera, but somehow I pulled it off and nailed focus! :)

iPhone // Month 3 with Sloane

Month 3 brought the start of Sloane starting to look like a chubby baby and not a little old man. We have little old man newborns and I'm totally okay with that. She started to put some chunk on during month 3 along with the emergence of a personality and the fun really began! She is so cuddly and kissable. The boys we in the full swing of school and I was still figuring out how to juggle it all. I don't know what I'd do without being able to wear her. Literally.

This was one of my FAVORITE spots we've ever found in the mountains! I want to go do a shoot up here because it is just that awesome looking. These tree teepees are all over the place already which was just a bonus.

A little belly roll peeking through...

Sister napping while Max played at Little Monkey Bizness.

In the school drop off line.

I'm new at this. She pulled this down and fell asleep. haha!

Time for bath and bed!

Gus' birthday party

Max took this and brought me my phone to show me his "pretty baby sister".

Sister sleeping at the nature and science museum while Max played.

She always wants to have her eyes on me, even when Daddy takes her. But even though she is a mama's girl so far, she warmed up to him right from the start. They usually take a nap like this during football on Sundays in the rocking chair.

Sloane in hanging out while Max played at Chic-fil-A. See a theme?

He asks to hold her at least once a day.

Having lunch in Idaho Springs.

Sloane sleeping while Max played on the school playground.

This was the hail storm that finally got us. This started right as I pulled up to get Carson from the bus. I had 5 miles to get home and our van (4 months old...) had $9,000+ in damage. :(

Her watch dog. I always here a version of, "I'll stay here with her and make sure she's okay, Mommy."

Poured a bowl of cereal and got an extra prize.

Sloane sleeping while the boys play at a children's museum.

I had to take Sloane to Children's Hospital to have her hearing screen done. Usually this is done in the hospital when they are born, but we didn't have it at the midwifery. She was already super alert at this age so it was really hard to get her to sleep through it. They told me to bring her drowsy, which I did, she was asleep when we got there. Then they took us to this room and SCRUBBED her head in three spots to put the sensor stickers on, which obviously woke her up. After that it was a very sensitive back and forth to get her asleep enough to do the test. She cooperated eventually though.

At the Wild Animal Sanctuary on a gorgeous Sunday morning.

At the Plains Conservation Center

Carson's Star of the Week poster.

We love our stripes! :)