Our first Mommy + Me

I've found some great brands/companies to partner with and I did these photos for a wonderful bracelet company. They make newborn to adult sizes so we got these matching stone and gold bracelets. I never thought I'd wear matching stuff, but these were too cute to pass up.

Technically these aren't teething bracelets though and she wouldn't stop chewing on them! That second tooth on bottom is starting to show under the surface.

Sloane // Eight Months Old

We sped right into another new month with our little girl. Since posting last month she has totally taken off. She is army crawling all over this place. She gets her little bum up in the air, rocks like crazy and then drops down to pull herself along. She is obsessed with water bottles, just like Carson was. That was what we used to entice him to crawl for the first time. She has discovered the remotes. She is sitting up all by herself, tips over often, but can sit and play without any help. She started saying "mama" last month for a good week straight and then discovered "dada". Ever since then I've only gotten a handful of mamas when she is crying and I'm taking too long to pick her up. Other than that all she mumbles is dada all day long. It actually sounds like she says "hi dada" whenever she sees Carl, which is obviously adorable. She LOVES our cat and makes the loudest and funniest squeals and words when she is in her line of sight.

She has discovered food for real now. We can't eat around her without having something to share. She'll sit and stare at you and try to get up to wherever you are if you're eating alone. She manages to kick off her socks or shoes whenever I wear her. She's figured out her headbands are there and will routinely take them off and chew on them in the car.

It seems like she hit the separation anxiety stage a little early because she was going through it at her 6 month check-up. It is still in full-force. She will be fine one minute and panic the next if she's left somewhere alone. I'm hoping it lets up a little soon so we can start thinking about trying out the crib. Overall she just loves to be held and wants to be up where the action is. She watches her brothers so intently, screams at them happily when they approach her and couldn't be a more sweet baby.

Oh my, I almost forgot! We got her first tooth this month too on the bottom front! I can't believe I forgot to get a photo of it. It broke through all the way in the last week. I looked back here on the blog and Max got his same first tooth at this exact same time. Poor girl had a fever for almost 4 days and seemed sick, but then the tooth broke through so it made sense.

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! :)