9 months

I am running a week late on this!  I am so sorry!  Life has been a bit busy! You have been one busy little bug…you continue to develop right along. You sure make your momma proud with your great fine motor skills!  You are walking along furniture and trying to climb up everything!  If we had a ladder, I am sure you would know how to use it! Your sleeping continues to be hit or miss. Times you will sleep through the night, others you may wake up once, and yet other times you are up multiple times a night. I am really longing for the day you figure this sleep thing out- you sleep through the night!  You still continue to be a great eater…and we are hoping that this continues! You eat pretty much everything…I have not found anything that you don’t like yet. And daycare continues to comment on how you “eat everything and tons of it!” You have been crawling up stairs for a while now and daycare reports that you even went down the stairs (only 3 stairs)!  But you have yet to do this at home!  And speaking of home, we moved!  We left our house of 5 years, and moved out into the country!  It’s a bit of a change for us…but you have so much more room to learn and grow!  You seem to enjoy the new house, except for the floors! You get a little frustrated when you have clothes on…as you slide all over…so we tend to keep you naked a lot!  We now live 3 miles from a trailhead, which we just LOVE!!!  You love to go on hikes and you “talk” most of the time when we are on the trails! 

You are usually a very happy baby and are constantly smiling and squealing at most everything!  You have really picked up on babbling and at times we think you are actually saying “dada” purposefully…but it’s a little hard to tell. I also think that you are signing “dog” purposefully, but this is also too hard to tell!  I continue to work on you to say “mama” with no success!  I am looking forward to the day you say it!  You are now giving kisses…which means you open your mouth up wide and stick your tongue out and get me all slobbery!  But, boy do I LOVE THEM!!!  I cheat a little when putting you to bed, and instead of laying you down when you are sleepy, I cuddle you for a while, because you are such a wild woman, you don’t let me cuddle you anymore!  So I have to steal it where I can!   I do have to say that I think the funniest thing you do is try to drink water out of the faucet when your bath water is pouring!  I am trying to catch it on video!

You had your first adventure to the farm for the 4th of July!  We traveled at night, so you would sleep, and it worked out perfect for us (both ways!)! We had an Anderson family reunion as the whole gang was there (Gma & Gpa, Chris, Mellissa, Brooks, Noah, Drew Troy, Kim and Thorsten). It was organized chaos most of the time, and I think we were able to get you ALL down for a nap at the same time ONCE!  But it sure was a BLAST! 

We made it back from North Dakota, just in time to move and this coming weekend brings a Reinhardt family reunion! 

9 months with my bear

LOVE. THE. LAUGH

Hadley, Brooks and Drew

Noah is my buddy!

The 3 rug rats born in 2011

Proud to wear John Deere!

Just cute

Being goofy and grandpa and grandma Anderson’s

Had to go check on the cows (grandpa and grandma’s pasture land) the cows are way down by the dam

Beautiful pasture

Loving the new house and hot tub!

Up Middle Cottonwood to spread some of Henry’s ashes

Play date and random pictures

Today we had an awesome play date with Lauren, Holten and Ellen! (Side-note) The best part about this next month…is that we are going to be neighbors with them!!!!  We are just a little excited about it! 

 

The red-stained mouth after all the watermelon!

Fun in the sun!

Hike up Ousel Falls in Big Sky (June 16)

Hiking the “M” the steep way up with daddy! (June 23)

Made it to the top!

 

Down with mommy!

You LOVE to hike!  You get really excited and kick your legs and scream and squeal anytime we go for a hike. You also enjoy watching other people on the hike coming towards us!  Most tend to comment on what a “happy baby” you are! And you really are!  I love you baby girl!  XOXOXOXO  Momma

Ways to keep a crabby baby happy at dinner!

So, your naps today were a little on the short side. So when we got home and ready to eat dinner, you were a bit crabby…and this was the only way to keep you happy!  Oh…and you have a tooth!  But of course, you will not let anyone in your mouth to feel it!

Already full of SASS!!!

Good thing we are moving, that way we won’t have to baby proof twice! 

Happy Father’s Day, Daddy!

Happy Father’s Day, Daddy! You are the best daddy in the whole wide world!!!  My present to you was “sleeping in” until 8:30.oh…and then NOT taking an afternoon nap!  I love you!

What?!?!  I am suppose to be sleeping…??

Enjoying our picnic in the park and a walk up Pete’s Hill

1st time in a swing

8 months 1 day

So a major milestone has developed in the one day that I wrote you 8 month blog!  You are crawling now!  You have a very distinct crawl, as you really don’t know what to do with your right leg!  It is pretty funny and cute!  We Skyped with daddy so he could watch, since he is up in Canada! 

Oh….and I forgot to mention in the last one that you love to clap!  You clap at everything…now instead of waving, you will clap!  You are a RIOT! 

And it took me about 8 shots to get a 8 month old picture with your bear…because all you wanted to do was clap!  So here are some more pictures!  I love you baby girl!

Ok…you get the idea!

My beautiful bald baby! 

1st day at crawling!!!

8 Months

Today marks your 8 months in this crazy world!  You have been one busy monkey! You only sit still when you are sleeping…and even then you roll all around and get yourself all turned backwards. Even when you are sitting in your highchair, you cannot sit still…you are constantly moving and you almost catapulted yourself out of the highchair 2 days ago! You are quite the eater!  I am not sure where you put all of it…but your average dinner lately consists of oatmeal, an entire package of baby food puree, some banana and whatever else is near for you to eat (i.e. cheerios, puffs, yogurt drops)!  You have made it clear that you are not very fond of baby food. You want food that you can feed yourself. I would have to say that at this point in time, yogurt and toast are your favorite foods, but you really are not that picky of an eater. I have given you frozen peas and you just gobbled those up…and they come out barely digested!  So we are taking a break from them! You are starting to sleep better at night…now we can only hope that this trend will continue!  We just had our good friends, Jack, Carrie, Jaycee and Carsten, come and visit and you loved every minute with Jaycee and Carsten!  You move around the room, but you are not crawling yet!  You will get yourself up onto all four’s and rock back and forth so hard, I feel like you are going to break your nose one of these days!

Carsten, Jaycee and Hadley