How in the world does 6 months go so fast!

I want to play Simon says with Time, and Simon says freeze!! How come when you're waiting for vacation to come, 6 months takes FOREVER, but when you want to keep your baby a little baby, 6 months flies by?!?! It's not fair! But enough with the pitty party right!?! 6 months is a really cool age for babies anyways, if i do say so myself and I know that miss Jaycee agrees. I mean you can't look much cooler than this:

We have definately been getting our swim on this summer!! The first time was horrible, and now, she will at least sit in the water and not cry. We haven't figured out that we can splash yet, but hopefully by the end of the summer, we will be a pro!

This is "her" spot. She likes to be in her float, leaned back in the shade, chewing on some links. It's the baby version of what we would call, sitting poolside with a margarita in hand! Aww, heaven!

So we went to the good ol' doctors appointment yesterday for her 6 month checkup; here are her current stats:

*She weighs 16 lbs 7 oz. That is the 60th percentile!

*She is 25 3/4 inches long. That is the 50th percentile!

*We are sitting up solo!! whoo hoo

*We are in size 3 diapers now. We are now cruisers instead of swaddlers!

*She drink 7 oz of formula 4 times a day with a nightly supper meal that includes one Level 2 vegetable and 1/2 of a level 2 fruit! :)

*She is now rolling over onto her belly in the crib and I will find her asleep on her stomach when I go in there. This just started 2 days ago. She has always slept on her side. I felt more comfortable with her on her side. :/

*If she is on her belly, she will pull those arms up and tuck those knees under her, but then she looks up at me like, "i don't know what to do with this now.." then she plummets. :)

*She has her days where I am the only one that can hold her and I am the only one that can make her stop crying. When we drop her off at the nursery at church, I now have to sneak out!

*I want to say that this child is into everything, but I know if i feel that way now, it's only going to get worse!! hahaha. But if it's in her reach...it's an option for her! She wants EVERYTHING and of course it's all suppose to be able to fit in her mouth! hahaha. She reaches and leans and stretches those arms for anything in site!

*She has been introduced to the sippy cup world. We know how to hold it, and where it's suppose to go (like everything else), but not a clue how to get the juice out. hahaha, we will get there! :)

Simon continues to say freeze......

Some new firsts! :)

I can't believe i'm actually blogging before my month is over! whoo hoo! :) We have been so INSANELY busy this month that I haven't exactly gotten just a good ol' close up picture of her, but i've got plenty of pictures of her exploring the world and trying new things! This Springer household has not stopped the past few weeks and this coming weekend is our FIRST weekend with nothing to do and no where to go, and we couldn't be more excited about it.

I'm guessing everyone has seen her professional pictures that I posted on facebook. Tara did such an excellent job with her. If anyone out there is looking for someone in the henderson/e'ville area, let me know, and she can get them done for you! Here is an example of her work:

This picture if one of my favorites. Completely looks like she's up to something that I don't know about! :)

I'll post a few things that have been a cool first for us this month!! I think I mentioned in the last post that I am JUST LOVING this age that she's in. They are so much fun! :)

This is dad and Jaycee. She doesn't look it here, but she LOVES riding on the golf cart, and of course that's my dads favorite thing to do with all the kiddos. Her and her lovely hair, actually had the wind blown look after they were done. Wish I would have gotten a picture of that! :)



Walker was so insanely jealous that we were on the golf cart and not him, but he enjoyed chasing it around and around!

This is a picture of Jaycee and Kendall. Kendall is one of my best friend's daughters. She will be a year old in July and is just so freaking cute. They are BFF's and don't even know it yet.

We had our first picnic last Friday and this is them hanging out on the blanket together. They had a good time. We also tried to get the girls in a baby pool that day. Darn it, I was so excited about the pool that I forgot to get a picture of her in her adorable bathing suit. And then no one got a picture of her trying the pool out b/c we were all so focused on getting her not to scream that the camera was the last thing in mind. It wasn't a kodak moment anyway, trust me.

And this is what happens when you eat prunes!! :) Can you see the back of her shirt?! I had a sneaky feeling this would happen, but it was the only "1st foods" she hadn't tried yet, so I had to give them a shot, and strangely enough, she loved them. This happened while I was down at my parents house over the weekend and I just screamed!! My mom and her friend, Tyra (shout out! ) and Josh all came running, while my sister didn't do anything but grab the camera! :)

And while I'm sure it was the cold water that she didn't like about the baby pool, I was wondering if it's b/c she bathes in her comfort bather and not sitting in the tub, so she's not used to be submerged (in that whole 2 inches) of water. So I have officially done away with the comfort bather and while I almost had her fall face first in the water, we have resulted to the large and in charge rubber ducky for bathtime! The beak even squeaks! We did much better in this thing. Let's hope this will help the transition into the baby pool. Mommy is determined....

5 months!

This just kills me. Everytime I tell myself that I'm going to blog more than once a month...it still never happens! I have no time!! none, zero, zilch!! :) Until I get myself a pretty little laptop that I can use in bed, I don't see that changing, even though once again, I will say it....I am going to start to try to blog more often!! hahaha.

So on to what is making my life so wonderfully crazy these days...my little girl who is 5 months old!! I have to say, I'm starting to LOVE this age!! So freaking cute, all the freaking time!! She is learning and exploring and trying to figure things out ALL the time. Her facial expressions kill me!! They are absolutely hysterical!

She is such a happy little girl!! You know how you always wonder if you're raising them ok, and if they seem ok to other people...well my parents made me feel good the other day when I went to pick her up after staying the night with them. My mom said, "she is just such a good baby, just so calm and so happy, that if she cries you know that something is wrong." She then went on to say that I was doing such a great job raising her with such a great personality and that she seemed secure and like she knew she was loved and nothing to be upset about!! awwww, made my day!! All mothers need to hear that I think!! :) ( We shall see how well I handle the terrible twos or try some threes!) Not quite sure, how well she or I will come out of that! :)

Anyways, on to the 5 month stuff. OH MY GOSH, can we say teething...

She LOVES to eat fingers!! Anyone's will do! :)

There are some of her toys that she just goes after with her mouth so fiercely! That if the whole toy doesn't fit in her mouth, she just gets MAD and throws the toy then throws a fit!! hahahaha. Yes, my little ma'dam has a temper!!

We are teething with full force currently!! We don't have any breaking through yet, but I sure wish we'd just get moving on this b/c it doesn't look like it's going to go well!! hahaha, bless her heart, that has to hurt though. Love the Tylenol!! (speaking of which, all you mothers who don't use generic, THROW AWAY your Tylenol and get new!!) I just did tonight. I couldn't tell if mine was affected, but I figured it wasn't worth the risk!)

Other than that:

* We are going to bed at 7:30- 8:00 at night and sleeping straight through til about 7am.

*We are still eating 6 oz at a feeding and eating one jar of baby food a day! (we had an allergic reaction to Carrots...it wasn't good!)

* We are sitting up ALMOST by ourselves. She can for a majority of the time, but I still use the boppy or pillows, b/c she still falls over sometimes

*She has discovered that she can scream and squeel!! Strangely enough, I think it's adorable!!

*She actually looks at a book now while I read it to her instead of looking all around or trying to eat it!! I feel like she's starting to take interest in things!

*She studies EVERYTHING. She loves to watch me cook dinner or watch me do laundry. She's fascinated in what I'm doing!

*We just might be starting the seperation anxiety thing....she gets awful nervous when I step out of the room or if someone else is holding her!! (If there is a way to work through that with her, someone please let me know!)

I think that's it!! I just laugh at myself reading back through these blogs, b/c I talked about how much fun I thought she was at 2 months, and while I'm sure she was...it's so much better now!! No wonder in all aspects of babyhood, mothers always tell you, "it only gets better!" :)

4 MONTHS!!!

I cannot believe I can say that she is 4 months old. I don't know, for some odd reason it just seems like leaps and bounds older than 3 months!! Maybe, it's b/c this past month has been FULL of so many awesome, wonderful firsts!! :) Beware, this blog is full of pictures!! I just can't resist!!

Here is my 4 month old angel on Easter Sunday!!! Ahhh, I could just eat her up!! :)

Here we are having fun with the camera before we went to "Jo Jo's" for Easter Sunday lunch!!

We went on Friday for her 4 month old well checkup! Everything went great. She got two shots (booo), but did great with them! She ran a small temp that night but Jo Jo had her, and said she kept her all under control with the help of some Tylenol! She was 24 3/4 inches long and weighed in at a whoppin' 14lbs 6 oz!! She was in the 70th percentile on her height and weight! Dr. Hurlock said that those numbers were nothing to complain about! We got the go ahead to start solids!! :) I was so excited about that, I'm such a dork, but it's just another milestone that I was ready for! I don't want to wish her stages away too fast, but it's a first for me too, and I just get excited about it all. She told us to try cereal first and then slowly progress to the stage 1 baby food and to do it once a day and to keep the same number of bottles she gets a day the same. Sooooo....of course I immediately left the doctors office and we went to walmart and stocked up on rice cereal and a few different kinds of level one foods!! When Josh got home, I was too excited and we gave it a shot. I'll let the pictures below speak for themselves. The first pictures...rice cereal....

This is one of the first pics of her with a bite of the rice cereal...not going too well

And another picture of the rice cereal....it's not looking good....

And here is the LAST picture of her eating rice cereal. And this is our LAST experience EATING rice cereal. hahahaha.

And so, what do we do next....NANNERS!! :)

This is the first pictures of bananas. She looks intrigued by the taste!!

Liking it....

Hahahaha, she looks like she's thinking, "now this is what i'm talking about!!"

So for a few days, we are sticking to bananas!! She doesn't eat much of it at a time. What you see in the bowl in the above picture, was WAY too much for her to eat!! hahaha. Shows what I know! It's so much fun watching her eat though!! She seems like such a little girl when I feed her with a spoon!!

Other things that have gone on this past month:

*We are still sleeping through the night, though not quite as well as we used to. I'm wondering if it's b/c her window faces the east, and her room lights up first thing in the morning. I might try a darker shade or blanket over it, and see if it works. I can't complain though. We still go from about 8:30 at night to about 7 or 7:30 in the morning.

*Instead of crying when she wakes up, I hear her giggling and cooing in her crib through the monitor, and when I walk in there, she gets the hugest smile on her face!! It's the best wake up call EVER

*She actually LOVES tummy time now!! She raises that head of and props herself up on her elbows and can just watch the world for minutes at a time.

*She does not like to lay down now. She wants to sit up all the time!

*She is rolling over!! Sometimes when we are on the play mate I have to remind her that she can by helping her the first time, and then she's like, "oh yeah, I forgot about that!"

*She is talking and cooing all the time.

*She is eating 6oz ever 4 hours, (plus the baby food now!)

*She loves to stand in our laps!! It always stops her fussing!

*She's at a stage where she doesn't sleep much but can't quite figure out what to do with her toys...so mommy seems to be her favorite entertainment....which doesn't help with getting anything else done!

*She can grasp her teething toys and put them in her mouth! She immediately gets mad at them though and throws them down when they don't fit ALL the way in her mouth!! hahaha

*We have a very good schedule going. After being awake an hour and a half in the mornings, she's ready for a 45 minute nap (usually my time to get myself ready!) and then a 2 hour nap in the afternoons around 2pm!! I like predictable schedules!! :)

Well, I think that's enough for month four!! Now that she's up to all sorts of good things more often, I just might have to start blogging more often!! Stay tuned... :)

3 months! :)

My goodness she is growing like a weed!! She is turning into such a cute tiny person with her own personality and everything. She is now 3 months (and 6 days) to be exact. So much has happened this past month and I feel like we are always doing something different daily to blow my mind!

Here she is at 3 months!! She doesn't like looking at the camera! I get frustrated b/c she will be smiling and as soon as she sees the camera go up to my face, it turns instantly to a frown! She's so stubborn! :)

Here she is in her glider in her room. Daddy got her that stuffed teddy bear for Valentines Day and it is defiantely her favorite right now!! :) (look at those cheeks!)

She loves colors, lights, sounds, music. As you can tell in this picture she is so focused on those lights flashing. I had to get this moment. She studies everything so hard! She looks like her daddy here. He has to know how everything works!! :) (Me on the other hand, could care less!)

hahahaha. Daddy got home from work and put his hat on her backwards. I already thought it was funny until I took the picture and realized it looks like she's holding up some gangster sign along with it!! hahaha, she's such a hoot! She knew what she was doing! ;) You don't want to mess with her! (see what i'm talking about with the personality!)

I don't think I have shown this on here before. We got this chalkboard too too from Josh's aunt Serena. Is it not one of the cutest things ever?!?! I absolutely love it!

And on to where we are developmentally!! In the picture above, is about where we are on the head lifting thing!! OMG, if someone knows a way to get my child to like tummy time please let me know. We get toys out, I lay in the floor with her, and I take her and roll her over, but nothing works!! She is ready to get up as soon as I lay her there. I do torture her a few times a day with it, for at least 5-10 minutes. I keep thinking if she's there long enough, she'll get used to it and like it. I think I might be wishful thinking.

Here's some other things though for month 3 that we are doing:

*She coos and makes noises nonstop! She has definately discovered her voice

*She has the belly giggle laugh now!! Oh my goodness, I was so excited that night because that noise of that giggle (instead of a squeel) is the cutest sound in the world. I told Josh we needed to get that on video camera and he looked at me and said, "no we need to get how crazy you look when she does it!"

*We are still sleeping through the night. We used to have to wait until about 10 or 10:30 to give her the last bottle to get her to sleep all night. We can now give her a bottle between 830 or 9 and she's out like a light for the night! :) This has finally helped with Josh and I getting at least 30 minutes or so together before the day is over.

*She is not a fan much anymore of laying in our arms or anything like that when she's awake. She likes to be sitting up and seeing the world around her

*She is starting to reach for things that I put in front of her. And this little girl just might be left handed. She does everything with her left hand. But she loves holding on to necklaces, and loves to hold onto my hair! Ouch!

*We have started a thing to where if she makes a noise, I mimic the noise back to her, and then she'll make another noise and I'll do the same. She loves it, and it always ends up with her and her giggles!! :)

*We went to the doctor for her 2 month shots at about 11 weeks, b/c she had been sick. She weighed in at a whoppin 13 lbs and 1 oz and she was 24 inches long! She was in the 70-80% on everything. Dr. Hurlock said, she is probably going to be a tall girl!

*She likes putting weight on her feet. If I hold her up in my lap, she likes to bend those legs up and down!! :)

I think that's about all the new stuff. I can't wait to see what we are able to do this time next month!! Isn't next month, food in a spoon?!?! I hope so! :) Stay tuned!

2 months old!!

My goodness, where does the time go! I cannot believe that she is already 2 months old (2 months and 4 days to be exact!). She blows my mind on a daily basis! I'm obsessed. Completely head over heels in love with this little girl! It makes me wonder what I did with my life before she was born. Apparently nothing of any importance!

The second month has been cloud 9 compared to the first, and I know that things are only going to get better! Learning her has been so much fun! Learning her personality, her facial expressions, what makes her happy, what calms her down, even learning what different cries mean has been surreal! At different times, I'll just look at Josh and i'm like, "she's ours!, we made her!" God is so good! :)

Here she is at 2 months old!! She is such a cutie! And she's usually always up for a good smile and some sort of a laugh. It's almost like this little squeel tone that comes out when she's having a good smiling moment, like when mommy is being goofy!

She loves to smile and whenever she gets really excited about what is going on, she throws her arms around and kicks those legs while she's smiling (hence the blur in her arms..it was an action shot!) I usually have to act pretty crazy to get that to happen. She probably thinks, "my mom is nuts!"

And this is her on her play mat looking up at a twinkling lady bug that she just loves! I tell ya, this girl loves color and anything that flashes or blinks! She gets mesmorized!

So this past month, I have stopped breastfeeding and she is now taking formula like a champ! She's like her mom, if it's food, it's good! :) I think she was 5 weeks when we attempted her first bottle, even of breastmilk. I was told that sometimes you have to go through a few bottles, b/c they can be picky on the nipple. Boy, we went through 4 bottles before we found one that she would take. And of course, when I went to go buy the bottles that she would take, I was not happy to find that they are the most expensive ones out there!! Josh said, "did you expect anything less from her!" hahaha. But at 2 months old, she's downing 5 oz at every feeding which is every 4 hours during the day!! whew, we've got a chunk!

Here are some of her 2 month milestones:

*We have changed to formula with no problems. I was afraid of belly trouble and all that, but so far, so good!

*She is now sleeping through the night. She started that at about 7 weeks. Her last bottle is anywhere between 930 and 1030 at night, she wakes back up usually around 6 to eat breakfast! (Mommy sings her praises and prays nightly, that this is for good!)

*SHE IS NOW IN HER CRIB IN HER ROOM!! Hallelujah!! :) Can you sense my excitement!?! For the first 7 weeks of her life, she slept in her bouncer in the living room and I slept on the couch! I missed my husband and my bed!

*She does have acid reflux so she sleeps in a thing called a snuggle nest, that is slightly inclined but she seems to sleep really well in it.

*She definately started smiling this month, and just within the past week, she has really started to "coo" all the time! I love it. I read to respond back to them when they do this, b/c it's there way of talking. So we have multiple conversations a day. She tells me all about it! :)

*She's holding her head up like a pro! We hardly have to ever hold it anymore! It wobbles from time to time, but she can always regain control of it before we have to intervene.

*She still isn't a fan of tummy time, but she's slowly trying to raise that head up when she's flat on her belly.

*We no longer cry during bath time. I think she likes the warm water now! I enjoy giving her a bath and it always seems to help with the nighttime routine. I think it calms her.

*We have pretty much established a schedule with her and I am very proud of that. She has taken to it very well. Before the nighttime feeding is bath time, and then when she's eating that last bottle of the day, we do it with the lights out and noise level down and I rock her while she eats it, and I think she knows that it's bedtime after that.

*She had her first ER visit actually last night with a high fever. She is ok, and nothing serious is wrong, but she handled that very well. I was so proud of her! She handled it better than mommy! I told her she ruined my goal of never having to take my child to the ER. I guess I had unrealistic expectations!

I think that's it for month 2!! I love how she is changing and growing daily! I feel like she does something different everyday! Can't wait to be able to tell you the things she can do at 3 months! Stay tuned! :)

1 month old!!

While having a baby is the BEST thing in the world, and looking at your child look at you makes your heart melt...the first month was well....how do i put this...EXHAUSTING!! I honestly feel like I have never been so tired in my life with a few days of not knowing if i can go on!! hahaha. And i'm saying that now, because I'm finally at a stage where I can look back at the first month and realize that if I can make it thru that, I will survive anything!!

It might have been because I was used to sleeping 11-12 hours a night before her, or the fact that I was not a coffee drinker before her...or the combo. But things change, things change quickly. I now can run off of 45 minutes of sleep for a whole night (have proven that by living thru the first month), and I now am a half a pot of coffee drinker a day! hahaha. But I have come to the realization that I can sleep when I'm dead, and that there is teeth whitening kits out there for the coffee stains!

So on to my pretty princess (that now sleeps!) Here she is around 1 month old. Sorry the blog was not on my mind then, and probably didn't get her on the exact date!

Look at those cheeks!!! I just love her. She is a mess!! As for the first month of her life these are her milestones:

*We accomplished breastfeeding

*Towards the end of the first month, she learned to focus on things...especially if they were the color red.

*We would do daily tummy time, but not a fan of it. But she did learn to roll her head from one side to the other, even though her nose never left the mat.

And well...there's not alot besides eating and sleeping that goes one during that first month, but surviving with food and sleep (for the both of us). I believe that we have adjusted very well and so has daddy. She was during the first month, definately a daddy's girl! He was the only one that could really calm her down! God bless that man!