Aaron and Mo’s Wedding

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A@ron and M@ureen’s wedding, October 2007
-Jonathon was a groomsman. Bailey stayed with Jen during the ceremony and then came to the reception with us. The reception was at the City Museum, which turned out to be a really cool place for a reception.

Faith and I went to Starbucks to kill time between the wedding and reception, while Jonathon was off doing groomsman things. Bailey “tried” her first Starbucks drink

Big girl at the dinner table!

Jonathon did a great job entertaining Bailey at dinner. Somehow we got stuck at the “groomsmen with kids” table instead of at the table where all of our friends were seated. That was a big bummer. We didn’t know the other people we were sitting with because they were all from New York. Sometimes you really get screwed for having a kid.


Jonathon and the groom, Aaron

I thought the back of her dress was really cool. It was SO sparkly during the ceremony!

Maureen and Me- ug, this is NOT a good picture of me but I couldn’t leave out the picture of the bride, so here it is…

Five Month Picture

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Bailey’s 5 month picture- once again, I’m behind on posting because we’ve had these for quite a while now!

Wordless Wednesday- a day late

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I love to watch Jonathon with Bailey when he comes home from work. They are so cute when they play together. It’s the first thing he does every afternoon






Who needs Cowboys tickets when you have this kind of entertainment in your own living room?

Flapping Her Wings

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My girl hanging out in her jammies, “flapping her wings” as I like to say. When she is excited she waves her arms up and down really fast and laughs and it results in her fists smacking against her belly. It’s really funny and I need to get it on video. I tried to take pictures to capture it but it just isn’t the same.

Botanical Gardens trip

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Finally! I tried about five times this morning to post these pictures, and Blogger was having some sort of wonky picture issue. These are from our trip to the Botanical Gardens yesterday. I don’t go there as much as I should/would like to because it’s not exactly next door to us (about a 25 minute drive probably- but there are lots of parks and stuff to do closer to us). I forgot how beautiful it is there. Especially this time of year.

I wish I had stopped to take pictures of the flowers and stuff. I was too busy chatting with friends and keeping Bailey happy. I’m going to have to make sure we go again before it gets too cold. Yesterday we started out with a blanket (okay, really the sling) over her lap and it was pretty chilly, but by lunchtime it was really nice!

There were five of us there, and we all have little girls. The “extra” little boy in the picture is Christian, who Bethany was babysitting for the day People kept smiling at us and commenting on how many strollers were in our group, so I thought it would be fun to have a pic of all the babies lined up.

Bailey was very accessorized for her first Botanical Gardens trip! I love hairbows on her, and honestly she seems to not mind wearing the glasses when it’s sunny.

Looking back at all the strollers and mommies behind me…

Bailey really enjoyed looking around at everything, and she seemed quite content to ride in the stroller all morning. Of course, she wouldn’t nurse before we left home, so we stopped and had a little boob snack by the Japanese koi fish. Then later we ate bananas in the rose garden

Bethany, with Christian and her daughter, Enna.

We ran into Britney, from another mom’s group that I’m in. Then, later on I thought it would be a funny coincidence if I saw Alison (who I used to nanny) because I knew she was taking a class there again this year. I peeked into one of the classrooms, and there she was with her Gram and Grandad! I haven’t seen her lately, and she is so big now!

Her new nanny watches her on Monday and Friday, and works for another family Tues/Wed/Thurs. She also takes nursing classes at night. I’m wondering how that’s going because the girl must be exhausted. Also, Alison kept saying she didn’t know the new nanny’s name. Her grandparents are watching her the other two days a week that her mom works- they were supposed to be moving here, but they still haven’t yet, so they are “commuting” from Tennessee three days a week!

Pool Party

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Kind of… Today we went to the pool with my parents. Bailey absolutely loves the water. She splashes and kicks and just goes crazy. Next time we need to bring our video camera. I tried to capture how excited she was, but it just isn’t the same.

My dad is the one with the hairy chest next to her in all the pics

New Animal Toys

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I got Bailey this really cute Fisher Price animal set. It’s for 6 months and up, so I decided to get it out of her closet today and let her play with it. I have never seen a toy with so many twist ties attaching it to the box. Serious- it took me over twenty minutes to get all the pieces out. Bailey enjoyed looking at it, but didn’t really know what to do with it. She’s not quite ready to “play animals” with Mommy

She sure did like these bananas!

Bailey decided she’d had enough of the animals, and scooted her way off the blanket. For not being able to crawl, she can really get from one place to another. She rolls and scoots, usually in the direction she is trying to reach!

My little fuzzhead

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Her hair is getting thicker. I mean, at least compared to how HER HAIR was before. Not by normal hair standards.

Also, she has discovered her hair and loves to “feel” it. Whenever she feels something, it looks like she is scratching it. She now reaches up and feels her hair quite often.

Other things she likes to “feel” are her carseat, my boobs, carpet, books, and the blanket on the back of her glider when I’m burping her.

Gah, I need to take some pictures!

It’s Baaaaaack

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Our camera! It’s back! Unfortunately, it got repaired and not replaced. But it’s as good as new, and that’s the good thing about it This is the first picture I took of Bailey since having it back. Just had to share. She is sitting in her stroller getting ready to go for a walk

Updates- Five Months plus some

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Trying to think what is new here…. mainly the food thing. Bailey has been doing rice cereal. She liked it a lot at first but now she isn’t a huge fan. She has also tried green beans (yay), squash (used to like it but now- ick), carrots (loves them) and applesauce (okay). She definitely has her likes and dislikes. She has also been playing with biter biscuits and seems to really enjoy those. She doesn’t really get anything off of them but I think it’s soothing for her gums. Yeah, because she’s definitely teething. I can feel lumps now under her gums.

She is also doing the raspberries a lot. She loves to spit and make noises with her mouth. Her babbling mostly consists of a mix of noises. She doesn’t seem to really “practice” any particular noise but just throws them all together into her own baby sentences. Then she looks at me, smiles, and waits for an answer. She is quite the conversationalist.

Also, she can sit up on her own for limited amounts of time. If she gets excited or reaches too far for something, she tips over.

Errrrrrvvvvvvvvmt

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That is the sound that our camera has been making.

Best Buy has our digital camera. It’s the one thing we actually bought that stupid product protection plan on, and thank goodness. There is a little thing that slides across the front of the camera and that’s what makes it turn on and the lens come out. This thing is kind of dying a slow death… which results in the camera randomly turning off and closing mid-photo shoot. Ug. Also sometimes the screen decides to be black instead of showing me what I’m photographing.

So I have these pictures of Bailey from before we turned our camera in. The good news is, they said it would probably be easier for them to just replace instead of try to repair it. And since the camera is three years old, newer models have been made. Know what that means? New camera for Jonathon and Tara! Woo hoo! That cloud has a silver lining, I suppose.

Also, I joined a gym/community center today and I am looking forward to going to work out with my mom tomorrow. Her asthma has been acting up a little bit. Sometimes it is brought on by allergies, and other times by exercise. She has switched inhalers and meds a few times recently trying to get it straightened out. I hope she doesn’t get to the point of needing a pulse oximeter or nebulizer or something like that. But anyway now I am off track… I am seriously dieting. Well, not really since I’m BFing, but I am planning to eat better at least.

Anyway, I leave you with these old, but cute, pictures of my Muffin.

Five Months Old

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You turned five months old yesterday. It’s hard to imagine you as the little newborn I brought home from the hospital just five short months ago. Where is the time going?

This was a month of lots of accomplishments! You started rice cereal on August 21st and liked it from the beginning. After one messy feeding, you started swallowing it and opening your mouth for more. When you get excited about your food, you wave your arms. In fact, being excited in general makes you wave your arms. If you are laying on your back when this happens, you pound your hands against your tummy.

You just started vegetables on September 11th. Your first vegetable was green beans. You loved them- unless they were cold from being in the fridge! Then you made funny faces but still ate them anyway. Today we tried squash for the first time and that was a hit. If we are eating and you don’t have food, you’re not very happy. Especially if we are using spoons. Funny girl You just get solids once a day, though, and you have tried teething biscuit thingies twice.

You are still nursing A LOT and you are down to usually just four ounces of formula a day- at bedtime. You go to sleep around 8 and wake up about six or seven hours later for a snack and a cuddle, then again around 7-8 a.m. and then you get up for the day around 10. Although I would eventually like to cut out one of those feedings, I can’t complain. And that would just make you more grown up anyway

You are in the church nursery on Tuesday mornings for childcare during Women’s Bible Study. Last week was the first week and you did great. Mommy loves having another day to dress you up, too.

You are very talkative. Your babbling has progressed into chatter, and you make MMM and ba ba ba sounds now. Sometimes it also sounds like “Glooble ba mmmmm pfffft” and other random mixes of noises. You like to grab your feet, and just yesterday you started putting them in your mouth. During the night when you woke up, the feet of your pajamas were soaked because you had sucked on them. Your feet were freezing!

You continue to enjoy Baby Einstein videos. You just started watching Baby’s First Moves and you think it’s pretty exciting. Your favorite toy is still your LaMaze butterfly. We got links to attach it to your carseat. Also, you have used your stroller without the carseat in it a few times now. And we even tried the umbrella stroller one day in a pinch. You didn’t seem to mind.

I think last month you were already rolling both directions. You spin yourself around now too, when you’re on your back. Your feet and legs end up sticking out of your crib and getting stuck. You seem to be teething now, based on your intense need to bite down on my boobies and chew on everything in sight. I can feel little bumps on your gums, but I can’t see anything yet. You don’t really like to let me look in your mouth, either!

Anyway, that’s probably enough for one month. Stop growing up so fast! I love you so much. You are so much fun, and you are the sunshine in my day and you make me so happy. I always tell you, you are my little love.