9-Month’s Old

Our little Bailey Bug turned 9-Months Old yesterday!

I cannot believe how fast these last 9 months have gone by. It is SO crazy! We took her in for her check-up this afternoon and here are her stats…

Heights: 28.5 inches

Weight: 22.11 pds.

Head: 44.75 cm.

So she is growing right along. We compared her stats to Tucker’s and we finally found a reasonably close match to when Tucker was… 4-Months old! Yes, that is right. Tucker was as big at 4-months old, as Bailey is now…. well, he was an inch shorter and a pound lighter, but close enough. CRAZY! But, we love out little bug, and we love our big bubba! :)

She sleeps like a champ! We put her to bed at night between 7:30 and 7:45 typically. She sleeps through the night (and has since she was about a month old). She takes a nap at 10:00 for a couple of hours, and another one at 2:00 for a couple of hours. When it is time for her nap or bedtime, we are able to just lay her down and she does pretty well. We have been able to do that with her for quite some time now. With Tucker, I think he was 11-months old before we had to rock him to sleep. She is such a good baby girl! :)

Bailey is OBSESSED with bath time. Especially if she gets to take a bath with her big brother. Fortunately, Tucker enjoys taking a bath with Bailey as well. If we leave the bathroom door open, she makes a B-line for the bathtub and pulls herself up on her knees and hits the side as if to say she wants in. It is so cute! :)

Bailey is all over the place now. She crawls like a madman when she hears any outside door open. It is as if she is trying to break out or something. She loves having her independence to get where she wants, and when. We brought out Tucker’s old toys from this age and she is in heaven. Funny enough, Tucker is also. He LOVES playing with the “new” toys with Baby. Bailey is pulling herself up on everything, and if Tucker is laying on the floor, all she wants to do is climb on him. She absolutely loves her brother and they are the best of friends. She is pulling herself up to her knees everywhere she can. Every once in awhile she will get bold and pull herself up to her feet, but she is still pretty shaky. We are A-OKAY if she waits longer than Tucker did to start walking. Tucker started at 9 months and 3 weeks. So, we are looking like she will probably be a 12 month walker which is OK with me. :)

Her first little tooth finally poked through last Friday (the 4th). It seems as though it has taken forever, but in true fashion I’m sure they will all start making their way through now that one has made it. She loves eating her cheerios and any other little finger foods we give her. I am trying to remember what she can eat now that she is old enough to have big kid food. As much as I don’t want her to grow up though, I cannot wait for her to turn 1 so we can eliminate the stupid formula purchases. That will free up some change for sure. With the weather starting to change, she is going to need some cutsie shorts for sure. :)

We adore our little Bailey Bug and she brings such a sweet spirit to our family. Every morning Tucker wants to go in and help get her when she wakes up. When she sees Daddy her eyes and body light up. She loves her family as much as we love her. I cannot wait to see how she continues to grow and develop her own amazing personality.

Playing in the grass after church

 Beloved Bathtime

 Morning Cartoons with the Best Friends

Debut of Bailey in a Swimsuit!

 She had exhausted herself playing!

She is QUITE the shoe lover! Enjoying her finger foods!

Like Brother, Like Sister

As if just by looking at my kids you couldn’t tell they were related, then I found these 2 pictures on my phone that made me crack up. Definitely like brother, like sister…

When I get myself organized enough, I will post a comparison of the two of them for their monthly pictures. It is crazy how similar they look. I absolutely love it though! :)

Bailey is 8-months old…

…and CRAWLING!

On her 8-month “birthday” she was roll/scooting everywhere. Then on Saturday, she started to crawl, and by Sunday (Easter) she was full blown crawling anywhere and everywhere she wants to go. I love it! :) She is so dang cute! Some other adorable things about our little bug…

*She LOVES her fruits and vegetables. The only time we really have a tough time getting her to eat is if she isn’t feeling well, or if we are feeding her something other than straight fruits and veggies.

*She absolutely, more than anything, adores her big brother. Anytime Tucker walks into the room she gets so excited. If she is sad, or getting frustrated, I call Tucker over and he makes everything better for her.

*She definitely knows her name now, but responds better to Baby because that is what we mostly call her.

*She started sitting up the week of March 18th while we were in California, and just a few weeks before that she started holding her bottle on her own. I don’t know what it is about those 2-things, but they make my life so much easier.

*She is on a really good schedule now. Naps at 10:00 and 3:00, and bedtime by 8:00. I don’t think we had Tucker on that schedule until about 11-months.

*She loves to just roll around and play. She is very low key and low maintenance.

*She loves to blow zerber noises with her tongue. We will be driving in the car and she will just start going on a roll with it in her carseat. I love it! :)

She is definitely our little bug, and we love her to pieces. I can’t believe that she is getting so big, but as she gets older we get more and more excited for the kids to grow up together and get to experience so much of life together! :)

Dying Eggs

I forgot to blog about the most fun part of Easter… Dying the Eggs. This was the first time in I don’t know how long that I have dyed Easter Eggs. It was definitely the VERY first time Tucker has ever Dyed them, and he loved it, to say the least. Not much more to say that the pictures can’t tell you…

Of course, we must first dress appropriately for dying the eggs! :)

We can’t leave Bailey out of the Fun!

Now… let the dying begin…

Easter

Holy Moly, I am actually blogging about a holiday within the same month that the holiday happened. My goodness, I must be getting all caught up. :) Easter was pretty low key this year. A few months back we planned on having my parents here, and my Uncle Don and his family. Well, that all changed once my parents got their mission call. But, that’s ok. Instead we spent it very low key. Friday, the 6th, we stayed the night at David’s parents house so we could get up and go to some furniture stores. We have been looking a lot for bedroom furniture. Saturday morning, we got up and headed out around 11:00. David’s parents were kind enough to watch the kids for us so we didn’t have to drag them along. We went to 2-stores and decided on a set from Ashley. Then David wanted to check one more store since we were in the area. I was all annoyed at the thought of it, but he was adamant. Good thing! We ended our search at Mor Furniture in Tigard. I was breezing through because I just wanted to get home. One of the salespeople asked if we needed help and I quickly said “nope”! I think he could tell I was trying to be quick because he politely said, “OK, well if you need anything my name is Robin.” In my head I said, “thanks dude, won’t need you though.” Then, as David and I both turn a corner we are drawn to a bedroom set. Could it be that we have found a bedroom set that has EXACTLY what we want? Then we saw the price and almost fell over. IT WAS SUCH A GOOD DEAL! After, much debate and discussion we wound up getting a KING size bed, with storage drawers underneath, a 9-drawer dresser, a media chest and 2 night stands. We are SO excited. Our excitement was dampened a little bit when we got home and measured. We didn’t really realize that it was going to be SUCH a tight fit. But, we know that we won’t be in this house forever, so it will be worth the sacrafice for awhile. Here is a picture of our beautiful new bedroom set. It will be delivered and set-up on the 21st! YAY!

Once we were done with all of our shopping, which exhausted us, we went back to David’s parents house. David’s brother and his family came over and we did an Easter Egg hunt with the 3-big boys. I filled about 40 plastic eggs with jellybeans and mini-eggs, and the boys had a BLAST “hunting” for them. I pretty much just littered the lawn with plastic eggs, so it was more of a race of who can get to them faster. But they had so much fun. 

Josh (5), Tucker (3) and Levi (3) 

Anytime Tucker found an egg he would hold it up in the air and call out the color of it.

I love the following pictures of the boys comparing their winnings! :) The first one is my favorite because it is right as Tucker realized there is candy inside of the eggs. :)

After our egg hunt we enjoyed a delicious Turkey dinner and played a fun game of cards. The Easter Bunny at Grandma and Papa’s house brought Tucker a stuffed alligator and Bailey a stuffed Sheep. :)

Saturday evening we headed home, and Sunday morning we woke up and I made a delicious French Toast breakfast. After Breakfast we showed Tucker the Family Easter basket which had a gift for him and Bailey, and some eggs with candy. I didn’t go too crazy on the candy this year because all it does is sit around the house and I eat it more than anyone.

 

 

We went to Sacrament that afternoon. Tucker has had a cold so I was hoping to maybe let him go to Primary, depending on how he felt. Well, half way through Sacrament he laid down on the floor and started shivering. So, I picked him up and he fell asleep on me (very rare), then he started moaning. So, we packed up the kids and headed home. After Tucker woke up from his nap he had a 102* fever, so we had a very lazy afternoon. It was OK though because his fever broke and we all really enjoyed a lazy Sunday.

All in all it was a good Easter. Next Easter should be even more fun as we are together with all of my family and celebrating my parents Homecoming from their mission. :)

A new idea of blogging…

I never have the motivation to update the blog because I feel like I never have any pictures to add to it. Then I realized that I take a ton of pictures daily on my phone of the kids and life. So, I headed over to Walmart and found a cheap little doohickey that will allow me to just pop my little sd card out of my phone and add all of the pictures from my phone to the computer. YAY! So, I figure if I do this once a week I can get quite a few posts in now, and I won’t forget life anymore! :) So, here goes with as many updates as I can remember. :) So, read down because they go back to about the beginning of the year! ENJOY!

Below are a list/link to each new post

 Portland Car Show

Valentines Day...Again

Crafty-ish

Bailey's Blessing Day