July 2011 (part 2)

Here are some more photos from July 2011

I feel a little silly including photos of myself, but someday my kids will want to know what I looked like when I was younger. Right? (plus we never take photos of just us anymore)

Me and my baby.

Andrew is so good to Bailey. I love this photo.

And Bailey loves Andrew. Look how excited she is that he is playing with her!

This frog was tiny! Those are normal sized blades of grass. The frog was the size of my fingernail! I guess not everything is bigger in Texas (although it will probably grow to be the size of my fist)

This frog (Kermit) would come on our window most nights. At first I thought, this stupid frog is going to get stuck on this window. Then I noticed it jumping around on the window. It crawls up to our upper window at night, then little bugs are attracted to the light so they try to fly in the window and little Kermit gets a snack. Turns out, Kermit is quite smart. I feel bad turning off the lights when we go to bed because I know his meal time is over.

Andrew has been trying to dress himself lately. We get moments like this a lot. (both legs in one hole)

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Always wanting to help. (Anybody notice his shirt is on backwards?)

We had some fun with a glow stick.

More food please!

Andrew typed all these words by himself. (I'm not sure why he used the + instead of a space)

Tasty.

Photo shoot time.

:)

Bailey gives "kisses"

I made this shirt for a friend's baby shower. Her theme is owls and colors are pink and light blue. It turned out super cute! I embroidered the baby's initials, H.C. lower down.

Silly Bailey. That's not a hat.

The End.

July 2011 (part 1)

July was a pretty quiet month.

Andrew can count to 30 on his own.

Bailey can roll from front to back and from back to front. She likes to stand (obviously she needs someone to hold her)

Bailey had her 4 month check up in July.

I just realized that I don’t think I recorded Bailey’s stats during her check ups. Here is a recap.

March 4^th 2011 (birth)

Weight: 6 lbs 9 oz

Height: 20 in

Head: ?

Chest: 12 ¾ in (I didn’t know they measured that)

March 8^th

Weight: 6lb

Height: 19 in

Head: 13 cm

March 16 (2 weeks)

Weight: 6 lbs 9 oz (10%)

Height: 19 ¾ in (40%)

Head: ?

April 7 2011 (1 month)

Weight: 8 lbs 7.5 oz (25%)

Height: 20 ¾ in (40%)

Head: 14 ½ cm (50%)

May 10 2011 (2 month)

Weight: 10 lbs 7 oz (40%)

Height: 22 ¼ in (50%)

Head: 15 ¼ cm (50%)

Bailey had her 4 month check up on July 12. Here are her stats:

Weight: 12 lbs 9 oz (25%)

Height: 24 ½ in (50%)

Head: 16 cm (40%)

We took a ton of photos this month (700+) for not really doing anything. I have spent weeks (yes weeks) trying to narrow down the photos to include in this post. I have literally lost sleep over it. Then I realized, this is our family journal. This is our family photo album. Eventually we will print it and bind it like a book. So who cares how many photos I put in it! I honestly feel so sad not including a photo because I feel like I'm denying that memory to exist. I know it's silly, but that's how I feel. So I'm going to include a lot of photos because we've had lots of sweet memories that I want to keep.

Enjoy.

This was one of Andrew's outfits that I just loved. I wanted Bailey to wear it too!

Here is Andrew (around 6 months) wearing the same outfit.

Bailey does well with a bottle now so Ryan is able to help out.

Ryan is really an amazing dad. He comes home from a hard day at work and takes over as full time Daddy while I cook dinner or whatnot. He is so wonderful. I am so grateful for him and his unconditional love for his family.

This was my outfit when I was a baby. I think this is what I looked like when I was a baby.

This was the day of Bailey's check up. Check out her chubby legs for the band-aids from her shots.

My sweet children. (notice holding hands)

Aww, little Bailey is all tucked out.

Bailey has all these photo shoots, so why not Andrew?

Love, Love, Love this photo!

Where did he get those big beautiful eyes?

Mr. Organized

So... I had Andrew wear this romper to church. He wore pants over it and then a vest so it just looked like he was wearing a gray polo shirt. I guess it was a little small for him though.

Andrew likes to type on the computer. I'm not sure how he got stuck up here.

Bailey started baby cereal!

Dance Central on the Xbox is one of my favorite games. After practicing a lot, I finally got 5 gold stars (and a new high score). Usually you only get silver stars. Please note the moved passed score. Oh, wait, what does that say? moves passed? 100% Oh ya! Oh, and it was on the HARD level! Now I'm working on the next song...I wanted Ryan to take a photo of me standing in front of the screen (previous picture) but since the kinect uses motion, it somehow got my arm as I was turning around and moved to the next page. You can see my utter disappointment.

Bailey continues to roll or scoot around. Andrew has started saying, "Bailey, how'd you get over there" because he's heard me say it so many times.

She's so happy about moving though :)

My boys. How I love my boys.