7 months!

On November 16, Emilia turned 7 months old. This month has been crazy for development. Emilia is really figuring out how to crawl on her hands and knees and she can move! In the last week, she has also started to pull to standing. She figured it out one night and practiced and practiced until she could do it. Now, she is constantly pulling up on toys and the couches. Unfortunately, her balance still isn't awesome and she tumbles quite a bit. I hate hearing my baby cry, even though it's usually just because the fall was scary and not because she's hurt. She can also get into a sitting position really easily. She is pretty much always crawling, sitting, or standing these days. She does not stay in one place very long.

She is still a great eater. She likes everything now, even sweet potatoes that she used to hate. She loves going out to restaurants and chewing on bread.

She is a terrible sleeper. Like, almost newborn terrible. This has been going on for a while now and we're all exhausted. I don't know if it's all the developmental milestones or teething or what, but I would like to sleep for more than 2 hours at a time at night please!

Likes:

Being out of the house
Toys that have buttons/light up/play music
Peas
Cows
Standing/Sitting/Crawling
The Little Mermaid

Dislikes:

Going to sleep
Falling down
Not getting her way

She chews on her fingers a lot, but I can't see tooth buds yet

Beautiful brown eyed baby

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Baby's first Halloween- Costumes

Joe had the great idea to dress up as a family this year. He suggested Prince, Princess, and baby unicorn which sounded perfect to me! I found a costume that I absolutely love and hope to wear again in the future.

The whole family

Princess and unicorn

My costume

We didn't go out trick or treating this year. Emilia is too little to have candy, but I wanted to give her a little treat so she got some peach baby yogurt. She loved it! Joe and I had our traditional pumpkin shaped pizza and made a few snacks to have while watching Nightmare Before Christmas. We had a lot of trick or treaters, but everything quieted down around 9 which was good for the baby! It was a great first Halloween as a family of 3. 

Here are some bonus pics of Emilia in her costume:

A visit from Mogget

I love this next series. We put a fake candle in Emilia's pumpkin while it was in the house. My smart baby took the top of of the pumpkin and pulled the candle out!

Baby's first Halloween- Pumpkin carving

After a month packed full of Halloween activities, Halloween finally arrived! Joe and I needed to carve some pumpkins so we put a Halloween movie on and got to work. We left Emilia playing with some toys, but that didn't last long. About 3 minutes after we had sat down to carve she crawled over to investigate. I had to strip her down to her diaper because she was all over the pumpkin guts. She liked to squish and eat them! Emilia even had her own pumpkin- the one she picked out at Wheeler Farm- she wanted to carve an E for Emilia on it.

Still in her onesie

Checkin out her pumpkin

Look at that orange mouth!

All of our pumpkins

Pumpkin Days

With Halloween coming up, I had to get some traditional pumpkin patch pictures of Emilia. I didn't know where to go, but google told me about Pumpkin Days at Wheeler Farm which was perfect because I haven't been to Wheeler Farm in ages. Joe had a lawyer thing he had to go to in Salt Lake so we all got up early and headed down. Joe dropped me off at my mom's house and put Emilia's carseat in my mom's car and we were ready to go. First we went on a tractor ride and saw some animals and then we headed to the hay maze and the pumpkin patch. Emilia had a lot of fun, although she isn't quite her smiley self in these pictures because she had just had shots the day before. 

Sitting on Damma's lap for the tractor ride

Tasty binky

I think Emilia's favorite part was the hay!

6 months!

On October 16th, my baby turned 6 months old! Half of a year! 5 months was a rollercoaster for us. Emilia was the perfect baby at first. I kept saying, "Next time, let's just skip to 5 months!" Emilia was happy and sleeping well and so easy. At 5 and a half months though, demon Emilia returned and it has been rough. The last week has been the roughest week since she was a newborn. She whines to be held and then she whines to be put down. She sucks at napping. She wants to be outside all.the.time. even when it's cold and raining. At her 6 month appointment, we found out she has jumped into the 93rd percentile in height so I'm guessing that all the growing has been tough for her.

Even with all the whining and crying though, she is still awesome! She can sit by herself for a couple of minutes at a time and her crawling is starting to look more like real crawling instead of army crawling and she is fast! She is eating a little bit of real food now and it's fun to decide what she should try next. She is still great in the car and pretty good at restaurants. Really, as long as she is out and doing something she is happy. She is my beautiful, smart, sweet baby and I'm so excited to see what she learns next. Happy 6 months, Bubba Dirl!

Likes:

The cats and dog
Her new carseat
Outside
Shopping
Her soft, pink blankie
Books
Paper

Dislikes:

Being picked up
Being put down
Shots :(

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Family pictures

I owe this blog Emilia's 6 month pictures (not taken yet) and Wheeler Farm Pumpkin Days pictures, but for now here are some pictures from our family photo shoot from Mar Del photography: (Yes, Joe's eyes always look closed in pictures!)

Frightmares Part 2!

After my parents and David arrived at Lagoon, we decided to go on some rides. We all took turns watching Emilia so everyone could go on their favorite rides (except my dad, who hates Lagoon). I wish I had taken some pictures of Emilia with her grandparents and uncle, but I was having too much fun.

Around 3, Ethan, Jessica, and their kiddos got to Lagoon and we had some fun watching them go on some kid rides. I got this cute picture of James and Juliet on the boats:

I really wanted to take Emilia through the hay maze so we headed to Pioneer Village to Scary and Crow's maze. All the employees were so cute and gave Emilia her own trick or treat bag (which means mom and dad got to eat her candy!)

She really liked the mice

We made it! She is chewing on the train whistle toy she got

We made sure to ride the only two rides Emilia could do- the train and the carousel. On the carousel, we sat on a seat that rocked back and forth. This picture was taken a few seconds before she fell asleep 

Everyone stayed for dinner and a few more rides until it got dark and cold. Can't wait until next year!