Beach Baby

At first she loved the sand and water... pretty soon she figured out it was COLD! She began lifting her feet up when they would get close to the water!

Such a Daddy's Girl!

There were HUGE waves... I was a little scared to get too close because a rouge wave would come up and knock me down.

Five Months

Our sweet, special girl turned five months yesterday! Here are a few pics of her monthly photo shoot...

**Lindsay has been working on sitting up a lot lately... here she is showing off! She can sit up for a couple of seconds before toppling over, usually reaching for something in front of her.

**A Day in the life of Lindsay....we have been dilligent working on our daytime schedule. She usually wakes up around 7:30-8am and plays with Daddy before he goes to work. She eats, and plays and watches a few minutes of Sesame Street. She takes a 2 hour nap around 10am and when she wakes up we eat, play, read, do tummy time. Then she goes down for another 2 hour nap in the afternoon around 2pm. On nice days we go outside and sit on the blanket in the courtyard and play. She likes to take a short cat-nap while I make dinner around 5pm, she eats her rice cereal, takes a bath then she's off to bed at 7:30ish.

**Rice Cereal...Lindsay's been doing good with the rice cereal. We gave her some at around 4 1/2 months, and she liked it OK. We waited a week or so and tried it again and she was definitely more interested! We have watched her become progressively better at opening her mouth and eating the bites from the spoon. This is a big improvement from eating it from her fingers, licking it off the bib or out of the bowl (she was too quick one night!). We are going to start giving it to her 2x a day for the next month to get her ready for fruits and veggies!

**I'm still exclusively breastfeeding, and she's still waking up at night 2 times. The rice cereal hasn't helped her sleep...yet. I really don't mind waking up anyways... I am usually really needing to empty too!

**Look out, she's reaching! She has been reaching for awhile now, however, she will see something and LUNGE for it. Yesterday I was holding her and the TV remote was across the couch and out of nowhere she leaned way forward and grabbed the remote, changed the channel with her mouth and slobbered all over the keys... pretty talented right? She wants to 'touch' everything that we are holding, the camera included as you can see from me trying to hold her back from grabbing it!

**Baby temper... I have also noticed she gets cranky if you take away a toy. Not too sure about this one. I am a little worried about the future...lol.

**Big Blue.... eyes are still blue- I think it's going to stick!

**As you can see, she still lets me put bows in her hair. Which has been growing a TON the past few weeks. No longer is there a bald spot on the back of her head, and no more mullet (whew). I have had fun making bow headbands for her with ribbon from Michaels....

**She has been talking and making her excited-cough noise all the time. Her newest thing is to blow air out of her lips to make the tooting sound... it cracks me up and soaks me simultaneously. We were in the grocery store the other day and she was just blowing away down the aisle.... we turned the corner and got some strange looks from the people in the next aisle. I made sure to walk by so they wouldn't think it came from the other end :)

Here's our sweet girl hammin' it up for the camera... I am cracking up at her supermodel pose...

Simply put, she is such a precious blessing! It's been an adventure being her Mama, watching her grow and develop...I can't wait to see what's in store!

Miss Busybody

Lindsay loves the exersaucer!

She has "tasted" all the moving parts and has given it her stamp of approval.

Happy 4th of July

Dear Mama,

I am ready for bedtime! I had a fun time this weekend in Bakersfield with my Grandma's and Grandpa's. Stop taking pictures and please take off my bow.

Love Your Daughter,

Lindsay xoxo

Adventures in Rice Cereal

We began the adventure of introducing Lindsay to solids with rice cereal last week.... I mixed it with breastmilk. We have just been giving it to her in the evening before bed. I haven't seen any of the magical rice cereal sleep properties yet.. but I am still hopeful! Overall, I think she did pretty good! Here are some pics...Pre-Dinner time Rice Cereal
Daddy giving the first bite... she was pretty interested...Of course, she had to touch it. She REALLY wanted the spoon..I let her play with it for a minute, but she almost poked her eye so it went bye-bye fast.
A question for Seasoned Moms..Lindsay wanted to put her hands all over the spoon and rice cereal got everywhere (which was expected:) but, do I keep letting her suck the rice cereal off her fingers? Does that impare the spoon eating skill?Yum! She is not quite sure what to think about it... a few seconds later she motioned for some more and tried to grab the bowl....lol

Since she was a MESS.... she went straight into the bath! Scrub-a-dub-dub...
All clean! Got all the rice cereal out from my double chin....whew! Ready for bedtime Mama!

Swimmin' in Grandpa's Pool

Grandpa Rich and Lindsay.... Roxy was just hanging out with us on the side of the pool trying not to get splashed!

Grandpa and Lindsay :)

Mama and Lindsay... I think I went a little overboard on sun protection... hat..check. Sunscreen..check. Giant umbrella over where she would be....check. LOL.

Jackson was next to me wondering what was going on... he did not jump in the water.lol.

A few days before Father's Day, Lindsay and I made an impromptu trip to Bakersfield to celebrate Father's Day with my Dad and Lindsay's Grandpa! We ate Rusty's Pizza and christened Grandpa's pool! Thank goodness the weather was warm the past few weeks of 100 degrees so the pool was really warm.

Being in the pool with my Dad reminded me of precious memories of spending the summer at my Grandpa Clay and Grandma Rosie's house. They had a pool where Grandma taught me how to swim, and Grandpa would bravely protect us from wasps with his trusty fly-swatter, which he kept on the side of the pool for good measure. My sweet Grandpa is in heaven now, but I know he would smile if he could see how our pool fun was being passed on through my Dad & Lindsay.

We love you Grandpa Rich!! We had so much fun! Happy 1st Grandfather's Day!

Happy 1st Daddy's Day!

Happy First Father's Day to the most wonderful husband and Daddy in the world! Lindsay adores her Daddy, and her special time every night when he gives her a bath and snuggles! She always has a smile for her Dad, and loves when he flies her in the air! Jarrett is so patient and gentle with her, and she has responded to his voice since the moment she was born, turning her head and watching him!

We are so blessed to have such a wonderful man in our lives... I know that he will impart his sense of humor, patience, integrity and most important, his love of Jesus to Lindsay. I am so proud of Jarrett, and love that he is the head of our little family and BEST Daddy to our girl!

Wearing her shirt "I love Daddy and Daddy loves me" in honor of Father's Day!
Father's Day presents... a subscription to GQ magazine, sweet treats, a Sinatra CD, a book, "Daddy Loves His Little Girl" for the two of them to read together and a coffee mug decorated with her foot prints!

Fun story about the mug... while decorating it at Color-Me-Mine, a pottery painting studio in Calabasas, I was painting Lindsay's feet and putting them on the mug and this man's voice nearby said, "What a cute idea. I like your mug!" Me being the nerd I am, said "Thank you" and just glanced up quickly and who did I see, only DAVID BOREANANZ....celebrity and star of show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bones, etc... Swoon! He was there with his son to make something and sat down at the end of my table. I turned red and pretended like I didn't know who he was and finished my mug to boot scoot out of there. LOL. A much cooler person would have chatted him up... he just made me nervous....lol.

Bringing his daughter home... We love you!