Rosemary is 8 Months Today!

To see more of Rosemary's 8 month pics from today check out my 365 blog.

Dear Rosemary,

Today you are 8 months old my love.

Another month gone, another month I say wow, how did it go so fast!?

You're doing more than ever now.

Getting into trouble every other minute it seems. Crawling all over, chewing on everything you can get those two tiny teeth on. Your favorite seems to be my tables and cords. Wonderful.

You're getting huge too!

Or at least it seems to me. My little baby girl seems to be growing at lightening speed towards a young little lady!

Like every other month so far, this month was the best above all the rest. We have so much fun together now as everday you're showing more and more of your personality. We love to giggle together and it truly is what makes my days wonderful. It seems like every day holds new surprises and experiences. I honestly wish you could remember how great this time in your life is. Guess that's what I'm here for. To let you know what a joy you are and how truly awesome this time of our lives are.

I love watching you learn new things so much - I think that's my favorite part of this month. I love when you realize something new, like the fact that we have a bathroom and you've never been in that room. It's so fun watching your face light up as you realize you can make your way over to check it out yourself. Of course you're only disappointed when Mom grabs you up to set you back 15 feet away again. Sorry girl, it's for your own good. Same thing for all your favorite plugs, cords and outlets. Already living on the edge it seems.

Here's some of the things you're doing as an 8 month old:

- You're crawling now - still just army, but you get anywhere you want in no time at all
- You've had pretty much all the first fruits and veggies and we've slowly started prepping you towards table food
- Still babble a lot - Mama is your favorite! You have started to say Dada a bit more too. :)
- You've learned to press buttons on of your favorite toys, Violet, her paws. So cute!
- Love playing with your toys - especially books! You still love all electronics, but you've moved on to cords and outlets to my displeasure
- Started being a little shy with strangers and other babies
- Love to reach out for me when you get a little uneasy
- Yesterday you stood up all alone (with the help of the chair) for a minute! We're in trouble now!
- Still in size 2 diaper and size 6 month clothes
- Still working on the sippy cup, but you're improving

Thank you for another wonderful month Rosemary.

I love you more every day and I'm so happy I'm lucky enough to be your Mama!

Guess Who's Crawling??

Please excuse the awful lighting and my voice. She had just started doing it and I was obviously pretty excited so I wasn't even aware of the lighting until after. :)

This was actually on Sunday afternoon and she's been doing it more and more ever since! I seriously can't believe she can do this! WOW.

My baby girl is just doing more and more everyday and it's amazing!

Sorry I've been a little MIA lately. I had an abslutely wonderful long weekend with family and friends filled with bbq's and Sun, and I just decided to take a few days off from the blog.

It was really nice to get some quality time with them, but I missed everyone on here too!

Hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend!

Finally Took Care of That Hairy Situation!

Rosemary on May 14th - very hairy as you can see.

Rosemary's hair situation that is. It's something that's needed to be done for, oh, I don't know... a month or so now.

On Friday I was at my parents, and with the assistance of my mom and my sister, it's finally done.

My sister held her while I cut off her rat tail. I'm not lying about the rat tail, it was bad! I couldn't do any more after the first cut, so my mom finished the job for me.

Lovely rat tail before hand.

Oh, and we distracted her with the remote as you can see. Bad Mom, I know. :) Hey, whatever works, right?

Like almost every other hair cut I've been a party to, I cried. I then in turned scared Rosemary, who also cried. Luckily, the tears only lasted a few minutes and then all was fine again. I know, I'm a big baby, but I thought it looked awful at first.

Overall, I'm glad we finally did it! It looks so much better than the shaggy mess that was her hairstyle before.

My little girl, all grown up with her first haircut!

Weekly Review

This was another big week, lets see if I can remember it all.

On Monday, as I posted earlier, Rosemary turned 6 months!! My big girl really is a big girl! Such a bittersweet day that was. I love her so much, I just can't believe it's already been 6 months! Sometimes I can't believe it's only been 6 months she's been in my life. Funny how that works.

Wednesday Rosemary had her 6 month doctor visit and she now weights 13lb 7oz! She's on on the smaller side, but this is the first month in a while her doctor was happy with her weight gain. All that oatmeal and veggies are paying off in the weight department. Personally, I think she's huge! She did great with her vaccines too, only crying for about 30 seconds when they poked her. So brave.

Thursday my sister came over for a bit so the three of us had a nice day just hanging out.

We had work party for my husband on Friday night and that was really nice to go to. It was with coworkers of his I don't really know, but the food was good and I had some nice conversation with adults. Jackpot for stay at home Mom's! On an exciting note, I went to a girlfriend's house at 11:00PM! That's right, late night! I seriously can't remember the last time I did something like that. I stayed over until two just chatting and it was wonderful! It's amazing how little things like going out late and getting in some quality time with a friend really make me happy.

Saturday was a HUGE day. We have a tooth!! Rosemary has been extremely fussy the past week and a half and I seriously didn't think we were going to make it! OK, that's a bit extreme, but there were a few days in there that I thought the Colic really was coming back. Well, it turns out it was for good reason! My poor baby popped a tooth yesterday! I know it was yesterday because just the day before I was wondering about teething so I was feeling around in there. I'm so happy and sad for the tooth to finally come. Happy because my baby is such a big girl now! Sad for the same exact reason. My breasts are a little worried about teeth as well.

We also tried carrots yesterday which went over well along with everything else she's tried. I'm thinking they're not her favorite as when they were gone, she didn't get hysterical. This happens with every other food, so my guess is she thinks that carrots are just OK. I'm just glad she likes them enough to gobble them up and not spit them out! One more veggie in the like pile.

Today was my sister Jessica's Birthday celebration (Happy Birthday tomorrow Jessica!) so we were over at my parents for a few hours today doing that. Rosemary did great up until it was time to sing with the lights off. Not such a hit with a baby apparently. Then it was already her bedtime so we went home around 7:30. Of course it was another long evening in the nursery as those dang teeth remain to bother my poor baby!

Overall, it was another great week with lots of excitement as far Rosemary's advancement. Even excitement for Mom this week too!

Rosemary Said Mama Today!

Me and sister Jessica were having lunch and Rosemary started to cry while she was playing on the floor. In there she said Mama a couple of times!! I went to get the video camera, so of course she didn't do it again, but she does start to. It was so cool!

Please ignore me annoyingly repeating it. :) She does it in the beginning of the video, and a tiny bit right at the end. I know she's a bit young at barely 6 months to say it, but I really thought she was calling for me, as did my sister!

I just know she'll be saying it for real soon! Pretty Good Earth Day!

On February 23, we caught her saying hi on video! She was just over 4 months then. Now, I know she wasn't really saying hi there. She had said it before and has a few times since, it's just a cute video. She says it about 20 seconds into the video and then the rest is pretty boring.

My Baby Girl is Six Months Today!

Here's just one precious photo from today. For more check out my 365 blog.


Rosemary,

I have no idea where the time has gone, but let me promise you I have loved it all. The good, the bad, the stinky. All of it! I'm sorry for any time I've been upset or frustrated, but I promise you it wasn't that I have ever doubted my love for you.

You are more than I ever could have hoped or imagined.

I don't know how I got the cutest baby ever, but I appreciate that as well. I really hope you haven't spoiled me for the rest of your future siblings.

I've learned more and loved more in the past 6 months than I have in the past 30 years. I am still in awe of how much love there is inside of me since you were born. Amazing. Intense. Forever. You're the best thing that has ever happend to me right up there with you father.

Such a blessed life I have!

Thank you for everything you have brought me. And Everything is exactly what you have brought me.

Love,

Mom

I Forgot Something Important to Tell Everyone!

This can't wait for my weekend update. Rosemary sat all by herself on Sunday! She did it again yesterday too. :) I've been trying for a couple weeks to get her into a tripod position, but she hasn't gotten that her hands could help her sit up. Well on Sunday, she did it (and for a couple minutes in a row)! I'm so proud of her. I feel like she's so grown up lately. First Oatmeal, then rolling over and sweet potatoes, and now SITTING! Next up is going to be teeth, crawling and then highschool gradutaion! Here's a picture of her on Sunday.

Weekly Review

Just wanted to share some things that happened this week with all my favorite readers.

First, I finally saw my Rosemary roll over from back to tummy! She started about a week ago, and has been doing it more and more all week. Every time I left the room it seemed like she did it and then also a couple times in the middle of last night she did it too (waking up crying of course unsure how to get back to her back in the middle of the night.) My husband, the lucky guy, had seen her do it more than once when finally today she did it while I was actually in the room! So awesome that she's finally getting over that speed bump, aka, her arm.

Next, my big girl started her veggies! I made her sweet potatoes earlier this week and wanted to wait for my husband to be home so he could be there too. We gave them to her today and she LOVED them! I started off with one ounce and she gobbled it up so fast I gave her another ounce. :) My little piggy loves anything you put in her mouth to eat, even yucky meds. Fingers crossed this continues even when she's older. I was really impressed because of the lack of mess. I truly thought it was going to be a disaster, but it hardly missed her mouth at all! Must have been too good to spit out.



Let's see, what else... Oh, the trees have green on them here in MI! I have no idea when it started, but I noticed on Thursday that there are buds all over the trees finally! YAY for spring!

Yesterday I went to opening day for the Tiger's! It was pretty cold (40's), but oh so fun! We won too, so that made it extra nice. I love baseball! I think it has a lot to do with the fact it's only played in the spring/summer/fall. No yucky winter! I know, I know, I live in MI. Yeah, well... some things you just never get used to.

My Mom had her on week for Chemo. Yuck. It's so hard to watch her go through it and not be able to help at all. It really is poison and I wish there were anything else in the world for her to be doing for the stupid evil Cancer, but there isn't. I feel so terrible seeing her like that and I just continue to pray for a miracle every day. Anyone have one of those lying around? Yeah, probably not, huh? I have a really hard time dealing with her Cancer (I imagine most people do), so I'm hoping I'll muster up the strengh to write some posts about it on here one day. Perhaps it will help to get it out? Perhaps.

I think that's it for this post. I actually have something else to share with you guys, but I think I'm going to write a seperate post for it. It's something I decided on Thursday and I'm pretty pumped about it. Is it silly to write two posts back to back? Probably, but I want to make it a weekly topic I chat about, I kind of want it to be a lone post for that reason.

Anywho, hope everyone else had a nice week! As you can see, mine was filled with some pluses and minuses. Thank God for the pluses!