8 Months

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Paislee Marie, you are 8 months old today! You weigh 19.3 lbs, and you are 27.5 inches long. You are still wearing mostly 9 month clothes, most 12 months are too LONG! You are still in size 3 diapers.

Girl, you have been on the MOVE this month! You have gone from rolling, rolling, rolling to crawling! You started crawling on November 23rd, and now you are all over the place! The biggest surprise this month was you pulling yourself up to standing. You just decided you would do it one day, and surprised us! You are also STUBBORN as a mule. Where did you get that from?? You aren't eating solids very well anymore, and I'm starting to get a little concerned. I don't know if this is okay or not? I sit you down for lunch and dinner and at least TRY to get you to eat baby food, diced peaches, mandarin oranges--anything! You just don't care for it. Your naps have dwindled down to 2-3 times a day, 30 minutes a piece. Lucky me! This means a very fussy baby come bedtime. You fight sleep too, so bad! When I finally do get you to sleep at night, you usually sleep about 12 hours, so that's nice! You still wake up in the middle of the night to eat, but since you are sleeping with us (ahem), it's no big deal. You do have to get in your crib soon though. I am praying that the Lord will give me strength to do that. You have started getting very mad when we take things away from you. I know that is a normal milestone and a good sign of development, but it's hard not to worry that you are going to be very hard to get along with. I pray every day that you will be a sweet girl, and a very caring and selfless one too! What more could a mama ask for? 

You talk a lot too! You say "ma-ma" "da-da" and "bye-bye". You also growl back at me when I growl at you. You are going to have such a personality! You have also started dancing and clapping your hands, which is my FAVORITE! I can't get enough of it! You dance most of the time when you hear music and you clap randomly and when I say "yayyyyyyy!!!!". 

This month has been a tough month. For whatever reason you have been super cranky. At first I hoped it was teething just so you would have an excuse but you have shown NO signs of teething. I haven't been able to leave your side without you crying and you want to be held a lot. You have also developed a little attitude! When can we start the disciplining? If we don't start soon, I think we might have a little problem! ha! We still love you baby girl!

XoXo,
Ashley

It's that time again...

Time to pick out Christmas cards! We had planned to get our pictures taken this past Monday, but I figured that might not go so well with me having to wipe Paislee's nose every 0.5 seconds, so I cancelled and we have yet to get them taken. I am having the hardest time deciding what I want everyone to wear though. Anyone else have that problem? I think I am going to pick out our Christmas card design FIRST, and then dress accordingly. Is that stupid?

I think not. Especially when you can get 50 FREE Christmas cards from Shutterfly! That should give everyone an excuse to pick out a Christmas card and go get family Christmas pictures taken :O) Here is a link to Shutterfly's Christmas cards--


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Tis the Season!!


XOXO,
Ashley

The Sick House

Yay! Everyone in the house is sick! It started Wednesday afternoon with Paislee and is ending (hopefully) with me waking up this morning with a sore throat. Jason was in the middle and I blame him for my sore throat. Paislee has been snotty all weekend and a little sneezy, but now she is starting to get a yucky cough that I am not very fond of. We may be taking her to the doctor first thing in the morning if she isn't showing signs of improvement.

Even though she is sick, she acts like she feels great! I think it bothers me more than it does her! She is SO CLOSE TO CRAWLING I can't even stress how CLOSE. She takes a 'step' on her knees and falls.

I don't really have much to say today, imagine that. Here is a video from today to show you how much our big girl is growing! Don't mind the video quality, not sure why its so bad? I tried to upload more but it wouldn't upload :o(

XOXO, 

Ashley

Alex's Visit

As some of you know, one of my BFF's from college--Alex, and her mom came up here for a visit this week. They flew up Thursday morning and left today. It was a short visit, but we did what we could and it was nice to be able to just hang out and catch up without being in a hurry! Thursday we just hung around the house and went to dinner at Outback--YUM!

Friday we had planned to take Alex and her mom to one of the lighthouses here in Portland (there are 52, I think, in Maine!), and we shopped downtown and went to the mall too! I asked Jason how many times he thought we would see this lighthouse since we would probably bring everyone that visits us in the next 2 years to it, haha. Here are some pics for your enjoyment!

After the lighthouse, we went to the mall shopping. Since Paislee was so good (and daddy too!) they were rewarded with a ride on the carousel. Paislee's first time! We also saw that they were making room for SANTA!!! Yay! Wonder how Paislee will like him? haha.

Jason is home until Monday, so we will be relaxing around the house until then! Have a great weekend everyone!

XOXO,
Ashley

7 months

Paislee Marie, you are seven months old, and it has been the best (and most tiring) seven months of my life.

You weigh ~19 lbs. You are in size 3 diapers, and wear 9 & 12 month clothes. You're a little ham!

You are such a happy baby and you are constantly making me laugh. You are also very spoiled and make me want to kick myself and cry sometimes too ;0) You have recently become VERY clingy, making it hard to be away from you for a second (not that I want to be away from you). Sometimes you cry when I walk out of the room! Scratch that, MOST of the time. You're a mamas girl and I will take advantage of that for as long as I can, and I can only hope that it will last forever!

You are starting to become very mobile and it scares the crap out of me. You have been sitting on your own for months now, but now you are rolling around to get to where you want to go. On the way there, you stop anytime you see anything that could possibly fit in your mouth, and you go to town on it! You are also interested in little balls of lint and pieces of paper. Looks like mama will be needing a new vacuum!

You love to be entertained with funny faces and noises, and you're starting to mimic things that I do. Yesterday, I clapped my hands and said "yayyyyyyyy" and you copied me! I love watching you grow and learn new things every day, and I can't wait to watch you develop into a lovely young lady, but not too fast!

You don't really eat baby food anymore, you don't like it. Instead I feed you any vegetables that you can eat from my plate, and you seem to like it much better!

You sleep 10-12 hours at night, most of the time going to bed at 8:00, and waking up at 7:30. Lately you have been waking up a little earlier than I would like though ;0)

You have started drinking from a sippy cup, but only water. When you realize it's milk--you spit it out.

It has been a busy month for us! Daddy had to go away for work, so you and I flew down to North Carolina to visit family this month. You did great on the plane, and I hope I can say the same thing after we get back to Maine next week! Usually you are fine as long as you have mama and as long as you're being held ;0) I know your daddy can't wait to see you and how much you have grown!

I love you very much little girl!

A look back...

I am SOOOOOO glad that we took videos after Paislee was born. We didn't get her birth on video, and none of my pregnancy either (I wish we had, and we will next time), but we make SURE to get every moment that we can on video because the time passes way too fast and we will never get these precious moments back :o( Here is a video from shortly after she was born, I think she was a month old, but she seems so much younger! Kind of boring if you aren't me, because nothing exciting happens--just love that sweet little face!

6 Months

Paislee Marie, you are SIX months old today!

I never thought I would make it this far alive, ha! In the beginning, everyone was just telling me to get through the first 3 months and everything would be okay, and it was! And since then, the months have FLOWN by! I can barely keep up!

You weigh 18.6 lbs, and you are still wearing a size 2 diaper, although I have started buying size 3 because they are much easier to get on your squirmy booty ;o) You are wearing mostly size 9 month clothes, but you can wear some 12 months too!

Your sleeping habits were GREAT there for about a week... and then they got all outta whack! You were sleeping a solid 12 hours at night for a week or so, now you go to bed anywhere between 7-10 at night, but no matter what-you are up and at em' at 7 a.m...... and I don't like it! What happened to the 12 hour thing? If you go to bed at 10, do me a favor and get up at 10, will ya? Mama needs some sleep! You are still taking 2-3 naps a day, ranging anywhere from 30 minutes a piece, up to 3 hours! (Usually 45 minutes though).

You love sitting in your highchair to play!

You are still breast feeding, and would prefer to eat every 2 hours, but you can go about 4 hours without eating before you get really grumpy! You like to nurse to sleep as well, but I don't count that, because it's a bad habit and it's all my fault, that we have to stop!.... not everyone can nurse you to sleep, which means you give anyone that isn't mommy a hard time when they try to put you to sleep. Oops! You are still only eating 1 solid meal a day, at supper time, and it's always a vegetable. Your new vegetables this month were sweet potatoes and corn mixed, and mixed garden vegetables. Your favorites are still carrots and squash. I plan to start to give you solids twice a day very soon, I just have to figure out how. You won't eat fruits at all, you gag and I'm scared you're going to throw up, and it just doesn't seem right to feed you veggies for breakfast....? I have started giving you some finger foods and biter biscuits, and you seem to be interested in them... in fact, TOO interested. You want to BITE them instead of suck on them, and it freaks me out. I have a feeling you will like big people food MUCH better than you like little people food, and I can't wait to be able to feed you everything that I eat!

You are the happiest little baby I have ever seen, and everyone you meet seems to agree! You love to laugh and smile and giggle and scream, and you don't care where you are, or who is around. You scream at the top of your lungs a LOT, and I'm worried the neighbors aren't going to like us too much. You were also saying 'ma-ma' for about a week, all day long--daddy didn't like it too much and I think he bribed you or something because you don't say it anymore :o( You do love to laugh at daddy though, even if you didn't say 'da-da' first. He is the best at making you laugh, probably because he is so funny looking goofy ;o)

We started going to a new church this month and everyone brags about how good you are every Sunday. They say "that is the best baby in the world!" and "You wouldn't even know she was in there if you didn't see her, she is so good!". Probably because it's your nap time, but we won't tell them that ;o) You DID toot last week in church, but I think it was daddy and he just tried to blame you.

Ready for church!

You are sitting up perfectly now, all the time. You hardly ever fall over unless you are chasing a toy. It's nice because I can sit you on the floor surrounded by 5,000 toys, and you will entertain yourself for quite some time so I can get things done! Sometimes I will come in the room and you will be 5 feet from where I sat you down, but not because you crawled! Nope, I think you will be a late crawler--I'm calling it now. You can roll though!

We are going home to North Carolina for the whole month of October to visit with your family, daddy is hoping you don't grow as fast as you did this last month or he may not recognize you when we come home. Your Grandma Jan is so excited to see you, she even has a walker for you so you can run all over the house--I can't wait!


Happy half-a-year birthday!
WE love you little girl! You bring so much happiness into our lives every day, and we don't know how we ever lived without you!

XOXO,