On the Move!

Taylor has been trying to crawl for a couple of weeks now and she is soooo close! I have mixed feelings between wanting her to be able to crawl and wanting her to stay in one place! She already gets around by scooting to where she wants to go. She can lay on her belly and use her legs to propel her across the floor. She seems to have reverse down, but forward is taking a little longer. She tries to get up on her toes to crawl and hasn't been able to take more than two are three crawls before falling down on her belly. It is the cutest thing watching her want to get somewhere. She concentrates so hard on things! Sometimes she backs herself up under the furniture and then she gets stuck so she whines until you move her out into the open again.

Her favorite toy is the light up piano that she has to stand up to play. She can hold herself up on it and sometimes I thinks she is going to walk before she can crawl! She was using this toy as a walker to walk herself across the floor the other day and then another toy caught her attention and she let go with both hands while standing! Good thing mommy was there to catch her. She doesn't understand the concept of gravity yet because someone is always there to catch her.

Bath time for Taylor

Since Taylor is sitting up, we started letting her take a bath in the big bath tub and she really enjoys it. Here is a video of her first big girl bath. Please enjoy the vocals by Scott and Amanda! This is her favorite bath time song! Scott even googled the words so we could learn them all!

Happy 4th of July (and Happy Birthday to Me!)

This was the first year that we have been home on the 4th of July in a long time, so we decided to have a pool party to celebrate my birthday. Scott bought me a new digital camera and I am so excited to start taking professional looking pictures. Scott posed for my first professional looking picture with my new camera! Model ready right! Or is it just my awsome photographer skills that make him look so good! He kinda looks scary!

Taylor enjoyed playing with her friend JD. Couldn't get them to both look in the same direction at the same time!

Scott went all out and made me a birthday cake...from scratch. It was sooooo yummy and he was so proud of it. It was the moistest cake I have ever had. It had french vanilla coffee, buttermilk and 4 sticks of butter in it. Can't go wrong with 4 sticks of butter!

Let's get a close-up of that cake!

It was a great day with family and friends! Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated with us!

Look at me....I can sit up!

One day I had Taylor on the floor in the bumbo while I was doing dishes and the next thing I knew she had somehow crawled her way out of it. So, I figured it was time to pack the bumbo away. We started sitting her up on the floor and it only took about 3 days of falling over before she got the hang of it. She is so proud of herself.

She has also gotten enough hair on the top to pin a little bow in it! YEAH! She used to let me put headbands and hats on her, but has now learned how to pull them off of her head and now nothing but this little bow will stay in her hair.

Happy Father's Day Daddy!

For Father's Day this year we went out in the boat and went tubing and then had a picnic by the lake! Uncle Eric shared his ice cream with Taylor so now she has decided that she likes him. Prior to the ice cream, she has cried every time he looked at her. I think that they will be friends now!

Scott thinks he is Kind of a Big Deal now that he got the big promotion at work, so my mom bought him the T-shirt to match mine for his birthday. Since it was his first Father's day, he decided to be a big deal that day!
For my two favorite Daddy's, I decided to bake a cake! It was my first attempt at doing the icing with the writing and borders. Mom came over to help me and I think it came out pretty good. I have big aspirations now of becoming a master cake decorator and making all of Taylor's birthday cakes! I am pretty pumped up about it and getting all kinds of ideas for her first birthday! So, if anyone needs a cake for something, I need lots of practice so let me know!

All in all it was a great day! It was a hot day, but we enjoyed being out on the lake and in the pool.

I'm Such a Big Girl

Aunt Ginger and Grammie bought Taylor this adorable 4th of July outfit. Its a 12 month outfit and already fits her perfectly! We are styling and all ready for the 4th of July parade!

Ever since we got back from vacation (where we found out that Taylor was old enough for a high chair) we have been using her high chair for feeding. She seems to like her new chair and it makes it a little easier to contain the mess. We had been using the bumbo and it took two of us to contain those flailing arms while one tried to feed her.

Beach Baby!

So Scott and I decided that taking a trip to Mexico for his 30th birthday was a great idea! We figured taking the baby would be no problem since when we booked she was sleeping through the night and napping during the day fairly well. Well, as it turns out, taking a 6 month old on a vacation with ambitions of it being a relaxing vacation is not a good idea! We still had fun and she enjoyed the beach, but we have never been more happy to be home from a vacation in our life. Taylor decided that she needed to wake up 3 times a night and wouldn't nap unless one of us was holding her. So most of the vacation was spent holding a baby or trying to get a baby to go to sleep!

So now that we are back, little Taylor is in Baby Bootcamp to break her of her needing to be held ALL of the time! She has done pretty well crying herself to sleep the past two days for naps and night time. She doesn't really even cry at night. The first night we watched her on the monitor and she rolled around from one end of the crib to the other for about 45 minutes until she passed out! It was too cute! We stopped swaddling too! And she seems to like sleeping in on her tummy. We were so scared of when we would have to stop swaddling because it seemed like such an important ingredient to her sleeping through the night. Scott kept saying, we will cross that bridge when we get there. Well is seems we have come to several bridges this week. No more swaddles, no more picking her up in the middle of the night when she is crying and hopefully soon...no more breastfeeding. We are trying sippy cups and bottles and she is reluctantly taking to them.

Taylor's favorite thing these days is singing. She loves when we sing to her. It usually calms her down when she is upset and makes her laugh and dance when she is happy. Bathtime and swimtime song is "Splish splash I was taking a bath". Scott finally looked up the words so that we could sing it right.

Taylor is also trying all kinds of new foods. I know that you are only supposed to introduce one new food a week, but the resort had Organic Gerber baby food in all of these new flavors so I was a bad mom and just tried all kinds of new fruits and vegetables..Ooops! She had the worst gas the whole week and I can't begin to determine which food was the culprit. Scott and I were having pineapple all week and she wanted some too so I gave her the rind to suck on which she seemed to enjoy, but 5 minutes later threw up. Guess that wasn't the best idea on my part.

All in all it was a great trip, but we will be leaving Taylor with Grammie next time we want to go to Mexico!