Laughing at Daddy

The blogger uploader was not working.  So I had to use You Tube.

5 Months

Chloe is now 5 months..well 5 months and week.  haha.  But she is getting bigger and cuter everyday.

She loves:
Running with Mommy
Giggling with Daddy
Taking baths
Playing with toys
Car rides
Visiting Dad at work
Seeing the ducks at Dad's work
Eating real food - I am going to continue to nurse, but if Chloe had it her way, I am pretty sure she would eat everything Doug and I ate.  She stares us down all of the time. She loves any fruits (apples, bananas, mangos, pears, and blueberries), and she loves orange veggies like sweet potatoes, squash and carrots.  She hates peas, but likes green beans and mixed veggies.

Sitting with her cousin Bella

 After eating her favorite sweet potatoes!

 Yummy water in her sippy cup

 About to go on a run!  Thanks Rachel for letting us use this!!

 We visit Doug at work almost everyday during his dinner break.  We had a few extra minutes so we went and fed some duckies.

 She loves sitting

 She usually just hunches over like this.  But she is getting pretty good at it!

Getting Crafty

My brother in law is getting married soon and I wanted new shoes for the wedding.  While on pinterest I saw this fantastic idea!  Redo shoes that you don't wear! So I had this pair of just plain black pumps and wanted to incorporate yellow into them.  Yellow is one of the wedding colors.  I recruited Raina to help me out.  We went to JoAnns, it's down the street, and bought mod podge and a yard of fabric.  A yard was plenty big for both of our shoes.  It took us a few hours, but they turned out great!

My shoes

Raina's shoes

 

Both finished products

Chloe - 4 Months OId

Chloe turned 4 months old on February 25th. (I'm a little late with this post.  But oh well) Her 4 month check up was on the 27th and it went great!  She is very healthy!

4 Month Stats:
     Height:  25 in - 75th%
     Weight:  13 lbs 12 oz - 41%
     Head Circ: 15.5 in - 17%

She is growing great with the curve! And every visit, she has went up in the percentiles.

Things she knows/can do/likes:

• She knows who we are.  She is definitely a Momma's girl, but will go to Doug too.  She is slowly getting over her anxiety with other people.
• She got worried with Doug when she saw his hair cut.  He had been growing out his hair and then we cut it really short.  She gave him the "who the heck are you" look.
• She likes to come shooting with us.  She wore ear muffs - safety first.
• She is sleeping through the night.  Depending on the night it is about 9-12 hours.  She always goes down between 8 and 9.
• Babbles like crazy.  She loves having conversations with Doug.  They will talk for 5 minutes about anything and everything.  Well Doug talks and makes it sound interesting, while Chloe babbles to him.  haha.
• She giggles.  She thinks fart noises, and funny faces are the best.  She also likes to bounce on the bed or couch.
• Loves to jump in her jumper.  We are training her so she will walk by 10 months.  She needs to be able to walk for my brothers wedding, so we are training her like Rocky.
• Loves eating solid food.  She first started with rice, and she was NOT a fan, so we tried oatmeal and she gobbled it up.  Other random things we have given her and she has liked are: guacamole, tortilla chips, muffins, bread, clementines, and cheerios (they have to be in fourths though.  haha).  I want to start giving her other baby food this week to see how she does.  She can't get enough of the oatmeal though.  In between bites she raises her arms, opens her mouth, and says "oooh ooh ooh."
• She has rolled over once!  She did that on March 7th, and rolled from her back to her belly.  

Here are some random pictures from the last little while.

Protecting her ears.

Reaching for her toys.

 TV with Daddy

Oatmeal for the first time. 

 Trying to steal the spoon.

Messy baby. 

This is a while ago. 

Inconspicuous gang signs. 

Chubby face. 

At the park for the first time! 

Destin's hat. 

Cute little laugh/smile 

Staring contest with Destin.

Philly phan 

Look I'm drinking water (I bought a sippy cup for her instead of the bottle.  She likes it better)

I can hold my toys now!

Happy Valentines Day!

Our cute love bug

She loves her tongue and usually smiles with it out.  When you play with your tongue, she concentrates really hard and tries to do the same thing.

I haven't updated in a while, but Chloe has been doing great!  She is loving life, and we love her in our lives.  She is a stinker sometimes, and really loves things the way she wants them.  Recently she has decided that she really just loves being around our apartment.  My Mom told me I was becoming a hermit, and this really proved it, so I have been trying to get out more.

For Valentines Day, Doug and I decided that we were going to go out last Saturday and get a babysitter.  Our neighbor, and good friend Mindi said that she would babysit for us!  We were delighted because we haven't been out just the two of us since she was born.  We decided to go to Pat's Barbecue - the best BBQ in Utah.

Brisket, ribs, cornbread, and a side of mashed potatoes.

Chloe did great!  We were gone for about 3 hours, and she only cried a little bit.  Doug and I are going to try and get out more, so Chloe doesn't become too dependent on me when we are out places.  It's funny because while we are at home, she will just play with her toys all day, but then she is getting upset when we are out places.  Hopefully going out more will help.

For actual Valentines Day I made Doug some steak, a baked potato. and some broccoli.  

And we actually did gifts this year.  Doug bought me a knew wedding band (I won't get it until March, but I'm super excited!) and I bought him a new gaming headset and I also scanned all of his mission pictures to make a photobook with them.  It will be nice for our kids to have.

I read my friend Daylin's blog and her Mom had a great understanding of Valentines Day.  I really hope I can do that too.  She made it all about love between family and friends.  She would also buy them cute little gifts. I can't wait to start doing that for my kids!  Thanks Daylin's mom for the idea!

PS - I just made valentines cookies.  A day late, sure, but cookies are cookies :)

Christmas

Doug and I were so lucky this year and we were able to go to Delaware for Christmas!  It was super nice because my entire family was there.  It was the first time we ALL were together since Raina and Danny's wedding.

Travels TO Delaware
Doug, Chloe, and I flew out on December 21st with Destin and his girlfriend Chel.  We had a fun experience because our plane was delayed two hours.  Doug and I planned to be there and hour early, but then there was traffic so we left even earlier.  Well we ended up not hitting any traffic and then security only took us 5 minutes..10 tops.  We sat down and we were feeling good because we had no stresses and we only had to wait a couple hours for take off.  Then we notice the screen to our left and it says SLC to PHL 7:00pm.  We couldn't believe it!  So we hung out in the airport for 4 hours, and ate at Burger King twice.  Ridiculous!  Well Destin and Chel got to the airport around 5 or so and we all hung out until take off.  Doug and I were lucky because there wasn't anyone sitting with us in our row, so we were definitely comfy.

Delaware
Whenever we go to Delaware, we have certain foods we HAVE to get.  We always eat at Pat's and get a yummy cheese steak, we get a Wawa sub, and finally we get Rita's water ice.  We ate at Pat's 3 times while Doug was there, and he was only there for 6 days!  So worth every penny!

Charisse and Stephen got there with their girls the day after we got there and they are the cutest little girls!  They are such sisters and remind me of Raina and Me when we were little.  Clara just follows Sammi wherever she goes.  Sammi is a cute little independent girl with an amazing imagination!  And Clara is a little chunker that will eat anything you give her.  She also has a 6th sense for treats.  I thought Charisse was exaggerating when she told me that...but no....she totally does.

Maraina and Danny got there the next day and then everyone was there altogether.  It was really nice because Dalton had a break from school.  Last time we were altogether he had to be at lacrosse practice and school, so we could all actually hang out.

On Christmas Eve we had our usual Christmas Eve dinner...and it was delicious!  We acted out the Christmas story together as a family and it was pretty funny.  Chloe was baby Jesus, Destin and Chel were Mary and Joseph, Sammi was the Angel, Clara, Charisse and my Dad were the Wisemen, Doug, Raina, Danny, and I were the Shepherds, and Stephen was the narrator.  I think Dalton and my Mom were in charge of the music.  (I should have wrote this right after Christmas, because this is hard to remember.  haha.) After the Christmas story we opened our Christmas Eve presents.  My parents got us all these robot toys from Jou Jou (the toy store my brother helped design).  They were pretty neat because they came as four tubes and you cut them, then bent them and connected  them to make them into the final product.  Awful description, but cool anyway.  Doug and I got Chloe a cute pair of winter pajamas, and Charisse made Sammi and Clara adorable night gowns.

On Christmas day we found our stockings, had brunch and then went to church.  After church we opened the rest of our presents.  Overall the Christmas presents were pretty sweet.  Chloe even got to open presents...well we helped a lot.  haha.  I think my favorite present was the Kinect that Santa got for us.  I use it everyday...no lie.  After presents we had our usual Christmas party where the whole faux family comes over and brings all of their Christmas Eve left overs.  It was really fun to see everybody.

Doug had to leave the day after Christmas, so that sucked, but I had a good rest of the time I was there.  I got to meet up with one of my good friends from high school, Renae.  Usually when people say "yea let's get together!"  It doesn't ever happen.  So I was really glad that this worked out!  It was so nice to catch up!

Random Things I Did
Hung out with Chelsea
Went to the Christiana Mall
Went to Panang (delicious restaurant!)
Played Soccer
Watched Firefly (great show)
Played Golf - the card game
Puzzled
Relaxed
Had and AMAZING Baby Shower for Chloe - Thanks to everyone that helped with that and came!  I had so much fun!

On Our Way Back
Tuesday morning we left a little late to the airport and security was crazy long!  We only got 4 of the 6 of us on the flight.  Chloe is the only reason we were lucky to get 4 of us!  We definitely cut it close.  But I need to thank Danny for carrying all of my stuff while we ran through the airport.  I wish we had a camera..we looked ridiculous!  I was running with a baby in my arms.  Raina had a few bags and then Danny was running with my carry on, his carry on, I think on of Raina's bags, Chloe's diaper bag, and then Chloe's car seat.  I couldn't have made it without you two!  Thank you!


Random Pictures

Overall my trip was amazing!  I'm so glad that Doug was able to be there for a little bit of the  trip.  We were really worried that work wouldn't let him have time off...but they did!  I had a great two weeks at home.  Thanks Mom and Dad for making that happen!  We love you so much!