6 Month Well Check

I can't believe my baby is half a year old already.  She is such a little sweetheart and we love having her in our family so much.  She is a on the go baby and now not only rolls wherever she wants to go but she scoots on her tummy.  She is completely in love with toys.  So much more then Jack was at her age.  She works very hard to scoot across the floor to the various toys that Jack has left laying around.  She is such a squealer and makes a growling sound when she's excited.  She is so even tempered and has a very content disposition.  Here are her 6 month stats:
Weight: 13lbs 14oz (15th percentile); Height: 25 1/2 inches (45th %); OFC: 16 inches (5-10th percentile)  

Other May Happenings

On mother's day we went up to Honeyville for Sunday dinner and got to see these two cute little lambs.  Jack got to feed "Lily" a bottle which was pretty cool.  It was very nostalgic for me since I spent many a summer day feeding "bum" lambs when I was younger.  They still smell exactly the same way!

I just had to put this picture in since it makes me laugh so much.  It just really captures their little personalities right now.  Jack always has something up his sleeve, and Ella is always just seconds away from her next startle reflex. 

Ella and her cousin Brody.  He loves her so much!  But not enough to put his tractor down and hold her with two hands.  That boy loves his tractors!! 

Guess who loves rice cereal?  I feel like Ella is growing up so much faster than Jack did.  It's probably in part because I'm so much busier now then I was with just Jack, but it's partly because she really is.  She's such a strong little baby and now in addition to rolling constantly, she can scoot around the floor on her belly.

Maybe now that she can sit straight up in the bouncy seat I should find someplace new for her to sit. 

And of course we couldn't have warm weather without breaking out the pool.  This little set up kept him entertained for an hour all by himself.  It was pure kitchen cleaning heaven for me.  I love that smile of anticipation and his adventurous personality!  He is so funny and has me laughing constantly with all of the goofy things he says.  He was in his high chair eating the other morning and I had been upstairs getting ready.  When I walked into the kitchen he said "hey there cutie".  Then the other day he walked into the room and told me I looked "very distinguished".  Yesterday he told me he wants to learn to play the accordion.  Every time he says something like that it reminds me he watches too much TV.  He's speaks so well for a 2 year old!

Palisades

After nearly 8 years of being together, Steve and I agree on most things and can definitely finish each other's sentences, but that doesn't mean we're morphing into the same person.  A perfect case in point is when it comes to doing any kind of trip taking.  It's not that I don't like to go places and see new things, it just sounds like a whole lot of work and why put myself out when I'm perfectly happy at home.  Yes I'm a home-body married to someone who loves to get out and have a good time.  I'm a good sport though and try not to hold up his recreating, but we are 3 for 3 since March when it comes to having sick kids on our trips!  The end of May we decided to go to Palisades with our friends for a weekend camping trip, and of course it would follow that the night before we were leaving Jack spiked a 104 degree temperature.  Steve assures me I'm the queen of under reacting when it comes to sick kids, but this fever had me a little nervous.  It didn't break for a good 12 hours even with around the clock tylenol and motrin.  Friday morning he woke up just like his old self so we decided it was a fluke and packed up to hit the lake.  Long story short his fever came back that night and he wouldn't eat or drink since his throat hurt.  I falsly diagnosed him with strep but it turned out to be hand, foot, and mouth.  We haven't had that bug at our house before and it is not welcome back anytime soon.  It's a bad one!  Jack was a trooper and still had a great time camping.  He's a little tuffy.  We lucked out in the fact that no one else got sick!  So all in all it was a great weekend filled with fishing, relaxing, chatting, and for the boys, golfing.  Jack caught his first fish with his daddy's help which he calls a "flippin' fish".  He did not want to touch it and did not cave to peer pressure and kiss it.  His favorite part of camping though was the marshmallow.  He talked about cooking a marshmallow on the fire for days before and it did not disappoint.

We rented a little trailer to take camping since May is a little cold for a tiny baby and loved camping without roughing it too much.