the latest...

alana started sitting up on her own...it's so cute, if she starts to lean a little too far to one side, she'll just put her nand down & catch herself (most of the time :)....good job baby.
oh, and we've moved on to feeding her carrots...which was kinda fun for her yesterday (the 1st day) & now, not only is she not wanting them anymore...she doesn't want rice cereal anymore after the first couple of "bites". it was stressing me out so i looked up what you're supposed to do when your baby doesn't want to eat from a spoon and it said to just be consistent and keep trying every day & they'll eventually "get it". the fact that she's teething doesn't help matters either. i think i might try something one website said to do & feed her using my finger as the spoon. so, that's gonna be my strategy for tomorrow. ugggghhhh, i wish we could just skip straight to bananas! ha. wish us luck!
oh yeah...this was her after attempting to feed her for about 10-15 minutes....if you can call trying everything to get her to open her mouth & then watch it drip down her chin onto her bib, feeding. i finally just put some on the spoon & gave it to her to see what happened. probably not the best "mom of the year" moment. :) hey, she thought it was fun.

green thumbs, i hope.

after 2 days of prep work for our garden...it's finally done!

(just ignore me in that pic...i was as tried as i looked). heh.






ta da!

back at it...

dance class, that is...i can't believe it's been almost a year!

alana's 6 month update (6 days late)...

baby nana, you're officially 1/2 way to being 1 year old...and now i know exactly what the phrase "not enough hours is the day" means! the days go by so fast and i can barely keep up. you had your 6 month appt. last week and here are your stats: you're about 25 inches tall (about 25%-30%) and you're only 12.5 lbs (1%). i felt so bad when we left the hospital...i felt like i've been starving you. i mean, you eat very often throughout the day...just not for a long time each time you eat. you just like to snack & your weight shows it. so, we're going back in 1 month to get weighed and in the mean time, i borrowed auntie kimmy's breast pump to help increase my milk supply & so that i can keep track of how much your getting. you're still nursing the ol' fashioned way, which you WAY prefer, but i think you think drinking from a bottle is kinda fun. OH, and the girls think it's fun cuz they got to hold you and feed you the other night...daddy too. you also started eating rice cereal (which i add "boob milk" to) and you're starting to like that more every day...you just need to practice opening your mouth and not look down while i feed you so that i can get more inside your mouth and less on your face & chest. you're pretty good for a beginner though. :) something else i noticed you doing the other day is pouting your lips out...and i remembered your sisters doing that when they were getting a tooth, so i looked in your mouth to see that you're getting your 1st tooth (bottom right). let's see, what else have you been up too...oh yeah, you're sitting up with a little help from your boppy pillow & when i put you down for tummy time last week, you started pushing up on your hands and off your knees (that's hard to describe...i'll have to get a pic). also, you're really into your toys now. every day your personality gets cuter and cuter and you smile SO much...you melt my heart. please stop growing up so fast...i really can't believe you're 6 months old already. we love you so much, my love.

what a day!

our day started off taking the girls to school... leia and i dropped kaia off and then headed to her pre-school where they had snow blown into the sandbox (like they do every year around this time) & then as if that wasn't enough excitement, we found out that the chicken eggs in her classroom hatched early this morning...so, she got to see some newborn chicks. so cute! leia's SUCH an animal lover that, i'm not kidding, she could have stood next to that cage the chicks were in & watched them all day. her teacher told them that they might be able to hold them on thursday. she's gonna be in 7th heaven!
here's leia standing by the snow...the weather's been so nice here, the snow's probably not gonna last long!
and here's leia next to those adorable babies...
then, we got the call from the escrow company telling us that our closing escrow papers are ready to sign...so we got kaia out of school a little early and all 5 of us drove down to temecula to sign the papers...that was an experience! ha! :) so, we're almost at the end of this almost 10 month long house buying process! we should officially close on the house by thursday & the best part is...we don't have to move since we're buying the house we've been renting for the last 1 1/2 years. hey, when we moved into this house i told derek we're never moving again...i didn't think that was true though! well, i'm sure this won't be the last house we ever live in, but we won't be moving for a LONG time! whew!

ahhhh....food.

yep...alana's 6 months old today & she officially tried rice cereal for the first time. i have to say, it went better than expected...she actually seemed to like it a little.
p.s.~a video's coming soon! :)

Dedication day

alana had family dedication day at church yesterday, here are some pics from the day...






as you can see, alana was way more interested in the fountain than attempting to get a family pic! :)

lately...

i've been an awful blogger lately. life is going faster than i can keep up with & this time change really makes the last couple of days seem to fly by! just thought i'd post a few quick pics before march is over. i can't believe it's spring!
alana...almost 6 months old...