Busy Body

Our little girl is growing up WAY TOO FAST!! She has been crawling for several weeks and can get into anything and everything she wants. Shelves, cabinets, drawers are no longer out of reach for her :-) I now have every bottom shelf, drawer, cabinet, or anything reachable is now kid friendly.... All things she can pull out and play with. She loves pulling things out of my drawers, pantry and baskets!! Which means there is absolutely nothing on my floor and it is swept daily!! If there is one crumb or leaf or anything she will find it!!

Just today she has learned to pull up and stand on her own. She has been trying for awhile and today she accomplished it. When I saw her pull up to a standing position, I was both excited and scared. Excited she did it and scared she was going to fall!! Our little girl has no concept of gravity, falling, or the fact that when she is 5 feet off the ground she can't just crawl off.

here are pics of her today





Niah is getting ready to leave for her family vacation. But for now mommy has to leave because she is getting into her suitcase and rearranging :-)

Crawling!!

Our baby is CRAWLING all over the place. Niah gets up and goes and is into everything :-) Her curious mind takes her to doors, drawers, and cabinets. She loves to get into anything and pull stuff out, right now it is the cutest thing. Probably 3 months from now I will not think so. She is also sitting up from lying down. !!

Not only is Niah doing all of these things for a couple weeks but yesterday she figured out that she can sit up and crawl her in crib. I lay her down she crawls to the head of the bed and sits up and looks straight in the camera and smiles, like she knows. Bedtime has now gone to me constantly going into her room and laying her down. I am hoping with much persistance she will get it. The books, magazines, and good left out all kinds of important things like what to do when your baby HATES her carseat, when she sits up in her crib, when she does not want to pick up food with her hand but will eat it out of spoon, or when she does not like food at all! I guess I can tell those things :-)

We have been very busy the last few weeks but next weekend I am hoping that it will be a quiet weekend at home doing little jobs around the house and cleaning. Matthew has been on all kinds of projects for everyone else and I told him it was my turn next week :-) Good news is he was more than willingly agreed. I have a few pinterest ideas, this being one of them
Then after next weekend is VACATION!! Hot, bright sun, sandy beaches, and yummy food. What more could a girl ask for

Christmas and New Years

Our family has had an extremely busy December. It seems that the month went by way too fast and very soon I will have to sadly take down our christmas decorations.

Matthew and I truly enjoyed celebrating with Niah on her first Christmas. She started to get the hang of the opening presents and even got excited when she saw inside! Niah got puffs in her stocking and has tried them for the first time. She loves puffs but is still working on trying to get them in her mouth. She has a hard time releasing them, she wants to suck on it from her hand.
Here is a picture of Niah and Kyah opening presents

Here is Kyah and Niah playing with their toys



Niah brought in the new year with her best friend and cousin, Kyah. Niah gets so excited and loves to play with Kyah, it is adorable. I learned it takes a very planned woman to have twins as I was watching Kyah New Year's Eve. Niah did not like to see her mommy putting another baby to sleep either. Thankfully, both girls are great babies and the night was relatively smooth!
Here are the girls on New Years


Niah has been a busy girl this last month and has accomplished plenty. Niah now gets up on all fours on a regular basis, but does not crawl YET. She can now sit up from a laying down position. Niah thinks she can walk on her own but she is not quite there yet. She will push your hands off of you while standing up. She is also starting to pull up on the furniture to stand. She is liking food more and more. We can now eat our serving in 15 mins instead of 30 or 40 min. Our little girl is growing.... WAY too fast :-)

No more sleeping through the night

Niah starting sleeping through the night at 3 weeks old. She would go to bed at 10 pm and not wake up till after 9 am. She did this till she was around 6 months and then all of sudden when she woke up there was no more going back to sleep on her own. There was also less sleep for me. We have been working on different ways to go back to sleep on our own. Usually, I just need to go in her room and rub her belly till she goes to sleep, no problem. It is really cute (maybe not at 4 am but the next day thinking about it) Niah wakes up crying and as soon as she sees us she smiles, ear to ear. Research tells me the problem when a child grasp object permanence it is common to wake up in the night and miss there parents and know they are not there. I guess I will have a few disturbed nights sleep till she understands and realize that we are there in the house.

Niah tried avocados. It took at least 4 times before she ate a full serving but now she likes them, I think :-) We moved on to green beans, she makes very funny faces but does eat all of them. Next we will try carrots. We are working on eating twice a day 1 oz of cereal in the morning for the iron, 2 oz of veggies in the evening. She does not always want to eat 2 times a day but I figure let her eat what she will and just try at both meal times. Eventually she will get use to eating 2 meals and then we can progress from there.

Niah is very mobile now! She scoots and rolls across the living room. I look up and she is in the living room, then in the kitchen, on one side of the room, and then the next! I love watching her try to get her legs under her to actually crawl.

Niah helped me wrap presents tonight, her favorite christmas activity so far. I let her unroll the paper and play with the extra cut off paper. She sat next to me laughing and playing the whole time.

My busy girl

Niah has become quite the busy girl. She wants to be doing what everyone else is doing and be apart of everything. She will reach and grab for everything, gets very mad when you do not let her have it. One night we were playing sequence and she was sitting on my lap and she was fussing and mad because I would not let her have my cards. So we gave her a joker card and she was happy the rest of night... She felt like she was playing. At work I can give her a paper and she will play with that paper for atleast an hour. This is her at work playing!!



Niah started eating sweet potatoes on thur. night She was a little unsure of them. And made a few very funny faces but she has been dying to try food.

Here is Niah working on drinking from a sipping cup, with a little help she does a great job!!


Finally I had to show you how adorable she was for Halloween as a lady bug. You can not see her so cute red with black polka dot legwarmers but she had them on!!

Going to sleep on our own

For a few weeks now, I have been working with Niah to go to sleep on her own. Now, I did this for her own good to learn good sleep habits because trust me it is one of my favorite things to do is to rock my baby to sleep. I did not want her to shed a tear in the process. I can not say that not one tear has not been shed but it has been only a few. That is why it has taken weeks to get there and 90% of the time she goes to sleep on her own with out a tear. I get Niah drowsy and then I lay her down, she does a fussy talk and I go in every 3-5 mins to calm her down and then leave. She now goes to sleep within ten mins. It is the cutest thing to listen to. She starts out talking really loud and gets quiter and quiter until she is asleep.
Here she is after she goes to sleep. She is my child has to have a blanket to go to sleep... We get cold



Now I can't say I never rock her to sleep since we started this because sometimes a baby just needs to be rocked to sleep. Tonight was one of those nights, she had been fussy most of the afternoon and it seemed she did not feel good so she was rocked to sleep. I love my little girl!!

Christmas List

As Niah is my child and completely enjoy the holidays. We spent last week decorating for Fall and Thanksgiving.
Here are a few pics of our decor.

As we were decorating I began to inform her of the most wonderful holiday of all time.... CHRISTMAS!! I told her about how Santa is not real but it is fun to pretend and that on Christmas morning he brings good little children presents. We read the bible together every day so I told her about the Christmas story, the christmas lights, and the presents. So we came up with a Christmas list!!

From Daddy, Niah wants a homemade white toy box... we thought he should know now so he can start building.

From Mommy... Niah thought she was not quite ready for her kitchen set or doll house so, Niah decided to leave it up to Mommy what would be the perfect gift :-)

From everyone else she is hoping for more story books.... Niah loves reading stories with mommy everyday and she is tired of the ones she has. She likes books with textures and books she can not rip the pages. Here are other ones we like from looking at the library




Niah started eating cereal this week. She is not real sure of it but gets better eating everyday. She insisted on drinking her milk afterward. Here is a picture her while she is eating.