6-7 Months

I'm behind on blogging. Again. I just don't have the motivation for it, but I want to keep going because I like keeping a record of things.

So, here goes another catch-up post.

Sophie is now 8 months old, but I'll just cover months 6-7 here.

6 month pictures:

Can you tell I'm losing motivation for these pictures too? I didn't even wait to get a smile!

7 month pictures:

I know I say this all the time (as does every other parent) but she is really growing up so fast!

She loves to stand! We hold her hands for her and she thinks she is so big, it's adorable.

She babbles all the time now. She even says her first word, but I'll save that for the 8 month post :)

When she gets a hold of a new object, she goes through the same routine to make sure it's acceptable. First she will hold it and stare at it. Then she'll rotate it in her hands repeatedly, flipping it over and over. Next, she brings it to her lips, then back to look at it, then back to the lips, then back to look at it... (this step usually takes the longest). Then she brings it into her mouth, licks it, then brings it back to look at it, and repeats that a few times. Once she has deemed it safe, she chews and sucks on it until it is sufficiently covered in drool. What a weirdo :)

She learned how to sit up all by herself! She went from not being able to hold herself up at all, to propping herself up on her hands (see below), to fully sitting up all in about a day. Babies are such quick learners!

She is learning how to crawl. She learned how to scooch herself forward on her belly when she was 7 months old, but in the past week or so she can get into crawling position (she just doesn't know how to move forward yet!) The cutest part is that whenever she "crawls" she giggles the entire time, like she's having a blast!

She loves my hair. A lot. We're hoping she'll get her own one day, but for now she's still a baldy!

Back in August (at age 6 months) she cut her first tooth! She was fussy for about an hour and that was it. Then about 2 days later she cut another, with no fussing at all. I tried to get a picture of her tiny little teeth, but it was harder said than done...

You can kind of see them here...

I'll have to try again now that they've grown in a lot more.

I decided to finally take a picture of what she looks like when she cries. She doesn't full-on cry a ton, but when she does her whole face and eyes get red and splotchy. Is that normal?!

These are some of my favorite pictures of her recently. She's so silly :)

She's grown so much lately! I think the thing I've noticed the most is her level of comprehension. She just seems to be much more aware and she understands so much more around her. It's so neat to watch her stare at something and try to make sense of it. I love it!

I am so excited. This little beauty just came in the mail today...

It's the Breville Juice Fountain Plus. We just used it for the first time and made some delicious grape-apple juice. I can't wait to start experimenting with this thing...

LOL :)

Pinterest

I was kind of skeptical of pinterest at first, but now I love it. It's so fun to browse through crafty ideas and yummy recipes. I've noticed a lot of people use it more as a place to daydream - you know, "pin" things that they know they won't ever have. While that's great and all, I try to be a little more practical.

I've actually gotten some pretty good ideas from it!

For starters, I found these oreo truffles...

They were so good and we even made them for my brother's wedding. I also found a recipe for rolo cupcakes, which Lexi and I tried out...

While I didn't like the cake itself on these, the caramel buttercream was amazing. I have made a few other recipes that I've found and they are delicious!

I'm not usually a crafty person, but pinterest has inspired me :) I made this birds nest necklace..

It's not near as cute as the example, but considering I did it in under 5 minutes, I think it turned out ok.

I also found this cute idea...

I made this "can of dates" for Jonny, and it's full of different, cheap date ideas. This isn't the actual can I made, mine didn't turn out as cute (I told you I wasn't crafty...)

Anywho. Just wanted to share my newest obsession with you all :)

Our New Apartment

We moved into our apartment in Logan back in May, but it feels like we just barely settled in. We have been going back and forth from Logan to Highland to Provo for the past few months, so hopefully we can stay put for a while!

Now that we are a little more settled I decided to take pictures of our new place. We really like it so far. It has a pool (which we haven't used) and a gym, which I am proud to say I have been to multiple times! And there is a playground, which will be fun when Soph gets a little older.

We'll start out in the back of the apartment, which happens to be the ugliest :) We put all of our pictures/home decor in the front of the apartment, where it can be seen. And considering the fact that this is just another temporary home, we don't feel the need to go waste money on decorations for our bedroom/bathroom.


So here is our bedroom, bare walls and all...

This is the biggest bedroom we've had, by far, which only makes it look that much more empty without anything on the walls

And then we head into the master bathroom...
(Notice the bar stool at the desk. Yep, we're classy like that)

We have a walk-in closet, which I love..

When you come down the hall a bit you'll hit the guest bathroom..

See? This looks much cuter. The colors even match! :)

Then across from the bathroom is Sophie's room...

We bought her a changing table, which we really like. It's much easier to change diapers on there than on the floor.

And I absolutely love her crib! We got it for a great deal!

I spent forever looking for crib bedding, and only found 1 set that I really liked (that wasn't ridiculously expensive). I'm glad I spent so much time looking though, because I love what I ended up with!

When you walk down the hall there are some storage closets, and this adorable picture of Sophie :)

And then the kitchen...

The one thing I don't like about this apt is that there is a hallway kitchen. It's extra-wide so it doesn't really feel like a hallway, but I wish there was more counter space.

I love the cabinets though, it is nice to finally not have cabinets that can give you splinters :)

My favorite part of this apartment is right through these doors...

A washer and dryer! We got these for such a good deal, and I love them. No more laundry mats, and no more doing laundry at our parents' houses.

After we leave the kitchen we enter the family room (and there is our front door)

As you can tell from looking out the glass doors, we live on the first floor. I love not having to climb stairs with a baby!

There is still some empty wall space here, but again, I don't want to go buy a bunch of stuff for a temporary apartment.

And that's pretty much it! Hope you enjoyed the tour :)