Our baby Girl is 9-months-old

8-months-old

I can't believe it! Last week our little Mylee turned 9-months-old!

I took her in today for her 9-month checkup and here are her stats:

Length= 26 inches which is in percentile 5
Weight= 15 pounds which is below percentile 5

Still tiny. Doctor doesn't seem to worried because she is growing but just at a slower rate. If she drops below her progress line, at all next checkup, he said they will have to run some test, but if she stays steady she will be fine...I'm not to worried because I think she is going through a growth spurt right now - she is eating a lot! :)

Here are some other things about Mylee:
-Still doesn't sleep through the night - usually wakes up 2 or 3 times.
-says "dada" all the time, no mama yet :(
-Can hold her balance while standing (without holding onto anything)
-crawls on all fours
-Still wearing 3-6 month clothes
-Still in size 1-2 size diapers
-Loves to eat what everyone else is eating
-Still only take a 4 oz. bottle at a feeding
-Loves to watch Toy Story 2 with Austin (I know I am horrible, I let her)
-No teeth yet
-Doesn't laugh much, except at Austin
-Is VERY tickleish (that's the only way I can get her to laugh)
-Is a very content baby.
-Still takes 2 (1/2-1hr) naps a day
-Has found her voice - likes to scream
-She likes to crawl up to me and climb all over me (but gives me a big hug while she does it).

We are really bless to have such a sweet baby girl! She has been such a wonderful addition to our family. I can't get over her beautiful blue eyes...which she got from her daddy (she looks so much like him). I can already tell she is going to be a daddy's girl.
Here are some pictures from the past couple months:

Daddy's girl

doesn't like the grass much - she trys to keep both legs up when she sits on it.

Asleep in her playstation...I know it's gross (after I saw the pictures I cleaned it really good) We have to feed her in this or her bumbo chair because she is to small for a high chair.

her 7-month collage

A little side note: While I waited for the doctore to come in (only 30 minutes) I measured Austin...fully dressed he weight: 31 lbs. 6 oz. and he is about 38 1/2 inches tall - he is such a big kid!!! If I did it right that puts him Length = above percentile 95 Weight = between percentile 50 and 75. I sure hope he stays tall! :)

Mylee & Khloee - Best Friends

I had the chance to watch my cute little niece, Khloee this weekend while her parents went camping (after out last attempt to camp, I don't blame them for not wanting to take her). I was so excited to have her the whole weekend...than Aaron told me he was leaving for Montana and I would be all alone with the babies and a 2-year-old. I was still excited but a little nervous, until Jan (my wonderful mother-in-law) told me she was wanted to take Austin for the weekend while they went to a baseball tournment. I figured Austin would love to watch baseball all weekend and be with his grandparents so I said yes!

So it was going to be an all girl's weekend (I had my sister's dog Spice, too). :)

We had so much fun! It was so cute watching the girls play together. I had to run to the store Friday night and everyone thought they were twins...and I got a lot of, "oh cute!" comments!

Saturday night we painted toenails and watched Twilight (well the girls fell asleep and it was just Austin and I - he came home early).

Here are some pictures:

Khloee & Mylee playing outside

Thought this was so cute

They crawl the same
Getting into trouble together while I try to edit pictures

Khloee - who wouldn't love a face like that! :)

Playing in a bubble bath

I think Khloee likes her picture taken

As you can tell from the pictures the girls LOVE playing together! I am glad my sister trusted me with Khloee and I would take her again in a heartbeat! :) I just wish they lived closer to us (Utah isn't far but it's far enough I can't see this little sweetie everyday).

Thanks Cyndee for letting Mylee play with Khloee all weekend!! We miss her already!

Swimming Time

My sister and her baby came of from Utah this week to spend some time with me and the kids (which I was very happy about since Aaron ended up leaving for Montana for a week).

We decided to set up Austin's baby pool from last year and let the kids play...well they didn't seem to interested in the baby pool and the setup process took longer than the actually play time! :)

Mylee

Khloee & Austin

Khloee

This is Mylee's new way to crawl....on all four!

We ended up taking the kiddos to Ross Park Pool the next day - forgot my camera so there isn't any pictures. We went with our sister-in-law, Danielle and her boys too. We had a lot of fun with them (it's a good thing Danielle brought her sister Sarah along...we were pretty outnumbered by the kids) :)

Take Me Out To The Ball Game...

Monday was the Idaho Falls Chukars opening game and Aaron's parents have season tickets so they were nice enough to let us tag along! Even though the Chukars lost we still had fun and enjoyed the fireworks after the game!

Austin enjoyed being with his Grandparents and Mylee loved all the food! :) (it's amazing how more relaxed you are with your second kid...I would have never let Austin try all of this food before he was 1).

Austin & Grandpa

Mylee slept through the start of the game...so cute!

I think this little girl will have daddy wrapped around her finger! :)

Austin & Aaron


Mylee and Grandma

The Chukar mascot, Austin, and Aaron

(Austin wouldn't stop talking about the bird so Aaron took him to see it and he was scared)

If you can't tell Mylee is eating cotton candy with Grandma!

No Lions, No Tigers, 1 Bear???

We decided to go check out the Pocatello Zoo for Father's Day (since I was doing a photo session at Ross Park already). It took us a total of about 30 minutes to walk the whole zoo...if you can even call it a "zoo"! What kind of zoo has NO lions, No tigers, and 1 bear?

We were all pretty disappointed...

Sorry for the lack of pictures....but there wasn't ANYTHING to photograph - oh wait there were some goats and a donkey!!! :)

The BIG 2-7!!!

Thanks right Aaron is now 27! His birthday was yesterday and once again I can call him an "old fart" because he is older than me...but only for 6 more months! :)

For his birthday he wanted a baseball cake (I know I was shocked - no golf?), so this is what I made for him:

He has been asking for a basketball hoop for a year now...so I went together with his parents and we got him one. I am sure I will be posting pics later (along with the home improvements we have been doing and his "man-cave" I have yet to share).

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer (well 2 days of sunshine isn't really a summer but I'll take what I can get!) :)

"Lions and Tigers and Bears"

"Oh my!"

We decided since our camping trip got ruined that we would take the kids to the Tautphaus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls. It's no San Diego zoo but it was kind of nice to see the whole place within an hour!

Austin's favorite part was the Lions. He got all excited and yelled, "Simba!" - his new favorite movie is The Lion King...so every Lion was Simba.

Mylee's favorite was the little monkeys - she sat up in the stroller, got wide-eyed and just grinned at them (pretty cute). She also liked the penguins.
Here are some pics:

"Simba!"

Mylee checking out the monkeys

Austin and Mylee

Looking at the penguins

Austin cried and cried to go see this guy and when we went to see him he wouldn't even touch him, he was scared of him. My son is a little weenie! :) Aaron had to force Austin to touch him!

12 hr. Camping

Yeap that's right we took a camping trip and it only lasted 12 hours. I think it took me longer to pack! :)

My Grandma planned this fun family camping trip this past weekend and we were all excited to go. We (Me, Aaron, Austin, Mylee, my sister Cyndee, her husband Steve, and daughter Khloee) borrowed the in-laws motor home and jet skis and packed for a 3 days of fun....well after a crappy nights sleep and horrible weather we packed up and headed for home after only 12 hours. We figured it wouldn't be to fun with 3 babies and 4 adults stuck all day in the motor home :( I was bummed! I did get a few pictures from the one night we did camp (if you can call it camping).

Mylee on the ride there

Austin being Daddy's Co-pilot

The best part of camping (S'mores)

Austin wanted nothing to do with them

he just wanted to eat the chocolate.

Khloee liked the Crackers.

My sister Cyndee roastin the mallows

Khloee and Mylee - so cute!

Trying to get 3 kids to sleep while we tried to play card games.

Didn't work - we ended up quiting the game and going to bed.

We didn't even get to see the rest of my mom's side of the family that showed up on Saturday.

Hopefully next time the trip will be a sucess!

A Fun Memorial Weekend

This past weekend we went and spent time with my sister and her family down in Utah. Boy did we have tons of fun!!

We got there Friday afternoon so Aaron and Steve (brother-in-law) could do some golfing. Cyndee and I (with the two babies and Austin) made a trip to Hobby Lobby (Love that place).

That night we spent at a school function for the boys (Blake and Cade)...The kids played on some big blowup and then had a fun performance at the end. Austin had so much fun going down the big slide with Cade. He also discovered he likes playground slides (he hated them last year).

Mylee likes to swing

Mylee also likes playing with her cousin Khloee

Austin enjoyed hanging out with the boys.

Saturday Aaron and Steve took the kids and Cyndee and I got to go to Park City...KIDLESS! We haven't done that in a couple of years, it was WONDERFUL! :)

That night we took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese...I had never been before. I think I was more excited than the kids!

Sunday we spent the day at Lagoon...

Mylee's very first ride and she LOVED it!

Austin got to ride a couple of kiddie rides and liked it.

We are so glad that Cyndee invited us down for the weekend,

we really had a blast with her and the family!

When we went to park city we bought the girls matching outfits.

We had some looks and a couple people ask if they were twins.

This is a picture I took on the ride home. Mylee was being so good (she usually HATES car rides). I looked back and this is why....

She has gotten in the diaper bag and pulled out the Twizzlers! She was one happy girl!

We had a wonderful weekend!!! I wish Cyndee and Steve lived closer...I am going to cry when Steve gets transferred (he serves in the Air Force).

A big thank you to him for serving our country!