Rolling Over

Amelia has started to roll over! She has also started playing with her toys...which just a few weeks ago she had no interest. It has been fun driving down the road and hear Amelia playing with her keys and talking as she does so. She is going to be a talker!! She hates tummy time now a days but she has started to roll so she doesn't get as mad as she used to since she doesn't have to stay on her tummy long. Once I get video of her rolling over I will add it to this post! She is doing so well!!

Amelia's First Easter!!

Easter came early this year, but that did not stop us from celebrating the birth of our Savior. I read the Easter story to Amelia that day and Rob and I took her to church for the very first time in her life!!! She is 7 months old and finally attending church! Here are some photos of her on Easter in her first Easter dress before church! She is still so little that she can fit in her Easter basket! She is so cute! I can't believe how big she is getting! She weighed in at 11 pounds last week. It is amazing!! I am so grateful for the blessings we have received! Amelia is a miracle and we are blessed!

First Vegetable

Amelia's pediatrician had indicated that after Amelia has had rice cereal a few times that I could start introducing orange and yellow fruits and vegetables. Yesterday was that day! I decided to go with carrots since they are a great vegetable and they have a lot of vitamins that Amelia needs. Anyway, I pull out the carrots and give her her first bite...she spit it out immediately. I didn't think much of this since the first time I had given her rice cereal she had spit it out. I go to give her her next bite, and she was having none of it. She clamped her mouth shut. So of course I start to chuckle because I'm pretty stubborn with eating certain foods too. I put the spoon down and she opened up, I quickly put the spoon into her mouth. This was her response.

Yeah, I know funny huh? I was trying not to laugh really hard. I get her calmed down, and then start to feed her again...the same response. WOW! I never thought carrots would be so hated! I, of course, am talking to her about how great carrots are and she just has this pleading look on her face...begging me to never feed her carrots again.

Isn't that the saddest face? I put the carrots away for the night. Well today, I decided we would give it one more go just to be sure. She ate the carrots!!!! In fact she ate almost the entire container!!! She likes them, she really likes them! I just hope she is more open to new foods next week when I introduce sweet potatoes!

Liz, you are correct...it is a ball feeding her for the first time...I wonder if I pulled the same faces when I was a baby!

Amelia's First Road Trip!

So we went down to Colorado this past weekend because my baby brother Kyle was being ordained to be an Elder (I know for all of you who have known us since Kyle was born...it's weird). Anyway, we weren't too excited about the trip since we were going to be driving and we weren't sure how Amelia would do. Well...she slept most of the way there, only waking up to eat. She did, however, wake up half an hour before we got to my mom's screaming because she was done being in her seat.

The driving there was not bad since she slept most of the way. It was strange trying to figure out when the best time to stop would be, but she did great, waiting for us to stop before she woke up. She is such a great baby!! Then comes the hotel...so she had been constipated for a few days (I'm sure she is going to love this when she is a teenager!) and I had given her juice everyday but nothing was happening...until I laid her on the hotel bed to play with Rob. EVERYWHERE!!!!! It was hilarious! We had to strip the sheets, put her in the sink to be washed up. The whole thing was just funny.

Rob gave her a quick bath in the sink (as I said above) and Kelly, Jason, Rob and I laughed pretty hard since she is a bit too big to be taking baths in the sink. Not only that but it was the first of 4 explosions that day. WOW! We better lay off the juice!

This was the first time Kyle had seen Amelia and I had him feeding her for me. He is such a great uncle! Amelia loves her Uncle Kyle!

Our trip home was pretty uneventful as well. She slept most of the way...then about 20 minutes from home she got mad. After we got home and unloaded the van, Rob and I put her back in her car seat (to which she was completely opposed) and went to his mom's for a visit. His mom lives 5 minutes away and Amelia screamed the entire time! WOW! It was a fun trip overall.

6 Months Old & 10 Pounds!!

Our sweet baby girl is growing up! Amelia is 10 times her birth weight! I proudly proclaimed that at her 6 months appointment after she weighed in. Okay, so she is a little less than that since she was 1 lb 10 oz. But still...close enough!! She is doing so well that we are not allowed to attempt to feed her rice cereal! To say the least, it has been fun just watching her facial expressions and how she responds to eating. On the second day of rice cereal, she grabbed the spoon from Rob and started to try to feed herself! It was quite amusing! She gets these funny looks on her face during the first bite, but then she warms up to it! Here are some photos that capture the day! I can't believe how much she is growing and all the things she is accomplishing! I'm so grateful to have this beautiful little girl in my life and that I am the one that gets to be her mom. What a wonderful blessing!