November 3, 2012

11 months young

Shelby turned 11 months young on November 29th and I swear she's getting busier and busier every day. I wanted to take note of some of her accomplishments thus far and some of her "stats".

Weight - 18.5 lbs
Height - 29 inches
Head - 17 inches
Diapers - Size 2
Clothes - 9 months
Shoes - Size 4

She still only has her 2 bottom front teeth but I'm expecting her to get more soon because she's been gnawing on everything lately...more-so than usual anyways. She is still sleeping through the night; usually around 10 or so hours, sometimes more. She is taking at least one 2-hour nap a day and sometimes I can get her to take a second one depending on when she takes her first one. Those only last about an hour but it's a nice break. She puts herself to sleep now at night-time and for her naps.

She wakes up every morning in a good mood and gets SO excited when we come into her room to get her out of her crib. She holds onto the side of her crib and bounces up and down with the BIGGEST smile ever. It's the best way to start a morning. It's always nice to see someone excited to see you, lol.

Things she does:
 - WALK! (she's been walking since 10 months)
 - Dance on command and will dance to any sort of music
 - Wave hello and goodbye (been doing this since 6 months-ish)
 - Signs "all done" when she's done eating
 - Can get in and out of the bathtub by herself
 - Can climb onto our rocking chairs and couch by herself
 - Climbs stairs with ease and also goes down them with ease too
 - Find your nose
 - Gimme five

Things she "says":
 - Mom
 - Dada
 - Mumum (for snacks)
 - Manana (banana)
 - Dank (thank you)
 - Poppop (popcorn from the popcorn popping song)

Things she loves:
 - Peaches (her favorite food)
 - Avocado
 - Scrambled Eggs
 - Orange Juice
 - Her fuzzy blanket
 - Pears
 - Bananas
 - Mangoes
 - Bath time
 - Books (her alphabet book, Dr. Seuss books and butterfly garden book)
 - Yogurt melts and puffs


My how time flies. I can't believe it's almost been a year!! Just a month away and our little one will be smashing a cupcake through her little fingers and all over her face. I can't wait!!

Such a personality she has!

I can't believe she's so big already...stop growing up so fast!

November 1, 2012

Shelby's 1st Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
(so I'm a day late...forgive me!)

This is our first year as a family celebrating Halloween. To be honest I'm not really the biggest fan of this holiday...it's just become too creepy and gory for my liking; not to mention all the robberies and shootings that go on during the evening that I heard about on the news today. It's so sad that some people have to turn a fun kids holiday into something so ridiculous. I mean...who really wants to see a "hot nurse" or a "Chippendale" walking down the street? NOT ME!

Ok ok...I'll get off my soap box. Just had to get that out there...but I'm sure there are quite a few people who would have to agree with me. 

This year we were able to go down to Chehalis the weekend before Halloween to attend my parents ward harvest party; pretty much another way to say Halloween party. It was a lot of fun and it was cute seeing all the little kids dressed up in their costumes. Zebra's, lady bugs, flowers, bumble bees and dinosaurs filled the carnival like games to win treats. Shelby was the lady bug, I actually didn't see another one there; go Shelby!


SO STINKIN' CUTE!!!

We were able to carve a couple pumpkins and get some fun pictures.



Yummm...pumpkin seeds!

Little helping hands.
My finished product.


Happy Halloween from our little family!

At one point in time Shelby must have gotten bored so Mima (my mom) followed her into the front room where she found her standing on one of their kid sized chairs. Shelby noticed Mima just as she was about to snap the picture and decided to sit down quickly. She got caught!

We've been trying to teach her how to sit in chairs because her favorite thing right now is standing in the chairs and dancing or bouncing up and down. It's not working too well but we've got time, haha!

Uh oh...got caught!
This is what she likes to do...

This is what we want her to do...haha!!
As my dad always use to say "fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing." Yup...maybe she'll decide to properly sit in the chair on her own. We might have as much luck with that as we would winning the lottery, haha!!