officially 4 months!

I didn't try to take pictures on her official 4 month date until about 7 at night. Cody was gone (checking our future house in Enoch for any flooding) and she wanted to play, not sit in her bumbo or do tummy time :)

"OH hey!"

Some playtime with daddy: She sure loves that daddy!

We went to visit my friend and her baby that is one month younger than Arlee. When we had them facing eachother, Arlee started smiling really big at Kaylee. She does this evertime she meets another baby. She's our sweet friendly girl!

3.5 months

I can't believe how much Arlee is changing everyday. These last 2 weeks she has gone through so many phases and they go so fast! 2 weeks ago at her blessing she was still sticking out her lizard-long tongue like crazy, but then she abruptly stopped. I think the Mortensens taught her how to talk LOUD. Sunday night she started talking loud to Grandpa Andy and then all week everything that came out of her mouth was LOUD! it was so funny. When she'd play under her activity gym, it was like her toys had cotton in their ears and she was trying to get their attention. She's also been rolling on her sides a lot and she doesn't hate tummy time anymore! A big Woot Woot! So I think the rolling over will come soon. She's been looking for something to naw on (usually its our fingers or hands) so we got her a teether. She can hang on to it and usually hold it in her mouth. She really likes it. Oh and she LOVES her play gym. She quickly figure out how to grasp onto the toys. She can hold one in each hand and pull them around and make her little sun make its noises. Lately she has been holding onto the toys with her hands and playing with the other toys with her feet. The last two days she has been sucking on her bottom lip, making gurgling noises and blowing bubbles. She has also figured out how to just suck on two of her fingers instead of her whole fist. Oh my goodness, watching all her changes makes me so proud to be her mommy. It also makes me sad that she is growing so fast. She now eats about every 3 hours (until evening time when she wants to eat more often). And she eats pretty fast now...Only about 20 min. tops. I was worried at first, but she keeps gaining weight and she never acts hungry after so she has just gotten to be a quick eater like her Daddy. My pregnancy seems like such a long time ago, and it is crazy to think about a time when I didn't know her and get to see her sweet smile. I am so grateful for our little darling.

She really likes to hang onto us these days and will search and reach out until she makes contact.

4 Months!

As Cody says, I can't believe Arlee is not our "itty bitty" anymore. She really is getting so big and discovering new things everyday. She has discovered her toes. She puts her feet together and plays with them, reaches for her toes (She can almost get them to her mouth), and pushes her feet up against the play gym. As soon as you take her diaper off to change her, her feet go up in the air to meet her hands. She has been sucking on her bottom lip a lot (Cody says she learned this from watching him play with his flavor savor :) ) and when she sleeps she sucks on her tongue. She loves telling daddy stories at the end of the day. When he gets home, she has lots of big smiles for him. She still pulls her little shy cock of the head for him too. So cute. She also still really likes blowing bubbles and she will spend a lot of time blowing bubbles at "that baby in the mirror" Arlee has always liked when Mommy sings to her (finally an audience that appreciates me singing), but recently she has really liked "Three little ducks" and "3 Little Speckled Frogs". If I sing them relentlessly in the car, it calms down her normal car fussies. Though we still get the big car blowouts, they don't happen everytime we get in the car like they used to. Her grip is getting better every day. She can grip the skinny bar on her piano toy and her binkie handle. She has started reaching for so many things too (i.e. the remotes and my phone). I think she must really be noticing colors now too. She got so excited when Cody held her up in front of the juice aisle at the store and she reaches for my cups of juice. She went through a stage where she would fall asleep just by rocking her in the rocking chair, but that is over. She must have decided that her mommy needs more exercise, because she now insists on being bounced...and she fights her naps hard! She has shown a little more interest in her binkie recently though, but mostly with playing with it and gnawing on it.

She sucks on her 2 little fingers a lot more at sleepy times now. The other night she fell asleep with them in her mouth and I thought, "I've officially got a finger sucker." She is still waking up at least once a night, but now I'm just happy if its not twice a night. She usually goes to sleep about 10-10:30 and wakes up for good between 6 and 8 (depending on how willing she is to go back to sleep and give mommy an extra morning nap :)

She reaches up to play with the hair that she doesn't really have and she has started to pull her headbands off, so I can't put them on until we get where we're going other wise I will find it down around her neck in the carseat. The other day we were coming back from getting the laundry. I took the laundry up the steps and I turned around to get her and this is what I found:

She pulled the clip off too and is playing with it. These days she will only sit in her bumbo for awhile before she gets bored and starts arching her back to get out. Mostly she just doesn't like to sit--she likes to stand.

Maternity Shoot

A couple weeks ago (when I was 38 weeks) my friend Michelle took some pictures for us. Didn't she do a great job?! Best part about it is when when we got them back Cody said, "Those are really neat, I'm glad we got those done." Ha that is saying a lot for some who usually gets grumpy when it's picture time. He was game for a few, but he wasn't impressed with some of the poses we wanted to try...or how many we did. Here are some of our favorites.

Sealed March 3rd in the St. George Temple

Cody and I were sealed on March 3rd. I was 33 weeks. Our little girl must have been very excited for us because she was quite the active little girl that day.

Some Things for Baby Girl

Once I was off track for my last few weeks of pregnancy I finally had some time to make a couple of baby things.
Car Seat Tent: I loved the purple flower fabric and I didn't want pink for the back but for some reason, I didn't realize just how gray it all would be on the gray car seat. Oh well :)
Cowgirl "boot"ies: I'm really excited about how these turned out. I got them done in time to use them in our maternity shoot. I can't wait to post some of those.

20 weeks in November:

22 weeks . . .When I could still fit in my skinny jeans (with elastic bands)

Almost 25 weeks at Christmas. One of my students gave me some fun socks, so I decided to make the most of it and be an elf for Christmas :)


30 weeks in February:

32 Weeks: