Crawling after Leah

These are from Brianna's first crawling adventures. She loves to get as close to Leah as she can and try to kiss her. She is such a funny girl. Leah is still not quite sure what to make of her.

So lucky to be Brianna's mommy!

This is from my first Mother's Day.  I am so lucky to be Brianna's mom.  This day was so special for me, considering I was beginning to accept that being a mom was not in my future when, hooray, a positive pregnancy test on January 11, 2008 brought me the hope that I had almost lost completely.  I had a relatively easy pregnancy and a wonderful birth-painful, but complication free which is what I hoped for.  Since that amazing day January 11, to now, I love her more and more.  I am keeping a journal about Brianna and it is amazing all the changes in our little family that have occurred in these past 8 and a half months.  I reflect on my life from time to time and still can't believe how blessed I am to have my sweet baby girl. 

More fun pics

Brianna loves computer time with her daddy.  She really likes Abby Cadaby from Sesame Street.
This is a new thing this week, holding on to the handle of the car seat or as Greg calls it the roll cage, while we drive.  She usually falls asleep with her hands like that, what is she saying about my driving??
I wanted to try out pigtails on this day.
This is after her first nap of the day, she thought I was so funny with the camera.  As always resting her foot on her knee.
I put this one on there so everyone will know what I am talking about with her peke mo.  This is what she used to sleep in after the swaddle was done.  It has been awesome for our itchy baby.  The last two nights she has been wearing pajamas with out the peke mo and so far so good, I just file her nails down to the little nubs.  

Getting caught up, Cinco de Mayo!

Where are you going????
Balancing on her butt, with her legs straight out, so funny how she sits :)
Greg was making her laugh at something here...

I wanted to share these cute pictures of Brianna, she was having a lot of fun this day, it was Cinco de Mayo so maybe she was feeling the fiesta!  I am trying to get her in every outfit she has before she outgrows it, so basically I have been taking a lot of pictures lately.

Brianna's first temper TANTRUM

So I do not have a picture for this post, but tonight we experienced a temper tantrum from our as of today, 8 month old baby girl.  She is really trying to crawl and when she cannot reach something she normally will figure out a way to get to it, but not tonight.  Tonight she threw herself backwards from sitting and started screaming and banging her feet on the floor and rubbing her hands on her face. Very mad baby.  

Hopefully this crawling thing will happen soon because she really wants to get on the move.  She scoots pretty well on her butt, and rocks back and forth on her hands and knees, but can't quite get her legs to cooperate in the forward motion.  Maybe the temper tantrums now mean not so many in the toddler years.  I know everyone with toddlers is laughing, but a girl can dream right?

Since I have not posted in a while, here are a few happenings in our world.  Brianna has 1 tooth and one white bump right next to it on the bottom.  She is clearly babbling mama, dada, baba, and quietly babbles to herself while exploring, so cute!  My first Mother's day was awesome.  Greg made me a beautiful book with pictures and commentary from the first 6 months of Brianna- yes it made me cry.  We took my mom to breakfast and had dinner with the Elgan family both were very nice.  

We are starting to try some finger foods this week.  Brianna is allergic to avocado-random I know.  Basically food is going to be an adventure for us so any suggestions on easy recipes or finger food ideas for babies is greatly appreciated!  Especially because Brianna is already so independent she is ready to feed herself more than the puffs.  Well that's it for now, pictures will be coming soon.

Just for fun, black and white!

These are from 2 months ago, Daniel took them very spur of the moment.  He is getting quite good, I will post the Easter picture soon, thanks Uncle Danny or Uncle Daniel, not sure what she will call you just yet, I guess it depends on who she copies more me or Greg.  

Well besides the pictures, Brianna has had quite the cold, I still cannot decide if it is a cold, allergies, or teething hmmmmm.  Either way the past few nights have not been fun, I guess we were getting really used to the eight hour stretch.  I am thankful that I have Greg who is more than willing to take turns with me in getting up with Brianna and sitting for hours on end in the glider with her so she can sleep upright.  This past weekend we had a fun Saturday with family and extended family at the Local 12 Union BBQ, it was a great time, I loved every minute of visiting with everyone.  Ok well off to bed for hopefully a better rested Brianna night.

Okay so I am in a Blogging mode!

I know this is my third post of the night, but I could not resist sharing this picture!  Brianna loves her hmmmmm......I think what is all around her mouth are green beans.  Brianna has had green beans, peas, squash, sweet potatoes, mangos, bananas, peaches, apples, and pears-just in case anyone was wondering what has been on the menu-tomorrow is avocado.  We had an exciting, well exciting for me, food event tonight.  She picked up a puff with two fingers and placed it in her mouth, pretty cool, it made my day today!

Let's go to daycare!

These are from this morning, we tried her Robeez out.  She was having a bad hair day this morning.  She is still loving daycare as far as I can tell.  No tears when I leave and happy to see the ladies which makes me feel better about going to work.  It will be interesting to see what happens after Brianna spends 2 and a half months at home this summer with me.  Well, we will cross that bridge when it comes.....  

He's Crafty!!

So Greg is now the ultimate daddy because he makes hair clips!! So cute!  I tried to make one and basically it did not work out so well.  I am definitely not that crafty.  Greg on the other hand is quite talented.  Brianna is modeling one of them in the top pic and the bottom pic are some of his bows.  Yes, we are taking orders :)  

Spa Baby!

Brianna has a new duck tub, this is how she like to lay in it, ahhhhh, relaxing at the spa.
We had such a great weekend, Brianna is such a happy baby these days, I can hardly remember the crying from the first three months-ha ha ha, just kidding it has not been that long :)  She is so much better though, and we are finally able to venture out, horray!  So these pics are from tonight and I just could not resist taking them when I heard Greg laughing at her saying, "Brianna are you at the spa?".  She was sitting, decided she would like to turn, and when she landed like this she loved it.  I think this tub is going to turn out to be a good 10 dollar buy.