till reading to roars

putting this up for my sister and family. walked in on till reading to little sis roar. **sorry for the longness**

the roars

5 months

taylorsville lake

why is it that the older I get the more scared I am to swim in a lake? I love the lake but its not as enjoyable as it was when I was a kid. I'm now afraid of squishy, slimy bottom and the unknown.

8 months

Lydia is 8 months old. It really is hard for us to believe. For a while I was thinking that a year is 10 months. I know I know. I know a year has 12 months but for some reason I kept thinking Lydia was only 2 months away from a year. I started to freak out. Then I remembered. 12 months... I still have 4 months. Which really doesn't seem like that many.


She is a sweet ball of a MESS. I know that sentence didn't make any sense. Lydia is scooting. She is even able to maneuver herself over things. like my legs.


She has 1 tooth that is still hard to get a good glimpse at but is definitely there and then another one that is about to break through.
***If you look closely in some of these pictures you can see that little toofers***

and because of those teeth we are seeing this face more than often.

I think her schedule is still the same as last time. I need to check. The brief story is she is napping twice a day and nursing 4x a day. She eats solids for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Spitting up as much as ever (4 times while I was taking her pictures this morning...I only took pictures of 2 of those times)

She has just started to say Ba Ba (Bye Bye) when we ask her to and she even gives an uncontrolled hand/arm wave. Clapping has also emerged onto her list of things she can do. It's still not super controlled but she does it. (I think the last picture in this sequence is the best because she totally missed)

Patrick's summary of Lydia's stage right now: "Every day a new world presents itself to her and she steps to the edge of it and throws herself into the unknown."

See what I get for asking him to participate in my blog...nonsense :) Thanks Patrick!
Although she hasn't reached the developmental stage of knowing that if she crawls right off the bed it's going to hurt. (Is that depth perception?) Anyway a few times I have held onto her foot and just watched to see if she'd really try and crawl off the bed to get our alarm clock. YUP. She would have face planted had I not had her foot.

Lydia has a rat tail. Patrick wants to trim it to make it straight... I say it's natural so lets just let her rat tailish hair keep on growing!


and we'll leave you with a few videos from this month.
here she is saying good night to daddy. she is usually so good and just laying down and going right to sleep

and here is a day with all 3 kids (my niece and nephew)

talking with daddy

scooting action

meeting eva

My newest niece Eva was born on 7/18. Wednesday Lyds and I went down to meet her. What a cute chunker. Something about a newborn that makes me want a million kids. HA
Eva is my oldest brothers (Micah) second baby. I'm thinking Eva looks like him. Can't wait till I get to hold that cuddly babe again.

little sister. big sister.

oh my what a big new born you have.



sweet little burrito



love you sweet girl

swinging

Lyds and I went to the park today. It was her first time in a swing. She was adorable. She kept giggling everytime I'd push her. She pretty much loved it.


(taken with my phone sorry it's so small)

While we were there some little boy asked me if I'd help his papaw make him a brother. SORRY kid but that aint happening.

meet hudson

Hudson is one of the newest additions to our church. One of many new additions. Seriously babies are popping out from everywhere. Anyway. Dave and Jessica welcomed their first born Hudson a few weeks ago. He's a hunk. Take a look.

did i mention?

Lydia has a tooth. It came in a week or so ago. It's taking its time to really show itself. But trust me it's there. I felt it.

Oh yeah and way more importantly than a new tooth, we have a new niece. Eva Noelle was born today. She's a chunker. Born at 8lbs 7 oz (that's how much I weighed :) ). Can't wait to meet the girl. It will be a while though seeing as I've come down with a sickness. Not sure what it is. Hopefully on Thursday I'll be well and can squeeze her and pinch those chubby cheeks.

bergmeier family

I love this family. I have done a few sessions with them and it has been so fun to see the oldest two grow up and then the latest addition of E. The mom, Becky, is someone who I could sit and talk to for hours. She has a very sweet, easy going personality. (Becky, I seriously want to hang out soon!!!) Their kiddos are incredibly cute.



K can make some good faces

In trying to get K to smile I asked her how many teeth she had. J gladly jumped in to show me how many he had.





(Alex C I think this little boy looks so much like Clint)

acs

Last week we had some dear friends back in town for a short visit. I was so thankful to get to spend time with Alex and Clint. Sawyer has gotten so big. I loved seeing her and Lydia together. Last time they were with each other they were both stuck laying on their backs and couldn't do much but look at each other. Now Sawyer is a crawling girl and Lydia is trying to scoot and catch up. They were gibber jabbing back and forth. I love it. I enjoyed getting to hang out with Alex. I miss her! Tereza and Gabe came over to visit as well. Tereza if you are reading this we need to hang out more. I always enjoy seeing you.

grumpy butt

taken on the hottest day of the year so far. In order left to right: Lydia, Griffin (born on the same day as Lyd) and Jesse (nine days older than the other two)

in her defense it was HOT and she was hungry.

to do:

fold clothes. put up clothes. start a load of towels. unload/reload dishwasher. bake banana bread. take to neighbors. stuff cloth diapers. dust. edit pictures. upload pictures. mail pictures.

TOO MANY THINGS TO DO when all my feet want me to do is sit.

sells girls

I've taken pictures for this family before but the other day I had the privilege to take some of their second daughter for the first time. It's hard to believe how big their first has gotten. I love getting to see these girls grow. They have the prettiest blue eyes.



this girl can make some faces

and here's her sweet big sister



and a few with their pretty mama (I love K's face in this first one)


Thanks Sells family for letting me take pictures of your cuties.