7 months!

Age

7 months

Clothing size

Both 6 month and 9 month

Milestones & Firsts

This girl is a rolling machine.  
We officially have a kid who is capable of flying across the livingroom and licking everything in sight in .005 seconds.  Shoowee this should be interesting.

Sleep habits

 Oh what a month this has been.  My ninja napper left the building and we were introduced to a 30 minute napping queen.  Thankfully after a few adjustments in her schedule she is back to sleeping like a champ again!

New/Favorite Foods
Not too much has changed in Lyla's diet but we did get one major change in our kitchen

Bam.  
Talk about some speedy baby food making.  
It was love at first use.

Favorite Toys

Walker-  Lyla's obviously not using this to stroll around the house yet but it is the perfect toy for her to sit in front of.  She seriously plays on this for 20 minutes straight.  
(Which is an eternity in babyland)

Activity Cube- Another hit this month.  She loves exploring this thing.
Which makes mommy and daddy happy because we love how adorably cute this toy is!

Blocks- Just spread these out all over the floor and she rolls like crazy after the colors.  And when that stops being entertaining she will play with the bag they came in.  

Toes and spatula-  These are really the biggest hits on them all.

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New or Favorite Words/Sounds 
Lyla is one strange cookie.  
Her newest thing is to make this face while sniffing the air repeatedly.

{Asthmatic dinosaur is at it again!}

Favorite Activity 

Eating mum-mums.

Daddy & Mommy of the Month

Now that the sun doesn't set until like 11pm here in Anchorage we felt like it was time to invest in some blackout curtains for the nursery.  But before we found the right ones we made Lyla live like this:

Classy. 

Playtime Fun

Lyla's new favorite pastime is to scoot backwards across the living room on her head.

Top 5 this month

1) First Easter & Daddy's birthday

2) First time voting 
(Okay, just going to voting poll.  But we're trying to teach her right!)

3) Napping on her mama.  
She will only do this when she's not feeling good so it's a real treat for me

4) Getting her 6 month pictures taken.  
Little girl worked that camera

Photos by Narrow Road Productions

5) Staying up until 3am being really sentimental about how much this girl has grown.

7 days old

7 weeks old

7 months old

Lyla is:

A mess.  

Haha

...but seriously.

A Girl Can Never Have Too Many Bows

Remember in this post when I talked about the millions of bows I was making while pregnant?

Well, I wanted to share our little bow holder we made for our little miss.

This is by far the easiest little project to do and can add so much character to your baby's nursery.

When picking the frame for the project I knew right away which one I would choose.  

A little backstory:

Two years ago {I can't believe it's been that long!} I was doing my daily Goodwill shopping for random goodies for my wedding decorations.  It was then that I stumbled upon the cutest little wooden frame and I knew right then that I needed it!  

Now, as most of you know, it is important when shopping for thrift store treasures to be sure to look past what an item currently is and to see what it can become.

This was true for this frame.  It had the most ridiculous picture of a cardinal in it.  But I looked past the ugly print and saw the beautiful treasure!  I snatched the $6 frame and happily skipped home knowing it was going to be a perfect addition to my rustic decor.  

I wish I had a better picture of the frame itself but you can see it there in the back. 

We threw that ugly bird print straight in the trash and printed up this cute saying:

Come as you are

Stay as long as you can

We're all family here

So there's no seating plan

I originally wanted to keep the frame to put a wedding picture in it but the glass unfortunately broke on it's commute from Ohio to Alaska.  Bummer.

  

But, fortunately, it was still put to good use...

Which brings me back to the point of this post!

I know, I know,  you can say it

"FINALLY!"

To start with I took some lace ribbon I had laying around (another left over wedding item) and stapled it to the back of the frame.  

I had to be stingy with it because I only had just enough ribbon to make it work.  But if I had more I would've put more rows in there and made the strips longer so I could have used more staples.

Now, my husband doesn't allow me to use a drill {for good reason!} so I had to recruit him for this next part

He drilled evenly spaced holes all along the bottom of the frame

Next, We manually screwed in these little cup hooks that we also had here on hand for the ribbon holder

These were a great size to hold headbands!

I quickly realized once it was on the wall that it looked pretty bare without any fabric or anything behind it.

I grabbed a piece of foam board from our office and cut it down to fit in the back of the frame



I took the last little bit chevron fabric we had on hand and simply hot glued it onto the board.  I just barely had enough fabric to cover the whole surface so to cover up the trail I added some different lace on either ends too

Ta-Da!  I love how it adds a little rustic touch to her room.

I put the bows Lyla wears most often on there and the other bows are stored nicely on her bookshelf in a little birdcage that was left over from one of my bridal showers

I'm very pleased with the way that the project turned out.  

And even more pleased with this little number--
Total project cost: $0

For the win!

6 months!

So I've decided to mix things up with the way I post Lyla's monthly stats.  I think doing it this way will make looking back at her growth a little more fun.

{Props to Jessica for the idea!}

Who knows, maybe this format will help me actually finish her baby book?

..... Right. Like that'll ever happen!

Age

6 months

Stats 

Weight: 16lbs 4oz (54%)

Height: 27.25in (94%)

Head: 42.8cm (68%)

**Who is surprised by that height?!

Clothing size

6month

Milestones & Firsts

Eating solids (here) and sitting up unassisted (here)

Sleep habits

Lyla takes two 1-2 hour naps and sometimes a 3rd catnap in the evening.  She goes to bed between at about 8pm, has a dream feed at 10:30, and then sleeps until 8-8:30am.  She is such a good little sleeper!

Favorite Toys

Sophie the Giraffe:  Lyla chews on this thing all day long.  It really is the perfect toy for the teething babies.

Bumbo: We sit her in here and put a bazillion toys all around her and she is entertained for days



Jumperoo: She love love LOVES this thing.  Sometimes she jumps so hard in it I swear she's going to jump right out of the thing!!!



Favorite Words/Sounds
 Jesse and I swear we are raising a child who is part dinosaur.  All she does all day long is make grunting, roaring, or this high pitch squealing sound (And sometimes, somehow, it's all three of those at once!).  It's funny how babies figure out a new sound and then get fixated on it for a few days in row. Then its really ridiculous when it sticks around for weeks.  Her other newest discovery is wheezing.

{So basically we are raising an asthmatic dinosaur}

Favorite Activity 

Sitting in a highchair at restaurants and riding in the cart at the store.  Both a new things for her and she looooooves to people watch.  Girl after my own heart right here.

Favorite Food 

So far she's had (and loved) rice cereal, oatmeal, peas, green beans, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, applesauce, bananas, pears, prunes, and avocado.  This girl LOVES to eat!

Daddy of the Month

While showing me how Lyla could sit up on her own he got distracted and she face planted right on the carpet.

Mommy of the Month

I was the distraction.

Playtime Fun

Peek-a-boo, patty cake, and itsy bitsy spider  

Blowing raspberries on her belly and neck

Ticklish on her neck and thighs

Singing our silly song to her:

I love Lyla

I love Lyla

Lyla Mae

Lyla Mae

Lyla is my baby

My pretty little baby

Lyla Mae

Makes my day

Nicknames
LyLy, Lulu, Lyla Maesies, Tumpkin

Top 5 this month

1) Going to see the sled dogs 

2) Finally putting Lyla in one of my outfits from when I was little.   I love that we have this picture.  It does crack me up that I was so much younger than her when I was wearing it.  What a chunk!

3) How much this girl loves Ernie.  She loves to pull at his ears and will laugh so hard when he is just walking past her.  Sometimes I think she might like him more than us!

4) I've recently discovered how much she loves to sit by the window and look outside.  This is now what she does while mommy or daddy are on the computer

5)  My all time favorite is how Lyla wakes up from her naps now.  She will just lay in her crib blowing raspberries and talking to herself until we go get her.  Then when we finally go in there she squeals with pure joy when she sees us.  It is by far the cutest thing in the whole world and makes your heart fill with so much love you might actually explode.

Lyla is:

Such a happy baby.  She is all smiles all the time and is constantly making noises and moving around.  She is very social and loves to meet new people (and usually wins them over immediately with her sparking eyes and long eyelashes).  I am so happy to have such a great baby!  We couldn't be more blessed and more in love.