First walk

We finally took Mckayla on her first walk around the neighborhood today. The weather is SO gorgeous it was perfect! She loved it too, especially the trees and birds!

Here she is looking up at a tree, she did this every time we went under one.

"oh, hi Mr. Birdie are you enjoying the weather too?"

Home again

More fun pictures

When she is REALLY asleep, the pacifier falls out of her mouth but this time it somehow ended up on her head and eye. She didn't seem to mind though!

Holding and studying her seahorse

More tummy time!

Smiling at daddy

I was just about to put her dress on and I pulled out the camera and she had this hilarious deer-in-headlights look! It's so hard to get pictures of her smiles because as soon as I pull out the camera she just stares at it instead of me.

Dressed up for Jack

Today was fun because we got to meet my friend Laryn's baby boy, Jack, who is only 4 days older than Mckayla. We went to nursing school together, worked together, and found out we were pregnant at the same time therefore having the same due date! After graduation she moved to Texas so we hadn't gotten to meet eachothers baby yet. Her and her husband were in town today so we had to get the babies together for the first time! We met at Babies R Us and had a quick visit so I don't have any pictures of them together but here's some of Mckayla all dressed up for him. We are really excited that they are moving back to Oklahoma so we can play together all the time!

Some other news, we are excited because Mckayla rolled over from her back to her tummy (like she does every time right after she is laid on her play mat) and THEN she rolled from her tummy back over to her back for the first time on the floor yesterday!!! YAY!

Squirmer

She's getting more and more mobile now! She rolled over on the bed for the first time tonight so now we really don't want to leave her unsupervised! Then she was doing tummy time on her boppy play pad facing forward and playing with the toys attached to it, then I looked down a few minutes later and found her like this! She had squirmed completely off of being propped up on the pillow part and turned herself sideways! As you can see she wasn't having too much fun anymore by this point though!

She did it!!

On the 4th night of trying cereal, she figured out the spoon! We were so surprised because we thought it would take much longer. I left her in this chair to feed her this time because it is slightly reclined and I made the cereal really runny because I figured it would need to just be poured in since she didn't know how to eat off the spoon, but boy was I wrong! It was messy but she sucked it off the spoon! After this video when she ate all of that batch I decided to make more and make it a lot thicker to see how she did. It was thick enough that she had to get it off the spoon herself, I couldn't just pour it in, and she ate it off so fast, she fussed in the one or two seconds it took me to get more on the spoon for her! I wasn't getting it to her fast enough! We are so excited she did it so fast! Way to go Mckayla!

This is her new thing now to pull out her pacifier, look at it and play with it then stick it back in her mouth. Most of the time she doesn't get it in her mouth straight, but here she was plopping it in and out over and over. It was hilarious!

So silly

Chris got her to laugh making a silly pig noise. She never laughs out loud, she just makes the face like she is and sound never comes out! You can also see her smacking her bottom lip which is her new thing now too.


I am soooo cool


Having fun laughing at daddy

Good nights rest

Well for the past week we have been working with Mckayla to sleep all night, usually aiming for 8 hours. She normally only woke up once a night, but she needed to learn to sleep longer at night. All week we have seen slow improvement; we put her to bed and she cries herself to sleep after only 10 or so minutes and then in the middle of the night she woke up twice a couple nights then just once. Each time though got shorter and shorter, we'd just give her the pacifier to help soothe her to sleep faster. Friday night when I worked Chris said she did cry for a bit when he put her to bed but at night she only barely made noise a couple times but not crying, mainly just wanting her pacifier, and she was still asleep when I got home at 8 so that was over a 9 hour night! Yay! But the absolute best was last night. I fed her around 11pm and she played for about 30 minutes or so then got tired so I held her and swayed with her for about 5 minutes and she started to fall asleep so I laid her in her bed and she went right to sleep, no crying at all!!!!! The best part is she didn't make one peep ALL NIGHT!! She didn't wake up until 7am and then went back to sleep after I fed her then! WOOHOO we did it! Hopefully it will continue but it seems like we got her used to it!