8 months and growing

Sloane @ 6 months:

-Sits in a shopping cart like a big girl

-Moved crib mattress down

-Sitting in her big girl car seat

-Says “ba ba ba” & “bwah”

We visited Granny & Grandpa. Miss Ryleigh turned 3!

 Meeting her teacher Mrs. Terry! We LOVE her and all of the wonderful ladies at school!

 8.11.2011

 Sloane @ 7 months:

-Crawling (August 14^th)

-Started daycare

-Say’s “da da da”

-First tooth cut through (August 17^th)

- Pulling up and standing (August 21^st)

-Say’s “ma ma ma”

- Had her first ear infection and cold. She was so tough!

First day of school!

First week of school

 She did so good at school. There were a few tears. Mostly Mama's. She loves her teacher Mrs. Terry and playing with her friends.

 8.21.2011

8.27.2011

Sloane @ 8 months:

- Moved mattress down again… She is our tall girl!

- 2^nd tooth cut through

- Feeds herself puffs

-Clapping

- Working hard on saying bye bye

-Her favorite toy right now is the Leap Frog play table. 

- New foods she is eating now include quinoa, lentils, green beans & whole wheat pasta. Although, her favorite is still avocado.

- She is wearing size 3 diapers

- She wears 12 -18 month clothing

College day at school!She heard the bigger the bow the more Aggie spirit!

 9.5.2011

Meghan, Lizzy & Lane came for a visit. It was great to see them!

I love these kiddos!

 They sure have grown in 7 months!

We love our sweet lady and we are enjoying how much she changes every day!

6 month pictures

Here are a few of her 6 month photos.

This picture captures her so perfectly! I can just hear her saying "ooooh"

 I love how she looks so surprised to be standing! She is our big girl!

She's growing too fast!

Since we last checked in a lot of time has passed and many new things have happened! Our little girl is growing up so quickly!

This is from her arboretum pictures at 3 months

4 months:

- Weight: 16 lbs. 4 oz. 90-95th percentile

- Height: 26.5 in. > 97th percentile
- At 15 weeks Sloane started rolling over from her back to her tummy.
- At 17 weeks she started eating real food. We started with rice cereal. She was not a fan. I thought at first she was just struggling to learn the eating process, but after I switched to whole grain oats she ate as if she had been doing it all her life! I have been making her food which has turned out to be easier than I thought. So far she has tried sweet potatoes, butternut squash, avocado, peas, apples, bananas, pears, prunes & peaches. Her favorites are avocado, butternut squash, sweet potatoes and peas. I cannot get the girl to like fruits (except avocado)! Apparently she missed the memo that they are nature’s candy!

Hmmmm...not so sure about this cereal
Yummm! Much better!
Cutest little Easter bunny I have ever seen!

Easter dress... she wasn't as excited about this picture as I was

5 months
-Sloane started sitting up around week 23.
- At 24 weeks she went on her first out of state vacation to Beavers Bend, Oklahoma.
- She has started having a little stranger anxiety.
- She is drooling like a faucet
- She is not a big fan of the vacuum cleaner…oh darn.
-At 25 weeks she started getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth. I think crawling is just around the corner!

First time in her play poolFirst time in the big pool. She loves swimming!

She LOVES jumping!

She still really enjoys bath time

Happy girl!

Sitting up! Big girl!

Look at those sweet cheeks! All four of them! What is it about baby heinies?

Swimming!! Mama had her picture taken in this chair about 28 years ago! We will have to find it!

6 months: half a year old wow!
-Weight: 18 lbs. 7 oz. 90th percentile
- Height: 29 in. > 99th percentile
-The doctor had to re-measure her height because she couldn’t believe how tall she was! She asked if we had noticed her being larger than other babies her age… and I almost snort laughed!
- She is rolling all over the place!
- She has started “military” crawling to get where she wants to go.
- She is able to sit herself up and she is so proud of it! - She is a “power napper” and takes four to five 30-45 minute naps a day.
- She goes to bed at 8:30 and wakes up between 7:30 & 8:30
- She takes four 7 ½ ounce bottles and eats three “meals” a day.
- She is wearing size 3 diapers
- She wears size 9-12 month clothes.
-Her favorite book right now is Snuggle Bunny she absolutely loves when the bunny puppet gives her sugars!
-Her favorite toys are Sophie and her jumpers. She is a jumping fool!

She loves her Sophie... I need to get a back up. She is already losing some of her spots.

She melts our heart!

Out at dinner this week with Papa & Talana

She loves her Papa! He thinks she's ok too ;)

I love Avocados!!!!

Sloane’s current weight is 19lbs 2.5oz. She is going to be starting daycare in a few weeks which I am very anxious about. I am so thankful she will be at one of my campuses so I will be able to peek in on her. She is such a happy and smiley little girl. We are so blessed to be her parents and her smile and sweet giggle reminds us of that every day.

The past 2 months...

Well we are finally checking in again. We have been busy since our last post, and Sloane has been growing like a weed!

Shortly after Valentine’s we took our first road trip to College Station to visit my best friend, Meghan, and her new baby, Lane Joseph Gregory. We had a wonderful time and Sloane loved getting to meet Lane! It was a really quick trip so Sloane didn’t get to see all of the wonderful Aggieland sights, but we did have just enough time to make a quick stop at the KD house! You have to start these things early!

We have been very busy these past few months………….

We celebrated G-Pa’s birthday!

G-Mi & G-Pa giving Sloane a bath

The Brunette Babes came to meet Sloane. She loved them! She fits right in, and I think just might be a brunette, too.

At Sloane’s two-month checkup she weighed 12 lbs., 14.5oz. (95th percentile) and she was 24.5 inches long (97th percentile)! She also took her shots like a champ!

We finally got her announcements out and I had a lot of fun making them! So much fun in fact that I am thinking about opening an etsy shop with invitations and announcements! I can’t wait to work on her 1^st birthday party invitations! I’m sure it will be here faster than we realize!

We took a trip to the Dallas Arboretum for pictures. I can’t wait to see them all! Of course we went during spring break on a coupon day so it looked more like Disneyworld! Mama, G-Mi & Sloane were all exhausted after that trip! The flowers were beautiful though!

She really enjoyed her first March Madness although her bracket and the Aggie men didn’t do too well. She did enjoy seeing the women win their first national championship! WHOOP!

We had a visit from Aunt Sharon & Uncle Ricky

And a visit from Granny, Grandpa & Mawmaw

4 generations!

And just this past weekend the Gregory family came in town! Sloane loved hanging out with her friends Lizzy and Lane!

And we celebrated Daddy’s 31^st birthday!

Sloane is now 3 months old and just yesterday she weighed 14 pounds, 3 ounces. Sloane loves eating and sleeping! She eats 5 ounces every 2 1/2 hours and sleeps about 12 hours a night. She is smiling, “talking” and cooing all the time. She still loves taking baths and she is really enjoying tummy time. She has started getting her knees up under her this week so I think she is well on her way to crawling! She also loves playing with her toys and going on walks!

Some things we love right now:

-Having a “conversation” with her

-Seeing her smile

-How she loves to cuddle on your shoulder

-Her chubby cheeks… and getting chubbier by the day!

-How she gets so mad if you take the bottle away when she is eating.

-Waking up to her happy voice. The best alarm clock in the world!

Until next time…