Vivy's 15 Minutes

Miss Viv is featured in the Photo of the Day over at Spearmint Baby (one of my FAVORITE blogs) today! Go check her out!!!

Vivy is SIX MONTHS!!!!

Vivienne turned 6 months old yesterday! It's so hard to believe . . . I just don't know where the time has gone. I was planning on writing some big list about all of the things she's doing now, but honestly, it would be a short list. Vivy is what we lovingly refer to as a lazy baby. Lazy but adorable!

Rolling front to back - CHECK! Pretty much the only time she does this is when she's fighting sleep. She's a tummy sleeper (You can save your "Back to Sleep" comments. We had a bad experience when Logan was a day old and none of my babies will ever sleep on their back. Period.) so she'll roll onto her back so she has a reason to throw a fit. That's about it.

Rolling back to front - Nope.

Sitting - Nope.

Tri-podding (is that a word?) - Not exactly. She starts off strong but quickly (within seconds) ends up folded over in half and gets pretty grumpy about it.

Sleeping through the night - CHECK! (most nights anyway)

Eating - DOUBLE CHECK! Ok, here's where she really excels! My little piggy takes 15oz of milk at daycare plus about 4oz of oatmeal with bananas twice a day, throw in all the breastfeeding she does in the morning and evening and you've got one healthy little eater! She has her 6 month check-up tomorrow and we're planning to start her on fruits and veggies if they give us the go ahead.

Babbles - CHECK! Miss Viv is a chatterbox! This month she discovered a new, loud screechy voice. Now she and Logan lay on the floor and screech back and forth at each other. It's cute for about a second . . . then the headache kicks in. She coos, giggles, screeches, and babbles. There's almost always some sort of sound coming out of her and they're (almost) all adorable!

Teeth - Lots of drool but no teeth yet.

Chewing - CHECK! She chews on everything and nothing. It's especially hilarious when she gets her mouth going like she has some big wad of chewing gum in there.

She's a happy little girl, that's for sure, but she does have a temper too. I suppose she might get that from me. But all in all, it's been a pretty easy six months. Really, crazy busy, but easy. She's the kind of baby that makes you want to have lots more babies. Of course, Logan was that kind of baby too. It's just been years 3 and 4 that have made me consider getting my tubes tied, so we'll see . . . .

Happy 6 Months to my sweet princess!



December Wrap-up

At the last possible minute, Kyle and I decided to make calendars of the kids for our parents. Unfortunately, as I was putting them together, I realized that I was short pictures for 2 or 3 months. I pulled together a few different outfit changes and staged a couple of mini photo shoots of the kids to fill the voids. Here are a few of my favorites:

Viv is turning into quite the ham. I guess when you shove a camera in a baby's face enough, they start to get used to it. She actually likes the flash, but unfortunately, doesn't usually smile until after the picture is taken. I just set my camera to take about a million pictures at a time and viola...one gorgeous smile shot.

I cropped this one down to use on the cover. It's definitely my favorite of the bunch!

How freaking sweet are they? They almost look innocent...

And here is just a random assortment of pics from December:

Viv absolutely LOVES to listen to Daddy play the guitar. She can be screaming her pretty little head off, but as soon as Daddy pulls out the guitar....silence. It's like magic.

I call this her "You have GOT to be shitting me" face.

She enjoys all the things you aren't supposed to do to a baby: shaking, tossing, etc.

First bite of cereal. Not exactly thrilled...

Ugh. What is this garbage? Where's my boobie?

Ok, not so bad.

Vivy loves her Grandma!!!