4 Months Old!

4 months old and we're on the move!! Rolling over like a champ, and starting to scoot!!! She gets on her belly, and then uses her legs to kind of push forward and slide along her belly. It's all happening way too fast for my taste...stay little, baby girl!

Her 4 month check up revealed that she is still very long...but a quick look back at Delilah's 4 month shows that she was quite long at this age, too...and she has since become a shrimp. :)

Weight: 14 pounds, 8 ounces ( 72%)

Length: 26 inches ( 97%)

Head: 16.25 inches (62%)

Noelle is super ticklish and saves her best smiles for her daddy. I got the first smiles and giggles, but he gets them more often. I had dreams when I was pregnant that she would be a daddy's girl, and I think they may have been prophetic. She also gives Delilah huge smiles...I think Red is Noelle's favorite entertainment. Can't blame her...Red is pretty entertaining.

She is still a very easy-going baby: cries when she's hungry or tired and that's about it. Still wakes once in the night to eat (between 3 and 5am), but goes right back to bed after she eats.

Loves to be rocked, loves her swing, loves her bouncer...guess she just likes to move.

Happy 4 months old, Noelle. We love you!

Homemade Fashion Fridays: I'm Back!

After a long hiatus of moving and having Noelle, I've decided to pick up my needles once again. Because my dear friend Allison told me that crochet is much faster than knitting, I decided to teach myself to crochet. This pink bonnet was my first project...finished it just in time for the cold snap to leave Houston and for the temps to reach 75. :) But b/c it's Houston, I know we will be having cold fronts all the way through April...it will get some use!

Look at me sitting in my Bumbo!

Finding her toes.

And speaking of Allison, I never posted the elephant I knitted for her sweet baby girl. Amelia was born last July and I think I mailed this out in September. What's a two month delay among friends?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Chris and I aren't much for celebrating V-day...we're kind of gooey, flower-buying, card-writing people all year round, so the holiday has always seemed a bit superfluous. But using the day as an excuse to dress up my girls in red & pink, and make cute, sparkly cards?...Sign me up!

Here's Delilah hard at work, making valentines for her classmates. I cut out construction paper hearts & wrote the words; she used a glue stick to add red & silver glitter.

I have to say I was a little disappointed that we were the only ones to hand make our valentines...I thought that was the point? But then again, I was the only parent half an hour late to the party b/c I had the start time wrong...we can't all be good at everything. :) (I add the smiley face to make it look like I don't care, but the truth is that when Red & I were walking into school and I saw some families walking out, I realized I must have gotten the time wrong and I wanted to cry b/c I felt so bad. Mommy guilt is the worst!!)

Side note: I was telling Delilah all day that we were going to a party later. I guess I never mentioned that the party was at school b/c when we pulled into the parking lot, she adamantly declared, "This not a party, Mommy. This is school!!!!!" Poor thing thought I was trying to trick her.

The kiddos all enjoyed the sugary treats.

As usual, Delilah stayed at the table long after everyone else got up to play

Miss Bertha.

Miss Tommie.

It was a beautiful day, so we played at the park after the party.

Delilah is a climbing machine.

"I did it!"

Running to play in the sand.

Grammy Di sent cute outfits for the girls, and I wanted to get a pic of them together. Since Delilah always wants to change into her princess dress or her p.j.'s the second we walk in the house, I had to throw lighting & setting to the wind and snap a pic wherever I could.

Noelle does not look like she trusts Red...but Red looks very proud! :)

And I threw in this last pic b/c of the color. When Noelle's pink curtains are closed during the day, the whole room glows with a beautiful rose color. I didn't alter the tint of this pic at all...just thought a pink picture of my littlest valentine was the perfect way to end.

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