5 Months

5 Months....wow...baby girl is 5 months old today. Seriously? Well here are things that I want to remember:

~ She has definately found her VOICE. This little angel really knows how to belt. She is usually just really content and happy. When she gets tired or hungry, she lets me know:)

~ She is a really GREAT eater. We have tried.....sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, bananas and peaches. She had peaches for the first time tonight and acted "so, so" about them. But she loves her sweet potatoes. I told myself Iwas just going to give her vegetables until she was 6 months old to see if she would turn out to be a better eater than Kasen if I did that....Oh well, that obviously went down the drain.

~ She LOVES her big brother. I swear she could watch him run around all day long.

~ She hates her tummy, the majority of the time....thus she doesn't roll over hardly if ever yet. I put her on her tummy and she gets fussy, so naturally I pick her up:) I am not worried...Kasen didn't roll over early, didn't crawl early and now we can barely keep up with him...I think she will be perfectly fine!

~ Can I say Thumb sucker? She loves her little thumb. It helps with sleep in the night time, which mommy loves now:) Plus, I think it's pretty cute. When she gets tired, she cuddles up on my right shoulder, puts her right thumb in her mouth and cuddles with me while sucking her thumb....I LOVE IT!

~ She has strong little legs...loves to stand and hold on to my hands.

~ SMILES...she has the most adorable smiles....anyone can get her to smile at them.

~ She doesn't laugh/giggle all that much, once in a while I can catch her in a giggling mood, which i cherish

~ Oh, she loves her Daddy, she will look all over for him whenever he hears his voice!

~ And of course she is a MOMMA's girl for sure. She is spoiled and I like it that way. I love to play, hold, tickle and kiss my little angel of a 5 month old. She works as a great weight while I do ab work outs too, so she really is helpful already ...LOVE YOU Sweetie Pie~!

Watch out...big load coming through. They had quite the time the other night pushing Daish around in the dump truck. Not sure what she thought about it though:)

Orderville Snow

We thought we were going down to the warmer weather, but we were wrong. Good thing I didn't bring any of Kasen's snow stuff, but I did pack his swimming trunks? Why? Not sure, we hardly EVER go swimming while in Orderville anyway. Not sure what I was thinking. Oh well, We rigged up some plastic bags in our shoes and got our warm coats on and headed out to play in the snow. It was tons of fun. We stayed out there for hours....good thing Grandma likes to hold Daisha:) It's nice to play out there in the snow, because unlike here, it's not too cold to actually play outside.

Here is our Awesome GREEN snowman. We finally got the middle part up on top. I rolled and rolled and got it super big, and then couldn't really lift it up, so I found a sled and used that as my ramp and rolled it on the sled. My mom watched through the window and decided she would come and help out. Other than her almost falling in the snow, together we pushed and pulled til it sat very unsteady on top:) We found lots of good things to put on our snowman, but decided that the GREEN food coloring would do a better job at the buttons. Kasen had a fun time painting the world green.

Kasen rolling his part of the snowman. He did a fantastic job if I do say so myself:)

Then he couldn't get it anymore and I took over! We started out with bread pans and going to build a big wall tower thing, but that was taking way too long so we decided on the snowman. It was easier and faster to build a big tall snowman than it was to build a wall with bread pan shapes!! We had fun knocking down our wall though.

I pulled the kids on the sled from DeAnna's house. It was fun. And a good workout I might add. Ruger thought he was tough enough to pull....he didn't last long:)

Kimber on top of the hill that we sledded down. Kasen and I had a fun time going down together. Kimber is fearless I swear! She headed down that hill faster than anyone and landed right in a ditch. Literally:) Luckily she was OK!!

Putting Kasen's shoes and bags back on after they fell off climbing up the hill. Note to self....take snow boots and pants during the winter time while going to Orderville:)

Orderville

I went and visited Orderville last week. I have been meaning to blog about it for a week but I have been busy having fun with my momma! She came up with me and will be staying for a few weeks...I Love IT! Here are some fun pictures that we did during the week.

Colt and Kasen were buddies. They played pretty well together. It was fun watching and listening to them as they would "pretend" all sorts of things.

One of Kasen and Colts pretend times. This time I am sure they were pretending zoo. They would find an aminal out of one of Grandma's cool books and act like they were that animal...then they would put the animal back into the book and pick another one...literally try and pick it up with their hands and fingers.

Preschool. It was a chore to get them to actually sit down long enough and do preschool since they just wanted to play, play, play. Kasen and Grandpa. The first night that we got home, Kasen got out the Horse game. Its an old betting race horse game tha I am sure nobody played with before Kasen got around to playing with it. It was great seeing Dad get down on the floor and play with Kasen for a little while. Ilove times like that. My Dad thought I was silly for breaking out my camera and taking pictures but some things you just have to get documented:)

Cupcake Party

On Valentines we had a fun little party with Kasen's friends, and let's face it...my friends who are their moms:) I made cupcakes and they came on over to the house to decorate and play. It's funny becuase you can definately tell boy and girl personalities. The boys got their cupcakes, smothered tons of frosting on them, sprinkled a few sprinkles and then went downstairs to play with the tools and trucks. The girls were at the table pretty much the whole time wanting their moms to make designs and pretty's and swirlies. It was fun. I love having our basement be a TOY room. It's just so nice to be able to have all the toys down there and just run ramped, just play play play.

On another note, today I totally thought that Daisha had finally figured out how to roll over. Nope, I dont' think so. This morning I put her on her tummy to have some much needed tummy time while I was getting ready for exercise class. I came back and she was happlily on her back. I was so excited. but the more I watch her and see her while she is on her tummy, the more I think that Kasen went over and "helped" her roll over to her back. I asked Kasen if he helped her, but he continues to tell me that he didn't. So I guess, we will see!!

Here is Daisha's first little taste of rice cereal. I think that she will really like it. I was giving it to her when she was both tired and hungry and wasnt' really wanting to settle for anything less than the breast. So, I did what every mom would do, just give up the rice cereal and feed my baby girl. I am going to be trying again. I did actually give her a taste of my pudding the other day and she really really enjoyed that...go figure:)

Here They are all besides 2 friends. It was fun. I sure enjoy these cute little guys hanging around. I love getting to know people up here and spending time with them.

Kasen and his "Antlers"
Oh...Apparently he wears them everywhere...not everywhere, but we do tend to play elk hunting quite often. I know that they are not elk horns but he doesn't know that and that is what his dad told them they were, so from here on out...they are elk horns.

I love my intense little BOY....all boy! I think that is one of his many mean, growl, I am going to eat you up faces!

Findings

Kasen's stats that I just found and want to record:

Birth: 8 lbs. 14 oz. (Height) 21 inches (Head) ?
4 Days: 8 lbs. 11 oz. (Height) 22 inches (Head) 37 inches (75%)
2 weeks: 5 days: 10 lbs. 6 oz. (Height) 23 inches (Head) 38.5 (90%)
8 Weeks: 4 Days: 14 lbs. 6 oz. (Height) 24 1/2 inches (Head) 40.5 (75%)
4 Months: 18 lbs. 4 oz. (Height) 27 1/2 inches (Head) 43.4 (75%)
6 Months: 19 lbs. 14 oz. (Height) 29 inches (Head) 46 (96%)

I thought Daisha was tall but after seeing his little numbers, I forget that he was an inch taller than her at this age. CRAZY! Love my long little leg kiddos!

4 Months Old

Daisha turned 4 months old on the 6th. Where does the time go? Hum lets think...wake up, feed, play, feed, nap, feed, play, nap, feed, play, feed go to sleep all by 6:30 - 7:00 ish p.m. The day after she turned 4 months old she started sleeping pretty much through the night. I put her to bed at 7:00 then "dream feed" (feed her while she is still asleep) right before I go to bed around 10 - 10:30 ish. Then she sleeps pretty much til 6 or 7 then I feed her again and she goes back to sleep until 9. She has been doing that pretty much all week. I hope she keeps it up:) Now only if Kasen and her can both sleep the whole night thru at the same time:) I don't have much to complain about, I have pretty amazing kids.

Daisha has found her toes. She loves to grab them and then she gets really excited about something and lets go then concentrates really hard to find them again.

She has also found her thumb. She is Always always chewing on her hands and somehow she figured out that she can suck on her thumb. She doesn't do it all the time, but once in a while she will comfort herself for a few minutes while sucking her thumb.

She is a sweet little girl. Although she is quite the momma's girl already. The other night I went to the gym and the whole entire hour I was gone, Tate said that she cried and screamed. He tried pretty much everything to comfort her. At about 20 minutes into my run, I get a text from her Dad...."She hates me." The second I got home and she heard my voice she stopped crying and I held her and she was just fine, happy and playing. She is getting spoiled too, I put her down to do something like cleaning or making dinner and she can barely stand it for only 3 or 4 minutes before making little noises and starting to think that she is being neglected. I am not sure what to do about her:)

STATS: Head = 16.5 Weight = 15 lbs. Height = 26 1/2

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My wonderful, most amazing, inspiring Sister in law. (just one of them:) Shanna has had an amazing journey with weight loss. I made this video for her and entered her into a Ragnar Relay/Biggest Loser contest. Don't mind the part where I am talking, It's awkward. But her story is truly amazing. I didn't have enough time in my 2 minute video to tell her whole story, but hopefully this gives you an idea of it!
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