Bouncing Baby - 9 Month Update

Hello my wonderful readers. I can't believe my baby girl is 9 months old now! Wow! Where has the time gone? As of 3 days ago she has been outside me as long as she was inside. As I'm writing this my husband is gone for a couple nights for family reasons and I am home alone for the first time with the baby, it seems crazy in 9 months I have not been alone overnight with her. So 9 months has also brought a few other firsts, like that she has taken a couple steps pushing her push toy and we also had our first blow out diaper. I am now a real mom! HAHAHA!!

She loves Daniel Tiger and Minnie Mouse.

She loves baths and plays and splashes. 

She says dada the most but has said mama and baba.

She loves to stand up next to the coffee table.

She loves fruits and anything with apples in it.

She has tried toast and Ritz crackers besides her puffs.

She loves playing peek-a-boo, especially with daddy.

She still loves to put everything in her mouth.

She is sitting up unsupported now.
She is using a sippy cup every now and then.
She is now in a big girl car seat, still rear facing but not longer in an infant carrier.

 

Hope you enjoy this update as much as we love Penelope! Don't blink we will be at 1 year before you know it. Loves.

Bouncing Baby - 1st 4th of July

Hello my wonderful readers. Around the 1st of July last year we found out that we were having a girl, this year we celebrated her first 4th of July. She liked the fireworks after being a little unsure at first. We live in an apartment complex so we bought only two small fountain fireworks and some sparklers and went out to the street when it got dark and did just those. We went to a BBQ at my family's house during the day so she was pretty tired by the end of the day. Also we had a little 4th of July photo shoot. 

 Above is her petting Charlie in the morning right after her bottle, she loves her doggie and he is so good with her. Below is what she actually wore on 4th of July, one of her grandmas got the little dress for her. 

 Above is her and daddy in their red, white and blue. Below is her with her necklace cousin Ashlee gave her.

 Here she is playing with Ashlee. 

 Daddy lighting fireworks in the street and demonstrating the sparklers. 

 She was sleepy but liked them anyways. 

 She did so good! Grandma got her this little outfit. 

 These are the outtakes from the shoot haha. Charlie had to have his picture taken too. 

Hope you had a wonderful 4th weekend! Aaron was off Friday for the holiday so we had an extra day to relax as a family and just enjoy each other. Loves. 

Bouncing Baby - First Baseball Game

Hello my wonderful readers. In June my husband's company got a suite at the Sacramento Rivercats game for all who wanted to attend. It was a night game so we thought we would go for a few innings and then go home and put baby girl to bed. She was surprisingly wonderfully behaved and we all had a great time. We also got a chance to see Matt Cain from the Giants pitch because he was down in minor league recovering from an injury. 

 Her and her daddy, he was so excited to take her to her first baseball game. 

Us up in the box with Penelope posing for the picture haha she is such a ham.  

Matt Cain pitching. 

 Afterwards outside the stadium.

We all had fun and everyone said she was the cutest thing ever. Hope to go to more in the future. Loves. 

Bouncing Baby - 8 Month Update

Hello my wonderful readers. I can't believe that Penelope Ann is 8 months old already. Time has flown by since those four longs days in the hospital. Aaron and I were just looking at pictures of when we brought her home and how different she looks now from then. She is just doing so many things now and is so smart.

She is crawling quickly around and pulling herself all the way up on the bouncer, couch, TV stand and coffee table.

She is eating baby food 3 times a day: her breakfast favorite is Plum Banana Brown Rice, her lunch favorite is Sweet Potatoes (also her favorite veggie in general) and her dinner favorite I think so far is a new one she just tried Apple Turkey Cranberry. Her favorite fruit is Apples. I feed her Earth's Best brand jar food. She also just started eating Gerber My 1st Puffs original flavor.

 She loves her giraffe blanket lovey. She still is not sleeping through the night all the way, she sleeps half the night in her crib and wakes up and then sleeps the rest of the night in our bed with us. Part of the reason I think she isn't sleeping through the night yet is because she is in the same room as us still but with a one bedroom apartment you can't do much about that. Hopefully soon we can change some things.

She loves her daddy, he is her favorite person and I'm just fine with that. He is amazing with her and gives her a bath every night and her night time bottle.

She loves when we read her books and she has a lot of them. Her favorite is Paddington Bear.

I have started thinking of her 1st birthday party. I'm excited to plan it and throw it, just me and Aaron making decisions will be nice for a change.

Hope you enjoy hearing about our little one. Loves.

Bouncing Baby - 1st Father's Day

Hello my wonderful readers. I can't believe it is July already the time is flying by. A couple weeks ago we celebrated Aaron's first Father's Day. We went to my parents for the weekend and we had a relaxing time. My parents had a BBQ at their house on Sunday to celebrate all the fathers in our family. My mom bought one of those plastic kiddie pools so we filled it up a bit and Penelope and my niece Sophia got in and played since it was so hot.

 Above is daddy with his little girl, her onesie says "Our first Father's Day." 

Below is me with Penelope and my brother with his daughter Sophia. 

 Penelope hung out in her bouncer since we were out on the patio for the BBQ. Below is me and her the day before in the pool. 

Overall I think Aaron had a good first Father's Day. Loves.