Afternoon (evening) Power Nap...

A one hour power nap turned into a 5 hour siesta! (Kelli got in a good 2 1/2 hours too!) After we decided to cause enough noise in the kitchen to "wake" her up for dinner, we found our child with a serious case of BEDHEAD! We also noticed that she was a little discombobulated...
What time is it? Where am I? Did I miss dinner?

Nanna's morning visit...

Laela's nanna (aka Jotina Shmotina) came over at the crack of dawn this morning to visit Laela. We know Laela is always one happy baby in the morning and once again, she didn't disappoint. Here are a few pictures of Laela playing with her toys and giggling away!

Burritos? Who brought burritos?

Monkey jammies!

I love jammies (pj's, pajamas, night-night clothes...whatever you call them). Here are my favorite Laela jammies right now!

If you look close you can see the little monkey tag on her chest says "I'm not tired." HA! Yeah right! Here is Laela, literally 30 seconds after I put her in the crib tonight.

Again, we are so blessed for Laela to take after my sleeping habits (okay...my eating habits too!) Tonight I started at 5:05 getting her ready for bed. We did all of this:

1. changed clothes

2. played a little

3. took a few pics

4. ate dinner (green vegetables with brown rice, cereal, yogurt and 6 oz bottle)

5. got the paci

6. went to bed

At 5:45 I started blogging because she was already asleep! HOLY SMOKES! She must have been so tired today. Poor baby!

We've been tagged!

1. Go to your 4th folder where you store your photos.
2. Select the 4th photo (no exceptions).
3. Post the picture with an explanation and link it back to your tagger.
4. Tag 4 people to do the same.

This is it! Her is Laela before getting her ears pierced. We were measuring the dots and making sure the earrings will be in the right spot. They turned out great!

Now we tag the Eung's, Cramer's, Hodges', and Aday's. Our bonus tag goes to the Miller's!!!

7 months...

Time flies when you are having fun...and that we do on a daily basis with our little Laela Grace. She is truly the love of our lives. Every morning she makes me smile. One of my favorites is being the first to go in and get her out of bed. Laela gets so excited to see a familiar face after a long night of sleep. Her smile and excitement just light up the room!

Well...she is 7 months now. Ro and I just talked about already missing her being so small and cuddly. Seriously...you blink and the time is gone. Laela is almost 22 lbs and loving it. Of course the majority of her weight is in her cheeks and thighs (okay...a little in her belly too!). Laela is still eating 2nd foods but we have just recently started yogurt, meats, and combo meals (chicken noodle dinner, macaroni and veggies, etc.) We have just started giving her a spoon to try it herself. We help her dip the spoon and then she puts it directly in her mouth! Also, She thinks the sippy cup is a bone as she gnaws on it instead of sucking it. Its a work in progress.

Her physical abilities:
She is STILL working on rolling. She does a great job of teetering on her side, but not rolling over completely. I know she can do it because she has 3 or 4 times but she does not seem to even care that she doesn't roll. Oh well! I just want her to be genius baby! :) Speaking of genius...Laela can pick up things, transfer them from hand to hand, put them in her mouth, and move them where ever she wants them.

Here she is having fun on daddy's knee!

Car seat confusion!

Part of Ro's honey-do list from last week included researching convertible car seats and finding the best one for Laela. Okay, okay! We know that Britax is supposed to be the best, but I don't always agree the the most expensive ($300 and up) are the best for us or Laela. Anyway, Ro researched and found one with really good ratings and a reasonable price. Then we go to the store and look...of course we get overwhelmed! There are so many to choose from and each has it's own pro's and con's. HELP! Does anyone have any suggestions, because as you can see from the picture below...our little sleeping beauty is getting a tad bit BIGGER! It is time for the switch. :)

My new spring attire!

Oh, I love capri pants (and I think Laela does too)!
Does anyone else think that she looks giant? Oh my...she is getting so big, so quick. Before I know it, she is going to be on her way to Kindergarten. AHHHH!

Play time...

Laela loves to play and now she is doing so well sitting up, which makes it a little easier! Here she is after we got home from school today. She likes playing with the zoo.

Here is Laela's changing table toy. I try to keep a one toy at the changing table, so she doesn't see it all the time. Then she is a little more excited (distracted) by the toy rather than paying attention to the diaper. It seems like she has been a little more "SQUIRMY" on the changing table and this helps. :)

Yes...this is the purple Care Bear..."Harmony Bear." Don't you love it?

New addition to our family...

Well...here she is...

Ro ordered a treadmill for our big Christmas present this year. I think that he was finally tired of hearing me complain about how large my butt is, or how flabby my arms and belly are, or maybe BLAH BLAH BLAH. Also, my gym membership just keeps getting charged without me taking advantage of it. We are so blessed to have Laela go to sleep early, so I can not use her as an excuse. I could have gone to the gym in the evening, but I never felt like it. I am tired when I get home from school! Then, Ro and I decided that we could get a treadmill for the house. So over the Christmas break we swapped office furniture because his fits better with the treadmill. We really wanted to put the treadmill in Ro's office, but that is next to Laela's room and it may wake her up. Well...now here is my office:

Notice the SUPER CUTE canvas print of Laela that we just ordered. It looks so great on the green walls! Now for the crazy treadmill story. We get it in. Some crazy company delivers it, literally just dropping it in the house. As Ro has practically assembled the entire treadmill, he realizes there is a small "hole" on the metal bottom side bar. He goes back to check the box...and yes there is a fairly large gash in the box. It looks like a fork-lift jabbed the box and then the treadmill. AH! Ro immediately calls Amazon and tells them about it. They reimbursed us 10% if we will keep it. Are you kidding...my Indian husband will keep anything with a hole in it if you reimburse him 10% of the orginal cost! So...whatever...we deal with the hole. Then one night we are trying to get Allie to get on the treadmill and get her exercise (it is something we saw on the Dog Whisper, but obvisously we are not Dog Whisperers!) Allie refused to get on, but in the process I find a crack on the main motor plastic covering. Finally, I notice the heart rate monitor does not work. There is no way that my heart rate is 79 when I can barely breathe! Ro called the company back and told them to come get there piece of crap. Yesterday, a new company delivered the second treadmill. We made sure to have the delivery company help Ro get out the treadmill so he could take a quick peek. Ro didn't see anything....nothing that is until 2 hours later when he has the entire thing put together. There is a dent/small hole in the SAME SPOT as the other treadmill. AHHHH! I decided...unless the treadmill gets mad and throws me off then we are not switching again. So...I have missed one day so far. During the week I have been getting up at 5:00 (okay...really 5:1oish) and walking/running for 30 minutes or so. On the weekends I did the treadmill during the day. Within the last two weeks, I have already worked my way from running for 5 minutes to now running for 15 minutes. Eventually I want to work my way up to running for at least 30-40 minutes. Hmmm....can I do it?

She's growing up!

You wouldn't believe what we did yesterday. Well....Ro and I have talked about this, but we just have not taken the time to go do it. Then, Brooke called and asked if Laela may wanted to join Maddie for an outing? Ro and I talked. He says that he is so afraid of Laela growing up too quick. Well...he ended up saying okay, so off we go....to get Laela's ears pierced.

We decided daddy would be the event supporter and I would follow up at the end. :)

She was a mover and a shaker the minute she saw the gloves go on, but Laela really did great!
Laela screamed a bit right after they pierced the first ear.

After the other ear I picked her up and loved on her!
All done. Now Laela has earrings that make her look so beautiful!