Holy Kannoli dear baby Kacie,
How are you already 5 months old?????????
I mean, for real. Where has the time gone!
I'm sitting here writing this and you are swinging' and bouncing' around in your jumper, happy as can be while you suck on your finger.
And no, you are not hungry because I literally just fed you.
You are very close to sitting up on your own. You basically already do but sometimes you get excited and throw yourself backward, fall to the side or forget to use your abs to hold your back up. But I give it a week. You will master this sitting thing by Thanksgiving.
We also put you in the shopping cart one night! We kind of had to support you with your blanket but it was mostly you holding yourself up!
Then about a week later we did it again and you held yourself up by holding the bars in front of you!
You roll all over the place! It really throws me off sometimes because I will lay you on the ground on your back and then leave the room for a few seconds. When I come back you will be in a completely different spot and direction! I have to remind myself that you can roll.
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| This is your favorite position to roll in to! Directly under all the toys I suppose is what you're going for. |
You LOVE your jumper!
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| One of my all time favorites of you! |
So Halloween was awesome…
Technically we did not cross-dress you for your first halloween. You were Harry-et Potter!
I taught myself how to knit just so that I could make you this adorable scarf!! It only took me like two months…
And your glasses were just drawn on a paper and cut out. Then taped to your nose. You loved them and left them on for like 30 minutes!
We went to the Draegers house and had chili and corn bread and caramel apples and sugar cookies! We watched Monster Univiersity. Sorry that we didn't take you trick or treating… but really, we aren't that sorry...
You have the cutest little ponytail! Maybe we should have dressed you up as a Who for Halloween! It's ok to dress up babies for Christmas right?
Grandma Sandra bought you this outfit a while ago. It is a tiny bit too big but obviously we don't care. It is sooooooo adorable! You can bet you will be wearing this on Thanksgiving!
You still basically have bibs on 24/7. Although there have been a few days that I haven't had to put one on you. But it's not safe to do that… more like I'm tired of always putting them on you so I don't!
You looove water bottles! I don't know if you think they resemble your bottles but whatever the case, you freak out anytime they are near you. At dinner when we use water bottles, we have to get one out for you too or you won't sit still.
You are wearing 6 month clothes now. I had some 3 month pants on you the other day and when I say 'pants' I actually mean 'pants that looked like capris'
Your 3 month onsies are fitting perfectly right now so you will out grow them by next weekend.
Sometimes I put my hair in a ponytail so that you can't grab it… ya that doesn't work.
The other day you grabbed my hair at the base of my hairline, in a ponytail, and managed to get all this is out: (look closely)
I tried to paint your nails like mine… you hated it. I never was able to finish painting all of them.
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| Is it bad that I think you are still adorable when you are crying? |
You are still waking up in a great mood in the mornings. It is so absolutely adorable.
Since you've been sitting a little bit lately I decided to see if you would play with your piano.
It lasted for about 30 seconds.
Then you found the blue buttons on the sides...
So I tried being creative by tying a piece of my wrap behind you to hold you up…
That lasted about 10 seconds because you decided to try and eat the buttons.
I look at you and watch you and you are amazing.
You are learning so much. It is so cool to see you discover new things. You frequently will stop what you're doing and just stare at your hand and watch yourself turn it around and move your fingers.
It's amazing to see you responding to things that are going on around you. Whenever we go out to the store you just look at everything around you and soak it all in. And when people stop to look at you, which they always do, you just stare at them wide eyed, not blinking.
Grandma Gonthier bought you this dress a while ago. I'm so glad it finally fits cause its the prettiest little thing!
You are seriously the happiest baby we've ever had!
And yes, you are the only baby we have ever had but we like it! So here's to hoping your siblings follow your lead!
You have the biggest most beautiful eyes! I am smitten by them. Even when it's 11:30 and I'm trying to get you to go to bed but you just stare up at me like there are no problems in the world.
And that is when I am reminded that you are the biggest blessing.
Sometimes it is so difficult to be a parent. It is exhausting, frustrating and confusing!
Your dad and I get annoyed and stressed sometimes! (not that often, but it happens)
And it doesn't mean that we love you any less. But when you won't go to sleep, or you eat for hours or you cry for no reason, its hard!
We have to take a step back and remind ourselves that you only have one way to communicate. And that it's going to be ok eventually, we just have to learn to have patience in the moment.
But don't you ever forget how much we really do love you! A couple weeks ago we went to the temple so we of course, had to leave you with a babysitter. We took you to the Butler's and we knew you would be fine! I wasn't worried about that, but it was really hard to leave you!
So we went to the temple and when we got done with the session and got to the celestial room, dad said "Let's go, I miss Kacie!"
We went to dinner too but we ate really fast because we just wanted to hold you!
You bring so much joy to our lives!
If dad could stay home everyday, we would just sit and watch you move. Well, maybe not the whole time. Dad would definitely pick you up and [gently] toss you around for a bit! Just to toughen you up!
We love you soooo much Kacie Jean and can't wait to see what the next 5 months bring!
Love,
Mom and Dad
