Everly 6 Months

6 Month Stats:

Weight:  12 lbs 11 oz  (2nd%)

Height:  25 inches  (12%)

Head:  16 3/4 inches  (25%)

This little lady is already 6 months old!  I can't belive how fast time goes.  She is a petite little thing!  She only gained about 5 ounces from 4 months.  And she weighs exactly what Sienna weighed at 6 months!  The Dr. wasn't too happy with it though, and said that I have to get her to eat solids twice a day now.  I have tried feeding her, but she is really not a fan yet.  I will have to keep trying!  He said other than not gaining much, she looks great!  She had to get lots of shots, plus a flu shot, and I felt so bad for her.  But she recovered quickly.  I have to go back in a month to get a booster for the flu shot and do a weight check, so hopefully she starts to like food!

She is a happy baby, and is attached to mom, but not too bad.  She will let other people hold her, but if she sees me coming towards her, she gets really excited and wants me to take her.  She isn't rolling around very much.  She can roll from belly to back, but she hates being on her belly so most of the time she will just cry.  She has found her feet though, and I love when she lays and plays with them.  It's so cute!  She's not sitting up by herself yet, but we keep practicing and I think that it will be soon! She likes to play with toys and grab for things.  She still likes to play with her hands as well, or my fingers.  She still sucks on her bottom lip.  She loves her blankets and loves to snuggle her face in them.  

She has regressed in sleeping majorly.  She was sleeping through the night before the 4 month regression, and it has become even worse now.  She is waking up about 2 times a night.  I have tried to let her just cry and go back to sleep, but she is persistent and will cry for an hour.  Blah!  It sucks for me, so I end up just getting up to feed her since it only takes about 10 mins and she will go back to sleep.  Not what I want to do, but she is stubborn.  And I don't have a room for just her to put her in so that makes it harder.  Hopefully she will start to figure it out again and sleep through the night so I can stick her with Sienna.  She is a good napper though, she takes 2 a day, and they are about 2-3 hours each!  The afternoon one overlaps with Sienna's so I get a nice break as well!

She loves bath time, and splashing her legs in the water.  She is still a little stubborn with her smiles and laughing, but she has been doing it more lately.  She is a sweet little baby and we all love her so much!  The kids love giving her their toys and talking to her and giving her lots of hugs and kisses.  We love our Everly so much and are so happy that she is in our family!

December Fun

We got to see Santa at our ward Christmas breakfast!  No crying this year.  Camden asked for Ninja Turtles (I have no clue why, he has about a million) and I'm not sure Sienna asked for anything.  It was just a win cause no one was crying.  Everly would have cried, but I forgot to put her in the picture! 🙈

Everyone loves helping at bath time!

It snowed in San Antonio!! It was so crazy, I couldn't even believe it.  I heard it hadn't snowed here in 30 years!  And it was way more snow than I thought we would get too.  We went out for a little bit, Camden liked it at first, but then his hands got too cold.  Sienna hated it from the beginning (smart girl) and didn't even want to stand in it.  Haha!  It was a Christmas miracle!  Good thing the next week it was back in the 60s and 70s.  That's more like my kind of winter!

Had to document this because Camden has always been a picky eater.  But he asked for the boiled egg and tomatoes and liked them!  He already likes the carrots and avocado.  He's getting so big!

We decorated our gingerbread  graham cracker houses for FHE!  They were so excited to decorate and eat all the candy!

Some of the fun crafts that he made at school.  They had a fun Christmas party their last day where they got to wear pj's, watch a movie, eat popcorn, drink hot chocolate and play games!  He said it was lots of fun!  

She didn't want to miss out on getting her picture taken!

And had to get one of this pretty girl too!

This girl was so stubborn with eating solids.  She didn't gain very much from 4 to 6 months, so the Dr. told me I really had to get her to eat solids twice a day.  To say she didn't like it was an understatement.  She hated it.  I had to lay her down the first few times and just squirt it into her mouth so it would go down.  She would just leave it sitting in her mouth and not even try it.  Little stinker!  It took about 5 days of doing this to her gradually getting better each day.  She now loves it and is pretty excited to eat!  Not sure why she was so against it in the beginning, but glad she loves it now!

AZ part 3

This silly girl was just loving sitting at the edge of the pool with her feet in.

Friday called for more swimming fun! We had to get as much in as we could!  Brittney, Kenzie and I did go to Ikea and a couple of hair stores for our black friday shopping.  I left Everly home, but it was the wrong move.  Sorry to everyone that had to deal with her crying most of the time.  😥  

This girl was not a happy camper at the lights.  She got put in time out...which was Everly's car seat on the stroller.  It was supposed to be a punishment, but she actually liked being in it.  She even was buckling herself in.  Haha.

We went that night to see the Mesa Temple lights.  It was so pretty to walk around.  Not being in Utah and being able to go to Temple Square, it was fun for us.  And since it was about 70 degrees, even more enjoyable to walk around!

Love these two!

On Saturday we went to Curtis and Angela's house to watch the Michigan/Ohio State game and have lunch.  These are the only two pictures I got, but it was fun to see them again, and Eric's cousin, Justin.  

Our drive home on Sunday (26th).  We didn't leave as early, we decided we would just get home later, since we were just getting home to go to bed either way.  It was a mostly uneventful drive, our car started having the same issues again after being on the road for about 6 hours, but we made it home and now we just need to get it checked out and see what is up with it.  Camden had fun coloring again.  The kids were a little more restless this time, but overall were still very good.  We even rented The Nut Job 2, and The Emoji Movie for them so they would have something new to watch.  It was a successful trip for us and we are so glad that we were able to go!  We are so grateful to the Clark's for letting us stay with them and hope they didn't get too sick of us...since we were there the longest!