6 Months

Well she is officially 1/2 a year old! She is an expert crawler, she pulls up on everything, and she is about to say her first words! Here are some pictures, and I have also gone back and posted quite a few pictures from the last 3 posts, and a video. Enjoy!

Bed and Breakfast/ 5 year Anniversary!

November 7th marked Jason and My 5th Wedding Anniversary. We celebrated by leaving Allison with Grammy and going to a Bed and Breakfast in McKinney. (far enough to be away but not too far that we spent the whole time in the car) It was a huge cool house that I didn't take enough pictures of, I never do, but here is our room. We ate at a Hibachi place and had a lot of fun. I had my first drink in over a year, although I only finished about 1/2 of it! I was getting spacy and Jason was laughing at me. Then on the way home I was singing to all the songs on the radio, not normal behavior for me! The room was great except it has the original windows (it's a very old house) and both walls are completely covered in windows so it was freezing! We did have a delicious breakfast the next morning. Then we went over to the third Monday trade days before we headed home. The only thing I ended up buying was lots of bows for Allison. But I got some really cute ones and I think they will last for a while.

Thanksgiving

Pics of Allison eating Zwieback Toast for the first time

Ready to go to Grammy's in the morning


The Friday before Thanksgiving was such a great day. I got to go to Happy Hour with my mommy friend Alissa (both of our first HH since becoming mommies) and then I got to go home and look forward to the next 9 days with my baby! We had a pretty busy weekend and on Monday we got to hang with Alissa and her baby for a while. Allison got to eat in a real highchair at a restaurant and she did great. I also started buying her the level 2 food. I was getting sick of feeding her the same 5 things! (I'm sure she didn't care) Then on Tuesday Allison and I went to Dallas to pick up Alyssa and then we all left that night for the cabin. We were there until Saturday night. Benjamin and his new fiance Melissa came up Thursday night until Saturday morning so it was a full house all week. (Our 2 big dogs and my parents little dog also added to the chaos) It was a nice week spent eating, sleeping, reading, and fishing. Well, let me qualify that. Technically I don't think it would be considered fishing. My dad and Jason put out jug lines and then checked them about twice a day. However, they did catch the biggest fish they have ever caught 55lbs!! It was bigger than our dogs! It completely filled the bathtub they keep fish in outside. Crazy!

My family doesn't do turkey (weirdos) so we had a pork roast. Very good Mom! More than half the family was reading part of the Twilight series at some point during the week. Good thing we had 3 copies :) Allison charmed us all and had a great time crawling around, riding in her stroller, and just being adorable. Jason had a blast riding the new 4 wheeler and Jonathan and Alyssa took turns driving the mule around.


This was how she woke up from one of her naps at the cabin, arm out of the shirt through the neck

Her teeth were really bothering her one day so we gave her a popsicle to chew on, it was still closed of course but she loved it!

We came back home Saturday night. Sunday was busy spent doing laundry, cleaning, and buying a 9 foot Christmas tree. Yes that's right, 9 feet!! Here's how that went down.....We went to Garden Ridge b/c we have finally given in to the pressure and decided to buy a fake tree. Well the one we wanted was sold out and it turns out that half the stock of trees was sold out as well. Jason isn't much of a Christmas person if you know him. Yes he hangs Christmas lights but when it comes to our house he only lets me listen to Christmas music AFTER Thanksgiving and he isn't a big fan of decorating. So with that being said when the man says, "If we are going to do this let's do it big." I was a little taken aback. Mind you the tree looked perfectly reasonable on the floor at Garden Ridge. (I know what you are thinking, they have 20 ft ceilings and the place is huge. Yes I know, but I was so shocked he wasn't throwing a fit I didn't think about this) So we get this seemingly reasonable tree home and it takes up the entire living room!!! Jason has to stand on the coffee table just to put the top piece of the tree on! (his statement at the store was, "I have an 18 ft. ladder") So we squished it into the corner and it sorta fits. Lucy had a conniption when she saw it (our dog) she is scared of wrapping paper tubes so imagine her anxiety at a 9 foot tree in the middle of the living room! She knocked me over trying to get away from it. Stupid dog. (thankfully I wasn't holding the baby and the wood floor caught my fall.)

My parents also gave us some of our Chrismas so we could use them. We got a Flip. It's a little video camera that plugs right into the computer. It's pretty awesome. We got a great video of Allison laughing at peek-a-boo (her new favorite game) and once I read the instructions I'll upload it :)





The tree in action

I'm a member

It's official, I have earned my mom patch. Yesterday was quite an interesting day! It started on Saturday night when Allison's head hit my lip and gave me a nice blood blister that resembled a black mole on my lip. Then Sunday morning she got poop in her hair as Jason was changing her so he had to wash her head off. Later that morning is when it got interesting. She spit up, yep that's right, IN MY MOUTH! GROSS!!! I ran to the sink to rinse out my mouth. YUCK!! But the day wasn't over yet people! As I was changing her for bed I let her dance naked on the changing table (her absolute favorite, the only thing better is in front of the mirror) anyway, she was dancing, then she looked down at herself and peed. Standing up. That was new. Then she stubbed her toe on the dresser so I hugged her and she peed again! It was a fun filled day!

Slow down!!

Is there a pause button on life? I am so looking forward to the holidays when I can be at home with my little peanut. She is growing up so fast!

Here she is "talking"

And here is her latest progress on crawling. In about 3 days she figured it out and now she is a mad women! My mom had to put up blockades all over the place today to keep her from getting into things. How does it all change so fast??

and today....

She's growing up so fast!!!

Bets are now being accepted for when Allison is going to walk!! She figured out how to move her hands with her legs. She was actually crawling yesterday at my Mom's, this video doesn't really show it, but I'll get it and post it soon!

5 Months!

Here, she is, 5 months old already! She is sitting up so much better than in her other month pictures! We had to lean the chair back or prop her up with the stuffed animals. Now she can sit on her own.

Her Uncle Benjamin made her a hat

Here she is in one of her favorite toys as of late. She loves to jump! And her baby legs are just too cute.She is such a happy baby

She now likes to hold her own bottle

The gang, notice Allison pulling Alyssa's hair. Alyssa is the first person with long hair that Allison is around. She thought Jason was pulling it.