Merry Christmas and a Happy 2010!

Christmas Dress

Family Photos

I wanted some pictures to send out on Christmas cards. My sister-in-law just had hers taken and I loved them! The photographer who took them did such an awesome job and it was very hard to choose just one pic for the card....
So of course I have to share the rest! Because there are so many I will try and keep the wording to a minimum.
And sorry to my facebook friends for the repeat. Oh well!

Check out Nicole's website/blog at: http://nicoleleavittphotography.com/



My necklace disappears magically in some of them because it was oh-so-tempting and distracting for Navi. Shoot.


Attitude? Can't wait for the teenage years...






This is one of my all time favorites. I think she is saying, "See this finger? They are both wrapped around it."






Can't wait for Christmas!

This is What Grandpas are For

These pictures aren't the best quality because they're all from my phone, but it's the easiest way to snap a pic when I'm in a hurry.


It's kind of hard to tell but Navi is holding a big wad of paper; her favorite toy, and Grandpa is always so willing to give some to her.


Yes, we start early around here.


She loves when Grandpa Darrell tickles her. She freezes on the spot.


And last but not least...the one that made this first time, still very protective mom CRINGE...a delicious sucker. (and Grandpa may or may not be wearing his garmet top...any one who knows my dad knows this is not a rare occurrence)


I also wanted to throw in this video for fun. Allie and Bekka can always get her laughing.

Sixes

6 month session (I'm just a month slow in posting)

We love Eileen. And her talent. Enjoy.


Half of 1:

• As mentioned in a previous post, Navi got her first tooth on her 6 month birthday. Her second followed soon after.
  
• She now recognizes people and can tell when Mom is not in the room. She gets very excited when she sees Mom, Dad, both Grandpas, Grandma, and LOVES Aunt Allie. (don't worry Bekka, she likes you too)
  
• She is an excellent eater. One of her recent favorites is mac and cheese baby food. Mmm!
  
• She also loves the Gerber Puffs.
• When she is set down on the floor she instantly rolls to her stomach and begins to army crawl or takes a few motions to crawl. Now at 7 months, she is going to be full on crawling any day now.
• She loves to play with Daddy and already knows how to get what she wants from him.
  
• She is sleeping better and better and usually wakes up only once for a bottle. (she's a growing girl, what can I say?) And now when she wakes up in the morning she lays and babbles for a good 15-20 minutes. (it's a good "waking up" time for Mom)
• She is only a cuddle-r when she is tired, and sometimes not even then. (sad for mom) There is just too much to see and put in her mouth!
• She waves bye-bye. But only to Grandma and Grandpa Buttars. No one else believes me.

Happy Orange and Black

Here is a photo story line of our Halloween activities:




We were the Peanuts! Lucy, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy. I was very proud of my cheap costumes. My dress was a D.I. find, I made Nate's shirt, and Navi's snoopy costume was an Ebay steal! Applause is greatly appreciated. Oh and the thing on Nate's head is a bald cap and what is supposed to be Charlie Brown's one hair...it was a cool idea in my head.


This is our 3rd annual friend party. Party goers include:

BACK - Rem and Traci Rainey, as a turkey and a hunter; Alisha and Dave Webb, as a roulette table and a dealer; Anna, John, and Cache Swenson, as a skeleton family; Dani and Trevor Allen, as a pregnant nun (gasp!) and a Reverend (is that the correct Catholic term?)

FRONT - Me and Nate (Snoopy was sleeping...maybe even while lying on her back on her doghouse), Mallory and Andy Hutchison, as a Prego spaghetti jar (she's prego! haha) and a plate of spaghetti and meatballs; and a sad/tired little pirate nephew.







Navi's first trick-or-treating door. Aunt Bekka answered.


Trick-or-treating at Grandpa and Grandma Buttars'. (you can't really see Grandpa but he's there!)




Instead of candy, Navi got to try Gerber's Puffs for the first time.


Did she love them? Let's just say she inherited her mother's gag reflex. But she got used to them. :)


Snoopy had to take a bath to clean her nose and I just thought this was a cute picture.


She loves to splash.

And also a random fact...

We have TEETH!! As in more than one! Aunt Ashley discovered her first tooth on her 6 month birthday, October 14, and her second came in a few days later. I wondered how long Nate and I would have gone if Ashley hadn't found the tooth. Navi wasn't fussy at all for the first but her second was a different story. It wasn't too bad, but it was almost like since she knew that we knew she had one, she wasn't going to let us get away with another one breaking in easily.

It's so much fun to watch her grow and change everyday. We love our little Navi Babe!

Pink

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I LOVE how more and more people are supporting and promoting research for a cure.

I also LOVE how people who have survived the horrible disease are celebrated.

I just HOPE people still remember to celebrate those who weren't as fortunate.

It doesn't mean they didn't FIGHT just as hard to LIVE.

I LOVE YOU MOM.

Tales of a Tenth Month Nothing

I can't completely explain where or how my brain came up with this blog title, but when thinking about what we've been up to lately all I could muster was....a whole lot of nothing.

Do you remember the book "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"? It was the first book of the "Fudge" series that I'm fairly positive I read in each year of my grade school classes. Ok, maybe 3 out of 5.


So to add to the already confusing, late-night, low-brain-wave, paragraph above, I guess this blog title is what you would get if:
our boring event-less month of October
and
the childhood chapter book
fell in love
and had a child.

(go on, say it. go to bed laci. go to bed!)

I will also place blame on the fact that I can remember I had a very excellent blog idea last night (also very late) right before I fell asleep, however I can't remember what it was. This is what you get instead. Lame.

In other news...

My baby is now 6 months old! What the heck?! It started to really make me sad when I realized that in another short 6 months she will be turning 1!!

Just for fun, or pure lack of recent pictures, (you choose) here are her monthly pictures up to this point. Minus 2 months old...I originally planned on only taking the pictures in 3 month intervals and then changed my mind when I realized how fast she changes. Lame again.

1 month. Still a tad alienish, but also cute.



3 months



4 months. She was dreadfully sick this day (hence the pajamas) although you'd never be able to tell from her smile. Also, this is from my phone. (hence the low quality)



5 months. I just decided to run with the jammie theme. Why not?



6 months. If you would like to take notice, her jammies say Hoot Hoot - I'm Cute. They place a close second to what I like to call her "Elvis PJs" that read: Tweat Me Nice. Complete with robins. I guess I'm a sucker for the bird themed sleep sets.


Speaking of The King...or should I say Navi's newest bedtime routine addition. That's right, like mother like daughter. The kid loves Elvis.

It started out as a desperate attempt to get her to calm down at one of my sister's tennis matches. She was deathly tired and wouldn't give into stroller slumbering. I'm sure it was because every time she would doze off some tennis teen would ace a point, cause crowd chaos, and startle her back to consciousness. Since she normally falls asleep to her lullaby CD I decided to try and put my iphone in her stroller to drown out the noise. This worked for a couple songs until Bon Jovi blasted through the speakers. Frantically I clicked through my artist playlist until it landed on the one and only "E". BINGO. Not even 30 seconds into Love Me Tender and she was out.

It's been a week and every time I put Mr. P on shuffle, I feel like I need to knock on a Wooden Heart. Hearing his voice his like holding a Teddy Bear and without fail she Surrenders and there is no more Crying in the Chapel. What can I say? He is definitely our Good Luck Charm. (Elvis song pun alert!)

I guess we really should have named her Presli.