6 Month Photos!

There's something about six months photos that are awesome!  I think it must be that their little personalities start to shine through.  Here is our sweet Amelia's six month photos and they rock!  The lady taking her pictures was super excited about every shot she got and kept saying "oh that's a good one!"

Superstar!

So angelic

Love this one and her teeth

Smiley girl

Precious

So big!

Angel baby

We love this little girl!

Amelia's 6 Months!

Half Birthday already?!?!  My time with this sweet girl is just flying by and I am soaking in every moment that I can.  On Thursday, she turned 6 months old and had her appointment the same day.  

She loved the paper but wasn't as much into crinkling it like the boys were.  She prefered to rip it and try and eat it.  She weighed in at 16lbs 9oz and was 26 inches long.  She got her shots and screamed and had tears.  I felt terrible as usual but once it was all over I was able to hold her and cuddle with her and she felt better.

Amelia is really into reading books lately, well actually she would rather eat them. 

She got to test out a sippy cup for the first time on her six-month birthday.  Her face was priceless when she tasted the water, but unfortunately I couldn't hold the cup and catch the facial expression "sigh."  She is loving her baby food and has had apples, pears, bananas, sweet potatoes, and carrots so far.  She can easily take down a jar if she is hungry.

Amelia is the sweetest little gal and completely continues to go with the flow.  She only ever cries when she is hungry and we can't get to her fast enough, for example a car ride.  She will also get a little fussy if she is tired and wants her momma. She definitely prefers to be held by me when she is sleepy.  She has recently been giving us 4-5 hour stretches of sleep at night, which is great.  She falls asleep around 7-ish and wakes around 7:30. She takes anywhere from 1-3 naps a day.  The one I can count on usually is in the afternoon when the boys nap.  I just feed her and lay her in the crib and she goes right to sleep (usually).  She is our easiest baby to get to fall asleep.   She will also get a little fussy when she is bored playing with a toy, sitting in a spot, etc but once you move her or give her a change of scenery she is happy as a clam.

Amelia loves her toys, really she doesn't care which one it is as long as she can stick it in her mouth and chew on it.  A couple days ago we busted out her walker she got from Santa and she loves pushing all the colorful buttons but mainly she likes chewing on whatever she can get her hands on.  She still just has her two bottom teeth but continues to drool profusely so I'm sure we will have more soon.

She loves to be in a sitting position.  She can roll over both ways but rarely does it.  Instead she will get cranky with her high pitched squeal until we move her to an upright position.  She will turn her self but refuses to actually roll over at this point.

I tried to get some photos by my flowers that are going crazy but the lighting just wasn't great.

So instead we put on some sunglasses and her 6-months-old sticker and went back to the bench.  I love how sweet she looks in pigtails and sunglasses.

This little lady still loves her feet and eating my chin.  With those teeth she has actually hurt me a couple times but I continue to let her do it.

With her hair getting longer she causes some nasty little knots in the back of her head just like Colin used to get, luckily I have been able to comb them out so far.

Another favorite thing she loves to do is watch her brothers.  She is always so interested in what they are doing.  They can easily make her laugh the most.

Getting so big

Back side

Naked baby

Front side

We love this little gal to pieces!  Happy 6 months!

Easter

Easter morning the boys woke up around 6:45 and were excited to come let us know the Easter Bunny came.  So we rolled out of bed to see what the bunny brought.

I just had to post this picture of Colin's crazy bed-head

Checking out their baskets

Then they found eggs inside and outside, only a few more were broken in the hunt, ha!

Liam finding some, he was so cute and even pointed some out to Colin so he could get them.

Boys with their eggs

When Amelia woke up she got to check out her basket too.  She mainly wanted to eat whatever she could get her hands on.

Holding her money bunny

Chris made pancakes for breakfast and Amelia got try something other than rice cereal, APPLES!  She seemed to enjoy it.

Love her little face here

After breakfast we went over to G&G Snay's.  

The boys checking out their baskets

Amelia with her basket

It was a super windy day but we still enjoyed being outside.  The kids cooperated a little while for some pictures

Love this one

Family photo

Baby girl

Aunt Sadie and Amelia

The boys got some punching bags in their baskets and they had a lot of fun with them, whether punching them, rolling on them, or just laying on them.

Great Grandma and Amelia

Amelia eventually crashed for a nap and Colin clearly needed a nap so Chris took Colin home to nap and the rest of stayed at my parents'.  We played cards and Liam watched a movie with Sadie and came and played some cards too.  It was a nice family day.  Around 4:30 Chris picked us up and we went over to G&G Casson's.  By this time our camera had died but we got a couple pictures with our phones.

Kids hunting eggs

Liam searching for more.

We ate more good food and were all wiped out by the end of the day.  It was a wonderful seeing all our family!

Pre-Easter

Saturday before Easter we took the boys to the Easter Egg hunt in town.  We took Liam two years ago and I wasn't super thrilled with it but I thought since Colin was old enough we'd give it a shot.  

The boys were really excited and Amelia enjoyed a little nap.

There was no count down to the start that we could hear, just a buzzer and people went running!  This was the picture of Liam bolting to the eggs before we lost him.

Colin got nervous and wanted me to come with him.  We got a late start as you can see.  I got him past some people and he was able to gather three eggs.  Then Chris noticed some in the middle of the field that had not been grabbed so Colin and I went that direction.  I got Colin in front of an egg and told him to grab it but it was swooped up by another larger kid, then I had him turn to grab another and it was swooped up by a MOM!  This mom literally scooped up a ton of eggs with both arms.  I couldn't believe it! I just stood there holding my two year olds hand and stared at her and said "Really mom?"  She then told me her daughter dropped her basket and she was just picking them up.  Her daughter's basket was overflowing with eggs and she was anywhere from 8-10 years old.  Then the mom said "oh does he need some eggs?" and grabbed some eggs from her daughters basket and threw them in Colin's.  She completely missed the point.  The last time they at least said parents needed to stay off the field unless they had little ones, but not this year so I am back to never wanting to do a community egg hunt again, ha!

When it was all over we could  not find Liam.  I was trying to remain calm but inside I was freaking out!  It only took us a couple minutes to locate him and he came back with basket of eggs and was pretty proud of himself. 

Liam and Colin checking out their eggs

Amelia continued to sleep and looked so sweet

Baby face

We let the boys play at the park for a little bit and then came home and had the boys take a nap.  Amelia slept a little bit but was the first one up.  Check out her bottom teeth.

She also had some crazy hair from her pigtails earlier in the day.

She's a sweet gal

Loving on each other

Later that evening Grandma and Sadie came over to dye eggs.  The boys were very excited to get started

Colin coloring his egg

Liam with his

Gang

I think the boys cracked about five eggs.  Amelia woke up at the end and joined us in a picture.  She really wanted to get her hands on an egg!

Family photo with eggs

I did each kiddos name.  We had a good time and were covered in dye by the end.