cutest little legs and feet

At Trudy's after devouring our stuffed avocados. 

Time for another bachelorette weekend in Austin!

Amy's turn this time, but let's have a look back at this one! 

about 3 years ago...

hopefully things won't end up like this... 

hahahahahahahhahaha

greg and amy

they have a  really cute wedding web site up, Probably should CIO, (check it out) 

what to make

I can't stop thinking about stuff I want to make, and yes the thought that follows that is "I wonder if people would want to buy this?" Lately I've been having fun in photoshop with those fun new fonts I got making cute little signs and thinking of fun messages to put on them. I think they would be cute on a tote bag or something. What do you think?

When will she sleep again?

On baby A's current sleep routine:
When she was tiny, like a newborn, she was a great sleeper. By 5 weeks she was sleeping 6 hours and beyond and it just kept improving over the next couple months. And I was thinking, wow this sleeping thing is easy. Right around 4 months she began to waiver on that reliable "through the night " sleeping. Maybe we can say it's because of teething pain? Or growing pains of some kind? She will still occasionally sleep through the night, like maybe 11 to 6 30, that's about the best we have done in the past couple weeks, other wise she will wake up as much as once every 3 hours! Is  she hungry? Is she in pain? I usually just nurse her, but sometimes even that won't put her back to sleep. Last night I was planning on putting my foot down. She went off to sleep pretty peacefully at 9 ish. At 1 25 I awoke to the sound of her cries. my plan was NOT to nurse her so as to stop her thinking every time she wakes up in the night she gets the boob. I let her cry for 10 minutes, went in, soothed her, let her cry for 5 more. Went in, picked her up and did the ole baby dancing, like we did when she was a newbie every night to get her to go to sleep, for like 25 minutes to no avail. at this point she was being really loud and I was SO FRUSTRATED. I always go into these situations saying that I'm gonna be calm and keep my cool, but I'm not strong enough to get through an entire session of yelling yet without getting upset. Paul came in and took her at that point, poor guy he has to go to work today. He was downstairs walking around with her for about 25 minutes. She still wasn't asleep! And so at this point she had been up for almost an hour and a half, and so, I nursed her and she passed out. As that silly guy would say "Epic Fail". She slept until 7 30 this am. Tonight? who knows, more adventures in crying and non-sleeping babies. It ain't all a walk in the park folks! Right now she is scooting around on her belly  and rotating around in circles on our wood floor. She's so cute.

liking my new header? bear with me i might change it a couple times

there! that's nice, except i see my whites aren't really matching perfectly. oh well you might just have to live with that.

6 months old now

my my my, half of my girl's true "babyhood" is already over. How in the heck did that happen so fast. I think all the time about how great it will be when she can talk to me, walk around, and be a little more independent. But when I am holding this little girl on my chest, or when I totally engulf her little body in my arms I just think "oh my gosh!! this is going so fast!!". I can't believe what can happen in 6 months. My love mechanism is functioning at an all time high. 

My daughter Amelia IS THE BEST THING IN THIS WORLD TO ME, and to her daddy too. We both agreed this weekend that if we were ever going to get a tattoo it would obviously have to be her name. We probably aren't going to get tattoos though. Any way I'm sure you knew that I loved my girl, just wanted to reiterate. Now please enjoy some photos narrated by the girl herself.  

 

hey Mom isn't it so great that I can sit up now! ya, i think so too...

 

oh...i have some drool on my chin? and my eyelashes are pretty?

 

HA HA HA! MOM YOU ALREADY TOLD ME THAT ONE! oh ya these are my cute 'lil teeth

 

check out THESE stiffy legs. still practicing...

 

oh gosh is this really a good pose?? oh ok great well i'll give you a big smile then

 

here are some new faces I've been working on. last one is called "the Krause-head face" 

 

ok well, I hope you enjoyed some pictures of me on my 6 month birthday. Now I'm just gonna go float around on a cloud, or play with some magical canaries, or find some baby lambs to cuddle with.

bye bye

1/2 a year

I'll post more from our "shoot" soon. 

Today I am having fun with font

I downloaded a bunch of fonts off this site for free, and then made some funny little signs.

 

So many florida pictures, part 2