Lesson Learned

Today I learned a valuable lesson that I will hold with me forever...

Do NOT tell your toddler that we are going to the park an hour before you are actually ready to go!

Needless to say it was a very interesting hour at the Robin house.

Austin Trip

On Saturday we headed to Austin to spend time with family. John and Taylor did great on the trip down and back. Here are some photos from our trip.

John in his movie watching position for the ride.

Taylor and her new car seat.

Uncle Sam with Taylor

Uncle Sam with John and Taylor

Kylie with Taylor

John and Madelyn on the jeep at the park.

Taylor fell asleep after listening to her daddy and grandpa talk, apparently it was boring.

Grandma, Taylor, Jim, and John.

John eating shrimp dip, he ate almost the entire bowl himself.

Jason and Taylor, she is wearing her new little cute tutu her aunt Kari made.

John and Madelyn reading books.

Jason, Taylor, and John at the pool.

Jim teaching John how to tie his tractor to his remote control car so the car will pull the tractor, genius!

It works!

Taylor and Jason

Jason giving Taylor kisses and Taylor laughing.

Miss Madelyn

Taylor watching John and Madelyn on the slip and slide.

John running around between all the water activities. 

Video of John and Madelyn on the slip and slide.

John and Madelyn dancing to "My Girl". I think we must have played that song three or four times for them. The two of them just danced around the entire house in their PJ's, so cute. 

Video of John and Madelyn dancing to "My Girl"

Video of John and Madelyn dancing around the house to "My Girl"

John and Taylor

Taylor wearing her new outfit from Nana, this is a 9 month old outfit. 

My little girl is growing up way to fast.

It has been raining all day today and Taylor took some time to watch it rain. 

By the way in the photo it looks like it is night outside, but it was really around 2pm, but my camera does not take great window photos.

Working out and showing off his new outfit from Nana.

Taylor noticed her reflection on the dishwasher and started kissing it, so cute.

Taylor's new car seat!!! 

I needed to fit her to it before we put it in the car and John wanted to help so he picked her up and put her in the seat by himself. I was very impressed.

New fort out of the car seat box. 

Having a good time in her jumper.

Playing in John's room.

Taylor tried puffs and yogurt melts for the first time. At first she had no idea what to do with them and I really thought she would just put them right in her mouth like she does everything else but she didnt. I gave John some and told him to show Taylor how to eat the puffs and yogurt melts. He was more then happen to lead by example. 

She likes the puffs.

Next came a yogurt melt.

Which she was not a fan of, we will keep trying.

Taylor is 7 months old!

-Taylor-

Today you are seven months old! In the last month you have blossomed as you learned new things. At your six month appointment you weighed in at 16.6 pounds (75%) and your height was 27 inches (90%).

You love to be anywhere your brother is and you have conquered your fear of crawling on the tile because it is your only way to get to where you brother is at the time. John has picked up on you wanting to be close to him. He enjoys grabbing one of your toys and getting you to follow him around the house. He is doing much better at letting you play with his toys and sharing since you tend to play with a toy for just a few seconds until something new catches your eye.

I am pretty sure that if you knew how to walk you would be doing it already. You are every where and you have increased your crawling speed ten fold. With your increased daredevil attitude comes more falls than your brother took at this age. You recover quickly and go right back to what caused you to fall to begin with.

You want anything and everything in your mouth within your reach. Last week I had to buy a shopping cart cover since I knew once I put you in the shopping cart you would dive right for the hand rails, which you did, but you just ended up with a mouth full of fabric. Speaking of putting things in your mouth, you are quite the biter and you think its funny. However, those who you bit do not share your love for it. John tells you "No Ma'am", but you just look at him and smile then try to bit him again.

You are laughing more each day and we all love hearing it. John loves to tickle you and you love being tickled. John can get you to laugh at pretty much anything while your dad and I have to work at it, I guess we are just not funny enough for you.

You have two more teeth coming in which gives you a total of eight. You are a pro at going from a crawling position to sitting up, it seems you learned that trick overnight. You have also become more aware that just letting go and falling is not the best way to safely get back to the ground. You know that slowly lowering yourself down as far as your little arms will let you reach will let you have a minimal drop.

With John we had all the child safety precautions in place and he never really tested them out. However, you give baby companies a reason to keep inventing new baby proofing items. You seem to find everything that can cause you harm which again you think is funny while I have a mild heart attack. My hair gets a little grayer each day.

You are eating three meals a day in solids and it is going pretty well. I think you would prefer to eat what we are eating so tomorrow I plan to get you some yogurt melts and other first solid food things for you to try.

Tomorrow we will also be getting your new convertable car seat. Now that you can sit up so well it is much easier to just put you in the shopping cart when we shop or to carry you in places without lugging around your heavy infant seat. Hopefully you will like it even though you will no longer be able to have toys dangling in front of your face while we drive.

Here are some pictures from your life as a six month old! We can not wait to see what the next month brings!

Speed crawling!

Your new favorite hangout spot, your brother's room.

Climbimg to reach something you spotted.

Sitting up and chewing on a toy.

Plastic spoons are fun to play with.

Crazy swing hair.

Being tickled by John

Sleeping with your bunny.

Waking up to me taking a photo of you, you dont look to happy about it.