4 Months Already?!

WOW! How are we even at the four month mark? I feel like she should still be tiny and fresh with her little sweet cry. I know four months is really not that old at all, but when you look at all the little moments that have flown by, that you will never get back again...it makes a difference.  If I really sit down and think about how quickly just four months have gone by, my heart starts beating really fast and it almost makes me cry.  I'm such a sap. Like really.  I want to take in every possible moment I can with Malia and soak it all up while I have this time with her.  Anyone who is a parent, and even those who are not, know or have heard many times how quickly they grow up, and I don't want to look back for one second and wish that I had taken more time to cherish the small things. 

Malia is seriously SO much fun now. She laughs and smiles all the time, and there is never a time where being held by mommy is a bad thing (I'm also soaking this up because I know this wont last forever).  She still sleeps like a rock star (12+ hours a night...score!), and eats like a champ. Her inner diva/drama queen has started to show its face..and it's quite hilarious. Colton and I get a kick out of all the sighs and gasps that she makes, though sometimes we look at each other like "Oh man, we're in for it with this one". We're also starting to notice that she is finally porkin' up a little and hopefully this continues, because for a while she felt so fragile, but I think she gets that gene from her daddy ;). Plus, we hit a rough patch a couple of weeks ago and she couldn't keep any of her milk down for long due to the formula being too hard on her tummy, but it looks like the new formula we have her on is a lot better.  Unfortunately I was never able to get my supply back to normal after our car accident and eventually I lost it completely, so she is no longer a BF baby, but formula is better than nothing! 

I can't wait for all the fun times ahead with our little stinker! She has such a personality already...so I can only imagine where we will be in the next couple of months.  

Favorite things:

Mommy & Daddy

Laughing and smiling

Anything that lights up

Music

Sleeping

Teething rings

Riding in the car

Her reflection

Other babies/children

Bath time

Getting undressed (I don't know why, but she thinks it's hilarious)

Talking aka cooing, drooling, and her new thing spitting...

Now for some Malia spam with some outtakes from our monthly photo shoot :))))

"who's four months? Me?"

Outtake #1

Outtake #2

Outtake #3


Stay well--
Meg

Some New Projects & Adventures..

I have been working my butt off for the past two weeks trying to set up my first Etsy shop, and now it is officially open for business! I had no idea how much work went into opening an online shop... But whew wee I learned quite quickly how delusional I was about the online business world. Not only do you have to make the products for your shop, but you also have to set everything up online too, all the while taking care of an infant who fully relies on you.

Soo if you haven't already checked it out, pop on over to my Etsy page! It'd be totally awesome if you favorited my page too ;), or you could always like my Facebook page. That way you'll know every time I have a sale or new item up.

We'll see where this little adventure takes me, and I'm hoping that I'm able to keep it up with how busy life can get. Plus, creating bows for Malia as well as others lets me put my creativity to use, while I get to have fun torturing Malia by making her my little model ;).

In other news.. Colton and I have decided that we are going to put our house on the market so that we can get a little closer to family and friends, which means we are embarking on the dreaded moving process. I seriously HATE this process and I wish buying or selling a house was an easy task, but it's not. So, all we can do is pray that something happens and that we are able to move when it's meant to be. I'm sure it will be extra fun trying to move into a new house with a baby, but we'll make it work! (Anything to get out of the 45 minute drive it takes just to see our parents!) Anddd Malia turns 4 months on Friday! Can you believe it?!

Stay well--

Meg

Weekend Recap

Can someone please tell me where my fall has been? I'm so ready to wear all my fall outfits with my boots and dark colored tights.  I also want to be wearing my burnt orange peacoat and my mustard and olive colored scarves, but I can't bring myself to do that when the weather is so stinkin' hot! It looks like cooler weather is on its way though, and I'll be quick to pull on my leggings and boots.

We had an extremely busy weekend, which started with Dayton Days  (I worked our church booth) on Saturday and holy cow! Who knew that chicken tenders and taco salad would be so popular!?! Oh, and did I mention my aunts homemade apple fritters? I ate so many of those addicting little things that I'm not so sure that my insides haven't completely turned against me. Besides the fact that the weather was like working in a furnace and there were what seemed to be like a whole countries worth of people there...it was fun.  I also found some really cute goodies for little Mia for next summer.  I love homemade hair bows, headbands, and dresses..and there was plenty of that to go around at DD this year.  We also went to a corn maze and a bonfire that evening..and to my surprise I LOVED the corn maze.  Malia fell asleep like ten minutes into it, but I didn't mind because I was having so much fun enjoying it myself.  I don't know if it was the fact that I was with some of my closest pals, while we acted like complete children (and maybe even complete idiots), or the fact that it was so much more of a challenge than I expected.  After making it out the first time, I left Malia with a friend while I went back in a second time! Half way through my second trip in I realized that it was a total mistake and that I was also a big loser. It was pitch black outside at this point and I had no map with me and NO IDEA where I was going. TOTAL FAIL. two broken shoes, muddy knees, and a face plant later I was out of the freaky corn mess and on my way to a bonfire. The bonfire was a blast of course..I mean they always are, and it turned out to be a great evening spent with friends.

On Sunday it was a beautiful day and I felt that it was oh so tutu worthy, so I put little Mia in her first tutu onesie and I think that I might have died and went to baby heaven because I could not get enough of that little nugget!  Every time I looked at her as she pulled, sucked, and chewed on her little tutu outfit I melted.  Never in my life have I felt so proud of something, but she makes me one proud mama! It's all the little things that make her so special to me... like how she has figured out that there is a toy on her carseat and she has endless staring contests with the pink critter, or how she is now a rolling baby! and not to mention the fact that she laughs, like REALLY laughs now. I'm pretty sure that is one of the single best sounds I have ever heard. We spent the day with both of our families yesterday (meaning our actual family and our church family), and it was a great end to a not so fall like weekend. But now it is back to reality until it is time to relax all over again next weekend..

Being adorable..like always 

At the corn maze before she conked out

Malia talking up a storm

I hope everyone has a great week and enjoy this crisp weather!!

Stay well--

Meg