6 months old!

We now have a 6 month old baby!  What??
How on earth did that happen?  I know it is cliche, but really, where has the time gone?  As she was pushing herself up on to her knees the other day, it didn't even occur to me.  As she learned how to sit up for progressively longer amounts of time, I didn't even think of it.  As she has been experimenting with small amounts of baby food, I never even gave it a second thought.  But all of a sudden, here she is at HALF A YEAR OLD!!!

I know that some of these pictures might already be on here - but here are some of my favorites from this  half year.  I have had the hardest time with my camera lately and the pictures won`t load to my desktop, so hopefully you haven`t seem them all already!

Really, this isn`t a great picture of the baby, but it is a good picture of me and my hubby - and I have to say, I loved the beard.  I wish he didn`t have to be clean shaven for work, although now everyone has a beard and so I am kind of glad he doesn`t.  I don`t like to do things the same as everyone else.  It is the little bit of rebellion still left in me, I guess!  But he was so super cute with it!  He looked so different for the entire day after he shaved - like half of his face was missing!  Hahaha!

 LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this picture - it is how she looks so often!  She really is the happiest baby!

hanging out with her cousin! She is in the middle of blinking, which makes her look a little dopey, but it is still a cute picture!

Here she is cuddling with her great-aunt at her uncle`s wedding.
I love this picture too. First of all, it has my husband`s aunt in it and I adore her!  It is crazy, because in person she doesn``t look like my father in law, but in this picture, I can totally see the resemblance. Also in this picture,she is sucking her thumb and it is so funny, because we have never had a baby that sucked her thumb before, and although I worry a little about the possibility of her needing braces, I have two other girls who never did suck their thumbs who will likely need braces anyway.  And she is really happy with it AND it is awfully cute.  So to the lady in Costco who was so glad that her daughter the dental hygenist wasn`t there to see my daughter sucking her thumb because it would have made her upset...don`t worry about it - I have weighed out the options and have decided that I am okay with it - she probably won`t be sucking her thumb when she is 16...and if she is then I`ll be sorry then!

 Speaking of 16 year olds...here is my beautiful 16 year old at that same wedding.  How on Earth did I ever get to be old enough to have a daughter that old?  I wish I felt wiser!

 Here she is with my dad...her grandpa!

 And with a funky hat!!

Oh I can't believe it has been half a year! Wow!  And today - 6 months and 1 day old!  Crazy!  Crazy, Crazy!

Things are slowly getting back to normal

It takes a while for life to get back to normal after having a baby.  I was super tired, we had a bunch of big events that were taking up a lot of time and mental energy, and my husband was off on paternity leave.  That was great, but also changes the dynamics of how our life runs!
Now that he is back to work, and our renovation is 99% done (why do they stay at that stage for so long?) and we are trying to wind up our school year, I hope that things get a bit more settled!

Just for fun, I thought we would have a little flashback!
Last week while Ballerina was cleaning up in the front room she found a blank disc. But when we put it into the computer to put some music on it, it wasn't blank after all!  It was pictures from 2005!
Here is our family in 2005

And this chubby little sweetheart is .......

 did you guess?  I didn't try to trick you - it is Princess~!  Although she looks an awful lot like a baby who is living in our house currently!!  See..

Then I found some more similarities between kids...check this out

Who does this remind you of?? It is of course tapper - when she was just 4 years old, but she looks an awful lot like.....

THIS little monkey!!  Crazy kids!  I never really saw much resemblance, but now I see they have so many similar features!

look at these little cuties!  I mean seriously!  I can't believe they are so big and old when I compare these pictures to now!

Hello long lost blogoshphere!!

I almost forgot completely about blogs and blogging and the like!  Sorry about that!
I was a little foggy from the lack of sleep.
We started a crazy renovation.

 

It actually started with a bunch of destruction!  Destruction is necessary before you can rebuild, right?

 Tapper was so funny that day, she said "Well mom, I guess instead of home EC today we had home WRECK"  Which was very true.  I am so glad my hubby let them be a part of smashing out that wall and stuff!  So awesome.
We also had Grandma and Grandpa here for a while so Grandpa could help move that exterior door that you see in the above picture and help with the wiring.  If you can't tell it used to be a laundry room and a hallway, but now it is just a big laundry room, that is getting close to completion!

We were busy looking at all the cuteness around here.

 We had Christmas celebrations!!!

Training up apprentice builders - she was a real little Grandpa's helper!  All she wanted to do was hang out in the construction zone!

 We got back to school a bit...

 And we have started doing laundry in the new room!  There is still nothing in the cupboards, but we are doing laundry!!

 This isn't even the most recent picture, because now we have a countertop and a sink!

 And someone found her thumb!!

 Yes, we have been a bit busy!

A new baby

I finally realized that if we didn't take a picture of my pregnant belly, it would be too late, so here is our baby just days before she was born, already overdue!

She is finally here!! 7 lbs 13 ounces, born November 4
Super sweet and everyone loves her!

 Some have said she has blonde hair, but we are pretty sure she'll be as red as the oldest three!!

 All the redheads!

You can't really see her there, but she is in that blankie!