8 months.

You guys, I didn't write down much about Holland's eighth month. I usually keep a little running list on my phone of things I want to remember and now that she's almost nine months I'm getting everything confused! So this eight month post is going to be quick and a bit scattered.

Dear Holland girl,

We are just loving you at this stage. You are so funny and we love finding things to make you laugh. You have four teeth now but still are pretty anti-baby food. You are eating more finger foods. Lots of the little Gerber snacks but also bits and pieces of mom and dad's meals. You really like eating peas from mom's salads and you LOVE grated cheese. For the past few months you have been really clingy to me {mom} which makes some days really hard. Even though you still won't go to Dad for more than a couple of minutes if I'm in the room you have started to get SO excited when he gets home. You grin and grin when he walks in and just love when he comes to say hi to you. It is adorable! We're also grateful to live near your Aunt Tyne, Uncle Patrick and cousin Madison. You LOVE your Aunt Tyne. She is one of the only people you will go to over me. You also love your cousin and just want to be big like her. You follow her around while she runs throughout the house and laugh at everything she does. You also clap for her. Your clapping is one of my favorite things. You learned to clap just before your half birthday but then stopped doing it for a while and now that you've started it up again I just love it. It cracks me up when you clap for Madison or for yourself. Sometimes you'll crawl to a toy and then sit down and clap for yourself for making it there. It is just so cute! I am just loving everything about you these days! Thank you for bringing so much joy to our home! I love you Holland!

One Month.

Two Months.

Three Months.

Four Months.

Five Months.

Six Months.

Seven Months.

Eight Months!

Love you sweet girl!
Love, Mom & Dad

Self-Timer Fails I Love.

I don't know how people use the self-timers on their cameras. Maybe it would help if I had a remote or something but just figuring out how to focus the camera and stuff completely eludes me. Despite that, I have ended up with quite a few "messed up" self-timer shots that I am in love with simply because they are of Holland and I. So, you all get to see a few of those today! As well as some mirror pics of the two of us!

I am so glad that even blurry images can capture just how much love I have for my sweet Holland girl. We sure do have a lot of fun together!

Happy Wednesday! And holy heck can you believe it's May?!

P.S. If anyone has some awesome self time tips and tricks I would LOVE to hear them!

{These photos were all taken the same day as my "A Day in the Life" post.}

Bath Time

I have TONS of pictures I didn't use from my "A Day in the Life" post so I'm going to have a bunch of little posts with some of those pictures! To start out, here are some super cute, fun pictures of Holland's bath time. She loves baths now that she can sit up and play with her toys. Before she could sit up Holland pretty much exclusively showered with me. She was SO relaxed in the shower and so upset when we tried to bathe her so I just went with what worked! I loved just seeing how relaxed and happy she was in the shower but I have to say, having the shower to myself again is SO nice! Anyway, on to the adorable pictures!

Pre-bath Play time with Dad

Bath Time!!

Post-bath with Mom

Get this towel off me stat!! 

Post-bath snuggles from Dad

We love bath time around here. Who wouldn't love adorable naked baby bums, happy squeals, and that wonderful post bath baby smell?!

A Day in the Life

On April 23rd I decided to pull out our fancy camera and take pictures of everything we did throughout the day. We don't lead a super exciting life but it was fun to see what we do all day. Although I didn't get every feeding, diaper change, nap, etc. on camera so it's not perfect but it does capture the essence of what we do. Mostly I hang out with Holland while she explores our house and makes messes. And then I clean up her messes, try to make healthy, yummy food, and try to get stuff done while she naps. Or I don't bother trying to get anything done and just nap when she naps.

Anyway, I took about a million pictures throughout the day so I've been attempting to narrow it down but I've been pretty unsuccessful so this post is a bit picture heavy. But hey, less reading and more pictures of my darling baby girl, that's not really a loss for anyone! 

7:30am Wake up, make bed

7:45am Holland is awake {and mad--she does not wake up happy, she's not a morning person} 

 7:45am Holland lunges for her breakfast every morning when I get her out of bed. It cracks me up!

8:00am Breakfast time for Holland.

8:15am My breakfast time/Holland's Kitchen Playtime

9:00am Play/Explore Time, Get H Dressed 

9:30am Naptime for H, Work, Work out, Shower, etc. time for me.

{This first picture is from my phone because I was not
 going to risk waking her up by using the loud camera}

11:00am Lunch {Leftovers}

 11:00am Race is home from his birthday massage and heading to work. Holland is up from her nap.

 11:30am-2:00pm More exploring and playing for H, Dishes for me

2:00pm Second nap for H, Nap for me as well. 3:30pm H wakes up. 

 4:00pm Walk time! 

4:30 Explore the park

5:30 Dinner Prep {Chicken fajitas} and a grumpy babe hanging on my legs.

6:30 Trip to the grocery store. {No pictures}

7:30 Dinner time! 

7:30-9:30 Play with Mom and Dad, bath time, & lots of eating {not pictured} for H. 

You guys, my day-to-day life is not all that exciting but I absolutely love it. I love Race and Holland and I am so grateful for all that Race does so that I can stay at home with my sweet babe. Being a mom is so much harder than I ever could have imagined but it is also so much more rewarding than I could have known. 

I hope you all have a Happy Thursday!