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St. Patrick's Day and a 7 Month Old!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day AND 7 Months to our very own little Lucky Charm!! Birth Stats                                             7 Month Stats 6lbs. 5.9oz                                            17 lbs. 2.5 oz. 19 inches long                                      27 (roughly) inches long   In just a few short months my “baby” will become a toddler. This thought gives me goose bumps and a smile. He’s changed so much in the past 7 months that I still can’t get my brain wrapped around it. This has been a BIG month for my little Dumplin… Mmmmm....more peas please! We introduced solids! He is still breastfed but he now gets to eat dinner with his daddy and I. We also let him experiment with a sippy cup. When I first gave it to him his instinct kicked in and he immediately took hold of it and pulled it to his lips. Instinct is an amazing thing.   So far he seems to like everything we feed him.  Let's hope we are growing a little vegetable lover!  Night time is a lit

Gaining Independence...One Bite at a Time

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Mmmm....peas! I knew it would happen one day…I would no longer be the sole source of food for our baby. It was bittersweet as I mashed up avocado into the creamiest concoction possible. We made it 6 months and now it was time to introduce solids. The day of his 6 month appointment his pediatrician gave us some guidelines on what we could / shouldn’t feed him. Off to the grocery I went to buy some fresh veggies. I figured it was also time to buy a high chair since we are moving down this road. (We won’t mention the cute little plastic fish bibs I also picked up while I was there.) We chose to feed Paisley avocado’s first since they are already relatively mushy and packed full of goodness. After smashing it up, I mixed it with a little milk and was ready to go. Dumplin looked so little sitting in his big new high chair. It was almost as if he knew something exciting was about to happen as he anxiously watched us with his big blue eyes. Scott and I sat down with our dinner

Big Changes for our Little Family

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Happy Graduation!! (With Poppa and Momma) After I graduated college in December of 2006, I had every intention of heading back west.  After all, I only left Wyoming to get my degree and spend a couple years with my family.  So there I was with my diploma in hand and my eyes fell upon a job opening in the corporate world.  The only hang up, that job opening was right here in my little hometown, not nestled out west in the mountains.  "What the heck," I thought, I'll apply for the job and if I get it, I'll gain a few years of experience then I'll head back west.  After all...the mountains will always be there.  So happy together! Happy Wedding Day! Fast forward 5 years later...I have a house, a husband and a baby.  Happy "Birth" Day!!! My family! Here I was 5 years later, living the role of corporate employee, wife and mother.  I was wearing a lot of hats and it was taking a toll.  I returned to work from my maternity leave in October and at fir

Half of a Year Come and Gone!

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I'm 6 months old! 6 months old....I can not believe Baby Fish has been around that long.  Half of a Year!!  Has it really been that long? Birth Stats                                  5 Month Stats 6lbs. 5.9oz                                      16lbs. 8oz   (25% for weight) 19 inches long                              26.5 inches long   (50% for height) This past month has been hard!  Probably the hardest of all the months thus far.  Dumplin started acting pretty clingy and not eating or sleeping as well as normal.  I could tell (mother's intuition) that he was not acting like my baby normally acts.  Those sweet little bottom teeth were still just hovering in view but not pushing through the gum.  Could that be the cause of his crankiness or something more?  I didn't stew on it more than a day or two and off we went to the pediatrician.  Good thing we did because Dumplin had a double ear infection. 

Animal Whisper

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Hello Kitty Whiskers Perhaps this is coincidence, perhaps it is something more... Scott has owned this house for roughly 5 years.  During the time we had the occasional cat visit and spend time in our yard hunting mice and moles.  Scott never let me feed the cat despite my numerous attempts.  We're pretty sure the cat belonged to our neighbor but that didn't stop me from naming him (Sawdust) or pretending that in some strange way he was our cat.  When Paisley was born in August and we became a family of 3, Sawdust stopped coming over to visit.  In the middle of the night, we would hear a cat meowing, and figured Sawdust just decided to visit us at night.  Since I was up every few hours, I would hear the cat(s) everytime I would get up to feed Paisley.  They would be outside our bedroom window, outside Paisley's window, and on our front porch.  Then suddenly we started seeing a HUGE black cat (Blackie), an orange and white cat (Dreamsicle), a grey and white cat (Smoke