Margaret is 7 months!

And another month has flown by!!! This cute kid is 7 months old!

In case you are wondering, crying it out went great! You are pretty consistently sleeping 8pm-8am. That's right... 12 hours straight! Occasionally you still wake up but you have figured out how to soothe yourself and go back to sleep with out needing me. Hallelujah! That makes for a much happier baby and mommy!

Good Morning Sunshine!

 I guess the biggest thing this month is you have found your thumb. 

Yes, at the ripe old age7 months, you have decide to be a thumb sucker.

You REALLY, REALLY like it! At first I would replace your thumb with a paci which you weren't opposed to but I didn't always have a paci to give you, and that thumb makes you oh so happy- so I just have up. Thumb suckers are super cute (see below), but man it is going to be hard to get you to stop. Oh, and the Orthodontic bills are going to be expensive... Oh well, guess we will cross that bridge when we get there. 

Taste even better as dessert!

 It is finally warming up outside, and we are taking full advantage of it with stroller rides.

Sweet Sisters holding hands unprevoked. Be still my heart.

Trips to the zoo

and just being outside

but man, the sun really makes you tired...

We celebrated your first Easter this last month... He Arose!! 

and the Easter Bunny came to see you too!

 Not to mention "egg hunting" with the boyfriend.

You are getting big enough now to sit in a high chair when we go out to eat. How is that possible?!?!

And we have yet to find a food you won't eat.. Avocados still are not your favorite but you eat them... slow and steady

Sweet girl, it is so hard to believe you are getting so big. Our "tiny" infant has morphed into a sweet little baby. You smile with your whole body, and that sweet little grin is so infectious. You have added so much joy to our little family.  That sweet toothless grin melts me every time. Yes... still toothless despite teething for the last 4 months. 

I am so excited for what this next month hold for you. You finally get a nursery! Infact we are moving this weekend. This tailspin we have been living in since you have joined our family is 

ALL ... MOST ... OVER! 

We are about to find our new normal as a family of 4, and I can't wait. 

Exiting Survival Mode. 

Look out Atoka, here we come!

Margaret is 6 Months Old (and 5 month update a little late)

Look who is now SIX MONTHS OLD!

That's a full half year y'all! How is that possible? Doesn't it feel like just last month she was only 4 months old? It sure does to this momma. These last 2 months have been a blur- so much so I forgot to blog about her 5th month. OOPS. Mommy fail! I did take her picture though.

These last 2 months have been busy busy busy. We finally got a contract on our house in Alabama and should be able to close that chapter in our lives in the next few days, and we are excited to finally be able to officially start our lives here. We have already found a new house and should be able to move in the first part of April. Margaret will finally have a nursery of her very own! Bless her second-child heart. 

At your 4 month check up Doc gave us the go ahead to start solid foods starting with rice cereal. In his words not mine, "She is REALLY going to like it"

Don't let that face fool you--- You loved it!

So far you have eaten: rice cereal, bananas, avocados, sweet potatoes, apples, squash, and blue berries. 

Avocados were the only food you didn't like at first, or second.

But by the third try you liked them too!

Sweet Potatoes are your favorite! Just like Daddy!

You might like sweet potatoes like daddy, but you are dramatic like your mommy.

These pictures were taken with in 5 seconds of each other.

Lord, help us... raising girls isn't going to be easy. 

We had some unseasonably warm days in January and February which we made the best of!

Followed by unseasonably cold weather. 

The sunshine off the snow was super bright if you can't tell.

You have also been "teething" for about 3 months now.... no teeth yet, but they should be coming in soon. You chew on anything you can get your hands on!

You had always been a great sleeper, but around 3-4 months old you just stopped progressing. We got stuck in a rut, getting up every 4 hours or so to eat then going right back to sleep. Most of our nights go like this. Down at 8pm, up at 11:30 to eat then back to sleep, up at 4am to eat then back to sleep, up at 9am for the day. It wasn't that bad for a while, but then I started trying to figure out how to make you sleep longer. 

One arm swaddle?

nope...

No arm swaddle?

nope...

No swaddle, nope!... FULL belly, nope! Nothing we were trying would work. Doc recommend starting to let you cry it out. Wish us luck!

Guess what else happened this month? 

You were Baptized! 

We were very excited that your D'D got to assist in your Baptism.

 Mommy and Daddy promise to raise you in loving, Christian home and will do our best to set a good example of God's hands and feet. But lucky for you, you will also be surrounded by a loving church family to help us when we fail you. 

This past month(s) you also had your first ear infection. It was actually a double ear infection, and of course it happened over the weekend so we had to take you to the minor medical place on a Sunday and the nurse asked me if you were allergic to any antibiotics. I actually laughed out loud and said, "No Ma'am- and she has actually had every antibiotic known to modern medicine, so I think we are good." But sweet girl, you were so pitiful.

I'm going to leave you with some of my favorite candid shots from the last month(s)