Six Wonderful Months
I feel like I blinked and all of a sudden my little newborn daughter is not so newborn anymore…she is a beautiful, wiggly, sitting, giggling 6 month old. Part of me feels this need for her to be “little” again. This is only because they are so small for such a short time, but a bigger part of me is soaking up every moment with my growing girl and loving every second of it.
Some of her monumental moments over the past six months have been: (This list is more for me to remember in the future!)
- First real smile at 5 weeks
- First “vacation” to St. George and swimming in the pool at 6 weeks
- Rolling over at 7 weeks
- Sleeping for 8 hours through the night at 8 weeks
- Blessed at 8 weeks
- Took her first airplane ride at 3 1/2 months with mom and nana Jensen to visit her Great-Grandparents in California. This was also her first time to the ocean.
- Snowmobiled into the cabin at 4 months for Thanksgiving
- Ate her first solid foods, carrots and rice cereal, at 4 1/2 months
- First Christmas at 5 months
- Started sitting up at 5 1/2 months
Olive is now sleeping for 12 hours through the night (and still wants to be swaddled,) has stopped nursing and drinks a 6 oz. bottle 5x a day in about 3 min. flat, loves all of her toys…especially her giggling elephant, beaded teething ring, pink lamb, and christmas bear. She can easily entertain herself while sitting in the bumbo, in her johny-jump-up, or in the exersaucer. She loves to kick her legs, LOVES her binky, is pretty much still bald as can be, has about 6 darling thigh rolls, and will put just about anything in her mouth. Olive loves music, and especially loves when she thinks people are singing to her…like the chorister at church. She totally knows to smile for the camera and thinks the sneezing sound A-CHOO is the funniest thing in the world (besides her dad.)
She is the absolute light of our lives and we cannot believe that we ever lived without her. Here are some of our favorite pics from her first six months of life, enjoy!
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It Was A Fabulous Fall
Every time I begin to think I am on top of this blogging thing, I fall right behind like always. The last time I posted was the beginning of October and we were boating, now only 2 short months later we are up to our knees in snow…I can hardly believe how time flies.
Olive is now 4 months old and as amazing as ever. 4 months ago I couldnt have imagined that this little baby could make me so happy.
As for fall, we enjoyed every minute of the leaves, colors, smells, and holidays. We kicked off the Halloween spirit by going to the pumpkin patch with our good friends, the Millers. Bret and Laura had their little boy, Ethan, 4 weeks after Olive was born…these two are going to be buddies for life!
Olive was asleep for her first trip to the pumpkin patch:(
Carving pumpkins has always been one of my favorite things about Halloween. Our front porch looked fabulous with Olive’s addition of a third member of the Cramer pumkin family. Olive wasnt too interested in carving, but rather attempting to put her pumkin in her mouth.
For Halloween we dressed Olive up as a little lady bug. I have to admit, she was the cutest little bug on the block.
We headed over to Scott’s older brother Dan’s house where Olive was able to hang out with cousins and get a feel for trick-or-treating. Dan’s wife, Tammy, did an awesome job sewing her two oldest son’s costumes. That is something my mom always did for us while we were growing up and we always loved it. I hope that one day I will organize my life enough to do fun things like that for my kids….one day right!?!
Daddy and his little love bug
Olive, Owen, Jackson, Braeden, and Gavin
Scott’s and Olives finished pumpkins. This year Scott claims his was his favorite pumpkin carving of all time…great work babe.
All in all we had a great season, and I cannot even believe fall is over and we are now well into winter. Usually I would think to include Thanksgiving in a fall post, but this year we celebrated with 2 feet of snow on the ground…so we will have to give it its own post.
A Day on the Lake
Can you even believe this fabulous fall weather?!? On OCTOBER 1st in 90 degree weather we jumped in the boat for some much needed lake time. Scott and I love love love to boat, but since I was pregnant for the majority of the summer this was our first time out on the water this year, we had a blast! Olive was so awesome, she didn’t mind the life jacket at all, in fact it made a nice little head rest during nap time! She is such a trooper!
Austin and Sawyer
Say Cheese!
Olive and Nana
Surfs up!
Just showin Soy the ropes
I don’t know about you, but boating sure wears me out!!!
There probably aren’t too many more nice days left in the year, so this may have been our first and last time on the water in 2010. Glad we made it out there.
Read MoreA Name and a Blessing
It’s official…she is Olive Elizabeth Cramer. At 8 weeks old, we blessed Olive on September 26th at our ward here in Sugarhouse. It was such a fabulous day from start to finish. Scott and I are so blessed to have such amazing families that all live so close to us. There were over 60 members of our family present to take part in Olive’s special day. Scott gave a beautiful blessing, and Olive was a little angel…sleeping through the whole thing. She truly is a gift sent from our Heavenly Father and we love her more than we ever thought possible.
Thrilled to be blessed!
Our little family
This is my sweet Grandma, Elizabeth Lee, Olive’s Great-Grandmother who she was named after
Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Lee who traveled all the way from California for the blessing
My Grandma and Grandpa Jensen.
She was the amazing seamstress behind Olive’s dress. She crocheted the entire gown by hand, and it turned out absolutely beautiful.
This will be such a special heirloom for Olive to recieve and to remember her great-grandmother.
My beautiful Mother, Olive’s Nana Jensen.
(My poor dad had to leave early to attend to some stake business.)
Scott’s parents, Grandma and Grandpa Cramer.
Four Generations!
Gorgeous little baby in her Gorgeous Dress!
It was such a fun day. Thanks to all who came and supported our growing little family! We love you!
Plush Studio
My amazing older sister Erin is always wowing me with her fabulous style and creativity. She has always had an eye for all things chic. A while back she decided she needed a little something in her life so she purchased a sewing machine. She started whipping up all kinds of stylish accents for her home and eventually found her niche…throw pillows. THEY ARE AMAZING! She did such a great job on all the pillows around her house, her good friend Kirsten from 6th Street Design School asked her to become the seamstress for all of her client’s projects. One thing led to another and she decided to open up her own etsy shop…Plush Studio! I couldn’t believe some of the things that she came up with and HAD to have some for myself, so we searched for the perfect fabrics and this is what we came up with…
Aren’t they perfect! Besides the blue bird pillow (Pottery Barn) she made all of them herself! I love love love them Erin…Thank You!
Everyone needs to go check out her shop to see all of her fabulous stuff!
http://etsy.com/shop/plushstudio
Read MoreCheck out my new trick!
Today, at 7 weeks old, Olive rolled from her stomach to her back during tummy time! It totally took me by surprise because she is still so little! It is so cute, it is almost like her head is so heavy it just pulls her whole body over! At first I thought it was just a fluke but she proved me wrong and did it over and over! It is so fun to see her grow and develop, I love this bald little babe SO much!
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