Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!

 Happy first birthday to our precious angel baby Faegan! We love you more than words can say and are so thankful God blessed us with you!

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Going home July 2011

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 We have had the best time over the past year watching you grow! We love you!

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11 months

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Where have the 11 months gone?!? Our sweet Faegan is growing up before our eyes!

Everywhere we go we are told we have the sweetest baby and I have to agree. Faegan continues to be a great eater, great sleeper, and all around happy child.

We are still doing two pretty long naps a day, but I think I am going to have to change the morning one to a little later. Faegan has started waking up before six and I think it may have something to do with her rather lengthy naps during the day. Nothing else has really changed - still in size 3 diapers, still nursing, still eating basically the same foods.

I have had the best time seeing results in Faegan's talking and copying what we say. (I know it isn't going to be too long until I am saying that with clenched teeth!) She says mama, dada, buh (for bye), moo, and the latest is hey. She especially likes to say "hey" to her reflection in the mirror. I think she picked this up from me because when I hold her up in the mirror I emphatically say "Hey baby!" and she thinks it is just grand. She also will moo on command when asked what the cows say. She loves the cows and strains her head over the side of her carseat to see them when we are driving down the driveway.

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We went to the beach last week and she learned to climb stairs. She also is starting to stand alone.

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This child loves to ride on the Rhino and this is often the fix for that in-between afternoon fussy time. She is the driver and won't let anyone tell her otherwise.

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Here is the closest picture I have of all 8 teeth. She grinds them and it drives me crazy, but Dr. D says I can't do anything about it. Hopefully she will grow out of this.


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Pulling bows out are another favorite past time. This particular night she was acting so shocked to find a bow in her hair. It's funny how she already "plays".

She is still in love with her Daddy, but will lie down in the morning and snuggle for a few glorious minutes with her mommy. Night time has turned in to a fun game of hide and seek after she finishes eating. We call for Ben to come say goodnight and Faegan can hardly stand it she gets so excited when she hears him walking downstairs. We usually hide and she will be so still and quiet until she is ready to reveal her hiding place.

Our sweet girl is growing up too fast! I can't believe she is almost a year old!!!

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And She's Off!

No, we're not talking about the Kentucky Derby, Faegan is crawling! She started last weekend while we were in Georgia at my parents' house. I am pretty sure that being with Miss Busy Blair all weekend may have had something to do with it. Here are her first moves, complete with all the happenings of my parents' ever busy household!

 

Here is a week later. She has picked up the pace for sure!


Don't you just love all the grunts?!?

She is growing up too fast!

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10 months

Happy 10 months, sweet girl!!!

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You are getting bigger and bigger each and every day and we are constantly shaking our heads at you and your funny ways.

You are a full on crawler now and have learned that you can venture around the house beyond your normal play areas. You are also pulling up really well and starting to test letting go.

You have a total of eight teeth, four on top and four on bottom. The two new ones seemed to give you a little trouble, but nothing teething tablets couldn't fix.

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You think your daddy is the funniest thing ever. 

Still wearing size 3 diapers and 12-18 month clothes. You discovered your hair bows and ever so slowly reeeach up to try to grab it before I catch you.

We went through a week or so of you not wanting to get in your bed. We have never had any problems with bed time and you are usually thrilled to get in your bed and get your blanket. I think it must have been the teeth because you didn't nurse well either. It always worries me, but I have to remind myself that when you are teething, you really don't eat well.

We are on the same schedule with two naps a day - one at 8 in the morning and the other at 1 in the afternoon. You are still nursing 5 times a day.

You love to play pat a cake, peek-a-boo, and swing in your swing.

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Here are her cute little teeth and freckle under her chin that has popped up!

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Happy Birthday to You!

Happy, Happy Birthday to one of the funniest, smartest, most clever people I know. 



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You are a great role model and the best Dad and "GT" we could ever ask for!


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We love you to pieces!!!! Happy Birthday, Dad!

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Pat a Cake

Faegan has started Pat a Cake all by herself! She is getting so big! We have only had one successful "throw 'em in the pan" but she has got the "pat a cake" and the "roll 'em over" down pat!

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9 months



I just love this age! Faegan has started imitating us and we have had the best time learning what she can do. She can stick out her tongue and smack her lips on cue.


Faegan has added some sounds to her vocabulary. For the longest time we just had "mama", but last week (this post is old, so this was just as she turned 9 months) she just started saying "ba ba", "wa wa", "ga ga", and finally "da da". Ben was thrilled!

We finally had that hard headed front tooth push through this week, making a total of six teeth.

We have seen the beginnings of a little temper and impatience. When we are getting our pajamas on after bath, I can tell Faegan to push her arms through the arm holes and if she can't get it through in what she thinks is a timely manner, she gets mad and starts fussing. Heaven forbid we take something away from her that she doesn't need to be eating {ie. newspaper, magazine, dirt on floor, grass} - full out fit will be pitched. My dad will be proud that we have finally taught our baby how to cry.

Books make for yummy treats, and if you aren't paying attention, will have a nice hole in them in no time.

Bath time is scream time. Not the angry scream, the I'm-so-excited-I'm-in-the-bathtub scream.

Still not crawling, but you are trying so hard. You have started pulling up on things and just started being able to stand up all the way when you want to!

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We are still in size 3 diapers and wearing 12 month dresses, 18 month bubbles. At our 9 month checkup, you were 19 pounds and 27 inches. That puts you on the 50th percentile for height and weight for your age, 75th weight for height.

She still loves all things food and continue to be a great eater. Our favorites right now are grapes {I have to hold out on these until the end or nothing else gets eaten}, blueberries, good strawberries {she throws away the ones that aren't juicy}, green peas, still loves plums, LOVES yogurt {will eat an entire YoBaby if hungry}, mandarin oranges, all baby food that is green {broccoli, pears, and peas; spinach, pears, peas}, and anything that is on our plate!

You are waking up at 6, napping at 8:15 until around 10, napping again at 1:15 until around 2:30, and bedtime at 7. You drink milk at 7, 10, 1, 4, and 7 with meals in between.

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Bedtime routine includes reading a couple of books. You are so sweet and will lie back and listen to Good Night Moon and On The Night You Were Born. One night this week you kissed every page of Good Night Moon. I hold up the books to let you decide what book to read first and you look back and forth at each book until you make your decision. You also will turn those pages with a passion.

I don't know if I have ever mentioned this, but your hands and feet are CONSTANTLY moving. You move your feet in circles all the time.

We love you, sweet Faegan! 

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New Cookies

I have added some new designs to my Etsy shop. Check them out!




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our easter bunny

We had a wonderful time celebrating Faegan's first Easter. She, of course, didn't really know the day was any different than others, but I had a great time dressing her up and allowing her to pick up and play with a few eggs. 

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We started the day with pulling out what the Easter bunny stopped by to bring us. We attended church, ate lunch, and then took Faegan to her first egg hunt. She was more interested in having her mommy push her in the swing, but she did have an egg or two in her basket.

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Faegan and some of her cousins anxiously awaiting the Easter egg hunt.

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I am in love with this picture. This is classic Faegan - feet going, smiling, and chewing on whatever she can get her hands on!

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Somehow, I don't have the first picture of me, Ben, and Faegan. I am going to have to do better next time! I hope you all had wonderful Easters! 

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