Why the Crap did we MOVE?!?

Dan and I can't even talk about it without shaking our heads and wondering why the crap we moved!

With recent turn of events with Dan's job, we are able to move into a house a lot sooner than we thought. Which is awesome, but we are now just kicking ourselves for moving, when it would have just been a lot easier to stay in our old place instead of living in our new place for 3 months and move again! What a whirlwind. It's defiantly a lesson learned that I am sure we will be sharing with a children in the years to come.

It's ok though, we moved.

Moving bites. We always think it will be easy, but when you start moving you realize how much stuff you have! And now we added a child to the mix and had to add a whole other room to the moving process! We had two days to move out, which wasn't to bad since Dan took a couple days off. We moved all on our own. Friends offered but they couldn't come until night after work and we were ready to get going, so we decided to just do it ourselves.

My friend Mary did come over to babysit June so we wouldn't have to pack her up every time. HUGE LIFE SAVOR!!!

So like I said we moved all on our own. Dan was very patient with me, but I am pretty sure we wedged every piece of furniture in the door. I was laughing the majority of the time, yelling we need a plan. Dan just shook his head.

I was pretty proud though lifting couches, beds, washers and dryers with Dan. I was really sore the next day and ended up with like 6 nasty bruises but we did it!

Just a classic moment of what kept happening

June and Liam playing while we packed up

A little bitter sweet moment. This was June's first home, a little sad to leave, but on to bigger and better things!

A doll

Thank goodness for amazing friends who can capture such innocent photos. My friend Lauren was teaching me how to properly use my camera, and June was our model. Lauren also took some and they turned out so amazing! She is such a talented photographer!

Thanks again!

My beautiful Juniper.

4 Months

Dear Juniper,

My little June bug, you turn 4 months old today. I sure do love you and everything that you do. You are becoming so active and it's impossible to not smile at you when I look down and see that grin of yours. You have quite the personality already, many people have commented on how you interact with others. You defiantly show your true colors.

Well this month has been so exciting for you. You have discovered your hands and just this morning you discovered your feet and now you pull your socks off more than Ranger pulls them off! You have discovered how to move around by pushing with your feet. You spin around in your pack n' play all the time. Most of the time when I come get you from your naps you have turned yourself completely around or your head is kinked in the corner. I don't think you will have any problems crawling once you get better on your belly.

You laugh so much. Your dad sings "Row your boat" to you, and you laugh so hard that you can't breath and get the hic-ups. You are so in love with your dad. Yes, I am your mother and you do like to be comforted by me, but when you are in your dad's arms you are always smiling and laughing. You love being with your dad. He gets you smiling and laughing more than anyone.

Your favorite toy right now is a mermaid, I think you just like it because it has hair that you can suck on. You LOVE sucking on anything you can get your hands on, but your mermaid is by far your favorite. That thing can keep you happy forever. We named it Merman.

You are sleeping pretty good. We are still attempting to put you down at 9 every night, but it's your mom and dad's fault because we aren't home by 9 some nights and it gets you all confused. We like to say you sleep like a teenager. You would stay up until 11 or midnight with me and your dad and then sleep in until noon. Well even when you go down at 9 you still sleep in. You get that trait from me. Ha ha I think me and you will become best night owl buddies when you get older. You usually wake up between 9:30- 11am and then about a half hour later your back down for a morning/afternoon nap. You are putting yourself to sleep, which makes me so happy! I didn't know if I could ever let that happen, because I love rocking you to sleep but you just hangout in your crib until your ready to fall asleep, then your out like a light.

You are continuing to grow right before our eyes. An outfit will fit you one day and then the next time we put it on it's too small. We are buying you new pajamas pretty much every other week because we can't keep up with those long legs of yours. Your hair is getting more out of control as well. We are able to ponytail it now, which I love along with pigtails. You are just way to much fun to accessorize.

You are responding really well to music lately. You love just sitting and listening to music with me or your dad. We both love music and it's a big part of our home so we hope you continue your love for it.

The pacifier situation has fully come to a stop. I am no longer forcing you to take one, it just makes you more mad. So no more pacifiers. You are pretty well behaved anyway so a pacifier isn't really needed. It would just come in handy sometimes. :)

Juney Toons, we can't even think what life would be like without you in our home. You bring so much joy and happiness to your dad and me that it's difficult to remember how life was before you. I'm so excited to keep watching you grow and learn new things all the time! You are the best baby. I am not even just saying that because I'm your mother...OK well maybe!!

Love you bug!

Love mom.

4 month pictures.

"Sing a Song of Mother Goose"

We just got June the book "Sing a Song of Mother Goose". I love reading to June and the Mother Goose rhymes are classics so I thought it would be a great book to get.

So I sit down with June this afternoon to read it to her and we read all about Jack and Jill, Hey Diddle, Diddle, so on and so forth. We get to "Lady Bug". Now I have never heard of this nursery Rhyme but as I read it, I chuckle and realized what this poem is saying!

Here is the poem:

Lady bug, Lady bug, fly away home!

Your house is on fire,

Your children all gone; All but one,

and her name is Ann, And she crept under the pudding pan.

The picture shows a mother lady bug holding her baby all covered in ash from the fire of their house!?!?

REALLY!?!?

Ha Ha this is what I am reading to my child... about a little baby that gets trapped in a fire so she has to hide under a pudding pan to save her life?

And what was the mom doing leaving her children, obviously they were too young to be left alone.. Hello they started a fire and left the baby to save themselves!!

I know I know its all for fun, but I was just baffled by this story in this children's book. We do continue to read it, but I do laugh every time I read this rhyme to June.

Just thought I would give you all something obviously very deep to think about. :)

Family Photos

Well I guess I don't need to post the family pictures since they are on my blog header which ended up being HUMUNGO!!! ha ha. It's never been that big so I guess I will leave it for a while and see if I like it.

Those are our family photos for the beginning of 2012. We have a friend here in Dallas who took them for us. She does GREAT work! You can check out her other pictures HERE. If you look at our blog header those are the pictures. My favorite it one is of Ranger and June. Pretending to ignore each other but really they are best friends... Or we like to pretend they are. The weather turned out perfect and we had a great time shooting photos. It made Dan and I think of our engagement pictures and how long ago that felt. Now look at what we have created. I was super stoked to get family pics with Range in them, because he was the start of our family and it was fun trying to capture the photos with him. Lauren did a great job getting his attention!

I hope you enjoy the photo's because they aren't going anywhere for a while.. and every time you open my blog page BAM!!! They are in your face!

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Anyone Pinterested?

Pinterest.

Let's not pretend that you aren't all addicted to this website.

Let's not pretend that we all pin things that we will never eat, never make, or never can happen.

It's true, I am one of the guilty ones, but I realized something...

I may not do EVERYTHING I pin, but that's not the point. The point is that it's fun and if you get around to making a few things, tasting different foods and putting a smile on your face from the humor section than I think that pinterest has done it's Job.

Holy crap I just went off about pinterest. That was not the purpose of this post.

Here we go.

I decided that I am going to start doing things that I have pinned. Now that I am a stay at home mom, I seem to have quite a few minutes on my hands, so once a week I am going to make an effort to do something on pinterest, (or other craft websites I have bookmarked). It might be to just share a Joke that I have read, make something delicious, or actually take the time to create a craft from one of the hundreds of pins I have in my boards. So starting now.

I have made a few things already so I am going to share.

This is one of the first things I saw and made from pinterest. A bow holder. An old frame, some paint, ribbon, staple gun and little metal hooks. You have yourself a bow holder.

I made these a little while ago when I first saw the idea. I like the just plain ribbon ones, don't get me wrong, but I think that these textured ones are much more fun. Ribbon, some hooky things, and a sewing machine. Done. (If only June would take a pacifier a little more often...)

This week is little flower headbands. Not that I don't have a million already, but I feel a girl can never have to many accessories, and plus the majority of my friends who are pregnant are having girls, so they make great little gifts.

Felt flowers, ribbon, and some hot glue. Done.

Next week is going to be even better and maybe a little more challenging ha ha.

So really, I want to keep this going. I feel like such a domestic stay at home mom when I make things with a sewing machine, a hot glue gun or a kitchen aid.. So...Ya... making things.

Please Join me.

3 Month Update

Dear June,

Yep another month has passed! I know I say it every month but you have changed so much. I think you have changed more in the past month than the other two. You are getting to be so much fun! You are laughing and smiling so much more and getting more excited when you see me or daddy.

For 3 months old you are in the 20th percentile of weight and above the 60th percentile in Height. You are one LONG chicka. Your poor legs stick out of your pants like they are capris, so I had to go up a size just to have them long enough, but they don't fit around your waist. We are still working on figuring that part out.

Your new favorite thing is me singing "I'm a Little Tea Pot" to you and the Alphabet song. You just laugh and smile when we sing those songs, though sometimes you get a look on your face like "Mom, please stop singing, we have done it a million times!" I can't help it though I love hearing you laugh and seeing you smile.

Your dad and I are loving taking you places and experiencing things with you for the first time. This month you became an international flyer and experienced the freezing cold of the North. You got to see and play in the snow for the first time. We lasted all of five minutes but it was still fun.

You are still sleeping like a champ. You are out of your bassinet, but your still in our room. You take naps in your crib, but I'm just not ready to have you in the other room. It's selfish, but I don't think it will cause any developmental problems for you. We have done the whole crying out thing for about a week now and we think we are all getting the hang of it. We have come to the realization that you might be a night owl like your mother and like to stay up late. So after trying to put you down at 6... Then 7... Then 8... We figured out that you prefer to take a late nap and then go to bed at around 9. That seems to be working out great for everyone.

June, your are melting our hearts more and more every single day. I just can't get enough of you. You and Range are getting more friendly and Ranger loves to play with you more and more. Your kicking legs intrigue him to play with you and your socks don't stay on very long. We are working with him, but he is a sneaky little bugger.

Well that is all I have to update for your 3 month. I could say over and over again, how much I love you, but there isn't enough space on the blog! Honey I love you, your daddy loves you, and we think Ranger loves you too! Can't wait for the next month of Adventures!

Love you June-a-bea,

Love Mom.