These videos caused me so much grief, I can't even begin to count how many times I tried to upload them. Ugh what a pain.
On another note, I'm flying to Ohio tomorrow morning and I'm very excited, although sad to leave Josh. I'm going to read Mockingjay (Yukiko got me the 2nd and 3rd Hunger Games books for my birthday; thanks Kiko!) on the plane, which I'm also very excited about. I hope Pepper behaves. So this is probably my last post for the month. I can't believe by the time I come back to Cedar City Pepper will be 6 months old!
OK I tried to upload the second video over and over for like 48 hours and for some reason it WILL NOT upload so I've given up on it. So sad. It was of Pepper doing her crazy spitting thing. Hopefully you all will be able to see her soon and just see her doing it in person.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sad Pepper
I realized I don't have a lot of photos of Pepper's precious little sad face so I shot a few today. The way she pulls down the corners of her mouth and makes her bottom lip quiver is just so cute. She can be a bit of a drama queen. I think she gets it from her mama.
"Mom, why aren't you doing anything???" OK, OK.
These are really random, but last week I let her play with the little piece of paper that said "24 Weeks." When I turned around to check on her, this is what she looked like:
Haha. I guess that's what happens when you let a baby play with something you wrote on with black washable marker. It went straight into her mouth. She's completely oblivious, of course.
"Mom, why aren't you doing anything???" OK, OK.
These are really random, but last week I let her play with the little piece of paper that said "24 Weeks." When I turned around to check on her, this is what she looked like:
Haha. I guess that's what happens when you let a baby play with something you wrote on with black washable marker. It went straight into her mouth. She's completely oblivious, of course.
My 26th Birthday
I really can't believe I'm 26. Up until 25 I still felt like I didn't have to be too grown up yet, that I was still allowed to be trying to figure things out.
Now I'm kinda like, ugh, where are all those books I was gonna write, the businesses I was gonna start, the marathons I was supposed to have run?
But I know I still have all the opportunities in the world. I falsely believed that I was trying to become something, and I'm coming to realization that I'm always just going to be me. Past, present, and future.
Anyway, I think about my life with Josh, and having given birth to Pepper, and my mission, and all the books I've read, and all the things I know how to do, and really, 26 years is what it takes to accomplish all those things. So happy birthday to me :)
My birthday was on Monday, which unfortunately was also the first day of school for Josh. It was also my parents 30th anniversary, which is much more important than my 26th birthday. So I really didn't want anything extravagant. I can say that I didn't do any dishes or laundry all day long. Woohoo!
Despite going to classes and getting organized for the semester, Josh was able to take some time out to go climbing at the gym with me. Here are some pictures of Pepper having a go on the climbing wall. She has quite a grip for a 5 month old!
There were a bunch of other people there so we started a game of add-on with them.
For dinner we went to Costa Vida, one of our favorite places. We had a tres leches cake for dessert. Pepper was really eyeing the cake, so we gave her a tiny taste. She's definitely going to have a sweet tooth like her daddy.
I haven't thought of goals and stuff yet, but off the top of my head...
Now I'm kinda like, ugh, where are all those books I was gonna write, the businesses I was gonna start, the marathons I was supposed to have run?
But I know I still have all the opportunities in the world. I falsely believed that I was trying to become something, and I'm coming to realization that I'm always just going to be me. Past, present, and future.
Anyway, I think about my life with Josh, and having given birth to Pepper, and my mission, and all the books I've read, and all the things I know how to do, and really, 26 years is what it takes to accomplish all those things. So happy birthday to me :)
My birthday was on Monday, which unfortunately was also the first day of school for Josh. It was also my parents 30th anniversary, which is much more important than my 26th birthday. So I really didn't want anything extravagant. I can say that I didn't do any dishes or laundry all day long. Woohoo!
Despite going to classes and getting organized for the semester, Josh was able to take some time out to go climbing at the gym with me. Here are some pictures of Pepper having a go on the climbing wall. She has quite a grip for a 5 month old!
There were a bunch of other people there so we started a game of add-on with them.
For dinner we went to Costa Vida, one of our favorite places. We had a tres leches cake for dessert. Pepper was really eyeing the cake, so we gave her a tiny taste. She's definitely going to have a sweet tooth like her daddy.
I haven't thought of goals and stuff yet, but off the top of my head...
- I want to get in really good shape before my next pregnancy and hopefully beat gestational diabetes. I will try to achieve this via P90X and running.
- I'm thinking about going back to school and finishing my degree.
- I need to finally get this story that's been in my head forever down on paper.
- Try to start contributing to our income, which will probably involve going back into the resume writing business with my old boss, or teaching piano lessons.
- Be better about recording things, i.e. have a scripture reading chart.
25 Weeks Old
So I don't know if any of you remember how I got myself a sewing machine with some of our tax return money back in January, but I finally got it out and started sewing stuff. I tried making onesies out of some old shirts I don't wear anymore, and I think it was a success! The onesie Pepper is wearing below is my first prototype. I even made the bias tape out of an old pink shirt, it was such a pain in the butt. It's a little bit too big for her still, but I am pretty excited about it.
Pepper's new thing this week is she loves to do this spitting thing. Hence the drool marks down the front of her outfit. She thinks it's so funny.
She also loves when Josh makes popping noises with his mouth. She freaks out every time.
She is getting really good at using objects to pull herself up to standing position. She likes big toys for this reason.
Basically she is super high-energy, always wanting to walk all over us (literally and figuratively) and always kicking and moving.
Dangit, I had some really cute videos to add to this post but for some reason Blogger and YouTube keep failing to upload them today, and I've been trying all day long. So I'll have to post them later. Grr.
Pepper's new thing this week is she loves to do this spitting thing. Hence the drool marks down the front of her outfit. She thinks it's so funny.
She also loves when Josh makes popping noises with his mouth. She freaks out every time.
She is getting really good at using objects to pull herself up to standing position. She likes big toys for this reason.
Basically she is super high-energy, always wanting to walk all over us (literally and figuratively) and always kicking and moving.
Dangit, I had some really cute videos to add to this post but for some reason Blogger and YouTube keep failing to upload them today, and I've been trying all day long. So I'll have to post them later. Grr.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Pepper Lately
This is Pepper's new favorite toy... a Smart Water bottle.
Pepper sleeping in her crib. Like mother like daughter, I think.
A cute sitting up picture at 22 weeks.
One of her new tricks: the peace sign.
Pepper sleeping in her crib. Like mother like daughter, I think.
A cute sitting up picture at 22 weeks.
One of her new tricks: the peace sign.
Friday, August 20, 2010
24 Weeks Old
Pepper seems to be trying to learn everything at once so every day is pretty exciting.
We actually have some official stats on her this week: she is 12 lbs 5 oz. and 23.5 inches long. So she's gotten a lot bigger since she was born! But she is still a little under the 5th percentile for height and weight. But apparently her height, weight, and head size are perfectly proportional, according to whoever it is that decides what normal is.
Her favorite thing to do is practice walking, which is really cute but back-breaking for us. She usually gets really upset if we put her down to practice crawling. If we try to sit her down, she will keep her legs straight because she wants to stand up so badly. She is always trying to grab your hand or finger to pull herself up to standing.
She is getting so good with her hands. She can now grab and hold things like phones. If she doesn't want to eat anymore of something she will push the spoon away with her hands.
She is a great eater and will eat anything, although you can tell how much she likes it by how widely and frequently she opens her mouth. She likes all fruits and vegetables, even the nasty ones like peas. She especially loves carrots and sweet potatoes. She's really good about opening her mouth for the nasty meats too, although she makes a face as she chews and swallows. She especially hates chicken.
She sleeps through the night pretty consistently now! I can't believe this day has finally come. She will frequently sleep from 10pm to 8am.
She fell off our big bed yesterday... oops. You'd think I'd learn by now not to put her on the bed by herself. But it's so tempting because she takes such long naps on our bed. Don't worry, she's just fine. I need to be more careful though.
She LOVES trees. She loves to be outside and spends most of the time looking up at the leaves. She also likes being in the grass.
Oh yeah, last week her newest trick was pushing against the back of the couch from sitting-down position and standing up by herself. She was very excited to discover this. Basically she is the best little girl ever.
We actually have some official stats on her this week: she is 12 lbs 5 oz. and 23.5 inches long. So she's gotten a lot bigger since she was born! But she is still a little under the 5th percentile for height and weight. But apparently her height, weight, and head size are perfectly proportional, according to whoever it is that decides what normal is.
Her favorite thing to do is practice walking, which is really cute but back-breaking for us. She usually gets really upset if we put her down to practice crawling. If we try to sit her down, she will keep her legs straight because she wants to stand up so badly. She is always trying to grab your hand or finger to pull herself up to standing.
She is getting so good with her hands. She can now grab and hold things like phones. If she doesn't want to eat anymore of something she will push the spoon away with her hands.
She is a great eater and will eat anything, although you can tell how much she likes it by how widely and frequently she opens her mouth. She likes all fruits and vegetables, even the nasty ones like peas. She especially loves carrots and sweet potatoes. She's really good about opening her mouth for the nasty meats too, although she makes a face as she chews and swallows. She especially hates chicken.
She sleeps through the night pretty consistently now! I can't believe this day has finally come. She will frequently sleep from 10pm to 8am.
She fell off our big bed yesterday... oops. You'd think I'd learn by now not to put her on the bed by herself. But it's so tempting because she takes such long naps on our bed. Don't worry, she's just fine. I need to be more careful though.
She LOVES trees. She loves to be outside and spends most of the time looking up at the leaves. She also likes being in the grass.
Oh yeah, last week her newest trick was pushing against the back of the couch from sitting-down position and standing up by herself. She was very excited to discover this. Basically she is the best little girl ever.
22 Weeks Old
Here are some of Pepper's 22 week pictures from two weeks ago. Sorry I haven't posted in a while... we've been taking care of moving in to our new place and other business that goes along with that, and we just barely got the internet connected yesterday.
I missed her 23 week mark, but I'm working on getting her 24 week pictures up right now so bear with me while I try to catch up!!!
I missed her 23 week mark, but I'm working on getting her 24 week pictures up right now so bear with me while I try to catch up!!!
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