March Goals

This is going to be a very short post, but I do need to write about it to keep me accountable for my goals. I was not able to complete my house project, so I am carrying it over to do in April. We were able to have a little date night when we went to a wedding reception for our friend Helaman. We were able to go out to eat afterwards with our friends.

We've been doing well at seeing Scott play soccer each month. Kylie loves going to see Scott play soccer. For learning activities we painted the rainbow for St. Patrick's Day, did the potato stamping for Easter and have been coloring princess pictures lately. We made lots of good treats for March as well, including Lucky charm treats, banana muffins, vanishing breakfast rolls, peanut butter kiss cookies and M&M sprinkle cookies. We saw our friends twice, but they were in combination with other things, such as Jordan's baby blessing and Helaman's wedding reception.

I did not do a craft project at all and I will carry that one over to May, as April's craft will be something different. I also didn't get to updating Jordan's baby book either. However, I was able to complete a photo book for 2014 and that one took a while! It was a fun year full of activities (I started my goals this year, so I made sure we went out and did things) and vacations (we went on 4!). I had to add quite a few extra pages, but luckily I found coupon codes that made the book cost the same as it would without adding extra pages. It is fun to look back and see the progression of life and also how much better I became at taking pictures and documenting things. I need to get the photo book for 2015 done and then I'll be caught up! I need to have it completed by my birthday as these books were a Christmas/birthday gift.

Well, sorry for the picture-less post. I hope to do better in April with my goals. We're 10 days in and I haven't done anything! Time to get busy.

Jordan's 6 Months

Jordan is 6 months old! Time has flown by. Scott just mentioned the other day how it seemed like forever ago I was pregnant. Jordan sure is acting older which makes it harder to remember what it was like when he was a newborn. There are so many fun things that he's up to.

• He is crawling now! Well, he is mostly army crawling still, but the fact that he is mobile makes it hard to keep up with him. You won't see him stay in one spot for very long.
• He gives hugs when you pick him up. Sometimes he'll pinch my neck or grab my hair, but it's so precious to receive that hug from him. I feel so much love for him every time he does that.
• Jordan is eating more solids now! So far he's tried avocados, peas, squash, bananas and now cheerios. He'll be trying sweet potatoes and applesauce next. 
• He is becoming my chubby monkey. His cute chubby legs and cheeks get me every time. 
• Since he is becoming more interactive, Kylie enjoys playing with Jordan a lot more now. She loves to give him toys to play with and she hates when he has to go take a nap that every time she hears him move on the monitor, she wants to rush up to his crib to see him. There's been a few times where she's climbed into his crib and just hangs out with him. Kylie is going to love it when he can walk and run and really be able to keep up with her.
• We have moved him from the cradle in our room to his crib. He's starting to want to be rocked to sleep every night, which is fine, but the hard part is that I can't sit down to do it. Sometimes it takes a while and so my arms and back get tired of holding him. 
• Speaking of sleep, the little stinker still doesn't sleep as much as he should. He still only takes cat naps during the day and wakes up once or twice during the night. He is very different from Kylie as she was already sleeping through the night by 5-months. It makes it a little difficult to get things done during the day, but I can't complain as he is a happy boy.
• Stats: Weight 16 lbs. 12 oz. 34%; Height 27 inches 66%