Phoebe at 8 Months

8 months

The Quest for Mobility

I love that stage babies hit right when they are just getting mobile. Phoebe doesn't do a full out crawl yet, but she does  have a few moves. The favorites are the downward facing dog, the inch worm, and a one armed army crawl we like to call "the wounded soldier." Check it out!

Phoebe at 7 Months (with fuzzy cell phone pics)

Kitchen table, finally finished!

We’ve been without a kitchen table for quite some time now.  When we moved into our previous apartment, we underestimated the size of our sofa, and therefore didn’t have room for our dining table.  We’d been wanting to replace it for a while, and this was a good opportunity.  So we sold it, but then never bought a new one. When we moved into our new home, I decided I would build us a new table.  I started in November, but with the holidays, and a cranky baby, it took longer than anticipated.  So here are some photos of the process:

New Years Plancakes

On New Years day each year Colin and I sit down to make plans for the year to come. This year I got the idea I thought we might make it it a little more fun with an idea from my sister Kelly and turn out plans into plancakes. First of all, I love the pun-i-ness of plancakes, and secondly, I love the idea of kicking off the new year (especially if you have fitness goals) with a sugary delightful treat. It also pairs quite nicely with the first day of pajamuary (I think you can guess what that one is). Did I actually make pancakes this year? No. Definitely not. I. Am. A. Failure…

Phoebe at 6 months

We took this one earlier but forgot to post it.

Thinks she has been doing recently:

In The Bleak Mid-Winter

You can count on two things in winter: first,that they days will get shorter and shorter and second, my whining will get longer and longer.  If you ever wanted a fellow heat miser to commiserate with, ask a poet, apparently they’ve felt this way for a long time. They have called winter a Dirge (Burns), an Old Man (Frost) or my personal favorite, an imperial affliction sent us of the air (Dickenson).  This time of year, when the weather lays over us like a wet wool blanket, is always  a bit too still, a bit too dim, a bit too grey for my liking.  At New Years I love to reminisce and plan with what is always too much enthusiasm for the year to come, but somewhere mid-month things get sluggish and a melancholy funk sets in. Usually about time I will never get back, and the long road of work that is still ahead.

Christmas in Seattle

This year was our turn to do a west coast Christmas with Colin’s side of the family. Soon after we arrived we went to go see the Seattle Christmas Ships with Colin’s Grandma Ruth. For anyone not familiar with the Christmas ships, it’s basically the wet version of caroling. Grandma Ruth is lucky enough to live in a part of Seattle where there is an amazing birds eye view of the festival. We all bundled up and went out on the balcony to watch the ships.

‘Tis the Season

This year we are excited to be set up for Christmas in our new home. Since we’ve never had this much space before, we thought this might be the year to graduate from the table top trees we’ve had in years past to something more substantial. We considered buying an artificial tree, but Colin, who worked at a Christmas tree farm as a kid, is always a bit nostalgic over the smell of pine. I figured if we got an artificial tree, we’d want to re-use it, and we may never be real-live-tree people. We found this stand by the park in Draper and brought our little piece of woodland home.  The people at the tree lot were so friendly. They freshly cut and drilled it for us. We tied it to the roof, picked up a stand at DI, and brought it home. Once it was all lit up, I was so glad we’d gotten a real tree. Phoebe thinks it’s a new toy just for her, and I love getting a whiff of that wintery pine smell every time I walk past.

Phoebe at 5 months

Phoebe at 5 months.

Things she is doing this month:

• Spitting up a lot
• Giggling
• Trying rice cereal
• Poosplosions!!!
• Chewing everything (including feet)
• Fascinated with textures
• Catching the sheep in her mobile
• Sleeping more predictably
• Sleeping without crying (sometimes)
• Smiling at the baby in the mirror
• Thinks it’s funny watching grown ups eat
• Likes to hang upside down like a bat
• ~14 lbs
• 26 inches