Week 45: 7 Days of Beckett

Day 309 (12/14); me and sweet girl made it through our first tough week together - both still happy - yay!

Day 310 (12/15); Bath time is still, and may always be, her favorite time of the day! You get some MAJOR smiles out of her at bath - so sweet

Day 311 (12/16); Beckett was visited by Tyson and his girlfriend! She loved seeing them and playing

Day 312 (12/17); Beckett stands up against her baby gates ALL the time, especially now that the beautiful Christmas tree Devon decorated is on the other side!

Day 313 (12/18); Beckett had so much fun at the gift exchange with 11 of her little friends! She loved Estella's lawn mower!

Day 314 (3/19); We normally play downstairs, but do keep a few toys in her room and she discovered this pull toy the other day and loves playing with the little pig

Day 315 (12/20); one of her favorite hang out spots - the pantry area by our kitchen! She'll hang out here and pull up on the little stool. She always has a toy with her when she travels - this is a little Sesame book from her friends Miss Josie and Roman

Likes:

• antibiotics; baby girl was diagnosed with ear infections on Friday - her first sickness! :( She LOVES taking medicine though - she opens right up for amoxicilin and tylenol as though it's a bottle - yay!
• wrapping paper, ribbons, tape - she enjoyed the process and playing with the bags!
• one toy at a time; her big thing is carrying one toy and keeping it with her while she pulls up on everything, crawls, etc.
• her baby gates - she pulls up on them and checks out the Christmas Tree
• her gym friends - I really see her face light up when we go to the gym and walk in and she sees faces of the staff and other kiddos she has grown to know
• feeding herself - she is pretty much on formula and finger foods only (no more purees) - she loves to feed herself fruits like bananas, apples and avocado; beans including black beans and green beans; chicken, turkey, eggs, bacon, cheese - she doesn't really turn much away but grapes and pineapples!
• her hair - it's getting much longer (like noticeably - especially in the back - baby mullet!); she twirls it a lot and plays with it. It's adorable, unless she has 'egg hands' and ends up with dried food in her hair - gross!

Dislikes:

• runny nose - haattteeesss it
• fever (I hate it but am SO glad she was hot so it prompted me to take her to the doctor)
• the usual: clothes changes, diaper changes, etc.
• the nose frieda or 'snot sucker' - she REALLY hates when we suck it out but smiles afterwards since she can breathe and all!

Her Week in a Nutshell:

• Saturday: Day with Dad while Mom celebrated Aunt Devon's birthday; family movie night: It's a Wonderful Life
• Sunday: Family Day in; wrapped Christmas gifts
• Monday: Infant Room at Gym with Miss Neecy & mom; Visit from Tyson and his girlfriend
• Tuesday: Not feeling well so stayed home and made cupcakes with mom
• Wednesday: Gift Exchange with Playgroup - Beckett played with 11 friends and rode with friend Abby and Miss Hanna
• Thursday: Infant Room at Gym with Miss Neecy
• Friday: Visit from Monica, Sharon & Baby Peyton; woke up from nap sick - surprise visit to pediatrician for first non-well visit; diagnosed with double ear infections - poor baby girl! Went to Kroger with Mom to get prescription - while waiting we picked up ingredients for more cupcakes and for sugar cookies

Week 44: 7 Days of Beckett

Day 302 (12/7); happy girl in her Auburn gear on SEC day! Me and Becks took Austin to the marta stop for the game, then did a bit of shopping and watched the game together - Auburn won, again - woo!

Day 303 (12/8); Bathtime Beckett playing with her hairbrush! She is teething bad and really putting things toward her back teeth - we're pretty sure her molars are coming in - eek!

Day 304 (12/9); happy girl pulling up on the couch with her water bottle - a true favorite toy!

Day 305 (12/10); her teething face - not quite sad, not happy either - just uncomfortable but there is nothing we can do to help - poor girl!

Day 306 (12/11); Happy girl eats her peas & pears - she is still taking purees... but I can tell she is resisting them more and much and much prefers feeding herself!

Day 307 (12/12); playing with clothes from our closet - she loves to play in our closet and touch the different fabrics. Mostly she likes the door stopper haha

Day 308 (12/13); hanging in her pack & play making her teething face (biting inside of gums) - she LOVES to stand up in here and in her crib. 

Likes:

• standing up all the time on anything
• eating all by herself (not big on being fed anymore)
• avocados are fast favorites, as are eggs

Dislikes:

• the usual: being confined in any situation whether it's for diaper or clothing changes, the car seat for car rides, etc. - she wants to be free all. the. time! 
• noises that didn't used to bother her - tape being pulled off a box, the mixer, the blowdryer, etc. She calms down but it definitely scares her :(

Her Week in a Nutshell:

• Saturday: Visited Perimeter mall; drove Dad to marta; spent the day with Mom and watched Auburn win the SEC championship (well, she watched the first half)
• Sunday: Family Day with Mom & Dad; rewatched the SEC game
• Monday: Visit to new gym's Infant Room with Miss Gretchen; bath time with Dad while Mom had Ornament Exchange
• Tuesday: Infant Room with Miss Gretchen and day with Mom while Dad had a Client Christmas Dinner 
• Wednesday: Infant Room with Miss Gretchen at mid-morning; visit to Staples & the Chiropractor that afternoon with Mom; bathtime with Dad!
• Thursday: Rainy day in with Mom; Pediatrician for flu booster shot that afternoon; evening with Mom while Dad had another Client Dinner
• Friday: Infant Room with Miss Gretchen at mid-morning; Visit from Miss Sharon and Baby Peyton that afternoon

This was a LONG week. I say that because it's just tough when Austin is gone all day. Tough for him as the days are long, tough for Beckett as she doesn't get to see him at all and tough for me as I'm like this. day. will. never. end. Once in a while? Cool! But Saturday was solo as we couldn't get a babysitter for the SEC championship game. Then Tuesday was solo... and Thursday... and Friday. The back-to-back days with teething, busy baby were tough - the weekend couldn't come quickly enough to give me and baby girl some company besides each other! SO, was it a bad week? No, just tough and long. She is a sweet, 10-month-old girl! But at this age it also means she's mobile, quick, busy, into everything and it's just tough to keep an eye on her every second sometimes!

Christmas Shot of Happy Becks

Starting to download, edit and catch up on photos on the blog! Also need to focus on the upcoming ski trip - we leave Saturday morning - eek! In the meantime, here is a sweet shot of Beckett from early Christmas morning - she didn't even have on her Christmas jams but did have on these adorable gray and white polar bear pjs from her Mimi - so sweet.

Merry Christmas!

Beckett's First Christmas Gift Exchange

One of the girls in the mom's group, Kari, hosted a Christmas Gift Exchange for the kiddos! We got Kari's daughter Estella's name, and picked out Melissa and Doug puzzles for her - a favorite of Beckett's! Since she's a bit older we didn't do the big knob but instead did the small peg. Beckett's name was pulled by Hanna/Abby and they went all out giving her a toy camera, a six-book box set and a Fisher Price activity puzzle! She's asleep now but it's out and ready for her when she wakes at 3 - yay!

The party was great with 12 kids and moms in attendance! There was so much food, too! We brought 2 dozen mini cupcakes - white with white frosting in red/white polka dot wrappers with red and green sprinkles - yay! And we carpooled - Hanna/Abby picked us up and the girls did great in the car riding in the back together - adorbs! Here are a few pics I grabbed - you can tell Beckett had a great time!

Beckett loved this tambourine - clearly!

Sweet boys shared so good with her!

Precious babies playing and sharing

Apparently we must get Beckett a lawnmower - she LOVED Estella's!

Becks and Bestie Harper lookin' all fancy!

Group shot! All 12 babies in one frame - winning!

Kari had us at her beautiful home - this was the basement with a huge play area for the kiddos - they were in heaven!

This train was a big hit - lots of kids took little rides! 

Beckett Gets Sad When People Leave

Last Friday Sharon and baby Peyton came to visit. We had a great time, although we had a Mommy Fail and Beckett Fail.

Mommy Fail: for the first time EVER I didn't put a diaper on her. Seriously. I went in at 3 p.m. after her nap and was changing her diaper/clothes and Sharon got here and I didn't put a new diaper on - just skipped that step and put on clothes! So needless to say, later at 4 p.m. when she was in her high chair she was being weird/cranky. I went to change her diaper and realized she was wet and wasn't wearing a diaper - eek! I apologized to her  profusely - she was humiliated! :( j/k kinda....

Then we had Beckett Fail: she fell. She doesn't fall anymore and has been getting more and more bold. She was pulling up on a chair and slipped on her pants and fell down. She was so upset and I of course felt awful but I know these things will happen even when I'm on her.  I hate it though but I know she won't learn if I don't let her try but ugh! Parenting is hard. :(

So ANYWAY, after Mommy fail and Beckett fail we still had a good visit and when Sharon & Peyton went to leave Beckett was sad and didn't want them to go - she kept going over to visit when Sharon was packing up Peyton - ADORABLE! She is getting more interested in newborns -she showed significantly more interest in Peyton this visit then in last visits - she was fascinated and kept trying to rock her car seat and bouncer. :)

A Visit from Tyson

Tyson had taken a vacation day today and he and his friend were going up to the outlets so he called me to see if they could come visit. So sweet! They came over from 3 to 4 this afternoon and got lots of play time with Beckett, who had had a rough nap due to snot nose but she sure perked up and showed off for them! So sweet of them to go out of their way to come by - enjoyed meeting his friend and seeing Beckett play with them - adorable! Here are a few pictures I snapped just before they headed out.

All smiles!

Wait a minute, you guys are leaving?

But I want you to stay - we'll have fun!

Okay, fine, I get it, you don't have kids and I'm coming on too strong!