High Five for Five Months

Hailey turned five months old on the 8th of this month. Golly! She's getting so big. I failed to write a blog post when she turned four months, so there's a lot of updating to do. At her four month check up (where she got some more shots.. boohoo!) she weighed in at 11 pounds 9 ounces (5th percentile). Her height was 24 1/4 inches (39th percentile) and her head was in the 55th percentile. So she's a skinny little thang. But that isn't news to us.

We are very familiar with this:

Her pants fall down on a daily basis. Her little skinny self doesn't fit into anything.

 

Sooooo let me update you on this growing girl.

 

We got Hailey an exersaucer just before she turned 4 months old. It's our best purchase yet!

She is now rolling from back to tummy and tummy to back. 

First roll onto tummy!

She's just starting to figure out that she can roll from her back to her tummy to her back, and back and forth. She's realizing that it can get her places. She's about to be mobile people!

 

We started her on baby food. She was so interested in what we were eating. We asked the pediatrician and she okayed us to start Hailey on veggies first. It's been fun!

Sweet Potatoes are the definite favorite.

But carrots are a close second.

We've been practicing to sit up (not me.. I know how-we're still talking about Hailey here). Lots of tumbles and falls and she's getting better. She can sit up for a long time now. Definitely not perfect, but getting better every day.

See that proud face?

We still need some practice.

 She also has the best personality EVER! I'm convinced that she sings sometimes. Travis is constantly singing (in his high pitched "daddy voice"), so I think she copies that. It's pretty much just noise, but I think she's singing. She growls, talks everyone's ear off, and laughs. She doesn't stop talking. Like ever. She talks in the bath, while she's getting a diaper change, in her exersaucer, on her play mat, in her crib... you get the idea. I hardly ever never get to sit through more than 10 minutes of relief society because she talks louder than the teacher. But we love her spunky, loud personality. She's super fun and I love being home with her every day. She's growing so fast! It's nuts. She even sat in the shopping cart seat thing for the first time last week. Every day is growing and learning for her. It's exciting, but I want it to slow down at the same time. So there you go. I hope you enjoyed the update.

The Many Faces of Hailey

I know. I'm way behind in blogging. I have a few blog posts that will come soon enough, but to hold you over I'll share some pictures of the beautiful girl I get to look at every day.

 

I love her so much. She has such a fun, spunky personality. More blog posts to come about what has been happening lately in the Simmons home.

Duck Duck Poop

There once was a baby

That resembled a duck.

"How rude!" you're thinking,

Which is just my luck. 

 But it's true, I tell ya.

I'll prove it to you.

Take a good look 

At the next picture in view.

Now you're thinking , "She's yellow"

"So I guess that makes sense".

But it's more than that

Ladies and gents.

If you look even closer

Here, I'll zoom in for you

You'll realize something...

That's one big poo!

Trippy Travis

 A couple nights ago, something happened that I will never forget. I was up at around 2:30am to feed Hailey. It takes about 15 minutes and then I'm back to bed. I've had this cough for what seems like a year now. It's probably really been about a couple months. So when I went back into our room after leaving Hailey's, I saw Travis' water sitting by his side of the bed. It was calling to my scratchy throat. I walk over and picked it up. As I was taking a sip, Travis groggily opened his eyes, looked at me, and closed them again. So I took another sip. 

All of a sudden Travis' eyes flew open super wide and were staring at me!

 

 *Disclaimer: I don't know whose baby this is. I just got it off Google images.

Back to the story. I'm totally creeped out, so I look at him and say, "What?" very loudly. I was hoping to wake him.

Then he sits up and says,

"Samurai choked out."

 hahahahahahaha. What the heck? I never know what to expect when he does stuff in his sleep. What started off as super creepy quickly became super funny. He has no memory of it and doesn't recall dreaming about a samurai. But he did say he has really cool dreams and it wouldn't surprise him if he choked out a samurai in his dreams. When Travis goes to sleep, he becomes this ninja guy that goes around fighting zombies, choking out samurais, and saving the world.

Little Swimmer

So we took Hailey swimming yesterday. I was wondering how she'd do since she's never been submerged in water before. She lays on a sponge in the tub when she bathes, and I dump water on her. (That sounds pretty intense.) Yesterday was a hot day, Travis had a day off from school, so to the pool we went.

AND SHE LOVED IT!

 

She had a quick power nap.

And was at it again!

Pay no attention to Travis' blaringly white skin. We're working on it. haha

 It knocked her out. I guess it's exhausting being held in a pool.

 

Sew What?!

I totally made something and I'm oozing with pride. So I have to share. :)

I saw this cute, SIMPLE baby skirt on Pinterest. Yeah. Pinterest again. I can't think for myself. Anyways, I tried it. And it was incredibly simple. I made it in like 30 minutes. I followed this tutorial. So go there if you're interested in making a skirt. All it takes is 15 inches of 1" elastic, a fat quarter of fabric, and some thread. (Well a sewing machine too...) But the tutorial even has the adult and kid sizes instructions too. Super easy stuff. And I'm obsessed with it. Like I want her to wear it every single day for the rest of her life.

This is the material I used. Aren't those elephants just dang cute?

Here's the skirt getting stitched up.

Hailey tried it on after I finished.

All ready for church.

It's even fun to play in.

So I'm totally not bragging. I'm just so excited that I made something cute. So if you have a sewing machine, make this! I'm thinking it's super easy to mass produce and make as baby shower gifts. :)