12 months

My baby is 1 years old!! She is amazing, adorable, and full of energy! I can't believe how fast a year flies by. It still feels like just yesterday that Doug and I were preparing to go to the hospital to be induced to welcome our little baby girl to the world. We were so anxious, nervous, but most of all excited. Our inducement date kept getting pushed back because of women who were in actual labor...so after 4 days of biting our nails and waiting each of those days to see if it was THE DAY, we finally entered the hospital... 1 day later, Aprill 22nd, 2012 our Scarlett June was born. That day changed my life forever in the best way possible. I can't even remember what life was like without her, because it seems like she's always been part of our family.  She is the love of my life. She is the sunshine of my life. I feel so blessed and thank my heavenly father every day for her.

At 12 months Scarlett:

• Runs around everywhere
• Can say "Mama, Mommy, Dada, Daddy, Juice, Cheese"
• She can understand so much more than she actually says right now
• Loves to play at the park, or pretty much anywhere outside
• Loves to drink from a hose or be sprayed in the face with water in general
• Always asks to jump on our bed
• Will stop anything shes doing when music comes on and do a booty dance and a twirl
• Took her second trip to st george and got to spend a full week with her cousin simon whom she absolutely adores!
• Watched her Dada cross the ironman finish line st george!
•  Doug about to take off for his Iron Man Race!
  
   Swimming time with Simon
  
  
  
   So happy after church
  
  
  
  "Look Mama! I'm shoveling sand!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Love eyes to owen
  
  
  
  About to take off on our hike in Bass Lake
  
  
  
   Supporting Grandpapala at the races
  
  
  
   Last day she is under 1 year!
  
  
  
  Birthday girl!
  
  
  
  Lollipop princess!
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Scarlett's Sweet Shoppe
  
  
  
  So careful with her birthday cupcake
  
  
  
  Bouncing in the bouncy house!
  
  
  
  Birthday girl
  
  
  
  Loves to splash
  
  
  
  We love Simon! Wish we lived closer to him!!
  
  
  
  Playing at the splash pad while we waited for Doug to finish his race
  
  
  
   Woohoo Doug!
  
  
  
  Slidin with Simon
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Being upside down is so much fun!
  
  
  
  Simon is hilarious at Costco!
  
  
  
   "Kiss me Mama!"
  
   Our hike in st george. Even Scarlett is raisin her arms :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
   My gorgeous sister and adorable nephew!
  
  
  
  Doug's biggest fans!
  
  
  
  Birthday girl on her actual birthday!
  
  
  
  Hurray! Successful party!

p.s.

I've only spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out how to go private and I'm sure its right in front of me but its taking to long (5 minutes is a long time when baby is sleeping and mom has a whole list of things to get done)...So going private is going to have to go on hold for a bit. Sorry to the people who sent me there email, but I had a paranoid moment back when I posted we were going private and now that time is past, I just don't have the energy to do it right now...I know that sounds lame but true. Thanks!

I can't believe my itty bitty baby is already 11 months! We are so blessed to have such a healthy, fun, personality plus baby. This last month was a real milestone for  her. She is starting to understand so much more. Simple directions, imitations, and is doing more physically each and every day.

At 11 Months Scarlett:

• Is about 24.5 lbs
• Is wearing 18 months clothing
• Walks/runs everywhere
• Loves to fake sneeze...You tell her to sneeze and she does a fake sneeze, head motion and all
• Will open and shut doors, dish washer, refrigerator when you tell her to
• If you tell her we are going outside she runs to the front door and starts banging and screeching with excitement
• Loves the swings at parks
• Loves bubbles
• Loves to push things
• Plays with her easter eggs all day long
• Loves to play hide and seek and to chase her all around the house
• Will find the bjorne carrier anywhere in the house and walk it over to me and tell me to put it on
• Dances whenever she hears music and she is the cutest dancer ever!
• Walk over to her high chair and ask up (its her way of telling me she wants food)
• Loves water - drinking it, splashing in it, bathing in it, especially drinking from a hose
• Takes 2 1 1/2 hour naps and sleeps through the night

Her favorite toy is my hand pump

She is so cuddly after her naps

Loves her gold glittery shoes

 Video monitor shot of how she'll wait for me sometimes after her nap

Eating big girl food is so much fun!

Climbing around at the park

Please mama put me in the baby bjorn!!

Cousin time is the best!

Going private

I'm pretty sure the only people who read this blog are my parents...but I've decided to go private anyways. If you'd like to be added to "the list" to view my blog, please comment to this post and leave your email. I'll leave this up for a month or so before i actually go private since I usually only post that often to give you all a chance (again in probably just talking to my parents) to leave your emails. Thanks!!!

10 Months!

At 10 months Scarlett is more mobile than ever walking here and there and everywhere. She is so much fun and learning so much everyday!

At 10 months Scarlett:

• is walking!!! She started taking her first few wobbly steps a few days before her 9 month birthday, but has really perfected it by 10 months!!
• loves to play "wheres scarlett???" especially during diaper changes, she'll kick off her pants and pull them over her face until I say..."wheres scarlett???"
• loves singing "itsy bitsy spider" and "skiddery merrinky dinky dink!"
• is starting to learn patty-cake and loves the "roll up the dough" part when I move her hands.
• mumbles "dada" and "mama" and "nana" all day long.
• claps, and waves hello and goodbye.
• will surprise you with the biggest wettest kisses. We live for these surprises!
• loves her teddy bears and has quite a few. She will pick them out of all her toys and walk around with them. She is such a girl, I love it!
• loves to throw the ball and chase it.
• starting to play soccer already, kicking the ball all over our place.
• puts the cell phone to her ear when she has it and say "ya!" and when we say "hello hello" she'll put it back to her ear. Super cute!
• loves orange juice, and water, and especially jamba juice!! (she's lucky her grandmother always has one waiting for her when we come and visit!)
• weaned herself from nursing :( I wasn't ready for it, but I guess its a good thing that I don't have to make her stop in the future. She is the most independent baby I know!
• takes two solid 1-1/12 hour naps a day.
• visited her cousin Simon in LA and just thought he was the beez neez! 
• will find any wire in the house...she's obsessed with them.
• as always is pretty much the best, smartest, cutest baby alive in my opinion :)

Grainy because it was texted to me....but this is scarlett playing soccer all around the house. You can see what a good walker she is!

Tape measures + Dada=hilarious

Just walking around in my fluorescent pink jeans!

Visiting my sweet cowboy nephew simon. He is such a cuddly fun little sweetheart. can't get enough of this boy!

Grandma + puppy=so much fun!

Nakey cousins getting ready for bathtime

Cuddle time with dada after my nap

Always on the run

Scarlett's cookie philosophy: "if it doesn't get all over the place, then it doesn't belong in your face."

Grocery shopping is so much fun with her! everyone stops to talk to her and she always talks and giggles back!

She actually kept her headband on for most of church...it was a miracle!

Family Photos

My beautiful and talented sister-in-law Hannah took some family pictures of us in the beginning of december. Scarlett is 7 months in these pictures. She took so many good ones that it was impossible to choose which ones to add to the blog, so I apologize for picture overload. Side note - Scarlett's eyes are really this blue, and she is really just this happy :) we are very lucky!