Descanso Gardens-March 13

For our last outing before I went back to work we went with my parents to beautiful Descanso Gardens and out for Japanese after. It was a great day. (picture heavy post/double post with Casa Luna)

Sleeping Sibs-April 28

In this pic Laney is 3 months and Owen is 22 months.

Laney's first bottle feeding-March 10

In preparation for me going back to work in mid-March, we started having Laney take bottles of pumped breastmilk from daddy the week before. Here are a couple of shots of her very first feeding. I was purposely away from the scene. Seems so long ago, and it was only 4 months.

More catch up! Beth and Will visit-March 10

I taught with Beth at the charter school for a couple years when we first moved out to CA. Owen and her son Will were born only two weeks apart and in these pix she was expecting #2! Rourke Jonathan was born April 8 so he is about 2 1/2 months younger than Laney. Check out this link for his newborn photo shoot- so sweet!
http://jennymcmastersphotography.blogspot.com/2011/05/beautiful-redheaded-newborn-mission.html?showComment=1312346370609#c8741743293877438580

More first meetings from Feb. and March

Ava (holding Laney) was in my class when I was pregnant with Owen. Her mom Stacie is a fourth grade teacher at my school.


Tia Alice

Midwife Rosemary Occhiogrosso delivered me and my brother too!

Gramp!

Six Months

Six months old- hands down one of my favorite times (along with 16-18 months) Laney girl you are so sweet and smiley. Happy six months old. Here is what is up with you:

*75th percentile for height (26.25") and weight (17 lb. .06 oz), 50th for head circumference (42 cm)
*size 2 diapers
*size 6 mo. clothes
*you roll (mostly front to back) and do this funny scoot on your back where you lift your bum and scoot on your heels
*you sleep 8:30 p to 7 a but still feed once or twice a night. now that we've got brother sleep trained, you are next! Hope to accomplish dropping the night feedings altogether by the time I start back to work in 2 1/2 weeks.
*you try to lift your head a lot, even when sitting in a swing or carseat or lying down
*you are a mouther! love to eat books and anything! I got a mommy bling teething necklace just for this reason.
*it is time to childproof again. since O. never mouthed much we didn't have to worry so much with him.
*you started cereal about 2 weeks ago and avocado over the weekend. Tomorrow we will start butternut squash. You also get a little water and are cup training. you love the water!
*you take 2-3 naps a day (usually 3)
*You talk a lot and have a loud booming voice!

Can't wait to see what this month brings!

Exhale

We have been back from our trip for a week and a half and I am finally exhaling. From unpacking to the long weekend to a week of driving miles and miles in hopes of getting my kids to nap it has just been nonstop. Today we stopped. I came home from a funeral at noon and we are just here. Eating, breathing, trying out the potty. And my daughter naps in the crib while my busy boy searches for his ukelele. And I have time to load a picture or two. Because goodness knows I fall asleep when they do and wake up when they do, there just aren't any minutes. But all you moms know that. So here I am with a few outtakes of Laney's five month pix from the sidebar down the right side of the blog. I've been taking her pic in the same chair since week 3; this month's outfit is special because I wore it as a baby too. Here are some of the others I took that day: