7 months

bivi is 7 months old tomorrow.

almost impossible to believe.

let's see...what is bivi up to?

she is loving solid foods!  bananas, avocados, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, oats, wheat, pears, apples, she loves them all!  the girl is an eater.  just like her mama!  she makes a loud noise with each bite.  you can tell she's enjoying it!

she loves babbling and still says dada.  she is trying so hard to crawl, but can't seem to figure out that she should move her knees forward.  she always ends up planking or in a downward dog.  maybe we have a future yogi on our hands. 

bivi responds to bivi and vivi, but not vivien!  i think we've stunted our child and not sure when she'll learn her real name.  she still loves baby e.  oh boy.  she can't get enough.  she loves music and when someone sings to her.  she is still such a curious cat and wants to see everything, touch everything and must always be carried facing out.  the girl knows what she wants and will let you know!

we just love her so much.  each day she is excited to see me when i come in her room and the feeling is mutual!  i'm still amazed that we are parents and have been blessed with such a fun and perfect daughter. 

something to say

i'm not sure this is actually part of the english language, but it's bivi's vocabulary.

she's trying so hard to talk and for us to understand.

love it. 

i'm choosing to not be offended.

baby e

baby Einstein is a must around our house.

i don't like her watching much during the day, but when she gets to, she loves it.

i've tried showing her other things.  tried is the key word.  she refuses them.

she always goes back to her baby e.

i thought i was making up her preference in my mind.  then, i noticed a trend.

watch her reaction in the video below.  she does this every time the caterpillar scoots across the screen at the beginning of a dvd.

too cute.

flopper

bivi's latest trick is to flop when she's upset. 

just fall backward and cry.

luckily, we've always been there to catch her.

i'm hoping this is just a teething phase...

tomato sauce!

tired of all the yucky, bland or acidic tomato sauces at the grocery store, i decided to take matters into my own hands and make some.

i stumbled upon a recipe by alton brown.

i like him.

he taught me how to make scrambled eggs.

you roast the tomatoes for a long time and they develop a rich flavor.  yum!

i ended up putting meat in the sauce and wish i hadn't.  the sauce really stands alone.  it would be delish on pizza!

 after two and a half hours of roasting.  onions and herbs are on top.

a quick trip through the food processor and into the sauce pan.

note: the recipe calls for white wine, but i used chicken broth.

tasty!

chillaxen

 apparently she already likes to hang on the couch.

bundled up

the cold weather makes for some cute pics!

since we got on at least one walk a day, i'm so thankful she doesn't mind wearing a hat and mittens!

gma lee and biv

bivi just loved gma lee from the first time she met her!

always smiled for her and loved to laugh with her.

here is a cute video from thanksgiving at their house.

Canadian Thanksgiving

We went to Canada to celebrate Thanksgiving and introduce Bivi to lots of family members she hadn't met yet. 

Although living in Utah puts us much closer to Calgary, it's still a 15 hour drive.

Which we did at night, so Biv would sleep. 

Crazy talk.

Here are a few snaps of the trip!

 gma lee and gpa bill.

 gma peg.

 she was the star of the show and i guess all the attention knocked her out!

 cousin time!

and we took some family pictures while there. 

a lot jammed into 5 days! 

Happenings

I have a lot of pictures to post, if I ever get around to it.

It's on my mind.  With about a million other things.

In the mean time, here is a gluttonous recipe.  I made these tonight.

It might help to promise half of these to a friend before you even make them or else you'll shove them all in your mouth before the cool. I hear that's the bet way to eat them.  Not that I would know...

German Chocolate Cake Cookies

So tasty!  And they freeze well.  Be sure to have some milk on standby!

massage time

Bivi and I went to an infant massage class last night and had so much fun.  She was a little wiggly, but that was only after she realized a video was playing and wanted to check it out.  At one point she began to fall asleep while I was massaging her back.  So cute!

We had massage time today before her bath and she was definitely digging the leg and face stuff.  Big smiles.  With how much she uses her mouth, it must feel great to have someone rub your cheeks!  It's so fun to go and do these things with my trusty little sidekick!

princesses and pumpkins

my niece, ava, turned 4 and we were invited to her party!  it was princess themed and very cute and she was totally in her element.  the girls arrived in their princess best.  bivi even received an invite and although i have no princess regalia for her, my sister loaned us a faux fur stole for the event. 

 be still my heart.

a princess always brings along gpa as her trusty side kick. 

she was asleep before the presents, but that's ok.  wearing faux fur is hard work.

later that afternoon we went to a local pumpkin patch.  the summer like heat was kind of a buzz kill, but it was still fun to have a tractor ride to the patch and eat apple cider donuts.  we bought 8 pounds of yummy apples and i wish i'd gotten more.  they're amazing. 

a long, but fun day!

football time

fall is my favorite season.

i like almost everything about it.

almost.

not a football fan.

however, aaron wanted to go to a byu football game and i, wanting to fully embrace the provo experience, agreed.  i wasn't super excited about it being at 6pm since bivi goes to sleep at 7, but i opted for a sleepy baby instead of waiting until later in the season and going to a game in the snow.  my fears were not unfounded.  the game was WAY too much for her and we left at half time with a screaming child.

but, we snapped a cute picture of her, pre-melt down, in the cheerleader outfit gma got her!

aaron is a little excited to be going.

getting crazy on her chew toy...

fun fall colors

i really enjoy nail polish.  something about a new coat makes me happy.

trivia fact: i always paint my nails before i go on a trip.  the trip is more fun with painted nails.

i stumbled upon this fall opi collection the other day.  it's inspired by the new james bond movie. 

 

i pretty much want every one of the colors. 'the world is not enough' looks so fun!  however, the beauty below caught my eye.

 

it reminds me of an adult version of the glitter wet n wild top coat i had in high school.  opi is releasing the collection in october.  you can bet i'll be in line!