jori 6 months

peek-a-boo guess who's 6 MONTHS!! so i am only about 6 days behind this time, not one month like the previous updates.
her first tooth broke through on her six month birthday. since then she has been sucking her bottom lip. so cute.
these next pictures make me laugh out loud. i was trying to focus on getting pictures of her sweet toes and she started grabbing the chub on her belly. :) so cute. i could just eat her up, and take photos of her all day long.

and yes, she is now scooting up on her knees! i am NOT ready for her to be crawling yet, but i guess she is. i am sure by the time i do her 7 month updates it will include crawling.

a few more 6 month details:

-i finished her bedroom

-she sits up in bath tub or in sink for baths

-sits up in a highchair at restaurants

-is still figuring out the food thing... poor baby has been very constipated. took her to doc and they gave us a few things to try, still doesnt seem to be helping to much.

-belly laughs at the kids when they talk to her

-holds a bottle

-gets tired of her toys and wants whatever the big kids have

i just love the baby stage. i think b/c the constant talking to and listening to of the big kids wears me out, i like it when the babies cant talk yet :) i just always have loved having them as babies. the lord has blessed us with really easy going babies and i am grateful.

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UPSTAIRS: jori's room

finally getting to load in some pictures of the upstairs. i will start with jori's room since her room is the only one that is closest to done.
i made the bumper for jori's crib from some fabric that i choose from moms stash again. she had the perfect fabrics to go with the light blue and red country theme i was going for.

the ONLY thing that we purchased new for her room is the cute pillow on the rocking chair. i fell in love with when we visited IKEA at thanksgiving and mom got it as a christmas gift for me. everything else in the room were things we had in other rooms that we made work in here. i love when it all comes together.
this little table and lamp was an end table next to the sofa in our old living room, the rocking chair was in the sun room, the boxes we made for garrets nursery when he was a baby ( i just added some fabric to the backs of them), and the sweet bird picture was hand stitched by my talented friend heather.
... seriously talented :)
this little book case used to be mackenzie's when she was a little girl. they gave it to us about a year ago and i held on to it hoping one day we would have a place for it. it used to be white with pink flowers and i painted it red and tried to antique it a little. dad made the cute letter "J" plaque for jori for christmas and i recovered the little circle frames with fabric that would match the color scheme.

so thats it... i love going in there. i think it turned out sweet and i love even more that it only took pennies to pull it all together.

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jan 18th- a happy day

at 8:01am on January 18th, 2006, i heard the words of our nurse say "well, daddy, you were right. it's a girl!" and just like that i became a mommy to my first born daughter! and how amazing she was. a head full of dark hair. fuzzy dark hair that stuck straight up. we called her tina turner. she was the biggest of my babies weighing in at 8lbs 7oz and was the shortest of my babies at 19 1/2 inches long. wish i had a picture to share here but when my hard drive got whipped out those pictures were on it. dont have time to scan a picture right now, but i am enjoying looking through her scrap book and thinking back on the beautiful baby girl that she was.....

and now as i am typing this she is sitting next to me doing a "project", glueing, painting, crafting away. she LOVES being creative and making art and i love watching her. she has her own little style. when she colors in a coloring book, she makes the trees purple and the pigs blue. i tell her all the time that i love that she colors that way. i know she knows the real color of a tree and a pig, but when you are creating art, you can make up the rules. i tell her, she is the artist, she can make it how ever she wants. i pray that no one will ever squash the little creative funky artist side that makes her who she is.

i also love how she loves nature. she is crazy about animals, including bugs and dinosaurs! she knows so much about dinosaurs. she loves school and doing school work. i think she will love kindergarten when she goes next year. she loves to write her letters and words, so different from garret. speaking of garret, her and garret are best buds. first thing she does in the morning is go in his room and wake him up. although we beg her not to do this and she gets scolded when she does, thinking about it now makes me smile.

so, happy birthday beautiful girl. i pray you will always know you are a beautiful girl, loved first and perfectly by your heavenly father and loved secondly by your not so perfect earthly family. stay strong and confident, loving and peaceful, and silly and sweet.

well the snow is FINALLY melting and the kids are back in school today. a day they were supposed to have off, but now we are making up snow days already. it sure has been crazy here! the snow was fun a pretty for awhile, but this florida girl is ready for SPRING! here are a few more pics of when we had the most snow.

can you see how deep it is? the kids were LOVING it.

i love this photo of dave and jori

white out

i just had to change the blog header. the warmness of the old one almost made me sad when i saw it. i missed it so much. so here is the new winter header... i cant believe how much snow we have had recently! this is the most i have ever seen here and that has actually stayed for days. since saturday it has been snowing off and on here so the snow that hits the ground stays and the temps have been so cold, none of it is really melting off. the kids only went back to school for three days after christmas and have been off again for the 4th day in a row. probably wont have school again tomorrow either. our roads are pretty clear but since garret goes to a county school, the buses cant get to some of the county students b/c the roads are still bad, so they cancel school. garret loves it of course. we have actually been doing pretty good. i think having a little more space really helps this year. we were on top of eachother last year and it was a lot harder.

we went sledding on monday and i even got to go! we went out to the camp with some of our friends from sunday school and had a blast. kay was great to watch jori for me and even brenna when she just got pooped out. the hill is gigantic and super fast and then we take the all terrain vehicle back up the hill and dont have to hike back up. it is so fun. garret is a crazy guy on the hill, he just loves it. rae was very brave too. she loved going down by herself, she just needed someone at the bottom to stop her. a great friend gave us a little video camera for christmas and we took some little video. i need to figure out how to get it on the blog and i will share soon. i didnt bring my camera. i wanted to just enjoy this time :)