*Month 6*

Other than all of her milestones for month 6, Juliet also got to experience her first Easter and her first birthday party!  This month was extra fun.  :)  

She's becoming more independent every day.  This month she has started scooting on her tummy and rotating in an effort to grab out-of-reach toys.
And apparently reading up on the latest sales at Babies 'R' Us. 

This picture captures her little hands in such a sweet way.  Also, we are getting more hair!  

It's brown... like mommy and daddy!  

We also celebrated her 1/2 birthday!  Once on the 26th, her actual 6th month birthday, and once when Daddy got back from out of town.  Look at that gummy smile... It's just too much sometimes.    

Love my sweet, beautiful girl.  So excited about what we'll learn about each other in month 7! 

 Sincerely, 

The Lishias

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Easter Weekend & Spring Break

Well, our girl is a blanket baby.  She uses her thumb + a blanket to chew/rub on to soothe herself to sleep.  She hasn't felt the best this weekend.  I'm chalking it up to allergies.  Everything is covered in pollen and we are all sneezing, red eyed, and snotty.  Ugh.  Nevertheless, it was a fun weekend full of jelly beans, plastic eggs, and peeps!

My father-in-law came down from PA Saturday, so we had some of our Charlotte family over and Joey threw some chicken on the grill.  It was so fun having the kiddos over to play with Juliet.  She thinks they are hysterical. Plus, you can't go wrong with a lot of family and a lot of food!

My Pal Violet was her bunny gift from my mom, which she has gotten to play with for the past month, but we still brought it out and put it with her Easter basket.

One of our Spring Break outings was spent hitting up Target the day after Easter for all the sale goodies!  I was able to buy her an Easter basket for next year as well as some other fun stuff.
All of it was 50% off!

Here are some other snap shots of our week together! :)

Babies!!  They make me say things like, Staaaaaappp!  It was such a fun week of doing whatever we wanted; shopping, lunches with Daddy, 5-hour playdates, brunch with friends, doctor visits, and preparing myself for two more months of school.  

All my teacher friends, repeat with me:  "Two. More. Months... We. Can. Do. This!" :)

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Spring Family Photos 2015

I'm so excited to share a few of our family photos from last weekend. We took them at our photographer's 4-acre farm.  She captured these beautiful photos of our sweet girl in less than half an hour in her driveway!  I love how they turned out.  I am a victim of postpartum hair loss and I've had to use a diffuser on my hair to help volumes it and hide all bald spots and baby hairs.  On the other hand, Juliet looked cute as a button in her Easter bow from Her Joyful Studio and dress from Zara baby.  

I hope you all have an enjoyable Easter with your friends and family! 

Sincerely, 

The Lishias

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*Month 5*

This month has been full of "firsts".  We started her on cereal and when she got the hang of that, we have started adding "first foods".  We bought the Beech-Nut brand baby food, which I think tastes the best, and so far she has had apples, pears, bananas, and sweet potatoes.

As of Sunday, she can blow raspberries.  I can remember the day so well because we all, including Juliet, discovered that she could do this little trick during church... during the sermon.  Yeah.  Joey had to sneak out because she wouldn't stop.  Since then, she does it all. the. time.  

She also found her feet and she thinks they are delicious!  Along with all this she has also started teething, sitting up, AND sleeping in her own room.  She did so well with the transition.  It's like she had been doing it all along.  Plus, I love going in her room after she wakes up, seeing that huge, sweet smile and hearing her babble and coo at me.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Eating Cereal & Making Muffins + Jelly

It's March already?  When I started back to school in January I dreaded being away from Juliet for so long.  I'm glad to say that the semester is almost over and this mama is counting down the days! We took Juliet to see her doctor on Friday and after those horrible shots were over he gave us the go ahead to start her on cereal.  Yay!

15 pounds :  5.4 ounces : 25 1/4 inches long

Can I just tell you that she slept for 13+ hours that night... She has done that before, but when she did it again for the 2nd night in a row- that's when we knew that it might be because of the heavy food in her tummy.  She is feeling full and sleeping so much. 

(As you can tell from this picture of her goofing off in the mirror with Daddy!)

 March has brought some warmer weather along with it, Saturday it was in the 60s and Sunday was a high of 73!  Just to have something to do that made me feel like Spring was actually here, I made some Blueberry muffins that honestly has ice cream in the recipe.  Genius!  It's super easy

- 2 cups of SR Flour

- 1/2 cup of sugar

- 1 pint of vanilla ice cream

- and 1/2 pint of blueberries

  Bake at 375 for 20-25 mins 

(I also pulled them out after 15 mins; put butter and a sugar and cinnamon mixture on top and popped 'em back in for another 5 or so mins.)  

Also, my mom and I  made a couple jars of blackberry jelly on Saturday and surprisingly, it was so easy!  I seriously want to can everything now... We will never buy store bought again.  There is also a raspberry vanilla bean jam recipe that I want to try that sounds amazing.  

Enjoy the week ahead!

Sincerely, 

The Lishias

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