6 month pictures

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pictures I promised

6 month stats

Don't worry, pictures will be uploaded as soon as I get my camera out of my car

Weight-17.5 (95th)

height-26 (50th)

Today was our doctors appt. I was dreading it because of the shots but Liz actually did really well. Fussed twice and was done with that. We'll see how good she is tomorrow. I found out at her appt. that I haven't been feeding her enough milk and now I feel like a bad mom. I knew her poor little cheekers were going down but I just thought she was growing. I know your thinking, she's still in the 95th percentile, but she's still starving people!
We are still on frozen milk for right now but that will all end this week i'm sure and it'll be on to formula. Not what I perfer but we do what we gotta do. I am officially milk free and feel like a whole new human being. Joe and I actually went on a date for 4 hours and I didn't have to feel pain, engorgement, or even pump in the car. I however, can now hold Liz with complete comfort, I no longer have to wear a bra to bed (tmi I know), I can sleep on my stomach, shower without being in complete pain, and I no longer have baseball size knots. I don't miss any of that but again it's all bitter sweet.

A few things for journaling records of what Liz is doing these days
-sits up all by herself
-when I put her on her tummy she now autimatically gets on her hands and knees
-holds her own bottle and sippy cup
-shows favoritsm to her mommy
-still puts EVERYTHING in her mouth
-loves tv
-splashes in her bath
-eats puffs and LOVES them

We had her 6 month pictures taken yesterday at wye mountain and they turned out so good! We attempted some family pictures and Liz was the only cute one. I asked if we could just take Joe and I out of them. I looked too posed and Joe can't smile (no offense babe), boo. Oh well, we have the cutest little girl ever! I won't get them back until Friday so you'll just have to wait!

Saturday Bike Ride

Saturday was yet another beautiful day outside so we decided to go for a bike ride in little rock. We got out of the house early saturday morning and went and bought Liz a bike seat for the back of Joe's bike, got it set up and headed for the trails. By mile one Joe turned to me and said "let me know when your done". I knew he had been looking forward to going on a bike ride for days so I told him I was fine and could go a little longer, but secretly I was dying. My bum had not been on a bike seat for 2 years and I thought I was going to die. Well we kept having to stop due to Liz's helmet being too big and it kept falling in her face. By the 10th stop Joe was frustrated and we had a little bit of an argument in the middle of the trail about whether or not we should take Liz's helmet off. I of course battled it and won and we kept the helmet on. We finally found a good place to turn around and headed back and that's when I found out Joe was ready to turn around at mile one. We both thought it was funny that neither one of us wanted to seem like wimps. On about the last 1/2 mile Liz conked out. She loved the bike, I think, I just ignored the "I hate you for making me wear this helmet" look. Oh well, she'll thank me later.

I had to photoshop this picture a little so you could actually see her face. It was too cute of a picture to waste
After Our bike ride we came back to Conway and met up with my parents, Katie, Colby, and Brynlee at Beaverfork. Joe's mom had bought a kayak for us to store at our place that Joe has been dying to try out and I knew they had a fun park there. I had lots of fun again. We got to put the girls on the slides together and swings.

Again we are absolutely LOVING the weather and LOVING that it's almost spring. We are able to be so much more active. Although we keep doing thinking they'll be like old times, but it's much different with a child. More fun definately, we just can't go as long anymore.

So long, Farewell

Dear pump (aka mona),
You have been good to me for the past 6 months but it is time I must let you go. I have been instructed that if I want to get better I must give you up. This is a bitter sweet goodbye so no hurt feelings please. Thank you for such a good long journey and thanks for being there for me when I needed you. Until next time, so long and farewell.

-Your most devoted pumper.

Loving the Weather

Last weekend was our first weekend of nice weather in a long time so we took advantage of it. We woke up early and walked to the park with my dad. I had high hopes of having a great time but I tend to forget Liz is still too young to enjoy everything. She had fallen asleep before we got there so I did what every parent would do and woke her up. We slid down the slide a few times which she enjoyed and then walked around the track at the park.

Later that after noon we went to the bike trail with our friends, Katie, Colby, and Brynlee. It was really windy by that point but we still had a blast. Joe brought along his ripstick and the boys had fun riding down steep hills, not something Katie and I were interested in. We took a rest while the boys rode down the hills and took lots of pictures of the girls. We finally got our first good family picture. Joe and I aren't very photogenic so a good picture of us is rare.

We really enjoyed the weather and can't wait to enjoy the many more spring days. I love spring!