Rice Cereal

We fed Liberty her first food, rice cereal. Her first experience with a spoon was a mess as we expected. But we didn't expect that she would HATE it! hahaha. She made a yucky face for almost every bite! I feed her a little bit once a day now and she has warmed up to the idea. No more totally revolting faces...now she is more fascinated with the spoon/bowl and rubbing the cereal everywhere with her hands. Sorry for so many photos. I'm still trying to figure out my camera and the best setting for a wiggly baby. There is a cute little video within the photo album. Click below.

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Where's Baby? (new couch)

We scored big at my parents garage sale - a new couch! A MASSIVE couch. Can you find baby Libby?

Big thanks to the Wyatts for the fabulous delivery service! And to Doug for help loading! AND to the Wheelers! We love it! XOXO

4 months old

Our tiny baby is not so tiny anymore! 16 pounds 1.5 ounces (90th percentile) and 27 inches long (off the charts - 98th percentile). I'm happy to report I accomplished my goal of no more daytime naps in the swing. She is napping and sleeping through the night in her crib in her own room now. The past month she has started grabbing and putting toys in her mouth, has cooing "conversations" - especially with daddy at dinnertime. She sits up (supported) and can put some weight on her legs. She LAUGHS! and her neck and sides are starting to be ticklish. We are getting ready to feed her cereal and her first baby-foods very soon. That will make for a fun blog post! Here is a little of what we've been up to:

Tummytime!

Liberty has rolled over tummy-to-back once and seems close to rolling over back-to-front since she sleeps a lot on her side. We work on it daily. Now if mommy could only be so motivated to do a few sit-ups while on the floor...

Pinetop Golf Tournament

Each July my entire family gets together for a memorial golf tournament in remembrance of my Uncle Willie. While we don't golf, we still like to see all my 8 (soon to be 9) cousins, and other relatives we don't see very often. Our nephew Charlie was adorable and Liberty made her debut. Plus it always rains and that's a nice change of pace. This was our first overnight trip with Liberty - she napped for the 3 hour car ride to Pinetop and back, and continued to sleep through the night. What an angel:)

Toes to Mouth and "Bbbb" sound

Two new tricks in one day! Liberty found her feet and tries to put them in her mouth. Also, all the sudden she started this new noise - in addition to OOooos and Aahhhs she now does this blowing bubble noise that we find pretty entertaining.

From Liberty in crib 2010-08-03

Thumb Sucker!!!!!!!

Oh yea our prediction has come true. Liberty has never been a fan of pacifiers and we rarely have ever thought to give her one since she seems content 99% of the time. However, at nap time (IN HER CRIB! YEA!), when she is trying to fall asleep our little girl soothes herself with some good old fashion thumb sucking. She often has her hands/fingers in her mouth as babies do, but I was able to catch her first time really figuring out how to get her suck on...see 2 minute video below.

From Blackberry picsvids

A Whale of a Good Time.

My mom and sister came to visit for a day. My mom wanted to decorate Liberty's bathroom so we set out to Target and tackled it that evening. The Whale/Fish theme turned out SO CUTE and Liberty loves going in there and seeing the colors now. I'm sure she'll love it for years to come - thanks Gma! Liberty also swam a little with cousin Charlie. It was a really fun visit.

3 months old!

Our sweet girl is 3 months old! She really does have a sweet personality. She also is pretty independent for a baby I think. She likes going for a stroller ride right before her bedtime feeding, and her new favorite things include always having her hands in her mouth and sitting up (assisted of course). God answered my prayers for a good sleeper. She has slept ALL the way through the night (8pm-8am) about 7 times. The rest of the nights she is still getting up for a snack once around 4am, but goes right back to bed until 7 or 8am so I cannot complain! She also takes two naps - both about 3 hours long which is crazy good I know. No tears. I hope this love of napping continues...probably since I'm blogging about it things will change:)

Goal for this month: to get her napping in her crib instead of her swing. She sleeps at night in the pack n play in our room so I know its possible. And maybe move her out to her nursery entirely??? :( I'll miss my little pal. Prediction for next month: I think we'll have a thumb sucker on our hands:)

4th of July Party!

We had such a fun swim/cookout Independence Day bash! It was our first 20+ people party at our house and we had such a good time. Three of Liberty's little friends came too - including Adalyn who is 1 month younger than Liberty. They were sporting the same festive outfit so we had to snap a few pictures of that! Our neighbors also managed to shoot off about 20 real, professional fireworks without Gilbert police showing up - which was an added bonus. Liberty was a social butterfly right up until about 7pm when she decided to take a cat nap in the middle of the party. 4th of July is my favorite holiday and I was so happy to be able to spend it with so many good friends.

Laughing with Daddy

The long holiday weekend meant lots of playtime with Daddy - to Liberty's DELIGHT! The pictures speak for themselves.