All About June

Oh how I love babies. Especially MY babies! :)

June is growing like a weed. She gets cuter by the minute. Here are some fun facts about June at 10 months old.

1. She loves food. Pretty much any food. She has 8 teeth now and is putting them to good use. Sometimes I wonder if she loves the experience of eating even more than the different tastes and textures. This was after giving her some avacado. The rest of the day, AJ referred to her as the Avacado Alien.
2. She's fat. Seriously fat. My mom thinks she's the fattest of my babies so far. She might be right. :)

Do you see the boobs? Beautiful.
(Also, for those of you wondering, her necklace is made of amber. It's a teething necklace, but not for chewing on. Amber has natural analgesic qualities which are released into her skin and help soothe her when she's teething. You can read more about them here. That's where I got June's. :) )

3. She can't crawl yet. She scoots backward on her tummy and on her back, but has yet to figure out getting up on her hands and knees and moving forward....which is alright with Brent and me. We blame it on her fat. After all, that is a big load to hold up.

4. She's one of the happiest babies I've ever encountered. Unless there's something really wrong, she can usually be found smiling.

5. She has recently discovered her voice. And since she has 4 other siblings to compete with, she has quickly figured out the need for volume. High-pitched volume. Dinner time seems to be a favorite time of hers to tell us all what she thinks, resulting in a headache for Brent and (loud) laughter from the kids. (Apparently I'm fairly used to the volume in this house, being in it all day, and occasionally contributing to it, so I have developed a headache immunity.)

6. She's starting to sign back to us now and so far her favorite is "more."

7. She's hasn't been naked for long periods of time over the winter since it was so cold, so I just recently discovered a new depth to her chub. I give you....... the roll above the knee (you can also see her cankle well in this pic):

8. With her new-found love of being naked, she's started taking pleasure in her own chub. She may love playing with her rolls as much as her mama does. :)
9. When she gets excited, she rolls and twists her ankles and her wrists, shakes her arms up and down, and makes this face:
10. She loves all of her fans....I mean siblings. All of them. Her biggest fan is her 2yo sister, Lady. Remember that doll from the 80's.....Kid Sister? Well, that song is quite appropriate for the way Lady feels about June.

(June was starting to get upset in this pic, so Lady brought her a blanket. That's her solution for everything since Lady loves her blanket (the one on the left) so much.)

(This is the face you get when you tell Lady to "say cheese." I love it.)

And one more for good measure:

11. She has 2 conflicting cowlicks at the back of her head, so she often looks like Alfalfa, although I couldn't find a good picture showing off her turkey-tail, so you'll just have to imagine the cuteness.

2 Months Old

It's official. My baby is 2 months old. It's gone by so quickly and yet, she fits into our family so well, it seems like she's been with us forever.

"Important" stats:

- June weighs somewhere between 14 and 15 lbs. (According to my super-scientific weighing method: I weighed myself on our home scale and then weighed myself holding June.)

- I have no idea how tall she is...I should measure her today, shouldn't I?

Fun stats:

- She's gotten super-smiley and talkative. She's actually quite a noisy baby (I don't know why that surprises me, given the gene pool she swims in).

- She's an extremely pleasant, easy-going baby to be around.....unless she has gas, and then she lets you know.

- The other children all continue to adore her. As you can see in the pictures, if we're ever wondering where Lady is, we can usually count on her being right next to June. Heaven forbid this baby ever get a moment to herself. Luckily June loves her adoring fans and smiles quite readily when they come into view.

- She does fine in the car as long as it's moving. But come to a stoplight and she starts to complain about the lack of hypnotic movement.

- She's sleeps well at night. Usually a 5-6 hour stretch, which is heavenly. But after that she wants to eat every hour, which can be frustrating for an anti-morning-person-mama.

- She gains rolls by the minute. I think she's up to 5 or 6 on her thighs and she has at least 3 chins. She already has cottage cheese thighs (tell me again why this is cute on babies and not-so-cute on mommies). She has dimples in her elbows. And when I got her pictures taken professionally a week or so ago (and she was nakey for a few of them *gasp*), Brent was taken aback by the fact that she already has boobs. (He worries that the 3 month old boys in church will start to get some ideas in their heads. And since we don't let our babies date until they're at least 6 months old, this just won't do. I'm going to have to find some modest dresses for her, along with a sports bra to turn her chest into a uni-boob. ('cause that's always a turn-off, right?))

I love having a baby in the house again. June brings such a fun, peaceful spirit into our home. We feel very blessed to be her family.

I won't lie, it definitely helps that she's so cute and has completely chewable cheeks and thighs, but even if she were a skinny baby, we'd still love her. Probably. ;)

Fun, Random Pics

Over the weekend that we had June's blessing we had some fun with cousins. Brent made a homemade slip-n-slide and the kids all had a blast! It was over 70 feet long! :)

I caught Tink reading to Lady one morning when I got up. I love sisters! :)

Daddy getting some baby-lovin'!

Blessed

June's blessing went great on Sunday. Brent's brother was in town so it gave us a good excuse to do the blessing. Although June was very well-behaved and didn't cry at all, it's still a stressful event for Brent and I. I tried to talk him into doing the blessing at home like we did with Tink, but too many people talked us out of it. Everybody seems to think it's important for the ward to witness it, but I personally think it's a very intimate and personal thing, and I prefer to do it at home in the company of family/close friends. Although Brent gave a great blessing, he agrees that it's stressful to give a blessing in front of hundreds of people. He felt like it was hard to focus on the Spirit. (Which is how he felt after Lady's too, but apparently he'd forgotten.....so now I'm making an account of it so that if we have another baby I'll have ammo to do the blessing at home.)


We had a fun gathering afterward with Brent's side of the family. (We'll do one later with my side.)

My attempt at getting a family picture after church. June was hungry and Roo apparently didn't hear me the 5 times I told him not to change his clothes yet. I promise I don't take him to church in Star Wars attire. ;)

June getting some lovin' from Grandma and cousin A (a teenager with perfect skin....how fair is that?)

As you can see, the finger puppets were a hit!

Brothers catching up. :)

Apparently the camera got put away before we got pics of everybody else (and the yummy food). :(

Thank you to everyone who came and to those who were there in spirit. :)