Our Little Gabber :)

Let's just say she was well-named. She is definitely a gabby! It really makes me wonder how she thinks we sound...




In other news, I've been better about eating. For some reason I have this issue where I always forget to eat...but I'm trying to do better :) In my attempt, I've kept the kitchen clean and I've started to make fun foods! Last night I made Broccoli Cheddar Rolls and today I made some Cream-filled Cupcakes. Soooooo good! I really do love cooking. I don't know why I don't do it more. I feel very accomplished and healthy (even if the food isn't...). There's just something amazing about knowing exactly what is in the food. Plus, I've always loved following instructions so recipes are super exciting to me :) Mostly everything I make turns out really really tasty. The only thing I need to work on now is making things look a little prettier...haha. Oh well. It's not like I want to start a restaurant or anything, right?

TONGUE MONSTER!!

Toddler? NOT YET! PLEASE!!

I don't think I've told everyone on here, but Gabby's been crawling ever since she was 4 and a half months. Nobody told me that wasn't normal until it was too late! Now, starting at 6 months, she's walking around on everything. Not quite by herself yet, but it's pretty close. The pediatrician gave up being surprised and said in order to find her normal, she would just consider her a 10 month old and everything seems fine. I thought that was pretty funny...and good advice :)

So that's a picture of her standing up on the couch trying to get to me. I just love her!


We also found out a couple days ago that she has started teething! She was being fussy and we happened to think to check, not expecting to find anything when...SURPRISE!...there was a tooth! It's just a tiny little thing poking out, but I think it's cute. Today I was taking pictures of her and she just happened to open her mouth BIG and WIDE so I zoomed in to see if I could see the tooth and there it was! Right there on the bottom middle on her right side. It's sad but adorable!


And just so I don't seem extremely weird for posting that close up of her mouth, here's the original. Baha...so cute!


I found a gymnastics place in the area that does a class for infants from 4 months - 10 months so I'm thinking about doing something like that with her.

Now some news about us for once! Tim and I want to get into better shape but neither one of us are the "work out in a gym" type so I'm trying to figure out ways to make it fun. I really want to do dance lessons but Tim is apprehensive. He thought maybe we could do gymnastics for adults, like tumbling or something but I can't find anywhere that does that! I was pretty sad because I got all excited! I've always wanted to figure out how to get my body to do a back-hand-spring. Whenever I tried it in cheerleading I just couldn't get past the round-off!

So I started searching for places to do ballroom dance lessons, figuring it would be super easy to find that in this area and I still had a hard time. If anyone knows a good place that's not $5000 a month, let me know!

Half Birthday!!

Yes, I know what you're thinking. But I'm a new mom! Cut me some slack :) We really had a fun time and I tried my best to make it super fun for Gabby. I think she enjoyed her first party. Here's some picture proof:

Who says we can't enjoy cake?

She loved playing with it...I think she only ate a tiny piece...haha

I am happy that my little baby is six months old, but at the same time I wonder, where did the time go?? I guess this is just the start of me wishing for the old days. She's just so cute and wonderful and smart and talented every second and I love her even more. I don't want her to change and then I see how much more beautiful and amazing she can be and then fall in love with the new and improved her! It's a never-ending cycle, isn't it? Just for fun, I wanted to upload the memory video for her half-birthday party. Enjoy!