August 7, 2015

This morning I decided to just grab some stuff for baby breakfast and see what SJ would do with it.  We had leftover King’s Hawaiian Rolls and a couple of bananas on the counter.  I pulled one of the rolls apart and let her examine the texture, the taste, the smell.  Needless to say, she was a huge fan.  We love us some bread and bananas!!

She’s also started being very flirty and coy.  Several times a day now, she’ll tilt her head to the side and give us this shy little grin.  We return with “sweet little baby.”  It’s her new trick.  Many little hearts will be broken by this little girl and her syrupy sweet little sweetness.

August 6, 2015

Selah June Bug might turn her nose up at some peaches, but she sure does love little oranges!!!!

August 4, 2015

I’m enjoying my outside pool time with Miss SJ.  It feels good to get some Vitamin D and to listen to the sounds of a country afternoon.  It’s been an awesome way to wash away the stress of work and the cabin fever of our routine.

playing in the pool

August 3, 2015

So on Monday one of the parents of SJ’s half-sibs uploaded a video to our facebook group of her baby laughing and laughing and laughing.  As I was watching it, I realized that the little guy sounded a whole lot like Miss SJ when she’s got the giggles.  I also realized that she was totally fascinated by the audio of this video.

So I played it again and recorded her watching it.

watching video

August 2, 2015

I made Jeremy take me to Walmart today to get a plastic pool for the back patio.  It’s been Florida hot lately.  We are definitely in the dog days of summer.  Selah June likes water, especially when she doesn’t have to practice her swimming skills.  Consequently, I knew she would enjoy splashing around in her own little pool. 

After trying out all of the plastic toys I threw in the water, she decided what she really wanted was my soda can.  Aluminum in water makes a really cool sound.

Then she decided she wanted my big yellow cup.

Here’s a video of our adventure.  Watch all the way to the end. It’s worth it!

pool time!!

July 30, 2015

Grammy loves that Selah June is all about music.  She’s pulled out all the baby instruments she can find, and SJ is proving herself to be quite the one baby band.  Apparently, she only wants to play with the toys that make music.  Everything else is nonsense to her… not worth her precious percussionist time.

playing instruments

July 31, 2015

I thought I wasn’t going to be able to fix my spelling error (“molers” rather than “molars” and took some additional photos of Miss Selah June with her sign.  Ultimately Paint saved the day, but these were too cute not to post.  🙂

July 29, 2015

We worked from home today because Daddy had a big interview and couldn’t pick up Miss Selah June from Grammy’s house before orchestra.  We took the opportunity to go to Target and get a portable high chair.  The beautiful wooden high chair I bought before she was born is stupid.  It was the first thing I found that I really liked, and it was my first purchase for the baby.  And it is perhaps the worst high chair ever made.  I thought the wood would be easy to clean and would blend with the rest of our furniture.  I was right about it looking good and being relatively easy to clean, but I was wrong about it being good at its primary purpose – to hold down the baby and encourage her to eat mushy, sticky, and crumbly food.

Every evening in the awful high chair had turned into a fight.  I was fighting to be patient with her as she twisted and turned, climbed and fussed.  Jeremy was fighting off a nervous breakdown over her climbing and dangling over the side of her chair.

This chair was $50.  It attaches to any chair and can turn into a booster.  It is by far the best $50 I have ever spent.

eating bananas

July 26, 2015

Selah June is 10 months old!

We took a few other pictures of play time.

And Grammy sent me a video of Miss Selah June making some music as a one-man band!

Selah June’s Band