hazel lately

Our darling little girl continues to change right in front of our eyes. Meet her best friend...

At 4 months I introduced Hazel to who would become my saving grace in the middle of night terrors, teething, difficult feedings and that uncontrollable fussy time. She immediately giggled. Since then she adores Elmo. Elmo songs, elmo dolls, elmo books, and anytime we ask where is elmo? If he is not on, she looks at the tv dissappointed. I have never known a child so young be so interested in a tv character. It makes the both of us laugh a lot.

She and I have been going on what I like to affectionately call "Mother daughter dates." Which is really just an excuse for me to go to girly places with her that her father wouldn't totally appreciate it. Here her titi (auntie) V is joining us for lunch. {btw all of these pictures her titi v took} I love the way our family loves this little girl.

"How big is Hazel?"

"Soooooo BIG!"

This is her response to anytime the word "big" is used. Big bites, big dogs, big girl, etc. I love it! {I also realize she is in her christmas pjs, just wanted her to use them before she out grew them :)}
She has been standing all by herself for a couple of months now but is still a little scared to take a step forward. She will walk all day long if she has something to hold on to. Her first few sounds were "dadada," and I think that sealed the deal for this papa here. We think we may have even heard a "hi, dada." Which only made me a tad jealous. She did start saying "nanana," that I took as mamama. Hazel is learning some signs, the one she has down is "all done," and she even says a-da.

Lastly this little girl can't get enough of books. She loves to open a book, especially the touch and feel books, and touch them and turns all the pages.

kisses



A very rare moment...this little one NEVER stays still. The only time she is cuddly is a little right before she goes to bed.

take in the view

she is :)

{at my parents house, bathing, watching the dogs bath in the pool/swim}

sup

hello blog world! i know, again, not a lot of posts... sorry about that. we are just truckin' along here!! super ready for fall, pumpkins, and cooler weather to come around. in the meantime, i get to wake up to this darling little angel :)

also baylor is currently ranked #15

yes, that is right, in the country

boo-yah!!!

baylor vs tcu.....we totally ran the field

yahtzee

So its not grey brown at all its just grey, and I love it!

Still working on unpacking and decorating, but so far we adore our new place. We are also starting to find some random perks about this city.

chloe sofa

When clay and I were first married, he had just moved down from Philadelphia and I was living with my parents...ie have little to no furniture of my own. We were so fortunate to have some of his furniture to help us start our lives together. Now 3 years, a puppy, a pregnancy (where i spent almost all 9 months hanging out) and a baby later these leather sofas have seen their better days. This below is one of them in their prime.

Upon our move the hubs and I spent quite a bit of time looking for one that we both liked/were comfortable. I really wanted a velvet sofa in a color that makes sense for our dear black haired, puppy baby, sophie. He wanted something that he can lay across (so easy to please ;) ) and that was within our budget. Since this one was major on sale last weekend, I'm proud to show you our fun new sofa coming to us the first part of Sep.

in the color granite (like a brownish grey). More pictures to come soon!

via

eat cake for breakfast

maybe you have already seen this, but in case you have not...

how adorable is this video???

no sleep

its 10 at night...what is your infant doing? mine has been refusing sleep for the last 3 hours :( instead she has figured how to pull herself up. so we had to lower the crib, then she discovered she can see so much if she just lowers the bumper. no sleep heeerrrreeee!

{you will also notice an elmo in the background as well as a pillow we used to keep her wedged in so she would stop rolling over in her sleep and waking herself up...its been a long night, already}