avocados!?

jillian tried mashed up avocados at tamolly's the other day.

she was not a fan.

first thing we have found that she doesn't love. i don't know if it was the taste, texture, or what!

"you want me to eat avo-what?"

"i don't know, mom.."

"oh, i don't think i like this!"

"it's coming back out!"

"yeah, that's gross."

"i'm trying to be polite, but please stop feeding me that.."

happy birthday kyle!

i took this picture of kyle at the gcs homecoming game on saturday. and i kinda love it.

he's such a good dad, and embraces the "dorky dad" thing.

he turns 24 today! we went to church this morning, then spent the day watching the rangers and cowboys (both lose!) we're hoping for a rangers rebound on tuesday!

on friday we went out on a date to four winds steakhouse. it's in the middle of nowhere in wills point. it was kinda nice to get away, just the two of us.

saturday, kyle got to sleep till noon while i took jillie garage sale shopping. then we went to our homecoming football game and watched the rangers game.

anyways...

jeffrey, jillian and i are so lucky to have you! we love you so much and hope you had a great birthday!

we love you crazy!

the great state fair of texas!

last week, we went to the state fair!

the weather was perfect, and we had a lot of fun!

jillian seemed to soak it all up.


i think her two favorite things of the day were the petting zoo and riding on dad's shoulders!

jillie would just grab at the animals faces and laugh! she wasn't scared at all!




the rare picture of mom and dad these days.


she cruised all day with her feet on the "dash"


kyle's state fair corn dog


this is jillian's "corn dog"


i love this picture! jillian kinda likes her dad!



this was at the end of the day, and jillian was getting tired of the stroller. when kyle put her on his shoulders, she just squealed out of pure joy the whole time!

six months!

we have made it to half a year!


jillian grace weighs 14 lbs 12 oz (25th percentile)
25 1/2 inches long (50th percentile).

quote from the dr: "she's very not normal, but in a really good way!" referring to how busy she is!



lots of new things are happening in the nelson casa.

jillian is crawling at full force for the past 2 weeks now. no more scooting. and she is right on the heels of her older cousins.

we set up the pack and play in our living room and have put her in "jail" to play. i was spending all day long chasing her around the house, and it was wearing me out! so we had to rein that in a little!



it took her a couple days to be happy playing in it, but she does pretty well now!

she loooves any tile floors! she makes a bee line for them whenever she gets a chance! then when she gets there she just does a spread eagle and lays there.


she now pulls up on the side of her crib! the problem is, her mattress had not been lowered, so we had to do that asap! she was sleeping in the pack and play in her room, until that got done, because she is a little too crazy to be trusted not to take a flying leap out of her bed!


she started crying in the middle of the night, and we usually let her cry it out, and she is back to sleep in about 5-10 minutes. well she started doing this really weird scream, so i told kyle i was going to go check on her. i'm glad a did, she was standing straight up! it kinda freaked me out!

i thought maybe it was a fluke. so i put her back in the bed, and within 30 seconds she was standing up again.

so i had to do a little furniture re-arranging in the middle of the night, until we were able to lower the mattress, which is kind of a pain.

while i was getting her pack and play ready, she was on the floor and she pulled up on my legs. so, once she got the hang of it, she took off!


she still eats great! she gets cereal twice a day, with a vegetable mixed in at dinner time, then usually nurses the rest of the day. today she tried a fruit for the first time, pears. she loved them too, but not much more than she loves veggies. the girl will eat anything!

if she's getting a bottle, she usually wants to hold it herself. all grown up!

this morning she started saying "da-da" on command! not sure if it was just a fluke deal, but she did it over and over. i got it on video, but i don't know how to get my videos from my cell phone to here, so just imagine it being really cute!


last week, we went to the state fair and had a lot of fun. the weather was perfect, and jillie seemed to be in awe of everything she saw. post on that will come..(as usual).

the last several days she has been a terrrrrible sleeper!! she goes to sleep great! she'll just lay right down and go to sleep. but then she is up every couple of hours in the night! it's kinda wearing us out, and i'm hoping this is a very very short phase!

now it's about time for me to go lay a little peanut down for a nap!

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ok, so this was written the first week of october, and i forgot to post it.
oops.

up to date real life..

the girls talks/sings non stop! her favorite and only word is still da-da. and she still doesn't quite know what she's saying.

she eats fruits and vegetables with cereal once/twice a day. she loves everything. i tried to explore out side of the baby food jar, and mashed up some avocados for her. she was not a fan!

she is pulling up on everything!!! baskets are her favorite thing right now.

we definitely need to start baby proofing the house better.

today i found her with scissors. no idea where from. (#1 mom!) haha.

so yeah, i shouldn't be blogging, i should be removing anything dangerous from 2 feet above the ground!

does this face not say MISCHIEF!?

take me out to the ball game!

we took jillian to her first rangers game this week!

we l-o-v-e the rangers and we went to games as kids, so it's only natural that this is something we want to do with our kids!

and who doesn't love going to a baseball game!?

also, jillie was born on the rangers opening day, and they've clinched a playoff spot, so she must be a good luck charm =)

we didn't get there until the 3rd inning because traffic was terrible!! but we made it all the way till the end of the game, which is better than we expected!

the rangers lost, but we still had fun!

if you know me, you know i never put shoes on my child, so she was obsessed with her little tennis shoes!

i think this picture is just so precious. she looks so grown up! (and she sits like a pro now!)

she rode in the baby bjorn for awhile. always nice to have both hands to juggle hot dogs and drinks!


sweet family time!
j and mommy
j and daddy

someone is getting very sleepy!

she "helped" carry the drink all the way to the car! no jillie, you cannot have coke. not ever.

GO RANGERS!!

we had so much fun taking jillie to her first game. it's definitely different when a baby tags along. kyle said 'that is the most emotionally uninvolved i've ever been in a game!"

this will have to be a yearly tradition!

five months!

it seems like these monthly posts are all i'm getting to these days.

jillian is five months old.

apparently she thinks she is like eight months old, and we need to put a stop to that. real quick.

taking those chair pictures is a two man job now. she'll crawl right off the chair! so kyle is the "catcher" just in case she takes a dive!

she wants to crawl sooo badly! she can scoot (or army crawl) wherever she wants. she hasn't discovered there's life outside of the livingroom yet, so we are grateful for that. but i'm afraid it won't be long. she has crawled a couple times. for the most part, she gets up on all fours, and wiggles for awhile, then just drops back to her tummy and scoots.


we are really trying to practice sitting up, because i'm afraid if she can crawl before she can sit up, then she'll never take the time to sit still long enough to sit up!


kyle assures me that we will make sure she can sit in a chair before she goes to kindergarten. he said "kaci, it's not like we're going to carry her into the classroom, put her in a chair and she just slides out! she will learn to sit up!"

still, we're practicing. and she's getting pretty good. with the tiniest bit of support she does great. with no support, she does pretty good, but falls over after a little bit.

this girl is soo happy! i just can't get enough of her!


this girl looooves the bath! i think i say that each month, but it seems she likes it more each day. now when we go into the bathroom, she knows it's coming and gets all excited. i can't keep her on her back in the tub any more. i put her in and she flips right over.

it looks like she's swimming laps! she goes from end to end chasing toys!

being on her tummy in water seems dangerous, but i'm always within arms reach. and holding her down on her back in water seems a little more dangerous, so there.

in the last couple days she has started putting her face under water. which sounds good, but she doesn't pull it back out!! so now i'm on super alert! the good thing is, she isn't scared of water one bit!

we had our first sick spell this past week. that's one reason this post is a little late. jillie was not happy long enough to take her "monthly pictures". (kyle kinda made fun of me, but he really loves the monthly pics).

we knew she wasn't feeling well when she fell asleep on kyle like this!

she just had a little runny nose, and cough. no fever. it really wasn't that bad, until she would try to go to sleep, then she couldn't breathe and would get fussy, cry, snotty nose got worse..you know the drill. so she was just a fussy girl for a few days there.

last week was her first trip out of the state! we went to kansas! woo hoo! we went to see dan, ashleigh, and izzie. the trip was low key. we just hung out, did a little shopping, a little crafting, and the babies did a lot of playing!



izzie wasn't too sure what to think of jillie. when they left texas, jillie would just lay there and let izzie mess with her. now jillie is coming back with a vengeance. she is on the move, and a toy stealer!

izzie warmed a quickly and they had a ball! she did still think jillie was her baby though! in the car, she would hold her hand, and help feed her. too cute!


funny story about this picture. we lost jillie's blanket at our hotel. as we were driving out of the parking lot the next morning, it was hanging on a street sign! thankfully someone was nice enough to hang it up there, because we kinda just thought it was lost in the car. i'd be a sad momma if we got back to texas without it!

more big news..jillian is now a big cousin!!!!

danny and chelle had their baby last night!

haylie rae jones! 5 lbs 11 oz! 18.5 inches long!

here's a picture of that sweet thing, many more pictures to come!


so that was a long post! i guess we've had a busy couple of weeks around here!

so until next time..
we're outta here!