a buzzy little bee

cheesy, huh?

i'm coming out of my blogging funk, so i'm having to back track a little, which brings us to..

halloween!

gasp! halloween!? yes, i actually said that and not "fall festivals". am i even still a Christian? =)

which brings us to our little bumblebee!


we thought this was a very fitting costume for her, because she is so BUSY!
(if i had a dollar for every time i heard someone say, "wow, she's really busy for her age!)


KILLER BEE!! (one of my favorite pictures!)

this is the huge bucket of candy at heidi and brent's house. we all gather there, hang out, and give candy. we think it's more fun to all be together, than all at our separate houses!

we may have passed out some slobbery pieces of candy! just maybe..

all the cousins (minus haylie, who was also a very cute bumblebee). aren't they all so cute!? we're so lucky to have kids who all adore eachother! i just love to watch them all play together. even with the age difference, the older kids are so sweet to the little ones, and they all have a blast!

i was dressed up as a nurse/myself, because i had to go to work later that evening. kyle dressed up as a rangers fan.

we went and trick or treated at gigi and doc's.


we took all the grandkids to trick or treat at my dad's fire station, and they got a call and had to leave while we were there. the kids thought this was way cooler! as they were climbing on the truck, dellie yelled, "is it a cat stuck in a tree!?!?" true story. that girl cracks me up.

here's a picture of all the grandkids together with my grandpa (my mom's dad).

one more picture of our little bumblebee. just to soak up her cuteness..

can you look at this and not smile? i think not.

7 months!

we have been in a bit of a blogging funk around the nelson house.

and by we, i mean me.

jillie bean boo bear is seven months old! which i believe is a little too old, but we'll move on! this is actually like 2 weeks late. maybe i should just do a 7 and 8 month post!

our sweet girl is still a very busy sweet girl. she is EVERYWHERE! and into EVERYTHING!


we love to watch her explore, and then intervene before she endangers her life. or eats a bug.

yes, she has eaten 2. TWO. bugs. bleh. probably my least favorite part of motherhood, so far!

she can wave now and it is so cute. she waves at everyone. the average joe may not notice she is waving because it is a little..erratic. but she is definitely waving, and she thinks she is big stuff!

yesterday she took several steps behind a walking toy. goodness gracious.

she is still a very good eater! she eats every 4 hours in the day. usually eats a fruit or vegetable once or twice a day. we're trying to be better out doing food twice a day, but she spits up so much after, that i dread doing it.

she is still a spitter. we recently started zantac, which has helped a ton, but the last couple of days have been spitty again. bleh.

{after this picture, she may have flipped over the edge. maybe. good thing there is a big pile of pillows on the other side of the chair. just sayin'..}

jillian may be one of the happiest babies i have ever been around! she is constantly "pumped about life!" she will just bust out laughing at nothing and it is so sweet!


i think she's going to have a little sense of humor. her facial expressions are to die for!

{this may be my favorite picture every taken of her!}

she's been sleeping pretty well lately. i think we are finally out of the "waking for no reason" phase from about a month ago. she usually sleeps from 9ish to about 6ish.


this is how she ended our 2 1/2 minute photoshoot. she never stops moving, so she offers lots of poses!

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!