Karli's Swing

Well, Karli is getting bigger. She is semi-mobile and so close to crawling it's scary, she actually started eating some baby food,(much to my relief-there for awhile I thought I was going to have to nurse her exclusively until she left for school)and she has now grown out of her swing. I have posted a few videos first showing her in her new swing and then her growing out of it, and finally of her in a "big girl" swing. Enjoy I know we did!

Bedtime For Baby

Karli was playing with her "Uncle" Christopher (who is practically a member of our family) after her bath and before bedtime she LOVES Christopher he makes her giggle. This is, in my opinion, one of the cutest new things that Karli does. (And she technically isn't doing it in this picture, but we CAN'T get a picture of her while she's doing it so just imagine it, because this is RIGHT before she did it) She lays on the ground and puts her feet up on whatever is close (in this case the futon) and she pushes against it and raises her butt of the ground so the only thing touching ground is her shoulders and head... of course it makes it rather difficult to change her diapers now because she will lift her hips off the ground there too.

Karli still likes to be swaddled, but she also like to have her pacifier in while she sleeps, and so we have to go in and put her binki in her mouth when she squawks. And we usually get her craned neck and a HUGE smile.

Karli was just laughing at me while I was rocking her to bed...not the result you usually want from rocking a baby to bed, but it was ridiculously cute!

Karli And Her Daddy

Karli and I bring Jeremy to school some mornings, but before we go out she has to get all bundled up...she thinks the mittens are frusterating because she can't play with things very easily and they taste fuzzy. But she loves her daddy and she loves when she gets to see him in the morning before he goes. Jeremy is busy busy busy right now with finishing school and doing the final draft of his senior thesis, and he also has two jobs at BYU one job for Maket Source-HP AND he is also tutoring a few people in all of his "free time." These pictures are after Jeremy has gotten home from work and Karli is just SO happy to have him there. (If you can't tell she looks just a LITTLE bit like her daddy)

This video gets you a little taste of how cute Karli really is, AND it shows her rolling over at the end (which she still does A LOT)

Lacey's Wedding

Well, after Christmas we went to Lacey's wedding which involved more traveling- blah, but was still really fun to be able to see her and Mark all lovey dovey and happy AND we got to play with lots of family which was awesome! Here are some pictures from the wedding and reception. Congratulations Lacey and Mark! (Lacey has REALLY nice wedding pictures on her blog check them out)


Karli and Madalyn had a fun time playing before the wedding, they are going to be great friends!


Karli and her mommy are so excited for Aunt Lacey


The typical Utah winter weather made Karli confused and a little bewildered at first (since we don't usually let her hang out in the snow) but she quickly discovered that snow is pretty and all, but she doesn't like it very much when it hits her face! Mommy's little girl.


Lacey and her sisters at the reception.


The Schoonmaker family at Lacey's reception it was beautiful and very fun.

Christmas

We have had several complaints on the lack of new postings lately because of Jeremy's busy schedule finishing up his Senior Thesis, applying for graduate schools and internships, and of course going to and FINISHING school. So I have decided to try and pick the slack-my posts will probably not be on the same level as Jeremy's but at least there will be pictures and some explanations. In the last post Karli had just started laughing... Well she is growing like crazy, since September she has continued to laugh A LOT and she smiles and plays (something Jeremy is very happy about) and she has also started rolling... and rolling... and rolling all day long. I will turn my back for just a second and she will be half way across the room! She learns so much everyday and she is almost sitting all by herself. I will try to get some videos of her new tricks for the next post. For now enjoy these pictures that were taken this Christmas while we at Jeremy's parents house in Colorado Springs. We had a GREAT Christmas!!!



Karli and her Aunt Nicki are having fun on Christmas morning


Karli is playing with her new toys with her Daddy (who is in his M&M Christmas Pajamas)



Karli got the cutest Santa outfit which she went caroling in-she got tired and we went home near the end, but for the time that we were out she did a very good job of being shown off by her daddy AND her Grandparents



Another Christmas outfit-our daughter is mega CUTE

Karli Laughed!

Karli laughed for the first time tonight. She kept laughing and we got a video of it. I hope that this makes you a little happy, it made me happy!

Baby Blessing