Movie Monday: Week Fourteen

Happy Monday! This week we have our last video of Roweyn in her 9 month stage. This was taken a week before she turned 10 months. My mom found a walker at a yard sale and got it for free....I was opposed to ever letting Roweyn use it because I have heard some negative things about putting your child in one. But all the kids in my family used one when we were little and we were fine, so I decided to let it slide and see how it goes! As long as you monitor your child, don't use it for long periods of time and make sure they are never in it around stairs, then there shouldn't be an issue! 


Roweyn loves her walker. She started going in it around 9 months and started taking steps on her own in December at 11 months. She loves being chased by us in it too! Who knows if the walker helped her at all, but it certainly didn't hinder her like some people have said they can do, and Roweyn is now fully walking but still enjoys going in it for short periods of time.


Try to excuse how ugly the walker looks and the sounds of our voices, (Haha, this camera has a terrible mic on it) and just enjoy how much fun Roweyn is having in it!

Movie Monday: Week Thirteen

Today we are looking at 3 videos of when Roweyn was 9.5 months old. I seemed to have taken quite a few videos that month! Just a couple of her playing with her toys, being silly and the last is when she was just learning to pull up onto furniture and walk around it! It's so weird looking back, seeing her just learning to cruise around the couch and now when I look at her she is walking circles around me! haha

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Movie Monday: Week Twelve

First Movie Monday of the New Year! This is when Roweyn was 9.5 months old. She loves playing with her cloth diapers almost as much as she loves wearing them!

Movie Monday....On a Tuesday: Week Eleven

So last week came and went, I didn't get to post Movie Monday as my computer was dead because my cord was broken. Over the weekend I was so busy I spaced getting the post ready and then I worked all day yesterday. So instead of skipping it all together, I'm just going to post it today!


Here are a couple videos of Roweyn at 9.5 months old. First up is a cute one of her just crawling around and climbing on top of me.

Next up is Rowe being very vocal, talking to me and her toys and making silly noises!

Movie Monday: Week Ten

So this week I have a super cute video of Roweyn playing with her Uncle Kadin. She doesn't get to see him often, but when she does she has tons of fun! This was taken the last time we saw him when she was just a little over 9 months.

And the other video I have is a darling one of Rowe playing with her baby doll, taken on the same day.

  

Movie Monday: Week Nine

So this week I have two videos of Roweyn mostly just playing with Cyder, trying to play tug a war and playing with Cyder's toys. She's a little over 9 months here.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Next week there will be a super cute video!

Movie Monday: Week Eight

This is a cute video of Roweyn at 9 months laughing everytime I pick a flower. It's darling. Oh and please ignore the ending. I tried to edit it but it wouldn't load for some reason. So I'll just have to be embarrassed. Oh well. :|

Have a great week! It's exactly 2 weeks today till my birthday! Of course I have nothing to do, I can't decide if I should work or do something else. Although if I were to not work I would probably just spend the day at home with Roweyn. Hmm. If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them! :)

Pumpkin Patch!

 I took Roweyn on her first trip to the Pumpkin Patch this year! It was a lot of fun and she LOVED it! She was so curious about everything and it was a total adventure for the both of us. We went with friends which made it that much more fun.


First thing we did was go over to the petting zoo to play with all of the animals. The girls had a blast!

They loved playing with the goats and trying to eat the yucky hay. They didn't want to stop playing with them, but it was time for the baby goats to take a nap. So we took a break to eat some lunch and watch the little train.

After we ate lunch, we took some cutsie photos and then found some giant pumpkins to play on!

 Where'd my foot go Mama??

 Can we take this one?

By that point the girls started getting tired so we decided it was time to go find them baby pumpkins and get on the road. But not before getting some more photos of course!

There are so many! Ohhh how about this one?

Look Mom! I'm a pumpkin!!

It's crazy to think that next year she will be running around everywhere, climbing on everything by herself!

Roweyn's 9.5 Month Check Up

So I know I'm a bit late, since Roweyn's last check up was when she was 9.5 months (even though it's supposed to be at 9 months) but these past couple weeks have been insane. I'm only a few weeks late so I guess it's not that bad.

Roweyn's Stats

Height: 27 inches

Weight: 14 lbs 5 oz

Head: 16.5 inches

So as you can see, she is still a tiny little bean. She actually dropped a little on her growing curve which means shes not gaining as much as she was. Most likely due to being more active now that she is crawling and cruising around furniture. But because of that we have to go back in a month to check her weight, instead of waiting until she is a year old for her One Year Check Up. Her doctor says not to worry, she's obviously doing great, but it's just a precaution.

Movie Monday: Week Seven

It's that time again for Movie Monday! So I have 4 videos today. They are all pretty much the same. They were filmed on Roweyn's 9 Month Birthday while she was watching a Baby Einstein movie. She loves these movies and I was hoping to capture how excited she gets while watching them. She didn't show as much excitement but I did capture how she loves to just stare at the tv.

Hope everyone has a great week! Be sure to check out the blog the next couple days. There will be a few posts up, from check ups to pumpkin patch to Halloween!

Halloween Nightmare Week

Due to my not knowing what Roweyn should be for Halloween and finally figuring it out a week ago, only to be way too late to buy anything, I now have to make her costume by Friday. *Takes deep breath* Woo that was a mouthful. I REALLY want her to be an owl.


So my plan is to somehow knit a hat, glue ears, eyes and a beak onto it, then buy a long sleeved onsie and buy multi colored fabric, cut it out into feathers and glue it to the onsie. HOPING I am going to have time to do this cause the rest of my week looks like this:


Tomorrow, cutting a friends hair, unpacking from trip and doing laundry. Wed, driving to Truckee to meet my brother to pick up my dog who has been with him for a week now, Imisshersomuch! Thurs go to play group or skip and go to diaper shop then color a client's hair at the salon. Then somehow miraculously have time in between all of that to get Roweyn's costume done by Friday morning so I can take her to the kiddy trick or treating in Downtown GV.


Am I crazy or what? Oh and then if I can't go to the diaper shop Thurs, then I have to go Fri after trick or treating, then Sat I am working there, Sun finally a day off, and then Mon back to the diaper shop to work!


Hence the name Nightmare Week. No sleep for me anytime soon! Have I mentioned that my daughter is trying to get over a cold? Yeah, its nuts. My sister is now coming down with it. If I get sick this week, I will FREAK!


So if this whole making a costume thing actually works I will post how i did it. Hmm, really should be going to bed now, but gotta catch up on emails and comp. stuff! Boo!

It's Friday Night and I Ain't Got Nobody

That's from a song I used to love a couple years ago and I swear whenever there's a friday night and I'm not doing anything it ends up creeping into my head.

I have a day off tomorrow and am pretty stoked to just be able to hang with Roweyn. I'm sure most of the day is going to end up being housework and cleaning but the fact that I'm spending it with her makes it okay.

I've never been big on always cleaning up after myself and yes there are times when I forget, but I have gotten better and have kinda come to like it. The weird thing is, I am really good at cleaning up after Roweyn, well for the most part. I actually enjoy doing her laundry, folding cloth diapers and picking up her toys, weird I know. 

I guess it makes me feel domesticated and like I'm actually doing something a normal housewife would do or even just an adult for that matter. It's really hard for me to feel like an adult while living with family. I feel like I did when I was a teen. Of course there are differences, like no rules, paying for as much as I can, etc, but it's hard for me to feel like I have my own stuff to take care of. It may be my home, but it's my Mother's House, and I still have to respect her wishes for her house. But don't get me wrong, I am so appreciative that I have a beautiful house to live in and a wonderful mother that takes care of my daughter for me while I work. I just have to remember that I am doing this so that at some point, I will have enough money to be on my own with Roweyn. She is my first priority and by far, this is the best place for both of us, I just have to remind myself constantly that I am an adult even when there are days when I feel the complete opposite of that.

I am headed to bed, I hope ya'll have a wonderful rest of your night and a great weekend!

Three Quarters of a Year Old!

Today Roweyn is 9 months old!! 3/4 of a year! It's insane, I can't believe how fast it has gone. 

She now weighs 14lbs 1oz. Huge I know! Haha She's about 5lbs smaller than all the babies her age, and a couple pounds smaller than most the babies younger than her. She is 26.5 in long. Everyone keeps telling me she looks long but I think its because she's so slender.


She is half army crawling half regular crawling all over the place, pulling herself up on anything that she can, trying to let go and stand by herself. She waves for hi and bye. She can do the sign for All Done. She loves to get into everything and is constantly going after all of Cyder's toys to put in her mouth. She got both her front bottom teeth in at 5.5 and 6 months and she just got both her front top teeth in the past 2 weeks.

She says Mama and Mum, Papa for Grandpa, Num for Yum, Ba for Ball and a ton of babbling. She also tries to mimic a lot of the words I say, she gets the sound, she just can't say the words.


She loves her family and reaches out to whoever she wants to hold her.


She goes in spurts with her eating solids, the past couple days she has been eating a ton. So I'm thinking she might be going through a growth spurt! Yay!

She has gotten better with going to bed earlier, on most nights. She usually will fall asleep anywhere between 7 and 9 depending on our day, then wake up one or two times before she settles in for the night. Then she is usually up lately at least 3 times or more in the early morning. For a week she was waking up constantly, I think because of her teeth though, so I'm hoping things will get better again soon. Her naps consist of two or three 20 minute naps, so not much mommy time for me or a break when my mom is watching her.


She is growing up right before my eyes! It's hard to believe that she is only 3 months away from turning 1! I don't even want to think about it! ha!


Happy 9 Months to my baby girl Roweyn! I have loved every minute of our 9 months together!

P.S. One year ago today I was having my baby shower at my house, getting so excited for the arrival of my baby girl.