6 Months old

Lyla is half a year old today! She is sitting up really well now, and looks like she will be crawling very soon. She is doing much better with solid food and absolutely loves peas! Some of her favorite things right now are: bath time (she started splashing the water last night!), watching her hands, being outside, mirrors, and playing on the floor with all of her toys.
Happy Birthday Lyla, we love you!!

Head to Toe Halloween

Thanks to her shopaholic Grandmas, Lyla has has been decked out in Halloween garb for the past two weeks. There will be more to come tomorrow!

Here is her ghost outfit. You can't see them, but she has on matching socks too!



Hmm...is this overkill?



Last weekend we went to Goblins in the Garden. Even though it was more for older kiddos, we had a lot of fun. The best part was to see all the cute costumes...although I felt sorry for the ones in the thick fleece Old Navy costumes...it was well over 80 degrees that evening.

Trying to get all the babies to take a picture together was not as easy as I thought it would be...




Unless you strap them down!



Boo!



More pumpkins!

Eat your veggies

We recently started Lyla on veggies! We were both really excited to do this since we are planning on making all her food from scratch. We bought a beautiful acorn squash for her first vegetable experience. This is what she thought of it...



I don't blame her...I made the same face when I tried it, and Amber wouldn't even touch the stuff. Maybe we will try something sweet like apples next!

New Hat

No, this is not part of Lyla's Halloween costume! I have been really excited to begin knitting Lyla something special. I never got around to making her a baby blanket like I wanted to when I was pregnant...so I thought I would do a hat since we got a cold front and I wanted to do something that wouldn't take me a long time. I found this beautiful yarn at Michael's and couldn't wait to get started, but something went very very wrong and it turned out looking like a tie-died Little Orphan Annie wig.
I guess I should take back that second skein of yarn and pick up something a bit less bulky and try again.



While rummaging through my knitting box, I found this pixie hat I made 5 years ago. It was my first knitting project! I of course picked a very difficult pattern for my first project, but overall it turned out okay. I originally planned on giving it as a gift, but there were too many imperfections so I stashed it away thinking someday we would have a little one who could wear it...it looks pretty darn cute on Miss L.

Catching up

I was in a hurry last week and posted the pumpkin patch pictures thinking I could write in the text in the morning and then never got around to it. So I am now catching up on explaining the pictures! These holiday firsts for Lyla are so exciting! Her first pumpkin patch experience turned out to be Amber's first as well! Lyla had a blast sitting around in all the pumpkins and playing with her friend Delaney. We didn't actually bring home a pumpkin, but we definitely didn't come home empty handed!

Little Pumpkin

Sitting Pretty

Lyla is now sitting up on her own! She perfected this trick a few days ago and now it is her favorite thing to do.

We took her on her first picnic last week! Amber met me and Lyla at our new favorite park for sandwiches and chips, which as you can see, Lyla got into right away.






Lyla intently watched the fountains with visions of running through the water some day soon!!