7 months

Ariana is now 7 months old. Every time another month goes by, I get a little emotional. I just can't believe how fast time is going by with her. I want her to stay my little baby and it won't be long before she's out of that. Anyways, today she had her 6-month appointment. Yes, she's a month behind, but she got her 4-month vaccinations so late that she couldn't have her 6-month ones until later as well. She was such a champ for her appointment. They gave her stats and her percentiles, but I don't know if they're stats for her being 7 months or 6 months. Anyways, here are the stats they gave me.

Weight: 20 pounds-95%
Height: 98%
Head: Still Big! Still off the charts!

Ariana was so great during the whole thing. She was smiling and cooing at everyone. She didn't even cry for her vaccinations. What a girl, huh? I brought up a lot of concerns with the doctor. We talked about her eczema problem. She was put on 3 different prescriptions for it last month. He said that it's common during winter for eczema to flare up. We'll just keep smothering her with aquaphor and hope it clears up in time. We also discussed her head with him because she's always had a flat head from laying on her back so much. He said that as she learns to sit up more, it should reshape itself and the hair should grow in back there and cover it, so we don't need to worry about it. As I've said in previous posts, Ariana is kind of our late-bloomer baby. She's been really slow at rolling and doing things that other babies are doing at her age. I talked to the doctor about it as well. He asked about her grabbing things and rolling and sitting and stuff like that and decided that she may be a little behind developmentally, so he gave us information about a place called DDI that specializes in development in children. Lance and I need to discuss what we would like to do at this point.

Here are things about Ariana at 7 months.

*She LOVES her solid foods now. We tried for about 2 months for her to take interest in them and it was so frustrating getting her to eat them. A couple weeks ago, she decided she liked them. Hooray! So, after her morning nap, she'll have a container of fruits and after her afternoon nap, we'll give her veggies or some sort of dinner meal.

*She still doesn't have any teeth, but they're definitely trying to come in. She's been more fussy lately and if you look really closely, you can see the whites of the teeth trying to come through.

*She's starting to get the hang of sitting up. She's not very good at it yet, but she'll get there.

*People ask if she's crawling yet. No....not even close. She has no idea how to push herself up with her arms to get into that crawling position.

*She doesn't roll around. She has no desire to roll around on the floor. She likes to turn herself onto her side, but she doesn't like to go all the way over.

*When she gets tired, she uses her voice. It kind of sounds like she's singing.

*She loves everyone. She doesn't mind if other people hold her.

* She lights up when anyone comes in the room, no matter who it is. If a new person comes in and talks to her, she gets so excited about it.

*She's got really long hair in the front of her head. It's growing in so fast. I've started trying to put little clips and stuff in it to keep it out of her face, but it's so thin, they won't stay in. Now we just need to get it to grow in on the back of her head.

*She's wearing 12 month clothing. Hopefully once she learns to crawl and stuff, her weight will even out and she can wear 12 month for awhile.

We still love our little girl. She's such a joy to have in our family!

Valentines Date!

So, I know it's not Valentine's Day quite yet, but Lance and I decided to avoid the craziness of the actual day and celebrate early this year. For Christmas, Lance had thought about sending me to a spa to get a pedicure and just get pampered for the day. It didn't happen, so for Valentine's, he made the proposal that him and I should go together to a spa. It was definitely a splurge, but we decided to go for it and do it. We called the spa and it just so happened that they had a Valentines special going on for this weekend where they shut the spa down and left it open only for couples. There would be rose petals and sparkling cider, candles, a chocolate fountain and we'd be treated like VIPs (okay, so they didn't tell us they'd treat us like VIPs, but that's kind of how we felt while we were there). We made a whole evening of it.

We started out by eating at the Brick Oven over in South Jordan. It was literally right next to the spa, so we decided to try it out. I think our eyes were bigger than our stomachs though and we ordered the first thing we saw, the pasta bar. I wouldn't say the food was bad. I just don't think we got quite what we wanted. We should have taken time to look over the menu before jumping into our decision of what to get. The rootbeer though, was delish! And the apple crisp was also pretty dang amazing.

After we ate, we headed right over to the spa. We got there and loaded up our plates with chocolate-covered goodness and went back to get our pedicures. I actually had my very first pedicure just a couple months ago and I thought that was pretty amazing. But this pedicure was really amazing. This time around, we got to sit in massage chairs while getting our feet pampered. We had people coming in to refill our glasses of sparkling cider and that were willing to go refill our plates with more yummies. The best part though was doing it with Lance.

After our pedicures, they took us to a private room where we got hot stone massages. I had NO idea what to expect. The thought of hot stones scared me a little. It was AMAZING! They told us that it was a relaxing thing. I really began to understand what they meant while getting it done. The atmosphere was so peaceful and it really was relaxing. I would have been happy if they didn't stop for another hour or so, but unfortunately, it had to end. We've decided that when we can afford it, we're going to splurge and go get facials together. For obvious reasons, we didn't take pictures of our massages, but here are pictures from our pedicures.

Lance getting his first ever pedicure!

And here we are together!

It was definitely nice having a night out alone together not having to worry about kids or anything. It's not very often we get to go out on dates.

Of course, a post just isn't the same without adding pictures of our beautiful children.


I love this little stinker! He's still my little wild child.


And this little sweetheart. Love how she has started sucking on her bottom lip.

Thanks sweetie for planning such a great Valentines date and giving me some beautiful children!