Kisses

No kissy picture, but still a cute one hanging out with Daddy.

Tacy has begun giving kisses.  Lately when she is tired she gets really slap happy (yes she gets that from me).  She will laugh at anything and sometimes nothing at all.  Then she will grab your face (by your hair if you have long hair like I do), pull herself to you, and plant kisses all over.  Her kisses consist of an open mouth and sometimes a wiggly tongue - she loves this because it makes me laugh.  When I'm putting her to bed and I have finished singing to her she will do this and then we just kiss each other over and over again resulting in both of us giggling.  It's so cute.  Luckily, she usually goes to sleep pretty quickly after I lay her down, so I can enjoy her cute giggles and kisses.  

Today Tacy's cousin, Grant, was over and her grandma was holding both of them.  It was nap time for Tacy and she started cracking up at who knows what.  Grant just kinda looked at her.  Then she started reaching over to him and doing her lean.  She got to touching his face and that's when I knew she was trying to plant kisses on him (they were each on one of their Grandma's knees).  So Grandma Taylor helped Tacy to get close enough to Grant and she planted a kiss on his cheek.  I wish I had my camera cause it was so cute, even though Grant was still looking at her funny (most likely cause he just woke up from a nap). 

Tacy loves playing with her sippy cup, not really drinking from it

Other than her kisses, Tacy has taken to always having her tongue hanging out of her mouth.  Gosh, I sure hope this tooth (teeth) pop out soon!  Tacy still only really does stationary rolling begrudgingly   She is never happy when we leave her to roll herself off of her tummy.  Oh well.  

I took my comprehensive final and got a good solid 86% so not too bad, granted there were some I argued about (like that diabetes is not a sudden onset disease).  Oh well, but after taking it I was ready to just go take the NCLEX and get this thing over with....but I have to wait until May when we have finished OB/Pediatrics.  

We started OB/Peds last week and I do like it a lot.  Granted, it making me seriously contemplate if I will ever have another kid....somethings are just better to not learn about.  Oh well.  It is entertaining and fun. 

Brad and I are getting ready to sign up for a few summer classes (I need a dumb psych 101 class for my RN and he needs another chem and physics class for grad school).  Yay, and I love that the cost of 3 classes is more than my entire LPN year of nursing.  Ain't that just wrong.  

having fun in the cart at Sam's club

In the mean time, I'm excited for Easter this weekend because we are going up to Vernal to spend it with some friends and get away.  I'm slightly nervous as to how the road trip and sleeping away from home will go for Tacy....so it might be a LONG weekend, but we have got to get ready for a California trip the first weekend in May (might as well try a shorter trip first).

I keep trying to actually make things I see on Pinterest, but lately my problem is that I cannot find the stuff I need to do a craft, like the right wreath or the right color lace trim...lame.

I have made one t-shirt headband for Tacy this weekend, I read 4 books the past week, and I wrote 2 papers this weekend as well.  So not to shabby for being a mom and full-time nursing student. 

Severe bedhead - this is what happens when you sleep too close to your crib bumper!

The Face Eater

Tacy has taken on a new favorite thing to do: eat mom's face.  Typically she does this when she is really hungry and I'm having a hard time deciding if she is fussy because she is tired, hungry, or wants to move.  By this time I have usually put her on my lap to try and console her and she turns to look at me, grabs my face, pulls herself close to me so we are face-to-face and either eats my face or my hair.  It's a good attention grabber that's for sure, not to mention really funny.

She's not teething at all

Other than eating faces, Tacy says Dada all the time now: while playing, when she wakes up, when she is supposed be going to sleep, etc.  It is cute and really funny.  

Finally, Tacy has discovered her feet and loves to grab them and try to eat them.  It can be helpful when I am changing her diaper.  But she now pulls her socks off and is really showing off her flexibility to mom and dad.

This girl cracks me up so much.  We keep trying to work on getting her to drink out of her sippy cups, but she does not like water, even with a little juice mixed in!  She is so stubborn!  Talk about major payback for me (although I still believe she gets some of it from her Dad too!)

Having fun on a ladder at Joanns with Dad

Teething fun

7 month photo shoot!

Tacy is officially 7 months today!  I can't believe it.  She is getting bigger every day (in my opinion at least).  At her 6 month appointment she was 16 lbs 7 oz and 26 3/4 inches long.  That puts her at about the 50% for both weight and height.  I feel like she has gained a lot of weight since this appointment.  Tacy is now having food twice a day.  She loves bananas, apples, strawberries, pears, peas, carrots  and green beans.  

Poor Tacy is definitely teething now.  She has always been a drooler, but now she is like a fountain.  Drool just pours out of her mouth each time she opens it.  She puts everything in her mouth or always has fingers in there pushing on her gums.  She also loves to feel everything now.  What I mean is that whatever we put her down on to sit, she feels the material (ie: her play mat, the chair, the carpet, the blanket, her crib sheet..)  You hear this funny scratching sounds from her closing and opening her fists on the fabric.  It's pretty funny especially when she is supposed to be sleeping.  

Now that she is sitting so good, she gets to ride in carts and she loves it!

Tacy loves paper, table paper, mail, envelopes, mom's homework, etc.  She is an excellent sitter now.  She only falls very occasionally.  Now if only she would roll over when she falls/tips over then we would be great.  She keeps trying to reach for everything, so she has a pretty far reach.  She has had to develop this skill because she is good at throwing her toys too far away from her.  It's funny to watch her play with something, and get so into shaking it all over, and then have it fling behind her/too the side/ too far in front etc.  She then tries to stretch to get it or moves on to another toy that is closer to her.

Tacy still loves standing and will take steps.  In the walker she now will go forward (before she only would push herself backwards).  Rolling and crawling are still not something she is interested in.  She will move her legs on her tummy and stretch her arms out, but she won't put weight on her arms or try to coordinate to get herself somewhere.  Overall, she can play independently for a while, until all of her toys are without her reach.

I have 2 tests this next week for adult health and then we start OB/Peds and I'm excited.  Granted I am in end of semester mode and really would love a break...but oh well.  

I love the days I have off and can just play/spend time with Tacy.  I love watching her play and seeing all of her smiles, hearing her baby babble, etc.  I love her so much!  We are working on drinking from sippy cups. Tacy can get the liquid to her mouth, but then she typically spits it out, making her even more wet then she was from her drool.  So we have been going through a lot of bibs, thank goodness for water proof ones.

loving some naked time

I get to have another root canal (this will be #4).  I told the dentist how much I hate my teeth and how hard I try to keep them clean.  He told me that I have great teeth but he thinks it's my funky roots that are causing the problems.  He showed me that my roots don't go straight down but go to the side, which is what he thinks is causing all issues.  Fantastic.  Thank goodness for a nice tax refund to help pay for this tooth.  I'm ready to pull them all.

The sun is finally coming out and the snow is melted!  Too bad all the grass looks horrible and it reaks of mud.  But at least Spring is almost here!  I'm so excited and so is Tacy!  I keep telling her that soon she will get to see pretty flowers and her grandpa's big garden.  I'm looking forward to it!

Tacy's new passion: piano playing!  She pulls her self up from sitting to play