11 months

11 months. wow is all i have to say!

-says mama more than anything

-loves anything to do with kids

-loves toast with butter, black beans, basically any big people food

-finally doing a real crawl.

-getting teeth # 5 and 6

-saw the beach for the first time, and did great on her first big road trip, despite her terrible ear infection

-getting quite the personality

-she's a monster!!!!!! no not really, she's just in to everything!

-is finally on a schedule! thanks to being in daycare 2 days a week. she actually loves it

-wakes up 5 or 6 times a night. i know right? what the heck. i'm more tired now than when she was a newborn. not sure what this phase is all about.

-still loves to read books.

-likes to stand up next to our coffee table and couch

-18 month clothes, size 3 diapers, weighing somewhere between 17 and 18 lbs.

-i've heard mommies say this all the time and it's true... each stage is more and more fun!!!!

10 months

holy moly. 10 months for real? wow. i love this little girl so much. i was just looking at her today thinking i never would have guessed that the little baby squirming in my belly would be so cute! we love her so much and we love watching her grow everyday.

-still doing the army crawl, but can move at turbo speed.

-getting her top two teeth. not fun

-likes to eat "big girl" food. (human food)

-pulls herself up to standing position on EVERYTHING, makes mommy nervous

-looooooooooves little kids, and her cousins especially

-is a people watcher like mommy

- does a princess wave

-claps her hands while watching Ellen

-loves water and swimming

-we had to lower her crib to the lowest position :(

-put her in a big girl car seat and she loved it! needless to say, mommy will not miss lugging the baby car seat around

-loves to sing and squeal

-loves reading books

-loves to pull items out of containers or dressers and throw the over her shoulder. yup our house is a mess, much to my dismay.

-loves to play with the springy door stopper things.

-loves toys that aren't toys aka pieces of paper, candy rappers, beaded jewelry, you know, all the stuff that babies aren't supposed to play with

-loves to laugh and has the cutest personality!!!

hiking

colors

so i always thought i was crazy, until ashton told me today about the smartest man in the world (literally) who learned this really hard language in 6 days fluently. they asked him how he did it, and he said he learns by colors. that is what i do and everyone thinks i'm wierd! but maybe i'm just the smartest lady in the world jk hahaha:) in college i never really had to study, and i usually scored high in the class. not braggin, just proving my point! anyways, not gonna give away my secret too much :) but basically every word has a color to me because the letters i played with when i was little were certain colors and it just stuck in my brain. so when i'm taking a test i can picture the answer by picturing the color in my head and then i see the word. every word has a color, it's not something i memorize it just is, but when i hear or see a word i see it as a color. EVERY word. my name is orange, ashton is red, and dodge is green for example. i don't know if that makes sense, but it totally works for me. does anyone else do things similar to this to learn? or am i (along with the smartest man in the world) totally nuts?!?!

9 months

-crawls everywhere!

-finally fits into newborn size shoes

-will not eat her bottle and throws a little tantrum sometimes :S

-loves to be thrown up in the air

-size 3 diapers

-still no hair

-sleeps through the night

-always has a "serious" face

-sometimes does an "O" face, and a grandma face.

-weighs 17 lbs., 25% percentile

-loves and i mean LOVES baby einstein

-still loves being outside

Ashton - 30 years

Since Sophie gets a post every month on her birthday, Ashton gets a post for his, even if it is a few days late. Happy Birthday old man. Here are a few things about Ashton at 30 years.
-Even though he's 30, he's still a little kid, and that's why I love him!
-You can fix any of his problems with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup- seriously.
-He is on a "diet"
-He looks at dirt bikes on the internet every night. He already has one, but it's not his dream bike. Someday Ashton!
-He loves Sophie :) He also loves Sophie to be clean and tidy. His baby is not allowed to be running around with a dirty face!
-He is a good singer, he just won't let anyone hear him sing, not even me. I have to sneak up on him :)
-He has been practicing the guitar, and he's getting good!
-Recently bought a ukelele and is great at that too.
-He's the best daddy in the world. (and so is my dad!)
-He's the best husband in the world.
-No matter how bad my day is he can always cheer me up!
-The only thing that can ever make him mad is when I'm mad.
-He becomes bff's with everyone he meets.
-He thinks that every old lady in the world and every teenage girl working at fast food restaurants has a crush on him. Oh please Ashton, get real.
-In this partnership he is the one with the common sense, and I am the one with the brains. Or in other words, I have no common sense so without him I would never survive. But still, I am just a little bit smarter than him! hahahaha
-I love my husband. He is gettin hotter every year! He will be smokin at 40.

8 months

So I haven't gotten the time to take 8 month Sophie pictures yet, but I wanted to do an 8 month post before too much time goes by. Pictures to come...
-between the 7 and 8 month has been by far the greatest development. She is like her own little person now with her own personality and it's sooo fun, I just love it.
-weighs only about 15 lbs. her height and weight are below average, but lo and behold the Wittwer head is bustin through in the 75th percentile
-still no hair
-100% on formula now :(
-not quite crawling yet, but can get wherever she wants to go other ways...
-has a tiny tiny attitude. I hope it stays tiny.
-loves baths and anything that involves water
-loves music and dancing
-does an "o" face and makes fart noises with her lips
-size 3 diaper
-9-12 month clothes
-loves being outside
-loves grandma grandpa granny and papa A LOT
-eats sweat potatoes, chicken, peas, carrots, pears, peaches, and baby cheetos and baby cereal things
-likes to play and laughs a lot
-but has a serious face most of the time
-it just keeps getting more and more fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!