Alex 6 Month Update

Alex turned 6 months on March 24th, 2015.

Weight: 18 lbs 0 ounces (85th percentile) (4/3/15)

Height: 27.2 inches (90th percentile) (4/3/15)

Eating:   5 x per day anywhere between 4-7 ounces of breastmilk per feeding. Eats rice cereal while we eat dinner most nights.

Diapers: Moved into size 3 Pampers Swaddlers this week. Can still fit in her size 2 but there were too many blow outs happening, lol.

Clothing:  6 month clothing fits perfectly. Can fit in 9 month sleepers as well and is starting to move into 6-9 and 9 month clothing.

Milestones from 4-6 months.

• Sitting up on her own with no support. 
• Rolling over both ways consistently. 
• Reaching arms out for mom and dad 
• 2 teeth on bottom (starting coming in at 5 1/2 months)
• Traveled on first road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was a 6 hour car ride and she did amazing, slept most of the way.
• Rides like a "big kid" in her new stroller and goes for jogs with mom. "Ran" her first 5k on March 17th.

Loves:

• Everything! She is seriously a happy, easy, baby and really only cries for a very specific reason (dirty diaper, hungry or overly tired). We are very lucky and will probably be in for it on our next kid, haha.

• She is loving peek a boo and other games like that recently. Loves to be read to and listening to mom and dad talk.

Sleeping:  Goes to bed consistently at 7 pm and usually sleeps till 4-5 am then wakes to eat and sleeps again until 6:30 ish or later if we let her sleep in. Sleeps in her own crib since 3 1/2 months and wears a sleep sack (we just switched to the non- swaddle version, but she never slept with her arms in the swaddle anyway)

Favorite Baby Items: 

• Baby Trend Jogging Stroller  - we made this mistake of not getting a jogger as our original stroller, so now that she is 6 months and can sit up we decided to get a jogger. This one had great reviews on Amazon, was way cheaper than the Bob's and is great so far. It is light and easy to maneuver. It came with free shipping and was relatively easy for my husband to set up. We ran a 5k with it that had trails and off roading and it was smooth and not too wide to run alongside other people.

Road Trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

For my Spring Break, we decided to take a little 3 day road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.  We chose New Mexico because neither Brandon or I had ever been, it was an easy drive for us (down 25 the whole way), it was inexpensive, we heard it had amazing food and we hoped it would be accessible with a baby (we were right).

Before we left...how is she this big!?!?

The drive to Santa Fe.  My hubby and the Go Pro, lol. 

Our hotel...The Drury Plaza (highly recommended) 

Included:  a balcony, a 3 drink and snack happy hour, heated pool, hot tub, new construction...

 The first night, we went to an early dinner at a place called "The Shed".  We both had enchiladas and the green chili was to die for! The red chili was a little too spicy for me and I actually like hot foods, so it was really hot! 

Quite the portions :) 

This smile. She loves being in a high chair and loved our waitress. 

First time on Dad's shoulders

Exploring the Plaza

View from our balcony 

 Our second day in Santa Fe, Sunday we took the stroller and explored. First was breakfast at "The Plaza Inn" where Brandon had a breakfast burrito, I had a green chile omelet (our theme of the trip was Mexican food, because when in Santa Fe...) and we split an order of Blue Pinon pancakes.  The pancakes were definitely the best, but everything was delicious and super filling.  Next we hit up an art museum because the art scene is huge in Santa Fe.

Next we walked around the town to explore its unique architecture. Everything is adobe brick and super old.  

 St. Francis Cathedral Church 

Explored the local markets and got Alex a Native American doll. 

 Finished the afternoon with a sunny trip to the pool and hot tub on the hotel rooftop. 

Our last day was Monday and we wanted to get on the road by noon, but did a short hike to the top of this trail called "The Cross of the Martyrs". It was an historical war site, but I can't remember all of the details :) 

View from the top

We finished the morning with a quick trip through the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.  It was randomly free just for the week because some of the exhibitions were closed.  

 And this face...just because

 We left around 12:30 and the drive home seemed to take forever, isn't that how it always goes? The anticipation of a trip make the trip there relatively quick but it seems to take an eternity on the drive home because you just want to be home! At least that is how it is for me. I am going to try and update this blog more often because we now have a new computer for anyone out there who reads this (besides my mom, haha :)

Valentines Weekend

 The weekend started with receiving this on Friday from the little miss. The cutest craft I ever did see! 

Flowers from the hubs. 

 Friday afternoon continued with a Parents Night Out hosted by our daycare.  All three of us went to a great happy hour at Yardhouse, then we dropped off Alex at daycare from 6:45-9:45 and went and saw American Sniper. It was an intense movie but a great choice to see in the theater, since that doesn't get to happen often anymore! Love Bradley Cooper, although it didn't even seem like him in this movie, which showed what an amazing job he did to portray Chris Kyle.

Happy hour at Yardhouse before the movie.

Saturday, after my usual Saturday morning LTB (that's Pure Barre terms standing for Lift, Tone, Burn :) ), we took advantage of the 67 degree day and headed down by Denver University to follow our favorite local food truck, Querio Arepas.  They are a Venezuelan, gluten free (although we are not) Denver based truck who has appeared on countless Food network shows.  I usually get the famous Reina Pepiada, which is a english muffin style pita filed with chicken, citrus slaw, and avocado (SO GOOD), but this time I got the Salmon one called El Caribe which was also quite tasty. Brandon had the Pabellon, made with beef.  However, my favorite is still the Reina, and I believe that is their most popular as well.  I think it is truly the flat bread that makes it so delicious. While we waited for our food, we checked out a new brewery where the food truck was parked, called Fermaentra.  We got a beer flight of mini beers so we could check them all out and my favorite were of course the lighter and fruitier ones, in particular the Prisma.  We will definitely be back, especially if Quera Arepas is there.

Family shot...Alex wasn't feelin it.

Beautiful & her mom

Avery even came along to the brewery.

A snapshot of Saturday.

After that we decided to walk around Wash Park. (Confession, we've lived in Colorado for 2.5 years and we had never been to Wash Park- driven by it, but never actually gotten out and walked around it).  It was worth the hype. There were so many people running, walking, biking, hanging out, picnicking, and playing volleyball.  Only in Denver in February would you see several guys without shirts. ( And only in Denver would it me a snowmageddon two days later.).  We walked about 2 miles around the park with the puppy and baby.


The night ended with a heartbaker pizza from Papa Murphy's and some rousing games of darts on our new dart board in the basement.  Props to the hubs for making this rustic, dart board case thingy, he's quite handy.

I keep winning at darts.  For real. 

Alex's new table. Randomly threw that in here.

our pizza, but not our actual pizza :)

Sunday was a day of errands and chores, nothing too exciting here.  Today, Monday, I am off and plan on hanging at home with the baby since it is so snowy out.  I see lots of books, snuggles and hot chocolate on the menu for today.



Ps.  HAPPY BELATED BDAY TO THIS DADDY AND HUBBY (2/11).  He's the best. Cheers to 27!