My baby girl turns 6 today!

6 years ago today I became a Mom. I love you Gabrielle Adeline!

14 Months

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4 Years

5 Years

Gabby's 6th Birthday Party

Last year we took Gabby to an indoor water park to celebrate her Birthday so this year we wanted to keep it simple. We decided to do a Makeover party. Gabby invited her best friend from school, her cousin Natalee and her sister Avalynn. Everyone got a Pig Balloon because that is Gabby's favorite Animal.

  I got some Hello Kitty tin pails from Target. Each pail had a nail polish, makeup, a hello kitty notepad, Hello kitty earrings, necklace and ring that I got from Amazon. I bought each a chocolate bunny from lambert's chocolatier .

The girls got facials

They also had pedicures

Her cake came from Sams club

And she opened her gifts

Spring cleaning-part 4

I have to do a major cleaning of the playroom a couple times a month. I actually didn't do a great job today because I had other things I needed to get done. This took 1 hour and 15 minutes. When I do a major cleaning it takes about 3 hours. I took a couple larger toys and put them upstairs for a while just to rotate stuff.

Before pictures

After Pictures

Spring cleaning-part 3

Since Gabby & Avalynn were in school and Kevin took Nathan shopping I decided I would do another one of my spring cleaning projects today. I worked on Avalynn's Armoire. Kendall sat in the baby swing and watched me while chewing on her fists which is her new favorite thing to do.

Before picture was taken several days ago and it is a bad picture because I forgot to get the shelf and top in. Just believe me when I say it was a wreck. Click on pics to enlarge.

Everything out

Empty except I was not going to lift that tote out. That is like 500 pounds of summer clothes for the kids, lol

All done and only took about an hour.

6 Month check up

Kendall still doesn't do a lot of things my other 3 kids could at this age. She doesn't roll over, she cannot sit, she doesn't push up with her hands while on her belly. So I asked the doctor about it but she said she is not concerned with it at this point. She said to just keep letting her have tummy time and to help her roll back and forth. Kendall had 3 shots, next time she goes back at 9 months she will not need to get any. She weighs 14 pounds 7.5 ounces and is in the 19th%. Her height is 25 inches which is 25th%. So she is on the smaller side but proportioned well.
Here is a cute picture I took when she got home from the doctor of Avalynn "Reading" to her.

Spring Cleaning-Part 2

Not sure how many of these I will do but I want to at least get all the closet's cleaned. I did Gabby's this morning and even though I was holding Kendall the whole time it only took me about 45 Minutes to do. I wish it were warm enough that I could put all of this away and put her spring/summer clothes in but it will probably be a couple of months before I can do that. The copy box in the top is full of every paper she has brought home from school this year, lol. At the end of the year I am going to go through it with her and we will only keep her favorites.

This is what I started out with

Everything out, yes this was all packed in there.

Empty closet

All Done

Spring Cleaning-Part 1

Well I know it is actually not spring yet but I need to get these things done. I started by cleaning out the bathroom cabinet but I did not take pictures of that. Lets just say we found some things in there at the top that were left by the lady who lived here before us and were probably over 20 years old because they were things you would bring home from the hospital after having a baby and her kids are in college!!
Today I wanted to start with the Linen closet in my Laundry room because it has been a mess for quite a while and I knew it would take me a couple hours to do. It did end up taking just over 2 hours.
Click on picture to enlarge.

Here is the before picture! Scary, I know!

I decided the best thing to do was to remove everything so I could sweep and dust

I had to put everything somewhere so I decided to put it in the girls room. Hard to believe all of this was in that closet, even the stuff on the bed! I have been looking for that step stool!

2 hours later and done, now I can find towels when I need them!

What I will be working on next

Gabby's closet! I won't get to it today but hopefully over the weekend.

6 Months!!

Half a year has gone by already! Hard to believe! Kendall is still as sweet and mellow as ever. She is a very calm baby. I hardly ever hear her cry but when Kevin is alone with the kids she gives him a hard time sometimes lol. She isn't really doing much yet. She has only ever rolled over one time and then never did it again. She will roll from side to side but not all the way over. She cannot sit yet but she does try to. I don't have her weight and height stats because she goes on the 12th for her 6 month checkup. She is really short though!  She tried baby food for the first time this week. So far she has only had pears. I am going to get some baby cereal and other baby foods over the weekend. I do have a jar of peaches I might try her with tomorrow. She has also started getting a little bit of formula. She drinks about 2 ounces a day. I wanted to make sure she would be okay with it because I am going to use it to mix in her cereal. Also I have a hard time pumping so it is good for her to be able to drink that when I am not around. She has a few patches of Eczema on her face and legs so I have been using Avalynn's cream on that. It seems to be clearing up pretty good. I think she looks quite a lot like Avalynn did as a baby. She doesn't have quite as much hair though.
Here are some pictures of my beautiful baby this morning.

Kendall's first bite of baby food

Kendall will be 6 months in a few days so I decided to have her try baby food for the first time today. I didn't have any baby cereal so I started her with Gerber Baby Pears. I think she did good for it being her first food. Here are some pictures and a video.

That is not my Mommy's Milk!

What did you put in my mouth!?