April 2010 Darby's 8th month

6 Months old

Wow!! Darby is 6 months old! How in the world has half a year already flown by? Darby is such a an amazing spirit! I am so proud to be her Mom!! She just yesterday, started to like baby food. She finally decided she was ready. I was over the moon excited! I had tried many times before and it just finally clicked. She loves to roll around and is so interested in everything that Big Sister has and is doing. Julia loves to make her laugh. It is really fun to get her giggling. She has started to sit up and can do it for a 30 seconds or so with out being propped up but will with no notice fling herself backwards so you have to be right there and prepared. Life is really interesting with two but I wouldn't change it for the world. I love my Girls!!! Here are some pictures of the last 6 months. It is truly amazing how fast they change.

My Baby is 5 months old

Arrgh!!! I just can't seem to update this thing as much as I would like to. I have good intentions I really do! So lets see what I can remember...Darby got her ears pierced this weekend when we went to the dome to visit with Luke's Family. It was great! We always have so much fun with them! Julia got to play with her cousins and open up a few Christmas gifts since we were with my Family for Christmas this year. We do an every other year thing so no Family gets left out. It works! So back to Christmas. Christmas was GREAT!!! MY WHOLE Family was able to come to California. We figured that it hadn't happened since the early 90's. Now we are all married and have kids so it was even more special. My Dad got to meet Darby for the 1st time. That was so special! My Sister's and Brothers too. We had Family pictures taken and they came out great!! Julia got spoiled this Christmas seemed to be a "Princess" Christmas. She LOVES the Princesses right now. Her favorite is Cinderella. We watch it ALOT! =) Darby is growing so fast she is such a sweet baby. She loves to sleep! Her favorite toy right now is the jumper. She can really get going in that thing. It is so cute! Her smile is contagious! I just love her so much! She had rice cereal on Christmas for the 1st time. Didn't hate it but didn't love it either. I tried it again yesterday but I made it with formula and I payed for that one a couple hours later. I knew I should have just taken the time to pump milk but I guess I was hoping she would take formula, just for cereal. Oh well, we wont do that again! She is 15 lbs and almost maxing out her 9M clothes. Julia got a "big girl" bike from Nana and Papa for Christmas and we took it to the park this morning to try it out. She did great!!! It is of course a "Princess" bike. We did almost have a HUGE mishap though. She was riding the bike on the path around the baseball field and I was walking with Darby in the Baby Bjorn. I however forgot that there is a pretty decent slope at the far end of the field and I got busy messing with something and she got ahead of me and took the hill alone...faster and faster..I couldn't catch her...I was running and Darby was bouncing all over the place. I caught up to her just as it was leveling out. It was scary I thought for sure she was going down but she totally rode it out. Not a shining "Mom" moment but it worked out! The problem is that she doesn't get how to use the brakes. Yeah I know, that is pretty important stuff to teach before we attempt that again. Oh yeah and I got a new digital camera yesterday! I love it!!! Well that is it for now, hopefully it wont be another 3 months before I post again =)


Johnson Family

Julia loves her "Big Girl" bike

Sisters Forever

Darby got her ears pierced