Fall fun

All bundled up for the corn maze

Having fun watching Easton jump in the corn pit

Pumpkin picking

My tired little pumpkin

An early reader! ;) 

Singing "The Wheels on the Bus"

Corn maze with Dad.  Aren't Raya's boots the cutest?  

5 months

Our sweet little Raya is already 5 months old!  You'd think I'd be used to how fast they grow up but every month I'm completely amazed as to how quickly the time has gone and how big they get.  A few of Raya's favorite things:

1. Singing and music
2. The Wheels On the Bus
3.  Big brother Easton --- he's hilarious!
4. Charlie
5. Bath time
6. Imitating noises we make

I think she's going to be sooo excited in a month when she can start to have mushy baby food.  She watches us like a hawk when we eat and tries to grab our  food!  Hopefully that will help her reflux a little too when she starts food as it's starting to act up again.  Poor babes.  :(

Easton is doing so well with her lately.  He likes to sit next to her and "protect her" because he's the big brother. It's pretty cute.  The other day I moved her from the swing and he didn't see me and asked, "where'd sweetheart go?"  Does it get any cuter than that? :)

She rolls front-to-back and back-to-front like an ol' pro now!  Most nights she rolls over and sleeps on her tummy.  Occasionally she'll wake up crying from this as she can't find a way to get comfortable after she does this.  Especially if she rolls to far into the crib rails.

Loves to give her kisses

Baptism lamb from Mary and Eddie

We are the coolest people around....

That's what Raya must think because she doesn't want to miss a wink of what might happen in our house.  That's all we can come up with as to why this girl doesn't sleep!  She does ok at night (most nights)  Still wakes up about 2 times to eat but she does not nap well during the day suddenly.  It's been going on about 2 weeks now.  Hopefully we can figure out how to put a ka-bosh on this soon because she needs her sleep and Mama (and Dad on the weekends)  needs more than 30 minutes of downtime a day.

She is quickly moving out of baby stage... she can scoot herself around when she's on her tummy.  She will usually do this to get after her favorite toy or to try and chew on Charlie.  Of course we don't let her chew on Charlie but she loves Charlie and loves to put everything in her mouth so yes, she has tried to gnaw on his paw.  She loves to sit up more and reaches for toys she wants.  Makes me so sad how fast they grow out of teeny tiny baby stage.  Especially since she may be our last baby but at the same time it's so fun to see her grow and learn new things and watch her personality grow.  Bittersweet, I must say.

The day of her baptism she wasn't feeling well at all.  Didn't like anyone else to hold her and it was just a rough day for her.  PLUS the baptism lasted like 2.5 hours.  Crazy Catholics.  But when we got home the greatest thing happened.  It was Easton's bath time and Jake was holding Raya as Easton was in the tub playing with this power ranger bath toys and Raya just busted out laughing big belly laughs.  It was the first time we've heard her laugh and I was able to get it on video.  It's so funny and cute!  It was so unexpected after the rough day she had but it definitely made our day complete.  Easton loves to watch the video over and over again and still tries every night to make her laugh.

The only issue we have with tummy time anymore is when she uses it to get out of taking her medicine.  She used to fall asleep when I would give her her medicine and now she just flips right over to her belly when she sees it coming.  She also rolls over to her tummy every night which still makes me super nervous because I'm the most worried Mother you'll ever meet.

Tummy time is so fun now 

Fun at Auntie Mary's Bridal shower

Twisting and turning trying to avoid her medicine

Trying to get Charlie

They were all up in each others grill 

Cutie pie!  Love those cheeks! 

She loves this puppy.  Especially when it sings.  She love love loves singing!