Update!

So Last night Vanessa Wilde (formally Musson) scolded me for not writing on my blog enough. I told her that I simply don't do it that much because we are a boring little family and I often have nothing to talk about. However, just for Vanessa I will post today! I hope you are happy Van.

Thankfully, I do have something to write about today.

I feel like lately I have been getting the hang of this being a "Mom" thing. Spencer and I made it through the sleep training, and it wasn't bad at all! The longest she ever cried was 16 mins! pretty amazing right? I had heard horror stories of babies crying for hours upon hours...not my little munchkin! Mind you, those 16 mins were the longest of my life, it was worth it in the end.

  As we speak Grace is doing this-

 

Now I realize to lots of you, this is no big deal...

But to us this is a HUGE deal!

You see the only way I have ever been able to get her to nap is to put her in her swing.

She is now getting too big for the swing though,

sooooo,

Mommy had to figure this out.

I decided that she needed a "cue" to know that it was time for a nap.

At bedtime this is a bath and a bottle,

but we didn't have one for naptime,

the swing would just rock her to sleep.

So I thought, and I thought.

I figured I would read her a book and rock in the rocking chair for a minute with her.

We have been doing this for a couple days now.

Today I decided to try it,

and well, you saw the proof that it worked!

I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now!

On a side note.

Grace got her Christmas present from her cousin Izacc yesterday.

Here is an adorable picture of her with all her new stuff.

P.S Can I just mention that Izacc didn't make all this,

but my amazing sister in-law did, plus a lot more than what you see in the picture.

She is pretty much an amazing seemstress and should charge people money!

  Oh I almost forgot to mention that she slept for 12 hours last night! 

Yup, that's right...

8pm till 8am!

6 Months Already?!?

As I looked at the date today I almost broke down and cried. Time has gone by so fast. Between sleep deprivation and postpartum depression I feel like I have missed most of these 6 months. How can I get it back? Someone please figure this out for me. Someone make a time machine. It has gone by way too fast. 6 months is half a year! My parents asked me yesterday "what day are you planning on doing her first birthday?"

FIRST BIRTHDAY?!

What!

How could this be happening? I want time to stop, or at least go a little slower so I can just snuggle my beautiful little girl and figure things out faster.Like, housework and other things don't matter as much as I thought they did. Right now I'm wishing my house was a disaster, because if it was then that would mean that I don't regret how I spent my time, it would mean that I would have spent the past 6 months snuggling my baby. What was I thinking? She is only a baby for so long. Starting today, I am changing my ways, there is going to be more snuggling and less worrying about other things, because in the long run the only thing that matters is that my children know how much I love them.

The song "You're Going to Miss This" explains how I'm feeling perfectly. 

You spend your whole life just wanting to grow up and not being able to wait for the next phase in your life,

when really all we have to do is slow down and look at all the blessings we have right now.

I am going to miss this.

Even though my daughter is the worst sleeper in the world,

when she does sleep through the night,

I'm going to miss holding her,

having our little snuggle time in the middle of the night.

She wont want me to hold her forever,

One day I'm sure she will even be embarassed to call me "Mom"

So right now, I am going to enjoy the giggles,

the crying,

the wanting to be held,

I'm going to take it all in...

because they grow up so fast,

and the greatest gift I can give her now and forever is my time.

From this 

to this

and now to this...

 It goes by so fast doesn't it?