April

Lena's Great Papa Wakefield came to visit her. I just love this picture!

She loves her baby.

Giving her baby kisses.
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Talking to her Great Papa.

Sweet Smile

YUMMM...Lena's first cracker

She loves her new duck bath tub.

Trying out the sippy cup.

Playing on the floor.

"Finger painting" with sweet potatoes

All dressed up ready for church.

Here are just a few. There is more to come!!

Random pictures

Here are some random pictures that I took off my phone this week. Her personality is really coming out. I will post pictures from this weekend, when her Great Papa came to visit, later.
Mommy's Sunshine

Trying so hard to get that ribbon off. By Easter she was successful!

Silly girl!

Enjoying her green beans

This is what they have to do to Lena's crib at school now. She is so nosey she will lay in her bed and scream at you, so they decided to cover up the bed so she couldn't see anyone. It works, she goes right to sleep now.

Silly baby!

Lena has learned to pull up on your fingers. She gets so upset when you sit her back down, such a drama queen. She is too funny!

Lena 6 month pictures

I love this picture! Don't worry I cleaned her hands with 3 different disinfectants afterwards.

She did not care for the grass.

She loves her hands.

Getting hungry.

I love this one too!

The ducks did so good. Suprisingly they did not run away much.

Thank you Leah for taking the wonderful pictures! So glad you came along. And thanks to Hannah for letting us borrow Sunny and Cher.

Movin and a Groovin

We got home from Birmingham and Lena was alittle fussy. She did not want to eat and would not let me put her down. I figured she was worn out from our busy weekend so I decided to put her to bed. We skipped the bath and went straight to reading a book and going to bed. I can usually just put her down and she will go to sleep on her own. Well after about 15 minutes I heard her talking on the monitor. I grabbed the camera and went into her room. She was talking/singing and dancing in her bed! It was the cutest thing. Obviously she wasn't ready for bed yet. Wonder what song she was singing in her head?

*Sorry if you are having trouble with the sound. You can go all the way to the bottom and turn off the music so you can hear her better. :)

This baby can always put a smile on my face!

Easter

Lena had a wonderful first Easter. She is learning how to sit up on her own and she is doing so well. She has also learned how to dance. I will try to post a video later.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!!

She loved the Easter eggs

She wouldn't look up at me

We are still learning how to sit up without a pillow so after about the 4th face plant....



We were DONE!!

Then we had a bottle and got changed and are happy again!

The family after church

Lena's first Easter basket

Enjoying the nice weather outside

Lena and her daddy

Baby Food

One of my favorite pictures of Lena. Lena checking out the Squash before mommy cooked it.

As y'all know we started Lena on baby food almost a month ago. I have known that I wanted to make her baby food but wasn't sure how to do it. One of my friends, who has a little boy, told me about the website www.wholesomebabyfoods.com. It gives you every recipe you can think of to make baby food and it is SO EASY!! I had so much fun doing it. It is about 20 cents an ounce to baby Gerber baby food. It is 28 cents an ounce for me to make applesauce (so not really worth it), 13 cents an ounce for Squash and 4 cents an ounce for Sweet Potatoes (Very worth it)!! I have only made those 3 so far and the freezer is stock but plan to try bananas, pears, avocado, and green beans soon. Here are a couple of pictures....


Applesauce and Squash

About to puree the Sweet Potatoes

Squash

Getting ready to freeze. If you freeze it in ice trays it is about 1 ounce a cube.

Sweet Potatoes
She loves it all!!