8 Months Reese Taylor

 

 

 

How is it that my little baby is 8 months old and no longer little?? Okay, maybe she's still a munchkin, but I have to admit that it makes me sad when I pack up her clothes that no longer fit her. My husband said something about her growing up too fast, and it just reminded me how I need to enjoy every second of this. Enjoy her whining, her screaming, giggles, gummy/toothy grins and yes, even her teething. Because to me these are some of the best times, and I don't want to say, "I can't wait until she can do this". I just want to love every second of this little girl's life!

Anyway, here are 8 new things about Reese Taylor at 8 months:



- She is crawling now!!

- She says Da (not sure if she's connecting it with dada, but Josh likes to think so).

- She is infatuated with babies! They make her super happy.

- She can wave bye bye.

- She will have yelling time with me ( this is where we match each others yells, and annoy everyone in the house). I love it sooooo much!

- She is super photogenic.

- She'll stop whatever she's doing to listen if there is music on the TV.

- She can pull herself up onto her feet!

Thumbs up: Ode to the Midi!

 

Your length is so perfect

falling right below my knees.

I'll take one in every color,

every shape, and style please.

 

That. Just. Happened.

 

I'd like to give a huge thumbs up to midi skirts! I LOVE love love love the midi skirt. I may be obsessed with the midi skirt. A midi skirt falls between your knees and your ankles. If they are not warn correctly they can make your legs look a little...What's the word...Stumpy. Here is a post, from a blog I follow, on how to wear the midi. She gives some great tips!

 

This midi is perfect for the spring time white trend happening right now!

 

This skirt is a perfect full A-line look.

 

This last one is my favorite. It's the perfect basic pencil midi skirt!

 

 

Enjoy!

5 tips to Living in a small space

 

 

We recently moved from a 1 bedroom apartment, into my in-law's home. The room we moved into is smaller then our room in our 1 bedroom apartment, so we've worked a way to fit in this room with our bed, dresser, side tables, crib, babies dresser, and lets not forget the dog and her kennel. It took some  serious maneuvering, but we made it all fit with the help of my best friend Alexandra.

The Monday after we moved in, Alexandra and her sweet husband came over to help us get situated and to set up our room without making the room look like we put things wherever they would fit (She's a super great organizer).Here are a few tips that helped me in the process of making our room a comfortable living space, even with it being super tiny.

 

- To save a little room, I put the babies dresser inside the closet and took the closet doors off to make the dresser more accessible.

 

- We raised the bed on to bricks (make it pretty with a bed skirt) to give us a little storage space under the bed.

 

- Under the crib is also a great place for storage

 

-To keep your room from looking completely cluttered, only keep things out that are completely necessary. Otherwise keep everything else in storage under the bed, crib, or on your shelf in the closet.

 

- Think about hanging a shoe rack behind your bedroom door.

 

HERE are some baskets you could try storing your non essentials.

 

 And HERE are some clear containers you could also use.

If you have more tips, please share!!

7 Months Reese Taylor

So Reese is actually almost 8 months now, and I am so sorry that I have deprived you of this sweet girl!

 

So here are 7 new things about Reese at 7 months

 

-She is a backwards crawler. She will keep going backwards until she is stopped by something... like the couch, or a wall.

-She knows how to get on all fours. All fours for her is actually on her feet and hands looking like a stink bug.

-She has stranger anxiety...It's getting better though!

-She LOVES the theme song to "friends". She is definitely my daughter.

-She can snatch food up off your plate faster than you can.

-She loves dogs, and gets a tad bit upset when they don't come right to her and play.

-She has two teeth coming in.. and a super cute whiney cry to go with them.

 

Slacking it up

Lately... I've been slacking. I haven't been so consistant with my posts... And I apologize! 

 

Life has been a little crazy this past month. My father in law had a stroke. Seriously if your like me and haven't known someone that has had a stoke before, this is a bit traumatizing! We left my in-laws house and almost as soon as we got home (we only live about 10 minutes away) my husband gets a call from my frantic mother in law. "Chris (father in law) is having a stroke!" My husband jumps in the car and speeds (literally, A cop tried to pull him over) back to there house. 

 

Apparently he was just sitting on the bed and his whole left side went numb. My mother in law said he was telling her as it was happening and she saw his face droop. Next day we are there in the hospital with him. It was so sad to see him so helpless, and it kinda hit me that anything can happen at any moment! 

 

I've felt like I was aware of this statement before, but in reality I had no idea. Ever since the stroke we've done our best to visit him at the hospital and rehab center. If it was me, I know he'd be there. He's doing better, and is working really hard to be fully recovered.

 

Anyway I guess what I really want to get across, is please don't take for granted your loved ones. Lucky for us he is recovering, but I can't help but think, what if he wasn't recovering? Or what if this stroke would have taken him from us? We would be devastated.

 

Love your family my friends.

 

XO,

Stephanie

The perfect FREE app to edit your pictures

For a long time now I have wanted a nice camera and a photo editing program. Well I'm sorry to say I have not gotten either... Instead I have found the perfect app to edit my photos! Don't get me wrong, I would love to have the camera and photo editing program.. but for now this is what I have, and I'm okay with that.

Have you ever bought a photo editing app that you hated? To make it all worse, you just spent money on this app that sucks, so that kind of makes it suck even more. Well one of the great things about this app is that it is free! The app is called Snapseed.

Snapseed has no many options for editing, so I'm just going to show you a few of my favorites.

 

Here is a photo taken with my I-phone.

What I like to do while editing on snapseed is, first using the drama filter. I like to use the preset filter "Bright 2"

 

 Here is my photo now after using that filter.

 

The next option on this app that I love is the Center Focus setting. Again I have a favorite pre setting. It's called Old Lens. After I use that, I usually do a little tweeking on the setting by making the blur a little stronger.

 

 

Here is my photo after using the Center Focus setting.

 

There are plenty of other options, and filters. This next picture I used the Vintage setting after using the Drama "bright 2" setting.

 

 

This one I used the black and white setting again AFTER using the Drama setting. 

 

This is still in the black and white setting, It just shows you can darken certain areas or lighten them.

 

Hope you find this post helpful when editing your many iPhone pictures!

6 Months Reese Taylor

 

Woah... Reese has hit her half birthday mark! Made me begin to brain storm ideas for her 1st birthday party! While that's in the works, and still 6 months away, here are a few things about her now.

 

-She has the prettiest sitting posture (Definitely doesn't get that from her mom).

-She has finally started playing with our dog Oakley.

-She has developed some mild stranger anxiety... Maybe it's not so much strangers since it's mainly with both her Grandpas.

-She now greets me when I get home from work with a huge smile.

-She now can sit in a bathtub without mom...don't freak out, she is supervised. (BTW she LOVES bath time).

-Her favorite movie of all time is Monsters University.

Here she is watching her Monsters U. She'll sit like this through almost the whole movie.

 

She had a little help from mom in this picture. I had to move one of her legs to get her here. She can't do this yet on her own, yes this picture is deceiving.

 

Any ideas on how to get rid of the stranger anxiety?