Taylor Tuesday

Tuesday always seemed like the day of the week that gets forgotten or not as much attention as the other days. There's nothing normally very exciting about Tuesday, but I have created Taylor Tuesday where Taylor makes her way into several family member's inbox to hopefully bring them a smile while they are at work. I couldn't go without sharing a cute picture of Taylor, so you get to enjoy in Taylor Tuesday too!


For my blog followers, you get an additional photo... as I was taking pictures, Taylor deciding to do this thing where she's sucking without the paci. This is one of the things that made us think she was teething. It's just too cute and I love her expression in this photo. She's going to hate me for these when she gets older!


Enjoy! ~ Wendy

Doctor update and glass class

Taylor did great at the doctor yesterday. She is currently weighing 15 lbs 10 oz and is 25 inches long. The doctor doesn't think she's teething yet, but just discovering new body parts, like her tongue. He also suggested waiting another month before starting rice cereal, so you'll have to wait for pictures of her first solids. Taylor spent most of the appointment talking to everyone and then changed her mood with her 4 month old shots. Poor baby girl, but it's a good thing that Nana got her Hello Kitty band aids to make her feel better. Here is a our little girl as she was relaxing after her doctor appointment yesterday.


After taking care of little girl all day, Chris took over Daddy Duty so that I could go to glass class. I am attending glass class on Monday nights for the next 4 weeks. Last night we learned how to cut glass, the different types of glass art, fusing glass, and the tools we need to use. Then we created three similar glass tiles that they will fire three different ways so that we can compare the types of firing. One of the best parts of the class is that we got enough people we know to join so it's our own private class. For those of you who followed the blog pre-Taylor, you know that I love to do different crafts. Stamping will just have to wait for right now while I experiment with glass crafts. Here are some of the pre-fired tiles that we created last night:

And yes the parts that look like granules will melt down to form either a clear or opaque glass.

I don't know what's going on with the picture on the right, but it keeps uploading it sideways. You can still get the picture.

4 Months

Taylor turned 4 months old this past Thursday and this past month has flown by since she has been a busy little girl. Taylor attended her first Lambert family trip to Rio Bonito, started sleeping in her crib, rolled from front to back, rolled from back to front, went to her first baseball game, went out on the lake a couple more times, had her cousins come stay the weekend, became one of God's blessed children(Baptized), celebrated mommy's birthday, gained lots of weight, and kept mom and dad up all night with a cough for the first time. Her monthly pictures in the chair are getting much easier. Here are some pictures from her past month:

Taylor and Ally * Ally(Gladiator Winner), Jeff(Gladiator Semi-Finalist), and the Lamberts

Taylor's first baseball game * Go Round Rock Express!

Taylor now LOVES tummy time and flips to her tummy anytime she can. Her newest move is to kinda scoot herself across the blanket with her legs. As soon as she gets those arms down I am in trouble. This kid is ready to take off. I even find her sleeping with her butt in the air in her crib!

Father Elmer, who also married us in the church, Chris, Taylor, & I at Taylor's Baptism

Some of the other things that Taylor has been up to lately:

• constantly drooling, we think she might be beginning to teethe
• gaining weight... she weighed 15 lbs 5 oz at the dr last week
• sleeping all through the night.. i know, i was shocked that this one is already here
• holding onto small soft objects for short periods of time
• sleeps on her tummy
• is somewhat of a momma's girl
• loves to stand up in your lap
• HATES wet diapers with a passion, but doesn't mind the dirty ones.. go figure
• looks forward to 4/5 pm when daddy gets home
• loves to be rocked to sleep
• talks alot! also talks very loud at times
• is starting to notice Sadie(our black lab)

We go tomorrow for Taylor's 4 month checkup with the doctor and I am curious to see if he puts our little girl on rice cereal due to her great strides in weight gain. Check back to tomorrow to see our doctor updates and pray for me to have strength to watch Taylor get her next round of shots!

Love,
Wendy

American Gladiator

Have you ever met an American Gladiator? Well I can say that I know the winner from this season and a contender. Ally Kelly-Davidson is a childhood friend of my sister-in-law and we have been following her and her husband, Jeff, as they competed on the American Gladiator this summer. It all started when Ally's sister kidnapped her the day of her wedding telling her to put on her veil and workout clothes. She took Ally to the tryouts for American Gladiator where she auditioned. The producers loved her story and asked her husband to join for a couples episode. So, Jeff and Ally spent 2 out of the first 3 months of their marriage in LA training and filming American Gladiator. Two weeks ago we watched Ally in the semi-finals at the Alamo Drafthouse and then last night we went back again to watch her win the whole competition. Taylor did wonderful each time, even though it was a little past her bedtime. We figured out quickly the first time that Taylor was not happy unless she could see the screen and cheer Ally on. Jeff made it to the semi-finals with the best men's time, but got hurt during the Eliminator and wasn't able to finish and continue on to the finals. We are so proud of both Ally and Jeff!

Here is a picture of Taylor with the Ally during the semi-final showing.

This is the whole Lambert family with Jeff and Ally after we watched her win the finals!

Taylor was still excited for Ally when we got home


Ally is starting up Camp Gladiator for those of you in the Dallas area. You can also go on her website and read all about her journey during American Gladiator. Once again...
WAY TO GO ALLY!!!!!

New Toy

Taylor has been interacting with her bouncy toys more and more and trying to stand up while we hold her that we thought she needed a new toy. Not just any toy, but the toy of all toys at her age... an exersaucer! We've been looking at them each time we went to Target or Walmart, but finally made a trip to Babies R Us were they have every kind of jumper/exersaucer that you can think of. After some debating we got the one with LOTS of toys on it. I think Chris and I had more fun last night checking out all the different stuff on it than Taylor did. Check out Taylor in her new toy.

Here's Chris putting it together & Taylor trying to figure out what this new thing is.

Chris was helping Taylor figure it all out & her funny look

Hand in mouth.




Still trying to figure it out, but she leaned back in the seat to take it all in.
I think she's going to like it!

Happy Friday

Taylor says thank goodness it's Friday because she is in dire need of a weekend off. We hope everyone has a great Friday and wonderful weekend!

Take me out to the ballgame

For PawPaw's birthday last week we went to the Round Rock Express game. They were giving out baseball Mr. Potatoheads and we were craving funnel cake!(Plus Mia can get her cheesecake chimichangas on the way home. Well, not just Mia... we ALL love them!) So Taylor got to go to her first baseball game. She was even ready with her Astros t-shirt that Aunt KK had bought her. Before we could sit down, we had to go get Taylor a hat so she was ready to be a true Express fan.

Taylor tried really hard to stay awake, but the Express just weren't playing that good.

PawPaw had to make sure that he got in some 'Taylor Time' at the game.

Taylor loves her PawPaw!

While PawPaw had Taylor, I got to enjoy funnel cake without getting powdered sugar on Taylor and Chris and I got a Taylor-free picture.

Firsts

I have been so busy lately with Taylor experiencing lots of 'Firsts'. She had her first Lambert Rio Bonito experience in Wimberly, but those pictures are all on Chris' laptop and I'll have to pull them off for a blog later on. Tummy time has always been a fight for us and Taylor normally hates it. She ends up just licking the blanket or playmat until she works herself into a good crying fit that I can't stand to leave her there anymore. Well a friend suggested that I prop her up on a pillow on her tummy and I was looking for anything to get her to enjoy tummy time. Well it must of worked because last week Taylor started holding her head up from the moment she was put on her stomach. It's amazing how quickly she transitioned to this new skill! I thought it would be forever until she enjoyed tummy time. So here is our little girl enjoying her new view on life. She used to spend much of the day on her back and now she likes to play on her tummy.
















This really isn't a first, but Taylor got to see her Aunt Desha on Saturday. Desha is my best friend from high school and my friend that I've known the longest. We even survived being college rivals! Desha was there when Taylor was born and takes advantage of any opportunity she can to hold this little girl! We had fun eating Rudy's BBQ and catching up.



Back to our 'Firsts'.... since Taylor is now sleeping at least 6 hours at night I made the BIG step of moving her out of the bassinet in our bedroom and to her crib in her room. I really think this step is more about when us Moms are ready and less about when the baby is ready. Yes, I did wait until she was sleeping longer to move her but I finally told Chris to push me to do it. It was so hard to leave my little girl in a different room and not be an arm's reach from her! I think I stood there for 20 minutes just watching her the first time I put her down. Then I turned the monitor as loud as it would go and put it on the edge of my nightstand. I'm not sure my body knew what to do without Taylor's little night noises that Chris had to wake me up when she woke up. All and all she did great the first night and has since then. I even took the bassinet in our room down. Kinda weird to have that empty space in our room where she used to sleep every night and nap. Here are a few pictures that I took this week. Taylor is always in a different position when she wakes up from when I put her down. I also think it's cute how little she looks in her crib. Chris is excited that we are finally getting to use her room for more than a closet.

















Taylor did have another 'First' and that is that she rolled from her back to her front and then from her tummy to her back. Like I wasn't already overwhelmed with all her other firsts last week, she threw those in there too. She's only done it a few times so I don't have pictures yet, but she does it in her sleep because I often find her on her tummy when I go to wake her up. Stay tuned for my next post because Taylor's other first deserves it's own post!

Love,
Wendy

PawPaw Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad/PawPaw!!!

Taylor is so lucky to have a wonderful grandfather like you! For your birthday we made you a special birthday video.(Note: This is our first attempt at video messages so bear with me as Taylor gets hyperfocused on the camera for a few seconds)

Dusting off my stamps

I am doing a Stampin' Up party for my mother-in-law at the end of the month and came up with our make-n-take ideas last night. It was so much fun to get my stamps out and create again. I hope Taylor keeps up with her regular naps so that I can get into my craft room more often! For those who live in the area, let me know if you are interested in learning how to make any of these ideas.

This item can hang over the neck of a wine bottle with chocolates in the box or
a water bottle with those lemonade/tea instant packs.

This is an envelope brag book. Inside the book there is room to hold 5 4x6 photos.

Lastly, we have a small card that is perfect to top a wrapped gift.

3 Months Old

I can't believe that Taylor is already 3 months old. More technically, she was 3 months yesterday but I am a little behind in posting. See my next post to find out what I was busy doing last night instead of blogging. I know that Taylor has grown over the past month, but looking back at pictures it is amazing HOW much she has changed already. At her 2 month doctor checkup she was 12 lbs and I think she is now somewhere around 14. All I know is that she jumped from being in newborn clothes/diapers for quite sometime and now she is about to outgrow her 0-3 month clothes. Here's a little look back on how our little girl has changed.

This is the day she came home from the hospital. It's amazing how big that newborn outfit looks on her!

One month old

Two months old

Three months old

This outfit was so cute that you needed a front and 'Butt' view. Plus Taylor got to play in her crib. At 3 months she is loving her Bebe Pod chair so that she can look around, starting to interact her the toys on her bouncy chair, almost rolling from her back to her stomach, holding her head up for small amounts of time while on her tummy(most of the time she licks the playmat), sleeping 6 hours at night, finding her fists on a regular basis and loves to suck on them, can hold a rattle or link for a short amount of time, starting to make loud happy noises almost like laughing, and often wakes up in her bassinet cooing and making happy noises.

Happy 3 months Pea!