Who knew 11 months could go by so stinkin' fast... I can't even handle thinking about next month when she turns ONE!!! Her birthday will actually be on Thanksgiving DAY this year so we plan on having a HUGE RuBright-Hammett Thanksgiving dinner AND having Ivy's birthday bash afterwards!!! I can't wait to see all of our family under ONE roof! It's gonna have to be a huge roof thats for sure! HA!
So I don't know if y'all have noticed but the last few photo sessions I have done with Ivy haven't been all that great.... Well I am learning that each month, it gets HARDer and harder to make Ivy sit still just long enough for a picture or two. This month my plan was to dress Ivy up as different things since the 27th was so close to Halloween. I had an 80's workout outfit, zebra, and scarecrow lined up. Well A few days before I actually took the pictures, I had make Ivy's tutu for her Scarecrow costume. I had finished it and put it on her and she absolutely HATED it! She wouldn't stop pulling at it and tugging at the straw and screaming her head off. Soooo I kinda knew that the scarecrow was just not happening. So I searched for a new costume and found that she had lots of cheetah print stuff sooooo that is how I added that one into the mix. Then came picture day.... We tried the zebra first and it was awful. She was in a bad mood, wouldn't keep her hat on, nothing was going as planned. So I thought I would just wait till after her morning nap. Well the nap came and went and then I put her 80's workout outfit on. Well that was a bust too. I think I got like two pictures of her with her headband on... She hates wearing socks and shoes so this was just not making her happy either. Then I went ahead and put her cheetah outfit on cause I knew the scarecrow was NOT gonna happen. I even put make-up on her face to make her look like a cute little cub. Then she smeared it and it looked awful and I tried fixing it but it still looked bad but I took the pictures anyways. I just has to try out the scarecrow tutu just ONCE so I put it on her just to see if she would leave it alone and NOPE! She started crying again {as you can tell in the picture}.
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| NOTICE FINGER IN NOSE..... |
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| SO NOT HAPPY |
I decided after looking back at all the picture I took and noticing that only a few were worth anything, I decided not to do a Halloween themed chalkboard and just do a normal board and outfit. So here is the normal ones. It was still pretty hard getting her to be still but the stool helped! Ha!
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| LOOK AT THOSE PEARLY WHITES! |
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| NAKED. FREE. HAPPY |
She is happiest with no clothes on. Haha My mother said I was the same way as a baby....
As her chalkboard reads, Ivy is 19 pounds!!! She has been gaining a lot more weight now that she eats more "real food" and less of Mama's milk. She is getting too big for her walker already because her poor feet drag the ground when she walks around in it. She will only take 2 or 3 steps at a time but only if I bribe her with something... Usually me blowing huge bubbles with bubble gum haha!
She will get brave any day now and she will just take off! My baby girl is growing up so fast. TOO fast! I get so sad thinking how fast time flies with her! I enjoy and cherish EVERY second of my time with her as her MAMA! :)
XO,
Meagan
