Charleston Weekend

If you get a chance to visit Charleston you must check out the South Carolina Aquarium. It has so many great exhibits, beats our Ft. Fisher aquarium out of the ball park!

7 month pictures

So we just got back Avah's 7 month pictures and they are ALL so good we cant decide!! She was so good for the pictures, it was her bed time and all. We got to the beach around 5:30 then we needed to wait an additional 30 minutes for the sun to go down. Avah's typical routine is bath around 6, sleep by 6:30. So you can imagine my anxiety on the drive there. Im thinking crabby, fussy baby- take me home MOMMY! LOL but she loves people and will smile every chance she gets with a little attention :)

We are going to have a crawler soon...

Avah is moving around like crazy these days! I look over and shes getting a toy from her toy basket?! I tell her "stop, Avah mommy wants you to stay little forever!" :) On Sunday we look over and she is attempting to pull herself onto our ottoman, I grabbed a picture of this one. She stood there for a good minute then plopped down.

We have officially stored away 6 month clothing, her swing & baby bath tub. All too small. She is so much fun, I just cant tell everyone enough...she is seriously such a good baby! Scares me to even think about trying for a 2nd..there is no way we could possibly get this lucky again!!

The sleep training no sleep training did not work for us. We both cannot deal with a screaming baby at 3am when its time to sleep and get up for work in 2 hours. It just is not going to work for us. So, even though Dr. said Avah should sleep all night without eating, its not happenin' in this household. In fact, since we tried it that night I feel like her sleep has gotten worse. Some nights she is awake every  3 hours. Last night she'd wake every time we laid her in the crib. So that resulted with David on the couch and us in the big bed! Her normal night is sleeps really well 7-1, then up at 3am and 6am. She eats each time, goes right back to sleep. But recently, shes waking more. From what Ive read it could be teeth or growing-who really knows? Shes drooling a lot though. But I know this will past, she will sleep when shes ready and until then I am tired! Ready for 3 day weekend with my babes! We have 7 month pics at the beach, hitting up the pumpkin patch, cleaning up the beach in our beach sweep, buckeye game and a day off with the hubby! Going to be a good weekend!

*Avah's purple shirt in the pics says- Im the princess, Mommy is the queen and Daddy is around here somewhere. So fitting.. haha..