M and L

Ashlyn at 8 months

8 MONTHS!?!  What? We seriously cannot believe how incredibly fast she is growing. When she was a newborn people would always say, "Oh just enjoy these days because before you know it they are all grown up." I would nod my head and say, "yeah I definitely will."   Inside my head I was thinking to myself that it seemed like she was going to be a baby forever. But now I am starting to see that they were right! She changes and grows more everyday! Time sure does fly when you are a mom. It took me like two months to finally get this little photo shoot together. I kept telling myself "next week when I have time I will take pictures of Ashlyn." Then before I knew it two months had come and gone. With the help of Mike's mom we were able to get  Ashlyn to hold still for a few minutes and do a little photo session.

Here is what Ashlyn is up to....


-She is rolling all around the house (farewell to the days when I could lay her on the bed and leave the room.)
-She can scoot herself backwards which usually leads to her being stuck underneath furniture.
-Loves fruit. Gags when she eats her veggies.  I have to alternate bites of fruit and veggies.  We will see how long my trickery lasts.
-She rocks back and forth when we hold her, often repeatedly slamming her head into our chests. (I did this when I was a baby too. Weird, I know.)
-When she sucks on her paci she makes a "goi, goi, goi" sound.  It is the cutest noise there is.  We found out from Mike's parents that Mike did the same thing with his paci.  His siblings called his paci the "goi goi."
-She is starting to say mamama and dadada.  It's a proud moment as a parent.
-She is a daddy's girl.  She gets so excited when her daddy comes home from work and kicks and screams if he doesn't hold her right away.
-She loves her bed and loves her sleep.  Usually I just put her to bed around 9-9:30pm and she doesn't wake up for 12 hours.  It is so nice because I can wake up before her and go to bed after her.  We are crossing our fingers she keeps it up!
-No teeth yet. I can kind of see her bottom teeth working their way up, but they are definitely taking their sweet time.
-She is such a good baby. I think Heavenly Father made her our first baby on purpose so we would have more children.  If she was a terror I think we would seriously consider just have one, but if my babies are all as chill as her we will probably have a soccer team. Just kidding!  Bottom line, becoming parents has been the biggest blessing of our lives and we are so lucky to have such a sweet little angel in our family.