7 Months and Loving It

So Eden is approx. 7 1/2 months old now. In just a few days she will actually switch to the "almost 8 months" stage...and pretty soon after that she actually will be 8 months (yikes!). So I thought this would be a good time to do a 7-month-old post for our baby girl.
Here's a quick summary of Eden at 7 months...(I'm gonna make it much shorter than last month).
Loves sitting up and rolling around. Not crawling (yet). Happy. Sweet. Funny. Chubby. Doesn't like to fall asleep anywhere else besides her own crib (which makes 1:00 church kind of challenging). Super curious. Super wiggly and squirmy. Loves to talk. Still a good eater and starting to eat some table foods (like tiny pieces of pasta, cut up green beans, etc.). Loves going on walks in her stroller. Loves to swing. Loves her family.

Daddy Time...

Sister Time...

(looking at each other in the mirror)

Brother Time...

Our Sweetie...

By the way, laundry baskets make great playpens.

Eden loves to sit in here and contentedly play with her toys.

She's safe, and contained, and happy and it's been really

convenient for dinner making and laundry folding and things like that. :)

Sleeping Baby...

(there is nothing sweeter)

Sleeping baby getting slightly woken up by

a mommy who couldn't resist kissing her...

(sorry honey!)

Don't worry, she went right back to sleep...

Could it be we have a kind of blue-eyed kid?

I never would have thought...

This is the face she makes whenever I

come towards her with a wet paper towel to clean her

face after she's done eating. I call it her "scrunchie face."

She knows what's coming.

I think it's pretty funny.

Ready for a walk...

Some funny (and cute) faces...

The end.

Eden's bobbling

So, my Christmas posts were supposed to be my last posts for awhile. I had planned on taking a little blogging break after having such a busy month of posting. But then, on Sunday night, something big happened. At least something big to us. Eden started bobbling. And by bobbling...I mean babbling (you know the cute baby talk babies start doing around this age...their repetivitive ba, ba, ba's and da, da, da's.) So why do I call it bobbling? Because that's what Justin calls it and it sounds so much cuter. :)
On Sunday night, right before bedtime, we were all laying on mine and Dave's bed in our pajamas playing with Eden. Then, out of nowhere, she just started going nuts with her talking. She's always been a very vocal baby...lots of happy squealing and airy oooohs and aaaahs with a consonant sound thrown in here and there. But this night was different...it was the first night she really started with the full out babbling. We all were cracking up and Emily ran to get the camera to catch the moment on video, and I'm so glad she did. So I have a couple short clips to show off Eden's new found voice. :)
The first one was taken on that first night when it all started...it was just way too dark in our room for the video to show up good, we only had one little lamp on and our digital camera doesn't have a light for video. So I took one more the next morning when we had a little more light. They are both really short...so enjoy!

Emily and Justin thought it was so cool when Eden started making her cute noises on Sunday night. I explained to them that what Eden was doing was called "babbling" and that it is what most babies do while they are learning to talk and soon all those little noises will turn into her first real words. Well, when I said "babbling" Justin heard "bobbling" and he has not been able to stop talking about it ever since. I can't tell you how many times the next day he said things like "Eden sounds so cute when she bobbles, huh Mommy." or "Eden is the best bobbler.", and "Eden just loves to bobble." I just can't correct him...it sounds too sweet. :)

Christmas in Logan

We really had such a wonderful Christmas! We started our holidays with a trip to Logan to spend a few days with Dave's family. We had so much fun while we were there! Our days and nights were filled with...

Reading Christmas stories with Grandma...

Playing with fun cousins...

Ice skating...

The Nativity play...

Opening cousin presents...

New friends...Justin had a blast playing with his

2nd cousin Jax that he doesn't get to see very often.

They were best buds right away.

Dancing around the tree at

the Gutke family Christmas party...

This is one of my favorite traditions. Every year the new

babies of the family get to dance around the Christmas

tree while everyone sings.

Eden got to share her dance around the tree with her

cute cousin Ridley who is just two months older!

Opening presents from Grandma and Grandpa...

(thank you so, so much...the kids love their toys!)

Eden all cozy in the blanket Grandma made her!

Here's the video of Eden dancing around the tree...

We had such a wonderful time with our family in Utah! Thank you all for everything!

Christmas in Vegas

On the morning of Christmas Eve we left Logan and headed strait for home. We spent Christmas Eve with my parents and my sister and her sweet kids. We ate yummy food, played games, and the kids put on an awesome talent show. It was so fun to be together!

The cute cousins...

Me and Kris

Christmas Morning!

It was so nice to wake up Christmas morning in our own beds and open presents as a family...

Eden went nuts with the wrapping paper (we knew she would.)

Her face after the wrapping paper was taken away. So sad.

Her new Sandra Boynton books!
I'm pretty sure she thinks they are just as tasty as her other ones...

Playing with the new toys...

The happy kids...

After opening presents and lounging around all day in our p.j.'s we went to my parent's house for a delicious Christmas dinner of homemade chile verde burritos. My mom makes this every year and they are so, so yummy! I don't know why but I didn't get pictures from this part of our Christmas day. I'm so sad I didn't. :(

A family picture taken at the end of our perfect Christmas day...

Oh, and a funny video of Justin singing the Chipmunks Christmas song...