October

 Here is Annabelle watching Michael get ready for the day. She loves to watch you brush your teeth.

 She has learned to sit up on her own. But the first few times she would do it while she would cry in her crib to get out. I would come in and she would be sitting there not laying down.

 We have some beautiful trees. Which means we have lots of leaves in our yard. But to be fair, we have lots of beautiful, large trees in our neighborhood, so we would probably have lots of leaves in our yard anyways.

 Michael's work had a pumpkin picking party. We went on a hayride to the pumpkin patch. Annabelle was on our laps and I was freaking out a bit because it was so bumpy. It took a moment for me to be comfortable about not having her in a car seat.

 We got a pumpkin almost as big as her. 

 Her trying to get away. 

 She's still a small thing. The few times I've been able to get her on our scale she been about 15 lbs.

 She also loves to play peak-a-boo. And has learned to do it her self.

 She was an adorable little pumpkin for her first Halloween. For the family events Michael and I also dressed up as pumpkins. Michael also dressed up as Jake from his 'Dead by Daylight' game.

 I decided to carve our pumpkin to look like a Christmas tree. I think I did a good job.

She has learned to clap. And she loves it.

She loves to eat. If you're eating you better have something ready for her to eat.

July

Fourth of July Fun.

Annabelle and I made it to the water fight.

Timpview Band Marching right outside.We live about a block away from the high school. We can often hear the band practicing in the morning, particularly the drums. Well, on the morning of the 3rd, Annabelle and I were chilling upstairs and I was listening to the band. I like to listen to them practice so I'm glad we live so close. I wanted to share this sentiment with James and made the comment, "I love listening to the band. It sounds like they're right outside our window." James looked up and said that they were right outside our window. And sure enough they were. Turns out they do this every year, but I'm usually at work. Annabelle liked listening to the band.

 We went to Grandma's house on the 4th after eating at Uncle Greg's House. We watched 1776.

 Other 4th of July activities that we did were to go to the Carillon concert and the Children's Parade. Michael and I did the Freedom Run while my mom and Violet tended to Annabelle. We did not go to the 4th of July Parade.

Annabelle is more interested in what is going on around her. I would be making something with her in a carrier facing out. And should would be reaching for whatever I was working on.

She can now roll from back to tummy to her right. Though she still prefers the left. She still learning to roll from tummy to back. I think it would be funny if she learns to crawl before she learns to roll from tummy to back. She likes to sleep on her side at the moment.

This tree died over the winter. So we got rid of it.

She's doing better at entertaining herself. So car rides are getting a bit better.

We had an extended family get together at Chuck-a-Rama. Michael really wanted a picture of Annabelle with her father, Grandma, and GreatGrandma.

Kaitlin came back from her mission from the south. This is a picture of all of the children born while she was away.

Annabelle is a funny one. She likes to watch people, but she doesn't necessarily like people. If people try to pick her up or play with her, she'll often cry. But if they are at a distant she will give them a big smile.

Being 5 month old.

We often go on walks together. I'll either put her in the baby carrier or in the stroller. She prefers to be faced out in the baby carrier over the stroller.

June

Anthony's family came out to Utah for a week and a half. Their stay over lapped our ward's Fathers and Sons camp out. (Michael thinks it should be Father or Son camp out, because he's a father now, but has no sons). So My Dad; James, his two sons; Anthony, and his son; and Michael went to the camp out. And Violet really wanted to go, So we decided to have a girls retreat at Grandma's. We ate delicious foods, painted nails, did our hair, and watched Penelope (which I spelled correctly the first time! Go me).

Mom gave Annabelle a Cheetos to hold. By the way, Cheetos dust gets everywhere. This one Cheeto got dust all over Annabelle and me.

Outside painting nails

This one running away with the paper towels.

Made this for activity days for my dad.

Cute little baby profile.

I made the cake from scratch. I did not make the frosting from scratch. But I did dye it yellow, blue, and red (it was called Christmas red, but in real life it looked pretty pink).

I love Annabelle's little mohawk.

Annabelle is playing more and more with toys.

At this point she is still only rolling from back to tummy to her left.

At her 4 month appointment she was weighing 11 lbs 15 oz, putting her heavier than 9 % of other 4 month olds.

Her length was 25", putting her taller than 59 % of others.

And her head circumference is in the 11th percentile.

She's very smiley baby. She likes to look at other. She's social, unless they try to hold her. Then she doesn't like them.

She kind of get that from me. I would not go to anyone but my mom, not even my dad, until Baby George was born. I was two when that happened.

Annabelle doesn't have to go to Pediatric Rehab any more for her toricollis. We just have to keep an eye out for it as she grows.

I've been going on walks with Annabelle. She likes it for a while, then she gets bored, and then she has to cry herself to sleep in the stroller.

We started our 4th of July traditions this month. I don't have pictures, but we went to the BYU Carillon concert. I always like to go each year, but some years it's hard to find out the time they put it on. This year it made it on the Wilde 4th of July program. At the beginning Annabelle was fussing, so I wrapped her up, and she just laid in my arms content listing to the bells. Eventually she fell asleep.

We also made it to the Children's parade. It's a parade where children can dress up and be in it, while other cheer them on as they walk by. It's very small. It takes about 15 minuets for the parade to walk by. But it takes about 45 minuets to walk from the start of the route to the end. Annabelle seemed to have liked it.