go pod

Yay it came! I can never remember what these things are called but I found one that is neutral coloring and folds up for travel. Pretty awesome. Has loops so you can use your own toys AND it's adjustable so as she gets bigger (but still isn't walking) she'll always fit!

Looks a little flimsy but that's because I didn't know about the "locking pin".
Oops. I locked it so now it doesn't look like it's going to fold in on her!

As long as she's leaning forward and can reach her toys she's pretty happy.

She was refusing to stand up though. Pretty lazy girl. :)

Loving it.

She figured out how to pull herself up to the edge. Her arms are getting so strong!

That's my perfect little standing girl!

Also, she has a tooth! It's barely showing and difficult to get a picture of so we'll have to wait on that, but boy is it cute. I just can't believe how fast she's grown even just these past couple weeks!

Updates

We've been living in our new place for 2 weeks and we absolutely LOVE it!!! I have finally gotten into a routine of my "SAHM" duties and I get so much accomplished in such a small amount of time that I don't know why I was so lazy in the beginning! I guess it's true what they say about when you buy your first home, you really do want to take better care of it. The house is cleaned everyday, dishes and laundry done everyday, and I'm able to work out and shower everyday. Sophie loves sitting in her high chair playing with her laptop so that helps entertain her while I get things done. 

We went to our new ward on Sunday and we love it! They're so nice and helpful. Technically we went last week but as we weren't sure which ward we were in and what time to go we decided to go to the 11 o'clock and just ask someone there. Turns out it was stake conference, the morning session from 9:30-11 so everyone was leaving as we were arriving. Luckily a couple people saw us come in "late" and came to talk to us to let us know when the next session was. We told them we had no idea where we were supposed to go and when we told them where we lived one of the guys said he knew exactly which ward we belonged to! He's in that ward as well and says our bishop is amazing which will be nice since our last one wasn't so much. Then again he had quite a lot to live up to compared to Bishop Caplin!

Last week we went to Ryan's high school graduation. After I edit the pictures (horrible fluorescents) I'll post them, but we did get a few of Sophie with Chantyl in the grass for the first time.

Actually I found some pics from the graduation that were taken outside where the lighting was better.

Ryan looking proud and happy that he's done!

Larry, Ryan and Tami

Typical Davidson family craziness! ;0)

Grandpa & Grandma, Uncle Brad, Ryan, Tami & Larry

If you've been on Facebook you probably saw the video of Sophie sucking on a pickle. Since she loved that I gave her a strawberry a couple days later and she was actually gnawing on it! Kind of concerns me because I'm so nervous that she'll choke, but she loved it! I want to give her a banana, maybe cut up into little pieces....still nervous about it. Maybe I'll wait for Coden to be home when I do it because he was better at the CPR and demonstration of what to do when you're baby is choking that we had to do before she was released.

She really is getting a lot better at eating, but I really have to time it right. If I don't then she just giggles and spits the entire time, thinking it's hilarious. She also allows me to place her on her belly for tummy time. Depending on her mood she'll either whine herself to sleep or actually push herself up and scoot in circles. Yesterday I finally got to see her roll over! After the first time I saw it she rolled over every time we put her on her belly. Figured out she has to be slightly frustrated enough to push herself over with her hands, if she's overly frustrated she just buries her face and cries.

She loves standing. She prefers it over sitting or laying down and her legs are getting so strong! I just hope the thing we bought online to help her with that comes soon.

We ordered her birthday invitations and we should get them on Thursday. Maybe we should have paid the extra to have it delivered in 7 days vs 14 days because by the time everyone gets theirs it'll be just a week before her birthday!

I'm trying to remember if anything else exciting has happened in the last couple weeks but I'm coming up with nothing so... till next time!

Yellow!

I have been thinking about what to do for Sophie's birthday for a while now and I've finally got it! I was mentioning to Coden that I wanted to make her a ruffly shirt that I found on Pinterest but couldn't decide what color to do because I don't know what I'm doing for decorations yet. He said I should make her a yellow shirt. I immediately pushed the thought aside because I seem to naturally veer toward pink (even when I try not to), but then I thought "wait... I LOVE yellow!" Especially with her beautiful red hair! Then one night I was trying to sleep but had all these birthday ideas floating around in my head. How could I incorporate a yellow shirt into my original plan of pink and cream vintage? I couldn't, well I could but I all of a sudden wanted to go another direction. What if I do everything yellow!! That'd be so bright and cheerful, perfect for a summer birthday. I thought "but what would the theme be?" Then it hit me: You Are My Sunshine! PERFECT, right?! I sing it to her all the time and the words are perfect for her story! "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away." How many cloudy days have we had this past year with Sophie being our only ray of sunshine getting us through? Yeah I'm pretty excited.

(Oh and I know. Random picture. I just know that whenever I read someone's blog I usually read the ones with pictures first. And I'm not gonna lie, she's a cutie patooty (sp?) so I'll use any excuse to show her off!)

It's a start...

I always talked about creating a blog once I became a stay at home mom, and now here I am 8 months after Soph was released FINALLY getting it done! Perhaps it's because at the moment the only thing in the place that we're living in now is a blow up mattress and necessities. No entertainment whatsoever to distract me from boredom except my computer.
We moved almost everything over to the new house this last weekend with the agreement that we could move our stuff in but not live there until papers are signed. Didn't think that was going to be an issue until we realized that in our hurry to get all of our utilities going in our new place, we transferred our gas too soon. So we've been living the last 3 days in our freezing cold rental with no hot water and no entertainment. Yesterday we went to the new place to shower and hung out there all day. It was actually kind of nice, feels like home. Felt a teeny bit guilty because we're not supposed to be "living" there, but we don't have food there and we didn't sleep there so...kind of like we were just hanging out at a friends or something. We've gotten the approval from the lender and now we're waiting for Rural Housing to give us the "ok" on Wednesday, then I'll start going over there everyday to unpack. I want to get this place unpacked and ready as soon as possible so I can focus solely on Sophie's upcoming birthday party! I know it's a little over a month away but I'll need to get invitations out and decorations made and I'm planning on making her a shirt... I've never done something like this before so this should be a fun experience!