6 months old arlready?!

Wow how time has flown by these past few six months!!  It just seems like months are turning into weeks and weeks are turing into days :(  Kinsey had her 6 month Well Child Visit and everything went really well as always.  She is now 25 1/4" tall (30th%), 14.14lbs (25th%), and her head is only 40.5 cm (5th%).  She is just our little petite girl :).  Kinsey is eating at the same times every day and now we have added a solid food at her 11 (lunch) feeding.  She doesn't complain about that because I usually give her a full serving of fruit and a little bit of veggies.. we save the big serving of veggies for dinner lol.  She goes to bed between 7-8pm and will wake up around 7am.. sometimes later if I am lucky!  She is sitting up all on her own and people always comment when I have her sitting in the shopping cart at the store on how well she sits up for her age!  She is very coordinated!!  I had to move our coffee table into our closet under the stairs so Kinsey would have more room to roll around in our living room ha ha she will start out on her back in the center of the blanket and will end up clear on the other side of the room on her belly playing with a toy she found.  She is so much fun to just watch and observe. 
I have started "baby proofing" some of our house thanks to Grandpa Rob for buying the outlet covers :)  I will probably only put locks on some of the cabinets in the kitchen but other then that I want her to just learn what is ok and what is not so wish me luck with that lol 
Brandon and I both came to an agreement to space out some of the immunizations for Kinsey since her visit for 4 months old left her sick for about a week!! So we only had her get half of them at her 6 month visit and she did so much better :)  We will catch up with the rest at her 9 month check!

First Tooth!!

YEP Kinsey officially got her first tooth on August 6th (her half birthday ha ha)!  She had been teething for quite awhile and wasn't sleeping very well, and we could just tell she was uncomfortable..  Kinsey and I were over at my mom's house and my mom was feeling around in Kinsey's mouth to see if she could feel anything.  Sure enough she felt a little sharp tooth in there ;)  I will try to get a pic of it now since it is a little bit more noticeable and post it on here!  I love her little pumpkin smile!!!

Summer Days

I am enjoying every minute of being at home with Kinsey during the week!!  She is so much fun to play with and at such a great age where her personality is defiantly coming through lol  Kinsey is now only taking 2 naps a day and I LOVE it because now she is awake so much more which means more playing time :)  She has been eating solid food for a couple months now and enjoys it so much ha ha she even yells or gets mad if I take to long for the next bite!  I have been doing really well with making my own baby food - I buy organic from Good Earth and take a couple hours every other week to make it..  So far I have done sweet potatoes, butternut squash, apples, pears, green beans, peas, and peaches.  I am thinking I might have to start buying her food when I start school in a few weeks though :( 
Kinsey is now sitting up ALL on her own and prefers to play that way.  When she is on her back she would rather be on her belly and when she is on her belly she would rather be on her back ha ha.  Watching her sleep and all the different positions she puts herself in at night is quite funny as well!  She is her own little lady and already knows what she wants!
Yesterday we went to my mom's house like we normally do on Monday nights.  Kinsey loves her grandma and grandpa and uncles so much!!  I love the way she flirts and smiles at them as soon as she sees them!  After we went to my mom's we stopped by my dads to pick up some things and he gave her a Green Apple licorice and man did she LOVE that!  I would take it to bite the soggy part off so she wouldn't choke on it and as soon as it would leave her hand she would start screaming and pull the pouty lip out ha ha she is only 6 months old and already knows how to get her way!!

Blessing Day

We finally got Kinsey blessed!!  I wanted to make it a special day for her and I think she had a lot of fun :)  Our sacrament meeting starts at 9 am and even though that is pretty early for most of my family, everyone still came to support her.  Brandon and I splurged on her outfit and spent over $70 but she was so dang cute, and it only happens once right?! I don't even want to know how much we are going to spend for her first birthday yikes!!
The night before her blessing I made homemade cinnamon rolls that are so much work but I think they are worth it :)  Then that morning I had to get up super early to set them out to rise and get myself and my princess ready.
Brandon's dad gave Kinsey her blessing and it was such a great one!  I knew he would do a great job :) In the circle with her grandpa was her daddy, Uncle Tyson, Great-Grandpa Schwartz, Uncle Shane, and Bishop Bingham. 
I along with my mom left the sacrament meeting a little early to get back to my house to set everything up.. When people started coming it reminded me of how small my house it ha ha but amazingly enough everyone fit!!  We ate my homemade cinnamon rolls, a breakfast casserole, fruit, and milk and juice.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the food because we only had a tiny bit of leftovers :)  Thanks everyone for coming to support Kinsey on her big day!!!

REAL Salt Lake!!!

For the 24th of July we went to the REAL Salt Lake game and it was the first time for all three of us :)  Once again Brandon's parents were able to get us some awesome seats to the game and we even road down in the car with them so it only cost us the nachos and hot dog we had for dinner! Kinsey was such a social butterfly and loved every minute of the game.  Her arms were just flapping, she was screamin with excitement, and flirting with everyone who made eye contact with her.   We had some of the opposing team fans right above us and they sang the WHOLE time!! "ole ole ole" was stuck in my head for days ha ha  It was so hot when we first got there so Kinsey ended up striping down into just her diaper and she was just fine with it :)  The people around us kept commenting on how cute all her rolls were!  REAL scored the first point and boy did they make so much noise ha ha.  Streamers were flying everywhere, it was quite crazy!  Then the team from California (I cant remember their name) scored shortly after and the singing fans above us threw so much confetti and streamers I had to cover Kinsey's head because it was hitting me pretty hard lol.  The game ended up being a tie...
After the game was over they had a firework show and at this point Kinsey was so tired she just slept the whole time, which I am very surprised because those fireworks were so close and LOUD!!  We got into the car and waited forever to get out of the parking lot!! It took so long I even had time to feed Kinsey.  Brandon had gotten us a Pepsi to share that night and I only drank a tiny bit of it because I didn't want the caffeine to effect Kinsey but just those few sips made a difference.  She was laughing and cooing so much lol it had everyone in the car just laughing!!  She was so cute but I'm glad we had the long car ride for the caffeine to wear off and for her to crash.

ugh it's hot MOM!!

Flappin those arms ha ha

ARISE

Wow I have been such a blogger slacker!! We have just been so busy so its been hard to keep up..

Brandon and I had the opportunity to go see the program put on by the youth called "Arise".  They planned this for over 2 years and the youth practiced for 6 months!!  It took some major convincing to get Brandon to even go with me ha ha.  His mom got us some tickets since his younger brother Taylor was in it.  I had a friend from work go the night before and she gave us some AWESOME advice :)  We were told it was very hot and kinda miserable at first so we decided to have my mom watch Kinsey and boy are we glad we listened to that advice!  I probably lost at least 5 pounds in sweat that night ha it was so so hot and muggy ugh.. Brandon even went to get us some icees thank goodness that helped a little bit.  After the sun went down it was so much more enjoyable.  The program was amazing.. words cannot describe how great it was :)  They broke the record for Weber State on the amount of people on the field because there were so many kids!!  I was only able to get one pic because we forgot my camera - good thing for cameras on the phone ha ha 

Miss America!

Wow did we have fun on the 3rd and 4th of July!  We went to the parade as a family on Saturday and Kinsey had so much fun :)  It stared off rough when we were trying to find a place to sit because people start putting their chairs out a week in advance, I swear!!  When we found an empty place to put our chairs, this lady kept complaining saying we were in her spot so we relocated just so we wouldn't have to listen to her complain anymore lol. We found a perfect place in the shade and it was all good from then on.  Kinsey loved watching all the floats go by except for one of the semis honked the horn right in front of us and that kinda scared her but other then that her legs and arms were a goin and she kept trying to talk to them lol she had a BLAST!  After the parade we drove up to Cherry Days and walked around there for a bit.  Kinsey chose this time to take a quick cat nap in her stroller while we ate.  Brandon and I got Zeppies ice cream and I of course shared mine with Kinsey ha ha Brandon gets mad at me all the time for sharing my food with her!  My excuse is I dont want her to be a picky eater ;)  After we left Cherry Days we had to go home so Brandon could get ready for work.. BOOOO!!!  The rest of the day was just me and Kinsey hangin out and later when Brandon got home we lit some fireworks!

On the 4th of July Kinsey and I got ready and went to church.  She is such a good baby- I know I brag about that all the time but it's so true!! She just sits on my lap and listens and when she starts to get tired I cuddle her in my arms and she sleeps the rest of the time. She very rarely makes a peep..  Then we came home and took a nap as a family ;)  Brandon had to work that day as well :( but he got off earlier so we had a little BBQ with just us and we made cheddar brats with corn on the cob, pasta salad and watermelon!  Kinsey LOVES watermelon lol she was smiling and laughing the whole time she was eating it!!!  It also gave her so much energy so she was able to stay awake and watch some of the fireworks with mom and dad ;)