Shem and Reilly Purnell: October 2012

I thought I'd better post a little update. I don't know where the time has gone but summer is over and my little baby is already 7 months! All those sleepless nights at the beginning I never thought we'd ever get here but we finally did! I am happy to report that Shaylee is sleeping about 11-12 hours at night! YEA!!! It is so nice to be able to get a full nights sleep uninterrupted. Our little girl is just growing up so fast. At her 6 month check up last month she weighed 13 lbs 8 oz. (10th percentile) and was 25 inches tall (13th percentile) and her head measured in at 17.1 inches (82nd percentile). She is moving all over the place! She is scooting all over the place. She will occasionally crawl on all 4s on the carpet but she mainly just does it in the kitchen. I don't know if she doesn't like the feel of the carpet when she crawls on all on 4s but I would think that would be better than dragging your legs across it. We have to make sure she has pants on so that she doesn't get carpet burn! She is pulling herself to stand. She uses everything! She is such a strong little girl. Her new favorite thing to do is to pull her up using the TV entertainment center and play with the TV. We have to keep a very close on her and get after her for that. We don't want to become a habit but it is hard keeping her away. She still enjoys all of her food except for carrots. We introduced avocado and she did not like it at first but now she really likes it. I also started making my own baby food and I love it! Shem thinks I am a nerd because of how excited I was when I started. It is so easy and so much cheaper. I got a Baby Bullet from a baby shower and I have definitely put it to good use.

We are still on the job hunt for Shem. We are praying that something will come soon. He keeps looking and applying to jobs daily and we keep praying that something will come soon. We have been blessed to have kept Shem's job from when he was going to school as a research assistant. His boss was generous enough to keep on us and with a pay raise. That will be ending this week though. But we are so thankful for the blessing of employment for this long. As for me I am loving being at home with Shaylee. Shem and I were talking last night and we just couldn't imagine our lives without her. I officially felt like a parent after we had that conversation! We love listening to her little noises and seeing her silly faces! When Shem does get a job it will be very hard for him to be away from her all day. But he will just have to adjust! I am very blessed to be home with her and to watch her learn and development. She is a very lovable little girl and we are blessed to be her parents.

We were able to go on a little family trip this summer. My parents went up to Sun Valley for a couple days to their time-share and invited us along. It was fun to be able to go on a little trip and get away. This was Shaylee's first trip away and she did awesome. She slept great in the pack-n-play and slept for most of the way up and back home. She does not enjoy being her carseat for extended amounts of time but she did pretty good.

We had family pictures done on both sides this summer so I added pictures of both. The Purnell reunion that we were in charge of went off pretty well I think. I am just thankful it is over and that we are not in-charge again until 2020! It was hard having a little baby and being in charge. Especially since Shem's sister that was in charge with us also had a little baby. Shaylee didn't get to see her parents much but she sure had a lot of Aunts/Uncles/cousins and a Grandma and Grandpa who got to spoil her lots. It will be nice to not have any little babies next time we will be in-charge. Because we definitely will be done having kids by then! Here are some pictures from the summer. Sorry there are a lot. It is just so hard to only pick a couple!