Sunflowers

First of all...I know this background is ugly! The cute giraffe background I did have was removed from the site I use so now I need to find another one. I just haven't had time. Hopefully tonight I can get the site fixed back up. Sorry for the ugliness of the page and hopefully these CUTE pictures will make up for it! Jared's mom, Susan has been telling us about a field in Whitewright that was planted with sunflowers. We got up early Sunday morning and drove over there before to get some pictures. The flowers have wilted a lot but I'm glad we went. And yes, we still made it to church.....productive morning!
I put the words to "You are my sunshine" on some of them. It's my song for Miss P. I have no idea why but when she was tiny and would scream her head off at night, I'd rock and sing it to her. It's so weird but sometimes now I can sing it and she'll close her little eyes and snuggle. She probably has to shut her eyes to bear my singing but I like to think that it's our little song. :-)

We took her rocking chair and she thought she was big stuff sitting in it! The crazy part is it wouldn't fit in my trunk and it only fit in my back seat after Jared twisted and tried every possible way. I love my car....but they weren't joking when they classified it as compact. haha!

Presley loved the flowers and wanted to touch them and was in a great mood. It was easy to get smiles and it made me proud to have such a happy girl!

I've already had lots of questions about her dress. It's from Target (bet you would never have guessed that). I had actually bought it for her studio pictures a few weeks ago but even though it says 12 months it was still too big. We used it yesterday though because I thought it would look pretty against the yellow flowers.

I think this picture is so sweet.....

And we seriously didn't pose or try to look a certain way in the pictures. We just played with Presley and snapped pictures of each other. And got some great shots!

This picture is one of my favorties. I like that you can only see part of me and that Presley has such a big smile.

And I think this is the one I've decided to have enlarged for a frame in my kitchen. She's so happy in this picture and the flowers are pretty and bright. I think it will add color to the kitchen and I'll love having a picture of my sweet pea on the counter.

Playtime

Presley is getting better at entertaining herself these days. She still wants you to be close and paying attention to her but she will venture off a little and play with toys now. I snapped some pics of her playing in her room the other day. I just ran across them and am playing with the cinema feature on my editing software. I like how they look so I want to share:
I bought this exersaucer at a consignment store in mint condition! It was $40 dollars and retails for closer to $100 and when we were in the store the day I bought it I put Miss P in it and she was tearing it up. Yeah, well now that we own it....not so much. She will play for a short time but then she wants out. She honestely spends more time standing outside of it playing with the toys. (Same with the jumperoo we have.)

I try to play with Presley in her room each day at least for a little bit. I want her to know that it's her room and hopefully one day we can keep most of her toys in there instead of the living room!

We are completely mobile now. She finally has proper crawling form! Haha...for the longest time she would crawl a few steps and then army crawl. Or she would crawl but have one leg straightened out. Now she has it down and goes all over the house!

This is my FAVORITE picture. This is a doll that her cousin Amarah, who's 3, gave Presley a long time ago. She's starting to show a little interest in it now...especially the hair. I love how Presley's eye lashes look in this picture and how she's holding the doll. So sweet!

Part 3 - My Favorite

As promised....here are the last of Miss Presley's pictures! These are by far my favorite. I think it's because they are so girly and I LOVE this outfit! It's her first tutu and I am already itching for her to take dance lessons. I don't want her to grow up fast but when's she big enough I will be running to sign her up. Sara and I took dance lessons and I loved it. So clear your schedules....there will be dance recitals in the future!
And I love that it's blue. Don't get me wrong we are all about the pink but I really like this blue and think it's cute with the zebra print. It's from Simply Puzzled which is our favorite store. Okay, Target is my favorite store but Simply Puzzled is my favorite splurge store!

Those sweet blue eyes! See why she has her Daddy and me wrapped around her little finger?

I don't usually like the pictures they do stuff to when they are showing you the proofs but when the photographer made this one I loved it! We are so blessed to have such a happy and healthy little girl.

Part 2

Okay...here is Part 2 of Miss P's photo shoot! She was so full of smiles!
The photographer pulled ths CUTE little pink car out and tried to hide it behind the camera so he could get a few shots and then use it as a prop. Presley was not cool with that and wanted that car! So of course he gave it to her and she wanted on it. It was hard to get her to just stand by it for the first few because she wanted on. This girl knows what she wants!

I LOVE the poof she is wearing. My sweet friend Marla got it for her at my work shower. I have been waiting for it to fit her and was excited to use it in her pics! It went perfect with her outfit and car!

My sweet little cupcake!

There were a few serious shots...I think these faces meant...."I'm not giving back this car I don't care what you say Mr!"

I will post the rest tomorrow....saving the best for last!

9 month pics!

Last week I took Miss Presley to have her pictures made because she is 9 months old. We went to Target Portrait studio because it's cheap and it's worked well for her other "milestone" pictures. Everything worked out so good. She slept the whole way down, had a bottle right before our appointment and then was in a GREAT mood for the shoot. She's such a camera hound! She and the photographer, Wade hit it off. She loved all of the crazy noises he made. And it made me happy to have him say he'd seen crying babies all day and that he enjoyed Miss P! Glad we could make his day better. :-)
This was the dress Presley had on and it wasn't one I had lined up for the shoot but the photographer begged me to leave her in it for a few. He said most girls wore frills and ribbons and he liked that this was different. So we let him get some shots!

She was so hard to keep still. Now that she can crawl, every time I put her down she took off! She mainly tried to crawl toward Wade and his camera. I picked her up a hundred times I bet. But I still think they turned out great. I love that she is clapping here. Super appropriate for her 9 months pics because she LOVES to clap!

I have more pictures but I will post more tomorrow and the rest on Wednesday. There were too many to put all on one post. So consider this the teaser..... ;-)

Personality

My sweet pea's personality keeps getting bigger! We spend so much time smiling and laughing at her these days. She likes attention and she's learning how to get it and she loves to make people laugh at her. I think she's starting to act like her Daddy!
The other day Jared put Presley's pajama pants on her head while she was sitting on our bed. I figured she would pull them off but instead she went crazy. She was laughing and jumping around. I love having such a happy baby!

I See The Moon

I see the moon and the moon sees me! My little sweet pea (like most kids) LOVES to be naked! She has gotten to where as soon as you lay her down and take her diaper off she immediately rolls over and takes off. Makes changing a diaper a lot more difficult. Sometimes though if I change her on our bed I will let her play for a minute. It's hilarious she is soooo happy to be naked and flopping on our bed.
She just laughs and laughs. I need to get it on video. She's gonna hate these pics one day when she's older but I think it's cute!