Six Month Pics

 My baby is six months old!  Wow, I'm okay with the fact that she is six months old.  The thing I am not okay with is that in six more months she will be 1 year old.  It just can't be! I tried to be my own photographer for her six month pictures. I found that I am not the best photographer but that they are better than nothing.  I am just going to post all the pictures because frankly I can't choose my favorites because they are all my favorite because they all have my favorite person in them. (Derek's another favorite, just as favorite as Carly, they are both my favorites ) I just had to put that in there because poor guys, when you get married they are your favorite, then all of a sudden this teeny, tiny person comes and joins the family and all of a sudden the guys don't get told they're the favorite anymore even though, in my case, they still are a favorite!

I love this last one! Carly is so tickled to be playing with her frog... to die for!

World of Curls!

I decided that I needed to change the name of my blog to World of Curls instead of World of Hails.  Carly is me and Derek's whole world.  We are happy and proud to say that our worlds suddenly changed when Carly came into our family and that now our world revolves around her.  What did I do before her, what did I think about? Anyway, we love you baby Curly Carly!

I was putting laundry away one day so I put Carly in her crib and let her play with her stuffed animals! She had a great time!  Her favorite part was finding the tags on all of them.  As you can see from the picture she was pretty successful!

Carly has a new trick!  It is called falling asleep while sitting up.  Sounds like someone I know... Dad!  ( My dad, not hers) :) Anyway, she has started taking less naps and staying awake for longer periods of time.  This makes her very tired!  She has fallen asleep while eating and while I am holding her straight up, facing out quite a few times!  It is kind of sad but really funny. People always told me that I would never sleep again after having Carly.  I think that was a lie or maybe I just have a good baby but I sleep every night for about eight hours and I sleep GOOD! Elisa, if you read my blog, please try and skip that part ;)

Carly loves the water!  She giggles everytime I sprinkle it on her!

My mom got Carly a Little Einstein's DVD for Christmas.  Carly had a ball watching it... for ten minutes at least :) She was flailing her arms and legs around and squealing.

After 10 minutes she got tired.

Then she got really mad.  In our house tired = mad and it applies to all family members :)

This is not the best picture but I just love the "I just woke up" look that Carly has!

My sweet baby Curls! I love her and her cute personality that is coming out!
sweet...check! cute...check! melts me and Derek's heart...check! Patient...we're still working on that one!

Wowzers!  It has been a really long time since the last time I blogged.  To all those who die to see my cute baby girl growing... I apologize!

Idaho Trip!

Derek's sister got married the beginning of November which meant Derek and I were able to go to Idaho for it!  What a stinkin' fun trip!  It was so nice.  Derek stayed in NM for about a week working and then flew back right before Haylie got married.  I was able to stay with just my mom and Trev for a whole week!  It was so fun. My mom spoiled me big time with good food, rest, good conversation, and everything else a wonderful mom gives.  She spoiled Carly with so much love and attention.  We felt like royalty!  I got to see all of my siblings and spend some good time with them all.  It was a much needed vacation.







Mason the baby man!  What a great cousin! Curls is looking a little tired from the oodles of attention she got from everyone!

Cousin Gibson feeding Curls her bottle.
Funny Story: Curls would not and I tell you WOULD NOT nurse while we were in Idaho.  It was a struggle every 3 hours.  Actually she wouldn't even eat every three hours.  Once she went 12 hours without eating and that was during the day.  I know... I was freaking out.  Anyway, she just didn't want to nurse so I had to keep pumping and give her a bottle.  When we came back to New Mexico she changed her mind and decided she hated bottles and only wanted to nurse. That silly girl! 



Carly loves Trever and Trever loves Carly.  He would pick her up, talk to her, make her smile, etc.
One day I was upstairs talking to my mom and Carly was sleeping downstairs in our room.  All of a sudden I hear Carly crying and her cry is getting closer and closer to me.  I went to see how that was happening and there Trever was bringing her up the stairs!  Ahhh!  He told me she was crying so he went and got her.  Trever doesn't have the best balance especially going up stairs and Carly wasn't very good at holding herself up yet.  It was one of those things that I laughed about because it was over and they both survived without any trouble.  My mom and I just decided that we would have to keep a closer eye on that!  Haha!  Trever is such a stud!

Just cute, plain cute!



Cousin Claire with Carly!  Look at that cute face!