8 Months

Camilla Jane turns 8 months old in the morning, and I wanted to put up a few pictures. I took these a couple days ago thinking I would do a tiny 8 month photo shoot with her, but between the fact that I still have a pretty AWFUL camera and the fact that she makes her sister look comatose in comparison with the busy bee that she is...they didn't turn out like I'd planned. But that's okay, one of my goals this year is to put off my desire for perfection in simple things, they eat at my time and happiness and quite simply, they can't be helped. :) SO....without further ado, pictures with Baby Jane

One of my favorite things about the current stage she is in has got to be her fascination with her sister. Camilla Jane LOVES Gracie (although Grace is still a little wary of her hair pulling, face exploring little sibling), and she gets so excited when she is in the room. The other night after Grace was tucked in bed and Camilla Jane was playing in the living room, Grace got upset about something and started crying and yelling from her bedroom. Camilla Jane immediately started looking around concerned about the welfare of her screaming sister and took off looking for her. She crawled and followed the sound all the way to Grace's bedroom door and then actually managed to push it open by standing up and leaning on it. Grace was of course startled that her door was suddenly open when she couldn't see the means of doing so and stopped crying long enough to start yammering, "whose opening my door?! Whose dare?!" Camilla Jane crawled all the way in, over to Grace's bed, pulled herself up along the side and then cooed and cooed at her sister so excited to have found her. Craig, who was watching them at the time, gave them a couple of minutes to play together and then went in and put Grace back to sleep, taking the stow away out again. I love love watching them interact.

She crawls so fast now it was difficult to get ahead of her fast enough to take a photo. 

All in all I took about 50 photos, most of them blurry. lol We played for about an hour though and she thoroughly enjoyed herself...  

And tired out her Mama...

I finally decided that if coming to her wasn't working maybe she would come to me, so I laid down in the middle of the floor and sure enough, she finally got worn out enough to come and see me for some VERY sweet cuddling before she scampered off again of course.

It was so precious while it lasted.

Happy 8 months Baby Jane, your family sure loves you!

To New Beginnings!!

Wow! So much has happened since my last post! I was pregnant and then BAM, I now have an adorable chubby cherub named Camilla Jane Taylor

and next week, we will be ringing in the New Year for 2015! I could make this a catch up post about how busy we've been, and how crazy Camilla Jane's birth was, followed by an unexpected medical surgery for my husband, followed by him working nights, followed by Camilla Jane having read my last blog post about the CIO method of parenting, followed by her making me eat crow with lots of things IN that post followed by the fact that she still wakes up to be fed 3 or 4 times a night, but I WON'T. 

 I think I'll just start fresh and say that I've decided that this is a good time to blog. I sit here on December 27 looking at my beautiful Christmas tree, my biggest little one climbing her father like he's a Maple tree while the other one, who now looks like this when she's clean...

crawls around looking for leftover bits of wrapping paper and pine needles to eat. Oh the fun we've had in 2014, but oh the PEACE and QUIET that I hope 2015 has in store. Husband just started a new job which will have him working an 8:00am-5:00pm position which has us both tickled to death, the girls are getting SO big it thrills and kills me all at the same time and I am excited for lots of new changes coming my way in the form of personal improvements. The New year is coming at a wonderful time for me this year. Up until now our life has been a bit of a sink or swim kind of escapade, but I see a light at the end of a rather stressful (although not without its moments) tunnel, and I am excited to continue on with some things for ME. I have hope of a little more sleep, a little more cleaning and organizing, a little more healthy food and exercise, hopefully some good reading, a little blogging, a larger amount of time with my main man and a lot more fun in the world of having two little bright eyed, wonderful, miraculous baby girls! So Happy Early 2015 everyone, and welcome to the new addition of what I think will turn into a little bit of a lifestyle blog. 

Cheers! 

And if we missed you at Christmas, Happy Holiday season from the Taylor Family!