april with the hagerman's

 when we got home from california we started giving prim rice cereal! she was 4.5 months old at the time. our doctor recommended giving her rice cereal at 3.5 months hoping it would help with her reflux, but we decided to wait another month. she was really into it!

 

 katie sent me pictures from when i was a babe and i think these two look like our little angel! we have a picture of jonathan making a face that she makes too!
on april 7th, prim rolled onto her belly then over onto her back at ashton's. i didn't even see the whole thing happen!! that day we left her house and bought a pregnancy test that came up positive! 

 i was still working a couple hours a day for the lady in our neighborhood. i'd hold primrose until she fell asleep in my lap and i loved it. i'd feel her upper half slowly get heavier and drape over my arm. the lady i worked for always said i was training her to not be independent but i didn't care.

 texans take their state flower very seriously. we were walking around daddy's campus when we saw that whoever mowed the lawn mowed around this tiny patch of blue bonnets.

 date night! john and kathy took us to the tejas rodeo while cassidy watched primmy! we missed her, but knew she and cassidy were having fun. the rodeo was a blast and the steak they sell there?? what dreams are made of.

 cutest little thing.

 here she is at almost 5 months old, sitting up like a big girl! 

five months old sitting among the wild flowers.
this is when we started giving her baby food. her first was peas and she seriously loved them.

 first time swimming! we came to this pool all the time last summer while i was pregnant, it was so much fun to be able to take a little baby with us. she fussed a little bit when we first put her in because it was chilly, but she got happy and enjoyed it! such a water baby.

a lot of firsts happening around here: using her little seat thing at the grocery store! now that she was sitting up pretty confidently i figured it was a good time and she agreed.

 (little dress jon picked out for her the week before she was born)

 springtime/early summer is so nice here. it just rains and rains and rains, and not just drizzly rain. we are on the third floor so although the wind makes us feel like we are going to fly away like she does on the wizard of oz, the rain on the roof is so pleasant. 

 see what i mean? so green and beautiful.

prim at her hometown monument.

i sang "it's food time" to Prim and she hated it. i recorded this video to send to my family and they died laughing. sooo sad.

 hehe, here she is with aurora (ashton and aaron's babe). they are four months apart. i made that afghan for her and it is so thick that it's actually more like a play mat! ha!

 we take walks almost every morning, clearly she loves it.

 remind you of anyone?

 hey i turned 27! kathy made my favorite: chicken pot pie!

 blue ring from grandma mitchell and arrow from jon and prim. 

 birthday photo. 

Dallas + february

around january/february prim started to get fussy around 6pm until she went to bed. she would cry if anyone but me would hold her. my theory is that from birth until then so many people had held her for me that she just wanted to be with her mommy. at either her 2 or 4 month appointment we talked to her doctor about it and she recommended we start putting her to bed earlier because maybe that's all she wanted. we started putting her down at 8 instead of 9 and it really did help!

we went to dallas the first week of february to visit john and kat before they moved to arizona for the summer.

 this is a no judgement zone everybody. prim loves to fall asleep like this. she will fuss and fuss until we put a blanket over her face and she'll go right to sleep.

aw two bald babies. while kat stayed home and watched the babe, the three of us went to hot yoga. it was so hard....and hot :)

 stephanie and thad had a ball to attend so they stayed in a hotel and we (kat mostly) watched their kids. steph kept her eyes peeled for a bloom highchair for sale and found us one! much to our delight, she gifted it to us!!!!!! she is so sweet.

 i can't remember why i took this photo, i think it was chuy's? whatever it was, it was yummy. steph and thad live in downtown dallas so they're in walking distance to everything.

 we were up there over Super Bowl weekend. we had been inside all day and i finally talked them into going geocaching for fresh air! jon, thad and i with primmy went along this little walkway to find some caches which we actually never found. it was lined with bamboo! it was so cool, we could hear it growing.......

 i rarely ever offer to people "do you want to hold the baby", usually because i don't think about it and i guess i figure they'll ask if they want to. thad asked to hold her so many times on sunday and was sooo cute with her. she was still in her fussy state but she was really happy with him. i love when men love babies.
the weekend as a whole was tons of fun! we love spending time with john and kat and our recent reuniting with stephanie+thad+babies has been awesome.

 

 this is prim's new thing. yowtch!!!

 doesn't this look like a professional photo? i worked with cassidy at pure posh and she was actually the first friend i told that we were expecting. she totally guessed it "you're eating AGAIN?? why are you so hungry..???" prim loves miss keke!

 life on the farm. john and kathy killing our roosters for sunday lunch.

 prim and i went to a baby shower for THREE pure posh ladies. she was so fussy most of the night but loved miss andrea so much (can't you tell? haha)

 such a cuddly little baby. she would fall asleep on me like this almost every night.

 little neck!!!!!!!

i took this photo for my sisters and when i looked at it, it was clear she had a receding hairline and a bob.

 we walked along the river walk and found these beautiful art pieces! who knew!

 our neighbors cowwies had three babies!!!!! she invited me over the night one was born so i could just take it in, and i did. i really did.

 

 we promote independence and fresh air. ;)

 our valentines day baby in the shirt from papa! we went out to dinner and took the babe and each took turns standing and holding her while the other ate. true romance.

so much mail!!!!

 this sick thing always finds the worst places to lay, poor neglected kitty.

 this is the first time i wore her facing out and i think she dug it. look at her little ears. the weather was starting to get nice, so we were spending more and more time outside.

 my favorite jammies.

 we took primrose to the san antonio rodeo in her little cowgirl outfit from mike and kim! people couldn't help but stare at her with those headphones on, haha. the vibrating of the speakers put her right to sleep and she slept through most of it.

 this is the only time she liked this swing. waste of money.

 our pretty water baby.

and the piece de resistance of the month, her passport came in the mail! i can't!! she is such a doll.
we have no international travel plans yet, but my passport was expiring so jon and i both got new ones and we got the baby one just. in. case.