Clearly, I have taken QUITE a break from blogging. We captured every week of my pregnancy with Colbie, noting the feelings, the joys and the not so fun parts of being pregnant. My most recent post included a newborn photo of sweet baby Colbie, all her stats and my birth story. Since then we have been….. a LITTLE busy.

While I am now writing this almost 21 months after my last post it is titled 7 months later due to the big surprise we received when Colbie was 7 months old. Most of you are very aware of our big surprise, but to appropriately (well, at least vaguely) document those 1st 7 months of Colbie’s life I wanted to include some pictures and updates before we get to our surprise. 😉

Those first several months were filled with tears of joy, tears of “oh my God, how do people do this parenting thing”, and tears of sleepless nights, but really and truly mostly just lots of love and wonder that this tiny human is ours to take care of and love.

Here’s the fastest update you’ve ever seen:
(see our monthly update pictures for even more of the fun!)

Colbie…

*Has been smiling since 2 months old- such a happy baby!
*Has been LOUD since 3 months old when she found her voice- grunts, noises, squals, and now lots and lots of baby talking
*Is such a thumb sucker
*Has always been a BIG eater- started solids at 6 months and eats with loud sounds of joy and will eat just about ANYTHING
*Started crawling just after 7 months and life changed forever 🙂
*Started getting teeth at 9 months and they all started coming at once. Had a full mouth of teeth (minus her back molars) by 12 months

Now to the big surprise that is not such a surprise anymore! At just 7 months old Colbie found out she was going to be a big sister and mommy & daddy found out life was about to get a whole lot crazier, a whole lot tougher and a whole lot more fun! Not only did I find out I was pregnant, I found out I was pregnant with TWINS! What the what!? That story will be for another day.

 

In the posts to follow I hope to get caught up to current day and continue to track the fun and challenges our family experiences day to day.