Haidyn 5 Months!

LENGTH: 25 inches

LIKES: 

-Eating her new foods! She loves sweet potatoes and bananas.
-Putting EVERYTHING in her mouth ( I know it won't be the end of this...)
-Giving kisses. She will grab your face to give you a kiss,
-Looking at herself in the mirror. She'll talk to herself. (Conceited little thing ;) )
-Waking up Daddy up on the weekends. She will talk and scratch him until he wake up.
-Trying to crawl. She will kick her legs so hard!
-Trying to feed herself.

DISLIKES: 

-Bedtime. She will cry and whine as soon as we lay her down for bed. She gets sad that she's not up with us.
-Sitting in a high chair. She wants to sit with everyone else.
-Hearing the blender when Mommy makes her rice cereal.
-Trying to crawl. She's so mad that she can't crawl haha!
-Sitting in her Bumbo properly, she has to be turned to the side in it. Don't ask me how she does it, she just does.

MILESTONES: 

-ROLLING OVER!!! I was jumping and screaming when she did it.
-Playing with her feet
-Blowing raspberries at everyone.
-Waving toys around

EVENTS:

-The Great Reno Balloon Race
-Hiking Mount Rose w/ family
-Meeting cousins!
-Rib Cook-off
-Tseya's 10th bday!
-Eating fruits/veggies
-Second visit at Arrow!

Month 4 Favorites!

Another round of favorites! Haidyn is becoming more and more active, Her favorite things are the things that right now she be without. 

1. Skip Hop Activity Mat- She loves to explore the mat while she's on her tummy or if she's just laying there. The mat is great at keeping her entertained. 
2. Avent 9oz bottles- Now that she's beginning to eat more we had to ditch the 4 oz bottle and upgrade to a bottle that can hold more. We chose the Avent because of the design of the nipple ( what she's use to) and because she can easily hold the bottle alone. 
3. Bumbo seat w/Tray- She's trying to learn how to sit and to eat solid foods, so this seat duo helped us tons. Without the tray she could sit on the counter, table or the floor to hang out and just explore/Facetime with Uncle Jon. She really enjoys finding her feet too! With the tray, we put toys in front of her so that she can play with them or use it as a high chair for her to eat. 
4. Lamaze Dinosaur- She's a sucker for anything that will hang and dangle in her car seat or stroller. We named our little dinosaur Reptar! We chose it because of all the activities that can be done with him, plus she loves his tail. 
5. First Stars Cookbook- She will not go anywhere without this cookbook. She is very attached to it because of the noisey material of the book and the teethers on it.  It is really cute that she has to "read it" everyday. Waymon teases her that she better be good at cooking the foods in there because she reads it everyday . 
6. Activity Balls- Once you lay her on the floor she will go through great lengths to find this toy. I think it's because of all the bright colors. It's such a simple toy that she loves. 
7. Skip Hop Stroller Organizer- This one is for me. :) Since my stroller didn't come with an attachment like this I had to buy one. It wasn't a downside of the stroller at all. Britax does carry this organizer, but I liked Skip Hop's better. There is so much room in it that I don't know what to do with it all. 
8. Ergo Baby Carrier- This was given to us by my cousin Ellie. We don't go out without this carrier. It has space for all of my things and holds babies up to 30 lbs facing you! 

Week in Pictures: The Great Balloon Race

I've lived in Nevada for 12 years now and I've never been to the Balloon Races, until today. I can't tell you why I haven't, but I know that I'm so glad that I got to share my first time with baby girl this morning. I now understand why people go crazy for this even year after year.

We woke up this morning at 3:00 am to get ready and get the car packed to go. I felt awful waking Haidyn up at 3:50 am, but she was surprisingly willing to get up easy. She had no complaints as if she knew exactly where we were going. ( I love that she's a morning person - like me!) We bundled her up and headed out with Stacy to get to Rancho San Rafael Park before 4:30 am. 

Haidyn was thrilled to hear everyone cheering, the music and the count down for the Glow Show. We each picked our favorite balloon while Haidyn did some cheering herself.

Next, Dawn Patrol lit up the beautiful Nevada skies. Haidyn at this point was tuckered out to even care about the lights. I, on the other hand, was too excited at this point for all the balloons to keep still. Thank you 3:00 am coffee! 

We were told that the other balloons weren't going to be up until 7:00 am, so we waited around until we got kicked out of our spot by the volunteers. Damn you chili pepper balloon!

 Getting kicked out of our spot allowed us to enjoy all of the other balloons up close and personal.

We also met "High Kitty". Haidyn was awake for this and she couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the giant cat. She also didn't mind seeing all of the other colorful balloons fly up. 

We missed Darth Vader ( Waymon's balloon choice), but we did see him fly up! That balloon by the way is ridiculously cool.  

Waymon and Stace posed up together like they liked each other.  

Two seconds later, we were playing selfie queens with our favorite balloon of the day. :)

We checked out the little tents around the venue. Our favorite was watching all of the little kids roll around in giant bubbles. haha Oh man, I could watch them all day.

We headed out of the park around 9:00 am to head home. Now, our first Balloon Race is in the books! I can't wait for next year.