#CCC_Orange

I really liked how this month turned out. The red/orange rock and sand in St. George really helped provide many orange photos for me. The sunset photo I had to take with my phone cuz I didn't have my DSLR with me at the time, but it was just beautiful. :) I didn't have a shortage of photos at the end of the month like I originally thought I would. :) 

Amber's Birthday

I had a lovely birthday. :) Claire and Everett both made decorations and cards for me. Scott made breakfast for me. We had church upstairs and I got to see many of my sisters on a family chat that afternoon. They all sang to me from a far, that was fun. :) I played games and Scott made a wonderful dinner and an even cooler ice cream cake! He's getting good at those. :) It was great! 

Scott's Birthday

For Scott's birthday this year, we went and got donuts at Krispy Kreme (they were doing one free donut for everyone everyday that week). We took them to the splash pad and enjoyed the morning eating donuts and playing in the water (except for Caleb, who refused to play in the water and just wanted to play on the playground). Afterwards, we came home for a lunch/work/quiet time. I made a space force cake for Scott since he's on the Space Force team for UTFL. Then, we got pizza and celebrated Scott's birthday more with cake and ice-cream. Claire made a poster for him that describes him so well. :) 

#CCC_Purple

I do not have a lot of purple around my house, so this month was a little harder to come up with enough photos for my grid and I used a few from the same photo ops. My plum photo got featured on the color chase challenge Instagram feed so that was pretty cool. :) We have so many plums from the kids school lunches (we've been picking up free lunches from the school since the virus started) so I knew I needed to try and photograph them for purple. I tried once and didn't like how any of my images turned out so after some Pinterest searches on how to photograph fruit, I tried again and I liked my results so much better!

Yellow Phase Bryson Party

After being in a red phase since mid March, our state announced that we could enter an orange phase at the beginning of the month of May and then we moved to yellow phase mid May. This meant we could be in groups of about 50. Scott's brother Kyle invited us up to Ogden to his home for a family get together and for a much needed break from social distancing. :) We enjoyed a day of playing games including backgammon and ladder ball. We had hamburgers and hot dogs chips and special drinks (orange slushies). Kids ran around playing and jumping rope and riding bikes and were thrilled to be among their cousins. And then we ended the day with cotton candy! The older Bryson cousins brought their cotton candy machine from their job and showed us their fun skills of creating cotton candy animals. It was so much fun and it was good medicine for us all. :)

 

Caleb's first time trying cotton candy. He wasn't sure how to eat it at first and tried licking it. So funny. :P

#CCC_Pink

Hailey and Claire were the spotlights for my pink month. :) I took a lot of photos of flowers from the pink blossom tree in our neighbors yard but they just don't mean as much to me so I didn't include them in my grid this month. Sometimes I take so many pink photos I have a hard time narrowing down the ones that I love the most. This was one of those months. I also tried to only include one from each photoshoot moment so I get more of a variety of photos cuz the egg photo doesn't mean much to me, but I did like it the most out of all the egg photos I took. And there were several photos of Hailey's lips that I love, but I just chose my favorite. :P 

6 Months - Hailey

1. Our baby girl is already 6 months old - time is flying!

2. She weighs 16 pounds, 15 and a half ounces, and is in the 67th percentile.

3. Hailey is 26 inches and in the 55th percentile. :)

4. Hailey is getting so much more smiley and talkative. I love when she starts talking her gibberish baby language. She's so calm and talks to me like I know what she's saying. :) And she has this really cute shy smile, when she's looking at someone and then turns her head into me with a huge grin on her face - like she's trying to hide it. :)

5. She still doesn't nap or sleep well unless she's being held by me. I've tried a little bit of sleep training and letting her cry it out in small increments. She seems to start getting it and sleeping, but then she'll get sick or something which messes it all up. I've tried nursing her until she's almost asleep and then laying her down, and I've tried swaddling her awake, nursing her, and then laying her down. I've tried it all, but she just loves to be held. And she sleeps right next to me at night still, which I'm good with, I just need her to fall asleep earlier without me so I have a little alone time with daddy. :p

6. Hailey is pretty mobile. She is rolling both ways all over the place. She continues to do her unique back arch move which pushes her towards where she wants to go on her head. :) She's even starting to scoot a tiny bit. It's still kind of a side roll and then forward roll back, but it's a scoot. She's sitting a little on her own, but I just started trying to get her to sit up so she hasn't had a ton of practice. She sits pretty well for a couple seconds though before falling over.

7. She tends to smack us around a bit. She just waves her arm around over and over and hits us playfully. She'll grab at our faces and my hair. Of course everything she grabs into her fingers always goes directly to her mouth, like my hair. :)

8. I started introducing a few foods to her at 5 and a half months. She started with bananas, then apples, then carrots. I think she liked the apples the best. But after getting shots earlier this week and having to take medicine, she doesn't like being fed at all lately. :p

9. She is still very much a momma's girl. She enjoys watching others and smiling from the safety of momma's arms. I hand her off to others occasionally and depending on who it is, she's okay for a little bit, but her eyes goes straight to me and she stares me down like telling me with her eyes that I better come take her before she starts screaming. :p It feels good being loved and I hope that as she grows and leaves my side more and more, she'll continue to want to come back to me. :)

10. She now has spent a sixth of her life stuck at home during a pandemic and only being with our family. She already had a little stranger danger, so I'm wondering if this quarantine time will cause more anxiety when she finally is around others... Seth still smothers her with kisses and hugs and loves to crawl on top of her when she's rolling around on the ground. She handles it okay, but I can tell when she gets tired of him. She does love his attention though. She also loves to smile at Caleb and Everett and Claire. Everett and Claire just smile at her in return. Caleb is getting better. He's either jealous or saying how cute she is. The other day he even said he loved Hailey, so he's definitely getting better. He does need his cuddles from mommy too though, and when I'm busy with Hailey he gets upset, but he's getting upset less and less. :) We love our 6 month baby girl!