Everleigh's Professional 6 Month Photo Session

As many of you already know... there's not a day that goes by without this momma taking a picture or two...or a few dozen of our sweet baby bear.  It's almost nearly impossible.  With phone cameras taking such great pictures these days, it's hard NOT to take a million pictures of our everyday life...and with my goal of at least taking one picture a day (to eventually make a 365 day photo collage of her first year).. this mom is on a photography MISSION!  ;)  

I'm sure that the longing to capture her every grin...her sweet baby rolls (the squishy leggie kind).. or her every new accomplishment will fade (eventually... like in five to ten years perhaps..) but for now, Miss Everleigh is leading a VERY WELL DOCUMENTED LIFE.  

So in addition to the monthly photos that I personally take of her with her gold letter "E", or the daily photos that I Instagram for her 365daysofeverleigh project... we decided to enlist my good friend Shannon of Shannon Skloss Photography to properly commemorate her 6th month birthday!  Seemed only fitting since she so brilliantly captured her itty, bitty newborn goodness just EIGHT days after she was born!  (See her newborn photos HERE)  Crazy how that seemed like just yesterday... And to see behind the scenes photos of that first session... click HERE)

So without further ado.. (Some teaser pictures.. cause Shannon says THERE'S MORE!!! YEAH!!!)  

Everleigh, Isabella Kelley at exactly SIX months!  :)  

Two of my absolute FAVORITES of her sweet face.  Classic Everleigh faces right here..

Everleigh Isabella Kelley - 6 Months and Counting

Everleigh’s Monthly Photos:  This mommy's attempt to capture our Baby Bear's growth in relation to her “Letter E"... Continued. 

I really AM having a hard time comprehending this whole six month thing.  HALF a year?!  Already!?  It really, truly CAN. NOT. BE!  Wasn't I just here posting her 5 month photos??  Hell, weren't we just in the hospital patiently waiting for her arrival?  Funny how those 24 hours in the hospital waiting for the Petocin to kick in, felt like an eternity... now, six months later, everything has gone by SOOOO incredibly FAST.  Makes me sad really.  Yesterday, as I was looking to clear out some photos/videos from my phone... cause I'm running out of photo space (SHOCKER, right..?? lol..), I nearly choked up when I played some videos from her first few weeks at home.  She was sooooo TINY!! Not so much anymore! Hehehehe.. my little chunky monkey is certainly filling out :)  Just like her momma ;)  No WONDER more people are starting to say she's looking more like me?!  Those CHEEKS!! Those THIGHS!!  Squishy little fingers and toes.. I absolutely LOVE IT... and more importantly..I absolutely LOVE HER!  

Happy 6 Months Sweet Baby Bear, mommy and daddy couldn't have imagined how wonderfully HAPPY you've made us :) :)  

Everleigh's New Milestones - Month 5

In an effort to keep up with the many milestones that our little bear has HURDLED over these past few weeks... (because this mommy doesn't even know where Everleigh's baby book even IS... yikes, bad mommy ;)  Here's a list of her most recent accomplishments. 

Holding her own bottle (she's got the 4ouncer down pat... she still needs a bit of help with the 8oz monster bottle though...)  It's amazing how quickly she picked up this little trick.  She's been "trying" to hold her bottle for a while now.. she's just now mastered it without any help at all.. even taking it out and putting it back in her mouth on her own.  What a big girl!!

Reaching for MOMMY and DADDY!!  - I'm putting this in here because I want to remember the first time she actually reached out with INTENT.  She doesn't always do it yet, but I've gotten a few and that's all it takes to make this mommy's heart melt. 

TEETH - She's technically been teething since week 8, when the drool began and her fist almost never left her mouth.  Anything and everything that she could chew on, went straight to her mouth...but on Week 24 (March 12th) her first bottom tooth finally broke through!! SUCCESS!!  The very next day, it's neighbor tooth joined the party and showed it's pearly whites!  :)  Two teeth in two days.. I'd call that a productive week for sure! 

If you look closely, you can see her bottom two TEETH starting to pop up!

Raarrrrr... Anything and everything that can go into her mouth...

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling - The day after she cut her first tooth, and the day she got her SECOND tooth, she also finally ROLLED OVER!!  It was almost too much for this mommy to take.. she seems to be growing, learning and changing so quickly, but I couldn't be more PROUD of my little wiggle worm.  Once she learned how to tuck and roll over that stubborn shoulder that always seemed to be in the way, there was ABSOLUTELY no stopping her. 

Someone SURE IS proud of herself and her new found ability to roll over!  :) 

SUSHI!!! - Just kidding.. no sushi yet, we just love the intense look of concentration on Everleigh's face as she tried to take in all the foodie goodness on one of our most recent visits to our favorite sushi restaurant. One day Little Bear, one day. ;)

And just because my heart skips a beat every time we can succesffuly make Everleigh giggle, here's Everleigh and her daddy being silly goobers. Unfortunatley it's audio only, it was dark in her nursery room and I was afraid a huge light in her face would distract the fun. :) :)  

St. Patty's Day @ The Dallas Zoo

As we try to figure out the limits of our good-natured daughter...seeing just how long she'll smile before a total meltdown ensues because we've reached our limit o' fun...I was particularly nervous about this outing to the Dallas Zoo.  Would Everleigh cooperate and happily stay in her stroller?  Would she meltdown mid-fun because she was too tired to play nice any longer?  We figured we wouldn't know unless we tried so we met up with Everleigh's Aunt Christy and cousins Logan and Kenzie and spent St. Patty's Day enjoying the beautiful weather and a very happy and interested baby.  Whewww!!  Cross that attraction off our list for a while.. at least til Everleigh's like 2 or 3 ;) 

We were so glad to take advantage of the gorgeous weather before the typical Texas triple digits rolled into town... and EVEN MORE glad to have an exhausted baby that fell asleep easily on her own that night.  :) 

As always.. our photos tell our story here.  :) 

Cousins - Kenzie, Logan and Everleigh Kelley

  

Oh yeah this is typical Daddy silliness right here.. lol.. :)

Someone looks TIRED!!  :)

Everleigh Isabella Kelley - 5 Months and Counting

Everleigh’s Monthly Photos:  This mommy's attempt to capture our Baby Bear's growth in relation to her “Letter E"... Continued. 

You would never be able to tell just by looking at these pictures that this sweet, smiling baby girl was dealing with a NASTY case of the sniffles.  And congestion.  And coughing.  It’s almost WORSE that way for me though.  She’s so happy and sweet BUT can’t BREATHE and has trouble falling into a deep sleep at night.. tossing and turning.. thrashing her legs and arms and never fully getting the rest she needs.  Poor thing.  This mommy feels so bad for her.  We’ve tried everything.  Motrin for the slightly elevated fever… An air purifier in her room in case it’s allergy related.. Vicks Plug Ins…the DREADED bulb syringe thingy that Everleigh (like most kids, I’m sure) HATES!  These parentals are running out of options here!!  I know there’s not much else to do but wait and let it run its course… but, I’m OVER IT!  Boogers BE. GONE! 

I am glad though that this sniffle business didn’t hinder our 5 month photo session this week.  A couple days late (but who’s really counting), here’s my sweet Baby Bear at just a smidge past five months, as sweet as ever.  And of course because I can’t pick JUST ONE… 

(To see her past monthly photos...click HERE or... HERE or...HERE)

Well...what you doin' up there Mommy?!?!

By the end of our "shoot" she had wriggled her way down the chair to her baby yoga position.  lol.. 

Silly Bear :) :)