Everything Really Does Fit in a Diaper Bag!

Look what we found in our diaper bag!

Tasmanian Varrah

Varrah is just over 7 1/2 months and is crawling all over the place. She is getting into everything she can reach and keeping us on our toes. She loves to stand up and hold onto the ottoman and coffee table; of course if there is anything on either of them, she will pull it off.

A few times now we have seen her standing on her own, making us think that walking isn't too far off now. If keeping up with her crawling is this hard, I can't imagine the kind of energy we will need to keep up with her walking.

Crib Fun

We had to lower Varrah's crib since she decided to try standing by pulling herself up on her crib rails for the first time the other night.

Busy Girl

Varrah learned how to crawl just a couple days after she turned 7 months. Grandma Skrove says that our lives will never be the same again. She is pretty busy, mostly going after things that she shouldn't. Her hands are very grabby. Here are some random pictures....

Parents Magazine Cover - Vote for Me!

Hi everybody, please check out Varrah on Parents.com. She is entered in the Magazine Cover Contest and needs your votes! We just thought it would be fun to see what would happen if we entered her in the contest...probably nothing but its worth a shot.

We left the first comment, now its your turn :) Make sure to rate and recommend each picture if you would like to see her on the cover of Parents.

http://www.parents.com/app/sharemy/photoDetails.jsp?photoId=179800241&fromSearch=true

Newest Accomplishments

Varrah just started sitting up on her own this week. She can sit all the way up...and stay sitting up from a laying position. It happened just like that. I had Varrah playing in the living room early this week, I walk out of the living room to run to the kitchen for a minute and when I came back to her, she was sitting up playing with her toys! Varrah also gets into the crawling position and doesn't do much. Sometimes she will crawl backwards...well, more of a scoot backwards or she will just lay back down. We think she is getting close though!

Summer Dress

Photos by Krista...

Thanks Krista! These turned out so great...you are very talanted!

Six Months Old!!

Varrah's personality is showing itself more and more each day. She just had her 6 month appointment. She weighs 14 lbs. 4 oz. Her 2 bottom teeth are almost all the way in and she is more smiley than ever.

Baby Tiger

Varrah Started making a growling sound about a week ago and she thinks its so much fun to do. We call it her baby tiger growl. We think it is pretty funny so we thought we would share it with you all. Sorry the video is so long, we couldn't shorten it and the video quality is pretty poor since it was taken on my cell phone. Her "growl" sounds a lot more realistic in person ;)

Forget the Sippy Cup....Give Me a Water Bottle!!!

The first time we jokingly put a water bottle up to Varrah's mouth, she drank out of it like she knew what she was doing. We have no idea how she figured out how to drink normally from a water bottle without us teaching her especially since she has never even drank from a sippy cup...only the occasional baby bottle. But now she wants to drink out of our water bottles all the time and gets upset when we take them away from her.

In Loving Memory of My Dad

My father passed away last Saturday the 12th of April at home and in peace after a long and courageous 7 year battle with cancer . This is the last picture that was taken of him. It was a good day for him the day the picture was taken and it is one of the only pictures we have of him with his first granddaughter. We will miss him dearly!

Varrah's Best Girl Friend

Varrah got to meet her beautiful little one month old friend Talulah this weekend when we stayed with Amanda and Tyler in Madison. They are already dressing alike :)

Hiding

Cuddle Time

Varrah's Great Aunt Chris made this beautiful and soft blanket for her and Varrah loves to snuggle up with it in her crib.

5 Months Old!!

Laughs & Squeals!!

Rolling Around

This is for Great Aunt Chris...enjoy!

Sometimes we forget how little she actually is :)

Growing So Fast!

First Rice Cereal Meal

Varrah's pediatrician recommended feeding her rice cereal a couple times a day to help with her spit-up issue. So we decided to try it and like everyone always says, it was a MESSY experience. The rice cereal was all over her face, hands, clothes and it ran down her shirt onto her belly. It's a good thing the bib she was wearing did its job :).

4 Months Old

Varrah is 4 months old now. She had her 4 month check-up the other day and she weighs 12 lbs. 4 oz. Her favorite thing to do now is roll over onto her tummy. We can hardly keep her on her back. She laughs at her daddy really hard when he calls her stinky. She is more and more fun every day and it has been a lot of fun to see some of her personality come through.

Varrah's Best Boy Friend

Hazen and Varrah are so cute together!

Our Mom and Baby Class

Varrah and I have been going to a mom and baby class for a few weeks now. We have fun meeting with other new moms and their babies and talking about new baby issues etc. For me, it is just fun to get out of the house during the day with Varrah and meet with other moms going through some of the same things. In class this week, we put all of our babies together for a photo opp. some of the babies were just not having it. Varrah was the only one looking at the camera for all of the pictures the moms took. I think Auntie Krista would be proud.

3 Month Old Picture

Varrah's Baptism

Varrah was baptized this last Sunday and Krista's friend Carlton who is a professional photographer was there to capture the event. We were VERY thankful to have him there, all of the pictures turned out so wonderfully. We will post more pictures as we get them.

Big Hat

We bought this cute hat for Varrah a month ago and she still has not grown into it. It is a 0-6 month hat and we are still waiting. Ohh well, we make her wear it anyways...it is cold outside! Sometimes when we are out driving around, she will make little grunts from her car seat because the hat fell down over her eyes and she can't see.

The Start of Varrah's First Laughs

A Second First!

I saw Varrah concentrate really hard and grasp a toy hanging from her floor play mat yesterday. She seemed to be pretty excited about it too, because for the rest of the night she was grabbing onto whatever she could....my hair, my cell phone, a rattle, a teething ring etc.
Secondly, David discovered that she finally took notice of the pink bear sitting on a shelf above her changing table. Varrah kept staring at this bear last night, so David took it down for her to play with and Varrah gave it a big hug. I took pictures of her with her teddy bear since this was really the first time she has interacted with any of her toys.