Chad, Mikey & Scotlynn: My perfect baby!

How did we get so lucky with our miss Scotlynn? I seriously ask myself this all the time. I think we have the best baby ever born. Before Scoti was born I read all the books and was determined to go by the books and have the perfect baby. I did get the perfect baby but I honestly never did anything the books ever said to. I would nurse her to sleep, have her sleep with us, let her sleep whenever she wants, no schedule whatsoever, bounced her to bed, like all the things they say not to do. And I still do that. She has no set naptime, no set bed time and 99% of the time she is boss and gets whatever she wants. But here’s the thing, she started sleeping through the night at 7 weeks. Like 10 straight hours! With all the moves we lost it for a little bit but by lost I mean she would wake up once and I’d give her a binky and she’d go back to bed. We now have the 10 plus straight hours back and I don’t know how. We get at least two great naps a day and those are her rubbing her eyes, I give her a binky and bounce her, she falls asleep, binky comes out, she is out! Well I honestly never imagined it every getting any better. I did have one problem that was all my fault and it was that she could not go to bed unless I bounced her to bed. Well check it out. All this week when I would bounce her she would try and push away from me, so I started just putting her down in her crib and what do ya know. This chick now just goes to bed by herself! Am I the luckiest mother in the world? I think yes! I honestly think she has been so perfect in almost every way that I am fearful to ever have kid number two. I just know there is no way of getting two this way. Number two isn’t for awhile though so ill stop worrying about that.

Well Scoti is 7 ½ months old. She is getting such a personality and I love it soo much! This last week we learned to wave and clap. Like the cutest waves ever guys! I have a few videos I tried sending my family but I swear I pull out my phone and try and capture the little things she does and she just stops. Little bum bum! I’m going to get some good videos and post them though. A few other things about Scoti….

-Loves loves graduates lil crunchies

-Learning to use her sippy all by herself

-She says dadadadadadadadadada all day long. (chad thinks she is saying dad, I’m certain its just a noise she can make)

-She can feed herself with her hands

-She will try to let go of things when she is standing but falls

-Walking along everything!

-If she puts something in her mouth or secretly makes it into the bathroom or something she isn’t suppose to do and I say her name and start going after her she puts her head down and starts crawling so fast and laughs. I love it!

-We are working on kisses.

I am sure there are lots of other updates but I can’t think of them. I am so excited for this week though. My little Sister Bay Ray is coming to visit on Tuesday! I am so excited for a visitor and for the help she will be on our flight home. Hopefully she still loves Scoti after being in a hotel with her for a week. Haha

This last week Chad beat his best week and got 17! I was so happy and proud of him! He has gotten 15 multiple times but couldn’t get over that hump. I think he is at 184 and will have that 200 accomplished in no time.

Scoti, Bay and myself will fly out of Nashville a week from tomorrow. It is so crazy the summer is practically over. It seems like the longest summer ever but then fastest at the same time. Weird how that works.

The best part about me going home next Monday though is Chad will be home not even a week after. I can’t wait till we can be back in St George and spend lots of time together. Who knows when they will actually be though since we have no place we are going back to… Hopefully us buying a townhome works out and we can be in a place shortly..

Well really nothing else to say.. Chads office is the number one office right now in Vivint and is in the competition for the Cup. It’s getting pretty crazy and I pretty much never see my husband. Hopefully they win though and Chad finishes these last couple weeks strong.

Can’t wait to be back in Utah, a Vegas trip with my family and hopefully finding a place to live. Cross your fingers for us!