6 Month Madness

Well, Piper has now reached the ripe age of 6 months. Let me first start off by saying "WOW, time sure does fly when you're having fun!". I can't believe that she's already 6 months old. It seems just like yesterday that she was just born. I can truely say that motherhoold really suits me. I look good covered in greenbeans....HAHAHAHA! Well, Piper loves to eat Barley cereal in the morning, greenbeans for lunch, and greenbeans for dinner. That is all the girl ever wants to eat. I have to mix EVERYTHING with greenbeans just to get a little bit of a variety in her diet. She's so funny because she wants things done her way and she knows that I will ablige her. She even crawls her own way.....she gets up on all 4s and then nose dives and continues to do so until she reaches her destination. She would just much rather get up and walk there or dance to her point of interest. I've had a couple of rough nights the past 2 weeks where she will wake up from sudden intense teething pain that I have to comfort her by snuggling up together. The past 2 nights she has gone to sleep in her own bed and woken up in her own bed at dawn so I'm hoping that it sticks for a while. We had her 6 month shots today and she did great! She weighs 15 pounds 1 ounce and is 26 1/2 inches long.
She is already practicing good oral hygiene....too bad it's her hairbrush (yes the brush was clean and sanitized).
Here is her trying something other than greenbeans.

This was April 24, 2010 and Piper tried to crawl for the very first time.

Her guilty face from naptime.

This was her 6 month birthday present.....her Precious Planet Jumperoo. She loves it, but only at about 10 - 20 minutes at a time.

Piper is just such a joy to have in my life. I'm thankful everyday to be her mother. She made my first Mother's Day great! I know when she gets older that she will get embarrassed by me, will want nothing to do with me, and may even hate me for a split second, but there is one thing that she will never be able to say.....that I didn't love her. She will always know that her mother loves her and I hope to have the relationship with her as an adult that I do with my own mother.

Spring Fun

This post is just a little bit of what's going on in the Stiles' household.
Piper is sitting up really well at 5 1/2 months old. She can now sit up unsupported for 30 minutes or until she gets super excited. She is really into banging her toys on hard surfaces because she's used to me stomping around the house to make her happy (noise wise). She has such a personality.


This picture was on our way to a baby shower for me sweet friend Amanda. I made her 2 custom ladybug paintings for the nursery and completely forgot to take pictures.
Piper is telling me to stop with the pictures...HA!


I love this picture. She has so many sunglasses that do not fit her yet, but I finally found these at the local dollar store for $3! I love being such a great bargain hunter. This same day my mom (GG) and I took Piper to a local consignment event called Junebug Reruns. We spent $50 and got a lot of great stuff for when she's 18-24 months. Then yesterday we took our bi-weekly trip to Walmart and got some sweatpants, capri leggins, t-shirts, shorts, and a cute skort all 18-24 month each for $1. I saved overall a total of $20. We are going back again at the end of the week to get some more.

Well, this is the finished dress. I didn't get a good picture of Piper in it on Saturday just what you see in the above 2 pictures. I get some more this week and try to post them. I am also going to begin making a few more dresses and lap quilts for Piper because at the end of this August I'll be getting involved with a handmade craft fair and selling my custom paintings for nurseries/children's room, trip to grandma's bags, lap quilts, and dresses. I'm going to be so busy the rest of the Spring and throughout the Summer with these projects all while maintaining my house, my marriage, being a mom, and going to school. WOW!

Sewing and Easter

Well, this was Piper's first Easter and I believe that she enjoyed it. The Easter Bunny brought her some great stuff and NO CANDY! Lord knows that I don't need to be eating it.

Check out this gorgeous face! I love how long and curly her eyelashes are. She looks so good in pink and yellow!

This is the first article of clothing I'm working on for Piper. I still have to add the buttons and sew on some lace trim.

This is the first thing that I have ever sewn by a machine and it turned out great! IT's a stroller blanket just in time for Spring!

Pretty in Pink

Well this post is just filled with some of my favorite pics of Piper from being 5 months old. She is only 5 months old, but she seems so much older because she is so independant and outgoing and always ready to go and do something new.

Please enjoy these photos.

She is now always posing for me since she can sit up on her own. She has the cutest grin. I"m not a big fan of all pink for little girls, but Piper just looks so good in it that I now can't resist an all pink outfit for her!

Crafts and teething

Well, Piper has finally slept good. I only had to get up with her twice last night to flip her back to her tummy so she could sleep some more. Tonight she went down pretty easy and so far is sleeping soundly. Poor little girl has been teething really bad for the past 2 weeks. You can actually feel her 4 bottom front teeth. She has been a pretty good sport about it though. They just hurt really bad when she gets tired and with this crazy weather her allergies have been all over the map so she is ALWAYS sleepy. She is not a napper and over these past 2 weeks she has been taking like 5 hours worth of naps almost every day.

I am starting to get back into crafting and I have so many projects going all at once. I really need to get one completed before I start on another.


These 2 pictures are some custom paintings that I have done

for 2 little boys' nurseries. I'm currently working on 2 more sets for other nurseries. I have finally started my own little hobby business....YAY!

I love being able to be crafty and actually be decent at it. The tutu in the first picture is so huge that it would fit most 2 year olds so I am taking it apart to make matching ones for Piper and my friend Amanda's soon to be here daughter, Brooklyn. I am also currently working on making a dress for Piper and a matching stroller blanket. Hopefully they will be done by this Wednesday. If I am successful I will post pictures. Well, Piper has been in bed for 30 minutes so that's where her daddy and I are headed as well.

TOES!!!!!!! and 5 months old

Well, Piper has officially found her toes and is rolling over constantly. For the past 2 weeks she has been waking herself up every 15 to 40 minutes from 2 am until 6 or 6:30 in the morning....no matter what time she goes down for bed at night. She has so much personality that it just seems impossible that she's only 5 months old. Here is what she's up to these days:

-She likes to feed herself (I balance the bottle while she tries to hold it).
-She is now in size 3 diapers (cruisers)
-She wants to crawl so bad that she can taste it.
-She is a rolly polly
-and a weeble woble who loves to stand as much as she loves her daddy (which is a bunch)
-She sure does have a temper on her....she wants things to be done a certain way.
-She only says ma-ma when she's mad or really tired

-She loves to have her picture taken.

-She gets about 45-50 ounces of breastmilk everyday (yes, I'm still pumping every single day every 3-4 hours)

-She sleeps from when her head hits the mattress until 2 and then it's a battle to stay asleep.

-She takes a 2-3 hour nap in the earlier part of the day and takes 2 40 minute naps later in the day to make up for lost sleep.

-She is wearing 6-9 month clothes

-She smiles all the time

-She likes to bite mommy and daddy's thumbs and forearms

-She still doesn't really like the binky very much, she just prefers her fingers

-She is an early riser and a night owl all rolled into one

-She's the greatest accomplishment of my life!

This little angel has stolen my heart and all of my families' as well.

She is just so darn pretty and I love that she got my mother's skin color.....Portuguese/Italian.

4 Months and Counting

Well, Piper is now 4 months old and life is just full of so many fun and exciting things. She has had a mysterious case of diarrhea the past week, but she is finally in the clear from it. Her doctor thinks that it was because of something that I ate because she only had diarrhea and nothing else...no fever, no vomitting, no dehydration, and no unusual fussiness. She is always just a happy baby. I love this picture -------------->
She doesn't really know what to think of bows yet. Most of the time she doesn't like them so I just try to take her picture in them.........SO CUTE!









Well, this is her official 4 month picture with Minnie Mouse. I've had Minnie since I was a Jr. in High School and Piper just loves her. So Piper, what are you up to these days?

-You go to bed whenever you want no matter what time you get your bath.
-You like to sleep 10-13 hours every night.
-When you wake up you like to talk quietly and make your dirtbike sounds while studying your hands and kicking your feet.
-You take 3-5 20 minute naps everyday (you're always afraid that you're going to miss something if you sleep longer than that.
-You have already said mom/momma....now you say it only when you get mad because you know that I'll come running.
-Yesterday, you made your dirtbike sound followed by DA-DA then more dirtbike sounds.
-You are unsure of rice cereal.
-You like to stand (assisted) all the time.
-You can almost sit on your own.
-You can roll over (both ways), buy you just don't like to because you are always keeping yourself from rolling.
-You creep around to everything that you want.
-You are a tummy sleeper.
-Lilly is still your favorite toy, but you have a new fascination for your burp cloths.
-Your official nickname is Monkey because you will grasp something with your feet and put it in your hands. You like to play with mommy and GG's hair with your toes.
-You love your daddy and you love to watch dirtbike racing with him.
-You like to wear little boy shirts with your little girl capri leggings.
-Most of your clothes are 6 month - 12 month. You are so long torsoed and long legged that you have to wear bigger clothes. You have a small waist, but muscular/chunky legs so have to buy you 12 month leggings/capris so they'll fit you in the legs. You don't mind one bit though because they'll last you until you get to be 9 months old or so.
-You hate dress shoes, but you love your sneakers......(thank you Jesus!).



This picture was from our 25th birhtday party. Josh and I couldn't have planned our birthdays being so close even if we tried. We are exactly 1 week apart. Piper was helping us blow out our candles. We were all three in dirtbike shirts. I know we have a little girl, but she loves her boy shirts WITH her little girl capri leggings.








This is you and your cousin Madysen. You guys had such a great visit and you get to see her in just a few weeks again. Piper was really diggin' her pjs.












Well, I will leave you with this sweet picture of Piper. She was asking me where the sunshine it.