11 Months Old ☘️

This all came way too quickly🥲🥹 in one month we have a big one year old

Crawling around like a crazy 💃🏼
Went to her first baby shower for baby Ballard 👶🏼🍼
Starting to pull our self up on things, but we’re very unsure about being on our feet 🚶🏼‍♀️👣
She has 3 1/2 teeth 🦷
Food is her favorite subject 🥗🍔🍤🍩🍦
Reading books is her favorite hobby 📚
Wants you to sing with her 🎤
Obsessed with her ball pit ⚪️🔴🔵⚫️
Starting to talk her own language just like Aunt Kristy 🤷🏼‍♀️❓
She can officially say Dada, Mama, No, Uh Oh & e i e i o 🎙️
Testing ALL the limits – laughs when you tell her no 😀

This next month ends a chapter. Ending Grace’s 1st year & all things baby for the Ballard family. We know she’ll still be a little kiddo and always be our baby. It’s crazy how much changes in the course of the year within a baby. We can’t wait for all the things to come 🥹 she gives us so much purpose and joy 💚

10 Months Old ❄️☃️

18lbs 8oz & 28.5 inches

Our little cutie is no longer a tiny baby but growing into a toddler 🥹

Shes finally up on her knees crawling around but prefers the army crawl 🫶🏼👶🏼
Shes sitting on her own in the bath tub 🛁
Absolutely loving all the foods we give her espically meat 🥞🍗🥩
Shes loves playing independently 🛝🏓🏀
Dancing is a daily activity 💃🏼
Obsessed with watching videos of herself 📱
Shoving her fingers into other peoples mouths is her favorite hobby 🤭
Making sure she read books daily is a must for her 📚
Shes gotten a lot of cousin time in and does so well with them 👧🏼👧🏼👦🏼 Uncle Matt, Aunt Jenny &Aunt Kristy too 🥰
Outside of her Dad and I, grandma and grandpa & Mrs Nicole are her favorite people 💕💛

Grace wants 0 part of these photos and it cracks me up. We love our little bug so much 🥹💜

9 Months Old 🎅🏼🎄

This sweet Christmas cutie keeps growing every single day and breaking our hearts with how old shes getting way too quickly.

Girlfriend loves to sing and scream 🎤
Army crawling is all she does and she is QUICK 💨
Eating ALLL the foods and loving every second of it 🍽️
Successfully grabs her own bottle and almost can feed herself 🍼
Has become a stage 5 clinger but I love every second of it 🤗💕
We found out shes allergic to Fire Retardent & Rayon 🙃 but shes now a 100% Organic Cotton Queen 💸💰👚
Absolutely LOVES bath time & splashing with her Daddy 💦🧼🛁
She is very curious and wants to touch everything that is machine related ⚙️
Books are also something shes become obsessed with 📚🩷

I can’t believe how quickly the months have passed and that there’s only two months left of these kind of photos until we have a one year old. She is everything and more that I could’ve ever hoped for 👨‍👩‍👧

7 Months Old 🎃👻🕸️

16lbs 4oz. 26 Inches 📈

Time is really flying & were hitting all sorts of milestones. I can’t believe in 5 months well have a 1 year old.

Said her first word & of course it was Dada 🥹
Is an excellent chewer and loves to eat food even though she breaks out into a rash no matter what she eats 🥑🍎🥔🥕🙃
Is ready to crawl, just waiting to figure out those knees 💨
Has found her screaming voice 🎤
Laughing and smiling is her favorite hobby 😆
Learned to sit completely on her own 🪑
Loves a good sensory activity 🤲🏼🧶🎾
Working on our clapping hands 👏🏼
Ms Rachel is her life 🎶

Before we know it this little peach is going to be moving all over the place. We’re not ready 🥹🥲🫶🏼😂

8 Months Old 🦃

Every single month we find ourselves saying “I think this is our favorite phase”. Grace is so much fun and gives us laughs every single day. We really love being parents & think there isn’t anything better. Graces personality is really starting to shine through and shes always on the move. Would not lay still for a second with these pictures 😂

We have 2 teeth 🦷
Army crawling where ever she pleases 💪🏼
Loves reading books, esp goodnight moon 📚
After a pediatrician, allergist & a holistic doctor shes still a true medical mystery when it comes to her reaction after eating 🤷🏼‍♀️
She loves to clap, starts every morning with a few rounds of clapping 👏🏼
Her talking/dancing cactus is her best friend 🌵
Loves to splash in the bath 💦🛁🧼
Believes Josh from Blues Clues is the funniest person around 🐾💙
Do NOT touch her nose 🗣️❌
Still a jumping queen 🎊
Becoming a true daredevil every chance she gets 🧗🏼‍♀️

Excited to celebrate our very first Thanksgiving as a family of 3 🍁🦃🍛🍪

6 Months Old 🍁🤍

Happy Half Birthday to my little baby 🎂🎈

I don’t know how we got here so fast but we know our love for this girl is overflowing and I love being her mama 👯‍♀️

Shes learned how to roll from her belly to her back, but will only do it when you’re not looking 🤫
Loves to fake cough 🤭
Wore our very 1st pony 👱🏼‍♀️
Is getting better every single day at eating 🥣
Let us know that unless its name brand, she’ll break out in hives and a rash 💸🏥🩺
Her favorite hobby is jumping 🪂
In mamas arms staring at her dad is her favorite spot 👨‍👩‍👧❤️
Found out shes getting another cousin 💙💕
Had her 1st friend playdate 🛝

I am the luckiest mama in the world to have Grace as my daughter & watching her grow is the most bitter/sweet experience. Time really is a thief.

5 Months Old 🦩

Established an altar, ego as a dinosaur 🦖
Started Daycare with Mrs Nicole & Camp Grandma & Grandpa 🔤🛝🧸
Rolled from her back to her belly every moment she could 👶🏼
Started sleeping on her belly 😴
Started eating purees and we do NOT like carrots 👎🏼🥕
Found out we love formula popsicles 🍦
Trained with Aunt Jenny for her 10k 🏃🏼‍♀️
Learned how to yell at mom & dad all day everyday 🎙️

We can’t believe it’s been five months already! This little girl is a wild child and it isn’t changing anytime soon. We love our spicy a little baby. 🩷 forever her Mommys bestie and her daddys soft spot.

This month was very eventful for little miss Gracie Lou. She started daycare with Grandma and Grandpa and Ms.Nicole. She also decided to turn into a champ confidently rolling from her back to her belly.

This month has proven to be so fun with little Gracie Lou. She is becoming way more aware and started to sleep like a queen. At this point she goes to bed anywhere between 7:30 and 9 depending on how the day is going. She rolled over in her sleep this month which ended her swaddle sleeping. We moved on to the Merlin Magic Sleep Suit and that lasted maybe 3 weeks and she then was trying to launch herself over in her sleep using the side railings on the crib. We switched to a sleep sack that she previously was napping HORRIBLY in and it didn’t take but one night for her to figure out and get back to sleeping until about 4-5 waking for a bottle diaper change and right back to be. Graces head control this month has come SO far. She now holds her head up completely straight and can look around no problem. She has gotten such a good control over her hands and legs. She is often reaching for things and touching them, or grabbing them and pulling them to her mouth. If she cannot plant her legs on a surface she will and she loves to push off of it. Grace also had her very first family trip. We went to Pentwater with her Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, Uncle and cousins. She had her first day at the beach and did better than expected. Shes laughed this month, rolled over, grabbed and pulled things to her mouth, started sucking her thumb and much more! Shes really loving her swing this month as well as her bouncer with the toy bar. We found out that she loves sitting in the porch and watch the cars goes by. We’ve spent many evenings in the rocking chairs before bedtime letting her watch the commotion of traffic.

3 Months Old 🦜

Has become quite the chatty girl 🗣️
Doing a wonderful job at holding her head up, especially in her sit me up chair 🪑
Has become quite the drool bucket 💧
Had her first laugh a few days ago 😆
Prefers you don’t look at her when she eats 🍼
She’s getting better about other people besides mom and dad holding her 😝
Her favorite meal is her very own knuckle 👊🏼
Gaining control over her arms and legs & loves to put weight on her legs and play rocketship with her dad 🚀
Loves her toy bar 🧸
Sleeping like a queen 👑

We truly cannot believe how fast time is going, and that we no longer have a little infant, but a baby. She truly is the light of our life.🩷 We love that we get to be her mom & dad.