errrmehgerrrrd!  welcome to the new blog!  We’ve been working on this for a little while now (one of the many excuses i’m going to give for being such a lazy blogger these days)…and i do promise that i will be a better blogger….soon.  there is just so much i want to do right now, and it seems as though i have less and less time each day.  perhaps it’s because i am too busy enjoying all these little baby smiles you see in the photos…

well here she is.  the little star of this little blog (i’ll get to why the new blog, why the new name, etc, in another post…becuase i know you’re dying to know…and please, it’s nothing epic, just some typical nikki impatience, and some other fun little things i’ll be telling you down the road.

ten months.  thats two months shy of a year.  uh- mom….better start planning for someone’s birthday sooooooon!  this past month has been fun.  we are really starting to see things click.  she thinks about things, she communicates (sometimes she REALLY communicates).  she’s even had a first word…other than mama and dada…i’m i’m still not sure if she is actually saying those.  so the other day, we are playing in the play room, and faith and scout are outside (freely going in and out via their very own doggie dooe…and yes, i realize i still owe new house pics and updates)…when scout started barking.  immi got a VERY serious look on her face and with her best mama impression she yells “OUT” (scout).  i died.  great.  all ready picking up my bad habits.

so here goes…her comparison pics and just a couple little glimpses into the world of immi (and let me tell ya, taking photos of this busy little bee is not as easy as it used to be. gone are the days of her sitting still for the photo.

this month we thought it was really important to show her with her best bud…faith (i know, her first word wasn’t faif?).  remember the post with immi giving mama kisses?  well, mama doesn’t get kisses anymore.  they are ALL saved for faify.  she kisses faith…faith kisses her.  and i know it grosses some people out becuase she goes in open mouth…and there’s dog tongue everywhere…but she loves it, and who am i to take that joy away from her.

^^^we have the sweet and the stinker smiles^^^

^^^and can you even handle that little neck?^^^^ ^^^always busy…always^^^

and seriously… that sweater?  why can’t they make some of her clothes in my size.  (yah zara…i’m talking to you)…

holy gravy, my baby is nine months!  i can NOT fully comprehend all the changes she has gone through since that first week…and how exponentially faster and faster she seems to be growing and developing each day.  there is so much i want to share with you, but in all honesty, right now, i am on total catch-up mode…and the fastest way for me to catch you up, is photos!  as i think most of you know, we moved into our new house…so the seven month photo was our last shot from immi’s gorgeous nursery :(.  i {not so} secretly want to go knock on the door of the condo, just so i can see if the new owners kept the nursery….then on the other hand, it’s probably better i don’t know, and just believe in my head that they are having a baby and bought the condo just to have that room as a nursery…{ok. ok…just let me think what i want….it makes me happy}.  anyways, that also means we lost our magic lighting room.  i swear, you couldn’t take a bad photo in that room. everything came out perfectly lit each time. ok, enough babbling…9 month comparison photos!

so there were definitely better styled ones of her nine month shot…where you could see the entire “nine months” and we even got faith, immi’s best bud, to sit in for a pose….but this face…this IS immi.  she is adventurous, brave…a little mischievous, but really stinkin’ cute, and sweeter and smarter and funnier than i could have ever dreamt of…make sure you watch the video at the bottom…pretty sure i will treasure this one for the rest of my life. this is us at nine months folks…

fires at night… the fireflies were even cooler!

 play twins with boppa…

some QT with GG Ruth..

meeting some of the wisconsin cousins…fffiiiiinally!

and just some more….

remember, if you want to see if the video to be full screen, click on the icon in the bottom right corner!

and Immi and I secretly put on her Father’s Day outfit a little early for a quick photo session… 🙂  i think the sweetness just oozes from those goobs.  Happy first father’s dad daddy…