Mommy and Punky

Introducing the Newest Mercer

This is Chris and Cassie Mercer's son Jaxon Dane Mercer. He was born May 20th around 7pm. He weighed about 6lbs 10oz and is beautiful!

Playing in the flowers again?

ok so maybe this isn't the best pic ever! hahaha!

Skylar at her Great Grandparent's House

Here is a cute pic of Skylar on Great Grandparent's house. She was getting changed to spend the day out and about! Isn't she cute???

Hillarious Photo

This photo was take a month ago or so by a woman I work with. She was taking Skylar for the evening and had her kids in the car. They were making Skylar laugh!! Skylar loves other kids!

It's been a while

So..apparently I am horrible at the whole blog thing. I can't manage to keep it up to date! AHHH. Oh well....

So a lot has gone on since March when I last updated the bolg. Ok just kidding. Nothing has happened really, at least not with Dirk and I. BUT..Skylar has done a lot!!

Skylar is now almost 7 months old. At least she will be on the 22nd of this month...so next week! WOW! She is as beautiful as ever and developing new features each day. We have a hard time figuring out who she looks like. For now we think she looks a lot like Dirk. Maybe that will change...and maybe not! Either way she'll be beautiful.

About two days before her 6mo birthday she decided that she could sit by herself. We had been working with her to sit but she never took to it. She would fall backwards or to the side (which was hiullarious to watch) but never just sit there. Everything we read or anyone we talked to said that she should be sitting on her own before she was 6mo old. So we waited and waited and finally gave up and decided she would do it on her own time. Sure enough, two days before she turned 6mo she di it. She sat on her won. Now she is sitting all the time and hates to be laying down on her back. I guess that once you get to see the world from a new perspective that you don't want to go backwards!

She went to the doctor for her 6mo check up and....well...she is no longer the petite little thing she used to be. She has grown to the point that she is now in the 97th percentile for her height and somewhere in the 85th percentile for her weight. "Thunder thighs"!!! We are feeding her well and keeping her active too but the L Bs just keep-a-comin'!

Skylar is funny! She can do a lot more than she lets you know. For example, eatting time...she loves when you hold her and rock her and hold the bottle for her. She can hold it. She can put it in and out of her mouth...but she won't do it unless you make her. She would rather just lay there and let you do the work. (I don't know who she got that from...ok its from both of us!)

Well, everyday Skylar is learning more and more. We see her notice colors. She loves to read a book about ducks and hit them...HAHAHA! And...last night she said "Da Da Da Da" She has been throwing around sylables for a while but last night it actually sounded like something! Man..I thought for sure she would say Ma Ma first. But, I guess she is just saving the best for last.

New Skills

I wanted to update everyone on the new things that Skylar is doing. A few days ago Skylar started picking up her pacifier and putting it into her mouth. She has great aim but she is still working on her motor skills. What I mean to say is, she can't let go of if. So we are working through her frustrations with that.

She is rolling over and starting to sit. She needs pillows to support her when she sits but she is working hard on gaining muscle control. Dirk and I also like to let Skylar walk around the house. She understands the whole one foot in front of the other idea but she is way too wobbly to walk on her own. Not to mention totally not ready. She needs to crawl first. We work on that too but she isn't very fond of tummy time.

Tonight we had a fun event. Dirk and I, when we enter a room where Skylar is, we always say "Hi" and wave our hands at her. Tonight we were hanging out, Dirk and Skylar on one side of the room and I on the other, I waved to Skylar. She lifted up her right hand and held in high in the air. Then she made her fingers go up and down. When I put my hand down she put her hand down. We thought that this was surely just a freek happening so we did it again. She did it again. She did this 4 different times.

It is such a treat to watch as Skylar learns new things. It is hard to keep up with them all because she is learning things every second of the day.