May & June

Sloan has been very busy since our last post. She officially had a tooth break through at six months and two weeks. She then followed up three weeks later by pushing herself up to a sitting position all on her own. Just a few days later we had another tooth and a few more days later she officially crawled. The crawling process was very quick. She went from taking a couple "crawl steps" to full on crawling within two days. She skipped the army crawl and seemed to go straight to fast mode. We quickly assembled the gate above the stairs and plugged the outlets! We also found ourselves lowering the crib since she decided to pull herself to a standing position while waiting for us to get her. Teething has not been awful (easy for us to say!). With the first tooth, she seemed a little uncomfortable, drooled and wanted more attention than usual but the second tooth came without warning. It looks like the top two will come shortly. Hopefully they will arrive with ease.


She is very observant and constantly on the go. She now follows us from room to room. She likes to be where we are but she plays independently as well. All of this activity makes for a tired girl that sleeps through the night. Most nights she sleeps from about 8:30 to 7:00.

She continues to enjoy food and has tried most types of baby food. She especially enjoys puffs and will let you know with urgent pleading when she wants more. She has still been babbling quite a bit and seems to make new noises daily. Sometimes she even surprises herself with a high pitched scream. She is mastering the art of cause and effect. Drop toy from high chair.... toy falls to the ground... someone picks it up... repeat process. She also enjoys a game of peek-a-boo when one of us holds her and the other peeks up from behind the holder's shoulder. We go from side to side and before you know it she is anticipating the next move and is waiting for you when you get there.

We made a couple quick trips over the last few weeks. We headed back to the ranch for branding (it was cold and rained most of the time so Sloan and Lisa spent the day inside). We also headed to Silver Gate to open the cabin. After a few small obstacles we (Dirk) got everything taken care of. We took a drive into Yellowstone and saw three bears(at three locations). We credit Sloan for finding one of the bears. She had a strong aroma that forced us to pull over for a diaper change and when we did a black bear came out of no where.

We continue to love every moment with Sloan and feel so lucky to have her. She is a very happy baby!








I was trying to get some pictures of her first tooth. In the first picture you can catch a glimpse. The rest were just cute and showed some of her expressions.





Here she is reading her book. It was even right side up this time.





As you can see, her hair is still curly when it is wet. She loves her bath time!







These are a few crawling pictures. She was trying to get the strap on the camera so she just kept chasing me. You can see two teeth in some of the pictures.