Dibb Reunion Pictures

This year

our reunion with Andrew's siblings and their families

consisted of a blow up water slide on Friday.

Which I was too busy enjoying to take pictures of.

On Saturday we went swimming at the Lehi Pool

Then went up to BP's cabin for the evening

WARNING:

Picture Overload

Grandma and Grandpa Dibb are on a mission and need pictures

Stella and Parker on the drive up the canyon

Our little girly enjoying her new princess chair

Kassidy and Hannah

Gerald

Kevin

The Most Photogenic Award

would have to go to

Darren and Andrew.... ;)

Rochelle and Heidi are in the background

too engaged in conversation to look

No, Grandma and Grandpa this isn't a new grandson

it's Gavin's buddy Joey who joined us for the weekend

Playing in the dirt

There was a heated tennis match

Gerald and Koy vs. Raquel and Kylie 

The audience member

This was my attempt at an action shot... so bad

Darian and Suzanna swinging

Mindy and Zander

Jonathan

Just us

Kassidy, Kooper, Conner, Jenny and Stella

(ok why am I writing names...

G & G know them

and no one else could possible have made it this far into the post)

Darren had a LONG conversation on his phone

(this is an inside joke)

Not sure who Kennedy routed for

Mom and Sis or Dad and Bro

Our attempts at a grandchild pyramid

Stella seemed to enjoy it... 

Man, we are tricky

The kickball game

more kickball

our little climbers

And last but not least,

in honor of Brian (Andrew's bro) and his family

who didn't attend the reunion because they are living in Australia

and having baby number 4

Meet our new niece Mei Lin!!!!

Too too cute!!!

A Big Week

She's Walking!!!!!

Last Sunday Stella took

not 2...3...4...5...

but 6 steps.

 She can now do up to 8 in a  row.

And she finally started to get her first tooth!

Consequently, we've been a little extra teary and drooly this week.

(P.S. she thinks this "stretching the face game" is hilarious)

Ocho Meses

Wow, I really need to blog more.

Stella turned 8 months old on Monday.

Here's some new things she's up to lately....

She often puts her finger in her mouth

She doesn't really suck it

It's just more of a thinking pose.

 We got rid of the baby tub

(a long time ago--can't remember when)

Stella likes her baths and her bath toys

Stella is going to start walking any day now.

She has taken one step on her own several times

But I don't think it counts until you do several consecutive steps.

I actually thought she was gonna start walking this weekend

Because Andrew and I left her for the first time

and I was sure

she was was gonna walk and we'd miss it.

But she didn't.

She's a tad timid about walking--

which is a completely new thing for us

up until this Stella has had NO hesitancy.

 She is still super tiny

(10 to 25 percentile in everything)

And her feet are tiny too

even though the angle of the pic makes them look huge

She still wears 3-6 month old clothes...

 Andrew says Stella is a mommy's girl

But she says dada about 100 times more than mama each day

She also says:

baba

hi

and I swear she said Gama to my mom yesterday

 These pictures were taken on her actual 8 month birthday

When she wears her hair in a pony she looks so old. :(



Playing with her toys



And her new favorite thing.

Waving hi and bye.

SOOOOO freakin cute!!!!

(She has been clapping and giving high 5 for a while now too).

Happy 1/2 Birthday!!!!

Happy 6 Months Stella!!!!

 I cannot believe our baby is 6 months old today!

Oh how we love her!!!

This is Stella climbing up our filing cabinet.

Apparently crawling gets old after a week or two

and so you move right on to climbing up the furniture and standing.

She's been doing this for the last week.

For the first few days she would fuss everytime she fell

which is often....come on she's just turning 6 months today.

I was getting frustrated with the fussiness

and so I tried to explain to her that she doesn't need to do this yet :)

She hasn't stopped doing it

in fact she does it more

but at least she stopped crying EVERY time she falls.

Now she just does when its a good fall.

Happy Happy Half-Birthday to my

freaking determind little stinker!!!!

It's Official

Stella is 25 weeks old now!!

(5.5 months for those that struggle with weeks)



She can officially crawl---

not just army crawl...the real thing

She can officially sit up

Stella can officially NOT HOLD STILL.

To say she is active is a huge understatment.

She is all over the place.

She if very hard to hold because

she twists and turns and rolls and dives off your lap.

She gets into everything!!

Nothing entertains her for more than 7 mintues...

seriously I will take ANY suggestions

I've tried:

baby einstein dvds

bouncers

swings

all kinds of toys

jumpers

play pens

car seats

She doesn't like any of them

She hates to be strapped down

because she wants to go go go!

She is such a happy baby

and I love that she is so smart

and a part of me loves that she is so active and fun

but another part of me

(the part that wants to take shower)

would love to find a small solution to the craziness!

New Tricks

This past month

Stella's been busy learning

all sorts of new fun tricks.

She discovered her toes

and boy do they taste good!

Apparently they also make a good nap buddy.

 Four weeks ago Stella learned to roll over.

I put her down for tummy time

and then she just whipped right over

 A couple hours later that day

she learned to go from her back to tummy too.

She's a pro.

 Stella has loved to stand since she was SO young.

I'd tell you how old, but you'd just think I was lying.

I definitely won't be surprised if she is an early walker.

 Everything goes straight into her mouth.

We keep thinking she might be teething

but so far no sign of teeth.

Just lots of drool and chewing on stuff.