Arrowlyn Darline - {16mo}


↣ Arrowlyn was featured on the ThisIsBoise Instagram page for a picture we took of her in Freak Alley in at Downtown Boise this month. The picture had over 450 likes last time I looked at it. 
We get stopped all the time by strangers telling us that she's the cutest baby they've ever seen. One lady even told us she needed to be on a billboard for a baby store like Baby GAP. It was cute. 
I agreed, of course. 

↣Arrowlyn started standing on her own at the end of May. She thought it was soooo funny to stand up and then fall backwards onto her butt. She would laugh so hard every time.
She was only standing when she was able to pull herself up against furniture but on Memorial Day, she went to a bear crawl position and then stood up! It was amazing!! I was so happy to see it. Now she does it all the time and it's adorable! She still thinks it's pretty funny to fall on her butt but she always gets back up.
On June 4th, Arrow took two steps to me while we were at Kaycee's house for Tinzlee's blessing. We were all cheering for her and so happy to see her get up and go! Kaycee and her family got a kick out of Arrowlyn "walking" on her knees though. We love it too but I think we are ready for her to start walking.

Over the course of the last few weeks, she's been working on walking with our help but still hasn't taken the steps by herself. Except on Fathers Day she took 3 steps!


↣ Being that we just celebrated Father's Day, I have to note that Arrowlyn is super loving to the men in her life. She loves her daddy, papas and uncles. She truly loves her brother too. Although, I have to add that if she's angry, it doesn't matter who is in her vicinity, she will slap or punch you so steer clear of her wrath.


↣Arrow is a silly character and quite the clown. She's always making faces that make us laugh and she KNOWS it!

↣She loves to show us all the 'parts' of her face/body. Our favorite is when she shows us her teeth. She will also bug out her eyes to show them to us and open her mouth wide, with her tongue out and say AWWWW. She also knows her head, ears, nose, tummy, fingers and toes.

↣Arrow is starting to become a little picky with her food choices. She use to eat all kinds of veggies and meat and now she only wants fruit and bread. ... Sugar/Carbs - go figure. She still loves tomatoes, eggs and broccoli so I'll consider that a win! We can give her an entire apple and she will eat the whole thing.


 ↣Arrow had a lot of play dates this month. She spent a little time with Maddie and watching them crawl around together was ADORABLE! Then Arrow tried to share all her toys with Maddie and Michelle & I swooned over them again.


↣ Arrowlyn has been showing her naughty/determined side a little more. But she knows she's cute so she doesn't care that she's getting in trouble. She climbs on everything and it scares the life out us. 

She also took a horrible stumble down the stairs. She hit her face on the gate at the bottom. It caused a HUGE goose egg on her eye brow and a bruise below her eye. It was a sad day!


↣ She LOVES her stuffed animals and toys. She hugs them and loves them and treats them with care. Until she's 'done' with them and then she will chuck them, only to hurry back to them to give them more hugs. 


 ↣She's my summer baby! Just like me! And she gets so tan! Even through the month of May, she was beautifully sun kissed. With her super blonde hair and beautiful olive skin - she's gorgeous. We spend a lot of time on the trampoline so she's getting her tan mostly from that and from our fun hiking escapades and park dates.








↣Movies are my babysitter most days but she doesn't mind. She still loves Moana but she started watching Beauty and the Beast and couldn't turn her head away for a second! Trolls and Sing are played pretty regularly too! She loves to crawl onto the couch and watch movies with us. She has also figured out how to get on and off the love sac. 

↣Arrow gets very upset when you laugh at her when she's crying. She has a funny cry face - with her bottom lip stuck way out. She will glare at you if you laugh though. 

↣As I mentioned, I have a climber on my hands! She climbs on everything and will even climb on the kitchen chairs to get on top of the table! She hasn't fallen over - yet - and it scares the life out of us.

↣Arrow added a couple new words to her vocab. She says cracker, head, toes, hat and tummy. 

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