8 Months

Guess what day it is??? It's HUMP DAY...and Lane's 8 month birthday! It also happens to be her Gramps birthday too! Wes (Luke's dad) has not officially decided on what he wants to be called, but I was watching the Bernstein Bears (don't judge) and I heard the term Gramps and liked it. So I recommended that, but we'll have to see if it sticks. My parent's are Gran and Papa and Luke's mom is Honey, so Honey and Gramps sounds cute don't you think?
In Dorman family news, Luke is still on the job hunt these days. He is working with our friend Matthew Johns, a custom home builder running two renovation jobs he has going right now. The last time Luke got to play superintendent he LOVED it. I think this will be a good chance for him to see if this is really something he might want to do long term. He has a whole host of options we've been running through recently, so please pray for guidance down the right path. We are fortunate that he has some different paths to choose from, but man it's tough to decide on what will hopefully be the dream job!
I had my first MOPS meeting of the season!! We had a wonderful turn out that makes me even more excited about what we have planned for the rest of the year.
Another big news item for the Dorman family is Lasik for Luke. I really did think he was super cute in his glasses, but I think he is much happier with vision. I made him take a ton of pictures with the glasses on right before the surgery. He had surgery on August 28th and everything seems great! They actually let me sit in the room and watch the surgery... It was cool and gross all at the same time.
Before I cover Lane, I need to share what a sweet surprise my husband had for my 30th birthday. The actual day of my birthday we took it easy and had a romantic candlelight dinner at home. The 31st was the opening to football season, so we had some friends over that morning for a boat ride and then planned to watch football all late afternoon and evening by ourselves. I had one quick errand to run at the church, but told Luke I would be back home in about 30 to 45 min. In that short amount of time he had a huge gathering of our friends show up, park who knows where, and wait in my kitchen to surprise me on my return. I really was SO SHOCKED! Everyone had prepared awesome dishes of food, and hung out to watch football at our house for the night. We set up two TV's down stairs like college kids and had a blast. Thank you to everyone who came and made my big 30 so special. My only regret was not making myself a little more attractive before I went to run my errand.
Now to what you really want to know about! Lane is working on her 5th tooth breaking through on the bottom right. She LOVES to eat puffs and cheerios, and basically anything she gets to pick up and feed herself with. She still loves her momma's milk the best though. I was planning to pump till 6 months, but now I've decided 9 months. It really isn't too bad now that I have gotten down to only 2 pumps a day, and still have enough milk for her to drink. She is a super fast crawler, major climber, and assisted walker. She can climb the stairs now, and loves to walk around the house pushing a diaper box. She will walk for a short amount of time with me holding on to just one of her hands but does not really like that yet. She furniture cruises like a champ and doesn't realize danger anywhere. We have had a lot of bumps and bruises this month learning how to move around. She puts EVERYTHING in her mouth (including a bug she found on our floor). Lane is just one happy baby!

The trio had another play date!

Sleeping on Papa

Boat ride with Papa 

LOVE 

Sleeping on Uncle Clint too!

Cam Newton Jersey from Lisa Carlton

Waving hello to everyone!

Sleeping on Daddy

First busted lip- crawling over me on the ground, she fell into the floor with her teeth cutting the lip 

When Daddy watches Lane I come home to this!

Lane never sleeps at the church nursery because she is so nosey, so I had to take a picture of her in rare form! I LOVE the ladies that watch her at the church. 

At Bonna Bella for Grandparents Day 

Queen of the wagon!

Uncle Ben had a birthday yesterday! 

Typical look with that hair that stands straight up! 

You want to take away my toy and have me sit still for a photo???? End of the WORLD!

All you get is ONE PHOTO LADY!

Sweet friend Harris

MOPS Moms! They are some of my best friends now

7 Months

Happy 7 month birthday Lane! WE LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH!
Here are some pictures to capture the past couple months:

Wow

Too much is happening with little miss Lane for me to not write this down. Thankfully, I have already finished 51 pages of her baby book, but this past week alone we've hit some major milestones. Overall it's been a pretty crazy past couple of weeks for us.
In sad news for the Dorman family, Luke lost his job about a week ago. It came as a bit of a shock, but luckily we have Dave Ramsey's emergency fund in place, so I think it will just be the beginning of something amazing God has in store for us. Luke really has handled everything so well (much better than I would). I get angry about stuff, but Luke has such peace and control over his emotions. I do know that this is a blessing in disguise. Luke really was not happy...he was trying hard, but overall things just were not going well. Now Luke has the chance to really decide what he wants to do. Change career paths totally, or just maybe switch things up slightly?! I'm somewhat excited to see what's ahead for us.
In case you didn't know, I'm heading up our church MOPS group this upcoming year. That's right folks...they let me take charge. MOPS stands for Mothers of Preschoolers in case you were wondering. We meet every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from September to May. The kids are being watched in childcare rooms, and we moms socialize, have a speaker, do a craft, and some fun games. I started attending while pregnant with Lane and loved getting to know and become friends with all of the other moms. So if you live in Savannah and want more information just let me know. I hosted a fun day of planning at my house with the steering committee where we nailed down most of the major things. I'll be sure to share a lot of the items we do on here in the future.
In SUPER HAPPY NEWS!!!! Luke and I celebrated 4 years of wedded bliss on July 25th. We've had a crazy fun ride, and I think it gets better every year. Watching Luke become a dad and SERIOUSLY ROCKING THE DAD ROLE has made me love him even more in different ways. We kept the anniversary low key and chose to grill out at the house on the egg. The egg is treating me very well (a gift that keeps on giving)!
In Lane news: we had friend Ellie Grace (who was born 2 days after Lane) come play for a couple of days recently. It was wonderful to see how much they interacted even at such a young age. They loved sharing toys and constantly checking out what the other one was doing. We went on boat rides, swam at the pool, and just hung out. It will be fun to see them interact again when we hang out during football season.
In big milestone news: Lane's top two teeth arrived on July 31st. She has 4 teeth in total now. She was still pretty chill when the teeth cut through, so let's pray the rest of her teeth come in as smoothly. I am going to say she really started crawling just yesterday on August 7th. She was army low crawling forward before today, but yesterday she actually got up on all fours and truly crawled. Just as soon as that happened I turned around, and she can now go from laying flat on the ground to sitting up. As soon as that happened she went from laying flat on her back, to sitting up, then pulling up on the side of her crib. So I guess tonight we'll be lowering her crib mattress. I feel like she is going to be running around this house tomorrow. I mean WOW! When she wakes up from her nap we are headed to buy some bumper coverings for our coffee table. She already pulled up on that this morning.
So that's the major happenings in the Dorman household. Please pray that Luke finds himself employed and HAPPY(most important) somewhat soon.
I'll do a picture purge here soon, but today I'll just stick with some text.

Home

Recently we've stayed right here in Savannah (mainly due to illness), but it's been nice. We started Lane on her first round with real food. She doesn't seem to like anything tart like apples, but seems to like sweet potatoes, green beans, and avocado. I use the word like very loosely...we are happy if the girl eats 4 tablespoons of anything. She prefers the bottle over the spoon at this point in life. My pediatrician said I have to start trying for three real food meals a day (yikes that is going to be a lot of work).
Lane also came down with her first real illness. She got double ear infections! I thought she was teething, so I waited 4 whole days to take her in. Just so you other mothers know, if your child has green snot in the afternoon then you should take your baby in. Green snot in the morning isn't necessarily worthy of a visit, so the key is afternoon! She only had a low grade fever, and wasn't being a pill, so poor thing had to wait a few days for me to realize. After her six month check up this morning we did see that her two top teeth are about to break through...so she is teething too.
We have been boating, beaching, and pooling it up a lot! Lane even has a nice tan going. I'll picture purge all of the lovely photos at the end!
Lane says mama all of the time, and can say dada but rarely does it. They are not technically her first words since I don't think she can associate them with anything...it's really just babble. It will pull on your heart strings to hear her upset saying mama mama mama though.
Still no forward crawling, but the girl can barrel roll and back scoot like a pro (especially if she is trying to reach something she isn't allowed to have). The closest thing to crawling at this point is her  up rocking on her hands and knees. I think Lane would love to skip the whole crawling thing altogether and just start walking.
At her 6 month appointment today I got her latest stats:

Officially the tallest chick in your class!

Real Food Face

Baths are fun! 

Sick Baby 

4th of July 

Sorry for the blur! I just wanted to capture the way you chill most nights before you roll over to start sleeping!
Sucking your thumb with feet up

With newly engaged Aunt Katie!! Sorry for the boyish blue...I was about to put on your pink swim diaper

Isn't this the prettiest view 

Always trying to roll over while changing