Hanging with Judah

On Thursday of this week, we got to babysit Judah for a little while. He is a handsome little squirt! He is already 3 months old! I knew it would be interesting having two babies by myself. But to my surprise, they really did great. When he first got here, he was sleeping and so was Audrey Claire so I had a good hour of silence. There was only one 20 minute period in the whole day when they were both crying. Darla came to visit us that afternoon. It was nice to have another set of hands to help! Other than the 20 minute crying session, we really had a fun day!

Here is his sweet little self sleeping when he first got to our house!

He woke up hungry while Audrey was still sleeping. So I fed him and let him swing for a while. I love this picture of him. Hopefully, his Daddy won't see this picture of him in the pink swing! :)

When Audrey Claire woke up and saw another baby in her house she wasn't sure what to think.

But all Judah had to do was smile a few times like this and she felt better about the situation.

She even shared her toys with Judah. Here she is showing him how to "rock out" with her "Sound Stage". I am sure his Daddy would appreciate this activity much better than the pink swing!

At the end of the day all I could think was "Thank you Lord for inspiring someone to invent a Bumbo seat" (P.S. Judah's sock is coming off in this picture because AC loved pulling them off)

Baby's Got A New Toy

A week or so ago, I ordered Audrey Claire a walker. Friday I got an email that it was at the store so I went to pick it up. If you can believe it, I put it together all by myself! She was getting really sleepy when it was finally together but I couldn't wait to put her in it to see if she could actually get around in it or if she would like it.

She LOVES it. She now has the freedom to move around the house as she pleases! And boy is she taking advantage of that! She goes from room to room hitting every wall she can. She has even gotten our toes a couple of times.

This was such a funny moment. We were all in Seth's office and without hitting anything, she pulled right under the desk. It was a perfect little nook for her "car". We laughed so hard because it was like she was thinking "I am done for now. I will just pull into my garage and park".

"Well, are you gonna get me out? Or am I gonna have to stay here?"

Big Girl Goes Shopping

This weekend we went to Lowe's to buy materials for Seth to build some shutters. I have wanted them since we moved in our new house and can't wait for them to be up! He is going build them and I am going stain them. My little monkey showed us how big she was in two different ways:

She fed herself while I pushed her around,

and she sat up like a big girl!

I know what you're all thinking-NO BOW? Well, she knew we were going to Lowe's and she didn't want to look too prissy. She wanted people to think she actually knew a thing or two about the whole "building project" thing.

Play date with Jude

Last week's college Bible Study turned out to be a play-date for Jude and Audrey Claire. She started out sitting quietly outside with us but eventually we were inside. I guess she knew Jude and his toys were inside and she couldn't stand it. Melanie and I had so much fun watching them interact. As you can see in the pictures, Jude was really excited. Audrey Claire didn't exactly know what to think.

The end of the play-date didn't end so well. Even though I had pillows surrounding Audrey Claire, she still managed to topple over and hit her head. She screamed for quite a while. Seth and I freaked out right along with her.

Fun on "Lang Hill"

Today we went to Crystal Springs for my cousin Brookley's birthday party. (FYI-"Lang Hill" is where I grew up. My parents, mom's dad and two brothers are all next-door and/or across-the-street neighbors. And boy is that interesting at times!) Anyway, Brookley had a big blow-up water slide for all the kids-big and small. Most of the time, there were more adults on the slide than kids. We all had a blast-except Audrey Claire. She has a cold which has made her a little irritable these last few days. She is also not used to being outside for long periods of time. Most of the time she LOVES being in the water but the water at the bottom of the slide was really cold so she didn't like that either. I think she would have rather had the party in her cool house where all of her toys are. I say all that to say I have no pictures of her from the party. I do have one picture from the day. I thought this was the sweetest thing. We didn't pose her here. She kept her hand like this for a good while. She was glad to see ReRe and get out of the car seat.

Still a Busy Girl

We have been really busy lately and I haven't had much time to post. Here are some cute pictures from the past couple of days:

Here is Audrey Claire wearing my brother's hat. She knows she is a cutie!

Audrey Claire and her Uncle Justin

Baby's got a new toy! Saturday, my family came down and we went shopping. I've wanted to get Audrey this toy since she played with it at her friend Jude's house. It's called Little Superstar: Sing-Along Stage. She absolutely loves it!

Yesterday, my friend Whitney came to visit and brought her beautiful step-daughter, Gracie. We had a blast shopping around town and hanging out at our house. Audrey Claire is not as scared as she looks here. She was thinking to herself "Really? Another picture, can't a girl just play with a friend without pictures?" You see, Lindsey had come over to visit too so Whitney, Lindsey and I all had our cameras taking pictures. We looked like the paparazzi and they were our celebrities.

This morning I was feeding my little monkey some cereal. Well, she had other things in mind. She wanted to put on makeup like Mommy does! What do you think?

Ok really I had a big spoonful headed for her mouth and she went to rub her eye at the same time and this was the result!

Busy Girl

This post may get a little long but bear with me. We had a quick but exciting trip home this week. It started Tuesday night after Seth's church basketball game. We loaded up a very sleepy little girl and headed north to Wesson. Thankfully, she slept the whole way there. However, when we got there at 10:30, she was so excited to see her Popa D that she woke up and stayed up until midnight to play. I was hoping that she would sleep late the next morning since she was up so late. But she must have known how exciting our day was going to be because she didn't sleep late. But anyway, we got up and I got to go to Brookhaven all by myself to do some bow shopping! (Thanks to Popa D for babysitting!) I know they must have played hard while I was gone because when I got back, they were knocked out on the couch. Before we left there, I managed to get a "few" pictures. Here are my favorites:

How grown does she look here? Does not look like a 6 month old to me!

Our next stop was Co-Lin. That's where Memaw works. We got to visit her for a few minutes and guess what! I forgot to take pictures there. Next time we promise to take pictures with you Memaw! From there we headed for Hazlehurst to see ReRe at her office. They must recognize our importance because when we got there this is what we saw on the door:

We stayed there long enough for them to have a little break from doing work. If you can believe it, Mrs. Amy somehow managed to get Audrey Claire from her ReRe for a minute. And I do mean only 1 minute.

Next we headed for Jackson, stopping in Crystal Springs for a few minutes to see my aunt, Michelle. No picture there either! Audrey Claire was sleeping by this point (what baby wouldn't be?) so Michelle just came out to the car.

So on to Jackson we went. That's where Mawmaw June lives. We don't get to see her as much as we like so we were excited to get to spend the afternoon with her. I think she was just as excited!

One of Audrey's favorite parts of the visit was Mawmaw's dog, Georgie! She watched Georgie run around the house all afternoon. She always wanted to know where she was and what she was doing.