Audrey's First Christmas

Audrey's first Christmas was a wonderful one. She was spoiled rotten by her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins! Here are some photos from the past week. Click on the photo to enlarge it. :)








We had a great time visiting with family and showing off our baby girl. She is growing and learning more and more each day! Her biggest accomplishment lately is that she decided she would show us how she rolls from front to back. We knew she could do it because she will flip herself over in the night but neither of us had actually seen her in action. Well, on Christmas Eve she decided she would let us in on the secret! She pulls her little legs up under her and jerks her hiney up. She then leans over to one side and tucks that arm under and then.... plop!! She lets gravity take over and pull her on over. It is so CUTE! She does all this with much grunting, moaning and carrying on! As soon as I can I will post a video of her doing her latest trick. She also has grown strong enough to support herself on her legs. She will "stand" up if we support her. She loves to do that!! One other thing that she has been doing for a quite awhile is drooling! She is a slobber monster right now. She constantly has one or both of her little hands in her mouth and she is just drooling all over herself. We have to keep a bib on her at all times because it just saturates her clothing. Thanks to Lesa we have some cutie-pie bibs that match her outfits! We suspected that she must be teething but Dr.L said that he didn't think so-- not yet anyway. That brings me to our last doctor's appointment. We went for her four month appointment on the 16th of December. At that time she weighed 13 pounds. She got another round of 5 shots and she once again screamed like a hyena. Dr. L. did say that we could give her rice cereal when she gets to be 5 months old-- then we could move on to yellow veggies. I can't wait to see how she reacts to that! I'm hoping that it will help her sleep longer during the day. Right now she takes about 4 naps each day that last about 20 minutes each. I'd love for her to be able to drop a couple of those naps and take a longer one.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! Our 2008 rocked for us!

Twilight spoiler-
Clay and I went to watch the Twilight movie tonight. I must say that I was originally apprehensive about reading these books because they are about vampires and I thought that was just plain silly. However.... I was talked into it by some ladies of my mommy group and I decided to read them just to prove to those ladies that I wouldn't like them! HA! I was so very wrong. Now, I am not saying that the author is the best author in the world-- the plot lines are a bit weak and she uses way too many adjectives to describe minute details BUT I still enjoyed reading the books. I enjoyed them so much that I had to see the movie. I even enjoyed the movie and that NEVER happens with me. I am a book lover so I will always pick the book version before I pick a movie. The books are definitely set up for the teeny-bopper age group and the movie theatre was filled with them-- giggling and talking the whole way through. That would normally have annoyed me but it was okay this time because it went perfectly with the movie--- plus I was giggling and whispering in Clay's ear the whole time also. He needed a narrator because he hasn't read the books. :)

Audrey enjoying her fancy-smancy exersaucer from Granny and Paw Paw Huckabaa. :)

Our Little Helper

MG came to stay with us Sunday through Tuesday and she was so much help with Audrey! We miss her already!! She helped feed her, dress her, change her and play with her. She also helped me bake some fabulous reindeer cookies! Thank you, Gracie!

Daddy said that there were no more bottles. Shock!

Merry Christmas Lauren and Leanne! :)

The big 3-0

Last Thursday was my 30th birthday. I really can't believe I am 30 years old. Where has the time gone? I don't feel 30. Anyway-- Clay worked really hard to make it a special day for me. He started by getting up at 3:30 AM and baking me a Birthday Cake. It was complete with 30 candles!!! He also made me breakfast that morning. Later in the day he sent me some pretty flowers that remind me of Christmas! Very sweet. Finally, we went out to eat at Logan's! It was a fun day but the best part of my birthday was the weekend! We left sweet little Audrey with Clay's parents (boo-hoo, cry, cry!) and drove down to Fairhope to celebrate me leaving my 20's. We stayed at The Grand one night (heaven!!) and went shopping in Fairhope on Saturday. They have decorated the streets for Christmas and it is so pretty! I love Christmas lights! We also went into Mobile and went to a Lynn Family Reunion. That is Clay's grandmother's side of the family. We had some awesome shrimp gumbo!
We couldn't get a room at The Grand the second night we were there so we went and stayed at a Homewood Suites in Spanish Fort. It was brand new and right near a new Bass Pro Shop. We shopped until we dropped but we didn't buy anything the whole time we were there except one ornament and some fudge at Bass Pro!!!
Finally, we ended the trip with a visit to my friend, Dorsey's house. We got to meet her precious little girl! Ellie was born just 3 weeks after Audrey. Oh, how I wish they all lived up here still!!! We also ate some yummy soup that her chef of a husband made for us. Thank you!!

Audrey had a wonderful time with her Grandparents. They loved and kissed all over her the entire weekend. It was really hard to leave her though. We decided we would just take her with us next time!

Birthday




Fairhope
Clay was trying to make it look like I was in the fountain. :)




Sweet Dorsey, Jim and Ellie


Merry Christmas!

This is Audrey this morning before our stroll around the neighborhood. Too cute!!!

Car Seats

Audrey does not like her car seat anymore.

Happy Gobble, Gobble!

Audrey's first Thanksgiving was a wonderful day! We have many things to be thankful for this year. We had lots of good food and fun times hanging out with my family.












Friday was Audrey's "100th Day" birthday. We had a mini celebration for her. When I say "mini" I mean very mini. We stuck this cute little hat on her and gave her lots of hugs and kisses. That was about it. :) We do love her dearly though and we cherish these past 100 days. She is a blessing!

Merry Christmas! A bit early!!

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12 weeks II

We took Audrey to meet her Great-Grandmother Watts this weekend. She lives about 2 hours away and Audrey slept like a champ the entire way there and back. She was also a sweet little girl during her visit! Mrs. Watts made a pound cake and it was yummy! Thank you!



On our way home from Great-Grandmother Watts' house we saw this in the rear window!



Shopping for a new Diaper Champ with Mommy (how we spent the rest of the weekend)!

12 weeks

Audrey's big accomplishment this week was.... she rolled over! Woo-Hoo!! She did it for the first time Tuesday night. I have video of her doing it Wednesday-- she was still struggling but she's doing it lickety-split now. My, TIME DOES FLY!! It seems like just yesterday we were holding that little limp noodle in our arms but now she definitely has a mind of her own. Watch her go!

Please ignore my "baby talk" and southern twang. Don't let it distract you too much!

11 Weeks

Little Miss Priss is 11 weeks old and has a few new tricks!

She will now lay on a blanket and amuse herself for a bit. I cleaned the house Friday and she was on a blanket in the den for about 30 minutes!



Audrey can hold her rattle pretty consistently. In "teacher-talk" I would say her fine motor skills have progressed to the point where she can consistently grasp her rattle in 8 out of 10 trials. Blah. Blah. She really focuses on that rattle and tries her best to get it in her mouth. :)


The two of us went down to see my parents last week and my mom has this crib. She got it when MG was a baby and used it with Laura as well. Now it's Audrey's turn! This mobile is the best mobile ever! This was the first time Audrey paid any attention to a mobile at all. The one in her crib doesn't suit her fancy. She really likes the vivid patterns on the one momma had. She stared at that thing forever! We packed that little joy up and brought it home with us! Hee...Hee...


This was Audrey this morning showing off for her Daddy. She can sit up pretty well in this seat and she was demonstrating her new trick for Clay.



Here she is after Christmas Village Thursday. She was a sweetie-pie the entire day! We got there around 10:00 and didn't leave until 3:00 so she had a long day in her carseat. It didn't seem to bother her one bit. She slept the majority of the day!


Audrey loves to watch TV! I have to turn it off when she is in the room or she will strain her little neck around to see it. This is a shot of her in action. The TV is back behind her.



I just added these pictures to this post after Audrey's bath tonight. Clay and I have been trying and trying to get a picture of her pouty lip. This is a precursor to what is about to come. She usually does this when she is a bit upset but not quite ready to let out a full blown wail. Clay was successful tonight!!

Halloween

Last night we went to my friend Kelly's house to Trick-or-Treat. She lives in an area that has TONS of trick-or-treaters. All the people in the neighborhood bring out their lawn chairs and just pass out candy all night long. I took Audrey with me (some thing-a-ma-gig tripped at the plant and Clay had to stay to fix it) and had full intentions of transforming her into a precious little bee as soon as it got chilly outside. She's a hot natured little thing so I didn't want to put her in it too early or she would melt from the inside! Unfortunately, Audrey had her stinger out from the time we left our house. It took us 25 minutes to get to Kelly's and she cried the whole way there! I thought it was because she was hungry so as soon as we got there I fed her. That usually works but she was having none of it!! She did not even want her bottle. She didn't want me to sit down either-- she just wanted me to hold her on my shoulder and let her cry. So..... we subjected all of Kelly's guests to a bit of crying on and off for about an hour. We then tucked our tail and headed home!! I never put her in the costume last night but here it is from this morning. She was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and not the least bit upset.

She's trying her best to get that costume in her mouth.




I loaded my sweet little baby up this morning and we went to watch her cousin play his last baseball game. This was also Awards Day so Garrett got a medal!



The announcer at the game said that Garrett "Wild Man" was up to bat. The Wild Man made a grand slam on this hit! He's reveling in the cheers from the crowd by standing on home plate. So cute!


Cheering for the Wild Man!


This last photo is from bath time this morning. One of my sweetest students gave this turtle and bath sponge to Audrey last year. As you can see, we love it! Thank you Hannah!