6 months

 Baby girl is now 6 months old! She is the sweetest thing ever! At her 6 month check up she weighed 15 lbs and was 26" in height. She now scoots, rolls, sits up on her own, pulls up and is starting to crawl.  She has the biggest smile with the cutest dimples!! Sleeping is still a challenge since she usually wakes 2 or 3 times a night, but she makes up for it with her good natured personality and great napping schedule during the day. The boys have given her many nicknames, but the one that has seemed to stick is LuLu.  One of Carter's favorite phrases to say to her is " That's my pretty girl, LuLu!" Her brothers adore her and entertain her constantly. 

 

Lazy days and kiddos

I love taking pics of the kids, but have yet to get a really good one of all three together. I tend to get one kid smiling with Lucy or the boys smiling with Lucy eating her hands or something. Oh well at least I can crop and get a cute one of each boy with Lucy! Lucy is so much fun lately she can scoot and roll around and has these fabulous laughs and smiles that just make my day brighter! She now has good balance and can sit up by herself, which is her favorite position to be in so she can watch the boys running around.

As for what we have been up too, honestly not much of anything. We have been taking it pretty easy around here, just trying to enjoy our last few weeks before the madness of selling the house/moving hits. Most days after dropping cooper off at school we just lay around the house watching movies and enjoying the downtime. My laziness won't be able to continue much longer though, because baseball and gymnastics for the kids and prepping the house for selling/moving all begin in a few weeks. Wish me luck!!

Laughing at Carter!  

 

I Make Milk, What's Your Superpower?

 

Love this sign!!

It definitely describes how I feel lately with Miss Lucy attached 24/7. She is my little leach that refuses a bottle and only wants the real deal. I wouldn't have it any other way!!!! :) 

I'm back!!!

For Christmas and our Anniversary Blaine got me an iPad so now I can return to the world of blogging. Yea!! After a fabulous Christmas, our lovely 10 year anniversary and a wonderful New Years things have finally settled down and real life has returned. Christmas decorations are down and we are spending a lazy Saturday at home. We spent 2 weeks traveling back and forth from Blaine's parents house and my parents house during the Holidays so it's super nice to be back home. Since I have way too many pics from the Holidays I am going to start fresh and begin with the New Year. The New Year brings our family one step closer to Blaine finishing Residency and us moving to a more permenant and stable lifestyle. Only 5 more months!! Woo-hoo!!
To start the New Year off Lucy decided to master several new tricks which brings her one step closer to crawling. I am so not ready for her to crawl, but she is showing she wants to keep up with her brothers and doesn't want to be left behind. She has also mastered the skill of shreaking and squealing when she wants to get our attention and has perfected the art of keeping mom up all hours of the night. As for Cooper and Carter they keep growing little by little, changing into big boys faster then I would like. Carter's latest accomplishment is learning to ride his bike without training wheels. He was bound and determined to do it after seeing his cousins ride their bikes without training wheels.
I am so excited for this New Year and the blessings, changes, trials and whatever else it may bring. Welcome 2012!! It's going to be a good year!

Big girl sitting up all by herself

Lucy tripod sitting and attempting to crawl

Fun photoshoot for the new year.

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2011!!

Cooper- 7 years old

Carter- 4 years old 

Lucy- 4 months old

Funny story about the Christmas pictures.  I really wanted to get Christmas pictures of the kids at the beach this year since this is our last Christmas in Mobile, but I waited to the last minute and ended up going to the beach on one of the two cold days we have had in Mobile.  Everyone was FREEZING!!!!! But my boys are such good sports with pictures that they would seriously be shivering and teeth chattering and I would say smile and they would flash a smile let me take the picture and then in the next breath be whining and shivering again. Needless to say it was a super short photo shoot. :) Love my kiddos!!!

FYI: I may not be updating the blog again for awhile. My computer that I do all my picture editing, blogging and embroidery on crashed so I am out a computer for awhile. I downloaded a few pics to Blaines mini laptop for Christmas pics, but it takes forever and I am limited to what I can do.

4 months

I love this age with Lucy. She has started sleeping 7-8 hour stretchs with only one feeding at night. She also coos and smiles whenever she sees my face (seriously love this)! She is starting to scoot forward by pushing her legs and starting to reach for things with her hands, but dosen't have full control yet. She definitely loves me to hold her and snuggle her but seriously dislikes being left in the carseat.  Her fingers have become her best friend and chews/slobers on them all the time. She is our sweet love bug and is adored by her family!

 

cooing

These are some action shots of Lucy having an entertaining conversation with her stuffed giraffe at bedtime!!    Lucy was cooing like crazy and having a good time telling him all her secrets!! :)