What a busy month this has been! There are pics of Averi meeting Landry for the first time. Those girls are going to be best buds! I realized the other day that Averi and Landry are almost exactly the same age difference as Mel and I. Pretty crazy!
Then there are some great pics that Joel took for us for our Christmas cards. He did a wonderful job.
Then I took Averi over to Heather's one afternoon for a playdate with Lucas and Landry. It was a lot of fun. I am sure there are going to be a lot more of those in years to come.
There are some pics with Santa and our trip to Chuck E Cheese for Syd's bday. She had a great time even if we were a few days late getting there.
This year has flown by for me. I can't wait to see what 2008 has in store. Happy New Year everyone!
We took the girls to ABF Tuesday night, 12/18, to see Santa. Kelly and Chris brought Reaghan and Mel and Sam brought Landry. It was so much fun getting the girls together. Joel came too and took lots of cute pics. I took ZERO. Jim made a good point... Its not that you don't think to take pics of baby#2, its that you are too busy chasing both kiddos to take pics!!! But luckily Joel was there to get some cute shots. Merry Christmas! Its almost here!
Sydni had a great birthday party! She got everything cinderella ever made and loves every one of them. She is our little princess...enjoy the pics! And thank you so much to everyone that sent gifts and came to the party. She is a very loved and lucky little girl.
Here are the November pics! It looks like I slowed down this month, but actually I didn't with the Mikabeth, Joel and Tday posts!! Anyway, here are some of the girls with a visit from GranGran, Poppa, and Matilda earlier in the month. They watched the girls while Jim and I went to the South Caroline game. WHAT A GAME!!
Then of course pics of the girls just fooling around...along with some pics of Sydni's Thanksgiving program at school! She was great!
The end has our tree pics. I LOVE OUR CHRISTMAS TREE! I wish we could leave it up year round.
The pics went pretty good with Mikabeth. Sydni really wasn't feeling well, but Mikabeth managed to get some beautiful shots. These are just a few of the ones I have seen. I should get the entire proof book soon.
Our inside pics with Mikabeth fell through so we decided to meet Joel at the park for him to take their pictures. Although Sydni was being a little diva, Joel managed to get some great shots! THANK YOU, JOEL!
Where did October go? We had such a wonderful month! We went to my mom's house for a big birthday celebration. Sydni had a ball playing with Matilda as always. Then of course Halloween! ENJOY! Here come the holidays! I CANT WAIT!
I am splitting up the month again. With our new camera the pics are getting out of control! We went to a fall festival and got some cute pics of the girls in the pumpkins. Then Sydni wanted to paint hers. She had the best time! We really need to get her some paints and stuff. I think she is going to be an artist :) We also went to an Octoberfest up the road from here. Sydni had a great time playing on the playground and the bounce around! Averi had a good time watching...heehee She is such a good sport.
Well get ready for lots of pics this month! I probably should have posted halfway through. The girls are wonderful. They are growing and changing so much. And I think its official. Sydni is POTTY TRAINED!!! Except for naps and sleeping at night she is in panties and doing fantastic. She told me last Tuesday that she was ready. That she wanted to wear big girl panties to school. I said OK...assuming there would be accidents. BUT NOPE! She did great.
As for Averi, she is rolling over both ways like a pro. My big girl :) And she has started rice cereal too which means shes down to 4 bottles a day. She loves the cereal. We are going to start oatmeal tomorrow I think. Enjoy the pictures! I sure do love taking them.
We haven't done much the rest of August. Just adjusting to our new schedule mainly. Sydni is doing really well in her new preschool class. The potty training isn't going as well unfortunately. We are going to give her a few more weeks before tackling that again. Change a dirty pair of panties once and you are done for a lifetime.
Here is the part 1 August pics! I thought I would slow down in the pic taking dept since I started back to work last week...nope! Speaking of work, its good to see all my coworkers and get back in the swing of things...but I miss Averi terribly. Sydni is at the age where she would prefer to be at school with her friends, but I feel like Averi needs her momma. I go up there at lunch to say hi though. That makes me feel a little better. It is just going to take some adjusting. The ladies that are watching Ave are the same ones that watched Syd so I know them really well. And they know me (and my control freak ways!) so they are really sweet to me and to Averi.
Here are some pics that Joel took at the pool last weekend! It has been so hot!! The pool has been awesome!
Its funny...every time I get close to the end of the month I can't WAIT to get these pics out there. I hope the kids don't do anything cute tonight because I am posting the end of July right now!
I am so in love with these 2 crazy kids and my 1 crazy husband. Things are going really well, but my heart is breaking at the thought of having to go back to work. I am really surprised. I think I appreciate Averi's "babyness" so much more than I did with Sydni. With Sydni I had no idea how fast time flew. I still catch myself thinking of Sydni as a baby, but she really isn't. Shes such a big girl and is sooo crazy about her little sister. She has breakfast EVERY morning with Averi right beside her in her bouncy. Its really cute.
Wow...I rambled on a lot there...
Anyway, here are some pics of Averi and I hanging at home of course. And then we took the girls to a park downtown that had a ferris wheel and carousel. Sydni loved the carousel!!
Here are some pics from the first part of July for the 4th, a trip from Matilda, and a visit from Grandaddy and Grandma Trish. The girls are doing great. We were trying to potty train Sydni but were basically getting nowhere so we are giving that a rest for a couple weeks. Averi is doing wonderful and is sleeping like a champ at night for which I can never thank her enough.
Lots of pics this time! We really haven't done anything special. I guess the girls have just been extra cute lately. heehee There are some great pics from Father's day. We went to Nashville because it was also my grandfather's birthday AND my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary! Then lots of pics of Averi hanging out at the house. I was able to catch some smiles too! Averi got in the pool for the first time this month. She wasn't wild about it, but she didn't hate it either. We even got brave and took them BOTH to dinner this past weekend...with the Settles as backup. haha
Again the pictures started to get out of control so here is June Part 1! Time is flying by. I can't believe Averi is already 4 weeks old! She is doing so well, and we couldn't be happier. Especially Sydni! She loves Averi and always wants to be near her. From the pics you can see we went to the Tulsa Zoo. I know...the post prego hormones must be getting to me. It actually was really nice! I was the worst out of all of us. HA! I was worried Averi was too hot...too cold...too much sun...etc...But she did great.
I didn't slack on pictures for the second part of the month thats for sure! We had a party on Memorial Day. Sydni played in the pool all day long. She was so worn out she was sick the next day and couldn't go with Averi to get pictures taken with Rachel! (Hopefully we will reschedule the girls together later.) I have seen a preview of a few of Averi's pics and they are awesome. I will send out an email with a link to all of them when Rachel has them ready. Also Ave's umbilical cord finally fell off (after 15 days!) so we were able to give her a real bath. She was not thrilled to say the least. Sydni always liked her baths. NOT THIS ONE! haha
Well, the amount of pictures I have been taking has gotten out of control. HA! So I decided to go ahead and post some now and a "Part 2" at the end of May. Averi is a total joy (so far at age 7 days...haha), and we have never been happier. Sydni is loving being a big sister. She wants to hold her all the time.
Shes here and she is amazing :) I will post all the details on my pregnancy blog later. Just getting the pics out right now...
What a big month we had! Syd's Grandaddy and Grandma Trish sent her a cool backpack that she just loves. Doesn't she look all grown up in the pics with it on?? And then her Aunt Judy sent her a rabbit to stuff and dress herself! That was a lot of fun...for Dad too I think. heehee Gran Gran bought Averi her basinette so Sydni had to help Daddy put that together. I think she is going to be a total tomboy. But check out the shoes in the pics... Shes still a little princess! Then we went to a strawberry patch last weekend. That was so much fun. She had a great time picking the strawberries and running up and down the rows. This is Syd's last month as the star of the show!!! I can't believe Averi will be here soon!
Happy Easter! Here are some pics of Sydni and Matilda from Easter Sunday. We didn't make it to church that day, but we did manage to get the girls in their dresses and hunt some Easter eggs!
I didn't get many pics this month! I guess we have been busy although I can't think of what we were doing...Sydni had a week off of school this month so we got to spend some quality time :) We won't have much of that in a couple months. But I think she is going to make a great big sister.
Sydni had a great month! She had a visit from Matilda earlier in the month. (And Gran Gran, Papaw, and Aunt Shana too!). Then she had her very first haircut! She was such a big girl! I was so proud of her. She sat in the chair all by herself and was very still so Miss Cheri could cut her hair. (The sucker helped!) Also, she met Reaghan for the very first time! I am not sure what she thought of her. She wasn't into holding her, but she wanted Reaghan to sit next to her. She even tried to share her crackers with her during lunch! haha...
We had a pretty slow month compared to December! I painted Sydni's toes for the first time. :) She was pretty excited about that. She is still on a big Elmo kick. Almost every night you will find her in her Elmo PJs wearing her Elmo houseshoes drinking from her Elmo cup sitting in her Elmo chair watching Elmo! Seriously, I think shes obsessed!