Lets Make a Mess
Dear Lyla Kathryn (my Lyla Kate), I can’t believe how quickly you have grown from an “itty-bitty” to a big baby. You have grown from 9 pounds 2 ounces to almost 19 pounds. Birth – I love how you cried for the first 10 minutes I held you on the operating table. 1 month old – I love your inquisitive spirit. 2 months old – I love your cute little
Lately, Benjamin has been showing a new jealous side… of Lyla. Now don’t get me wrong, he loves her more than anything. He loves to give her her paci, bring her diapers, hold her hand, tickle her feet, give her kisses, etc etc etc… However he knows that he has to fight a little harder for things he wants now. He is also learning a lot about sharing and there
Why did I fall in love with Grant? ♥ Because he is totally the type of person to get up and sing karaoke in front of a big group of people …and I am not. I chose the song☺ We went on a date-night to City Walk at Universal Orlando. We mostly hung out at Pat O’Briens, a dueling piano bar that is great, but we wandered around to a
Top ten reasons I would love to be a baby 1. You could go to movies for free. 2. People are always buying you clothes. 3. You don’t have to wear pants. 4. Everyone thinks you are adorable, even if you have fat rolls and are having a bad hair day… especially if you have fat rolls and are having a bad hair day. 5. You don’t have to do
Yesterday we went to the mall to get baby pictures taken of Lyla. We were going to get a few of Benjamin as well, but some little kid scratched him pretty bad at church 🙁 So while Lyla was getting her picture taken, my mother was running all over the mall with Jam. He was laughing and giggling and running all sorts of places where he was not supposed to
Reading Elmo together at Sam’s Club Somehow Benjamin has hi-jacked the home phone’s answering machine. The worst part is, I don’t have a clue how to change it back. Granted, I haven’t spent that long trying… I just keep forgetting about it. Usually someone is at home. The funny part is that it sounds as if he is just picking up the phone and answering it. People on the other
Here are a few pictures I came across from Benjamin’s first birthday party in Dallas. My Brothers and Sisters in law – Will, Lucy, Jill, and Phil (only Lillian is missing) The cutest cake of Benjamin’s favorite stuffed animal Oo-Oo the Monkey. Haha, he looks angry. Getting ready to try cake for the first time. For some reason he HATED the cake… Maybe it was too sweet… maybe he was
Benjamin: Every time he hears the toilet flush he says “Bye Bye Pee Pee”… we did not teach him that. If I ask him to sing he holds his hands together and sings “mimimimimi….” I did teach him that. He loves to fake snore. He loves to count. He loves to chuckle like the Count on Sesame Street. Gigi (my grandmother): Whenever we watch American Idol with her and Steven
It is important for me to be able to easily (as easily as possible) get out of the house with Benjamin and Lyla, whether it is to go shopping, or for a walk around the lake. Benjamin is going through a wandering faze and Lyla is getting really heavy for her front carrier, so the double stroller is key. At Sea World with Grant’s family We already had a front/back
So Benjamin is at that age where his vocabulary is exploding and he is learning new words every day. One thing he loves to do is to label things, both what they are, and whose they are. When he sees the newspaper, he points to it and says Gigi. When he finds a belt he points and says Daddy. Anytime he sees anyone anywhere holding a clear Starbucks cup (or
