Baby Love

Hanging out with brother

Ready to take off...I have a feeling that little miss will be crawling before we know it!

Close up!

Putting in some work on my computer!

Lilah:31 Weeks

If you're keeping track...you'll probably notice we went from 29 weeks to 31...momma got a little busy and didn't get a chance to take a picture last week.

28

Thursday we celebrated my 28th birthday! Despite the crappy weather (it poured down rain the entire day!), it was a great day! After work, I came home to celebrate with my sweet husband, precious baby girl, and little ole Dread (who was also celebrating a birthday). Jep surprised me with a gorgeous diamond bracelet. I was shocked!! He did so good and I am one lucky girl to have such a sweet hubby.

Me and Lilah on my birthday

We continued the celebration onto Friday night. Jep and I were able to get away for a few hours to enjoy a nice dinner out at Flemings. Thank you Nana Beth for watching Lilah!!

And, a big thank you to all of my family and friends for the phone calls, text messages, emails, and facebook messages!!! I'm so incredibly blessed to have you all in my life!

Little Sis

Splish Splash...

...baby girl loves sitting up in her bath!

A Girls Weekend

Jep was out of town for drill this past weekend so it was just us girls (and Dread!) After Lilah and I did a little shopping on Papa's dime, we stopped over at the Solomon's for a visit.

Lilah, Madeline & Mary

Allison, Mary, Lilah, and me

I can't stop laughing at this picture. Lilah looks gigantic compared to baby Mary.

Lilah and Madeline in their little matching outfits. How cute!




And...here is my little pianist. Lilah just loved the piano.

Banging on the keys

Below is a little taste of the beautiful music of the talented Miss Lilah... (you may need ear plugs for this piece!)

Lilah: 29 Weeks

Baby girl is 29 weeks old!

We introduced the sippy cup tonight--she just like chewing on it. She hasn't gotten the hang of drinking out of it yet.

And, just a cute picture of some tummy time

Lilah: 28 Weeks

I had a hard time getting this little one to look at the camera this week. She was too preoccupied with checking out the fabric she was on.

Lilah: 27 weeks

Lilah: 26 Weeks

My little 26 weeker prefers her fingers over a paci.

Lilah: 6 Months

My Sweet Girl,

Happy Half Birthday! We celebrated your six month birthday on Christmas Eve. I can easily say that this year was the best Christmas by far!! You made this year so much fun and I just know each year is only going to get better!!

You continue to amaze us every single day with all the little things you do. Your sweet, little personality is really starting to show more and more! It is apparent already that you are going to be a daddy's little girl. You just love your "Papa." He'll walk in the room and your sweet face just lights up as soon as you see him! You also love your big brother, Dread. You've just really started to notice him and love watching him. He'll come up to you and give you a big kiss on your little chunky cheeks which makes you laugh.

You are just growing and developing right before our eyes. At your six month well-visit you weighed 17 lbs, 4 ozs (75th percentile) and were 27 inches long (90th percentile). Dr. A said you're going to grow up to be a super-model if you keep growing at this rate! :)

Shortly after your 6 month birthday, you began sitting up on your own. You just love sitting up by yourself with all of your toys around you. Your favorite toy right now is the musical kitchen set you got from Santa. We are starting to wonder if we've got a little dancer on our hands because each time you make the music come on you start to dance! :) Papa likes to say you get your dancing skills from him...bless your heart! No, really though...Daddy is a good dancer so this is a good thing. :)

You are doing so good with eating solids. So far you've tried green beans, sweet potatoes, bananas, avocados, squash and apples. You've loved them all except you weren't too crazy about sweet potatoes.

You are rolling around like crazy. I'm sure it won't be too much longer before you're crawling.

You are discovering your voice and use it often! :) You've recently started squealing and screaming because you can! We'll yell back at you and then you yell back at us. It's become a fun a little game for you.

You are teething like crazy right now. You've got three big teeth on the bottom. Those frozen teethers have become you new favorite thing along with our fingers and momma's necklaces.

Oh baby girl, you are our world and we just love you so very much! Happy 6 months!

Christmas Celebration # 3,4,5,6

Christmas lasted for weeks around our house. We wrapped up our final Christmas celebrations this past weekend in south Alabama. We made the trip down to Elba on Friday afternoon to get ready for a Saturday jam-packed with Christmas festivities. It's always hectic (but a blast!) when the family gets together in Elba. Nana's house bursts at the seams with 13 adults, 8 kids running around, plus a big ole Pit Bull. We have to get pretty creative with the sleeping arrangements!


Saturday morning Lilah got to stroll around Nana's house with her cousins Beth Ann and Drew while everyone got ready to head to Papa Jim and Mama Jackie's house (Christmas Celebration #3) for breakfast and Christmas presents!

After filling our bellies full of breakfast casserole, scrambled eggs, grits, biscuits, monkey bread, bacon and fruit it was time to open presents

Lilah with Papa Jim and Mama Jackie

After our trip to Enterprise we headed on to Opp, AL for Christmas #4 with Granny and Paw Paw DuBose. Sadly, I left my camera in the car for this celebration so I have no pictures from our visit. We had fun nonetheless!

After Granny and Paw Paw's we turned back around to Elba for Christmas #5 with Granny Farris.

And, then it was onto our last and final celebration (#6) at Nana's for more presents! This is where it gets very chaotic! :) Wrapping paper, toys, and boxes everywhere! So much fun though!

Whew! I'm exhausted all over again thinking about all of our partying. I think it is safe to say that Lilah had a great (and busy!) first Christmas!! As long as Christmas was spread out this year, I have to admit that it was very satisfying putting up my Christmas decorations this year! I'm ready for a break from all of the hustle and bustle.

Side note: With all of the Christmas craziness, I've been a little off track and am behind on posting Lilah's weekly photos. I've got two weeks worth of photos and her 6 month post in the works. So, stay tuned!