Baptism

I need to catch up on my post. There were so many things going on last week with her turning 6 months I never posted about her baptism. She was baptized on 11-8 at our church FUMC Hurst. The pastor who baptized her was Mike McKee. It was a beautiful service. She was very cute. She wore a christening dress that my grandmother made when my mom got baptized and we all have worn it since. The choir even sang a song with her name in it.

I did have a freak out moment when I forgot she needed the bonnet off for the actual baptism when we were standing in front of the whole congregation! The bow was tied so tightly around her neck and I couldn’t get it off. But what felt like 10 minutes, actually was about 30 seconds and I got it off. Whew…..!

Then we all came back to our house and partied.

Here are some pic’s!

Doctors Visit

We had our 6 month well check today. Valerie is coming right along. She is weighting in at 17 lbs 8 oz and is in the 75% of her weight. She is still very very tall coming in at 27.5 inches (95%).

Here are some pic's we took being bored waiting for the doctor.....

Happy half-Birthday!

Valerie you are 6 months old today! I can’t believe how much you have enriched my life.

• You weight around 18 lbs! (95%)
  
• You are in a size 3 diaper


• You are wearing 6-9 mt clothes and have been for quite a while!
  
• You LOVE your exersauces. We like to call it your baby six flags. You jump and jump and giggle at yourself.
  
• You have been rolling over for quite a few months now.


• You love to sit up - but you don't like tummy time too much.
  
• You love sitting in your bumbo. You would much rather be in your bumbo playing with a toy than on the floor.
  
• You only take your pacifier when you want to go to sleep (which I love!).


• Your favorite song is "You are my sunshine". You giggle at me in the car when I sing it at the top of my lungs.


• You are such a good eater (see bullet #1). You have been eatting oatmeal cereal for a month now.


• 2 days ago you started your first vegtable - green peas.


• Overnight you have developed such a personality. I can tell you are going to be such a fun little girl to be around. Your daddy and I love you!I can't believe how much you have changed in six months. I can't wait to see the beautiful little girl you will grow up to be!

(I got this idea from kelly's corner, a very cute blog I follow!)

Halloween

I have done a really bad posting this month. October has flown by incredibly fast. I was just trying to keep my head above water during marching season. Now, that it is over, I can relax and enjoy writing millions of papers for grad school. YAY!....and of course enjoy my little pumpkin!

Halloween was a blast. We started out at Angela's and carved pumpkins, then went to the trunk fest at their church. We then came back and ate yummy food Angela prepared and of course did some more trick or treating with the "big" kids. Chris stayed behind and tried to give a very tired baby a nap. Here are some pictures……

GREAT PARTY ANGELA!

These are the pumpkins we carved. Julia thought the stuff inside was yucky!

My little pumpkin with Kristin.

Bye-Bye Pumpkin. Hello Lady Bug!

Lady Bug mommy and lady bug baby!


Family of lady bugs!

Queen Lady Bug with Princess Cinderella (Cousin Julia)

Give me your glass slipper!!

The Royal Family (Aunt Angela, Uncle Jeff and Cousin Julia)

Chillin in my ride at the truck fest.

Poor tired Cinderella!

Lady Bug Princess stayed home and handed out candy!

This morning was Valerie’s first day in her high chair and eating rice cereal. She did great!! We gave it to her at her first morning feeding. We first gave her a few oz of formula to help the process since she was so hungry, then we feed her the cereal. At first she kept looking at me like “what the heck are you doing mommy?” But, then she realized it was a new taste and started smiling after every bite.

Sitting in her new high chair.

Humm...... Mommy what is this??

I think I like it!

ALL DONE!!

Princess waiting for dropped food. Sorry Princess, no solid food yet.....

FUN PICTURES!

I thought I would share some cute pictures that we have taken over the past few weeks!

ROCK STAR VALERIE!!

All decked out in Birdville HS colors to cheer on mom's colorguard.

GO UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE football

Bow head

Sittin' Up!

My baby is learning how to sit up! Angela brought over the Bumbo chair and she loved it! She will sit in that thing for forever and just watch everything around her. I think she likes that more than her bouncy chair these days. So last night, Chris and I decided to get out the exersauser and put it together. THIS THING IS MASSIVE!!! It took up the whole livingroom to put it together. Where are we going to store this thing for 9 more months? Valerie didn’t quite know what to think about it. Too much stimulation. This morning, I put her in it and she cried instantly. It’s a process…..

Find Waldo! (did i mention how big it is)

Her feet don't even touch the ground. So I put the breaststool under her!

The way my beautiful livingroom use to look....

And now.....

Valerie + Bumbo = Love.