Best Friends

Anniston had a birthday party to attend today at a place called "Fun City". There's a extremely large tunnel/slide system, and some games that spit out tickets. Anniston collected enough tickets to get a sucker, a pink ring, and a necklace. I explained to her that the necklace was supposed to be shared with her best friend. She then looked at me and said, "Here you go Mommy, you're my best friend". OH MY GOODNESS. . . talk about melt my heart. So we put our purple necklaces on and then posed when we got home. Oh how I hope that we stay best friends. I will know that I've been a good Mommy if I can have the same type of relationship with Anniston as I do with my Mom.

Here we are with our Best Friend necklaces on!

Happy Birthday

We definitely won't go without mentioning that Leah would have turned 31 on Thursday. Birthdays were a month long celebration for Leah. Actually it kind of turned into that. It started out as a "Birth-Day", then evolved into the "Birthday weekend", then "Birthday Week", and eventually wound up her "Birthday Month". Definitely one of many funny things that Leah would come up with and be proud of! Anniston sang "Happy Birthday" to her on the way to school Thursday morning. The night before, she told me that her Aunt Leah would have pink sparkly cupcakes for her birthday. It's very tricky figuring out how to talk to Anniston about Leah. She will tell us that Leah is "in the sky with God", but then she asks if we can go see her, or if she can come see us. Definitely a tricky conversation with a 2 year old.

Leah, we love you and miss you so much...Happy Birthday!

Got my camera back!

Here are some of the pictures that coordinate with my last post. I'll do a quick re-cap!

Eating snow

First time to brush Treyson's teeth, and then his 2 teethReading bedtime books together, and then Treyson laying his head on sissy's shoulder (it was 30 minutes past his normal bedtime--we put him down once the book was over)

Our commando crawling boy

Update with No Pictures. . . sorry!

Jerry took the camera (with our memory card) to work today, but I'll post pictures soon that coordinate with what I'm about to blog about.

It's been awhile since I've blogged. The last report was on Treyson's cute little tooth. Now he's up to 2 teeth, and I'm pretty sure he's working on #3 based on the whining that took place this evening!

So where do I start?

First off, the kids went to Fort Smith to spend time with their grandparents last Tuesday through Friday morning. Anniston and Treyson spent time with MaMa and PaPa on Tuesday and Wednesday, then Nanny and PawPaw R on Thursday and friday morning. Cousin Michael came to play on Wednesday, and Kinley was at Nanny and PawPaw's--Anniston was so excited to get to play with her cousins! I'm sure Treyson sat and smiled at the chaos throughout the day!

While the kids were in the Fort, Jerry and I worked (boo. . . ) during the day, and then went to Sam's club Tuesday night. . . kidless! Went to dinner at Mary maestri's and a movie (Taken--awesome movie) on Wednesday night, then watched Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice at the real times on Thursday (versus starting an hour later after kids are in bed and we're done with our showers). I must admit it was nice at times (got to sleep in); but we missed them terribly! We're so glad they had so much fun!

When the kiddos got back, we took Treyson for his 6 month well-child appointment (3 weeks late...that's what we do to see dr. Ball though). He is weighing in at a dainty 19 lb, 15 oz (85%). Everything else checked out great. Anniston was so good during the appointment and was given stick on earrings (you would've thought she'd won a million bucks) and a Chick-Fil-A meal for being brave??? That was sweet. . . I wonder if the ladies at the front realized that she wasn't there for herself. . . oh well.

On Saturday morning we had a play date with Olivia from gymnastics. Anniston and Olivia had a blast! The only time they see eachother is in gymnastics on Saturday mornings. Olivia's been in our class since the fall. These two little girls were just precious with each other.

It snowed all day Saturday. We decided to put a bowl outside to catch some snow. After dinner, Anniston and Treyson sat on a blanket in the living room and ate the snow...and loved it!

Treyson's scooting around on the floor. He also tries to push himself back up into a sitting position from being on his belly. He's so strong. We're definitely not used to this. Anniston didn't start crawling until she was 10 months old. I've already been doing some putting away of Anniston's things that are questionable when it comes to Treyson putting it in his mouth. The tricky part is getting some of these things out of Anniston's room without her realizing it.

Saturday evening we brushed Treyson's teeth with a big boy toothbrush for the first time. He smiled through the whole thing. Then we went into his nursery to read bed time books. I had both the kids in my lap. It was 8:00 (way past Treyson's bedtime) and he kept laying his head on Anniston's shoulder. It was so sweet!

That's about all for us! We are anxiously awaiting a phone call from our Aunt Melissa saying that Connor is ready to play. . . a little birdie told me that if he doesn't decide to come out and play by this weekend, then pitocin is going to get him moving early next week! haha (mel--remember what I told you. . . railroad tracks, long walks, bounce on yoga ball! It works!!)

YAY!!!

Jerry and I have some exciting news to share with you!!!!!

WE

NOW

HAVE

OUR FIRST TOOTH!!!!! That's right....Treyson cut his first tooth today! I kept getting giddy over it all through dinner, and he would just squeal because he could see how happy I was (secretly, I just can't wait to brush it!!!). Anyway, he was kind of fussy for me yesterday, and for Mrs. Amber today. Honestly, I just figured that it was because he had been with grandparents since Thursday night and was coming off a spoiled, I mean "super loved" weekend.

NOPE!! It was his lower right central incisor, or "P" for any dental friend readers out there! We're so excited!! It's just barely sticking up, but you can definitely see it in person and feel it!!

Happy St. Patricks Day!!

Hope everybody had a great day! It was 80 degrees when I left work this evening. I grabbed Anniston, swung by the house to put a casserole in the oven, went to get Treyson, then came home and got Treyson and the rest of us fed.

Jerry sprayed our jungle, er, I mean lawn for weeds and onions. I took the kids to the playground for about 30 minutes. Anniston went down the slide 18 times! Yes, I counted. Plus she swung on the swings, hung onto the monkey bar, and played "ice cream store" with me. That's a busy 30 minutes!!

Hope everbody had a great day!

SUCCESS!!

Treyson has reached a new milestone in his life. Yesterday, he was able to successfully get a Gerber Puff off of his high chair tray and land it in his mouth! He was so excited, and got several in!! We won't talk about how many were in his lap or on the floor! haha