Avery Brooke has arrived!!

Our friends Bobby and Lori had their little girl Thursday, Avery Brooke. We stopped by to see them today and it was so sweet to hold a baby again. You can see more pictures at www.ackertexas.com.

She LOVES to be swaddled!

I couldn't get over how small she was. She weighed 6lbs and 8oz. It's so hard to think that Abby was that small, actually smaller.

And yes, we definitely have baby fever in our house. :)

We missed the deadline!! :(

Jess and I planned on taking Abby and Christopher's picture for Regis and Kelly's Cutest Baby Contest yesterday. But the weather was bad and the two little ones desperately needed their naps. Since the picture had to be taken in the past month, we wanted to take new ones. We KNEW they would WIN, but I missed the deadline. Just tried to go online and submit one that I had taken this month, but it wouldn't let me. 5pm, EASTERN time. Ugh....oh well. Maybe next year.

Don't you think this girl would have won? LOL!!

Happy Birthday sweet Christopher!!

Last Saturday was Christopher's 1st Birthday Party! I can't believe this sweet boy is 1!! Jess and I have been best friends for at least 2 DECADES now and it has been so fun to through this season of our lives together. Our babies are now both one!! Time flies when your having fun!

Jaelan and her friend were really funny according to these 1 yr olds.

Thanks Aunt Sarita for our Old Navy gift card. We bought this adorable outfit just for the party! Here's Little Miss trying to pull the bows off the shoes.

I'm not sure why my camera is crazy and sometimes takes pictures in ORANGE, but anyways. Here's Christopher in his super sweet Birthday outfit!

The triplets came!!! Greg and Kelley just announced that they are pregnant AGAIN! With a little boy this time! June will be a fun month as their family increases by one.

Someone took this picture of me feeding Abby. This makes me laugh. Look at all the strawberries on her plate. And yes, she ate every last one of them. :)

It's cake time! Look at C's face. Hehee....sweet boy.

"Mommy, why is everyone singing to me?"

It took him a little bit, but he dug right into that cake.

The cake wore him out. Here he is cuddling with his Aunt Jodi!!

Oh my.....yes, she refused to wear her cute shoes that day. She took them off immediately. She would walk around and get the smallest crumb on her foot and she would sit down and inspect it and ask me to pick it off.

Here's the last picture of the day. We forced them to stand by each other. They weren't feeling it, but at least they stood there and didn't fight it or cry.

Jess did such a great job with decorating for his party.

Such a sweet boy! Happy Birthday Christopher!! We love you so much!

15 month stats

Weight: 19lbs 13oz - 10th%

Height: 31 inches - 75th%

Head: 18 inches - 50th%

Overall, she received an A+. Thankfully, he doesn't take into consideration her screaming throughout the entire visit. Otherwise, she would have failed! Poor girl. She has been to the dr so many times that she knows exactly where we are when we go back into those rooms. Usually the moment she sees the table with the paper on it, she loses it. AND, she doesn't stop crying until we leave. Thankfully, he is extremely patient with her and with me.

We learned that she has more teeth than we thought. 8 teeth are showing and 2 more are cutting through. Her weight is low, but he isn't worried. I told him that she refuses her milk in her sippy cup and she just doesn't eat much and he isn't worried. He says she'll get used to it eventually and her appetite will pick back up. I'm not exactly sure how he can say this with such confidence, he isn't the one trying to get her to drink/eat everyday. But we are going to start her on a vitamin drop to help with her nutrition. Our homework with her for the next three months....disciplining when necessary, brushing her teeth every day, work on walking and work on increasing her vocabulary by pointing and saying what things are. She wasn't able to show off anything to him that she CAN say or do because she was screaming crying the whole time. I'm sure he's wondering if she even can talk. LOL! Our sweet girl. What a blessing to be reassured that she's healthy!

She's caught red-handed!

Friday morning, I was cleaning the kitchen and realized that Abby was awfully quiet. I started looking for her and found her in the far corner where we hide our Coke Zeros and bottled Waters. I quickly grabbed my camera and crawled on the floor to sneak some pictures of her "pretending" to drink the Coke Zero.

We definitely drink too many of these if she knows right what to do with the can.

I feel a little bit better here. At least, she is grabbing a bottled water to "pretend" drink.

And, she caught me!

Who knew she could do this????

We went to Jessica's recently and Abby started playing with Christopher's "cone" toy. You know the ones that you put the colors of the rainbow in order largest to smallest on the cone. I'm not sure of the offical name of it. Anyway, she sat right there and put it together and started clapping! She knew exactly what she was doing and how to do it. I almost cried! I could not believe it!! She would take it apart and put it back together over and over. She must have learned how to put this together at school.

When we got home, I got out her toy and let her play with it. She did the same thing. Ours must be a little different than the one she is used to playing with at school. It took her a little bit, but she has it down now.

Just because she's cute!

I was taking Abby's picture this week before school and Stan asked, "Why are you taking her picture?" I could NOT believe he just asked me this. I simply replied, "BECAUSE...JUST BECAUSE she's CUTE!" He just doesn't understand some things. Her cuteness is all the reason I need to take her picture. :)

She was trying to lift her lunch sack with one hand.

"Let's go Momma."

"Whew....it's heavy."


After these shots of her trying to lift her bags, I realized she was matching her bags. LOL!! So I quickly ran to get her brown sweater and made it super duper matchy!

"Momma are we going to Joyland.....aka Sunday School?"

She looked adorable all dressed in pink and brown!