Shelby is talking

Shelby is already talking.  Last week she started saying a lot.  Her first word was DADA! She says MAMA, DEDE, NANA.  She has been laughing-I have yet to record that-but it is so cute.  The other night I was playing peek-a-boo and she was cracking up laughing.  She is such a happy baby.  She's still not rolling over yet, but I think she doesn't really care about that.  She also does this really funny "dance" (that's what we call it), when she is laying on her back she wiggles her entire body kindof like Stevie Wonder-it is so funny, but she wouldn't do it for me entirely when I was recording her.  I will have to record her doing her dance-because she will do it for a while over and over-it makes all of us laugh. 

Valentine's Day Surprise

Chris surprised me today with this!  I was at work and came out to my car to all of this.  Chris wrote all over my car and put roses and a sample of Tim McGraw cologne inside.  It was a big surprise.  It definitely made me laugh and then I had to drive around with this on my car.  I went and picked up Carson at preschool with my car like that.  It was fun.  Chris went to the store and bought dinner makings too.  So I get to enjoy a gourmet home cooked meal from my man as well.  He made today fun!  Thanks babe-Love you! 

Holly's Birthday

Holly turned 7 on Feb. 8th and on her actual Birthday we took her to Dairy Queen for an ice cream and let her open presents from us and Grandpa and Grandma Jones. The entire week Holly was excited for her Birthday and then her party on Sat. 12th. Holly wanted to do a "Tangled" Theme. We had the party at the church again and had lots of fun. We ate pizza and Cake (of course), had activities of coloring pages, making a Pascal party blower. I got all these great ideas at DisneyFamily.com. On the website they had the activity sheets of drawing a nose on Flynn Rider, drawing Rapunzel's hair, and making the party blowers of Pascal. The blowers were great since Pascal is a cameleon-I got pink party blowers- like a tongue-and the kids loved that. Then we played tug-a-war with yellow rope that represented Rapunzel's hair. The kids thought that was great! All the kids at the party even took on Chris. Then I had some blonde hair headbands that I got at the Dollar Store to give out to the girls and the boys got paints, and the gift bags were already pre-made. Wal-Mart carried all the "Tangled" party stuff for inexpensive-so that was good. They had a great time and Holly had about 18 friends come-I think next year I will probably need a bigger bouncy house for her age group! I had fun preparing for Holly's party, but I'm glad it is over. Now I don't have to worry about kids Birthday's until September.

Here's a little video of Chris taking on a bunch of 7 yr. olds at tug-a-war.

Shelby is 5mo. old

Shelby is 5mo. old today. I took this video this weekend. She has been talking so much lately and I finally got a good video of it. Usually I can never capture the moment because she sees the camera and stops doing whatever I'm trying to capture at the time, but it seems like she is getting better with that. It's so cute how she has been talking so much. She's almost rolling over-she's very close. I took Shelby to the Doctor the other day because she has been sick and she has an ear infection-she's on antibiotics and is now feeling better after 2 weeks of coughing. She's still congested, but the bad cough is gone. She weighs 14 lbs. 14 oz. and is 26 1/2 in. long-that was last Tues. Shelby just loves her brother and sister. She also just loves hanging out with her Daddy. Everytime Shelby is fussy and I can't figure out what she wants-I just hand her off to Chris and she calms down. She only wants me when she wants to be fed!! :) No-she still lights up when she sees me when I get home from work-I love it. I look forward to that everyday to see her happy face and then right away it turns into a cry because I'm home and she wants mommy. I'm still nursing and will continue to do as long as I can, since Shelby is such an easy baby-it actually makes nursing very easy-even with working full-time. She is still the best baby ever. I just adore her.

Holly's playing Basketball

So if you think we aren't busy enough, Holly is playing Basketball through parks and rec. and Chris and I are coaching her team-to add one more thing to our load. It is a lot of fun actually. We are the Yellow team-"Yellow Panthers." That's what the kids came up with. We have practices every Thurs. and games every Sat. It's only for 6 weeks, but the coaches have to be the refs during the game and pretty much run the games since there isn't anyone there to help out. These are pictures of our 2nd game we played and of course my competitive side comes out. I was helping coach from the side lines-yelling pretty much and I got kindof upset during this game with the other team coaches and the one of the kids-but I keep my mouth shut and just remember it's fun. We don't even keep score. Holly is having fun, she's a little timid, but she will soon get aggressive.

Holly and I are taking Piano lessons as well on Fri. afternoons. I've been wanting to take piano and since Holly wanted to take lessons I decided to take them with her. She is learning very fast and practices a lot more than I do. She really enjoys it! I'm having fun and picking it back up faster than I expected, but I just don't practice enough. Probably lack of time! But I do what I can. We are enjoying Piano and on Feb. 25th have a recital. Holly is excited about playing at it and I guess I'm going to play at the recital too. I'm the only adult student...so I get to choose if I want to play at the recitals. It's fun to do lessons with my girl!

Here's a little video of the Basketball game. It's pretty funny.