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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Christmas Highlights

We celebrated Christmas with Lover's family this year. It was our first Christmas at home in Atlanta. We were excited to experience going to our church's service and just enjoying our home during our favorite time of the year.

Here's a pic of the grands on Christmas Eve.



Then we prepared some goodies for Santa and the reindeer...



I love this picture... it captures well the personality of this little girl.


Christmas morning brought some excitement... but were they excited?? Not so much!



My favorite gift... Lover had a picture of Squeezie drawn by the same artist who did Nucky a few years ago. He picked a great picture and the artist did a wonderful job. He also got me a getaway weekend with my mom and sister, completely booked for us... just a few more days til we leave!!






Monday, November 16, 2009

Hi Ho the Derry-o..








The farmer and the cow.
Halloween just keeps getting more fun as they get older. I love it when little tikes come to the door Trick or Treating... there's so much more wonder and joy in their faces than the average 8-10 year old who is basically saying "Gimme some candy!"
Nucky truly sees wonder in Halloween. Too bad she doesn't feel this way about the birth of our Lord... there's still time though.






Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Birth Announcement tries








We tried many, many times to get a cute one. Wow, the yelling and gnashing of teeth involved. I finally decided to just do a photo of baby alone. Here are my other attempts though. Kind of cute anyway.
For the record, some cute things Nucky has said lately:
"Mommy, you need to turn the wimper wipers on, it's raining."
Talking about the little boy on Caillou named Jeffrey --
Mommy: Perry, what is the name of Jason's brother on Caillou?
Perry (very resolutely): Jeopardy
We watch Jeopardy faithfully every night at 7:30 usually pausing it until after bedtime. I guess she's heard a lot about it.
When time was getting closer for baby to arrive, we talked a lot about going to the hospital and coming home with the baby. ONe day she asked me if we were going to take Bruiser back and pick up a new baby. In her dreams, I guess!
Now onto #2:
Bruiser needs a new name. Kind of like in the Bible when people did something notable and God changed their name (Abraham, Paul, Jacob, etc)... let's just call her Squeezie. Some notes on her right now. She is the quintessential rascal, always messing with something yet constantly happy and laughing. A true joy to have around, she keeps us all laughing with her silliness. As far as the messing around, one morning in the craziness that is called getting ready for school and me trying to meet a client right after I drop them off, I was busy getting my make up on in my room. Baby and Nucky were with me. Squeezie had been missing and quiet for at least 5 minutes. What could she be doing? (Always the question when there's no sign of her and all is quiet) She was sitting on the kitchen floor with the syrup bottle in hand, had poured it in a huge puddle on the floor and was dipping her whole hand in there and licking it. If I hadn't been so enraged, I might've stopped to laugh and/or take a picture. She has also been found in the laundry room with the scoop in her hand and powder detergent all over the floor around her... and powder footprints thru my kitchen. Don't even get me started on the soap pump in the bathroom...I could go on and on.
And for baby:
Sleeping well thru the night. Usually goes down at 9 and up at 6, then back down. Thank you, God, for a good baby so far.
Very smiley and content. Smiles easily at all of us, but often at her sisters despite their torment.
Gaining well, probably at least 13 lbs now.
Mommy:
Tired but used to it.
Busy with clients. Good.
Excited for the holidays that will be hosted at our house for Thanksgiving and Xmas.
Reading a lame book -- don't laugh... it's called Size 12 is Not Fat.
Daddy:
Renovating our basement bathroom that had a miniscule vanity, carpet on the floor, gray 80's wallpaper and lovely faux wood soap holder and towel bars.
Always an encouragement to me.
The best dad to these 3 beloveds. Truly loves to play with them (hmm, is that in contrast to me??).
Even more excited about the holidays. Never met anyone who loves Christmas more than this guy.
Thrilled over the Yellow Jackets football season thus far.
Wow, that was a long post!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Mere-boo!


Love this little hat that Auntie Bess made for Bruiser.


Tummy time.


Big smiles for the camera


She's often transported in some type of body wrap. This Ergo works great and is super comfy. Unfortunately, she didn't even know she went to the pumpkin patch.


Happy Birthday Blog!

It's been a year since I started this beloved blog... wow, the memories. Ok, being sarcastic. Maybe my new resolution could be to update more? Hmmm... I'll think about it. Went to the Pumpkin Patch again this year for the third year in a row. Beautiful fall weather and lovely colors. As Gordie the mechanically-speaking pumpkin on the hayride says, "We jus' luv the cool fall are (air)." Went with PALS, as you can see below. PALS is now PALMS, I guess. That's an acronym for their names in case you haven't read my July post.







Friday, October 2, 2009

Life with 3



We fight over who gets to hold her!

Truly loves her babysister!

Not much of an ogler, but I do love my baby!
All of us loving on baby! These photos were taken by a friend who takes awesome pics. Thanks Abbie! MM (Mary Mac) was about 3 or 4 weeks old. Now she's 7 weeks today. TIme is flying. Speaking of MM, she needs to eat, so I can't spend much time here, just wanted to share some photos. She looks so much different now and has filled out a ton. I'll update soon, I hope!








Sunday, August 16, 2009

Baby No Name?




No, she has a name but I feel funny about giving names on the blog hence the aliases... so, see Facebook for that! Or email me. Here are some pictures of her! We'll just call her Mary Mac for now!