Baby Rolls and misc

Amelia is such a good eater! I love the fat she's getting on her little body. Baby fat is so precious. Look at these little turkey legs in the making....

Play time with daddy...

Let me introduce you to the giraffe that has stolen Amelia's heart...
That little purple giraffe makes her smile and coo everyday. She loves her! She hangs from her play mat but I thought I'd take her down to amuse Amelia during her tummy time. She enjoyed talking to her and making love-y eyes with her.

Happy Birthday, Lacey!

Tomorrow, Oct 15th is Lacey's first double digit birthday! I can't believe she'll be 10. It seems just like yesterday when Kelly called me at 5am to tell me they were going to the hospital b/c she was in labor. I rushed to the hospital not realizing that the first baby takes a looooong time to arrive. I was with Kelly and Clint for the beginning of her delivery and then let our mom come in for the actual birth. Mom was at lunch but she made it back just in time to see her first grandchild come into this world.

Lacey is such a wonderful little girl. She's sweet, smart, talented and so loving. She loves school, crafts and singing. I pray that she continues to grow to be strong, independent and confident. I know she'll go far in life no matter what she chooses to do. She's a great big cousin to Amelia!

We're going to Outback for dinner tomorrow night. I'll post more pics later.

Happy Birthday, Lacey! I hope you have a special day!

Sweet little feet

Fall Fun

Saturday Nathan and I took Amelia to the pumpkin patch in Medina. It was a gorgeous day and she had a great time.....sleeping. We took a lot of pictures so she can see all the fun she had that day. Joy, Brad and Jayla went with us but I didn't get any pictures of them. Jayla was movin' and shakin' and was hard to keep up with.

Here's our first Fall family picture.

Nathan did a great job holding Amelia in these face framed cut outs. Still sleeping peacefully.

They have a great petting zoo. Here she is with a baby chick on her tummy.

Amelia's lunch time. By the way...this is my awesome Hooter Hider! I love that thing.
It's so awesome!

They have a nice apple orchard on site and here I am getting some fresh apple cider. It was so good. We took the Apple Tour and they demonstrated how they squeeze the apples. The cider is $8 for a 1/2 gallon. wow.
They also have delicious apple ice cream and apple pie. Soooo good!

It's Raining, It's Pouring

Over the weekend we had some awesome rain! Rain has been a real stranger lately in San Antonio. Such a stranger that once the rain came down in buckets early Sunday morning we found that it had no where to go. The ground was so packed and dry we ended up having a small lake in our backyard. Look at all the standing water. Great. You know what that means....mosquitoes.

Here's our back porch.The rain has stopped and our lawn is much happier.

Morning walks and fun pics to share

Amelia and I have been going on morning walks pretty regularly. Walking is the only thing I can do workout-wise. My doctor hopefully will clear me at my next visit to do a little more exercise.

--wait a minute...did I spell exercise right? It looks so funny. It's so weird when you use a word and look at it spelled and you are totally baffled b/c it looks so foreign. Anyway, back to this post--

Nathan and I usually walk on weekends and on Monday morning since he's off from work. My next door neighbor saw us walking and asked if I'd like to start walking with her. She really wanted to start so that's what we did this past Monday. Amelia loves going on walks. Kelly gave me her jogging stroller that she used with Lacey and Ashley and even though it's for kids 22 lbs and up we still use it for Amelia. Bad momma? Noooooo....we are very careful and we pack her in using extra blankets. She's very safe and secure although I'm sure the gal that taught our car seat safety class would look at me and say to herself "tsk, tsk, tsk...shame on her." We go really slow. I'm not running or anything and plus, I need to get out of the house! With the flu going around I'm hesitant to take her to the mall so morning walks around the neighborhood are a must!

Robyn got her a cute pumpkin beanie to keep her head warm. Amelia loves it and she looks so cute!

She also got her some Halloween tights and a cute Halloween baby t-shirt that says "Got Candy". I'll be sure to take her picture in it and post it soon.

Here's a cute outfit that I think is for a boy that was handed down to me but I girled it up with a bow....
Here are a few tummy time pictures. She's getting better at holding her head up for longer periods of time. She even had herself propped up on her elbows.

Nursery

I've been working on a little project for Amelia's room and I just finished it. Thanks to my sister Kelly for coming over to help paint the letters for Amelia's wall. They turned out really cute. First, we painted the letters a solid green and then used pencil to make a trim which we painted chocolate brown to match the elephant colors in her room. I loved the look of it.....
Fun, right? How about a little whimsical pink added? Now that SHE'S here we seriously need a little pink in her room. I bought a stencil of different sized circles and penciled them on to the letters and added the bright color...