Happy 4th!

Good morning! I'm happy to announce on this 4th of July that my sweet baby niece Abigail Grace was born very early this morning...3..ish..I can't remember what Melissa said:( Hud and Mel went to the Dr. yesterday for her 38 week appointment to find that her fluid levels were low, so they decided to admit her. The baby weighed 7 lbs and some change (again I wasn't quite awake yet) and was 21 inches long! I can't wait to see some pics of her!

Progression of a Popscicle

Carseat Talk

From now on "Carseat talk" just means anything funny said in the car. It seems like that's where all our meaningful conversation occurs. Today as we drove past a church, Allie must have noticed a fairly pointy object at the top which most would call a steeple. She said, Boy mom, if I every decided to crawl to the top of a church, I would not poke my belly button on that thing. It would for sure hurt.

Sweet little "Butt"erfly

Some day Mary will kill me for this, but I can get away with it for now. Here's THE issue with her around our house. Everytime she goes to the bathroom, she doesn't put her panties back on or ask anyone to help her. (It seems that she only needs to go when I'm feeding Garrett). So she runs around without a stitch on her bottom. Today Em and Adam came over, and Mary ran up to Adam with her butterfly wings on....and well that was about it! Sorry, I just had to snap a pic...I did censor the pic..don't worry..but it was too funny not to share.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

The reason I entitled this post OH MY GOODNESS is because I was really surprised when Allie did this. Her uncle Adam taught her how to dive last summer at the beach, and she showed her swim teacher she could do a dive off the side. She then did it off the diving board, and it was so pretty...for a 5 year old anyways. The instructor said, who taught you to do that?? Allie said...Oh my Uncle Adam taught me! THANKS ADAM!!!

Bombs away!

Allie made water balloons yesterday afternoon to throw at the neighbor boys. Mary of course wasn't having any part in this, but the rest of them sure had fun. You will notice a new structure in our back yard! Apparently, as soon as I pulled out of the driveway to go to Crossett on Friday, Faber went to Sam's to get this playset. He had measured everything and had planned to get it built while I was gone. He worked literally ALLLLL weekend to build this for the girls. He will need to attach the swings and the slide still, and then it'll be finished. They LOVE it! I was so surprised. OHHHHH..and my biggest news for today. GARRETT SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT! It could've been a fluke, but he slept from 11pm to 6am!!! Party on party people.



Just a random video of Garrett smiling from a few days ago!

A letter to George

This morning on the way to swim lessons Allie was just talking away as usual. She started talking about George Washington, and wanted to know where his parents lived. I said, Allie we went over this; George was our president a long long time ago, and he lived a long time ago. She said..."so that means his parents are dead too". I said yes, people don't just go on living forever. She said, "Well that's too bad; I wanted to know his parent's address, so I could send him a letter and tell him I'm sorry that he is dead." We'll get that letter out today sometime:)