A Week "Off"

If you live in middle Tennessee you know how much rain we have gotten lately. i think I have added around 8 inches on this place in the past ten days. Crazy I know. Today is the first time I have seen sunshine since last Saturday. Very thankful for it. So because of all this rain I think prospective buys on the house stayed home. But it was actually nice not to clean for 2 hours for people to see the place for 15 minutes.

Things have been actually somewhat boring around here....if that's possible for my life ;). The boys are nutty as ever...still wrestling like dogs.

Did I say wrestle? Well evidently Garretto can get just as dirty as the dogs....man good thing it was a bath night!!

And my head is still spinning realizing that my tiny sweet baby will be a year old this week. CRAZY!!!! I remember this time last year how tired, miserable, and huge I felt. And I just wanted her out. Then the drama after her birth happened and it seems like time has spun out of control since. I miss that sweet lil newborn. But I tell, ya, she is so stinkin cute these days it's hard to want the newborn back. She is taking more and more table food. Probably could really do it all day but some of it is laziness on my part (for example a jar of baby food thrown in the diaper bag is so easy for breakfast at church). She is pulling up on furniture and letting go briefly as to say, "Look Mama, no hands!" And she is taking a sippy cup. I didn't think it would be so difficult to throw away the baby bottle but it is. I figure it'll be ok for them to stay on that shelf til the packers come in a couple of months :) I just love her to pieces.

Bug chowing on some pizza crusts. cracked me up that she was little enough to prop her feet up like that. Stinker!
Sippy cup for the first time...although she's not really happy on whole milk yet. Still prefers Mama cow.
Her hair on the sides is getting much longer and I asked myself one day...hmm wonder if I could make pigtails (or dog ears as my Dad calls them). I thought they were STINKIN cute!

I've also started making preparations for Joe to come home. We have scheduled a party..woohoo! I've gotten some shirts for the kids to wear to the airport (love doing that!) And making appointments to make myself look pretty :). Hopefully I can fill these last few weeks so they will fly.

Born and Bred Country Girl

Bug's personality is coming out so much these days. She still loves her Mama but she is venturing away from me more and more. I catch her dancing and clapping and playing with all sorts of things. But the one thing she has gotten most excited about is a John Deere ride on toy the boys have had since Joe was one I think. She bounces and claps to a little tune it plays. It is sooooo cute. Was able to get a little clip of it. Hope you enjoy :)