Parent Dedication

This past Sunday, our church had Parent Dedication (much like baby dedication). It's where we, as parents, make the commitment to raise our children according to God's word. We received a family Bible instead of the baby New Testaments, and I can't wait to begin using it as a family!

My dad was on call for the weekend, so they weren't able to make it, but Alan's parents did! We had a lot of fun catching up with them, and even managed to uncover some major utility issues that have to be fixed (more on that later...). We all hung out at the house the majority of the day, but we definitely ate some yummy food! Chick-fil-a salads and Aubelo's for dinner...Can't get much better than that!

For some reason my "good" camera isn't working, but Alan's mom had hers, so I got a couple good pictures from the weekend. :)

Helping Daddy assemble our new kids table

Ignore me in the background... ha

Love ponytails on this girl!

Playing with Daddy

D just discovered how to walk pushing
this toy!!

Like sister, like brother... both have fingers
in their mouth

Grammie, PaPaw, and their grandkids

on stage!

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Weekend Recap

So I didn't even pick up my "big" camera this weekend, but I did make sure I took some pictures with my phone. :)

On Friday, my mom left to head back home (she came down to watch Elizabeth and David while I went to a teaching conference in Houston). I also took David to the pediatrician concerned that he had pink eye. I'm not 100% sure that he did have it, but we treated it as if he did.

That afternoon Elizabeth found Gammie's glasses and we watched Finding Nemo with Daddy before bed. We also realized that David is outgrowing his 9 month clothes... They kept coming unbuttoned. :)



Saturday, the kids treated us by sleeping late (E until 7:15 and D until 8). After breakfast, we went to the grocery store and then Alan grilled hot dogs for lunch. David took an awful nap, so I ended up holding him for about an hour. I enjoyed snuggling with him!! That afternoon we made two trips to Lowe's to get paint. We struck out with the first sample, hence the second trip to Lowe's. Luckily, we liked the second samples and ended up finding paint colors for the master, living room/dining room, and David's room (all the same color), and paint for Elizabeth's room.



Sunday, one of Alan's sisters drove through College Station and stopped by for lunch and to see the kiddos for a bit. Elizabeth was so excited to see April and she's still talking about April and DoubleDaves today. David ate a TON at lunch - I still don't know where he puts it all! Unfortunately,

We also went back to Lowe's to pick up a couple gallons of paint. They have a $5 off per gallon rebate going on, so we're going to head back and pick up a couple more gallons tonight!



After a yummy dinner of grilled pork chips, potatoes, and roasted veggies, we went to Bahama Bucks to get a snow cone. Elizabeth loved her banana snow cone! And I can't believe I did this, but I even gave David some of mine and as you can see, he was a big fan! :)



We're in for a fun, relaxing week gearing up for Grammie and PawPaw coming down Friday to hang out!


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Weekend Recap

We had a fun weekend! Friday morning we got to play with one of David's friends, Maggie. They had a lot of fun playing tug of war with toys!!












While I was trying to get D down for one of his naps, E found some Reese's eggs... And demolished them!! She had chocolate all over her hands and face.



Saturday, Alan smoked a brisket and we had some other friends over. We all had fun playing, and then they watched Peter Pan while the grown ups played games. Silly kids decided it was comfortable to lay on the fireplace/ottoman. Ha



Sunday, we went to church and then met my mom for lunch at fudruckers. She came to town to watch the kids while I go to a conference for work. I'm excited about going to Houston Tuesday through Thursday, but I'm definitely not looking forward to lugging the pump around...

That evening, Alan finally got our mirror hung over the piano. I love it!! :)


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Giving up Elizabeth's Paci...

This past Saturday we decided that Elizabeth was going to lose the paci at nap and bedtime (she'd gotten rid of it in the car the week before that...). I was a little nervous about it, and in hindsight, I wouldn't recommend doing it when your other child is in the middle of a sleep regression. Nonetheless, Elizabeth is paci free now! We went cold turkey and threw the paci away Saturday morning.

"bye bye paci!"

Excited... for now

We got her some play-doh for giving up her paci. She loves it!!

This is all for me!?

Saturday nap and evening was really rough... Sunday morning she woke up at 3 am and Alan went in there with her. She got up out of bed somewhere between 3-5 times between 3-7.

At least someone is happy...

Sunday nap we learned that she did much better if you didn't occasionally go in there. Which was hard for this momma when she kept saying "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" over and over and over... That evening was a little better, but still not the best. At least she slept all night!

I was worried about Monday nap, especially since David had been having issues sleeping. And it took her about 30 minutes to go to sleep. Alan, however, has the magic touch, because she didn't cry at all when he put her down. 

Nighttime has continued to go well and naptime is slowly getting better, thank goodness! I'm so glad we're done with pacis (with one child at least), but I'm not looking forward to getting rid of them with David...

Boxes!

We got two boxes from amazon today - one had an alarm clock for E and crib wraps for D's crib, and the other had a roll of paper for the kids new craft table (side note... while it's the right length, I have a feeling there is way too much paper on the roll to fit... we'll just have to see when the table gets here). I put David in the bigger of the two boxes just to see how he would react - Elizabeth always cried when I put her in a box, so I wanted to see if he did the same. David, however, loved it and would've stayed in there much longer than I let him. :) Elizabeth even joined in on the fun and sat in one, and then decided she wanted to be closer to her baby brother... I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Love that mischievous grin!

I promise no children were
hurt in these boxes... She was
trying to hug him. Haha

"hug him UNDER his arms...
not his neck"

This one cracks me up!!