Miss Alabama

Adeline thought this was so much fun last night, and I had to get a picture. In case you can't tell, she's sitting on a map of Alabama while her Dad is trying (quite unsuccessfully) to plan our route to Florida. To my surprise she didn't try to crumple up the map, as she does with most other paper objects. But she did think it was lots of fun to sit on it and kick her feet to make noise.

Mack & Larry

I thought I would introduce you to the "other" members of the family. Meet Mack and Larry. I rescued these two from David's dad's clinic. They were such cute little kittens, and I'm a sucker. They remained nameless (or I guess they were called "the cats") until Vacation Bible School this summer. One of my sweet little second graders, Ashley, felt bad for the cats and suggested the names Mack and Larry. And I thought, sure, why not.

Adeline is CRAZY about these two. She will stand at the door and look at them as long as I'll let her. I can't honestly say the cats are crazy about Adeline, but we're hoping she'll grow on them soon.

We've got a climber

So, she suddenly figured out the walking thing, and now she's suddenly figured out how to climb ON EVERYTHING! If it's a semi-steady surface, she's going to get to the top of it. This presents many new and previously unconsidered dangers.

As you can tell, she's also mastered the art of keeping our house in a state of constant disarray.

I haven't jumped ship....

I just haven't had a chance to update our site in awhile. A lot going on, good and bad. But at any rate, here are a couple of new pictures of the star of the show. I like how she's "posing" next to Bully. : )

Big news: SHE TOOK HER FIRST STEPS TODAY! How exciting is that? She has been trying to let go of different props and tackle moving freely about for awhile now, and today, she finally succeeded! She took three or four big steps all by herself. It was really cute, and looked so strange because she is so little. We had a witness too. David's dad (who, by the way, has settled on "Doc" as his official g-parent name) was here and got to see the whole show. Now we just need to convince her shoes are a good thing.

Say a prayer for my Mom. She likely has a ruptured disc and has been in bed all week, pretty much unable to move. We are going to Seaside at the end of this month for Ashley's wedding, and Mom was sooo excited about getting to keep Adeline that week. Needless to say, she's really upset that she won't be able to now. It's important that she gets better though, especially since Miss Priss has figured out this walking thing!

We think it will be a lot of fun to take Adeline to the beach for the first time....I'm just a little nervous though, as this will be our first long trip with baby. I'm going to be contacting some of you (if I haven't already) to get your tips on traveling with a little one.

Okay, it's late and I'm tired. If I have lots of really terrible grammar and incorrectly spelled words, forgive me on this one!

I left my camera in Corinth....

Well, I wanted to post pictures from Justin's birthday celebration and Ashley & Tyler's engagement party, but I left my camera at my Mom's house. We had a great time this weekend, even if it was a little busy, and we missed getting some on Justin's birthday cake.

We went to an early dinner with my family, then to Pickwick for Ash's very fun engagement party. It was held at a gorgeous cabin overlooking the lake - the cabin was named Bide-a-Wee, I still haven't figured out what that means, so if you're aware, let me know. Ash looked beautiful and there was food and music to rival lots of wedding receptions I've attended. I'll try to post the few pics I got at a later date.

I couldn't leave you without something new to view. These pictures are from last week. When Adeline finds an interesting object, she will put it in her hand and crawl around with it. Well, some objects are obviously not easy to hold while crawling...such as a bottle. So, Adeline's solution? She just carries it around in her mouth like it's no big deal. David thinks it is "ingenious", I think babies are just resourceful.

Oh! And congrats to Melissa Patton who got engaged this weekend!