A Musical Christmas

Katie Jo loves music and she got several musical instruments for Christmas this year. She does want to make sure everyone participates because she's not into a "one man band."

Christmas with the parents

On Wednesday, Dec. 20th Katie Jo opened gifts with Mommy and Daddy. She had had some practice the weekend before so she wanted less help and more involvement! :)

Opening gifts with Granddaddy and Mema

When Granddaddy and Mema came to visit they gave me a tea set for Christmas. I loved fixing everyone tea and stirring in the sugar.

Going on a Bear Hunt

This is a little video of Katie Jo doing the hand motions to her new favorite song, "Going on a Bear Hunt."

What a jolly old man!

Last week we went to see Santa and tell him all the goodies we'd like for Christmas. Katie Jo did quite well considering it was a strange man in a bright red costume with fur all around his face. She told him she'd like to have a doll, a tea set, and a few cute outfits. He said he thought he could swing it.

Go train go

Helping to feed the dogs

December news so far

Here's a couple of shots so far this month. We ran into a little camera problem a few weeks ago when someone left it outside overnite and it rained. We won't mention any names. So just our luck that the place we bought it from took it back and gave a full refund. In turn we bought another camera from the same place but nicer. Thank goodness for the decline in technology prices due to the ever increasing amount of "new and improved" gadgets available. So all in all we got a better camera for just ten dollars more!

Katie Jo had her 18 month appointment a few weeks ago and weighed in at 20.4 lbs. She measured 30 inches tall. The doc was quite impressed with her range of animal noises and ability to blink her eyes on command! :) Along with those impressive skills she has taken quite a liking to the moon and wants to find it each night it's available. She proceeds to point, yell "MOON," and make sure you're looking too. Her vocab is continuing to expand with the words No, diaper, hot, dirty, turtle, ball, and a few other that are escaping me right now. She still loves to jump and has finally figured out you can use the floor for this activity. Soon her feet will actually leave the ground and it won't just be a bent knee bounce.

Here we are yesterday with Daddy's train. She loved watching it go round and round and hearing the whistle blow.

Who could ever say "No" to these baby blues?

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Our church has a "Happy Birthday Jesus" party every year and this was the first one for KJ. It was such fun with a jump castle, craft, games, carols, storytime, and cupcakes. She especially liked shaking the jingle bells.

First doctor appointment

I had my first doctor appointment for the new pregnancy on November 30th. I weighed in at a whopping 98 lbs. Please don't misunderstand this as bragging. I am documenting it now so I can look back later and feel good about how much I gain later. The first trimesters stinks, but hopefully things will go like last time and the second and third will be perfect. I also found out my due date, which is Saturday, July 14th. Everything else was fairly standard and next time we'll get to hear the heartbeat!

November wrap up

Due to my increasing procrastination I have not updated the blog in a LONG time. So here's some pics from the month of November in no certain order. Enjoy!

Here I am with my neighbor Jack.

I said, "I'll drive this time!"

Some more

Here's me, Kelly and Elsa at Kelly's baby shower Nov. 4th.

The whole gang of girls: Jennie, Juli, Elsa, Kelly, Amber, Ashton, Amy and April.

Here is Katie Jo with Gran at her desk.

A little fun in the bath. Look at that precious smile!

Me and Daddy love to play a little before nite nite.

Last ones

I can never get enough shots of her when she wakes up from a nap. She just had the sweetest look on her face. This is Katie Jo with Natalie. She works with Gran at the school.
Here's Katie Jo with Granny and Papa.
They had a great time helping her slide on the rails. No splinters thankfully!

Well this month got off to a POSITIVE start!

Well, today (Nov. 5th) I confirmed what I had suspected for the last couple of days, I'm pregnant again. At first, it didn't seem real and I wasn't sure how to feel. I didn't have a lot of time to spare for those thoughts since the PREGNANCY read out on the test didn't last more than an hour and Jay wasn't home for me to tell. So I grabbed the camera and took a picture of the results. When he got home I had the camera sitting out and told him I had taken a really funny picture of Katie Jo and he just had to see it. When he turned the camera on it was the first picture that came up and he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He looked up and said "Are you kidding me?" I think he was a little stunned and his financial wheels started turning. We stood in the kitchen for a few minutes and babbled about who knows what while we tried to wrap our minds around this. Once the initial shock wore off we hugged and both agreed that we were excited just a little blown away!!
After dinner I gave Katie Jo a bath and as I looked at her having a good time I realized how nice it will be for her to have a sibling joining her and watching them both together. This idea of another baby in the house will take a little getting used to but I plan to think of all the positives to look forward to. Now we just have to figure out when to tell people, how to pay for it, when we'll get Katie Jo moved to a toddler bed, will she be potty trained before the next arrival, and will we ever feed all the hungry in the world. No worries though we're having a baby!!

The best day ever

On October 21st we attended the annual sixum Clemson fest. Jay graduated with Brian and Martin and for the last several years we've picked one game to attend together with the significant others. This year is was the Georgia Tech game. Feat number one was scoring six tickets: Done. Feat number two was scoring a parking pass: Done with the added bonus that Brian's girlfriend got us a handicap sticker. Jay's sister Joni was gracious enough to sit in a spot in order to save it (literally sit and wait in a chair). So we feasted on good food, had lots of laughs, went downtown for the obligatory Clemson gear, and cheered the Tigers onto victory. Best day ever!

Halloween 2006

Here are a few pics from Halloween. Our little cutie was a "love bug." We enjoyed going to the church for the Fall Festival and then coming home to give out candy.