On the Move

Taylor is crawling!! She has been crawling the last two and a half days. She is so cute doing it! She's pulling up too. I haven't seen it yet, but mom and Derek have. She pulled up on her toy box and on the couch. I can't wait to see her do it!

She's still sick, so say a prayer for her. She still feels crummy, but I think its a little better. Two ear infections and a sore throat are hard on a little one. We are all taking turns sleeping with her. Whenever she lays down on her back, she starts coughing really bad. So, we are spoling her a lot by holding her so she can sit up and sleep.

More cute pictures!

Taylor is just almost crawling. She is doing the army crawl, and taking a few little crawling steps. Soon, she'll be everywhere. She has a little stuffy nose, so we're going to see the doctor tomorrow. Better safe than sorry!

Work is going great. I might start working there full time, can't decide yet. Taylor is loving spending time with my parents and grandparents, but she still misses her dad a lot! Me too.

Taylor went to her first football game on Friday. She loved it. She actually slept for part of it, but she loved the band. It was Homecoming, so of course she loved all the mums and bells too. She'd clap when everyone else did. It sounded like she was saying, "Yeah, Panthers!" It was great to see some old friends! Dad and I had a good time with her!

My other set of grandparents will be here this weekend so I'm sure we will have some more pictures up soon. Enjoy these cute ones!

More Visitors

Nana, Papa, Aunt D and Mimi all came up to watch a football game and stopped in to see Taylor. Here are some of the pictures. Taylor really wanted to play with Papa's toothpick. She showed them how close she is to crawling. It was a nice visit.

Time with Aunt Whitney

Yesterday was quite an eventful day. My mom's surgery went really good. There was good and not so great news. The not so good news was once he got the ovary out the back side looked a little scary. The good news was he got all the cysts out in one piece. He ran a blood test before the surgery. It came back very positive, which most likely means no cancer, but we'll know for sure after it gets back from the lab. She did great during the surgery. She was in a lot of pain afterwards, so they decided to keep her overnight.

Whitney came up and stayed the night with us last night. We stayed up way to late! But, it was great fun to have her here! Taylor LOVES to play with her. Whitney's getting better and better with Taylor everytime they see each other. Whitney gave her a bath last night. These are the cute pictures from it! Enjoy!!

Here are a few pictures I just loved from Whitney's wedding. I had to share them too!

Home Alone

Well, Derek is out of town for the weekend. Taylor and I had some fun taking some cute pictures. I had to share them with you! She's almost crawling and was getting sleepy. She's gotten so much more photogenic. Well, I guess I've gotten a little faster at capturing her smiles too.

Since Derek is in Oklahoma helping my grandparents move, Taylor and I are having lots of fun. We're going to go hit the pool later and make some huge splashes.

I am so amazed at how much she has changed over the last few months. In some of the other pictures I took of her, she really looks a lot like Whitney. She's lost a lot of that baby look and is looking more and more like a little girl.

We are already missing Derek and can't wait for Monday to get here so he'll be home to share in the fun with us!

Pictures

Here are the latest pictures. I hope you enjoyed them!

The first post

Well, I have seen so many of these pages. I love being able to read what's going on in my friends and family's lives, so I decided Derek and I need to start a page for our little family. I know most of you will be reading to catch up on what is going on with Taylor, but I'll throw some details about Derek and me just to keep you posted!

It's amazing how fast the last seven months have flown by. Where has the time gone? She’s doing great, growing like a weed! She weighs 19 pounds and is 26 inches long. She’s in the 98th percentile in height. Derek and I wonder where that came from since we are both a little on the short side. Her hair has gotten a lot lighter and is now definitely brown instead of the black she was born with. She still has a head-full of hair! It’s really filled in on the back where she did lose a little bit from rubbing her head on the bed.

She’s rolling all over the floor now. Soon she’ll be crawling. She can move a little, so it will be any day now and Derek and I will be chasing after her! She’s eating all her fruits and veggies now. She LOVES squash, applesauce and cantaloupe. I’m excited about that last one because Derek is allergic, so now I have someone who can enjoy it with me! She’s drinking out of a sippy cup and has mastered drinking from a straw already!

She has a walker that she loves to play with. When we take it outside she can really move. She's starting to stand up longer. She's getting more balance, but is not showing any interest in walking any time soon. She seems much more content sitting up so she can see everything that's going on. She's so curious about everything that's going on around her. She loves to watch people's faces. She studies strangers and loves to talk to people. If someone walks by without talking to her, she gets a little sad face.

She's attached to Mommy and Daddy. If we walk out of the room she starts to cry. It made us feel really nice at first, but it gets really hard to do the chores around the house. Taylor helps us now. She loves to lay in the laundry and play while I fold it. She likes to play peek-a-boo with the washcloths.

She loves big bear hugs and to be tickled. She will love roller coasters because she loves to be tossed into the air. My sister, Whitney, taught her how to give high fives and Taylor always gives you a big smile and will give you one if you ask! She likes to play with spoons and will bang them on a bowl to make wonderful noise! She’s a great cuddler and has such a happy personality.

We took Taylor to the zoo here in town a few weeks ago and she really liked. The little zoo here was perfect. By the time we saw all the animals she was ready to go home. She did like the tiger and there was this other animal that we didn't know what it was. It just walked back and forth along the same path right along the fence. She loved to watch it. We made her first wish into the wishing well. It was kinda neat because I remember making wishes into the same well when I was a small girl.

Her favorite thing right now is playing in the water. She loves the pool and taking baths. She can make huge splashes. Derek and I get almost as wet as she does, but its great fun to watch her laughing! She would stay in the tub for an hour or more if she could. We let her stay until her fingers and toes are pruney.

Derek still loves his job at Bruckner’s. He’s still working nights. He always has interesting stories about the customers that come in. Two weeks ago I started working part-time in the morning for Amarillo Community Federal Credit Union as a teller. I really like it. It’s so nice to have that adult interaction and everyone I work with is so nice! I work in the mornings and Derek and Taylor get to spend some quality time together. Then, I get home and Derek heads off to work. It’s a good schedule for us because we don’t have to pay a babysitter.

My mom's parents are all moved in with my parents. It's been so nice to have them so close. Taylor is crazy about Mema. Probably because she spoils Taylor and always holds her. Taylor never has to sit alone for even a minute when Mom and Mema are around. But, I guess that's what grandma's are for!

We have a great church home here. On September 9th I’ll start teaching a kindergarten Sunday school class. Taylor loves the nursery. The ladies in there are so nice and love to cuddle her. They spoil her, but that’s ok, it’s supposed to be that way. We really like it there.
Well, that’s a quick update with all that’s going on with us. We pray lots of blessings on all of you!