8/18/2010

As I've written before, Currey and I have been greatly blessed by so many precious friends from all the seasons of our lives. In the last month I have gotten to spend time with 2 precious friends.

While in Dallas last week, Currey finally got to meet my dear friend, Emily Merrell. I've never called her Emily. It's always been Merrell. Merrell and I attended Kanakuk together for several summers and we were the best of friends. She came to visit me in Amarillo and I made trips to Dallas during the school year so we could see each other. I have countless memories with Merrell and Currey has heard about her for our entire relationship. Finally, he got to meet her. I didn't even know she was in Dallas (she currently lives in London) but facebooked her as we had been at a restaurant I always went to when I visited. She wrote back that she was in town and we scheduled a visit. We picked right back up where we left off (we decided we hadn't seen each other in 8 years!) and she had come across a scrapbook of one of our summers at Kamp. It was so sweet to spend time reminiscing about Kamp and talking about life now. I'm so thrilled that Currey was able to meet my precious friend too.

A week before that my best friend from college, Celeste, visited. Go here to see pictures of our time together. I was a slacker and took NO pictures while she was here. Celeste and I met our freshman year and then pledged the same club at ACU. We spent almost every Friday night together at Starbucks. We both had long distance boyfriends and would spend our Friday evenings chatting to each other and our boyfriends on the phone. I'm sure we looked like weirdos but it worked for us. :) We shared many adventures in college and always had a blast when we were together. I can report that we still enjoy each others company immensely! Celeste was here for a work conference so we got to see her on several occasions which made her visit extra special. I think it's safe to say she LOVED Miss Blythe! As the smiles in Celeste's pictures show I think Blythe loves her Aunt Celeste too. We got to share several meals, shopped and even had a couple of Starbucks dates. As always, it was SUCH a treat to spend time with my sweet friend. We just missed her precious husband Adolfo. Hopefully next time! Just wanted to take the time to document these sweet visits. Hope you are all having a wonderful week.

6/24/2010

Our time with Blythe is absolutely flying! She continues to get bigger and become more alert. With each week that passes it seems as though she is becoming less and less like a baby! We can not believe how fast she is growing.


As always, she had several firsts this month. They include..

• Her second road trip! This time we went to Wisconsin. My parents flew into Chicago and spent a couple of days with us here. Then we packed up and headed to Wisconsin Dells for the week.
  
• Swimming! We were able to give Blythe her first taste of swimming. Currey and I took her one day, then Jeffrey took her the next day. She seemed to like it. Just one more experience!
• Blythe rolled over for the first time! We actually all missed the first one, but saw 2 more after that. She waited another week until she would show her Daddy but now she just can't stop.
• Unfortunately, once on her belly she screams. She's not quite sure how to get back on her back. We are anxiously awaiting that milestone as we spend most of our days flipping her back over.
  
• We got to attend our first play group at our local cloth diaper store, Cumfy Bummy. It was nice to meet some other moms, especially other cloth diapering moms. We really enjoyed it and I think that we'll be back!
• Mommy had to take her alone for shots. It was much more traumatic for me than Blythe. I was so upset, I frightened the nurses. I HATE getting shots, so watching Blythe get them bordered on unbearable.
• She weighed 13 pounds and 4 ounces and was 24 inches long at her 4 month appointment. She's dropped to the 45th percentile in both.
  
• She is still in 3 month clothes for the most part and I'm not complaining! I'm not ready for her to grow up and it's already happening.
  

8/14/2010

I was so proud of myself because I got several posts done yesterday but then Blogger was having issues and wouldn't let me post!!! I was annoyed but thankfully, this morning, it's cooperating. So get ready for several new posts.

And since I recently realized this never posted, here's Peanut at 3 Months. So Cute!

7/24/2010

As always, these posts come so quickly! It seems as though I was just writing the last post. Blythe is now 5 Months old!!!


Here's what we've been up to this month...

• Blythe attended her first wedding and got to see Daddy perform his first wedding.
  
• That weekend she got to meet lots of people that love her dearly, including Currey's mom and 3 sets of her great grand parents. She was loved on like crazy!
  
• She also got to attend her first staff retreat. Again, Blythe received lots of extra love that week. We are so blessed by our church family especially the other staff members that we serve with. Staff retreat is always a highlight of our summer and we loved that Blythe got to be a part of that this year.
• We stay at Papa John's lake house for retreat. While we were there Blythe got to go on her first and second boat rides. She was having a hard time sleeping so we took her out on the pontoon. It rocked her right to sleep. Later in the week she got to go on another boat ride for a sun set cruise. We got a precious picture of her with her daddy!
  
• During staff retreat she began sleeping on belly exclusively. This made us very nervous initially but after staying up with her for over an hour flipping her back over we decided she could sleep on her belly. :)
  
• She can roll over from her belly to back now, although she rarely does that. She now enjoys her tummy time and spends most of her day looking at the world around her.
• Blythe got to meet Marge and Bob. This was SUCH a treat for Currey and I as we just adore the Schroeders. We enjoyed introducing them to Blythe and it's safe to say that they are in love! I think the feeling is mutual.
  
• We had some issues with feeding but were introduced to a wonderful nurse named Sue. She was truly a life saver and now we are back on track. At our second appointment with Sue, Blythe weighed in at 14 pounds and 8 oz. She is such a great eater!
• Blythe attended her first White Sox game with the youth group. She even wore her White Sox onesie. She looked adorable!

Blythe,
You still bring us more joy than we could have ever imagined. It is so fun to watch you grow and learn. You are so alert. We spend lots of time wondering about what you are thinking about. You are absolutley amazed by the world around you! You continue to smile continuously and love people. You go to everyone with ease and just eat up all the attention. You are a precious little girl and we are blessed to have you as a part of our family!

8/11/2010

I can't believe it but I have somehow managed to log 100 posts here on my little blog. The posts are so infrequent but it's interesting to look back and see what I've thought was post worthy over the last 2 years. It's been fun to see where we've been and the adventures we've had. Such sweet memories! When I realized that this post was going to be our 100th I felt it should be memorable. Yes, Blythe's 4th and 5th month are special, but there is something I thought was worth celebrating in this post....Blythe has moved to her own room!!!

Now the purpose of this post is not to step on any toes as I know there are LOTS of differing opinions on the subject. I'm just wanting to mark this moment in our family history. Our goal was to have her in her room by 3 months. I wish that we could at least admit strong convictions to our arragnement but actually we were bring quite selfish. You see, we don't have central air conditioning. We have 2 window units, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. It's been a remarkably hot summer and we just weren't ready to part with our air conditioner.

Thankfully our sweet friends heard of our predicament and gave us another unit. Blythe has been sleeping apart from us for a whole week and has never missed a beat! Although it's another sign that she's growing up, we enjoy having our room back. So there you have it, post number 100. Looking forward to 100 more and maybe it won't take me another 2 years to get there! :)

8-2-10

If you follow my blog at all you will quickly realize that frequent posts are not my strong suit! I've been working on Blythe's 5 month post and realized that I never posted her 4 month post that is written. Those will be coming soon. We've been recovering from a flooded basement (not fun!), entertaining my best friend from college for the weekend (more fun than words can express) and preparing for the upcoming youth group year (beyond fun but more work than I dreamed!).

(Also, if you don't view my blog in reader, it appears that the template that I was using has been taken down so there is no more cute pattern. I'll get a new one...but at the rate I move with this blog it will be Christmas before that happens!)