Sweet Girl at 11 Months

I CANNOT believe in one month we will be celebrating your first birthday!!!  That just feels so strange to say/type/think...  How can it be?

Not too much seems to have changed since your 10th month.  You now have 4 teeth and rarely ever do I see you crawl.  You love to walk to me, hold your arms up for me to pick you up, and just as soon as you're in my arms, you're ready to get back down and do it again :) 

You LOVE your little rabbit that Daddy has named "Foo Foo." :)  When you're really sleepy, rabbit's ear is squeezed tightly and rubbed in your little eyes :)  When you wake from a nap or in the morning, you are always standing up in your crib holding tightly to "Foo Foo's" ear with your paci in your mouth, gripping the rail of your crib.  I need to get a pic of this :)

You are such a sweet baby and at this point, seem to be easy going...  We shall see...  One thing you do funny, I will try to explain, often times when I have to say "no no" to you, I usually end up having to walk over to you to remove an object from you or remove you from something you are getting in to.  If I am walking to you to remove an object, you usually start walking away from me while dropping the item I'm after and never look back.  It's as if you think I won't notice it was you who had the "no no" item in the first place :)  If you are well rested, you take "no no" quite well.  If you are sleepy, tears are sure to follow the "no no."  My, how early disciplining has to start :(



Merry Christmas

From our family to yours!!!



A Fun FILLED Day!

Disney on Ice--If it comes near you--Go!  You won't be disappointed :)

Or at least we weren't!  But, we're kinda in love with Disney, so maybe we're a little partial :)

And, as much as I love Disney, Kenadie feels about the same towards popcorn!  The entire car ride to Biloxi, all we heard was "Can I get some popcorn when we get there?" or "I sure am hungry!  Some popcorn will do the trick!"  We enter the coliseum, find our seats, and then the popcorn fanatic spots the lovely 3 feet tall bag of cotton candy, complete with your very own Mickey crown!  They didn't make the popcorn look quite so snazzy!

If this next picture doesn't make you want to learn how to ice skate and become a Disney character, then I don't know what would! :)

Waving bye to all of the characters!  And they were pretty much ALL there!

As if this wasn't enough fun for one day, we go about an hour further to see the beautiful lights at Bellingrath Gardens.

When did she get so  big :( 

This must have been right before Berkley fell asleep :)  She pretty much enjoyed the sight of the back of her eyelids :) which wasn't actually such a bad thing, seeings how we somehow didn't get home until midnight... on a Saturday night... when we have to be out the door around 8:15 for church the next morning!  Fun times with the family though :)  Who cares about bedtimes at Christmas, right?:/?:) 

I vote for the gingerbread girl wearing the black coat :)

The gingerbread picture was my idea, and this one would be Kenadie's :)

This little girl can do some serious "rainbow" coloring!  Every thing she colors is EVERY color of the rainbow, and more!  It's only fitting the following lights were her favorite!

Love my family, and love our time together! 

*If you find yourself venturing to see the lights at Bellingrath Gardens, 1) Be prepared for a long, slow moving line just to park to get out and 2) Buy your tickets online, to avoid another long line :)  When we got there and I saw the line to get in, and then Aaron tells me he bought our tickets online, I took the time to tell our girls about what a genius their daddy is :) 

Happy 10 Months, Berkley!!!

So, what has been going on with my little Berkley pie???  How about a lot of this...

Yes!!!  I  AM saying you are walking at 10 months old!!!  That's a month before your big sister!  Every day you walk a little more than you did the day before.  It's so sweet to watch your face with this huge smile of accomplishing something BIG!  I blogged earlier, but I will say it again, you took your first few steps on Thanksgiving day, and haven't slowed down since!  Crawling is still your main mode of transportation, but it sure won't be long, and that will be a thing of the past :(

Ok, so let's discuss a little something called Eczema.  It has been thought, not confirmed yet, that you possibly have a wheat allergy, so we are right in the middle of trying out a gluten free diet to see if this will help things.  Why you don't listen to your mother sometimes...(that was directed at myself!)  But for 3 llllllooooonnnnnggggg months I had one miserable baby, unless she was being distracted to keep her mind off how miserable she was :(  And yes Mom, our troubles DID seem to start when I began adding in new foods... ok, ok, you WERE right on that one!  Now, let's move on :)  So, for the past 2 weeks we have removed wheat from Berkley's diet, along with a HUGE thanks to the nurse practitioner we are seeing at the dermatology clinic for some cream that FINALLY brought Berkley some relief!  I'm not going to name all of Berkley's problems as to not invade her privacy :) but let's just say that something she was treated for for 3 months, without EVER seeing any improvement, was never her problem in the first place :(  

You still have just your 2 little bottom teeth, but your top two should be coming through any day!  You still just say "da da" when repeating us, but not actually referring to Aaron as "da-da" yet.  You make lots of sounds and gibberish, but "da-da" is the one thing you will say "on command." :)  You know when we are away from home that your snacks are in my purse, and if I pick up my purse around you, you are definitely hoping I pull out a snack for you :)  Just yesterday you instigated peek-a-boo with me behind a door, so cute!  You love Kenadie!  When we are on our way to pick her up from school, she likes for us to come in and get her :)  When I say "do you want to go get Kenadie?"  You get really excited and start attempting to jump while I am holding you :)  You are such a joy, especially now that you are not itching soooo bad :) :) :)  Happy Berkley = Happy Mommy!  I love you, Berkley!