Thanksgiving 2009

We had a great Thanksgiving with family, followed by insane Black Friday shopping at 4 AM. So that we could shop early, Peter stayed with Papaw and Mamaw and had his first real sleepover (technically he had a sleepover at Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Jen's the night Liberty was born, but that was only half a night) away from Daddy and Mommy.

Cousin Taryn, Peter, and Liberty... of course no one wanted to look at the camera or smile

Mamaw got these coordinating dresses for the girls - aren't they adorable? :)

Liberty, Cousin Zach, and Peter

Look at her wee white patent leather shoes!

Fall Happenings

Here is a random assortment of pictures from this fall. Peter's birthday and party photos are not included because I plan on posting them separately, soon (that's the plan anyway).

The first two photos were taken at Red Robin on Christi's birthday:

Liberty is now learning to play with toys!

Yup, that's Peter eating out of the peanut butter jar (it was almost empty)!

Peter's first time eating cotton candy - naturally he loved it!

This boy does not like looking at the camera...

Our little pumpkin and wild tiger!

The cousins together (refusing to pose, of course)... Taryn is a butterfly

Peter helping Mommy cook

This is actually a doll stroller! Perfect size for Peter to push Liberty in, but it wasn't very stable.

That's a calculater that Peter thinks is a cell phone. He placed it on Liberty's ear so that she could talk!

Liberty's Three Month Photos

I forgot to put up Liberty's three month photos, so here they are now. This is the same outfit Liberty wore home from the hospital. It swam on her then and was nearly too small for her at 3 months! And I just realized that those hospital photos never made it on the blog, so here's one picture for comparison (she is 2 days old in this photo):

And three months later:

Liberty's 4 Month Stats

Liberty turned 4 months old on November 1 and went for her 4-month checkup a few days later. She now weighs 14 pounds, 12 ounces (she has more than doubled her birth weight of 6 lbs, 8 oz.!) and measures 25 inches long. Both her weight and height fall around the 75th percentile. Liberty is quite healthy and the doctor thinks that she will soon be rolling over.

I will post some recent pictures soon!

This news just in...

...Peter is officially no longer a baby.

I thought Peter was pretty grown up when he stopped using the pacifier recently (although that was accompanied by a few days of screaming for 1 or 2 hours at a time in his crib). I didn't realize that there was another milestone out there that he had not yet reached. He reached it today.

I'm usually a heavy sleeper but I'm coming down with a cold so slept rather fitfully. This morning I woke up when Eddie left the house for work, then fell back to sleep. Sometime later at about 7:15 AM, I awakened again to the sound of Peter whining. Then I heard a door open and close followed by little feet running down the hallway. Startled, I opened my eyes and called out his name and then he appeared in my bedroom doorway. It was almost creepy in my half asleep state to see him, because I wondered if he was real! I was shocked that he had been able to get out of his crib but I hoped that it was a fluke. I changed his diaper and laid him back in the crib with his stuffed R.J. (from "Over the Hedge") and blanket. Perhaps he went back to sleep... I know I did... at any rate he was quiet for about an hour. As a precaution, I closed the hall bathroom door which has a child safety knob cover and put the gate up at the end of the hallway, just in case he escaped and I didn't wake up (though I left my door open so that I'd hear him). At 8:15, I awoke to the sound of Peter's door opening and even without my contacts in, I could make out his blurry little figure emerging from his bedroom. Just to see if he would do it again, I returned him to his crib and shut his door. Less than a minute later, it opened again.

Darn. Apparently Peter has mastered this concept and gone are my days of keeping the little monkey contained in his crib. I'm dreading naptime today!

End of Summer Fun

Here are some photos from August and September that I kept meaning to post here but never did. Too cute not to share even if they aren't very current!

This is Peter's first ice cream cone. He loved it!


Cousin Taryn and Peter in the pool at Mamaw and Papaw's


It's nearly impossible to get Peter and Taryn to look at the camera! This was the best pic we got of them.

Baby Papoose :)

Getting ready to go out to celebrate our third anniversary, one week late due to Liberty's hospitalization.

Liberty's first time swimming!

Peter absolutely loves the water! Someday we'll have to get him a pool...

Liberty being adorable, as usual ;)

Liberty's Hospital Stay

On Monday morning, Liberty was admitted to the hospital. She was having difficulty breathing due to congestion and her heartrate was too fast. She was diagnosed with bronchiolitis and stayed in the hospital until Wednesday afternoon. Now she is at home and doing well!!

Since she was in the hospital when she turned 2 months old, we didn't get any official "2 month" posed pictures, so these will have to do!