Alexa Claire 4 months old!

Alexa Claire you are 4 months old!

You weigh 14 pounds 14 ounces (75%)

You are 25 1/4 inches long (88%)

Your 4 month check up went great, except for the shots :(

 

We had a little bump in your schedule this month.

You were waking up so much!!!

Momma was not ready for crying it out,

so there have been lots of late night nursing and cuddling sessions.

You have also been eating 3 ounces every 2-3 hours.

 

 

You started playing in your excersaucer this month and the johnny jumper.

 You rolled over from your belly to your back this month on October 14.

You also celebrated Halloween this month and went to the pumpkin patch for the first time.

 

 

You are such a sweet addition to our family.

We love you so much! 

Alexa's Baby Dedication

October 27th, we dedicated Alexa to the Lord.

I am so happy that we have such a loving and supportive church to raise her up.

Jeff spoke a great word over her and we had all of our parents and Corey and Jessica there to be a part of it. It is amazing watching Avery grow in her knowledge of God and His love, I can't wait to teach Alexa and watch her grow. 

We told Avery about the dedication and explained to her that we were giving Alexa to the Lord.

For some reason, she had an image of the Lion King in her head. She kept asking us if we were going to raise her up for the Lord. Everyone thought it was so funny, so after Jeff did her dedication, we raised her up :)

Halloween 2013

 We had a great Halloween!

Avery finally decided on Lalaloopsy. It was a close race between her, Hello Kitty and Ariel.

I love how colorful her costume is.

 Alexa had some pajamas that look like one of the characters.

I found this crocheted wig on Etsy. They turned out so cute!

 Josh had Ashley DePalma paint his face. It came out awesome.

Halloween night we invited everyone from church and our neighborhood over to the house.

It was actually our 7th year hosting Halloween.

We had a great turn out, but it was so rainy! We made it to about 5 houses in between rain showers.

Some of the braver older kids went throughout the neighborhood,

 but we mostly hung out in the garage.

Pumpkin Patch 2013

We headed out to Mrs. Heather's Pumpkin Patch at the beginning of October to play and pick out our Halloween pumpkins.

It was our 3rd year going there, and we love it.

 This is Avery's favorite part, she could spend hours playing in the corn!

Little bit was along for the ride, she is so laid back. She is so used to running the roads with Avery and me, she naps very well in her car seat and just hangs out looking around when she is awake.

 Josh and Avery had a blast on the zip line. Avery is getting so brave.

She is always very willing to try new things, even if she is scared.

 I love her face in this picture. She was having a blast!

 Happy Fall Y'all from our two little pumpkins!

3 months old!

Alexa Claire you are 3 months old!!!!

I know, I can't believe it either!

 

You are still wearing 0-3 month clothes, they are getting snug!

You are almost out of size 1 diapers.

 We have a pretty good scheduled right now:

Every evening you take a bath with you big sister,

we get you in bed around 7:30pm, you wake up to nurse around 12:30 and 3:30.

I usually bring you in bed when you wake up around 6am to snuggle.

 During the day, we still follow Eat, Play, Sleep routine.

You love your lovey, you hold it with both hands and rub it over your face.

You can grasp things that are in front of your face.

You are getting much more responsive when we talk to you .

 Mommy went back to work this month, your Grandma and Mimi watch you during the week.

You spend the weekends with your daddy while I am at work.

The first few weeks were rough, but you are doing well with everyone else.

 You and your sister are so sweet.

Avery loves to talk and sing to you, you always smile and watch her closely.

We love watching you grow and change.

You are so happy and laid back.

We love you so much and thank God every day for sending you to us.



September Happenings

The month of September flew by in the blink of an eye!

 I went back to work this month, we celebrated a bunch of birthday, and just continued to get into to the swing of the school year and 2 kids. Here are the girls before church one Sunday. I am seriously loving that our church meets at 12:30 right now. We have time to wake up, eat a nice family breakfast and get ready for church without rushing.

 Football is BACK!!! I loved dressing these two to cheer on our tigers, I am looking forward to MANY more matching outfits in our future.

 On September 10, after Avery's gymnastic class, we loaded up the car and I took the girls to the zoo. The Doc McStuffin's DocMobile was there. Avery LOVES Doc! For some reason I thought that it wasn't going to be too crowded since it was a school day. Boy was I wrong. There were about 1000 people there! It was super hot and we had to wait in line to get to the DocMobile.

 But it was totally worth it to see my sweet girl have fun. Inside the DocMobile, they had little stations where you could give your toy a check-up.

 You can tell she is the daughter of 2 medical professionals, because she was doing an accurate, thorough exam :)

 We even got to see Doc! Of course my child goes "That's not the real Doc, she was just dressed up like her" Nothing gets past this kid.

 That evening we went up to the Danielle Inn to cook Mom dinner and celebrate her birthday. I am so thankful she is close enough for us to pop in and do things like this on the weeknights.

We celebrated Julian's 5th birthday at a splash pad/park. The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time swinging, playing in the sand and splashing in the water.

Happy birthday Juju!!!

Sweet cousins!

Baby girl was worn out from all the party excitement.

This little girl LOVES her baby sister. This is just one of many pictures that I have of them cuddling. 

Avery got the crud in the middle of September. She was sick for about a week. But antibiotics, rest and some cuddles on momma fixed her right up.

Which brings us to the end of September and my birthday. I made a big pot of gumbo and we watched LSU get beaten by Bama :(



First Haircut and Zoo trip!

Avery Yvonne got her first hair cut August 30. There is this really cute salon in Covington that caters to the kids.

 I had heard that if I got her curls "shaped" they would be easier to manage.

 Here is our little Curly Q playing at the salon.

 Here is her beautiful blow out. It was so funny, the stylist barely cut anything off. I could tell she felt bad for charging us for a haircut. She did do a great job straightening it out though.

 It was more of an "experience" than an actual haircut. Avery did great. Afterward, she kept saying that she didn't need her hair in a ponytail because it was "short" now. Silly girl!

 

 The next day we went to the Zoo! We had a free Saturday and were trying to decide what to do. Avery said lets go to the zoo, so we went. Even though it was 120 degrees outside.

 We got a see the elephant show, Avery even got to pet one.

 No zoo trip is complete without Roman Candy. Can you tell how hot we were?

 This girl is hilarious!

Little bit was such a trooper. She stayed in her stroller the whole time and didn't even fuss. I took her out in the air conditioned restaurant by the swamp area. Her poor hair in the back was all wet from sweat. I am definitely learning how to be more laid back with baby #2. When Avery was a baby our lives revolved around her nursing schedule. We would always be home for her to eat in private. Now that we have two and are running the roads with Avery, my modesty has gone out the door.

I have fed this child in public these past 2 months more than I did Avery the entire time she was nursing. It was funny though, at the zoo I was feeling self conscious about nursing, when Josh pointed out the table right behind us had 3 mommas all nursing their babies too. Hippy mommas unite :)