Chloe at 7 months old!

Chloe continues to be a very happy baby. It is not often at all that she even cries. She goes to bed around 10:00 and sleeps all night long (praise the good Lord). Chloe wakes up around 7 or 8 and she loves to talk in her crib. She is also eating very well. She loves her bottle and she loves most any food (didn't like the green beans of course). We have started trying some of the seconds foods. She loves puffs now and mum-mums are her favorite thing EVER! She also can drink a little juice mixed with water now and she loves that. She is constantly babbling about something and the most exciting news is that on Feb. 21st she said her first words "DADA". It was so exciting and JJ even got it on video. I will have to load that another time. She doesn't say it on command, but she does say it every once in a while. Chloe really loves to chew on things now and she especially loves to be with her mommy. She runs errands with mommy all the time and just rides in her stroller and stares at mommy. She plays on the play mat much better than she used to also. She is loving those toys so much. The exersaucer is one of her favorite things to play in also. She is truly a miracle blessing from above and we are so thankful. I can't wait to see what she does in the next month. She may conquer sitting up on her own next!:) I guess we will see!:) This is little bit holding her own bottle:)

Here we have fancy Miss. Priss!

Here we have Chloe sleeping on her belly in the bouncer. It looks so uncomfortable, but she loves it!

Here Chloe is at her first Softball game and it was FREEZING!!! GO JAGS!!!!

Last two cute pictures of Chloe showing of her personality and then just one proud mom!:)

Chloe's Six Month Statistics!

I promised I would get the numbers from Chloe's 6 month check-up. It went really well and the doctor said that she is perfect and very healthy. I was a little upset that she hadn't gained any weight, but the doctor was not concerned at all. I was very thankful for that! Hopefully now that her acid reflux is improving, she will gain a little more weight and not spit up quite as much! We do appreciate everyone's prayers concerning that. She is just one happy baby as you will see in the pictures below at her doctor's visit! Six and Half Months Old: Weight: 13 lbs 11 oz (7th percentile) Height 24 (7th percentile) Head circumference: 16 and half (29%)

Sweet Kids!

These are just a few of cute pictures of the kids in the last month or so. Love them!:) Dakota enjoys his pasta!

This one of my favorite pictures that I just love so much! So sweet!:)

Movie night is every Friday night and my kids look forward to it every week! They're loving this movie!:)

Dakota turns two!

We were blessed with another wonderful birthday with our sweet Dakota! Another wonderful reminder of how we should be thankful for a healthy child. We pampered him at breakfast and as you can tell he is a very happy birthday boy!

We then were off to school and work. We decided to take a half day of work and pamper our little boy some more. We had some gift certificates to Marbles Museum, so we took off to Raleigh for an afternoon of fun. Dakota and Sadie of course had a complete blast!:) After Marbles we decided to meet Papa, Nana, Aunt Manda, Uncle Thomas, and Savannah at Logan's to eat! It was fun and there was even entertainment there with someone making balloon toys! The kids enjoyed themselves and loved the Mickey Mouse cupcakes. We also had a birthday party for Dakota, which was a blast, but I have not pictures to show for it. It appears that my camera is GONE (which I am so saddened by) and all the pictures from the party were on that camera. If for some odd reason it ever shows up again, I will be sure to load them right up. As for Dakota's development. We did take him to the doctor and he is right at the 50% on most things. His head of course was on the 75%. He is starting to talk more and has begun saying sentences. He loves to play with Sadie more than anything in the world, which does get on her nerves at times. He is also getting his molars in. He has all of them completely in except for one. We have had a tough time disciplining him lately because he is throwing temper tantrums and that kind of thing. Hopefully its only for a limited time. He really is sweet boy who loves to cuddle and just sit in your lap. He continues to love to play with cars and he also loves any stuffed animal. He is still sucking his fingers (which we hope to break very soon). He sleeps with them and in the other arm in usually ernie or goofy or cliffy. He uses some piece of them to stroke his face to sleep. We are not quite sure where is got that from. We are blessed to have a healthy two year old we wouldn't change it for anything! Happy Birthday, Dakota!

Sadie and Dakota

We certainly can't forget Sadie and Dakota! They too are doing well and growing up quickly. Sadie's most favorite thing on this earth is a barbie doll and baby doll that Nana and Papa gave her for Christmas. She loves playing pretend with them. Almost everyday when she gets home, she goes to her room and starts dress-up time with her and the barbies. So, where does that leave Dakota,you got it.......dressing up and playing with barbies as well as bringing Mickey Mouse Rockstar into the pictures. He also loves playing with cars and tractors. I also think he is the official driver of the Barbie car. Sadie and Dakota play really well together. They love each other so much and I am so thankful the relationship they are building together. Don't get me wrong, they do have their times of arguing, but for the most part they love each other a lot! Another one of their favorite things to do is build a camp out (as Sadie says). This is when you make blankets for all the babies, stuff animals, cars, and such. It's not my favorite thing because it is a complete disaster, but you can't help but smile when they coming running to you and say, "Come here mama, Look and me and Dakota's camp out". They're so proud at what they have accomplished. The both continue to love school. Dakota can count to ten now and he know a lot of his ABC'S. Sadie has also learned how to write her name. We are very proud of them. They like nothing more than to go to a ballgame at school. A few weeks ago we turned in the parking lot and all you here is Dakota taking his fingers out of his mouth and he says loudly.........YEHAHHHHHHHH!!!! BALLGAMEEE!!!! And of course Sadie says, can we get some popcorn. Man, I just love them! Sweet handsome Dakota

My sweet underarmour girl, Sadie!!!

My baby is 6 months old!

I can't believe six months have already gone by. Chloe is 6 months old today. She is truly a joy to be around. She loves being around other people. She really loves smiling at her brother and sister. She does love mom the most right now. She whines everytime time I leave the room or enter room. We just gave her her first baby food last week. She has had apples, sweet potatoes, prune, and bananas. I must say that she is a lot like here sister was.......she loves those prunes. She is doing a great job sleeping at night, which is really good for mom and dad. I am trying to enjoy every moment that I have with my sweet baby, because Lord willing there will be no more. She tries to talk so much, but she hasn't said a word that we can understand yet. We are anxious to see here first word soon! She continues to love playing with her feet, drinking her milk, playing in her exer-saucer, sitting in anyone's lap, and of course eating her mum-mums. The only bad thing I can honestly think of would have to be her acid reflux. She spits up really bad and we really feel sorry for her. He is growing and gaining weight though, so we are thankful for that. She has also transitioned to formula now and seems to be responding very well to that also. She is still wearing 3 month clothes and can wear some of Sadie's 3-6 month clothes. She continues to be such a cutie although we do need some hair soon. We will be giving another update in a couple of weeks when she gets her 6 month check-up and we find out how much she weighs and how long she has gotten.

Debby's Birthday Party

Last weekend we attending Debby's 1st birthday party. She belongs to our friends Mike and Sarah Robbins. The party was a lot of fun and we enjoyed visiting with some good old friends!

Chloe at 5 months old!

So much happened during the fifth month of Chloe's life. She had her first Christmas. She turned over! She began holding her own bottle. She is constantly cooing and caahhing. She loves to be held and smiles a lot. She will even laugh every one in a while. She is eating very well, about every 3.5-4 hours. She doesn't really care for rice cereal, so she hasn't had any food yet. She loves to watch Sadie and Dakota plays and really loves to laugh at Sadie dancing in front of her in the bouncer. She started playing in the exersaucer and she really likes it too, especially when Dakota helps her press all the buttons. We were most excited to see Chloe sleeping through the night. Praise the GOOD LORD!!! Finding her feet was also very exciting. That is probably what she is most excited about. Every time she is laying down, she constantly wants to put them in her mouth.

Here Chloe is feeding herself her bottle! This was exciting for mama and daddy!

Here are some miscellaneous pictures:

Silly Dakota!

Dakota loves to eat! In fact he loves to eat so much that he thought it would only be fair to help Chloe eat! Hey, at least he is sharing!

Enjoying Bathtime!

Chloe loves bath time now! We do have to watch her very closely though because she will hop out of that tub if you are not careful!