9 Months Old

Bailey had her 9 month check up (with shots) today. Here are her stats:

Height: 27 inches (30th percentile)

Weight: 15 lbs 7 ozs (5th percentile)

Head Circumference: 43 inches (30th percentile)

So basically Bailey is a small baby. The doctor said she is the size of a 6 month old. She is doing all the things on the pediatrician's checklist, which is crawling, pulling herself up from sitting, cruising, saying mamama, dadada, and bababa. She is also a great eater and sleeper.

Bailey got a swing this weekend and loves it!!

Bailey with Emerson. Emerson is great with Bailey and is going to be an awesome big sister to her new brother Fisher who will be arriving today! Good Luck Mindy and we can't wait to meet the little guy!

Better Late Than Never

We finally have a blog! Why, you may ask now? Well I wish I could say that it was because I had a lot of important things to say, but really the answer is that I wanted an easy way for long distance friends and family to stay connected with us. Hope you enjoy!

Here are some fun memories from the last few months:

Back in January Luke's dad and his wife, Robert and Cleo, took us to the Denver Rodeo. Grandpa Robert is great at getting Bailey to laugh!

Franny (Luke's mom) feeding Bailey. She is quite the eater these days, but her favorite food is still sweet potatoes.

Grandpa Mark and Grandma Brenda with Bailey for Easter.

Joel, Katie, and Emmy Foshea (far left); Kyle, Alison, and Owen Mezger; and Luke, Melissa, and Bailey. Luke brother Kyle was in Austin for a job interview this past April. He got the job and they will be moving to Austin next July.

Bailey with her friend Abby. They share the same birthday, and both would have been born in Austin, but we all know that story don't we.

Uncle Rob and Aunt Tara with Bailey in her new playroom! Our house is finished being remodeled and we have moved in. It is so nice to be in central Austin again!

Our little Aggie. So, for all you Aggies out there... I think Luke and I figured out that she would be the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2030, Whoop!

Holden Beach Trip

Written 1/13/12

Two of the things that I love about my sister-in-law is that she shares my love of trips and can appreciate my organizational side. Let me explain: she organized a trip to Holden Beach, NC for any of their closest friends who could/wanted to come, plus she some how single handedly cooked, prepared, and froze meals for a week and found us the sweetest beach house for the group. It is probably the best vacation I have ever taken and now hold all trips/vacations to this standard. We are working our back to including all these on a trip: regular game nights of strategy games and 4 on the couch, reading (and finishing the whole book), relaxed time on the beach, free time, surfing, napping, bocce ball playing, kite flying, and sand castle building.

Here's Bailey on the beach for the first time

And here she is crawling. She would only army-ooch before this, but the sand was rough on her tummy and legs and up she went. Go B!

BFFs- Bailey, Owen, and Emmy

What I wish I could have gotten was a picture of all the adults behind them making this happen or shown the 50 other pictures where one of them were not looking or headed off the couch.

It's kinda funny looking back at them without their curly hair.

Our awesome beach house

Beach House Fun:

Including sit down meals

playtime with cousin Owen (who we hadn't seen since Christmas) especially if it was too windy down at the beach, &

game time. Beware of playing a game with Joel Foshea. He likes to create consequences for being the loser. Here's Megan taking a shot of leftovers from the week.

Beach Fun:

Lots of pictures with the munchkins

 

Some surfing for the boys & Cary

Luke

Luke & Joel

Joel

Kyle

Umm, is that on backwards Kyle???

Kite Flying, Sand Castles, and Burying Luke

What a great week!

Moving into our New House!!!

Written 1/13/12

Our new house was finished being re-modeled and it was time to move in! Here was the apartment we lived in during construction and was Bailey's first home.

This was me 9 months pregnant with Bailey right after moving in.

And this was Bailey's part of our room. I didn't see any reason to set up a nursery for such a tight space.

Here is the new house- 3908 Idlewild. Yeah for Bailey getting her own bedroom & a playroom, yeah for a guest bedroom, and yeah for an out-of-the-way home office (so that I wasn't tempted to distract Luke from working)!!!

I remember having the most amazing moving crew a.k.a. our old small group. 
 

Check out all the hats they found in a closet.

 Hopefully we didn't work you too hard (although Brandi looks like she is passed out), because we definitely had alot of stuff.

Easter

Written 1/13/12

For Easter we loaded up and carpooled with the Pennys and headed up to Weatherford for a day trip.

Pa & Gigi with Bailey, but back then they were going to be Grandpa Mark & Grandma Brenda. Unfortunately, Bailey shortened grandpa to just Pa and turned grandma into Gigi.

The Penny Family. 

They adopted Boss from us back in July when Boss and Blue were getting into fights and we could not have our dogs fighting with a newborn. Tara & Robby had always joked about wanting Boss, so it worked out perfectly so that we still get to see her alot.

Looking back, I miss how nice it was to get a family photo with everyone looking on the first try.

And of course, a sister picture.

What was I thinking feeding her sweet potatoes in the car with her white dress on???

Some Uncle Fun time

Back before I had kids I always participated in the egg hunts. My parents started putting money in the eggs at some point and it was their was of enticing us home for Easter during college. I remember getting enough to pay for gas up there and back, plus a little extra. I was going to hunt this year as well, but two events conspired against me: Andrew started hunting before everyone was even outside, which caused everyone to run outside and start hunting. Secondly, I was holding Bailey and needed to put the bjorn on, but first the plastic bag that I got had a hole in it. Everyone seemed to feel bad, but not bad enough to stop hunting, so I took pictures. Wanna guess who had hunted the most money that year? Andrew. I know it may seem that I am still upset, but I'm not, just documenting.

Nana doesn't normally hunt, but she felt bad for me

Tara

Luke

Robby