Millie - 13 Weeks

This was our Santa Pic. He was at Park Plaza and he was very nice. Carter was not impressed. As you can see it was not the best experience. Don't worry Carter wasn't scarred for life. As soon as we got him out of Santa's lap he was fine. Slightly mad at us, but fine.

Millie - 12 Weeks

I was a few days late with these "twelve" week pictures, but close enough. We had a photo op at OBU December 4th. It was a fundraiser for Relay for Life. Everyone got some great pics (THANKS Dr. Kluck). I took the one of Millie with the bow at home. It is not easy to get a good pic, especially when Carter is "READY TO GO!!!"

THANKSGIVING & Millie 11 Weeks

We had a great Thanksgiving at Memaw's and Pappys (my Mom's parents.) We usually have about 40 people there. My memaw, her 3 sisters and all their families. It is lots of fun and there are kids of all ages. Maddux is the closest to Carter's age, she is a year older than he is and she loves baby Millie. We got a few pics with all of the young ones together. Thanksgiving night we went over to Nana's and Pop's to visit more with Uncle Clint and Aunt Sara. Carter and Millie got a horsey ride from Sara. Pretty Funny!!

SLEEPING!!

It has happened. Millie started sleeping thru the night last week. I thought it was just a fluke the first time, but she has stuck with it. Last night I fed her last at about 10:30, then she fought going to sleep. She probably wasn't in bed until about 11:30 - 12:00 but... I woke her up at 8:00am to eat. I was SHOCKED. I'll let you know if she regresses.

Of course I'm still way behind on posting pics, but I will get some up soon. Might be a little easier now that I'm rested up. HA HA!!

Millie - 10 Weeks

Nana was our photographer this week. The weather has finally gotten pretty chilly and the only toboggan that I have that will half way fit Millie is Carter's old one. She has some girly ones that are sized 0-6 months, but any 0 month old that could wear it would have quite a melon. We're at 50th percentile on head size at 2 months and her hats are so big they only get in her eyes and it does not make her happy. For an update Millie weighed 11 lbs, 1 oz at her 2 month check up.

Millie - 9 Weeks

As you can tell I'm way behind posting pictures. I've been back at work part time and every week just seems to fly by. These pics would not grace the pages of any magazine, but they are the first ones I could get of Carter voluntarily holding Millie. He thinks he's so big and he's all about it until she starts to cry, then its "carry mommy". In Carter talk that means he wants mommy to carry Millie.

Halloween 2006

You probably have noticed that the Halloween pictures are about a week late. The night should have been what I expected, but it was NOT what I had planned. Carter absolutely, positively refused to wear his costume. You're wondering how I have this picture?? Well, at about 9:15 Halloween night after we had been at Nana's for about an hour she finally convinced him to put it on and get his treat from her. The little dragon was adorable, but he wore it for a total of about 15 minutes. Earlier in the evening we went to the "Fall Festival" at church, he loved all the games and the cardboard box tunnel but he enjoyed it all in a white tshirt and dragon legs.

Millie kept it pretty simple, she wore one of Carter's old halloween onesies and then when it got cooler she became a fleece pumpkin. As you can tell in the pictures she slept through the entire night.

Millie - 8 Weeks II

Still trying to get a picture of Carter holding Millie. It's been 8 weeks and still no luck. He will on occasion "hold" her when there is no camera present. He's amazed by her nose. He loves to squeeze it. She doesn't mind, yet.

Millie - 8 Weeks

I got a new camera phone for my birthday. I'm learning how to send the pics to my email. They actually came through. Everyone says she's starting to look a little more like her brother. I think I have to agree.

Daredevil

Carter could be described as a "scaredy" cat. If a cartoon he's watching has a scary character or makes scary noises then he wants to "hold mommy." So I assumed that bright lights, strangers, and crazy carnival rides would be a little intimidating. I was wrong. We went with the Jones' (Jason, Rebecca, Anderson & Sullivan) to the Gurdon Forest Festival Saturday night, they had a small midway with kiddie rides. It was a neat, small town thing. They also had free, live music all day and the last concert was Jody Evans (Nashville start top 3 and Arkadelphia cop). I think all of Gurdon was there. But back to Carter... the first ride Chris was able to ride with him and then he rode a couple of rides with Anderson (age 3). He loved it!! Chris didn't try to put him on the mini ferris wheel because he thought the whole cage thing might be a little much. But wrong again, Rebecca and I went with them the second time and Carter wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel, the attendant didn't want to let him on at first because the "cage" had to be balanced. Carter was not taking no for an answer. Anderson wanted to ride too and then 2 little girls walked up. So they packed the 4 kids in this tiny cage, I would have been having a claustrophobic fit. Not the boys they were squealing and waving and laughing and probably scaring the little girls to death. The last ride of the night...lady bugs, Carter yelled YEE-HAW the entire ride.

All of the excitement and I didn't have a camera!! Very Sad!!

Millie - 7 Weeks

This was my first week back at work and Millie's first week to go to Nana's. I think things went pretty good. Pop was on vacation so Carter was very entertained. The true test will be when Pop's not around and the weather is too bad for them to be outside. These first 7 weeks have flown by, it'll seem to go even faster now that I'm back at work. Hope you enjoy the pics...

Reunion

This is a little late, but we had our 10 year reunion on the 14th. I just got this picture and I thought I would put it up. It won't be long and we won't believe Millie was ever this small. I also thought it was a great picture of Jan and Nina, who would believe that we've been out of school for 10 years. ha ha. I must say that I was way ahead or just a lot crazier than the rest of our "group" I've already had #2 and the next closest is pregnant with #1. We had a good time and it was great to get to see everyone.

Millie - 6 weeks

This week was a week of firsts and lasts. The first time we left Millie with Nana while we went to the Clark County Alumni dinner. Pretty exciting date night. My last week off of work. I'll head back to Gurdon next week. We've had a good 6 weeks, if it wasn't for the sleep deprivation it would have been a nice little vacation. I had a couple of nights with 4 hours of sleep without interruption. It's like college again when I thought 4 hours was a good night sleep. At least now I get a couple of hours on either side of the 4 hour stretch. Carter has been Mr. Social this week, he spent a couple of nights with Nana and then Gran picked him up yesterday. They are planning to go to the zoo tomorrow. Here is our 6 week photo shoot...

Big Stretch...

Growing...

I have been experiencing technical difficulties with this post. I tried to put up these pictures yesterday but with no success. I'm trying again today.

We are using one of Carter's teddy bears as a growing chart for Millie. Something I wish I had done with Carter but never did. This might be the only second child that has her picture taken more than the first. It's because I regret not taking more of Carter during the early days. I think I was too much of a zombie with him, it's really all a blur. The first pic is ~3 days old and the second picture we took Sunday afternoon (~38 days).

While we were taking the teddy pics guess who had to get into the picture too? We were shocked. It's probably the first time that he has really tried to interact with Millie. Chris was snapping like crazy trying to get a good one of them together. I think he succeeded...

Millie - 5 Weeks

These aren't the cutest, but they are real...these are what we have for our five-week pictures...we were trying to see if Nana'a old wive's tale about putting zinc oxide (fancy for Desitin) helped with baby acne...it hasn't

Pumpkins and more...

I'm getting behind, so I'm playing catch-up today. The Annual Pumpkin Day at the Hunter's in Manchester was this last weekend. It was the first one we've gotten to go to. Carter was only about 5 days old two years ago and last year I had to work. I thought that Carter would really enjoy it, and he did after about an hour of saying "carry carter" and holding on to Chris' leg. We finally got a few pics, but it wasn't easy. Carter loved the hayride behind the tractor and of course the pony ride was his favorite.


Sunday we took some pics after church because Nana had a picture of us and Carter when he was a newborn and she wanted one with Millie. Carter is crying because Pop was nearby and not holding him. We were also disrupting his Sunday routine of leaving church and going straight to Mazzio's.