Millie - 5 Months

I'm a couple of days early with the 5 months pics, but it's Sunday afternoon and I had a chance. Millie is still a great baby. She could be the definition of "sleeps like a baby". She's is an all nighter and wakes up smiling. Just this week she has discovered her feet. She loves holding things and will try to grab anything that's in her line of sight. She wants to chew on things all the time so we try to make sure she always has a taggie or something to hold on to and chew on. (Thanks Tara for her great taggie, Millie LOVES it!!) Millie has a couple of preferences and she can make life miserable if you don't know what they are...She wants to be held facing out. I just hold her with my arm across her belly and she checks everything out. Being cuddled is not her thing. She also must have a blanket or something soft in her face to go to sleep. She can be screaming and you just give her a blanky to rub on her face and she's instantly peaceful.

It constantly amazes me how different two kids can be. Carter has been a cuddler since day one! Lately if one of us is trying to get him do something he doesn't want to do (like change a diaper...) he'll use the line "cuddle with Mommy/Daddy" he knows it will get us almost everytime. I figure I better enjoy it while it lasts. Our biggest issue with Carter right now is that he is totally opposed to 'personal care'. A haircut or a nail trimming is equal to certain death, in his eyes. I've got to take him to get a haircut this week, I think I'm going to start a rotation of hairdressers so that no one will have to be subjected to his screaming very often. My mom has been cutting it, but it seems cruel to put Nana through the torture. I'm sure he thinks he's the one being tortured!!

That's a lot of rambling, but if I don't write down what's going on at the moment it will all be a blur in a matter of weeks. Enjoy the pics!

New York City and Millie 4 Months!!

We had a great holiday, but it was pretty exhausting. We did 'Christmas' at both of my grandparents, at my parents, and at Chris' parents. Then on the 27th Chris and I flew out of Dallas to New York. We went with the OBU women's basketball team. It was a lot of fun, but I was pretty zonked by the time it was all over. We did our first corny clothes thing. We bought I Love NYC t-shirts for the whole family in Chinatown so we had to take a picture. I'll go ahead and post it so you can see it and I'll get Christmas pics up ASAP.

CHRISTMAS 2006

Christmas Morning...

Tickle Time

Love the puffy eyes!! Carter had too much to do, he did not want to pose.
MEMAW & PAPPY'S

Carter playing Santa...Carter's favorite thing...riding the tractor with Pop

We're getting very sleepy...

THE BABB'S

Millie watching and grinning...

Carter and his first 'bike'

Build it and it will fall...

Meeting Anderson Neal Dennie

The Dennie's had baby #2, which I'm sure everyone already knew since Robby keeps everything super udated and I am approx a month behind. For those who have wondered, Robby and Tara are friends of ours from Little Rock/Geyer Springs. Carter is almost exactly a year older than Reagan, and Millie only beat Anderson by about 3 months. It's hard for us to believe that just 3 years ago we got together and there were four of us and now there are EIGHT!!

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!!