What I Love About You...36 Weeks

36 Weeks

April 8, 2010

I LOVE...

-just how stinkin' cute you are! You are amazing and so much fun!

-hanging out with you at the church's Easter Egg Hunt! You aren't quite big enough to do any hunting yet, but you enjoyed the eggs!

-being your Mommy! This is you and I on Easter morning. I LOVE your dress that your Nonna bought you!

-watching you open your Easter basket. You really enjoyed all the things we got for you!

-that we had so much fun playing with the Easter grass. I really don't think it bothered you one bit to be all over you.

-watching Daddy read to you. It is so special to see the two of you spending time together. You both have so much fun when you hang out together! He is the best Daddy!

-our FIRST Easter picture! I look forward to many more to come.

-taking photos of you! This is from your 8 month/Easter photos that I took. My next post will include many more super cute pictures of you!!!

-seeing you with some old friends from when we lived in Statesville, NC.

Bekah Summers

Jacob Adams

Caleb Adams

Amy Adams

David Adams

-our time we spent at your Granny & Papa's house with your Aunt Carrie. The video below was taken there. There are more pictures to come in next week's post.

What I Love About You...35 Weeks

35 Weeks

April 1, 2010

My China Doll, as everyone calls her

I LOVE....

-your funky sleeping positions. I really can't believe that you can sleep comfortably with your leg under you like this!

-seeing you with your "Heaven Sent" teddy bear Daddy and I bought you the day we found out you were a GIRL! See here. You, little girl, really are sent from heaven!

-walking to your room after your naps and finding you in a new and different position all the time. You were sticking your feet through the slats of your bed this time. You are so cute!

-how you reacted when I gave you Gerber puffs for the first time. *If you missed seeing the entire post about this funny day, go here.

-seeing you looking at yourself in the table. You LOVE to look at yourself! Usually it's in the mirror, but I thought this picture was interesting of you looking at yourself in the table. You are a cutie!!! Annagail Murray used to do this at our table when she was about your age. There are pictures of her later.

-how you love your time with the Murray children! Their parents are our best friends. They all think of you as the 6th child in their family. They love you so much and prayed for you every day from the time they found out you were in my womb. Each and every one of them, all SEVEN, are SO special that I just can't even explain it! The Lord brought us together at exactly the time when we needed them. I am SO thankful for them! You already love spending time with them and I am so excited about that!

Graycen

MaryEvelyn

Annagail loving on you

Ella Carolyne

Cooper

-how you put the remote to your head & sometimes hit your head with it too. I don't know why you do it, maybe you are mimicking us with our phones, but it is too cute!

-how you empty your toy basket out and play with all the toys. I just find it too cute to watch you meticulously pick through them all.

-seeing you standing, holding on to the coffee table. I was beginning to think you might walk before you crawled, but as you will see later in this post, you definitely crawled first!

-feeding you yogurt. You LOVE your yogurt! This is the first time we gave it to you. The first couple of bites, you made a little funny face, but after that, you were in love!

-how happy you are! You are such a happy baby! I am such a blessed Mommy!

-That I got many good kisses this day. You looked like you were eating me though!

Here is the video to go along with the picture:

The video below is the first time Caroline really crawled. She is such a big girl and I just can't believe it is already time for her to crawl!!!!!

My First Mother's Day and Caroline's Dedication

This post is going to be very out of order because I am still trying to catch up on Caroline's weekly posts, but I wanted to post about my First Mother's Day with Caroline.

Mother's Day was so wonderful! I am so glad that this day has finally arrived for me! It is such an amazing thing to be a mother and to be Caroline's mother! She is so wonderful and sweet!

For Mother's Day weekend, my parents and David's grandparents, parents and brother all came up to be with us so we could celebrate Caroline's dedication! We had a wonderful weekend visiting with everyone! On Saturday, we went to the hotel where the Stanfords were staying and enjoyed the pool there. It was Caroline's first time in a pool and she absolutely LOVED it!

On Sunday, it was Mother’s Day and time for Caroline’s dedication. Many people don’t really understand what it means to dedicate your child to the Lord, so here is an explanation: Dedication is not so much about Caroline as it is about us as parents and our church. It is a commitment by us to recognize that Caroline is a gift from God that He can use as He wills, and that we as parents will raise Caroline in the fear and the admonition of the Lord and that the Church will provide an environment where she can grow in the knowledge of Christ.

The dedication service was wonderful. We all went back to our house for a steak lunch after the dedication. It was very good!

I have to say that it is so much fun being a Mommy! I love my sweet Caroline and am so happy she is in our lives!

Here are pictures from Caroline's first time in the pool!

Here are some pictures from the dedication.

When I look at this picture, I can just hear my thoughts:

"It's finally my turn! I'm finally a mom!"

Caroline enjoying her first Bible!

David's Papa, David's brother (Josh), David's Granny, David and Caroline

Papa, Josh, Granny, David, Caroline & me

Me, Caroline & Granny

My Dad (Curtis), My Mom (Diane), Caroline, me and David

Josh, David's Mom (June), David's Dad (Steve), Caroline, me & David

This is later on that afternoon. We were exhausted!