John and Lorena

We had a great visit last week with John, Lorena, Caleb, and Annelise. John and I have been friends since 9th grade but havent seen each other in a few years and it was so fun to catch up and hang out with the kiddos. Thanks for coming!

John and Caleb

Annelise visiting with our neighbors bunnies

Lorena and Caleb

Phone Videos

These are some clips of Skylar I was able to catch on my phone. The quality isn't great but it is always closer than the video camera when she is doing something cute. The first video is her laughing which she has only done once before so I was eating it up. She was laughing at this little pink bunny rattle that she has seen a thousand times before and for some reason this time was really funny to her.
She has turned into quite the shreaker and likes to show off her loud voice...

Just Chillin

Tyler had off last weekend and had lots of relaxing time with Skylar. He only gets one more weekend off between now and Christmas so we tried to take it easy and had lots of lazy couch time.

Watching football with Daddy.

I see my monkey!

These two sleepers were recently bought by Grammy Carroll for my niece and are size 12 month but they were too small for Caroline so we got them (yay! but sorry Caroline). She has really filled out considering she could still wear 3 month clothes only 2 month ago. We tried one night to see if Skylar was ready to drop her last catnap of the day and this is what happened about 6:15...she fell asleep on me. Of course I loved it but we learned that she is not quite ready.

Look at those chubby cheeks...

Fall

I love leaf pictures and I love Skylar in hoodies, so I couldn't help myself...
She kept moving her arms and legs like she was making a snow angel trying to figure out what the crunchy crinkly noise was.

So cute.

Happy Halloween

Doritos

The other night when Tyler got home from work he was holding Skylar on the couch and eating some Doritos. She was fascinated with the bag and stared at it for 5 minutes. It was so funny and I thought surely as soon as I grab the camera she will stop but she kept her eyes glued to the bag. She even smiled at it which was hilarious cause she makes us really work for a smile.

TN Trip

We are home from TN and already missing everyone. We had such a great time and Skylar was a trooper the entire trip. She did well flying and adjusted pretty well to sleeping in different places. She has become such a chill baby and is most happy just laying on the floor with some toys to look at or some people to talk to.

I love this little outfit with the jean skirt and pink boots. We wore her out taking pictures.

Skylar and Great Uncle Lee and Uncle Ryan

Chillin in the swing

I love my Aunt Jenny

No high chair? Just improvise with a tub. I think she was thoroughly confused.

Still hasn't mastered cereal with a spoon. (Maybe because it tastes nasty)

KT and Ed came over for my birthday dinner

I had a great birthday and thanks to everyone for the sweet birthday wishes. While I was in Memphis I caught some sort of stomach bug and was so sick. Luckily it was the day after my birthday so I still got to enjoy it, but I spent 2 1/2 days of my trip at home sick. I had lots of visiting/shopping/eating at good restaurants that I had wanted to do but it was probably a good thing that I was there instead of home and had help with Skylar. I can't imagine having been at home by myself and trying to take care of her and trying not to get her sick. I was reminded again at how hard it would be to be a single parent and how lucky I am to have lots of support.

I finally recovered the day we headed to Knoxville which was great so I could hold my adorable niece Caroline. Knoxville was beautiful and I had so much fun hanging out and playing with Caroline. She is only 3 months older than Skylar and is already starting to crawl and pull up and trying to talk. I took lots of pictures and then got home and realized that none of them were on my SD card. I have no idea what happened between Memphis and Knoxville to my camera, but for some reason it stopped saving pictures. One of my sis-n-law Minde's friends is a photographer on the side and came over to take pictures of the girls. I don't have the CD yet, but I have seen some of them and she did a fabulous job. I am so thankful to have these pictures! I will post some when I get them.

5 months old

Skylar is 5 months old today. She has gotten more personality even within the last week. Her sweet little talking voice has gotten louder and turned into fun squeals. She loves to blow bubbles and make "razz" noises and thinks it is very funny if you do these back at her. She can hold on to toys if you put them in her hand but still isn't really grabbing for them yet. Her favorite toys of the moment are these little Sassy brand square, circle, and triangle toys that have smiley faces.

Great Weekend

It has been a long time since Ty had off for a weekend that we didn't have company or were traveling. We had a great weekend relaxing, playing with Skylar, enjoying the awesome weather, taking naps, watching movies, taking turns driving the Jeep around, watching SNL, and we even went to the county fair. I grew up going to the Mid South Fair which could keep you entertained and busy for a whole day. The Pitt County Fair...not so much. It was such a beautiful day we thought we would go check it out though. I have to give them credit that they did the best they could and the kids seemed to be having a good time which is all that mattered. We had seen the whole fair in about an hour but stuck around for some funnel cake. Yummy! We couldn't find our little camera before we left and I didn't want to carry the big one so we don't have any pics. Skylar did great though and took a catnap as we were walking around.

I am getting so big!