Melynn's 1st Birthday!

As most of you know...bc some of you were here for the throw down we had........ Melynn's 1st Birthday was this past weekend. Nana Deb was gracious enough to let us use her clubhouse for our shindig. Melynn was in a great mood & dazzled everyone to the best of her ability. She received many gifts & we are reminded that we are so blessed to have such a wonderful loving immediate & extended family in our lives. Devon & I made 117 cupcakes ( yes we counted) & Aunt D made one gigantic cupcake for her niece to rip into even though I put so much icing on it she never quite reached the actual cake part. The pictures above are just a few from the great weekend we all had together. Melynn's 1 shirt is courtesy of Carey Haney ( Jitterberries) she does such wonderful work. You should google her & get your favorite little one a too cute happy to wear! She has a dress made by Carey too I'll post a pic of that one soon. The less than thrilled pic is before we gave her the cake, I just love her expression. Classic. The other pic is of her digging into her cake (icing) and leaning to the side I don't know what it is about that high chair but everytime she sits in it ( when we go to the Mannings) she does that. We go today for her check up & I'll give you all the stats on Miss Melynn soon. Until then I'll post a few more pics. Wish you all could have been here to celebrate but you were all on our minds! Love to you!

Just a little side note.....MELYNN IS WALKING! I'll post pics soon!

Melynn's 1st Snow!!

As most of you know we had around 4-5 inches of snow fall over a 24hr period this past weekend.  Despite being snowed in & Aunt D braving the weather for a Melynn fix we had a great weekend as you can tell from pictures above. Melynn was such a trooper never whimpering for a second.....but yet amazed at her mittens. Check out the pics & pay special attention to her hands she just holds them out in each one trying to figure out what to do with them.  In some of the first few pics we're in our neighborhood it was cloudy & windy so Devon & I bundled her up. She could barely move. In the last few pics we're at Sam's ( my father in law) house sledding on the hills he has on his property. Melynn & her Papaw watched us sled up & down the hill then they would come get us & take us back up. The pic of Jeff dusting her off was after she and her Daddy ate snow on a sled ride....she got a little ticked off with that one, but didn't let it bother her too much. We had soo much fun! In the last picture she's all tuckered out in her new big girl seat & yes she did have socks on she just took them off in the 2mins it took to get out of her Papaws driveway.
Enjoy! Only 18 more days till Melynn turns 1!!

Melynn is 11mths!

Well folks our baby girl just turned 11mths old on January 19th! I'm still surprised, shocked, & in disbelief that this year has flown by so quick...February 19th will be here before we know it & again I will share the same shock, disbelief, & surprise that I'm feeling right now probably along with some tears. Enough about me....

Melynn is weighing in at 20lbs 3 ozs & measuring 26inches & change. She is still eating a little baby food but more so focused on table food and loving every minute of it! She's drinking milk, water, & some formula still, but for the most part doing very well with her sippy cup. She loves her puffs, crackers, nilla wafers, yogurt snacks....there isn't too much she doesn't like right now. She's having some stomach issues but we're assuming its all diet related & the fact she's very regular anyway....ask the daycare ladies they are very well acquainted with it. Soooo embarrasing.

She is walking for the most part. Just tonight she was taking at least 4-5 steps before deciding to crawl. It's more so when she forgets what she's doing that it happens. We are very proud & her Daddy is hoping, wishing, trying to push her to be completely walking by her birthday. We'll see. We've come to the conclusion Miss Melynn does thing when SHE wants to. ( which is just fine with me)

Mississippi Visit

We went to MS over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend to visit Andys family that we hadn't seen since last May when Melynn was 3mths old! Needless to say they were very happy to see her & amazed at how much she had grown. Melynn did very well for the most part she slept most of the way down there & got her second wind @ 1230am & decided she would hang out for a while like 330am in the morning... yuck. We went over to Aunt Becky's for dinner on Saturday & Melynn played well with her cousin Gracyn. They shared puffs & baby goldfish & chairs too!

Just Hangin Out

This is Melynn's Babo Bird that I thought she had to have... she seems to like it.

Giving Babo loves & hugs

She started doing this thing in the bathtub where she would lay down like a little frog. Scared me at first!

Here she & Daddy are at a standoff bc she has his phone. She tries to text message. A girl after my heart! I'm so proud!

She points alot lately too now which is very cute. I'm sure she's just asking what things are....

I tried very hard to get both of them to look at me & get her to smile & have his eyes open.... you see how well that worked....very well.

She got a mailbox from Christmas & absolutely loves opening & closing the door & finding her mail inside. I have to admit I enjoy it too....and love the little sing-songy tunes that play.

This is her music table that Pawpaw & Memaw got her... she loves it. I love it.....yeah I admit it I like it too.

Look at those teeth! 2 down.....alot more to go! Her 2 top teeth are coming down just haven't broken through yet.

Melynn's 10mths

Well its a little late but Miss Melynn turned 10mths on December 19th. And yes I'm a little late on posting or....maybe I'm almost a month late posting...regardless here we go!

Around this time she was weighing in @ 19lbs & to be honest I haven't measured her but she's getting big! Shes eating more table food & loves it. I have made it difficult for us by starting her out like that but hey gotta start sometime right? She's also standing up all by herself! Its so random she'll just stand up in the middle of the floor & look at you & smile like she's just done the coolest thing ever....which it is & we congratulate her with alot of clapping. She'll side step along the couch & coffee table but not to much step taking on her own. More like a few steps & she face plants on the floor & expects you to catch her. We do most of the time... She still amazes me at what she can accomplish & discover....things are so much different through her eyes. You get to discover them again as well...like for example another room she hadn't quite found yet or a new toy....she's pointing alot now as well. So we get to tell her what everything is & you question how to tell her....do you say a "spoon" .....a "pink spoon"....a "plastic pink spoon" We'll figure it out. Thats the fun part.