Lily's Baptism

So we managed to time it so that we could have Lily's baptism while we were on leave in California. That meant we could have it in Southern California where most of mi familia reside. And it meant that she could be baptised at St Elizabeth's, the parish were I (and many of my cousins) attended elementary school and made my first communion. :)

Lily was great and didn't make a sound as the water was poured over her head, but she didn't like lying back too much. :) And boy, did she want that candle flame! Lily is blessed to have my cousins Ben and Kaitlin as her godparents.

Hi

So this video is from about a month ago... it's the only word she knows, but she blows people away when she says it randomly while we are out. "Did she really just say that?" Yes... she did. She knows if she says it, you'll say it back. Of course, I am prompting her for the sake of showing off on video... but whatever.

Once upon a time..

... we took our four month old on an airplane to California. Entertaining her looked something like this:

While we were there Lily met Gramma's dog, Sugar.

Ate graham crackers on the table.

Read a few good books.

Played supermodel in the fan.

Playing in her hand-me-down excersaucer from our friends Julie and Nicole. THANK YOU!

Met her Uncle Joe for the first time.

Watched some Olympics with her Papa Jim... they really were watching TV lying on floor, until they fell asleep that is.

Visited with her Great Grandma Mary.

Played with her cousins.

Visited with her Great Grandma Peter.

Went swiming.

Got Baptised. (more photos to come)

Had her hair cut. (again more photos later)

Learned about bubbles and Papa Jim's dog, Bradly.

And had an all around pretty swell time. :)

Working out?

I have decided blogging is a bit like working out. If you do it all the time, it's easy, no problem. But if you fall off the horse, so to speak, getting back on is a trick. Here is my attempt (once again, since we now FINALLY have internet!) to get back on the blogging horse... the work outs will have to wait. :)

The Seasoned Flyer

So as of this last trip to NC Lily has flown five times in her five short months on Earth! Talk about a seasoned flyer. She was good for the most part on the flights, though there was one meltdown at the airport in Atlanta on the way to Cali, where she was overdue to go to sleep for the evening and they kept delaying our flight little by little. She cried and cried and cried in the terminal. Once we got on the plane though she went right to sleep.

On the way back to NC (last week) the woman sitting next to us slept the whole trip and commented on how Lily was such a good baby to let her sleep. Aparently she totally missed when Lil was over-tired and couldn't get comfortable... she eventually found a nice place to sleep though.

Across our laps! Don't you wish it were just that easy?

My Washer came with Bolts

...or so I've been told. I dunno, I wasn't there.

When we decided we would use cloth diapers for Lily we knew we had to get a washer and dryer first thing! So, since I was in California and Jacob was in class (in Georgia) our lovely neighbor Cheryl received the delivery for us. Thank you Cheryl. But what none of us knew was that if we ever wanted to move the washer again (um, hello, we are in the army) we would need the original bolts to secure the washer's drum. Nobody knows what happened to those original bolts. When I had the preliminary phone call from the movers to find out if we had any odd sized furniture I was asked if we had a front loader, and they said they would send someone out to service it. I didn't think anything of it until our things were being loaded into the movers truck and they wouldn't take our washing machine! No one ever came to service, ie put in bolts, so we were calling everywhere we could think of to find someone who had bolts, the correct bolts, for our machine. Long story short, we slept in the house that last night with our air mattress and a washing maching. Someone came to service the machine the next morning and then another set of movers came and took it away. Say a prayer that when we actually get into our house that the washer made it too!

On that note... we are being a little bit picky about housing. We could have gotten into a place on post yesterday, but it wouldn't have been one of the newly renovated homes. We have to wait until the 23rd for the next renovated home to be open. Its hard waiting, but with Lily getting all set to crawl in the next few months, the thought of new carpet was rather nice. That and they knocked out the wall between the kitchen and the living/dining room, which is also more to my liking. So no new address yet. Shawn and Staci Campbell are putting us up (God Bless Them!) until our place is ready. And at the moment I can't get the computer to read my thumb drive so no more pictures yet.

Um, Hi...

Yes, I am still out here! We are now in North Carolina and Jacob had his first day of work today. I have so much to share but haven't had the time to blog it all yet. In the mean time, this makes me laugh so I thought I would share...



This was the first time we put her in her new jumper!