A Picture A Day - or MORE!

Its been a few days since my last post, and I wish it was because lots of fun stuff has happened in our lives this week. Well, not really, we're just back to the grind of Lane going to flight school and Eden and I trying to fill our days with anything that will keep her interest for a little longer than a few minutes! It gets harder and harder every day. The family has also been struck by some nasty 24 hour bug, and it has left no one feeling well. I think its moved past us, and we're on the mend - thank goodness, because its the weekend and its Lane's only time to re-coup!

Here are the promised a Picture a Day in 2011:

January 3 - Eden's re-weigh at the doctor. She gained 10 oz in 4 weeks and has to go back again in another 4 weeks. Nothing serious, doctor just wants to make sure she maintains the curve she's on because at 9 months she was 1st percentile and at 10 months was still only 3rd.

Eden modeling her new tutu from Ms. Whitney ( www.diaryofapreppymom.blogspot.com )

January 3 - Splashing in the tub is a favorite!

January 3 - "Catching" the falling water.

January 4 - Waving with Mommy, but looking at her toys and wanting to get down to play

January 5 - Playing in her new ball pit from Uncle Parker

January 5 - playing all by herself and reading books

January 5 - Mess, What mess?!

January 5 - The Happiest Baby I know!

January 6 - She ate from a bowl for the first time with NO interest in the spoon. She ended up holding the bowl over the edge of the tray and tried to drop it. We might wait a little while before trying again.

January 6 - the yummy post-dinner handprint that got left on the couch by the little person that lives with us!

January 7 - in the dishwasher before going to playgroup, she wanted to practice her climbing skills before going to InMotion

January 7 - at play group with L. This toy had LOTS of moving parts and the girls thought it was amazing.

Walking already?!

We knew that a new year would mean new milestones and new events for us, but we didn't know that things would start so soon!

Today Eden took her first steps!!! Lane and I were both in the play area playing with her and just watching her as she was getting her toys out one by one. She found the basket that has her balls in it and she was taking one out, listening to the sound that it made, and then moving on to the next one and doing it all over again. At one point, she used my knees to help her stand up - which is common these days. When she was standing I moved my knees out of the way so that she was standing on her own - which is also common these days. Lane and I both fully expected her to stand there for a few seconds and then squat down to sit again...NOPE, she took 2 steps to get to me! Lane and I looked at each other in disbelief and then started cheering and laughing. I'm surprised we didn't startle her with all the excitement.

Of course we didn't have the video camera running at the time because we didn't expect anything new. Lane got the camera and we started rolling. Eden was a little frustrated with us and getting tired, so it took a little while, but she took a few steps for the camera and we got it recorded! How perfect is it that she took 2 steps on the 2nd!

On another note, look for lots of pictures from us this year because we have officially made a New Years' Resolution...A Picture A Day! A friend of mine did this last year, and she loved the results of having lots of pictures of her family. I figure with all of the new stuff that goes on in our lives day to day, it will be really easy to get some pictures every day. So far we're doing really well with it, we have LOTS of pictures from yesterday and today.

New Years Eve as we were putting Eden down for bed

New Years Eve - Lane popping the champagne for our midnight toast

January 1 - Eden found her books under her changing table and wanted to read ALL of them!

January 2 - Waving to her Daddy

January 2 - Having tea at her table from Sara Rice with her Kitty
 from her Aunt Nana and Uncle Papa



Happy New Year

Every Wednesday Dunwoody United Methodist Church sends out a devotion that they call "Wednesday's Word" via email. This past Wednesday Wiley, the Senior Pastor sent these words of wisdom to the congregation regarding the coming of the new year.

"For most of us, Christmas is winding down. In fact, many of us are already busy about the task of taking down the decorations, though some will wait for the twelve days of Christmas. It is fitting that for this coming Sunday, our Gospel deals with the arrival of the wise men from the East. Their entry completes the birth stories for us. But this story is not as peaceful as the one in Luke about shepherds and angels. There is danger as Herod seeks inside information from the wise men. But the wise men are warned by an angel to find another road home, than the one that took them through Jerusalem.

Someone has defined insanity as doing something over and over again, while expecting different results. There are areas in all of our lives in which we need to find a "different road" to travel, if we want to reach the goal we seek. The coming of a new year is a wonderful time to reset our course where needed, so that when this time comes at the end of 2011, we will indeed see different results. The key of the Gospel is that the warning for another road came from the Lord. It is not just a matter of what we might desire, but what God would have us to do."
 
As we say goodbye to 2010 and begin 2011, remember to make sure you're headed down the path that God would want you to take!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2010 In a Photo Re-cap

January, 32 weeks pregnant

February, 36 weeks pregnant

February, neckace from Lane for my birthday - a heart so I would always remember when Eden's heart beat within me :)

March, WELCOME EDEN! The family with Dr. Howard

April, at the beach with Grandpa

May, Daddy got a promotion

June, Happy Father's Day!

July, Daddy got his flight suit

August, Daddy started Primary and Eden helped him study

September, 2010 Fripp Trip

September, Eden and Mommy on the swing at Fripp

September, 2010 Fripp Trip

October, Lovey Duck

October, Halloween night

November, Happy Turkey Day, Love, your favorite turkey!

November, Calaway Gardens with the Daigle family

November, Medieval Times with the Travis family and the Tinkers

December, Christmas Photo Shoot

December, Christmas morning



December, Christmas evening - a White Christmas!



Top 10 Words of 2010

As 2010 is coming to and end I thought I'd add a little something different to the blog. A friend of ours found a new application on facebook that compiles all of the statuses/updates that you put on facebook and figure out what your "Top 10 Words of 2010" are. It was very interesting to see, and I was happy that Lane and I both seemed to have a positive vibe to our lists.

Brittany:
1. Eden
2. Baby
3. Lane
4. She's
5. Night
6. Sleep
7. Know
8. Tonight
9. Don't
10. Morning

What people had to say:
~ I could have told you that!! hope ya'll are doing great :)
~ Yeah... that's about right, the baby does get at least twice as much attention as I do. (This was Lane's comment!)
~  nice.....

Lane:
1. Again
2. Tigers
3. Geaux
4. Game
5. Night
6. Keep
7. Thank
8. API
9. Weekend
10. Can't

What people had to say:
~ Don't complain that you didn't top my status words...I didn't even make it into your top 10! Not to mention, the number 10 word was only used 4 times...man, oh man, I see where I rank against football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (This was my response to his words after seeing his comment on mine)
~ How dare 'cant' made the list!

Here's hoping for another positive year in 2011!

Pictures Galore

On December 8 we took Eden to Portrait Innovations to have some Christmas pictures taken of her. We also had a picture of me as a child wearing a dress that my mom smocked for me that we wanted duplicated because my mom gave the dress to us for Eden. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we do!