Heading South!

Selah and I made the 12 hour trip to my grandmother's in Mobile, AL this week, along with my Dad and my niece, Bella. We normally visit that side of the family at Thanksgiving, but since I will only be about six weeks away from my due date we're going to have to stay much closer to home this year. So we left Terry a bachelor for the week and headed south.

We had such a great time and were able to see a lot more of my aunts and cousins that live in Mobile now that Mama has moved from Pascagoula. We all got to cook out and watch the fireworks together on the 4th, and had a very special 7th birthday party for Bella with all of her cousins. Here are some pics!

Sweet girls!

She loves to swing!

LOVES it!!

Pretty baby!

"calling" Daddy

Papa working?

Miss Independent!

Princesses Hayden, Bella, and Meg at the party

Watching fireworks with Papa

June 2008...in pics

talking to Nena, Papa, RyRy, Bella... and anyone else she can think of!

pretending to be bashful!

showing her "cheese!" face, and baking with Mommy

reading with Nena

she loves riding her bike

playing with her new sand/water table

sweet hands!

this is serious business!

such a goof!

reading with Daddy

Mozart in training

"driving" Mommy's old car...the green machine.

That's right, I'm a girl and I drove a '69 mustang!

Old School!

So, I think I've mentioned (and shown) before how much Selah likes to dress up. Well, I rounded the corner from my office today and found her like this, all dressed up in her daddy's socks and sneakers! I completely cracked up, and it reminded me of the days when it was cool to wear your socks pulled all the way up to your knees. Silly girl!

And...

I'm PREGNANT!!

Yes, that's right! Terry and I are so excited that we'll be welcoming a new member into our little family in January 2009. Stay tuned...!

Proof positive!

This is the look Selah had on her face when we told her that she was going to be a big sister. Not unlike the look Terry had on his face when I told him the news!

Funniest thing ever! Seriously...EVER!!!

OK, let me preface this post by saying, I know... I know it's been a ridiculous seven and a half months since my last post. I could run through the battery of excuses for why it's been so long but they are, alas, excuses. What can I say? Life is crazy! Anyway, I do have a list of approx. a gazillion events, funnies, etc. to post, and I will get to them. PROMISE! But something happened last night that was just too priceless to keep to myself. So be looking for an incredibly large amount of back-dated posts coming soon, but for now...on with the post!

Fairly frequently Terry and I will sneak a peek at Selah before we turn in for the night. She's at such an active age, so it's a really sweet moment to just watch her sleep peacefully and marvel at how big she looks all stretched out in her crib. Well, last night was no exception, so at about 10:30 we crept in to her room. As I walked over to her crib I glanced down to see her jammies lying on the floor. I thought, "how funny, she took her sleeper off". As I nudged Terry to point them out, he looked over the crib, turned to me and said, "She's completely naked!". I took a better look at the floor and there, by her sleeper, was her diaper. And in the crib, a completely naked Selah...dead asleep!!

Now, she'd been in bed for over 3 hours at that point so, of course, Terry checked and her sheet was soaked...UGH. So while Terry grabbed a clean sheet and new jammies, I ran for the camera. How I could I not document a moment like that?! And on top of it all, Selah stayed completely asleep for the nearly ten minutes it took to get both her and the crib cleaned and clothed again. We layed her back down with George (her giraffe) and blankie and she never knew the difference!

Terry and I went to bed cracking up at our funny little monkey and what a great memory that will be! Now, for the pics...

Jammies, diaper, and blanket...overboard!

Notice the large ring of pee-soaked sheet...obviously wasn't hindering her beauty sleep!