Orange Beach, AL
Emma floating in the pool
Mom, Em and I
Mom and Dad
Mawmaw and Emma
Bryan and Katie riding the waves
family picture
Cheese
The girls were in matching outfits and were so cute
Mom keeping the girls in the shade for a little while
Katie's pics that I took. I think they turned out wonderful
Cheesing
She loved wearing Katie's head band
Daddy and Emma
A nice gentleman offered to take our pic in front of the ocean
Our little family minus fur ball
Dad and Katie
Dad working on his tan
Katie aka fish
Me and my Katie Bug
I love this. Emma sleeping on me at the pool
The first day there
Emma's first waves
Sticking her feet in the water and sand for the first timeAs you can tell, we just returned from the beach with my family this weekend. We had a wonderful time. Emma did remarkably well considering it was an 8 hour drive and had an upset tummy going and coming. We had some overcast days and it stormed the evening we were at Lamberts waiting for our table. It hailed and the power went off so that was an experience. One night Bryan and I got to drive to the other side of Gulf Shores and look at some the condos that have been rebuilt since the hurricane a few years ago and we also crossed over the Florida line so I could show him the famous Florabama. Emma enjoyed sticking her toes in the sand and playing in the ocean as well as swimming around in the pool. One afternoon we went to the big outlet mall because it was just miserably humid and was able to get Em a few outfits for this fall and winter as well as Bryan finding a weedeater at the Black and Decker store for $11. What a deal and works well. It was so nice getting away and I tried my best to talk Bryan into moving down there but had no success. When we returned Friday night we found out that one of our favorite restaurants here in Columbia had closed down on Wednesday without notice so that was a bummer. On Saturday, we attended a baby shower for one of the media teachers that Bryan works with and had a wonderful time being with co-workers away from the work scene. We even kept a late night and didn't get home until 9 because we decided to have dinner out and make our target run for the week. We sure do have an exciting Saturday don't we?
Milestones
Emma has changed and achieved so much over the last 2 weeks. She is walking around the house holding onto our fingers. She can stand by herself for a minute. She has started crawling everywhere and is now chasing Lilly. Last night I sat her in the floor while I took Lilly out and came back in to find her on the other side of the living room and pulled herself up to a standing position at her leap frog table. She is loving going to Ms. Holly's house and playing with Evie. They laugh and talk and crawl around and play with toys. At the shower saturday she started waving bye bye and is all smiles and giggles now. She is giving lovings and they are the best, the wet tongue kind. She is eating her food for the most part and now eats wagon wheels for a treat. She has cut 2 teeth in the last 3 weeks and working on another. It is incredible how much she is changing and it saddens me at the same time. I can't believe she isn't my tiny little newborn anymore and that she is growing so fast and developing a personality. We are trying to decide on the theme for her first birthday. We are at 20 pounds now. We go in 2 weeks for her 9 month check up and can't wait to see all the measurements.
This is just a few things going on and hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week. We also wanted to say good luck to Greg and Lisa. You guys will be great parents and can't wait to see little one in the next few weeks.
