Daddy's Shoes are Great for Dress-Up and Chug-A-Lug

Just a few random shots/observations from the past few days.

First, Daddy's shoes are fantastic for dress-up!


Second, when your eating your snack, if the spoon isn't delivering your snack fast enough, just turn the cup up and pour it right into your mouth!

31-Week Belly Shot!

So here he is at 31 weeks...growing like a weed and spending most of his time these days resting comfortably on my bladder! We haven't been good at taking pictures weekly or even at some lesser interval, so it felt like crossing the 30 week mark was noteworthy and worth capturing. So the countdown is beginning, or at least for us it is. Only weeks now until his arrival. We can't wait!

Success!!!!!!

Just a quick post, Piper had a great night last night in her big girl bed, no falls, or major catastrophies...so, SUCCESS!!!! And she was so proud this morning when I went in to get her up. I told her how proud I was she slept in her big girl bed all night and she shook her head yes with a big smile and said, "Big Derl".

Big Girl, Big Bed!

So our adventure for this weekend was to get Piper moved into a big girl bed. We opted to move her into a single bed first before we move her into her official big girl bed that's a double. We figured we'd take things one step at a time. So the task of taking down her crib and moving it to Little Man's room was started Saturday afternoon.



We then brought in her new bed (Ger's Grandma Sweet-Thing's old bed) and Daddy put it all together. Piper enjoyed playing on it and got really excited when we called it her big girl bed.





She was a little apprehensive going to bed at first, but after some reassurance she was off to sleep and looked so small in her new bed. About 4am this morning we awoke to a thud...yes, she fell out of her big girl bed the very first night!!!!

After some comforting from Mommy and Daddy...on the floor (we thought we'd keep things low to the ground for a bit), she asked to get back in her bed for another try. So with reinforcements in place, she laid back down and spent the rest of the night in her new bed.


So we're on our way...another milestone in the works for our Little Lady!


As I write this she's in her room for night number 2, which so far has gone off without a hitch (hee, hee)!! Let's hope it stays that way.

Dress-Up Diva

Our little lady has become quite the little fashion diva lately. She enjoys putting on anything she can find. Today, she discovered the maternity clothes that Aunt Maria brought for Mommy and picked out a "dess" that she wanted to wear. She spent much time trying to put it on herself, she has started to tell us "I do" for many of the things she used to ask for help with. But after awhile, she insisted "dess on", and we obliged and helped her into it. Once her dress was on, she was ready to pose for the camera!

30-Week Appointment

Time marches on...another two weeks have already passed and I had a doctor's appointment today. Not much to report, just that all looks good. The little man's heartbeat was in the high 130's/low 140's today. My belly measured right where it should be and I'm all set for another 2 weeks.

Labor Day Weekend Adventures!

We had a great Labor Day weekend. Grammi, FaFa, Aunt Maria, Uncle Tom, Osten, Marci, Uncle Fran and Teaunee were all here with us. Tom, Franny, Ger and Teaunee all went to the first Carolina game of the season on Thursday night. Uncle Davis was in town too, so they were able to see him and his friends as well at the game. USC played NC State, Franny's alma mater. Sorry Franny, better luck to the Wolfpack next time! Go Gamecocks!!





Uncle Fran and Teaunee came in from Phoenix, so were were thrilled they got to join in the family fun too.





All the cousins had a blast playing with each other. Uncle Ger took Piper and Osten on tractor rides (no pics of this yet, I think Maria has these), sorry Marci, just a little longer til you can ride too!


One afternoon it rained and Osten and Piper had a blast playing in the rain.




Piper looks up to her older cousin Osten and was watching his every move. He was also sharing many of the new songs he's learned, which included the ABC's. And Piper decided to give singing the ABC's a try this weekend too. So periodically we'd here her singing them as she was playing with her toys or in the car on our way somewhere. I haven't caught her on video yet, but it's so sweet how she sings it. She hasn't quite gotten all the letters down yet, but there's no doubt what she's singing. My favorite part she sings is "Double-vu, etts, Y, Dee-Dee". Osten also helped her learn to count to 7 and she's been practicing this as well.


Marci made big strides too this weekend, when she started to crawl. And it's only fitting that it happened at our house, as Piper started to crawl at Uncle Tom and Aunt Maria's house last Thanksgiving. And the year before, Osten took his first steps at our house right after Piper's 1st birthday party. I guess our kids enjoy keeping it all in the family.


We also had fun with bubbles...



Drinking out of new water bottles...


Sharing a stool to supervise the making of banana bread...


Playing with Osten's cars and ramp...




Reading the paper...



Playing with Grammi's purse...




Helping Daddy and Uncle Tom put some stools together...



Bowling with Grammi...(protect yourself Grammi)...

Playing with a glove and ball (Piper called her glove a purse and wore it like one, she wasn't too into catching with it!)...

And just hanging out.

Osten also taught Piper all about how much fun it is to wear bandaids and Piper was ready to model her new found fun-wear. Note: There are no boo-boos under the bandaids, just a mere fashion statement!

Uncle Tom and Aunt Maria joked about Piper wearing Osten's Georgia Bulldogs hat. She did put it on her head, however Ger and I took the finger in her nose as her statement as to her true feelings for the Bulldogs. What a true Gamecock fan she is!

We also had a little excitement at the house Friday night. A power line somewhere upstream from us was hit by lightning and this caused our transformer to blow! So we spent the first part of the night in darkness. But it was fun hanging out by candlelight and the power company was able to get things fixed very shortly after.

We also spent time out on the deck and were able to catch a beautiful sunset.