Kids at Thanksgiving

I pulled my camera out at Thanksgiving and tried to take some pictures of the kiddos while they were playing.  Some of them turned out pretty cute so I wanted to post them.  Unfortunately, I didn't get all the kids, but here are a few.

Shelby and Lane

Mr Hayes

Ad swinging with her Papaw

Beautiful Callie

Lila bean

Shelby

Can't believe how big Cade has gotten.

Energetic Maddie

Layne

Miss Ad

Macie Jane

4 Months- LDM

 

On November 13th, Lila turned 4 months old.  She is such a smiley baby and such a joy to have in our family.  

Weight:   12lbs, 2oz (~12th %)

Height:  25" (~77%)

Head:  15.5" (~19%)

At 4 months, Lila.....
- is still wearing 3-6 months clothes and jammies.
- is wearing a size 2 diaper.
- was nursing every 2-3 hours during the day (when she was with me) and takes 3 5oz bottles during the day when she is at school.  We had to start supplementing formula the week she turned 4 months old.  I was not able to produce enough milk for her while at work, and I ran out of milk in the freezer.  Her weight at her 4 month check-up dropped percentage-wise so I had to bite the bullet.    I had high hopes of being able to nurse her much longer than 4 months, but it just wasn't in the cards for us.  I had been struggling with my milk supply and even made a batch of lactation cookies, but then the dreaded stomach bug hit our house, and I could not stomach eating them again after that.  She seems to be doing well with the formula though so we are adjusting just fine.
- is sleeping anywhere from 8-10 hours at night.....although has been waking up sometimes in the middle of the night lately since she has been coughing.  :(
- is smiling and talking all the time.  I love seeing her huge dimples.
- rolls from her back to belly all the time.
-LOVES to stand (with us holding her up).  She likes to be up so she can see what is going on. 
- is sleeping in the rock n play in our room.  I told myself I was going to move her to her crib earlier than I did with Addie, but so far that hasn't happened.
- is bathing in her bathtub rather than on the sponge and really likes her bath.
- has found her feet and loves to play with them often.

Happy 4 month birthday baby girl!! I can't imagine our life without you in it anymore.  You make your mommy and daddy so happy.

Zoo

A few weeks ago, my parents came in to visit for the weekend, and we had a great time.  The weather was cool and absolutely BEAUTIFUL.  Friday morning, we got up and took the girls to the zoo.  The animals were frisky, and we had the best day together.  Addie ran around and had so much fun she was asleep before we even pulled out of the parking lot.  I love that my parents make the effort to come visit so often and are making such fun memories with our girls.

Riding the carousel

The chimps were putting on a show and banging against the glass and running.  Addie thought it was the best thing in the world and just kept cracking up laughing.  We stayed and watched them forever.

 

Feeding the giraffes

 

Lila snoozed through the whole experience

Halloween 2014

We had a great time celebrating Halloween this year.  Addie was so excited to dress up, and we loved being in our neighborhood this year where lots of kids trick or treat.  Since Halloween was on a Friday, we had a full night of fun.  I left work a little early, and my mom and I headed to the girl's school to pick them up.  They have a festival every year on Halloween so we changed Ad into her costume and let her play for a while before heading home.  Deanna also met us to join in on the fun.  Once we finished up at the festival, we headed back to the house and ate dinner.  Mom had make 2 different soups to enjoy which was perfect since a cold front had blown in.  We let Addie trick or treat for a while, but her favorite activity of the night was handing out candy to the other kids.  It was such a fun evening full of fun memories with my kiddos.

The week of Halloween, Ad's ballet class dressed up.  She went as Doc McStuffins since we already had the outfit.

Lila bean dressed up for school

On Halloween, Ad's class was supposed to dress up like farm animals/farmers to go to their class pumpkin patch.  She looked so sweet.

Family pic before school

Nana and Mimi with Lila

Raggedy Ann

Our two sweet girls

Riding a pony at the Fall Carnival at school

Ad's favorite...the petting zoo

We took a train ride before heading home for trick or treating

Excited to start the evening with daddy

Daddy taking her door to door

I printed out the cutest Halloween bingo boards from Pinterest, and Ad and I played bingo with pumpkin erasers while waiting for the door bell to ring.  She loved it.

Precious baby

Accountaholics

On October 30th, our building complex hosted a chili cook-off for any of the tenants that wanted to participate.  Our accounting department decided to enter, and not only did we have a great time, but we won first place in both the judges award and the people's choice!  The cooking started bright and early, and we made 6 gallons of chili.  Anyone that works in the complex could come out and sample chili during lunch and vote on their favorite.  It was a great team bonding event, and our chili was delicious if I do say so myself.

We went with a Halloween theme for our décor since it was the week of Halloween.  I was on the decorations committee.

We nominated Michael to be our head chef.  He clearly did a fantastic job.

 

Cory, our CAO, voting for the Accountaholics chili.

 



Our team

2 trophies  :)

Happy Birthday Jackson

I am once again playing catch-up on the blog.  Back in mid-October, we celebrated Jackson's birthday with a football watching extravaganza at the Skaife's house.  We had a great time hanging out with friends and family despite the Aggies abysmal performance against Alabama.  Happy Birthday Jackson!  Hope you had a great day.

 

Deb and Drew were in town from Seattle and joined in on the festivities.