Heidi - 13 Months

Heidi - today you are 13 months!

What have you been up to?- You are officially walking this month - as of June 19. You started walking/running and have not stopped! Its so much easier sometimes now that you are walking because you can follow me everywhere or go where you want to go!

- This month you went to the beach for the very first time and you loved it!! I am so happy you aren't scared of many things - you love new experiences.- You're new favorite word to say is "bubba" because we sometimes refer to Hunter as Bubba. You wake up saying it and looking for him!

- You are wearing 12-18 month and 18 month clothes right now. You seem to be falling right on track with all of the clothing sizes. Luckily your Grandmother is an excellent seamstress so we have plenty of outfits made just to fit you perfectly :)

- Eating is easy - you love to eat :) You are still breastfeeding/nursing, but I have stopped pumping at work. So, during the days when I am not with you whole milk is your new beverage. Milk and water :) You love ice water and you also love to eat crushed ice. Oh, and little pop-ice things!- You and Hunter are finally interacting more, mainly because you are walking. You have always love him, but not you can run up to him to play or shout "bubba!" He is learning that you are a great food source, so he stays close to you when its time to eat :)- You love attention. Kind of like your mom when she was younger (because now I hate it) and you will smile so big at people when they are looking at you. You love to dance too!

- I am not sure how sharing is going to work yet, but we are working on it so that you will share with others. You do love to share your food with us a pretend to feed us.- We are still a co-sleeping family, but we have slowly started working on the crib again. You aren't screaming anymore and sleeping in it a little - baby steps :)

- You still love baby dolls and all your stuffed animals!

Next month I will be able to write more because I will post it on time!! HA!

Sunday Funday!

Quick post of our Sunday Funday! Sunday we headed over to Ossabaw Island for a fun day of boating and beach time! We all had a great time at the beach and enjoyed our little picnic lunch. There really is nothing better than a PB&J on the beach - seriously. After the beach my friend Karen and Heidi's friend Cassiday came to visit for a bit!

Daddy and HeidiThe Divas under their tentGetting into trouble!Playing!

..and because I love to compare...

Picture!

So, thankfully I have at least one local reader (besides family!) and she happened to be with me the other day. I mentioned I did not get a picture of Johanna and I when she was in town and voila - her sister (my local reader!) sent me a picture she took while we were at the pool! YAY!! This definitely made my day :)And an oldie (graduation day)

**If I do not blog after this post its because one of the girls (Jo, Heather, or Erin) have killed me and buried me somewhere. Send a search party***

Happy Birthday Dear Hubs!

Today we celebrated John's birthday! We went to eat at Longhorn and then came home to sing "happy birthday" and to eat a delicious red velvet/cream cheese icing cake.

4th of July Weekend

Happy 4th of July weekend to everyone! This weekend was jammed packed! You will be able to tell by the millions of pictures to follow on this post :) I cannot even remember what I did Friday. I know that I was supposed to meet up with my friend Johanna because she was in town from CA visiting her family. We ended up getting together on Saturday and I forgot to get a picture :(. My tummy was not well and caused me to forget my mind a little. On Saturday we hung out for a little and then hung out by the pool! I always love my visits with Johanna - we only get to see each other about once a year, but we never skip a beat.

Sunday was my dad's side of the family, family reunion. It was a pool party - fun and relaxing! My dad is an only child - so mainly my immediate family and second/third cousins of mine were there.

Heidi and mom in the pool

Tina and Olivia

Great Aunt Lois and the 1st cousins

Adding the spouses

The Kirkland Family

Heidi Jewell and Daddy

Monday was a day at the river! We went boating and tubing - and the kids ran through sprinklers!

My little "redneck baby" :)

Sprinkler time!!

Dinner was at my sister's house - followed by pictures of the cousins :) They all actually posed together - maybe a first??

Ice cream at Lovin' Spoons!

Followed by fireworks that were being set off in our neighborhood when we got home!

Tuesday evening we had family pictures at Tybee Island. This was Heidi's first, and definitely not last, trip to the beach. She loved it! Well, she loved everything except falling on my bracelet and getting a little black eye :(

4th of July - in Pictures!

I will write a post with more pictures, but here is all I have time for right now :)

Birthday Celebration!

This week we headed to North Atlanta for our niece Olivia's 5th birthday! The party was held at Bounce U and was a great place for the kids to run around and slide/bounce. Heidi even had a chance to use the slides and the bouncing ring! Now that Heidi is walking around everywhere she seems to feel like such a big girl and so excited that she can go anywhere she wants!

Here is where I learned that I chew gum like a cow would chew cud. Awful. I think I will never chew gum in public again. Anyways, if you can get past the horrible gum chewing you will see that Heidi had a fun time on her first slide!

Playing in the boxing ring

Big brother :)

Olivia blowing out her candles and letting everyone know she was turning the B-I-G 5!

Heidi's first time on a swing! She loved it! We might have to think about getting one!

Trying to get this many kids to take a picture together - what a task! Georgia is going through a "I don't want my picture taken" phase and then the other kids argue about who will get to hold the babies or who will sit where and then no one ends up smiling at the same time. I will have to find some similar pictures of me and my cousins going through the same exact poses!

On the way home we stopped to buy some fresh peaches, tomatoes, and cantaloupe.

It was a short trip, but a ton of fun! Other things that happened -

- John, Heidi, and I stayed at my cousin's house and the kids were so excited to have Heidi come over and spend the night. Julie said they were talking about it for days! Phrases used, "please turn on the lights for our guests"; "this is our guest room, we like to make it nice and comfortable for our guests".

- Went to pick out fabric for the girls' dresses for family pictures coming up.

- Heidi crawled up an entire flight of stairs.

- The phrase "yeah, its over there, by that place" was used when in the process of buying peaches. Another "Danny-ism"

- Poor Missy (my brother's dog) is getting to be so old. She went out on the back deck and peed. It wouldn't be funny, except for that the kids were underneath the deck at the time - ha!