Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, I have to say this was a Thanksgiving to put it the books. It was pretty wonderful! One of the biggest reasons of course was because we were so thankful for our sweet, precious angel that God blessed us with this year! To think that He would allow us to raise her is amazing and we are so thankful that we can celebrate with her this year.

Our Thanksgiving day started out with a light breakfast, of course! We had to save room for all the fixins'!

Next, we went over to the church for The annual Ten Can Run/Walk. Uncle Aaron was there when we got there which was exciting...we hadn't seen him since August!
Drew, Aaron, my dad, Kerrington, Ollie and I participated in the 5K walk. It was a fun environment to be in and we all enjoyed a brisk walk/jog before our big feast!
After the walk, we got ready and headed to my parents NEW house (they moved in Monday!) for Thanksgiving! We enjoyed the rest of the day hanging out, relaxing, EATING, playing dominoes, and just catching up.Kerrington was big enough to join us at the table. She really enjoyed that! She sampled some of the mashed potatoes, rutabaga, and parsnips, green bean casserole, cranberry relish, sweet potato casserole, turkey, stuffing, and rolls. She was so funny too...she kept begging and begging for more bites of food! We had a great time of Thanksgiving before and after our dinner. It was wonderful, I'm so thankful that my family knows Jesus Christ and that we all can celebrate what HE has done for us together.

So I hope Kerrington's first Thanksgiving was wonderful for her too! If this picture is any indication, then I think it was!

We only wish that Gigi, Papaw,and aunt Mo could have been with us this year! Then it would have been perfect! Happy Thanksgiving!

Kerrington and Adeline!

We had the opportunity to meet Josh, Elizabeth, and Adeline in Dublin, Georgia on Saturday! It's the half way mark between Savannah (where we live) and Atlanta (where they live)! It endend up being a crazy day...thanks to some car troubles on our part, but we had a good time!

It was fun to have the girls together. It's been probably about 4 or 5 months since they've been together. A lot changes in those couple of months! Here's a picture of the girls back in May:

And here they are from this past weekend:

See...it's it crazy what a couple of months changes in the life of a baby! They're just too cute aren't they?

We had so much fun comparing stories, feeding the girls at the table, picking up their toys from the ground, showing off their 'pegs', and laughing!

Here the girls are with their daddies:

And with their mommies:

Again, it was fun to catch up! It's good to know how close we are now, hopefully we'll get to do it again soon....without the complications!!! Thanks again Swaffords! We love you!

Happy 8 months Kerrington!

Today our baby girl is 8 months old! Woah! I made a little collage below to show how she's changed since she was just 1 month old:

She's not only changed physically, but she sure has developed a personality! Every day she does something different that makes us laugh. We can't wait to see what else this little one has to show us! Here's what she's been up to lately:

• She's in size 3 diapers. Still going strong here...I'm not sure when we'll need to make the switch, I felt like for awhile there she was moving so quickly from NB, to 1, to 2....





• Size 6-12 (I know, big range right!) clothes





• She's eating solid meals 3 times a day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She's eating EVERYTHING! She loves it all! We just started giving her 'bites' of our food and she is doing really well with it. Mostly we've given her green beans, mashed potatoes, bread, easy things to mash up in her mouth. At home we've tried cubes of cheese, yogurt, grapes, bananas, cheerios and she's doing well with all!





• She's working on the pincher grab! It's so fun to see those little fingers go for food





• We're still breastfeeding. I just love it. This past week though (warning...this might be TMI for some of you) she started biting me. Can I just say OUCH...it hurts, really bad. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to keep it up if she keeps doing it. We'll have to wait and see.




• She has 4, count em 4 teeth now! Two on bottom and 2 on top! The top 2 are the outside ones! It's funny, when you get a glimpse of them, they look like little fangs.




• She is mobile! She crawls, or shall I say, drags herself around now! It's funny to watch but one minute she'll be in one spot on the floor and the next thing you know she's across the room! I wonder if she'll figure out how to lift that knee up and actually crawl...





• She's sleeping pretty well at night. She falls asleep in her own bed between 8 and 9 at night. Like clock work though she's up at anywhere between 3-6 to eat again and stay in our bed the rest of the morning until around 7:30, 8. We'll take what we can get!





• She's saying 'mama', usually it comes out as 'mom' though...she's too mature for that baby talk. We're waiting on the 'dada' still. Every once in awhile we hear a 'baba', but we're pretty sure it's her just making noise.





• She loves her Ollie, just follows him around (and tries to torment) every where!

Well, I think that's a long enough list. I'm sure I could go on and on.... here's a couple more of the babe...

Cuddling with her 'dada' in the morning!

Our happy little girl, what can I say, we're so blessed!

Showing off her "peggys" a.k.a. teeth (you'll have to ask me about THAT story sometime!)

With her buddy...we totally didn't stage this one, he just decided to take a seat next to his sister!

Obsession

Unfortunately for him, Ollie has become Kerrington's obsession. She sees him, and makes a b-line, everytime! He does pretty good with her. Mostly he'll just get up right before she can grab him and move. Every once in awhile he will let out a little warning noise to her, but trust me, it doesn't stop her! She's hilarious now that she can 'crawl'. She scoots her little belly all over the room now... the rolling has become less and less.

Saturday is her 8 month birthday! She's getting too big! With each passing day, we're loving her more and more!

Buddies

Last week we were in the nursery for Wednesday night service. Kerrington's friend

Mary was there too. As you can tell, they're good friends. They even held hands for awhile! Kerrington was happy to see her there last week because usually there is just a bunch of boys!

3 Big Ones!

Well, Princess Kerrington has been pretty busy lately... she's had three huge milestones in just the past couple of weeks!

She's FINALLY saying 'mama'!!! Woohoo! That is just the most precious thing a mother can hear. We're still working on 'dada', I'm sure she'll catch on soon, if she's anything like the past couple of weeks she's had!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXhB1stPxD4

(I have a video of her saying mama and "crawling" but I'm having trouble posting these videos on the blog, so here's the link)

She also cut two new teeth! If I could take a picture of them I would...but she is being a little shy with these two. Instead I'll post what she's been doing instead....puting every single thing she can find in her mouth! She loves to show off her first two bottom teeth. The top two are her side incisors, we've yet to see the central incisors.




And...she's crawling!!! Well almost...she actually has forward movement, so that counts right? I'm sure she'll perfect her craft very soon! I was wondering if she would even crawl at all because she gets around pretty well by rolling, but in the past couple of days she's been actually pushing that butt up in the air and gaining ground! I know, I know I should be so excited about this, 'once the crawling begins, my life is over'.... many people have told me that, but I am excited!!! My baby girl is growing up! I love, love, love the opportunity I have to watch and capture all of these milestones!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_egd-XRyEM


(video of Kerrington 'crawling')



Oh, and I think her hair is starting to grow too... it's looking thicker these days!! See! I told you! This girl has been busy!

New trick

Kerrington's latest trick...

Now, she didn't put herself up there...she's not that good (yet). I propped her up there and she loved it! She stands there and pats on the couch. We're gonna work on getting herself to do it next!