Getting Caught Up!

I have really fallen behind on posting pictures lately! Time is just flying by! Annalise has become such a big girl lately, she is 99% potty trained and speaks in complete sentences all the time. Here are some pictures showing how much of a big girl she is...

Annalise likes to get in Noah's crib with him whenever we are in his room and he is just waking up. I think they both look so cute!

And, here are some pictures of Noah! He is growing and changing so quickly as well! He can roll over, he babbles and blows bubbles all of the time, he takes a short morning nap and a long afternoon nap (while Annalise is sleeping!) and he is FINALLY sleeping through the night! I think I need to start taking pictures of him doing other things besides eating...

Coming soon... really cute pictures of Jon and Annalise playing guitar together and a funny video of her singing "He's God the Whole World in His Hands."

T's Wedding

My brother and Amy got married at the end of July. Annalise was the cutest flower girl ever!!! I didn't have my camera with me at all the entire weekend but, here are a few pictures that some of our good family friends have emailed me.

Here are Carolyn and I at the rehearsal dinner-
My parents at the rehearsal dinner-
T and Amy at the rehearsal dinner. Notice that Thomas got a place of nuggets from McDonalds as a joke since that was the only food he ate till he was 12. The kitchen sent the nuggets out as a surprise.
We took Annalise swimming at the hotel pool on the morning of the wedding to wear her out so she would take an early nap that day... It didn't really help, she was still deliriously tired by the time she got to the reception. She was so tired she wouldn't eat dinner so instead she ate a piece of wedding cake and drank a Dublin Dr. Pepper.

Here are she and Kathryn at the pool-

Ben taught Annalise some super fun moves in the pool-

Noah also enjoyed the pool-
I don't have any pictures of the actual wedding and have just a couple of the reception. Here is Annalise and Katie. You can get just a glimpse of her extreme super cuteness in her flower girl dress. :)

BIG BOY!

Noah continues to amaze me with his giant-ness! He is closing in on 17 pounds at 4.5 months old. He currently weighs more than Annalise did when she turned 1! Now he is old enough to start enjoying some tasty rice cereal and baby food which has been a big hit. He has a lot of eating to do to maintain his linebacker-like body.

Here is a picture of him in Annalise's doll stroller again. Look how much he has grown since the last time he went for a ride in the doll stroller! It is hard to tell but now the little canopy on the top of the stroller won't even close while he is in it.

Now:

Mid-May:

Here are some pictures of Noah thoroughly enjoying his first bites of rice cereal. He even opens his mouth to wait for the spoon. Feeding him is a much different experience from when we first fed Annalise.

The Musical Stylings of Annalise

We have a ukulele that belonged to Jon's Dad while he was in the Korean War. Annalise found it in a closet in Jon's office and now she thinks she has a guitar that is just her size! She especially loves playing it with a pick. Here she is rockin out!

Family Fun

Smiling Noah

For the past few weeks Noah has been having lots of stomach problems (we think) that have been making him very fussy and grumpy. I think that he is starting to get better. He has been flashing us lots of sweet smiles. It is surprising to me how different he looks from Annalise. His eyes are so big and brown.


Noah also enjoyed his first swim while we were in The Woodlands. He really liked floating in his tube.

Wild Woman!

We visited my parents for the weekend of the 4th. Fun was has by all, especially Annalise!



She had tons of fun riding her "bike" down my parent's driveway. It freaked me out a little bit because I kept picturing her having a big wipe out and then she would be "that flowergirl covered in scabs" in my brother's wedding next weekend.

Here are some pictures of the fun...


She also had more wild woman fun in the pool-
Here is one last picture of her I really like. She has such a fun and spunky personality!