One more

Two post in one day this pic was too cute. Avie is finally starting to smile when we talk to her. Every once in a while she will laugh. She had been doing good sleeping all night but in the past week she has been getting up at least once and some days twice....to eat. They had told us that cereal would not flow through the special bottles (picture at bottom), but I did some online research, mostly blogs of people with kids with clefts, and they said they did. They said the more you use you may have to take the flow disc out, but she is able to drink it through the bottle. Donald just got done feeding her a 3.5 ounces of water, 1tbs cereal and 1.5 scoops of formula, she is barely able to move at this point....Hopefully she will sleep all night!!

Polka dots

These are the girls before Church this morning.

Amelia was done being in pictures.

Anna and Tyson in Sunday school.

Avie in class, she thought Amy was boring.....

Amelia is pumped because tonight after Church we are having an ice cream sundae party!!

2 Months Old

Today Avie is 2 months old. She is sleeping all night, YEA!!!!, and she is eating good....you will see proof of that as you scroll down!! That is about all of the exciting things she does, she still has a little bobble head, but she can hold it up for longer periods of time almost every day. Now for some pictures.

She makes the funniest face when she is crying and then stops, she just curls those lips and as Amelia says "looks Pafetic." After her bath, if she is fussy a bath always calms her down.

Below is the proof that she is having no trouble eating and gaining weight. Her hair looks curly when she gets out of the bath before I comb it, but if you let it dry without combing it down it looks like she stuck her finger in an electrical outlet.

propped up in her crib

These are her friends. She loves to watch them spin around and around.

She loves to sit up and watch what is going on around her. Amelia and I were sitting on the couch and she was watching us.

and then her head fell...............

This last pictures is for my family and Ginny.......yes her thumb is in her mouth!! She usually only does this when she gets done with a bottle. I told Donald her mind is bigger than her stomach!!

That is all for now, she goes to the Dr on the 7th, I feel certain she will have made leaps and bounds on that growth chart.

This week

Since Donald's truck would not hold 2 car seats we knew we had to sell it. We put an ad in the paper on Saturday and by Thursday it was sold, so this week he bought a new truck...with a full backseat so both car seats would fit. Someone is getting BIG........She is up to 4 ounces at most feedings, especially the first one in the morning. She does not go to the Dr until July 7th, by then I think she will weigh over 10 pounds!!

I bought myself a laptop. Since I have to work a lot at home I decided I would much rather be able to sit on the couch or in my bed than at the desk......

Amelia is enjoying summer with her Daddy, she has missed Anna and Abby this week since they have been in Nashville. I told her they are coming back on Monday but she still does not have a very good concept of time. One month from today she will be 5, she is ready for her party. She has already told Donald no boys allowed!!

Avie still sleeps in the court-a-crib, as Amelia calls it, in our room. We still have one end elevated and she seems to sleep just fine in there, so why mess up a good thing.

Happy Father's Day!!

The girls before Church. They were their matching dresses that Susan, from my office, made them. They have their initials on them, I tried to explain to Amelia what that mean, but she told me that Ms. Susan had spelled them wrong....

7 weeks

Tomorrow Avie will be 7 weeks. We can't believe she is already 7 weeks, but then again we can't believe it has only been 7 weeks. She still does not do a whole lot of exciting things, she can hold her head up, but then she will flop it to the side. She does like to look around, a few of her favorite things are ceiling lights, the fan and the mobile over her crib. her eyes are still very blue so I think she will probably have big blue eyes like Amelia. NOT a very good pic, but Amelia likes to use the camera.

Abby holding Avie and the Lil terrorist probably saying "baby" over and over. The only time she really stops is to say Abby and Mimi. She finally knows my name, she can not or will not say it, but at least when you ask her Where is Audrey she points to me, however she also points to me occasionally when you say where is Bobo or Donald......

Pictures

The end of swimming lessons

Friday was the last day of swim lessons, it was also the best day Amelia had. Wednesday and Thursday she was AWFUL!!!! She did not cry she screamed bloody murder....it was ridiculous. Friday she was a different person.
Below she is on the kick board she went all around kicking.

Bobby Tucker making her swim underwater to the wall.

Floating on her back

swimming underwater

on the kickboard

jumping in

We went to Bev's pool today and she swam all around by herself. We also had their pictures made, I will try and post some of those later.

Crazy girls and swimming lessons

Sunday we tried to get a pic of the Ateam.....these were what we got.

Monday Amelia started swimming lessons again with Bobby Tucker. She had been pumped about these until we got there, she cried and cried and then cried some more. Donald took her on Tuesday and she did so much better she jumped in by herself which she was so proud of.

These are just a couple from Monday night. Amelia likes to pretend she had a baby, which basically means you hand her Avie and say "Its a girl"....