Wordless Wednesday: Thanks Aunt A

Early birthday presents....

All Is Well Again

Tonight is the official start of the 2008 College Football Season. Enough said.

Wordless Wednesday: MMMMMM....Chocolate

I found some pediasure s'mores granola bar-like "nutrition bars" yesterday and thought they might be a good treat for Shiloh. I think she liked it.

Happy Birthday!

This is a little late because I haven't felt like blogging about anything these past few days but, Happy Birthday Richard!!!


Rich's 26th birthday was this past Saturday. We had a nice day....Rich and Shiloh went to Gymboree together while I baked him a cake and then we went out to Gwinnett and had dinner with Zach and hung out at his house afterwards.


Below is a picture of Rich's cake. He plays the bass but, of course, there are no bass guitar cake pans. Also, after working on this thing for 5 hours (baking the cake, making the icing, practicing icing, officially icing) it came time to do the strings. As you may be able to tell, I just wanted to be done at that point so they aren't very straight. Anyway, the cake tasted excellent and it was great practice for whatever I decide to do for Shiloh's birthday!

Getting Through The Next Month

So, I know I still have a little over a month to go before Shiloh's first birthday but the emotions are already coming out. Last night, for the first time in many months, Shiloh woke up around 12:30 fussing. I was still awake (thanks, Olympics) so I was more than happy to get up, make her a bottle and rock her back to sleep. As I was sitting in the rocking chair awkwardly trying to rock her...she has such a long body....I was taken back to the first month after she was born. Every night, like clockwork, she would wake up from 12-4 or if I was lucky 2-4 and fuss. Thankfully, my mom and sisters were visiting the majority of that month so I had reinforcements but back to the story. Last night as I was holding her thinking back to that first month I tried picturing this tiny little baby in my arms and I just couldn't do it. I wanted so badly to return to that month with the patience and understanding I've gained since then and have that time with her back. As I was laying Shiloh back down in her crib I felt the tears swelling in my eyes.

It was then that it hit me. Exactly ten months ago I was in tears because this crying, little baby would not calm down and let both of us sleep. Last night I was in tears because I would have stayed up all night rocking her but now she doesn't fall asleep well when held so I had to lay her down once her bottle was finished. She's growing up too fast.

Wordless Wednesday: Is It Football Season Yet??

Shiloh's Brushing Her Teeth On the Bottom...

cause she wouldn't want to say that she forgot 'em!! Can you guess who watched way too much Barney during her babysitting days?!?

As you may be able to guess by the title of this post, we brushed Shiloh's teeth for the first time tonight! I can not begin to tell you how much fun we had! She wasn't very into it at first as you'll see in the pictures below but after Rich got his tooth brush out she had such a great time brushing with daddy. Fifteen minutes of brushing/sucking on the tooth brush later we finally had to take it away so we could put her to bed!