The Tale of our Miles

Happy January!

2012-01-12T17:35:00.000-06:00

I am overwhelmed when I think about updating our blog because I do not know where to start and there is so much to update on, so I thought that I would just post and work from there, since I know there are people who check daily for updates!

These are for Auntie Heather, the girls love their present, thank you so much for it!

Darin has been busy at work in his workshop, aka the garage, and the weather has been so nice that the girls and I often join him outside.

I cannot believe how big Bria is getting and how determined she is to grow up too quickly! She is 23 weeks old in this picture.

This is often the scene when these two are outside, Caily loves to have Sky on a leash and play for hours with her that way.

Getting ready for church is hard work.

These were taken on New Year's Day on our way to church. Bria and Lexi are wearing the dresses that Caily and Lexi wore for Lexi's first Christmas.

We took these last two when we got home, I cannot believe how big they all are getting!

These were taken today and I cannot help but think that this is giving me a glimpse of Caily as a teenager.

Lexi loves to stockpile things, here they are watching a movie.

Bria has had a rough week, she got her bottom two teeth in and has had a bad cold! The other two did not get teeth until 8 months old, so I was not expecting to see anything when I took a look at her gums the other day. She will be 25 weeks old tomorrow! She can pretty much get wherever she would like to with rolling and scooting and has gotten her knees up under herself a couple of times. She is also sitting very well, although still needs to be watched carefully as she tends to throw herself backwards randomly!

Lexi is as fearless as ever and her most recent spill was off our island. She was climbing onto our stool and miscalculated and landed on her cheek, poor kid, she is always covered with bruises.

Caily can get the best giggles out of Bria and can often get her to go to sleep, when I have to get something done. This was taken one day, I was making lunch and Bria needed to go to sleep, so Caily lay beside her and held her hand while watching a movie and Bria fell asleep.

I have a wiggly baby in my arms and supper to make, so I need to get going, hopefully it won't be a month before my next post.

Happy December!

2011-12-02T17:05:00.001-06:00

Apparently I am not so good at blogging these days! This is just to appease the families until I get back to posting a decent size post. At the moment, Bria is on my lap, Caily is throwing a fit in her room and Lexi is happily playing! Bria is 16 and a half weeks old in the picture and is as happy as ever these days at 19 weeks in the second picture!

Happy November!

2011-11-03T11:32:00.000-05:00

I cannot believe it has almost been one month since I posted! I am not going to catch up all at once, but I will post a couple of pictures to give a taste of what is going on in the Miles' household!

This smiley baby is such a joy! Bria is so sweet and content and will greet anyone who talks to her with a huge smile that seems to go throughout her body. She is very social and loves to smile at people and seems to try to get people to look at her so that she can give them one of her heart-warming smiles. She has really started to talk and is so expressive in her conversations. This picture was taken at 14 weeks old and she is going to be 15 weeks old tomorrow, I cannot believe that!

We had a harvest festival at church and I wanted to take some pictures of the girls before and I was laughing rather hard at the differences between them and all the poses they were throwing at me.

And of course when Lexi finally is looking and smiling at the camera and Caily is onto silly faces!

These two can have so much fun together and the giggles seem to be endless.

Who can resist this cuddly bunny, who wasn't too sure about the costume, but she sure was cute!

The whole family!

Hopefully more to come soon . . .

11 weeks!

2011-10-08T10:02:00.000-05:00

This one is actually at 10 weeks old!

Lexi with her most faithful friend! Lexi seems to be adding words daily, one of those is forever, said with the most conviction her little body can muster and about anything. For example, "I dropped my sippy, forever!" or "No, thank you, forever!" She also says my for every personal pronoun, one of her favorite lines is, "Here my am!" She has gotten out of this stage, but she said it yesterday and it reminded me that she would often say, un huh all the time in the cutest way.

Daddy reading to his 3 girls.

Bria's eyelashes seem to be growing with each day.

She is such a smiley and happy baby. When she gives her biggest smiles, her whole body seems to be smiling and her eyes disappear.

She is getting stronger and can roll onto her side when she is on her back.

She loves to tell us all about her day, especially once the older two have gone to bed and it is a little quieter! She has been sleeping very well and this morning slept all the way til 6:45, I was very excited when I looked at the clock.

Both girls love to hold Bria, although Lexi tends to hold her for a couple of minutes at the most and Caily will hold her for quite a while. Caily continues to love to color and write and practices daily. She also really loves to be silly and laugh. She has recently started to learn how to ride a bike and loves to go on walks while either riding her bike or holding Sky's leash!

We sure love our three precious girlies!

Eight Weeks!

2011-09-25T16:41:00.000-05:00

I have taken pictures of all three girls at eight weeks old in this sleeper, which is the sleeper that I came home from the hospital in. Bria is actually nine weeks at the moment, but I wanted to post these cute pictures of her and the other girls to see them all at the same age in the same outfit!

Lexi at eight weeks!

Caily at eight weeks!

So, what do you think who do you think Bria looks like?

A little bit of everything!

2011-08-30T21:00:00.008-05:00

I just uploaded pictures off our camera and there are pictures from before Lexi's birthday in May, what in the world! I don't even know where to start with loading pictures, so I may just sporadically add in pictures from the last five months!

I decided to put some pictures of the belly up, so that I would have some record of my pregnancy with Bria to refer back to.

27 weeks . . .
34 weeks . . .
36 weeks . . .
38 weeks and a couple days. . .

I couldn't resist these pictures taken when she was 4 weeks old and a day shy of one month! All dressed up for church! Bria is doing so well and has started to smile at people these days, which is adorable. She smiled at Darin when she was almost 5 weeks old and it melts our hearts every time she does it. She has also found her voice and makes cute noises and some funny noises as well. I call her my baby dinosaur because that is what she sounds like at times.

What's a post without these cuties! This pictures was taken on Caily's birthday and the last ones were taken on Lexi's birthday!

Four weeks old!

2011-08-20T13:05:00.004-05:00

I cannot believe that Bria is already four weeks old! This is a picture from when my parents were here, but I love the expression. I need to upload pictures from my camera, but if I wait for that, it might be even longer until I post.

Darin's parents came down two days after my parents left and we had a great time with them as well. They left on Tuesday, so we are trying to adjust to how life is going to look like now as a family of five, in a new house with Darin working a new job. There have been some interesting moments for sure, but overall things are going well.

Bria is growing bigger everyday and has such cute expressions. She has always smiled a ton and even giggled a couple times in her sleep. Yesterday Darin bent down to talk to her in her swing and she smiled a huge smile at him! So adorable and brings happy tears. She has been giving me good stretches at night, although we need to work on the daytime naps because I have been letting her get overtired and then it takes a bit for her to fall asleep.

I cannot believe how big all three girls are getting! Lexi is talking more and more these days and often has us all laughing with her antics. She loves to pick out her own clothes and dress herself, which results in many outfit changes throughout the day and some very interesting outfits. She doesn't tend to do things the same way every one else does and it is fun to watch her little mind at work. An example of this is that she loves to eat with the wrong end of her spoon or eat her cheeto in the middle first. Caily is into coloring and dancing these days. Her pictures and drawings are getting easier and easier to distinguish. She can write all the letters in her name, just not necessarily in the right order. She can be very sweet and loves to help out, especially in the kitchen. They both love to hold Bria and help her with her pacifier.

Hopefully I will get my pictures uploaded soon and that there will be more posts to follow!

She's Here!

2011-08-05T15:51:00.003-05:00

It has been so incredibly long since I have blogged, that I don't even know where to start! First off, the most important, our third girl is here, Bria Elise! She arrived on Friday, July 22nd at 11:41 pm after being at the hospital for less than 15 minutes! She weighed 9 lbs 1 oz and measured 21 inches long, our big girl. We are thrilled that she decided to join us, just minutes short of 41 weeks. Caily is loving her new baby sister and Lexi has her moments of loving having her here and other times when she is not as thrilled.

We have also moved and Darin has started a new job, all within the week that Bria arrived. I will hopefully be able to write more about all of those things in the days to come and will be able to keep up with blogging better. That is all for now, welcome Baby Bria!

The girls

2011-04-19T13:26:00.004-05:00

I cannot believe how much our girls have grown over the past couple of months. Lexi is about to be two and Caily to be four, they are getting to be so big! They love to play together, although the definitely have their moments of screaming and pulling on toys. Lexi tends to give in more quickly and has shown her big heart when Caily is either getting in trouble for not sharing or grabbing something from Lexi and throwing a fit. She will often bring whatever is the cause of the fit and give it to Caily. It is very sweet and shows a tenderness to her.
They love to dance together in princess dresses and hold hands while they spin. At least once a morning the show up in their dresses ready to dance.
At the moment we have around 80 baby chickens and they love to check on them and hold them, especially Caily. Lexi enjoys it, but is not exactly the most gentle on them at all times. I think they would both be content if we spent the majority of the day outside.
Lexi is talking more and more these days and we are starting to understand her more as well. She will attempt just about any word you ask her to and often surprises us with big words, like gymnastics. Lexi has turned into quite the cuddle bug and loves to be held, especially when we walk around outside.
Lexi often has quite the mischievious look in her eyes and we are never sure what she is going to do or say next! Caily is loving gymnastics and has a huge smile on her face the whole time. She will often do gymnastics with Lexi at home and it cracks me up. She also loves to color and her artwork is taking more of a shape these days.
Both girls love their Daddy and can hardly wait for him to get home. He gets quite the welcome each and everyday with shrieks of excitement and big hugs and kisses.
Caily has really started to enjoy playing with some girls from church and talks about her friends often. It is cute to watch her develop more in social situations.
The Lord has blessed us with two very sweet girls that love to live life!

They love to climb on the outside of our porch and here they are showing me how they can put their legs in the air!
Nothing like a handsome Daddy with his little girls!

That is all I can think of at the moment, hopefully it will not me too long until the next update!

20 Weeks ~ Halfway!

2011-03-05T13:39:00.003-06:00

I thought I would quickly post a belly picture, since it has been awhile. I feel like I am quite big already, but I think that I say that every time! Things are going well with the little one and I am feeling a ton of movement, especially when I slow down at nap time and bed time. I have been feeling movement for a long time and Darin was able to feel the little one move around 18 weeks, which is always so special, when he gets to join in the fun. We were going back and forth about whether to find out the gender or not, but we decided to go ahead and find out. It is another girl! We were going to keep it a secret, but neither of us are very good at it. It is nice to know so that I do not have to wonder about having to get anything because we are set for clothes, since all the girls will be born all around the same time.

Anyway, my brain is not working and I cannot think of all the things I wanted to say, so for now that will have to do!

Girlies!

2011-02-10T14:14:00.004-06:00

Not much time to add words because I have a mountain of laundry calling my name to be folded and these pictures are pretty self-explanatory.
Flying in the airplane!

I love all the poses!

Cheesy sister love! Thanks Mama T for the cowgirl outfits!

Baby On the way. . .

2011-02-04T18:50:00.003-06:00

It is true, baby number three is on the way. Some of you noticed the baby ticker on top, good work, I didn't want to post something until I had a more definite due date. The confusion came when my last period was very light and so I was thinking that I was further along that I first thought. I am due on July 16th, although we all know that babies tend to come when they are ready to come, not when we tell them too. I had an ultrasound yesterday and the baby was measuring one week bigger, but we decided to stick with the original due date. Everything looked great on the ultrasound, which is always a blessing to hear.

I have been starting to feel better, especially when I get some sleep. I had the all day gross feeling for quite awhile which was interesting with two little ones running around. I wouldn't feel good right when I woke up and then I would have about two hours of feeling okay and then it would go downhill from there. I often watched as Darin and the girls ate supper from the couch. I have been feeling movement for quite a few weeks, which was also why I thought I might be further along. I am 80% sure I felt movement on Christmas day which would be really early!

I am almost 17 weeks along and feeling quite large, but I have to remind myself that this is my third child, so it is to be expected. That picture is from 14 weeks at the end of the day!

I was going to post some ultrasound pictures and pictures of the girls, but I have a very tired girl in my arms, which is making typing a wee bit difficult!

That is all for now!

One day. . .

2011-01-14T20:09:00.003-06:00

Sorry my blog has been terribly lacking these days, I have become a bad blogger! I have slipped out of the habit and it is not so easy of a habit to slip back into. I wish that habits were easily formed because there are a couple that I would love to have these days that I seemed to have let slipped on by.

This week has been full of cuddles as both girls are battling through a cold. I think that they are on the tail end of it, Caily more so than Lexi, but I have not accomplished much on my list. I have been trying to enjoy the still moments together because they do not happen very often especially with Lexi! These days from the moment she wakes up until the moment she goes to sleep, I need to be within eyesight and if I decide to move out of her line of sight, tears start to fall and she wants to be in my arms. She often wants to be held and this hasn't happened since she was itty bitty. She has even fallen asleep on me a couple of times, which is practically unheard of in Lexi Land!

Another thing that I have gotten bad about is taking pictures, so I will need to take out the camera tomorrow to hopefully remedy that.

Anyway, I don't remember the last picture less post I have done, but I figured it was better than nothing.

It's time. . .

2010-12-11T12:49:00.003-06:00

A certain wonderful sister of mine told me that she was tired of seeing "a day at the park" and I need to update, so here you go, sister of mine. I hope you enjoy!

These are actually take from this morning bath time. I love how the water looks and the little girls as well!

What do you think this is? Well, it is where Caily decided to nap one day! She and at least one pillow are inside the laundry basket, fast asleep. Oh silly child, sleeping normally would be way to boring!

I don't know what more to say about these pictures, other than this is a glimpse into Caily's silly mind!
Lexi loves to feed Sky, who is very patient with the less then ideal way of being fed.

Snack time. I think I took like 15 pictures and this is the best I could get.
That is all for now, I must make lunch and I do have a really good excuse for not posting much, but I will save that for a later day!

A Day at the Park. . .

2010-11-19T08:48:00.002-06:00

Occasionally Darin has to work Saturdays and when he does, he can take a day off during the week. This was from one of his days off awhile ago, but they were fun pictures that I never posted, so I thought I would post some from that day.

Not all my pictures turned out from the day, but a couple did, I love how Darin is watching Caily.

We need to work at looking at the camera!
The girls were so excited that Daddy didn't have to work and we were going to go play together.
So, the pictures are a little out of order, oh well, you get the idea. I think Darin was trying to get a video of Caily on his phone.
Sweet girl, enjoying the beautiful day.
It was such a fun day of just hanging out as a family!

BC Part 5. . .

2010-11-12T15:58:00.008-06:00

I thought that I should finish the pictures up, even though it has been a long time since our trip. I was thinking about a certain picture and looked for it on the blog and couldn't find it, I hadn't posted it yet. So, I decided to finish the pictures. . . here goes. . .

Thanks again Mom and Dad for a great time together!
I like the look that Lexi is giving Kai, not quite sure about sharing her Mommy! These two are only four months apart and I love watching them play together.
Aidan and Caily really enjoyed playing together and just being plain old silly, as 4 and 3 year olds tend to be.

Dance party in the laundry room.
Kai showing off his dance moves.

Sometimes they weren't too sure of each other, especially since Lexi thinks she owns everything in the world and would get upset about people playing with "her" toys. Kai was so laid back about things, so it worked out okay.

More music!
Five crazy monkeys!
Mimi and Kai, all smiles together.
A lot of reading was done. My cousin Stephen and his family came to visit one night. It was fun to add two more little ones to the craziness and watch as Lexi attached herself to Stephen.
More reading. . .

Kai always willing to stop whatever he is doing and pose for the camera.
These two were hilarious with their epic wrestling matches. They would go on for a long time, no one would really get hurt, they just loved wrestling.
Little ones everywhere.
More wrestling.

Caily loved holding Kai.
Just a couple little ones.

Uncle bonding time.
Cheese!
I love the look on Lexi's face, "You cannot have my toy!" I guess we have some work to do.

The pull toys were a hit and they would run in circles for a long time, round and round and round.
Reading with Auntie was always fun, lots of expression put into each book.

Anyway, that is all for now, sorry about the picture overload, but I wanted to get all the pictures posted.

Sneak Peak

2010-11-08T11:43:00.002-06:00

For some reason I have not been very motivated to post these days, sorry. I thought I would post a sneak peak of our church's Harvest Festival!

Caily ended up coming down with a fever that night and had just woke up from a nap, hence the death stare:) That's all for now, hopefully more to follow soon.

Randomness. . .

2010-10-26T15:49:00.003-05:00

This is how I found Caily one "nap" time, she was all tucked in with a pillow and blanket, silly child!
Back in September, Darin did a wedding and the girls and I went along. It was at a cute dance hall, with a charming rustic feel.

This is the best I could get of the three of them, Darin and his girls!

I like this one of the two of them, just enjoying each other.
"Cheese!" said most enthusiastically!
Singing in the playroom.
Waking up or settling down, I am not sure, but they look all cozy with their blankets.
I don't have a lot of time, but I wanted to post something before time got a way from me!

Been Awhile

2010-10-15T14:48:00.006-05:00

I don't know if I will finish posting from the trip, I was at one of those standstills where I was slightly overwhelmed at where to start blogging, so I decided to post pictures from today just to get things started again. Then I will maybe go back or I don't know yet.

I know these first two are kinda blurry, but they show the goofiness of our little ones!

Caily has been really into riding her scooter and had to change into a skirt because her jeans were too slow!
Lexi is transitioning to one nap a day and it is hard to hold off until after lunch to sleep. I love that this catches what she does when she is sleepy, sucks her thumb and plays with her hair or if you are holding her she will play with yours, so sweet!
I love this picture of her.
I was trying to get a picture of the two of them because they love sitting right beside each other, but this is the best I could get.
Cheese!
Looking inside at Caily, who was changing, something she does 20 times a day or so it feels!
Our little monkey.

This is the face I see a lot during the day. We are working on not fussing and taking no for an answer.
I do not know how she got to be so big. She is really into dressing herself and loves to wear necklaces and bracelets. Some days the outfits are really cute and sometimes they are quite crazy!
Had to add this one from the other day, her hair is getting so long.
That is all for now, hopefully it will be only a couple days before the next post!

BC Part 4. . .

2010-09-22T14:39:00.004-05:00

On one of the last days of sunshine predicated we headed out to White Rock . .

I thought it was rather runny the constant shuffling of little ones that went on, Jaxon and Auntie Heather. . .
Lexi and me walking. . .
Lexi just took of with Jaxon and Megan, it was really cute and shocking all at the same time, since that would never happened at home. . .
Kai-bear enjoying getting dirty. . .
My two little Texans weren't quite ready for the Pacific ocean and got chilled rather quickly. . .
Boys being boys. . .

It is always fascinating to watch siblings interact. . .
Caily didn't hesitate to get in the water, but quickly grew chilled, she also wasn't feeling the best and didn't have a voice. . .
Jamie was the only adult with a swimsuit on, so he got water duty. . .
The young Becks. . .Sisters. . .
It was a fun day, I just wished that Caily could have been feeling %100, so she could have enjoyed it more fully. . .

BC Part 3. . .

2010-09-22T14:15:00.005-05:00

Fun with Sidewalk chalk and bubbles. . .

Caily loves animals, especially furry ones and I think Tikka enjoyed having someone to love on her and not just poke at her like the younger two did. . .
Such a beauty. . .

I really like this picture of my Dad and Tiks, just taking it all in. . .

As camera crazy as my Mom is, it is really nice to have all these pictures, especially of the girls and I because I am usually the one taking the pictures. . . Hug from Lexi, she is getting really good at giving hugs. . .

Hydrating. . .

I really like this one, everything about it is very Lexi. . .
Bubble fun . . .

Kai wasn't so sure about the bubbles, liked the chalk though, I think their expression here is funny. . .
More bubbles and sidewalk chalk fun, this time with Aidan and Jaxon too. . . I like this picture of Aidan and Lexi, such concentration from both and this is one of my favorite hairstyles on Lexi, it suits her well, also gotta love the pants falling down. . .
I don't know why I like this picture so much, you cannot see any faces, but I love all the different things that are going on, from Tikka in the background to Lexi doing what ever she is doing to Heather assisting Kai in something. . .
Such concentration. . .
This picture has depth to it, it is more than just a picture to me. . .

Lexi thought there was something to the cracks in the driveway and was very cautious about stepping over them. . .
Auntie Megan was the bubbles mediator. . . not an easy task . . .
I like Tikka in the background of this picture and almost all the kids watching her. . .
Cousin playtime. . .
We tried to enjoy all the sunny days to there fullest because there were dreary, wet, cold days to come. . .

BC Part 2. . .

2010-09-20T13:00:00.007-05:00

A day at the park was in order, so the Moms and the littles, packed up and headed out to enjoy the sunshine! We packed a lunch to be able to enjoy even more of the time outside together.

Once again, the pictures are in reverse order, it takes too much brain power to get it right.

Mom trying to get Kai to look at the camera. . .
Kai wondering where everyone went and wishing he could move as quickly. . .
I love the action shot. . .
This was as good as we could get of the youngest cousins. . .
Kai just relaxing. . .
The Beck boys, serious about the task at hand . . .
The adults are the only ones looking at the camera. . .

Caily loves to help by pushing Lexi in the stroller, although she isn't so good at the art of going straight. . .
These next pictures, don't need much explaining, I love the different expressions on each of the little ones. . .

I think Kai enjoyed the company on the swings or he couldn't quite figure out what Lexi was doing . . .

I told Heather, she looks like a movie star mom at the park, big sunglasses, looking gorgeous and all put together. I rarely look that put together, muchless at the park. . .
There are so many pictures I want to post, considering these aren't even all the pictures from this day. More to come soon. . .

BC Part One. . .

2010-09-16T11:14:00.005-05:00

If you are one who needs to look at pictures in correct chronological order, you will need to go to the end of the post and start there because I am too lazy to rearrange everything.

We talked with Darin a couple of times on Skype and the girls loved seeing him, this is us talking to him. I love Lexi reaching toward him!
I was rather worried about Lexi not warming up to anybody and boy did she surprise me. At home she doesn't really let anybody, with the exception of maybe two people, pick her up when I am around. So, when she was letting people pick her up the very first night, saying I was shocked was an understatement. She really enjoyed her Unkie Matt, I don't know if it helped that he plays like Darin does, or if it just because he is a big softy, either way, it was fun to watch.
The older three "playing cards", while trying to protect them from the grasps of the younger two!
Lexi reading one of her favorite books.

These two are only four and a half months apart and it was really fun and amusing to watch them together. They are built pretty much the opposite, but have many similarities apart from build!
Caily playing with some of my old toys, I cannot believe how big Caily is looking these days!
Kai is such a funny kid when you pull out the camera, add a little music and he is hilarious.
Caily, unfortunately got sick the first night we got there and passed on the loveliness, it was sad though because she lost her voice for three days and just wasn't quite herself for a lot of the time.
Play dough time . . .
Getting to know each others kiddos. . .
A lot of reading was done and while Unkie Matt was around he got in on the action as well.
Bupa joining in as well, cute little Jaxon will also smile for the camera.
This was taken the first night and Lexi was quite comfortable with Auntie Heather, it was like she knew she was with family or something. The piano was a big hit with all the littles. I love her little legs hanging off the bench.
That is all for now, more to come soon, I am not making any promises as to when that will be. I have all the pictures chosen, just have to load them and make them into a post (or five).

To BC and Back. . .

2010-09-11T21:50:00.006-05:00

I have a really good reason for the absence this time, the girls and I went to BC for a visit and left poor Darin home alone. We all had a great time visiting friends and family and I will post more on that later, but I wanted to write down some traveling stories before I forget them . . .

The way there was not too horrible or memorable other than chasing after my 16 month old that thinks darting is the next best thing to jumping off of high objects. Without any moments notice, she would be trying to make a get away, halfway across the terminal or down the plane aisle. The flight that I was dreading the most was from Houston to Vancouver, but overall they did really well. Lexi even passed out for an hour or two and I think I was more done than they were.

On the way home was a different story, I became that Mom with that child that I swore I would never be. There were many variables that should have warned me of the level of melt downs to come, but there wasn't much I could do to prevent them. We had to leave my parents house at 5 am and Caily fell asleep in the car, both good and bad. She doesn't wake up well, thanks to me, and just wanted to be held, which didn't really fit into our day. Our first stop was customs and she had to go potty, of which she was announcing loudly and telling me that pee pee's coming! Of course there are no bathrooms in customs, so I tell her she is just going to have to hold it and that was not going over too well. We were getting so close to getting to the bathrooms, last stop that thing you have to walk through. I needed Caily to go through first and I would follow with Lexi, but that started the crying and then I hit the side as I was walking through holding Lexi, so I had to go back and start again. This was the end for Caily and she landed in a heap on the ground screaming! Eventually we got it all figured out and we are allowed to collect our belongings, while Caily was sitting on the ground crying quite loudly about wanting to be held and having to go potty. I was trying to gather all our belongings, while making sure Lexi doesn't dart off and most of the staff just stared at me like I was the biggest inconvenience ever. So, we made it through, got to the potty, tried to get a sprinkle donut (didn't have any), made it to our gate and on our plane to Houston!

Flying went all right, other than Lexi trying to get away from our seats the entire time, but we had an extra seat, giving us a whole row, which was helpful. Eventually, Lexi passed out for two hours and we arrived in Houston, late! We only had an hour layover and were about 30 minutes late and had to switch terminals. Caily wanted me to hold her, which I could do for a little while, but I had to push the umbrella stroller as well. So, off we went, me alternating between, holding Caily and pushing Lexi one-handed and pulling Caily, while she screamed, "I don't want to run, I don't want to run!" All the way through the airport. Everybody was staring and all I could do was give a smile and a nod as I tried to get to our gate on time. Then came the part where all I could do was laugh. I was trying to hit all the moving sidewalks to help speed up our not so fast progress, when on one, Caily didn't make it on with me. She was standing at the start, screaming for me to come hold her hand and I am trying to walk backwards, while pulling Lexi backwards to get to her. I wasn't making much progress, but eventually she took a step and I got to her. At this point I was laughing because it was the best alternative!

With all of that we made on our flight to San Antonio and arrived safely! All in all the girls did really well, but they definitely had their moments. Hopefully I will post more with pictures soon, but I wanted to write down our wonderful traveling memories while they are fresh in my mind.

Adventures in sidewalk chalk!

2010-08-27T09:53:00.006-05:00

One of the things that we can still do outside even when it is so hot is sidewalk chalk. Both girls really enjoying coloring and the chance to get out of the house.
They do really well at playing together and truly seem to love each other, which is always fun to watch.

Concentrating so hard on coloring.

I don't know why I love these pictures so much, you really cannot even see their faces, I think it just catches a lot of how they are these days.
Lexi has decided to start talking and will try to repeat most anything you say to her. Words she says on a somewhat consistent basis:

-Da (Daddy)

-ball

-baby and Belle for the baby's name

-a version of Sky

-tuck (truck)

-bye and hi (with the longest southern drawl possible!)

-Taily (Caily)

-Mama (on occasions when she really wants something)

-cheese (please or cheese)

-juice

- a form of blanket

-book

-no no

-poo poo while grabbing at her diaper and then she wants to sit on the potty, she hasn't done anything on the potty, but she usually has a dirty diaper

-chick chicks (chickens)

-good gurl (good girl)

-hot and hat, both sound rather similar

That is all I can think of at the moment and I need to go deal with a one year old that doesn't want to go to sleep and a three year old that is demanding milk!

First Pigtails and the like. . .

2010-08-11T15:02:00.003-05:00

Over the weekend we went down to Rockport to enjoy some family/friend time in the sun. It was relaxing to get away from the craziness that is going on right now and just hang out. I thought it was time to try some pigtails on Lexi and they don't get much cuter than that. She isn't the hugest fan of me playing with her hair, so I fed her snacks to sit still.
This is a classic Lexi pose, with her arms out behind her and gathering things!
Here you go Mama!
These two were pretty inseparable over weekend, Caily sure misses her Daddy during the week (so do the rest of us).
The pool is way more fun with Daddy. Although the girls and I have been swimming quite a few times this summer, this was the first time with Darin and Caily was really taking it in!

Once again, few words, but pictures can do a lot of talking all on there own.

I love these girlies!

2010-08-01T14:20:00.004-05:00

More pictures ~ I got the girls some sunglasses and they think they are great! Caily was coloring the other day and couldn't keep them on her head like she wanted to and we both thought it was pretty funny.

This is how Lexi wanted to play one day and she was very set on the glasses on top of her head, but they wouldn't stay, so she kept coming back to me to put them on.

A warm summer evening. . .

2010-07-30T10:23:00.003-05:00

I was looking at my pictures and realizing that I need to do a little catch up with my blogging of pictures, so I will spread it out a bit, but probably with little writing. These were taken awhile ago, Darin was riding and the girls were playing.

I couldn't resist taking this picture of the two of them doing what Sunday afternoons are for, napping!
Sidenote: Lexi is walking the majority of the time and has another tooth. Her left front tooth beside her front tooth, broke through and the one on the other side is about to break through as well.

Lexi's Walking!

2010-07-15T00:25:00.002-05:00

It has been a long time coming because Lexi has had the ability for a long time, but never the real desire to walk. I know this because when she would be on a soft surface, like grass or the bed she would try, but on hardwood floor, a step or two was all I could get. That was then and this is now, the littlest member of the family is proudly trying to walk all over the place! She is doing quite well, although occasionally thinks that she can go faster than she actually can and ends up on her bottom or almost on her face. I really should be in bed, but wanted to post these cute pictures and document that Lexi is walking (and has been for around a week, I think)!

I love these pictures and the full body concentration it takes to get where she wants to go and the fact that these are in the order that I took them, one after the other.

Summer Days. . .

2010-07-09T09:26:00.003-05:00

This is going to be a brief picture update, sorry for the lack of words, but hopefully that will come later. It has been rather rainy around these parts, which is a very good thing, it is funny to hear many people complaining about all the rain, which is rather humorous to a girl who grew up in the rainy northwest!

Caily dressed in her princess dress, watching the rain!
To my siblings, we bought this little pool and the red car with the gift you sent the girls, thank you, as you can tell they are enjoying it!
It gets so hot here, I have to let some of the water out and put new water in before we can get in because it was so hot!
Both girls love the water and Lexi keeps me on my toes constantly because I think she honestly thinks she can swim. She often plunges head first into water, comes up sputtering and will do it again within 5 minutes, crazy kid! They both love blowing bubbles, although Lexi mostly drinks the water and occasionally gets some bubbles going.
This is Caily's model pose as Darin called it, she was really just looking at me when I called her, but it looks like she is posing. I love the outfit, this is a very classic Caily look these days.
That is a well beside Caily, although it is not used anymore it still has water in it.
Caily looks so much like Darin, but it goes deeper than looks sometimes, look at their feet and the tilt of their heads. I know they are tilting different ways, but is kinda strange seeing pretty much the same position on the two of them, this has happened in pictures before, strange!
I know that this car is a one seater, but the girls aren't convinced! The little car hasn't made it outside yet, it is being enjoyed too much inside at the moment.

New Normal

2010-07-01T19:50:00.007-05:00

So, it has been awhile, I warned you. We have moved and are trying to settle into a new normal for the Miles family. With a new house, a new job for Daddy with new hours away from the house, everyone is having a bit of an adjustment time. We moved to the little town that our church is in, which is nice to be closer to things. I still am adjusting to the idea that I can just run to the store if I need to, it is only 10 minutes away. I won't be posting too much tonight, just a little something to let you know that we are alive and well, just adjusting to doing life a little differently. I will try to get pictures of our new house, but I want it to be a little more set up and a little cleaner before that happens. It may or may not happen the way I would like, we will just have to wait and see.

We had fun with some friends from church at the river the night before we moved. I love this picture of Caily and Darin, stealing some time alone. Speaking of Caily, she turned three on Tuesday and is very excited for her big, pink birthday party coming up on Saturday. She has been talking about this big pink birthday for months now.
Before our trip to South Carolina in April, we went up to a huge ranch in northern Texas, it is the biggest ranch under one fence.
Caily and Lexi both love playing in the dirt, by the end of the day, which was extremely warm, they were so dirty, it was pretty impressive.

All of these happenings have produced some pretty tired girls. I took this picture of Caily the other day, I liked many things about it, but the one that made me chuckle was my old cell phone tucked right beside her.
Caily went to our churches VBS for 3 of the days and loved it. She was quite adamant that it was church not VBS, but anyway, she loved it. I didn't think that she would get too much out of the teaching time, more that it would be a good time to start getting out around other children and adults more, but a couple days afterwards, she was telling us in the truck about Jesus not being able to live in the black heart, him dying on the cross and being in heaven with all of his friends. It brought both Darin and myself to tears as we heard our little girl start to learn some important truths.
This was her first day of VBS and I thought she looked so grown up, I tried to get a picture of both girls, but the one above was as good as I could get.
This little munchkin is growing, sleeping and eating like crazy. Tonight at dinner, Darin was saying that she is a bottomless tank, she seems to be able to eat a crazy amount of food. She is also becoming a little more strong-willed and ornery these days, which will be interesting to see how that pans out. Her two top teeth have broken through and are growing in, which will help in the eating department, although she likes to grind them, which is not my favorite noise.

Anyway, that is all for now and hopefully, the next post will be soon.

The Littles

2010-05-21T23:49:00.003-05:00

I am not going to type a lot because these are pretty self explanatory~beautiful, silly little girls!

I had to get some of Lexi's grin today, because I can feel one of her top teeth coming in and I love the two toothed smile.

Pictures. . .

2010-05-19T16:07:00.003-05:00

These are from Lexi opening up her presents for her birthday, don't mind the Christmas paper, that is all I have in the house and she didn't seem to care!
Loving on her baby!

We went to the zoo for Lexi's birthday with our friends Phil and Mandy. We had a good day, I think Caily probably enjoyed it more than Lexi, but Lexi got to try out her skill of pointing at everything.

Darin with his two girlies, Lexi is turning into quite the Daddy's girl and gets so excited when she sees him. She almost always says, "Hi Da!" while frantically waving at him and lunging towards him.

It has been awhile and it probably will be awhile until I post again. We are in the middle of packing and will be moving at the end of May or the beginning of June. There is a lot going on right now, so blogging is not high on the list, sorry! I will try to post pictures every now and then to keep the family happy, but I am not making any promises. By the time I get to sit down, I do not have the energy to do anything that takes mind power. Packing with two little ones, is not very easy, and I struggled to keep up with normal daily chores, much less adding packing to the list.

Anyway, the Miles' are alive and kicking and learning to trust God whole-heartedly!

The Birthday Girl!

2010-05-06T20:45:00.003-05:00

So, we didn't do a lot for Lexi on her birthday, we are going to go to the zoo on Saturday and do cupcakes then, but we wanted to do something, so we went into town and got some shaved ice and just enjoyed being together.

This is one of her new things she does, she points and makes a cute questioning noise.
Mmm, she enjoyed sharing Daddy's shaved ice!
Caily loved running and running and running, this child loves to run! She literally will run in circles for hours.
For some reason, Darin's was much better than mine in the girls eyes and I had mine pretty much to myself.
These were from earlier in the day, I just didn't want to swap them around. Caily was blowing bubbles and Lexi was blowing too!
Lexi reminds me of someone in this picture, although I am not sure who, family, help me out.
Little Miss Priss
I brought the rocking chair out to entice Lexi, so I could get some pictures of her, but she only stayed there for a few moments and the rest of the time I was trying to make sure she wouldn't crawl off the porch.
Some milestones she has reached yesterday and today ~ she took her first steps by herself last night and tonight drank out of a straw for the first time. We had smoothies with our supper and that was enough incentive to get her drinking. She loves giving kisses, although she is selective when to hand them out. She is loving walking while holding our fingers and will back into your lap and grab a finger in both hand and start walking. Another thing she is doing, that melts my heart is she will back into your lap to sit on your lap while playing on the floor. We love this sweet girl dearly and she is constantly making us laugh and smile, she is such a sweetheart.

Happy Birthday Lexi!

2010-05-05T11:31:00.005-05:00

Happy Birthday to our sweet Lexi! I cannot believe that she is already one years old! There will be more to come, but I wanted to post a picture of the birthday girl.

Teaser Post . . .

2010-05-01T20:53:00.003-05:00

So, I went to upload my pictures and realized that I forgot our camera cord, so no pictures for a couple more days. The girls and I are in South Carolina for a couple more days, we all came out for Grandpa Haas' 80th birthday, but Darin had to go home and I stayed with the girls. It has been a great visit, with lots of giggles and hugs. Hopefully, I will be able to post some pictures soon.

I cannot believe that Lexi is going to be one in a few short days! She is into walking while holding onto someone's fingers and gets quite upset when when she has to quit. She has also started to give high fives. She still loves clapping, especially when someone else is. We went to a horse show before we came down here and she enjoyed all the clapping.

Caily is doing great, keeping us on our toes with all the things she says and does. Right at this moment, I am fighting bed time with her and her many excuses for not staying in bed. She uses the I am scared card a lot, which is hard because it is a hard one to discipline on, with not knowing if she really is scared or not.

Anyway, I am going to be done for now, hopefully I will post once I get home!

Easter Pictures

2010-04-13T13:45:00.004-05:00

Easter was a long day for us, with leaving for church at 6 am, so we didn't get pictures until after nap time, so you will have to excuse the bed head from Caily and lack of bows for both girls. Caily does not usually wake up in the best mood, so I was not going to push anything by trying to redo her hair. This is the first year that Caily has done an Easter egg hunt, I think she enjoyed it. Lexi didn't get to do it this year, but I think she was more than all right with that and she enjoyed just shaking the eggs.

Going to do chores, we have two little girls that love their Daddy, Caily wants to be with him all the time, no matter what he is doing, she would like to be with him.

Rocking Chair Fun

2010-04-06T15:13:00.003-05:00

I have pictures from Easter and yesterday that I want to post, but that was going to be more work, so I thought I would share these from this morning. Caily was rocking and Lexi decided to join in on the fun. Lexi has been able to climb on the chair for about a week, which always provides some excitement, so far she hasn't fallen off, but I know that day will happen soon.

We have been having gorgeous weather and have been spending as much time as possible outside. Lexi was 11 months yesterday! I cannot believe that in less than a month she will be one year old, my how time has flown by. I know all these pictures are pretty close to exactly the same, but I love all the different smiles.

Smiles!

2010-04-02T11:00:00.003-05:00

Since it has been awhile since I posted a picture, here is a smile from each of our precious girls!

Again no pictures

2010-03-30T14:58:00.002-05:00

Does any one else see the irony in this statement by one sweet two-year-old, "I not talking, Mom, I not talking!" Maybe the concept of what talking is, is not quite understood yet.

A Quote from Caily

2010-03-24T22:11:00.002-05:00

So, the other day, while Caily was suppose to be taking a nap, she was out for the hundredth time, I asked her why she was out and she said, "My hair is cold!" I guess she had already gone through her regular excuses. That is all for now!

Mimi and Buppa

2010-03-15T14:17:00.007-05:00

So, I have a good excuse (kind of) for not blogging, my parents came down for a visit and my normal time for computer things was used for other things. It was great having them down and for the girls to be able to spend time with the grandparents. Caily loved every moment spent with them and even Lexi decided that they are all right.

Most of the pictures are quite self explanatory and are a mere fraction of the great pictures that were taken.

Lexi is such a joy and is learning new things almost daily it seems. She says hi and Caily, it is the cutest thing how much our two girls love each other. Caily can get Lexi laughing so hard she can barely breathe. Lexi also learned to wave and it is a full arm motion that she likes to spice up with saying hi. She is also seeming to want to be with Daddy more and more and loving all the games he plays with her.
This is classic Mommy~Lexi pose, I am glad that a picture was taken to help me remember.

I am not sure exactly when it happened, but Caily has turned into a little girl.
We went down to the Riverwalk one nice afternoon, it was fun to ride on the boat and tour it that way. Both girls loved it, but Lexi was so excited about it, she was laughing and smiling almost the whole time.

We went down to Rockport to celebrate my Grandma's 85th birthday. It was a nice little getaway.

Look at the holes in Lexi's jeans! There were little holes in them and then she started crawling around on the deck and next thing I knew, I could see her little knees through her jeans!

Exploring the beach together. Caily was a little hesitant at first and then got into, as did Lexi, she thought crawling on the beach was the best!

Anyway, Lexi has woken up from her nap and Caily has yet to take hers, so I should probably go, enjoy the pictures and head over to my Mom's blog for more.

I wanted to add a silly word that Caily says, bikelcycle for motorcycle, it make me laugh every time!

Videos

2010-03-01T14:54:00.002-06:00

I realized my last post was on Wednesday and if I am trying to post more regularly, it is time for a post. Here are a couple videos of the girls, they are kinda long, especially the one, but they were being so cute, there wasn't much that I wanted to edit out.

Fun at the River Walk

2010-02-24T15:14:00.003-06:00

This past Friday, we met up with my Grandma and her friend Russell down at the Riverwalk. They are both wintering in Rockport-Fulton and were up in San Antonio for a day with a bus tour, so we met them for lunch. It was great to see Grandma and for her to meet Lexi and to see Caily, since she hadn't seen her since she was Lexi's age!

Trying for a family picture, which doesn't happen very often.
Grandma and Lexi hit it off quite well. Lexi showing off one of her new tricks of twisting her tongue.
Our attempt at a group shot didn't go over so well, since a certain two year old decided that going to stand by Mommy might just be the hardest thing she had ever done.
Daddy and his girls.
Darin and Caily were trying to catch pigeons, it didn't work very well, they aren't as tame as the chickens!

Lexi loved Grandma's ring and was quite enthralled with it throughout the meal.
It was a fun though too short visit, hopefully we will get to see her again in March when my parents come down.

She Needs A Name

2010-02-19T22:40:00.005-06:00

One thing that Darin and I are not very good at is naming things. We have so many things to name, that we have run out, from horses to puppies to children, I mean really, our daughter was nameless for almost a full day! So, we thought that we would post a picture of our new puppy and see if anybody could come up with a name for our newest member of the family. She is a feisty, outgoing little booger that is not really afraid of anything. When Caily is loud while playing, all the other puppies run away and she runs towards her. We are thinking she is going to make a great show puppy and if she doesn't then we will probably sell her as a pet to someone else. We are looking for another dog to breed because Sky won't have too many more litters, so she may be the one and we will probably know in a couple months, so we won't have her for too long and then have to say good bye. Anyway, throw out any suggestions and we will let you know when she is named!

And because I couldn't go a whole post without pictures of the littles, here are some puppy-baby sweetness.

Randomness

2010-02-18T16:12:00.004-06:00

So, I am going to try to get back into the groove of blogging again and try to post more, even if there isn't pictures, but to just post something. Today there will be a couple of pictures that a friend of ours took when they were out looking at puppies, but I am only going to post a few and spread them out over a couple of days. Speaking of puppies we are down to four and two more will be leaving next Saturday and one we are going to keep. It is fun to watch them grow up and head out to new homes and people that are so thrilled to have them.

Some Caily phrases from today that I thought that I would post before I forgot them:

-on the way into town, "Mommy, stay on the road please!"

-while sitting on the potty once again instead of taking a nap "This is Goses (pronounced like Moses with a G), Goses the pupppy, do you want to say hi to Goses, do you want to hold him?" I don't know where she got the name, but she is randomly into naming things.

-now that I am writing them down, I cannot remember, so that will be all for now

Lexi is loving real food these days and is eating breakfast and supper (usually, when everything works out well). She is crawling everywhere and loving the freedom that comes with that. She is continuing to make us and Caily laugh all the time with her silliness and happiness.

Anyway, that is all for now, hopefully there will be more to come soon.

Nine Months!

2010-02-11T16:51:00.006-06:00

Well, once again it has been too long, but I am going to go with better late than never. I cannot believe that Lexi is already nine months old! She is getting so big and active, it is crazy how quickly it has gone with her. These pictures are backwards, so if you must, start at the bottom and work your way up. It has been really cold and rainy here, which is unusual and the few pictures with sun are from the two nice days we had the end of the week last week.

This is my favorite puppy from this litter. All the puppies are named with a Christmas theme because they were born on Christmas eve day. Her name is Holly.

Campbell and Caily watching Taylor and Aubrey.
Caily loving on a puppy, sometimes it is forced love, but usually they really like to be around her.
Dancing with Jingle.
Caily hard at work, this is a classic Caily face.
She has been living in her rubber boots because it has been so muddy, such a change from a few months ago when we were in the most severe drought in about fifty years.
I think this is a good picture that depicts how motherhood can feel at times.

This is Caily's favorite puppy, his name is Rudolph.
Caily has gotten so much better at climbing fences, now she wants to climb over them, just not quite there yet.
Lexi is definitely mobile these days and keeps me on my toes at all moments of the day. She is pulling up on things and has even stood momentarily by herself. She loves to be on the move and has started to like to be chased. Another new trick is using what ever she has pulled up on to move around the room, in this picture it is Caily's chair. That is not all drool, some of that is from her sippy cup that she attacks with vigor.
She is such a silly baby and has us all laughing constantly.
I love her beautiful blues.
Showing off her two teeth, such a little ham.
One of Caily's favorite things is catching chickens.
Pretty much holding any sort of animal will do.
She is turning into quite the little farm hand, she loved to help bottle feed the goats.
Darin had a men's retreat at the end of January and two friends from the hill came over for the night, it was great fun. Caily, Lexi and Genevieve all had matching boots.
Lexi has decided to like table food and now eagerly awaits her meals. She often gets quite impatient if not fed at the pace she would like and will let you know with hand banging and squeals. Caily is saying more and more things these days and often they are quite funny, nothing comes to mind at the moment, but between the two of them, we are laughing quite often.

Anyway, that is all for now, I need to go, hope you enjoy the pictures and hopefully it will not be this long again before the next post.

Just Because. . .

2010-01-27T15:48:00.005-06:00

There isn't going to be much besides pictures because I am tired and battling naps this afternoon, but I thought we are overdue for an update, so here are some pictures to satisfy that.
I cannot believe how big this little girl is getting, some days when I look at her, I see such a little girl instead of a toddler, which scares me a little bit in how fast these girls are growing up. Yet, I have to keep reminding myself that she is only two and to have two year old expectations her and her behavior.

I love the whole look she had going on yesterday!

She has such joy and love for life!

Lexi enjoying some baby yogurt and looking oh so beautiful in the process. Cute girls in matching outfits and matching bows requested by one C.
She loves her horses!
Loving to crawl and explore!
Sky looking quite wet and Lexi showing off one of her new skills. The puppies are now in one of the barns, which is great because I get my kitchen back, but Caily is missing being able to spend so much time with them.
That is all for now, enjoy!

Pictures and more. . .

2010-01-15T20:43:00.008-06:00

So, I didn't exactly get to posting last week, sorry about that. Darin was gone from Wednesday evening to Sunday morning and I was expecting to have more time to do things in the evening, but I didn't, oh well.

Things are going well here, although lacking in the sleeping department. Lexi has decided that she would like to wake up twice at night, although Caily is doing much better, so they are balancing each other out, which is kind of nice. Both of them are teething, so that probably isn't helping, Caily is finally getting her two year old molars and Lexi is working on her front two bottom teeth. The last couple of mornings, Lexi has been staying awake after her second feeding which is around 4:30 or 5 until I can coax her back to sleep. She is also learning how to pull up, which often results in a stuck and upset baby, which then results in lack of sleep. She use to do so good at sleeping, just put her in her crib and off to sleep she would go. Now it seems, like I cannot read when that perfect time to put her down is, so she often passes out from exhausting once a day instead of taking good naps. I am getting more sleepy cuddles and time to hold a sleeping baby, so that is a lovely thing.

Lexi is crawling all over the place, which is fun to see her start to explore. Some of her favorite things these days are power cords, shoes and anything that could potentially choke her. She also is really loving pulling up on the box that the puppies are in and trying to grab them or Sky. She tried pears the other day and thought they were all right, although the second day she thought I was trying to harm her. So, still not doing so well in the solids department, but she doesn't seem to be lacking in her ability to thrive. Another very cute thing that she is doing is giving very slobbery kisses either on the nose, lips or chin, it is so fun.
Caily is doing well and very into the time of how things go, for example she is getting the hang of using words like later, almost, not yet, just a second, and first we will do this than we will do that, so that is helpful at times when trying to explain things to her and funny when she uses them in the right context, she sounds so grown up. Speaking of grown up, her hair is really getting long these days and makes her look a lot older, we have come so far from the fuzzy head that she use to have.
Caily also loves to wear dress and tights and have people matching. Often she thinks that Lexi and I should be wearing the same thing as her, which is fun at times, but hard because not all of our clothes are very matchy matchy. I thought that it would be Lexi trying to be like Caily, but these days it is the reverse. Caily would sit all day in holding and playing with the puppies, if I let her, she loves holding them like babies, rocking them, clapping their paws and burping them. These will be the most kid broke puppies ever.
Modeling their hats from Mama T and their new outfits. Caily was thrilled because they can match! All bundled up ready to walk.

We had some very cold weather last week, well, very cold for down here, well below freezing, so we spent a lot of time indoors, but on Sunday, things warmed up a bit and the sun came out, so the girls and I went for a walk. I love this picture of Lexi, she is such a sweetheart, all bundled up.
Walking with Caily is always an adventure, she will ride in the stroller for a little while, but then will run most of the way. She loves to try to keep up with Sky and I actually get to keep quite a brisk pace to try to keep up with the two of them.
She loves to run in front of me and look back between her legs, I have yet to get a good shot of it, but this one gives you an idea, she thinks it is so funny.

Both turning to look, I thought that was funny how I caught both of them looking.
And they are off.
Lexi all dressed up for church on Sunday and playing while I got ready for church. I had to get some more pictures of her toothless grin before her teeth break through.

Silly baby!

I love how this picture show a lot of who Caily is at the moment, with her dress up clothes on holding her puppy.
Just hanging out.
Hope you enjoy the monster post!

Wow, a whole month!

2010-01-04T23:01:00.003-06:00

I am mad that this pictures is blurry, it is a great picture of their cheesy grins. Caily went on her first real ride by herself, with Darin leading her. Darin got her stirrups that go over the saddle horn and she used them for the first time tonight. I bet she could have ridden all night long.
Such a little girl on such a big horse.
Caily and Lexi trying out Caily's Christmas present.

So, this is just a teaser of a post because it is well past my bedtime, but I didn't want to let more than a month go by without posting. Between sickness, traveling, Christmas, puppies and the normal busyness of life, I haven't gotten to blogging. Another excuse is that I am overwhelmed at where to start, there are literally hundreds of pictures from Christmas and there isn't really a good place to start, so I might just direct you to my Mom's blog for now and see if I get there or not. All is well and I will try really hard to blog before the week is over.

Happy Birthday Bupa!

2009-12-04T11:56:00.003-06:00

Happy Birthday Dad! I hope that you enjoy this short video of the girls.

Sorry about the lack of posting, I have been sick most of the week and blogging has not been high on the list, hopefully there will be more to come soon.

It is snowing! Crazy Texas weather, Caily keeps saying she wants to build a snowman and we are trying to convince her that that may or may not happen, since the snow isn't sticking yet and it is Texas after all.

A Couple More Pictures

2009-11-21T10:13:00.002-06:00

I took these pictures the other day because they show a lot of who Caily is and what she does. She loves her horses, takes good care of them and all of her other toys. She is quite the little mother. Take notice of the necklace, she often has either a necklace of bracelet or both on.
Her two big horseys all tucked in because they were warm, she doesn't quite have the whole cold and warm thing yet.
And some more pictures with their toques aka beanies aka snow hats or even toboggans to some, which is the funniest one to me. Oh the many different names for a hat.
I wish this one wasn't blurry because she reminds me of either Jamie or myself in this picture, I feel like I have seen this look before.
Sweet sisters.

Picture Overload!

2009-11-18T10:55:00.006-06:00

I kept thinking that there would be time to do two post in one week to catch up on pictures, but there hasn't been, so I just decided to do them all at once.

Smiley Baby!
Caily and Lexi were laughing at me, I thought it was rather cute! Then Caily just got plain old silly, gotta love our two year old.
Oh, she did her hair herself, she loves putting head bands on and is getting much better at it.
These were taken last week, we were having beautiful warm weather, this week is beautiful as well, just cooler. All set and ready to go watch Daddy ride.
I love her eyes.
Just hanging out.
Darin with the gray horsey as Caily says, but drop the "r", it use to be grape but has moved on.
Bit talking to me.

Caily is into matching either Lexi or myself, so when I put Lexi in her black shirt, Caily wanted hers on as well. Today, we are both wearing green shirts. This is one of the few that I could get them both to look at me, Caily loves to hold Lexi. I don't know if Lexi always loves for Caily to hold her.

They both have amazing eye lashes.

These next two, look like she is scheming something.

Anyway, I need to go check on Lexi who has been taking a monster nap, that is all for now, enjoy all the pictures.

A morning with Caily and Lexi. . .

2009-11-12T17:42:00.007-06:00

These pictures are from last week, I am a little behind in posting pictures, but I hope to catch up at some point without posting a million pictures at one time. I like these ones for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is that it gives a brief glimpse into our mornings around the ranch. We usually wake up to a certain two year old who wants to be all done night-night and a certain six month old sleeping in a little longer. After breakfast for everyone and once Lexi is back down for her morning nap. Caily and I usually head out to go check on Daddy and see what he is up to.

Here we are "walking" down to the arena, she is getting better at the walking from point A to point B, but is often distracted along the way. This day it was the rocks and rearranging them that was a distraction.
Rowdy was helping her. . . throwing. . .
reloading. . .
holding a butterfly and not too sure about what she is suppose to do with it. . .
time to chase some chickens. . .
hamming it up for the camera. . .
more fun times with Rowdy. . .
O, Bits awake, time to go get her. . .
play time on Caily's bed. . .
Caily being silly, while Lexi looks on. . .
Lexi practicing her new skill. . .
Ol' faithful. . .

Caily singing to Lexi. . .
Lexi concentrating on something or maybe just her thumb. . .
And of course there are diaper changes, feeding Lexi, potty breaks, snacks, moments of frustration, laundry, dishes, other random household things, playing, being silly and the list could go on, but that is a general look at our morning. After Lexi's morning nap we either go back outside or stay in and get lunch ready. That would be a morning with Caily and Lexi.

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch

2009-11-05T20:01:00.007-06:00

As much as Caily is growing up, she still looks so little some times and it reminds me that she is only two. I love pictures of the two of them together. Lexi had her first bath in the big tub tonight with Caily, it went well, only one time of tears.
Faithful thumb.
Excited about her gifts from Caily, now if only she could get them to her mouth.
Off to do something of the utmost importance!
Fun times of pushing Bit! She actually is quite good at steering, I let her push Lexi around Old Nav*y the same day and she did remarkably well, kept them both occupied.

Couldn't get her to look at the camera, when I was ready to take a picture.
I like the shot, but it would have been even better if I could have gotten her to look at me, shows her size well.
Almost a smile.

There it is!

These are from last week, when the girls and I went to the pumpkin patch in our town. It was fun to go, although hard to get very good pictures by myself. Caily was more interested in running around, moving the pumpkins or pushing Lexi than posing for a picture. Lexi was excited to show off her new skill of sitting on her on, but not so into looking at the camera with any look other than pretty much a blank stare.

I cannot believe that Lexi is six months old today, half a year old! She is doing well, loving to be able to sit on her on and she can do it for quite awhile without toppling over. We have her well-baby check up tomorrow, so we will see how much she has grown. I am thinking of starting her on cereal soon, I think that she is more than ready, I just haven't done it yet. We did give her a sippy with water in it the other day and she attacked it, although was a little unsure once she got any liquid out.

Caily seems to be growing up every day, saying new things and doing new things, some things that are really cute and others that she has picked up from us that are not so cute. She is still loving horses, dogs, chickens and her Daddy.

We have been putting them in the same room at night when ever it works out, rather than every night. Some nights, Lexi just cannot make to even close to Caily's bedtime, so we put her down in our room or the nights when sleep is the ultimate need for everyone involved. It goes pretty good when they sleep together, is just is the chain reaction sometime that gets hard to handle. Caily still wakes up many times throughout the night and often wakes up Lexi and Lexi wakes up usually one time early morning because she goes to bed so early. What ever the case, we will figure it out, I am sure.

Sneak Peak

2009-10-29T16:00:00.002-05:00

Just wanted to give you a sneak peak at what we've been up to.

How'd it go?

2009-10-27T15:10:00.003-05:00

My Mom asked how our night went, so I thought I would post about it. The short answer us it went quite well, considering what our nights have looked like. The longer answer is that they both woke up once, I think Lexi woke up Caily. Lexi was probably up from 3:30-4:30, most of that talking to herself and Caily woke up around 4:10 and went back to sleep around 5:20, most of that time I thought she was asleep, but she showed up in our bed around 5:10 and was back in her bed and asleep shortly after that. So, we will see how tonight goes. I think it helped to get Caily to go to sleep, knowing she had to be quiet because Lexi was sleeping.
Right now Caily is finally asleep for her nap and look where she ended up. At one point I went to check on her and she had turned the light on and crawled into the crib, so I let her stay and eventually, an hour and half later, she surrendered to the sleep monster.

Who Won?

2009-10-26T20:18:00.003-05:00

I wanted to post these pictures to show how God has been protecting our family recently. Sunday morning on our way to church, we were literally thirty second from the ranch front gate when a deer was darting around all crazy like, Darin had started to slow down, but the deer decided to cut in front of the van. I closed my eyes because that is what I do, so the rest is from what Darin has told me. The deer jumped, poked her feet an inch or two from my face and left quite the mark on our van. Darin and I were showered with glass and blood, but otherwise pretty much untouched. The girls both had a little hair and glass, but were not scratched at all. I did not open my eyes again until Darin asked me if I was okay, I opened them to a hole in our windshield and glass all over the place, but okay. Caily seems to be okay with the whole thing, although she is rather upset that the car is such a mess. She has been talking about it for the last two days, about the car being broken and being a mess, how it needs to get fixed and clean. She also has talked about Darin having food on him, which we think she is talking about the blood and that I fell down, aka, had glass all over me. We haven't been in the car since, so I don't konw if that will be a problem and I think that she all right with everything.

Warning: there is blood all over the van from the deer that didn't quite make the jump.

I thought that I needed to add at least a couple pictures of Lexi. She loves to play in the exersaucer and try to chew on everything that even comes close to her mouth. I don't know why her ears look so big in these pictures, they really aren't that big in real life.

Tonight is the first night that the girls are in their room together, we will see how it goes. I thought it might be a good night to try since they were going to bed at the same time and so far so good, we will see how it goes. Darin asked Caily if she wanted Lexi to sleep in her room with her and she said yes, so here goes. We told Caily that she has to be really quiet and so far she has been. Hopefully they both sleep through the night and the adjust well and quickly to sharing a room. I am looking forward to having our room back.

Baby Talk

2009-10-21T23:00:00.006-05:00

I love the noises that Lexi is making these days, so cute and at times it seems that she calls Darin, Da-da. Often in the early morning hours when she eats, she reaches out to him and says, a da da. In this video she is doing two of the things that she does a lot, making cute noises and eating her toes.

Talking to me.
I love Caily's outfit, all chosen by her, she is especially into accessories these days, such a classic toddle picture, take note of the upside down book she is reading.

It has cooled down this past week and we have been enjoying some fall weather, now as I write I am listening to it rain, something that has not happened too much this past year. Anyway, I need to go to bed because it is way past my bedtime and there will be certain little people who would rather me be well rested them grumpy. Good-night!

It's been a long day...

2009-10-14T23:13:00.002-05:00

As the title suggests, it has been a long day, but I thought these pictures told the story the best. The first one is from earlier this evening and the last two from the end, the pigtails and eyes say it all.

Two more words to add to the Caily dictionary:

acorners- acorns

corners- corn, as in go feed the deer some corners

Laughing Girls

2009-10-13T20:46:00.002-05:00

I couldn't resist this movie and finally had the time to put it together, I hope you enjoy the giggles that Darin gets from his two girls. I know that it looks like Caily is going to bounce Lexi's head off and that she lands on her, but no babies were hurt in the making of this film.

At this moment, Caily is yelling from her room and still not asleep, it is an hour after she went to bed, heres hoping it doesn't last much longer. An improvement is that she didn't get out of bed, she just hasn't gone to sleep yet. A funny Caily story, this afternoon, while she was suppose to be going to sleep, she all of a sudden shows up beside me and says "I wake up!", not so much.

I just went to but her on the potty and she told me, "want to wake up more". At this moment, she is sitting on the potty, eating because she had to go potty and said she was hungry. She really did have to pee and I think the hungry thing is a ploy, but as little as she eats, it is a real possibility. We are having many battles on the sleep front and have been since the month before Lexi was born and I went to the hospital. We were kind of hoping that it would go away after everything settled down, but it has been six months and she is still not sleeping well. She use to sleep great, 8-8 if not later and 2-3 hour naps every day. Anyway, I should probably get back to her and see if she is done, but I wanted to get this posted. Enjoy!

Five Months

2009-10-09T09:33:00.007-05:00

Well I have a hungry baby dancing to Christmas music in my lap, so needless to say there is not going to be a lot of words and the pictures are probably going to be a bit out of order.

More smiley baby!

Any and every thing that she can reach goes into her mouth, which is so different from Caily who we had a hard time to get to put food into her mouth.
Sisters
This is Matthew, Caily's horse show buddy.

One of her favorite activities, playing in the dirt.

Suppose to be a pretty picture with Rowdy in the flowers, but a certain little person tackled the dog instead.

Pretty in the flowers.
These with the jacket are taken at 21 weeks because one of my favorite pictures of Caily is this same pose at the same age, so I wanted to recreate the picture.
Coming back from feeding the horses in the morning.
Her "shoes", thanks Megs!

I love the drool in this one.

Walking one evening.
Sucking on her toes, one of her favorite pastimes.
Racing together.

I wanted to write out a couple cute things Caily has been saying, so I will probably add to this list in the days to come but I will write what I can remember:

-grape horsey = gray horse

-mom mon = come on

-Mommy/Daddy want to hold me? = hold me please

Hope you enjoy even if everything is so out of order. Bye for now!

Joy

2009-09-28T11:24:00.003-05:00

I was uploading pictures and couldn't resist posting this one! I don't really have time to be doing this, but I finally caught some smiles and this one shows the extent of her smiles. When she smiles, her whole face smiles. I love the little girl!

Kai Benjamin

2009-09-26T08:59:00.004-05:00

Well, there is a new member to the family and we couldn't be more excited for him to join! My sister and her husband welcomed, Kai to their family on the 24th, which is rather funny because Jamie and Megan's two boys are born on the 24th of the month, so now I know how to get a boy! Congratulations Matt and Heather, we are so happy for you and you guys look so happy in all the pictures. I can hardly wait to meet him and snuggle him close.

20 Weeks and Catching Chickens!

2009-09-22T20:38:00.004-05:00

Caily's newest favorite activity on the ranch is catching chickens! She loves to catch them and actually catches them quite frequently, more than I can and would want to. She starts out in her dress and shoes and quickly moved to her preferred outfit of underwear and no shoes. She cracks me up often, she was so busy chasing chickens and then noticed that her dress was dirty, so she wanted to take it off. Needless to say she went straight into the bathtub after this adventure, too much dirt to just wash off with the hose.
Loving on the chicken with Sky close by. I cannot really figure out Sky with the chickens, one moment she looks ready to pounce the next she runs from them.
Showing me her catch, "Mommy, I got it!"

Last Thursday we loaded up the truck and trailer and headed to San Angelo to a horse show. Here is Caily helping her Daddy.

Caily has entered into the what's that? stage and says this many times a day.

Miss Lexi is as cute as ever and still being a very sweet content baby that loves to sleep. She is smiling and laughing at most anyone who gives her attention. On Monday, the girls and I headed to the zoo with Katie and her kids. It was fun to see all the animals, Caily especially loved all the baby monkeys. It was really hot, but that didn't stop her from running around almost the whole time we were there. We had only been there once before and that was when Caily was Lexi's age, so it was a whole new experience for her.

We took a train ride at the end of the day, Caily loved it and kept excitedly exclaiming airplane! Sounds close to train I guess. We were all rather red faced by the end of the day.

Caily checking out some deer-like animal.
I have some cute video clips that I need to put together of the girls, hopefully I will get those up sometime this week.

19 Weeks

2009-09-15T21:58:00.006-05:00

I cannot believe that Lexi is in her last week of teens, it is amazing how quickly she has grown, although sometimes a day can feel like a whole week. She is still doing great, loving to sleep and being quite the sweet baby in general. As you can tell by the pictures she has found her toes and loves them quite dearly. She loves to hold on to them and suck on them when everything works out as she has planned. Another thing that she loves dearly is her thumb, I have started to swaddle her with her one arm out, so that she can still suck her thumb. She would rather not be rocked to sleep, instead she likes to roll onto her side and popped her little thumb in and out she goes. On Sunday, she was really tired during church and wouldn't go to sleep in my arms, so I laid her down on a changing pad and she went on her side and fell asleep. This was in the pastor's office, the sermon is piped in for nursing mothers, so that is where I often am.

Caily is doing well and quickly catching on to going potty, she has been telling me when she needs to go and has gone #2 on the potty for the last three days! Which is very exciting and hopefully she continues to do well. She has been having sleep issues recently and we are thinking about cutting out her nap and bumping up her bed time to 7 instead of 8, we will see how that goes. It was turning into a struggle at naptime and bedtime and it felt like we were trying to get her to sleep all afternoon and all evening. She is constantly making Darin and I laugh at the things she says and does. She is picking up on saying things that are funny and that will makes us laugh. She loves to be without clothes and without shoes and would be all the time if we let her, but alas, some places require such things.

Caily is extremely sweet to Lexi and is always wanting to hold her and often runs to her as soon as she cries and asks her if she is okay. Lexi loves to smile at Caily, although at times gets startled by her loudness. Caily gets quite concerned when Lexi is crying herself to sleep at times and thinks I should go get her, but I try to convince her that she is all right and just needs to go to sleep.

We went to a WN*BA game on Saturday night, which was fun because we know one of the players. The girls surprised me because I thought that Lexi would be scared and Caily would do just fine, but it was the other way around. Lexi was taken by all the lights and could really care less about the extremely loud noises, while Caily had her face buried in Darin's shoulder for most of the first two quarters. Eventually she warmed up to the idea, although stilled jumped at the buzzer and hid her face from the mascot.

Enjoy the pictures...

I like these two pictures of Lexi and Darin, they look like they are plotting something.
A certain two year old wanted her picture taken, I realized tonight as I was downloading pictures that I really need to take some more of Caily.
Lovin' on her toes.

Watching her big sister and smiling at her, yet I cannot seem to catch one on camera.
Her eyes are getting so blue.

The closest thing to a smile I got.

I love the drool hanging from her lips.

Just Couldn't Resist

2009-09-09T23:20:00.005-05:00

It is late, it has been too long since I have blogged, it is my 200th post, it is 9/9/09, and this will probably be one of the most boring post, but I just couldn't resist.

Here are some pictures to add a little excitement. Oh, Lexi had her four month checkup and she is 14.95 lbs (73%) and 27 inches (99%), getting big. We started potty training with Caily last Monday, it is going well, more so with #1 than #2. We are getting rain, which is exciting since Caily really hasn't experienced much in her whole life. I love when I can us extreme statements and them be true, usually only works when I refer to the girls because they have yet to experience a lot of things.

Anyway, I need to end this randomness because my bed is calling my name and I still have to put the sheets on.

16 Weeks!

2009-08-26T07:54:00.005-05:00

We went to the lake this weekend with some friend from church as a late celebration of Darin's birthday. It was a lot of fun to get away and spend time with friends and family. Lexi was not a huge fan of the life jacket she had to wear.
Caily loved playing in the sand and did so for hours on end.

These pictures of Lexi were taken on Monday. She has been doing pretty good although the last two afternoons and evenings have been rather rough and I am not sure why. She has been finding her thumb more and more these days, often when I go in after her naps, she is laying on her side sucking on her thumb.

Lexi seems to have a way of looking right into you and looking like she is wise beyond her years or deep in thought.
I cannot believe that she is already 16 weeks old.
Caily is talking better and better with each day, which has its good and not so good sides. Good because she is getting less frustrated with us because we are able to figure out more of what she is saying and it is fun to see her communicate more and more, she is a funny kid. Not so good because there is a bossiness that comes out. She is still loving animals, horsies, puppies, and kitty's top the list. We can be walking outside and she will see a barn cat and will say "Kitty" with a "T" at the front and run to it or try to get it to come to her. She loves to have them following her and tries to get them to come all the time, it is rather cute to see her trying to convince a barn cat to obey her.

Wow, it has been awhile. . .

2009-08-20T23:40:00.007-05:00

So, it has been a long time since I updated and I don't even remember all that has been going on, it doesn't help that I am up past my bedtime. I couldn't sleep which doesn't mean my brain works, it just means that I could not fall asleep. There were a lot of pictures that I hadn't posted, so it thought that I would post them and leave it at the for the most part.

These first couple are of Caily and Rowdy, who is one of Sky's puppies that a friend of ours got. She comes out to the ranch quite often to work and Caily loves Rowdy so much. When we walk anywhere, she is quite concerned about where he is and if he is following. He is great with her, especially since he is still a puppy. The other day, she had him on a leash and he was letting her take him all over the place. I like this first one because it looks like they are having quite the conversation.

The girls just hanging out on the couch outside. I love the real lifeness of this picture, the drool and spit up on Lexi and the popsicle leftovers and dirt on Caily.

Caily loves horses and especially the baby ones, Darin took this picture and I thought it turned out kinda neat. If you see Caily 9 times out of 10 she will have some type of horse with her, big or little, stuffed or not, she loves her horsies, as she calls them.
Caily helping out in the barn. Sorry these next few are not the best quality, I am trying to figure out our camera and use settings other than the auto setting.
Reading a book, just like a two year old who cannot sit still should!
Beautiful big blue eyes.
This is a classic Lexi look with her tongue out.

Back to the barn, actually the same time as the other, I am getting tired of rearranging pictures. Caily loves to sweep in the barn and is getting to the point where she is moving the dirt the right way more often than not.
Lexi's new trick, she can scooch around some to face a different direction then the on I put her in and she can get up on her side.
Don't let Lexi's outfit fool you, it has been ridiculously hot here, I think that we have been in the triple digits almost every day for the past two months, pure craziness. This is her inside the air conditioned house outfit, I have found that she likes to be quite warm and so I dress her accordingly.
Caily playing outside.

Caily was so excited to hold Lexi, she loves to hold her.

Anyway, I am going to try to sleep now and hopefully it won't be too long before I post again.

Birthdays and things.

2009-08-04T14:41:00.004-05:00

Darin and his girls on his birthday on Friday, he turned the big 3-0! We went over to some friends from church and had a great supper and cake. It was rather low-key, but that is how Darin likes it. We will be going to the lake in a couple weeks to help celebrate the day, but he didn't want a party, so I didn't throw one. In this first picture Darin and Caily are doing their fake laugh together and the second one is my attempt to get normal smiles, whatever normal is.

Caily helping Daddy with his candles.
I cannot seem to get clear pictures of this litte one and I am still trying to capture her whole face smile, but as soon as the camera comes out, she is captivated by the little green light. Lexi is doing great these days, sleeping well at night and we are starting to figure the nap thing out as well. It is all about timing and getting her down before she starts to meltdown. She has given me a coule giggles, but no full out laughing yet. I cannot believe that she will be three months tomorrow, she is getting so big.
Just chillin' on the bed.
This video is of Caily and Darin playing and Caily saying our names. I think it is rather funny, especially when she really gets scared by Darin, she loves to get scared.

Picture overload!

2009-07-30T20:23:00.009-05:00

Last week Monday, the girls and I headed down to the beach with three other moms and their kids, there were 16 kids, five moms and two high school girls, it was a lot of fun. The girls both did great and only got a little too much sun.
Lexi and here friends just hanging out on the beach, these three girls were all born in the month of May.
Caily and Brighton are warming up to each other, they are six weeks apart and of similar personalities, which is fun to watch.

Little Lexi's feet.

Not so sure about being so high in the sky.
Good old fashioned fun, give this girl some water, some sand and she can occupy herself for hours.
Secrets between two-year-olds.
Playing on the beach.

Such joy in the little things.

All in all it was a very fun day and the car ride home was quite quiet as I had three very sleepy girls (myself included).

Last Saturday, Darin and I decided that we wanted to go do something and since it has been over 100 degrees for way too many days, we decided to head underground. There is a cave near by that we have never been to, so we checked it out. It was really amazing all that is going on under the surface, Caily enjoyed it too.
I thought this sign is funny, "mind your head" usually I would say watch, but whatever the case I didn't mind my head and I hit it on the way out.

Family picture in front of the "Queen's Throne".
Daddy and Caily and of course her horse. Caily likes to take something with her wherever she goes, even if it is just to go check on the laundry with me, she likes to take something with her.
These next pictures were take on Tuesday when Lexi turned 12 weeks old! She is getting so big already.
I wish this picture wasn't blurry, I love her eyes and her expressions.
Caily's baby had to get in on the pictures.

Lexi and Caily's eyelashes are incredibly long.

I am sure there is more to say, but my mind has shut down for the evening, I hope you enjoy the pictures.

10 weeks!

2009-07-15T15:46:00.003-05:00

Smiles of a content, sleeping baby. I cannot believe that she is into the double digits already, ten weeks old!
She continues to be sweet and showers us with smiles and is very close to laughing. She smiles so big, her whole face smiles, and then she makes little happy noises. I think that her eyelashes have been growing, they are so long.
This is what happens when a certain two-year-old gets bored with eating yogurt.

Caily telling me something, which is happening more and more these days and I am understanding more of what she is telling me.
Smiles are hard to catch for some reason, here is the end of one.

Happy 4th of July

2009-07-04T20:46:00.005-05:00

Happy fourth of July to you Americans and happy birthday to my Mom. We had a relaxing day hanging out with some dear friends that we have not seen for way too long. Lexi enjoyed relaxing outside on a porch swing, her shirt says "little firecracker".

I've always known that Caily and Darin look alike, but now I know it goes much deeper, look at the way they are mirroring each other.
A little whiffle ball was played and us girls enjoyed from the sidelines, Caily mostly enjoyed her gatorade. I think that her mouth may be stained for awhile.
Lexi's favorite way to be held.
Showing off her red striped belly.
Mmm Mmm good.
So refreshing on such a hot day, I heard it was suppose to hit triple digits and it sure felt like it did.

Smiles from the sweet baby.