Baptism Pictures... finally!

We have two holy little girls now. We baptized Kelly on August 9, 2009.

Miss Alexandra (Mommy's college friend) is her Godmother and Uncle Mike (Daddy's brother) is her Godfather.

Deacon Ray performed the sacrament again at St. John's...

She liked the water!

...and then we went back to our house to celebrate.

We celebrated Kelly-Belly's special day as well as the slew of July and August birthday's. In our sweet tooth world, two celebrations=two cakes. (Can I get an amen?)

We had a nice full house for the weekend and our girls got to spend lots of time with their extended family.

(Kelly was sleeping, but here's Shannon with her 2 grandmas and 3 great-grandmas.)

Thank you to everyone who traveled, helped us get ready, brought food, and sent cards & presents. You made the day special!

Kelly: Five Months

Kelly is a happy five month old girl. Here's the biggest news:

Not quite crawling yet, but she's getting closer every day. She can quickly get up onto all fours and can really rock up a storm. She also helicopters around and those little legs alone can get her pretty far. When she figures out how to move her arms while she's up, she's gonna take off.

She seems like she might be working on a first tooth and is a big fan of cool teething rings, blankets and (as you can see in the first photo) pretty much anything she can get to her mouth.

Oh my goodness, Shannon can make her laugh. We all like to zerbert her and do funny noises, but Kelly cracks up at Shannon. Thank goodness, because Kelly also gets "loved on" pretty hard by her big sister.

Kelly HATES being strapped into her carseat. She has some Incredible Hulk-like moves... once you undo the clasp, be ready because she's able to push herself out in a few seconds.

She LOVES music, looking out the car window, being held up really high and jumping.

Thanks, Erin!

Remember our recent trip to visit with book club friends?

While we were there Erin graciously offered to do a mini-session with my girls. To say that I was thrilled is putting it mildly!

So...

1. Go check out the Erin Cobb Photography blog to see pics of Shannon and Kelly.

2. Begin contemplating a move to Huntsville so that you can become one of her clients.

BOGO Post

Two posts in one sitting!

Don't miss the next post down, but I tried to turn off the computer without posting this photo and couldn't. I just love it too much.

Look closely, Shannon is holding Kelly's hand as they grin at themselves in the mirror.

Kelly Chows Down

Guess who got her first taste of solid week this week? Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm... rice cereal.

To say that she liked it is a bit of an understatement.

Mushy bliss.