Walking with the Train

Madison Claire is walking around the house with all sorts of support - holding your hands, your legs, and her favorite these days = her Alphabet Train! We brought it downstairs a week ago and let her walk around on the hardwood floors. Check out this cute little video with it...precious!!!

*****The first video wasn't working online for some reason so I posted it again. Try the one on the bottom!

Little Beaver

While I was gone in Dallas, Madison Claire was EATING her bed!! Take a look...

DALLAS!

I took some time off last week to go down to Dallas and visit my new BABIES!!! I got in on Friday afternoon and stayed with Ash on Friday & Saturday. We had so much fun together! Ellie was precious...I can't believe she is so big! I feel like it was just yesterday that she was the same size as Baby Wes! Wes was adorable...he is a chunky monkey...they call him "Moose"! He is 5 weeks old and already 13 pounders! I wish that he could share some of that with Madison Claire. I miss them already!

Sunday morning I went over to Jaime & Zach's to meet sweet little Grace...or as I called her "Gracie"! She was absolutely beautiful and the cutest little bitty punkin you ever did see! Grace was 7 weeks old and only a little over 8 pounds. She was SO tiny!!! She was wearing Madison Claire's pants that Kate gave her and it was so crazy because I can remember Madison Claire wearing those pants but I can't ever remember her being that small!

I got to see the whole Williams clan at a "24" party on Sunday night! Aunt Debbie & Uncle Dave were so cute with little Grace.

I had such a great time visiting my little babies in Texas! I did one night feeding for Wes & 2 for Grace...I forgot how hard it was!! I was super excited to get home to Ryan and Madison Claire!!!

Praise Baby

It was (is) important to Ryan that Madison Claire doesn't watch TV so we've made a concerted effort to not let her be in front of the TV. Madison Claire got a Praise Baby DVD for Christmas (that you Maribeth & Lance!) so Annie and I put it in and she was mesmerized!! She sat on the floor or on our lap for the entire time and just watched and smiled and laughed and clapped. It was ADORABLE!! I did fess up to Ryan when he got home!

Happy 50th Craig!!

We had fun celebrating Craig's 50th birthday with our small group friends and some others! It was a surprise party coordinated by Zan and we had a great time toasting & roasting 50 years of Craig Nevels! We are so grateful for the friendships we've formed through our community group at Cumberland. We are joining a new group this year but will carry the friendships from our first group for life! They are the best!!!

p90x - Round 2

Ryan and I started our second cycle of p90x this month! It feels great to be back on track!

We made weight!

Madison Claire had her 9 month appointment last Thursday and for the first time she made weight! We were so nervous going into it but the little stinker finally chunked up...a little bit! She was 17 pounds, 8 ounces which moved her from the 19% to the 24%. Her height was 28 inches which jumped her back up to 63%. WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

She was none to pleased for the rest of the visit though. She is very wary of strangers right now - especially men. When Dr. Heil came into the room she practically started crying immediately. He was able to see her exert her will and said, she's going to be a fighter! They did ask us to put her back on the antacid medicine and to continue giving her the soy formula supplementation until her next appointment which will be at one year...how crazy is that!

We experienced some snow in Nashville last week and on our way home from the Dr. on Thursday we got stuck going up the big hill in our neighborhood. There were about 4 or 5 cars that were already stranded on the hill but we thought we could make it up. We got about 3/4 of the way up the hill when we stopped moving forward. I told Ryan from the backseat that he needed to go faster and he informed me his foot was pressing the pedal all the way down but we weren't moving! RUH-ROH! We knew we were in trouble then. We started sliding backwards down the hill and were headed straight for a Jeep Cherokee. Ryan kept saying over and over, "we are going to hit this car....we are going to hit this car". I asked him if he wanted me to jump out and try to stop us and he told me I couldn't. The next thing you know we SLAMMED into the Jeep Cherokee. The first thing I said was "It's okay. We have insurance."

By the grace of God, we somehow ended up doing NO damage to our car or the other car. It was truly unbelievable! It turns out that the guys in the Jeep Cherokee live in the apartment complex across the street and came over just to help people get up the hill. How nice! After we completely rammed their car, they ended up helping us get up the hill. Angels in disguise!