Thanksgiving 2011

We enjoyed being with my (Jessica's) side of the family for Thanksgiving! Nataleigh LOVED playing with her cousins and thought she was hot stuff sleeping in the big double bed at PaPaw and GiGi's! ;) Mia enjoyed the change of scenery (I think they both did) and is becoming a pro at scooting backwards on her tummy.
Chris and I enjoyed relaxing, being with family and playing games...oh and we must not forget our fun outing with my siblings and their spouses to Carusos and Rural King (the big farm store in town) ;)
Here is our first family picture (I know, pathetic we are just now getting one) that my mom took...

this are all out of order-I will put them in order later :)

November is slipping by...

I'm WAYYY overdue for a post! I don't know where November went! We are doing good! The Church plant is going well and we are excited that our new meeting place will be finished soon...it's looking like our first service there will be on Christmas Day! The girls are growing so fast and we are really starting to see what a family of 4 is really like now that Mia is an infant. She's eating solids, saying Momma (as of last week-28 weeks), jabbering a lot and laughing at her sister ;) We got word at her last PT appt that her torticollos is MUCH better and she will not have to go to PT anymore! Praise God!
And let me not forget my trip to the dentist :( I had a tooth ache that kept getting worse and it had gotten so bad it was waking me up in the middle of the night and giving me an earache. It had been since 2005 since I had been to the dentist because we have not had dental insurance. So put not going to the dentist for 6 years, liking my sweets and being pregnant twice and you have a huge hole in my way back molar that either needed pulled or a root canal...I chose to have it pulled because it was WAY cheaper! Needless to say I'm feeling SO MUCH better now!
Here are some pics from November...
Nataleigh enjoyed playing in the leaves while daddy took care of the yard:

Emma's 4th Birthday Party:

I love how Noah is lovin on her:

Grammy came for a visit:

Growing so fast:

After Grammy left Nataleigh wanted her sunglasses to read her Bible (so she could be just like Grammy when she reads with her glasses....she's imitating EVERYTHING we do!)

A great start to our family day...A HUGE omelet daddy made:

Family day-trip to the Rainforest:





Back at home on family day making pumpkin cookies to go with our little family Thanksgiving celebration (a turkey dinner thanks to Trader Joes):

Mia is 6 months!

I can't believe our baby is 6 months! Sometimes it seems like a long 6 months but at other times it feels like it flew!
Here are some new milestones over the last month:
-2 new teeth (front bottom 2-1 popped through and then the next week the other did)
-babbling more (I swear sometimes she says "mamma")
-FINALLY sleeping through the night consistently at 5.5 months
-sitting up
-started cereal the last week of her 5 month
-recognizing faces
-found her feet and pulls off her socks ;)
-rolled from back to tummy today (11-3-11)

At her appt today she weighed 16 lbs! She's growing great!
The doctor is impressed with the improvement of her torticollos. He still hears a heart murmur but is not concerned right now.

Right now she's nursing 5x a day and eating solids 3x a day. She takes 3 naps (2 big ones and one catnap) and is sleeping 12 hours-7:30-7:30.

She LOVES Nataleigh and Nataleigh loves her right back! I am SO thankful these two have each other! I pray that they continue to love each other and can have a beautiful friendship! I love the giggles they give each other. The other day I was in the kitchen and the girls were in the living room and Nataleigh was making Mia laugh-music to my ears ;)