6 months old

On the 20th of April, Jaiden turned 6 months old. She is growing and changing everyday. She is such a gentle, sweet baby. She loves to rub my face and hair. She likes to sit back and watch the chaos of our home. She takes it all in. She laughs when we laugh and sometimes cries when Hannah cries. She is a lot like Hannah. She is laid back and only gets upset when she is hungry, dirty, or sleepy. She smiles at everyone she sees. What a sweet, sweet blessing she has been to our family!



Some things I want to remember about her at 6 months...

* She laughs out loud and LOVES to be tickled.
* She smiles immediatley after making eye contact with me.
* She rolls to where she wants to go. She has also been army crawling to get what she wants.
* She has gotten on her knees a few times and rocks back & forth.
* She LOVES to eat her baby food and cereal. I haven't found anything she doesn't like.
* She giggles at Hannah all the time.
* She likes to play peek-a-boo.
* She pats everything.
* She loves fabric. She likes to chew on her blankets or my clothes.
* She has finally decided she likes her bath.
* She loves to kick her legs and does it all the time (she kicks her heels in so hard I thought someone was breaking in our house the other day. However it was just the sound of her heels hitting the bed!)
* She can hold her own bottle (see picture below!)
* She is BEAUTIFUL!! She has gorgeous black hair that has a mind of its own. She has gorgeous blue eyes and the most beautiful eyelashes & eyebrows. She has cute little chunky legs!
* She likes to chew on her toes!
* She babbles "ma, ma, ma." (Does this count as her first word? It is just a babble but I am not sure if that counts!)
* She can sit up for a little bit at a time but is too busy to stay there.
* I love her and know that in 6 more months I will love her even more than I do now!

Hannah loves to bowl!! The ball is bigger than her but she manages to throw it down the lane. It does roll very slowly down to the end but she is getting better! She bowled a 59 (with the bumpers) but I thought that was good for a three year old!








Little Miss Blue Eyes hung out in the stroller.

Lads To Leaders/Easter

Every Easter weekend we go with our youth group to the Opryland Hotel for the Lads to Leaders Convention. This year we stopped at the Zoo in Nashville on the way. Casey joined us & we had a great time!


Hannah rode halfway to Nashville with my pillow behind her head! It looks uncomfortable, doesn't it?


Hannah & Josh


The zoo is very big & we did a lot of walking. Hannah rode Casey's back for a while.


Jaiden rode in the stroller & chewed her toes!




After the zoo we went to the mall to eat but we were too tired to walk around. Then we checked in the hotel & tried to calm our children down. Things have changed since going to the convention a few years ago. Before children we were out with everyone until late at night but this year we were in bed by 10:00! :)


Here are some pictures from our hotel room on Friday.






Levi, Xander, & Hannah

Saturday Hannah lead a song with the K-2nd grade girls. She was excited when she went in the room. She went to the front to sit with the other little girls. Then she realized that she didn't have a copy of her song. She was so upset so I promised her she would have one when it was time for her to lead her song. Thankfully she can't read so we just got a copy of another song and gave her the paper. It made her happy. She was the last one to go & did a GREAT job. I got a little choked up and couldn't sing. She sang "God Is So Good."


Here she is with another little girl. She talked & talked to the other girls but they were older and didn't really want to listen to her. She didn't care. She kept right on talking.

Leading her song. I was so proud of her!


She was proud of her certificate!

Unfortunately we missed half of the awards ceremony because we were at Macaroni Grill trying to finish eating. So Hannah missed going on stage with the K-2nd. :(

Sunday morning the Easter bunny came to our hotel room. He left some good treats for both girls.

The baskets

Nonnie with Jaiden. She came to give the girls some Easter goodies too.


Hannah opening her Easter basket (I had a picture of her with her Easter basket but somehow deleted it off my blog - now I don't have the energy to find it again to put it on here.)

Hannah with her bed head opening Nonnie's present to her.

Jaiden with her Easter basket on her first Easter!