Funny Girl

Shelby has been cracking us up lately. Here are a few of the funny things she has done recently that I wanted to be sure to write down:

- Yesterday at church two ladies were singing a duet. In the song, were the words "shall be". The first time the ladies sang this part Shelby (very loudly) says, "They said Shelby! That's me! I'm Shelby!".
-Also during the duet, Shelby stood up on her chair and pretended to be singing the song, making very dramatic opera singer faces.
-We were goofing around yesterday and Shelby said something about a "butt". We reminded her that "butt" isn't nice to say, and to say booty instead. So then she starts singing, "Old MacDonalad had a butt farm. Ee-Ii-Ee-Ii-Ooooo!". She was so proud of herself and laughed for 5 minutes afterwards.
-Shelby has been very into knock-knock jokes lately. She loves to make things up and then laugh at herself and say, "Oh, Shelby, that was a good one!". This morning her joke went like this:
Shelby: Knock, knock!
Me: Who's there?
Shelby: Poop poop
Me: Poop poop who?
Shelby Poop poop had a little lamb! Hahahahahahaha!

I think she gets her sense of humor from her daddy.

September

Holy cow. This has been one BUSY month. We kicked off the month by taking a trip to Hattiesburg for Labor Day. It is always so fun to visit. Shelby has such a good time with everyone there. I don't think she stops running around until we strap her in the car to come home. While we were there, Joey had her first taste of rice cereal. I don't think she liked it too much, but I'm sure she'll come around.





The next weekend we met our very good friends, Mike and Jenny, in Galveston. We refer to Mike as Jeremy's "Mexican Twin". Those two are so much alike it's scary. Like the time they both ruined their phones on the same day, both by dropping them in water. Mike was in Hawaii, Jeremy back in Metairie. Or the time they bought the exact same set of golf clubs on the same day (Mike was in New Orleans, Jeremy in Shreveport. They had not talked that day.) They are wonderful friends, and we only wish we lived closer so we could see Uncle Mike and Aunt Jenny more often!







As soon as we got back from Galveston we got down to work doing little projects around the house, preparing for family to visit. My dad had to work in Ft. Worth for two weeks, which worked out great for us as it gave us a chance to see him. But, he is a master of all trades and a perfectionist, so we wanted to finally finish up painting the wainscoting in our bedroom and painting the cabinets in our bathroom before he got here. We got to meet up with him for dinner one night last week, and then last Thursday we took him to an FC Dallas game. I did not realize the game would be as loud as it was or I wouldn't have brought Joey. We've taken her to a few Roughriders games and they were not as crazy.




Last weekend was kind of hectic. Jeremy had a Scout camp out on Friday. That night went pretty well just me and the girls. They both went to sleep pretty well and I was able to get some cleaning done, and even made my first wreath! I was very pleased with the outcome. Saturday morning I took Shelby to gymnastics bright and early, then came home and made 50 cupcakes for the ward talent show. We dropped off the cupcakes at the church and went to our first soccer game. Jeremy and I joined an indoor coed soccer league. I played soccer my junior year of high school and was on the coed team at NSU (more like PRACTICED WITH the coed team at NSU), so I don't have TONS of experience. I was so nervous that I threw up at half time. But, it ended up being REALLY fun. It is so different from regular soccer. You don't really play positions, and there are big plexiglass walls so the ball just bounces off the wall and you just run and kick. I even scored!



On Sunday my sister and niece, Brianne and Claire, came up from Baton Rouge, and my mom flew in from Utah. Shelby and Claire are 7 months apart and they reminded me so much of me and Brianne. They play hard and fight hard. (K, they don't really fight HARD, but they definitely don't have a problem tattling on each other!) We had a great time staying up late and talking, running around and playing, and eating yummy food like mom's chicken salad that I only make when she is in town.

Brianne and Claire left on Wednesday, but mom and dad were here until today, so mom came over for the day again yesterday and then we met up with Jeremy and dad in Ft. Worth after work. We headed over to Billy Bob's, the world's largest honky tonk. I'm not sure how we ended up there but it was fun! The fried green tomatoes were great and my brisket sandwich was AWESOME. I guess this is a major attraction in the area, especially for foreign visitors. I was so funny to see the little old Asian ladies in their full-on Western wear line dancing on the floor. Oh! And the best part of the night was when Jeremy and I got carded (you had to be 21 to even go in and eat, and kids had to be kept at arms length)!










We have gymnastics and soccer again tomorrow and then I am looking forward to a nice, quiet Sunday afternoon after church. Hopefully we can get a little rest because I am sure October will shape up to be just as busy as September with all the Halloween activities! (I just ordered Shelby's and Joey's costumes today!)

Hair-Don't

Like this guy's hair? What? You don't think it's stylin'? This is pretty much what Joey's hair looks like right now, minus the mullet in the back. Ahh, I hate this stage of my kids' hair. The only consolation is looking at pictures of Shelby at 1 year and her hair had grown back by then. So I know it's just a few months of awkwardness. Or maybe a few months of a rad hair style, depending on how you look at it.

Guess Who?

I think it is so funny that Shelby and Joey look so much alike (to me, anyway). Joey even has the same cowlicks as Shelby, and is losing her hair in the exact same pattern that Shelby did. So, can you guess which one is which? Jeremy even got two of them wrong!




See below for answers...

4 Months

Joey had her 4 month checkup on Monday. She weighed 14 lbs, 12 oz. I know I should not compare children, but I came home and looked in Shelby's baby book to see how much she weighed at 4 months. Ummm...yeah...19 lbs! Holy cow. I knew Shelby was my little roly poly baby, but I could not help but laugh at the difference. Jeremy pointed out that one reason Shelby probably weighed a lot more was that she was still waking up in the middle of the night for feedings. Joey has been sleeping 12 hours at night for a long time now. She does great in her crib. She has been rolling from back to stomach for a month now, and can almost roll from her stomach to her back. Since she can roll, she usually flips over as soon as we lay her down in her crib. We tried a sleep positioner, but she would just wiggle and wiggle until she eventually found her way onto her tummy. We finally ended up buying an Angel Care monitor that has an alarm that goes off if no movement (breathing) is detected for 15 seconds. It actually went off the other night. I don't think I have ever made it up the stairs faster. She was fine, but I moved her and stayed in her room for a minute afterwards.

Joey can also scoot around pretty well. I can lay her on one end of her play mat and she will scoot herself to the top in no time. She is very into holding her toys and gets mad if she drops one.

Her hair is doing exactly what I knew it would...falling out. She has pretty much lost all of her hair on the left side of her head, just like Shelby did. At least it will (hopefully) grow back quickly.

Other than that everything is going great. Joey fits into our family quite nicely and we couldn't imagine her not being here with us. The other morning Shelby woke up and the first the she said was, "Mom, I love having a baby sister".

Sunday Pictures

Sports

Sometimes Jeremy's job has some sweet perks that we all get to enjoy. He's gotten two tv's, tickets to "The Nutcracker", won numerous Visa gift cards, etc. Thursday he scored some sweet tickets to the Rough Riders game. We got some VIP treatment and got to visit the JCPenneys club before the game, and we got all the food and drinks we wanted during the game. We were sitting in the fourth row, directly behind home plate. It wasn't like it was tickets to the Rangers or the Cowboys or anything, but it was a sweet deal nonetheless.



Let's ignore how I look in the picture below and focus on Joey. See what she's doing? She's drinking a bottle! It was the first time I had tried pumping and giving her one, and she took it like a champ. Let's be honest- the girl just wants to eat. She doesn't care how she gets it. This is good news for us, because it means we can start having date nights and I don't have to be too worried about leaving her with a babysitter. (Shelby would take a bottle, but there was a whole bounce-while-the-blow-dryer-is-on routine you had to go through to get her to take it.)



Saturday was Shelby's first day of gymnastics at Excite. We tried out Little Gym and she was just ALL OVER THE PLACE. The teacher had to call in someone just to chase after Shelby. I know part of it was that it was her first time, but I felt like part of it was all the singing and make-believe. I think it was too much for Shelby and she lost interest. So we decided to try out Excite, where it is just straight gymnastics. She did much better this time. She tried to run over to some of the equipment a couple of times, but for the most part she did great. There are three teachers for her group, so there is always someone to help. It was SO CUTE to watch her in her leotard with all the other little girls. I really wanted to run out there with her and tumble, but Jeremy quickly reminded me that the last time I did that I hurt my wrist (that I fractured in college). Shelby showed me her back bend today. I am excited to see how she progresses in the next few months! Maybe one day she'll even train here.




With football starting up soon, I am sure we'll be getting all the sports talk we can handle around here. Joey already has her Ole Miss bib ready so she can cheer on the Rebels with Daddy and Shelby. Just as long as her first word is Mama and not Hotty Toddy, that's fine by me.