Last week of R&R

One morning for breakfast Mike and I were eating chocolate chip cookies (which we know we'll have to stop doing once she's old enough to understand that we have the eat healthier than that) and she came up, took a cookie out of the bowl, ran away with it, sat down in the corner and started munching away on it. Of course I didn't let her eat it all but I had to get a picture because it was too cute! That baby loves her some sweets.

For whatever reason, she's been sticking her tongue out all the time now. Like she just found it or something. This is her in the back of Mike's truck at my parents house. We picked her up after our fun weekend at the Great Wolf Lodge! She loved being back there and banged on the sides as her drum.

Ok this was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I went to walmart while Bailey was asleep and Mike was putting the new lawn mower together. She woke up early so he improvised and put her in the lawn mower box, gave her toys, and blasted the music and when I drove up she was having the most fun of her whole life. She loved being in that box and banging on it's sides like drums. And she was bouncing up and down to the beat of his music too. This child loves music!

Yesterday after Bailey's nap she just laid down on our bed and snuggled with me for a long while. Not sure why exactly because she normally doesn't do that unless she's not feeling well. But she did. Even after I got up she laid there with Mike playing and looking at pictures on the camera. This is one of her favorite games to play. You take the paci, she takes it back and sticks it in her mouth. She and Mike had a lot of fun with that game while he was home.

I took this picture this morning right before Mike left. She is wearing a onesie from General Jackson's that says "If you love your freedom, thank my dad." I loved it and had to have it for her!

Well, R&R is over. It was a quick 15 days but we had a great time. We got a lot done in the last week that he was here. Monday we went to Wilmington for a couple of hours to have pictures taken by a photographer named Matt McGraw. He did wedding pictures for Heather and we loved his work so we decided to go with him. He was definitely worth the drive to Wilmington! We had such a great time around downtown while he was taking our pictures. I can't wait to get the slide show of the pictures in a couple of weeks! On our way home from that we stopped by the bank and opened Bailey's savings account. She got $110 total for her birthday and since she didn't need anything, we put it all in the account. I'm excited to start saving for her!

Tuesday we had Bailey's 12 month well baby visit. We gave the doctor our vaccine schedule that I came up with and she had no problems with it, which we well know is SUCH a blessing! She'll only be getting 3 vaccines total for now and we'll be making monthly visits for the next 6ish months to spread them out. She only got 1 (DTaP) on Tuesday and next month she'll get 2 (Pc and HIB). She did very well with it and only cried for a second. She weighs 20 pounds, 12 ounces (50th %) and is 28 inches (25th%) and the doctor was very impressed that she already has about ten words. Woohoo! Then we went to run errands, which included buying a new lawn mower and getting some last minute army stuff for Mike.

Wednesday Mike put the lawn mower together and mowed the grass, we took the Jeep to get the oil changed, Heather and Pilot came over shortly to say goodbye to Mike, and then we went to Carrabba's for dinner. We had a great last night together. She went to bed a little later and even slept in until 7:30! I could definitely get used to that.

Thanks friends for all the thoughts and prayers for our family. Keep them coming because I know they're working! We'll miss our man but only five months until he's home again. We're well over the hump of this deployment!