Precious Moments with my girls

I love mornings with my girls. June really likes glasses, and one morning we had some fun with all different kinds of glasses. June likes to wake up and watch cartoons in Shelby’s bassinet while I feed her every morning. Then we go downstairs and eat Cherios every morning. This week I tried to get her to eat eggs (which she hates) and came up with a genius idea…sprinkles. If I put sprinkles on something and call it “cake”….she eats it!! She ate refried beans cake and enchilada cake tonight for the first time ever!! I love this pic of Shelby My little silly girl loves to put things in the toilet. I have gotten several new toothbrushes this week as a result of that. Our couch has lots of static! I love static hair! I always get busy with June and come back to Shelby and see something like this. Today she had hairbow band blinders when I came in the room. June gives face smush kisses. She just presses her little face against Shelby’s and kind of shakes it. Shelby gets magic sprinkles too sometimes from these kiss sessions. June likes to put a purse on her shoulder and walk around saying bye-bye.

   Yesterday we went to Claire’s second birthday at Pump it Up. June loved playing in the jump-jumps with Daddy. I hosted a baby shower for Melissa and had a photo shoot so I was kind of late. It was a big day.  

I cannot believe Shelby is one month old!!! She will actually be six weeks old tommorrow!!! It has gone by soooo fast!! She is SUCH a good baby and is really growing. She can hold her head up and look around already. This is her one month picture.

 

Here are a few pics from the Quincienera we went to yesterday for Nathaly. Nathaly and her brother, Gilbert

The service was very nice and the priest gave a very nice talk about how NAthaly needed to be responsible now that she isn’t a child anymore. He told her about how her life fit together like the cloth on her beautiful dress is sewn together if she makes good desisions on what she aught to do and not just what she wants to do. He said that just as a seamstress needs a pattern to make a dress, we need a pattern to show us how to make decisions and that pattern is Jesus and the Bible. He said Jesus is God showing us how to be humans. He gave her a ring to remember these things. This is my friend Maria. She looked so beautiful in her fancy dress and new hair do and make-up! Jocey and her friends were adorable!

  Nathaly had some synchronized dances that were pretty cute then she danced with her dad and whoever wanted to dance with her. I love this pic of her and Jose. It took alot of pushing to get him out there. He doesn’t like to dance, but he did a great job!   It was a beautiful party and Maria and Jose worked so hard for soooooo very long to make it a special day for NAthaly!

Keosha's Cheer Competition....Disaster

Saturday we went to Keoshas National Cheer competition at the Reliant Arena. At first everything was going great other than June thinking the music was too loud, then...




Keosha landed from a jump and hurt her knee really bad. She was on the ground and crying (the girl is tough so I knew she was hurting to see her crying. The worst thing was that I didn't even see her since my eyes were in the camera and everyone kept dancing and just left her there crying. You can see her on the left side of the picture on the ground. This picture BREAKS MY HEART!!

The dr. at the competition said she hyperextended her knee-cap. Luckily she was able to limp out and nothing was broken. She was pretty upset and in alot of pain though.

I was so proud of my Keke. I have been mentoring this child since she was 4 years old, and she has grown up to be such a sweet mature young lady who loves the Lord, is extremely motivated to succeed, and has compassion for others. She was more upset that she had let down her team than she was about her extremely painful leg injury. She is in 7th grade and plays every sport AND plays the flute in the band(first chair) AND cheerleading! On top of that she makes all A's and is in all pre-AP classes earning credits towards high school. I have to brag on this girl because she really works hard to be the best at everything she does. She is the star of her basketball team, and even has high school coaches watching her play who want her on their team!!! She has been in the newspaper for Bryan/College Station many times for scoring over 20 points in a game. I love her so much and my heart swells with pride like she were my own daughter.

Beautiful girl!! (inside and out)

When we were leaving there was this lady with a cage full of these tiny baby goats that you could pet and hold. They were so cute and June loved them!

June was running around everywhere and Jimmy just chased after her the whole time. She was showing off her dance moves to the cheerleaders! She was like "Oh yeah you can cheer but can you drop it like its hot?!"

We love you Keke!!!!

Fun Girls Day

This morning we woke up and as I fed my Shelby Grace, June decided to feed herself some Formula. I thought it was pretty funny so I took a few pics, she eats everything. Then Sara called and told us to come over. We went straight there in our pajamas, ate some pancakes, and had a fun girls play day! June ended up naked after covering her jammies in syrup. The girls played while Sara and I had some much needed adult contact. It is really fun that we are both on maternity leave.

Claire loving on tiny girl Caroline!

Claire is totally consumed with Caroline. She wants to be all over her 24/7!! She wants to kiss her and put her sunglasses on her and lets just say she REALLY loves her sissy!!

Okay I am so in love with this baby!! She makes me smile even when I am dead tired at 4am and she is so awake and happy that it seems she cannot keep the excitement inside her. She breathes really fast and makes these sniffing noises with her arms flying around everywhere and looks right at me and smiles. My heart melts into a puddle and I have to make-out with her for awhile. Kisses sweetness,my adorable Shelby Grace!!

Shelby wasn't too excited about her bath

But she was totally into the warm after party. She looks like a little newbornMother Teresa contemplating on bringing warm towels to babies in a third world country.

She has really tiny hands!

ROCK ON!!

Forget the door, havn't you ever seen Dukes of Hazard?!

"June I'm gonna tell you a little secret....you're feet stink. I'm gonna help everyone out and get those socks off you so we can all breathe a little easier around here,k"

"June, this is how you pat the baby's head. I will teach you how to be a big sister, learn from the pro!"

Claire- "I have everything under control here. I am the big sis...just sit back and relax everyone"

Who needs toys when we can entertain ourselves with a laundry basket...in and out, in and out

My beautiful niece, Claire Charlotte!