Laurie's Life

I had my ultrasound today and we are having another baby girl! I am just thrilled. I had prayed from the beginning that it would be a girl. Steve would have liked a boy, but he is happy as can be! Here is the best news: The baby looked very healthy from what they could tell. I have prayed each day that the baby would be healthy. I am praising the Lord for this! I have loved having Emily and I love all her cute little clothes and girly toys and bows. I am glad we can use the stuff again. All we need now is diapers and wipes. The Lord has been so good to us. We are blessed! Right now, I think we are naming her Sara Kate.

I just wanted everyone to see what Miss Emily does to pass time. She emptied every blanket and burp cloth from her changing table and then put a doll or animal on each one of them. She told each one of them 'night night' and then later on in the day, she brought each of them a "biaper" as she calls them. Some of them got special treatment because they got a bowl or cup from her kitchen set. She is quite the little mother. Another favorite activity is trying on mine and Steve's shoes. Here she is in her Daddy's shoes. She goes through this shoe routine most everyday. A very special thanks to Kelly for helping me make my blog look better.

I feel like we have just been a house of sickness since November. If I am not sick ,then Emily is sick. Steve got sick last week and missed 3 days of work. On Friday Emily got some sort of sickness and we took her to the Dr. on Sat morning. He just said she had the next "bug" going around. She has seen the Dr. 3 times in the last month. A couple of week ago she got Croup. She sounded aweful and it REALLY scared us. I try to wash her hands a lot and I am always washing my hands, so I don't know why we are getting so sick. I think I catch a lot of things because I am pregnant and my immune system is not as strong. I got something aweful on Sunday! I never have a sore throat but my nose runs more than it doesn't and is always stopped up. Monday I went to a walk in clinic and the Physican's Asssistant told me I had the flu, a cold, acute sinusitus, fluid behind my ears and bronchitis. I only believe half of that. I think I have a really bad cold. I hav...

Here is Emily and I before we went on our first Thursday date to spend time just between us. We had a great time at McDonalds and got to eat and play.

Emily had a wonderful birthday with family and friends. Emily's new kitchen Emily and Horsey The guests have arrived... Emily and Mom open gifts

Everytime we ask Emily if she wants to go see Santa she says," NO! Ride horsey?" She saw Santa and rode the carousel all in one afternoon and the carousel was, of course, her favorite. She associates Santa with horses now. Emily LOVES horses after this experience. Her Daddy rode with her several times. Emily screaming for me to rescue her.

We had a nice Thanksgiving in MS. On Saturday we took Emily to Tupelo to see Santa at the mall. I put her in a very precious Christmas dress with a big red bow in her hair. We waited in line for over 30 minutes and wouldn't you know, the minute we get to Santa Emily had a major meltdown. I told Santa to hold her anyway and they took her picture. It is VERY cute. She was screaming 'Mama!" They also had a carousel at the mall and Emily rode it at least six times. She adored it! Steve and I took turns riding with her. It is so fun to let her experience these things.

Emily will be a kitten this year for Halloween!

When Emily gets something in her head she moves like lightening. Sunday night she was frantically taking her little shoes off. She had spotted mine and wanted them. She moved all over the kitchen with ease in my shoes. She is ALL girl!

The family had a pleasant visit to south Arkansas this weekend to see our friends get married. It was a wonderful ceremony and we had a great time with Mimi and Granddaddy. Emily loved her table with crayons and a coloring book! Emily pointing to a puppy. Emily and Granddaddy Emily and Mimi Family laughing at Mimi's dancing.

Since Emily had nothing to play with in the backyard, we bought her this little play set from Wal-Mart. She really had a lot of fun sliding and climbing on the castle.

It has been so long since I have done a blog entry that I have almost forgotten how. Last week Steve and I enjoyed a WONDERFUL vacation to Gulf Shores with our best friends, Scott and Kelly. I wish I were there right now! My folks and Steve's folks came to our house and both kept Emily at the same time. Pretty amazing that two sets of parents get along so well and love each other. They stared at Emily the whole time and thought everything she did was great. The two mothers tried to stuff her with food because my mother thinks I don't feed her enough. Emily is pretty picky. (Wonder where that comes from?) I say that I love all hot food- thngs that are cooked. There are some things that I just can NOT eat. Here are a few of them: Chicken salad Ranch dressing Mayo mustard tuna salad liver any kind of salad dressing sweet pickles beets potato salad cottage cheese sour cream cold pasta salad There are still a lot of things I do like! I want Emily to like all sorts of foo...

Emily has gotten the Barney song a bit mixed up. A couple of weeks ago she began singing, " I love me, I love me." She loves to burst out in this song at any time. She sings this phrase to the Barney tune over and over. It is really cute.

Our home has been pretty boring for the past couple of days. We have had lots of guest and now they are all gone and it is kinda sad. My college friend, Kim came last weekend. We always have so much fun together. Kim is so funny and FUN!!!!!!!!! I am always smiling when she is around. We ate lots of good food last weekend. Then on Monday my lifelong friend, Kelly and her children came to visit. Emily loved being with Logan and Lauren. She was royally entertained. Kelly and I also had lots of good food and fun shopping together. Kelly always has such good taste in food and stores. She introduced me to Bath Junkie. It was fun to look and smell, but SOOOOOOO expensive. I bought a little candle there. Money up in smoke! Kelly and I had such a great time together. Kelly can make anything fun! I was so thankful that these two wonderful friends could come see us! I can be myself with these girls. We will always be close. Emily has been singing a lot latley. She is just a ...

Since the first time we ever saw baby Emily she had a rat tail. As she has grown and her hair has grown , it has become an all out mullet. Only a mother's love can love that little mullet on my precious daughter. It has actually really entertained Steve and I thinking that, " our daughter has a mullet." It is just the way her hair grows. Bless her heart. Last Thursday night I decided to cut the mullet. It had began to cause her problems when I would take a bib off and accidently pull her hair in the bib's velcro. She would scream and cry in protest. As I looked at her last Thursday morning, I thought," there is no reason for her to have her hair this way. I am going to cut it when Steve gets home." Of course, Steve did not object. I wet her hair down and in one chop got the mullet. I was a little nervous to see it at first. I rushed her to the bath for a good hair washing and styling and it looked great! I was so glad I cut it! It stills comes to a point, bu...

I decided that I better blog today before I get kicked out of the blogging circle. I blog today in a new home. Three weeks ago we moved 30 minutes up the road to be closer to Steve's work and our beloved church and friends. We are really loving it. I miss my old neighborhood and neighbors, but I LOVE my new house and my new space! I also love being so close to church and the activities I am involved in. I was thinking last night that Steve and I have been through a lot of changes since we got married: 1. We changed churches. 2. We got pregnant 6 months into marriage. 3. I stopped working when Emily was born. 4. Steve started a new job in his company. 5. We made a move to a new house. That is a lot for two and a half years of marriage. It has all been great changes. Another change, Emily is walking EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME!!!!!!! She is into everything. I am loving my time right now when she is asleep. But, when she wakes up after a good nap I am always so excited to see...

Yesterday, my college friend Christy and her family came to visit from Texas. Christy has three little girls. Emily was delighted to have three girls play with her all day. They loved carrying her around and playing with Emily and all her toys. As if that were not fun enough, we went to the Gentry drive through zoo. Emily has NEVER been so excited. I think she was having "spells" because she was so thrilled. I love going to the place too, so I guess she gets it natural. Emily loved the animals coming up to the window. She would say hi to them and played peek-a-boo with a few of them. She spent a lot of time saying "oooh, ooh,ooh." We all had a great day yesterday. I loved being with Christy and her family and catching up on things. This morning when Emily woke up at 5:00a.m., I put her next to me in bed so she would go back to sleep. She had a dream that caused her to smile big behind that pacifer, I couldn't help but wonder if she was thinking abo...

Emily has gone nuts over cheese. It is her favorite food. If you even say the word, she stops what she is doing and says, "Yeah,Yeah,Yeah Yeah!!!" It is all she wants to eat. When I get the cheese out of the refridge, she screams in delight waving her arms and kicking her legs. As she eats her other food, she says "cheeeee, Cheeee,Cheee." She says it when she wakes up from naps and first thing in the morning. I guess I am the mean mother, because I don't give it to her everytime she asks. I want her to like and eat a variety of food. Well, Emily is still asleep this morning and guess what her first request will be when she wakes?

I have to thank my sweet husband for posting the Christmas pictures. Let, me assure you I was not calling myself a Christmas angel. That was all Steve's doings. I need to have him post some more recent pictures. Emily has had her FIRST Birthday. I have not really known what to do with a one year old, but I am learning. Emily is getting around by walking on her knees. As Christians, that is how we need to get around too! We are having a hard time getting her to take a sippy cup. OH well, I am not going to worry about it yet. In all my years of teaching, I have never seen a Kindergartener drinking from a bottle. Everyone assures me that she will learn soon. This morning was my Bible study. It was really good and so practical. I am soooooooooooo glad to see the sun today!!!!!!!!! I promise to post more later this week!