Meeting More Family

With Mommy getting sick so soon after I was born and us having to spend a whole month in Houston....it was a LONG time before I was able to meet any family on Daddy's side!

Tia Paige and Tio Alex came into town from Baytown for a visit so we went to the other side of San Antonio to a place called the Red Barn.

Tia Paige might have really liked me ...

but I was really into Tio Alex's face! He has the best face to look at!!

This is my Tia Loretta. I like her red hair!

Then they handed me over to my Tia Adele!

But my favorite person of the night was my Tia Janie. I told her lots of stories...

Some good....

Some not so good...

But it was too late a dinner for me, so we couldn't stay for too long! Well next time!

And Then There Were.....15?!?!

I'm always going to Houston to visit my family but they finally came out here!! ALL OF THEM!

Grandma and Grandpa and Auntie Beetle and Uncle Rudy and Uncle "Bob" and Miss Melanie and Miss Elizabeth and Uncle Ryan and Miss Grace and even Niki and Penny! Add me, Mommy, Daddy and Aphrodite....you get 15!

Most of them went to Fiesta Texas for the day...so while they were out doing this....

I was at home with Grandma and the dogs! And if you know my Grandma, then you know that all she wanted to do was take pictures of me!

I must really be growing...this is me at 3 days old and then at 3 months old! I'm getting too big for this little bassinet!

I'm getting really good at tummy time...look at how well I can hold myself up on my arms!

I think it's soooo funny! And everyone always cheers for me!!

Mommy thinks these headbands are goofy looking! Now Grandma knows why!

Three Months Old and Finally Back Home!

It's always nice to see my Houston family, but I really missed my daddy and he missed me even more, so it was nice to go back home. Plus it's much quieter at my house than it is at Grandma's house!! All those teenagers can make a lot of noise!

And I finally got to play on my tummy again!! Those big dogs Grandma has are always in my way at her house so mostly I just get held all the time (not that I mind that one bit!)

And guess what?!? I learned how to roll over!! Watch me! Rolling over is the BEST!

When I'm not playing around, mommy likes to dress me up!!! Silly mommy!

I get a little bored with it though! At least I have Aphrodite to keep me company since clearly my mother is a little crazy!

But I do have pretty dresses! See???

Mommy's not all bad though...at least she can make me laugh!

And Daddy is pretty cool too! He lets me cook breakfast with him! Sometimes I'm a little lazy and I don't hold my head up the whole time!

My other favorite thing to do is play outside! I love to go for walks in my front carriers and I LOVE it when Mommy and Daddy take me to the park to play!!

A Tale of Two Cities...oops I mean months!

As soon as we got back home from Houston....mommy started to feel a terrible pain and we rushed to the emergency room!!! The doctors there told her she needed to have surgery to get something called a gall bladder removed. All I know is we would soon be going back to Grandma's house because someone needed to help mommy take care of me until mommy got better!

But we couldn't leave right away because Daddy still needed to work! So instead mommy occupied her time by dressing me up and taking pictures while I practiced my new superpower...smiling!

But we were soon on the road again...with all my stuff!! Cuz what would I do without my cool new swing? My bassinet, my carseat, my stroller, my bouncy chair, my bathtub, my playmat...you know...only the essentials!!

Did i say cool? I think I meant SCARY! AAhhhhhh!!!! The Butterflies are going to get ME!

Daddy came to visit me every weekend. We were there for a REALLY long time! A whole month! I had a lot of time to learn new things!

Like holding my bottle!!

And I got better and better at that whole smiling thing that everyone seems to love so much! I just love those baths!!

My Great-Grandma had to spend some time in the hospital...

...but luckily I was around to visit her almost every day!!!

I also got to meet my great-Auntie Lizette! She came all the way from Hawaii just to cuddle me!! (Okay, maybe she didn't just come for me!)

And best of all....I got a new bathing suit and got to go for a swim with Grandma in the big pool!! (Check out my cute hat too!)

Oh yah, and I can give kisses now!! I love to give (and get!) kisses!

That was fun!! A big big bathtub!!

But after all the fun was over...it was time to go back to San Antonio again!! Wow my life is busy!!

My Baptism

Even though we live in San Antonio, Mommy and Daddy are still very attached to their church in Houston. So instead of waiting until they found a church they loved in San Antonio, they took me to Webster Presbyterian to be baptized!

I had lots of family around me, even Grandma Maria and Adele came from San Antonio!

We all got up in front of the whole church and the pastors prayed for me...

Then Daddy handed me over to Pastor Mark, who put some water on my head!!

And then he walked with me up and down the aisles so my church family could get a good look at me!!

Miss Linda and Mr. Freeman taped the baptism so I can watch it when I get a little older! Good thing too, because of course, I slept through the whole thing!