Mimi's Birthday

To celebrate Mimi's birthday, we went to Chris & Phillip's house for crawfish and fellowship. 

 

Charles had his first taste of crawfish.

 

Lee & Marilyn Chadwick, my parents dear friends

Laura and I grew up together.  She loves and spoils my kids like her own.

Mimi isn't scared to give the grandkids sugar.

"Clayton, he's walking! Clayton, he's walking!"

Charles at almost 11 months.

and the morning before…

Valentine's Day 2014

To prepare for the big day, I used my creative side making the kids' Valentine's while

Clayton did an amazing job coloring the envelopes to send love to those afar.

 For Valentine's Day, Clayton and I had a Valentine's picnic.

And this was made possible because this big sleeper wasn't disturbing us.

 Since Mary had a long break from school, I met my mom on the road to pick up "Ree" so she could spend the weekend with us.  She is so sweet, she brought us all Valentine's.

 The kids enjoyed their Valentine's we gave them.  

(Mary takes styling credit for his hair on his 1st Valentine's.) 

 Things got a little crazy with acrobats.  Thankfully no one was injured from the shenanigans.  

 

After a night of dinner in and friends coming over to celebrate, Valentine's came to a close for these sweet girls.

 

Snow!

We woke up to a Mississippi blizzard and were so excited!

I asked Harris to buy us a sled because we didn't want to be ill prepared since we have awesome hills to sled down.  Thank GOODNESS I was on top of things.

Clayton thoroughly enjoyed eating snow/dirt!

9 Months Old Check-Up

9 Month Old Stats:

21 pounds, 6 ounces (75%)

29.5" long (90%)

18" head circumference 

Mimi didn't go to this appointment so we missed out on shot pics.  Charles says there is no need to document that pain anyway.

An Elmo stamp is a pain reliever.