Back at home!

We had such a great time in Texas, but it sure is good to be home! Callie and Chile did great in the car much to our surprise! Since we've been home we celebrated Matt's 27th birthday! Yikes! I can't believe that he's 27! Seems like only yesterday that we were just getting our driver's license! We had a good little family celebration for Matt's birthday, and we also took some time to reminisce about my Dad. I think it is so awesome that they shared the same birthday! We grilled out some turkey burgers and brats and it was gooood! Instead of a birthday cake, I got Matt some cupcakes from a Bakery close by. It was fun to try a bunch of weird flavors! I really liked the Maple Bacon cupcake to my surprise! We even let Callie have her first bite of cupcake. We thought it would be a good little preview for her birthday coming up next month! She like the cupcake, but we didn't give her any icing, so I'm sure she'll like it more when she can dig into a cake!

Callie is such a busy bee these days! She is literally ALL over the place! Callie's main goal in life right now is to get her hands on some dog food! Any chance that she gets she is crawling as fast as she can toward it. Our house has a pretty open floor plan and it makes it impossible to keep her in one room. She pretty much had free reign over the whole downstairs. I'm still trying to think of a way to section her off in the living room.... but that would take some really long gates!

Callie is done with baby food now. She much prefers table food. She especially loves bananas. The other day I was sharing a banana with her and Chile, and as soon as it was gone I told her all done. She then throws herself to the floor in pure outrage! Haha. She loves bananas! Callie is still doing great with her signing. She signs "more" and "all done" pretty consistently now! Callie is getting better with walking with assistance. She really likes to push her walker toys around. More and more she lets go of things for a few seconds. Her balance is getting much better, and I know it wont be long until she starts walking. Her favorite word right now is Dada! She says it all the time! She also likes "hi" and "uh-oh"! She really only says Mama when she's tired. Booo!! Oh well, I know she will say it more soon enough! I love seeing her face when Matt gets home from work. She gets a huge smile on her face and says Dada while frantically waving at him. It is pure sweetness! Well here are some pictures from the past few weeks! Hope you enjoy. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

Callie trying her first bite of cupcake!

Not too sure at first, but she loved it after a few seconds!

Matt on his 27th bday! Callie enjoying Daddy's birthday dinner! Yum!

Happy girl!

Cookies and cream yum!

Callie playing in the kitchen!

Callie getting into diapers... so fun!

What a fun game! It's tiring helping with laundry!

I'm glad one of us thinks laundry is fun....

Sweetie pie!

Trip to Fort Worth Zoo!

Well while we were in Texas we thought it would be fun to take Callie to the zoo. Grammie and Aunt Lindsey took the day off so that we could all take Callie to the Fort Worth Zoo. It was so much fun! I loved watching Callie discover all of the animals. She definitely showed a lot of interest. I can't wait to take her back when she is a little older! Callie really loved the lions, tigers, leopards... anything that resembled a kitty cat! She would point and wave to the animals and say hi! It was precious! One of her other favorites of the day were the turtles. She loved looking at them swimming around! I want to take her to an aquarium because she really seemed to love all of the bright colors. Callie saw giraffes, hippos, monkeys, elephants, flamingos, kangaroos and many fish and bugs! Nothing is better than watching her experience new things. She was a real trooper! It was a long day but she did great! She had an adorable little hat that matched her outfit, but of course she didn't want to keep it on! She pulls off all of her bows and hats nowadays... I can't wait until she lets me put bows in her hair again! Of course it wouldn't be a zoo trip without a stop at the gift shop! Callie got a stuffed animal lion cub and tiger, as well as a Fort Worth Zoo sippy cup and t-shirt! Callie got spoiled by Mommy and Grammie... Oh Well! What else is new?! Well here are some pictures from our outing, hope you enjoy!

Callie and Grammie checking out the monkeys!

"Look at the fish Aunt Lindsey"! Adorable of them both!

Cool picture!

She loved the aquarium!

Callie and Mommy!

Another Trip to Texas!

Wow! It's already May! I can't believe it. Callie is going to be 11 months old in a few days... which means I'm about to have a one year old. It is absolutely insane how quickly the time is going by. I remember seeing babies that were around 11 months old when Callie was a newborn and I always thought that baby is soo much older. It seemed so far away to me, but here we are! Well we are in Texas for Matt's sisters wedding. We actually decided to drive this time. We took 2 days to make the drive, and it actually went a lot better than I thought it would. The first day was our long day of traveling. We drove for 13 hours and would you believe that Callie didn't cry the whole way? I was shocked because we NEVER go that long without crying. Matt thought it was funny because I had be dreading the long drive and had been trying to convince him that it was worth it to fly. But Callie proved me wrong. Haha. The second day we only had about 7 hours in the car and she got a little fussy a few times but was still great overall. I guess we owe most of the peaceful trip to the DVD player that we bought before we left. It kept her entertained very well when she was tired of her books and toys. She took great naps while we were on the road so that was nice!

On the way to Texas we stopped in New Mexico to visit our good friends Dan and Amanda. We had so much fun catching up with them! We got to see their lovely new house and I got to see Amanda's cute baby belly. She's due in about 4 and 1/2 weeks! Can't wait to meet their little boy!!! It was so nice of them to let us stay the night during our travels, and it was a great excuse to see them! Chile used to play with their dogs when we lived in Del Rio, so he was excited to see Annie (his first girlfriend... well Chile wanted her to be his girlfriend...) and his buddy Nicky!

Unfortunately Mother's Day was spent in the car traveling. But it was still a great day! We stopped in Lubbock for some Taco Bueno since I miss that place so much. I also got a new camera! I absolutely love it!

Callie has adjusted pretty well and is loving the time with all of her Grandparents! Callie already went up to Keller High School to see Grandma at work. She got lots of attention that's for sure! Tomorrow Callie is going to go see Grammie at work!

She loves to crawl around and explore. She is pulling up on everything and is cruising on furniture. It wont be long until she's walking. Callie also has cut both of her top front teeth! Yay! She is no longer a vampire baby! Haha! So now she has 8 teeth! Wow! She is starting to get tired of pretty much all baby foods. Callie likes the baby fruits, but usually spits out the meats/veggies. Now if I give Callie table food she will eat it no matter what! I have not found one thing that she wont eat. Callie is also working a lot on her talking. She says Mama, Dada and Uh-Oh! Its sooo cute. Callie also tries to make the woof woof and meow meow sound. It's not quite there but she sure is close. She loves puppies and kitties! She always points out the kitties in her books.

I really love seeing her grow up! She has a little temper when she doesn't get her way though... so that's not too much fun. Well here are some new pictures with my new camera! Hope you enjoy them!! Have a great rest of the week!

Callie loves watermelon and cookies... even if they aren't real!

Aunt Lindsey thought it was pretty funny! Callie just woke up and is ready for some breakfast! Callie loved looking at this picture of Mommy and Daddy! Look at all of my teeth!! What a sweetie! Callie's Great Uncle Doug sure is fun! So glad we got to see him!

Aw!! Callie and Great Uncle Doug. How sweet!

Silly face!

Look at her eyes! What a sweetie!