Happy Birthday Monica

‎(Sung to the tune of Grace Grace Marvelous Grace)
"Grace, Grace, Monica Grace. Sent down from heaven, a bundle of Joy.

Grace, Grace, Monica Grace. Sweet Little Monica Grace"
Hard to believe one year ago today, God gave us such a beautiful little angel.
Happy Birthday Monica Grace. We Love You!

Night before the big day... She loves her new sleep sack, Lullaby Seahorse, Ladybug pillow-pet and her lavender bunny

In her birthday outfit! With the singing balloon.

Birthday Princess

First Cupcake! She had no problem getting messy!

Yummy Cucpcake!

Birthday Bath!

Walking with her gift from Santa...

Christmas 2010

Andrew helped Daddy make Peanut Butter Fudge for mommy. My favorite holiday treat. We shared some with Santa too.

Andrew and Monica at our Christmas Eve service

Andrew and his friend Ella on Christmas Eve

Ella (6yr) Andrew (5yr) Quinn (10.5m) Monica (just shy of 1yr)

Christmas morning in their Christmas pj's and Santa hats

Final Basketball Pictures

FireHawks 2010

#91

A date with Santa

Thurs. Night: So our first attempt with Santa... failed. Andrew was scared, but decided to be brave for Monica and so we could get one good picture. I grabbed my camera... battery dead. So I grabbed my phone. It was the perfect pic, everyone was happy and smiling. Couldn't wait to get home and post it for all to see. So I grabbed my phone... no picture... I didn't save the picture and it doesn't auto save. I cried, Andrew cried harder.

Sat. Morning: Another FREE chance to get a pic with Santa from 12-4pm. We got there at 11:50am, the line was already out the door and down the sidewalk, much to John's dismay, we joined the crowd. Luckily the line moved quickly. As we made our way inside we found out they had different stations set up. The first station was milk and cookies. Why they put that as the FIRST station, BEFORE picture, when all the kiddo are dressed nice for their picture... good question. 2nd stop was Santa's slay. Santa looked amazing. He had the most beautiful silver curls in his real hair and beard. Andrew had no problem sitting with Santa this time. And Santa even knew he wanted Star Wars Legos. So we got a good pic of Andrew with Santa, then is was Monica's turn to sit with brother and Santa... this time, she didn't really think Santa was much fun... so she screamed. Yes, I am one of "those parents" that thinks the screaming with Santa pics are cute. So of course we got one. Kodak was there taking the pics and giving you free prints! After Santa, we went around the corner to see the Santa Cow from Chik Fil A who was handing out free kids meals. Then Mrs. Claus was reading Christmas stories to the kids. They also had a craft room but it was too crowded so we decided to skip it.

Here are the pictures taken that day...

Children's Christmas Program

Andrew singing a duet with Ella at tonight's Christmas program!

Basketball

Andrew only has two more games left in his season. Although he has not come anywhere close to making a basket, he has improved a lot. At his first practice he couldn't even dribble the ball, now he can not only dribble and pass, but he's pretty awesome at defense. Here is some video of his game last week. He still has no concept of offense. But hopefully that will come next year.

I'm also adding a video of Monica cheering for him.

11 Month Turkey

Monica had her first table food meal at Thanksgiving. Roll, Green beans, stuffing and blk lives. She ate it all like a champ, even though she was to keen on the blk olives. She never spit them out. She just acted like she was chewing forever so daddy wouldn't give her another bite. last night she had honey lemon ckn ,green beans and half a banana. She loved the ckn. And when it comes to table food, she prefers to feed herself. She doesn't really like much help. But so far she will still let me spoon feed her.

I was really late getting the 11m pics so these are more like 11 1/2 month

You can see 3 out of about 4 1/2 teeth that she has.

Everything is worthy of YAY and lots of clapping.

11 1/2 m pic with Hoppy

Her attempt at saying "Cheese"

Playing the telephone game with DaDaDe

First basketball game

Ready for his first game!

warming up

Rebounding a layup during warm-ups

taking a shot during warm-ups

Pre-game pep talk with Couch Doug

He's number 91

Defense!

Go 91! Go FireHawks

In PeeWee Basketball, which is K and 1st grade, they play for fun and to learn the fundamentals of the game, aka no keeping score. However, I kept score! :) So the unofficial score was 20-16. YAY FIREHAWKS!!!

10 months already

Well even thought the 10 months have flown by, i can say I'm very thankful for one thing... unlike her brother she's NOT walking yet! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!

Here are some pics taken in the past week.

Riding with mama at the Pumpkin Patch

Austin and his "girlfriend"

Looking lovingly at her "boyfriend", Austin

Hoppy pictures are getting harder and harder to get!

You can really see her two bottom teeth. Still waiting on the top ones to break through

This is her new "silly face"

It's also getting a lot harder for big brother to hold little miss wiggle worm

Watching Scooby Doo with brother