Saturday night fun with cousins

Eden loves being around other small children, which is a good thing considering she has a total of 18 cousins, 10 of which live near us.  Saturday, Megan and Amy brought their kids over to Papa and GG's house so we could all hang out.  

Braiden came in his cowboy gear, which Uncle Cam made the most of later on in the night....we'll get to that in a bit.

GG of course, had new toys for just about all of them.  Eden was lucky to get a new jumperoo!!  It was funny to see Megan's boys put down their new toys in order to "help" put together Eden's jumper.  Ashton and Braiden stuck close by when Eden was enjoying new jumperoo.

GG, Braiden and Cameron made cookies.  Braiden, who is 2.5 years old was able to use the electric mixer without any problem.  Cameron, who just turned 5 years old, managed to get cookie dough all over everything...including Judy.

Aunt Megan loves little Eden, she took care of her all night long.

After dinner, GG brought out Braiden's pony. He got a chance to put those cowboy boots to work.  Aunt Amy mentioned how Braiden likes to watch bull riding.  Listen for him yelling, "open the gates!" and "yee-haw!" and "eight seconds!".  Too cute.  Poor kid, this for certain, will come back to haunt him one day.  

First week at daycare!

Eden started daycare January 12th at Primrose. We were a little nervous about the whole daycare thing, so we decided to ease into it by having her first day be a half day.  Cam, myself and Nana all took her in to get settled.  Her two teachers were there to greet her, Helena and Essence.  Helena took her right away and put her in the exersaucer.  As soon as Eden was in the saucer, she completely forgot about us.  She was completely enthralled with the flower on the saucer....

I couldn't even get her attention to say good-bye.  I guess that was a good thing?

The theme for the curriculum that week was water transportation. They learned about boats and the infants finger painted sailboats.  The teachers cut out the sailboats and hung them in the classroom by the window.  

4 months old!

I just can't believe it, Eden will be 4 months old tomorrow.  Where in the world has the time gone?  I guess it doesn't seem like time is passing you by quickly until you have someone in your life who grows at an incredible pace.  Eden woke us up at 5am this morning for a bottle (typical...the girl goes to bed at 7:30pm and wakes at 11pm, 2am and 5am before getting up around 7:30am...it's killing me. Thank goodness Daddy has become involved with nighttime feedings.  Yes, I am now very thankful to be finished with breastfeeding.  I don't think I could do this alone while working!).  Anyhow, I go in to feed her this morning and she is flat on her face.  She rolled over completely on her own!

She had rolled over a few other times over Christmas at mom's and here at home with us, but I kind of felt like we made it happen, that it didn't actually happen because she made it happen.  This time, I knew she did it all on her own.  What a big girl!

Not to forget to mention, this little girl is now attending Primrose School full time.  She started this Monday after finding out last week, at the last moment, that she wouldn't be able to start at Heather Park until April (another long story).  Anyhow, she loves her teachers and didn't even notice that we were there once her teacher, Helena, put her in an exer-saucer.  She has done very well, according to her teachers.  Although, I'm sure they would tell us that even if she screamed the entire time we were gone.  I think that's what we're paying them to do.

Our little girl is 1/3 a year old...I can't believe it.  

Rob came by today in a BMW 700 series, that he is considering buying.  All of us sat in it and decided it was a good buy!  Go for it, Rob!

cute videos

Eden, Mommy loves you very much

I can't believe it, the time has come for me to go back to work.  Tomorrow is January 5th and I've been home since August 28th.  It doesn't seem like it has been a very long time since I brought you into this world, not in the least.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy to be going back to work.  I miss learning new things every day and keeping busy doing things that will hopefully make a difference in someone's life.  However, I can't help but be a little sad that the first four months of your life has already elapsed and so quickly, at that.  I know you're not quite on your own just yet, but I can't help but think I'm leaving you to start living your life without me.  I wish I could stay home with you every day of your early years, but instead I'll be heading back to work tomorrow, with the hope that I will be setting a good example for you. I'd like to teach you how to be a responsible, accountable adult who knows how to be productive and have a satisfying career and still have a loving, happy family.  

What I really want you to know is that you're the light of my life and I love you very, very much.  I hope to always  be here for you when you need me.

Hanging with Daddy!

Daddy has done it again!  

He has come up with another way for me to play with my toys.

Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

Aunt Bernadette, Uncle Jack and cousin Drake drove 9 hours from frozen Fort Wayne, Indiana down to sunny NC to meet Eden.

Bernadette, being the ultimate pool player, taught Eden how to roll the pool balls.  I guess that's the first step to becoming a pool shark?Eden, of course, had a great time with Grandma too.Chillin' in her new Nike sweat suit that Aunt Bernadette and Drake picked out for her.

This is video of Bernadette showing Eden how to roll a pool ball. She actually does it all by herself!!!!