So... last night at midnight when Melanie was supposed to be asleep she decided that she was wide awake. We put her on her playmat, which SHE LOVES! It's here that Chris and I get to witness her learning how to do all sorts of things. We think it's the coolest thing to watch her learn how to move and do things. Up til now she has managed to inch and squirm but in any particular way. She gets her knees up under her, and could raise her head up but she never pushed up before... until last night that is. I managed to catch her in the act. I'm not saying my daughter is a genius or doing things before she's "supposed" to or anything, but I just think it's amazing how much control she has of her head at 3 months of age. She LOVES to sit up and wants to be facing everything (I wonder who she gets that from?). I don't think she cares that she's the center of attention but she definitely wants to know whats going on. Sorry kid, the nosiness comes with the genes. :) Today, she has been VERY vocal! She is talking to everything; again, sorry kid, that comes with the genes too! I'm sure I looked like the biggest idiot today in Target as we were buying the grandparents some goodies for their houses. We were playing and talking to each other. I don't really care what I looked like cause we were having fun! The countdown to my return to school is slowly but surely drawing to an end. While I'm glad to have something to do other than be at home, I'm sad to have to turn Melanie over to someone else during the day. Chris and I trust this lady emensely and know she'll do a great job. She only wants 4 kids total, and only wants teachers kids. This means that we won't have to reserve a spot during the summers or on my breaks AND she's 75-100 dollars cheaper than anywhere or one else in town! I'm lucky to have the job I have, I am thankful for that; but it is a bittersweet return to school for me. I know in my heart that I am making the right decision to continue teaching even though it may be hard at first.

About 2 nights ago it was Chris' turn to feed Melanie and when they were done they both crashed out. I thought it was a cute picture and also thought I needed to post these pictures for you. About 5 minutes after that she woke up and she looked up at Chris and grinned real big like, "you think I'm asleep... but I'm nooooooot!" I wasn't able to get that picture.

Her room...

Like I said, I'm backtracking here. Here are some pics of her room for those of you that haven't seen it yet. Now, yes, the room is picked up more than this. These were taken right after we had had all of the 5 showers! LOL

I'm going backwards here, but wanted you to see these

Ok, so Christmas has past, but for those of you that didn't or haven't seen, here are some pics from Christmas. My Dad is the goofiest thing with her and insisted on being called "PawPaw Clause" so that's what we called him. There were also a couple of pics of the 5 generations in both directions in my family, but somehow they didn't get put on the computer. I will have to post another one later with those. I have a great-grandmother on my dad's side (96 this year) and a great-grandmother on my mom's side (99 this year) so Melanie has 2, count them 2 great-great grandmothers along with the original sets of grandparents to go with them! What a blessing!

We have a grinning girl!

So, if you know me I smile a lot... mostly. Well, apparently Melanie is going to be a smiler herself. She smiles at almost everything, but especially her Daddy. We LOVE our daddy! Here's a picture of the two of them watching TV together, OH YES... we discovered the TV and we think it's quite fascinating. And the other picture I got... thank you very much! Everyone has been trying to get the grin caught on camera and can't because the minute a light comes on for the flash she gets distracted and looks concerned like "what the heck is that thing?!?!" So... here ya go!

She LOVES her Jumperoo and Bumbo

So, Melanie is holding her head up rather well these days and I decided that it was time to get out the Bumbo. She thoroughly enjoyed sitting up in that thing and just lounges back like she's watching the game or something. Then, I decided that if she could do that well that I needed to put together her Jumperoo. She likes it, but her short little legs don't quite touch the floor and we have to put a pillow underneath her. She's not sure what to think about it, but we can tell that she likes it a lot.

We joined the blogging world!

So I decided that if we are going to have a family and it is going to continue to grow while we still have family and friends out of town that we needed to have one of these. I'm going to do my best to update it, and get my husband in on the updates as well ;). Be patient, we're learning. For example, I tried to upload a pic and turns out, we make pictures a little big for this site! Since Melanie is 3 months old already I have some catching up to do. It's a work in progress.