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Sesame Street Live!

On Friday, we (Hayden, Livee, and I) packed up and headed to the 'Ham. We had *free* tickets to Sesame Street Live on Saturday morning and invited Traci, Sam, & Sara, and Misty, Andrew, Graham, and Victoria to come with us. It was a really cute show and I was thankful that we could share our voucher fortune with some of our good friends. Sam & Graham are both 3 (with birthdays just a few days apart) and Hayden is exactly one year to the month older than them. I'm so glad that I have friends with kiddos his age that we can visit with! Anyways, all of the kids enjoyed the show and Livee even watched it for about 15 minutes! (Victoria and Livee are 2 days apart, but I didn't get a pic of Victoria because she was asleep in a sling the whole time.) I tried to get a pic of the 3 boys, but they didn't want to cooperate. Actually only 1 out of the 3 would cooperate each time I tried to get a pic. They were all tired and there was too much going on, and also too many "things" for sale that we had to refuse to buy. Hayden fell asleep before we even hit the interstate. Wish we could have gotten a smiling picture, but oh well. He did like it, really!



First attempt. Sam is okay with it, but Hayden is not. Graham refused to have his pic taken at all.




Take 2. After I made Hayden turn around.


Livee watching the show.


Livee still watching the show, and Hayden still pitching a fit not wanting his picture taken.


Our view from the tier.

Preview of 3 month pics

3 Months Old!

Livee is 3 months old! She was sleeping through the night, but since we went to Muscle Shoals has started waking up at 1:30 and 5:30. I am getting tired of it, but she's still too little to sleep train. I'm hoping she'll go back to her old schedule soon, which was waking at 4:30 and 7:30. She smiles more and more every day and is holding her head up pretty well. She loves to watch her big brother and has discovered her hands and feet this week. She is fascinated by them. She watches when we leave the room. She eats every 3 hours and is still not on a really good nap schedule. She will only take a bottle of pumped milk from me, which totally defeats the purpose of pumping the milk and putting it into a bottle, but hopefully she will take it from Dave one of these days. She has very long eyelashes, but still very little hair. She talks to her "friends" when we lay her in the playpen or she's in her car seat. And she still loves to sleep in her swing. Can't wait until next month when we can get out the exersaucer!

She's a real sweetie and we love her so much!

Snake In The Grass

Oooooh - Dave went out in the backyard yesterday evening with Hayden and was fixing our gutter spouts and found this little beauty underneath one of them. He took pictures and found on the internet that it is only a water snake, but it still scared me enough to tell him to go kill it. When he went back out he couldn't find it. Hopefully it won't slither into the garage and scare the bejeezus out of me.

Weekend

This past weekend Hayden, Livee, & I went to Muscle Shoals for a visit. We had not been in around 6 weeks, so it was time to see family again. This was my first time making the trip alone with 2 kiddies and it wasn't that bad on the way there. The way back, however, was very long and tiring. It rained the whole way and I had to stop twice to feed Livee. It took us about 6 hours for a 3 hour, 45 minute trip. I am still tired today, and it hasn't helped that Livee is not sleeping well. She had a couple of really long nap days in Muscle Shoals and then somehow got off of her little schedule, so she's all messed up today. Anyway, on Thursday night my mom had a party for BeautiControl, so Hayden got lots of attention from all of the women at the house, which he loved. Then on Friday we went to the high school's Homecoming parade. It was a beautiful day and I got some cute pictures of Hayden and cousin Carson. Friday night we got to see my brother and sister-in-law and Carley Grace (who I didn't get pictures of for some reason). And Saturday we had professional pictures made for Livee's 3 month and Carley Grace's 7 month. Overall, it was a somewhat busy weekend, but we still had fun. Looking forward to getting back in the swing of things this week!

Waiting on the parade and having a little nap.

Watching the parade come down the street.

Yay for cheerleaders and candy!

It really is scary how much Livee looks like her Deeda. Poor thing!