Road Trip with Mimi and Poppi

Wren and I took a road trip with Mimi and Poppi in their new RV! We went to Ozona to visit my sweet friend Gina. We stopped at Inks Lake and on the way there and enjoyed hiking along the beautiful trails. We all had so much fun! Wren loved playing with her Mimi and Poppi and I enjoyed the extra hands. Wren was such a great traveler. She slept quite a way in her carseat and the rest of the time, played with whoever was sitting in the back with her. The only thing missing was Brance! He had to work. Hopefully we can go on another road trip with him soon.

Around the House

Here are some cute pictures over the last couple of months around the house. Wren is continuing to grow so fast! She just gets cuter every day. She finally has a little bottom tooth. She was a great teether. She was up at night a few times, but I would give her a little tylenol and she would be back to sleep. She is now eating a variety of veggies and a couple of fruits. Her favs are sweet potatoes, squash, and oatmeal with banana. She hates green beans and plain cereal (I mix it with other foods). She is nowhere near acting like she is ready to crawl, but she gets around just fine by rolling. She has already gotten into the Christmas presents and tried to open the doors on our entertainment center. She also loves to walk with us holding her fingers. She can pull up to a stand from a sitting position but she hasn't quite figured out how to sit up on her own (she is close!). I think once she figures out how to form complete sentences we are never going to have a quiet moment to ourselves. She is already very vocal with her baby talk! She now consistantly crys "Mama" and actually said it the other night amist much babble. So cute! She tries to wave and laughs at any little game we play! She LOVES her Daddy and Uncle Brian! She just lights up when they walk in the room. I think that is all the new stuff for now. Sorry it took so long to get this site updated!!!

At the Pumpkin Patch

So for Halloween, we took Wren to the local pumpkin patch. It was 80something degrees outside, so I didn't put her long-sleeved, long pant, velor costume on. I just dressed her cute and off we went. We got to the pumpkin patch ready to take cute pictures of our always smiley baby, but alas, there were no smiles to be found. I think she was (1) tired, (2) distracted by all of the pumpkins, (3) always reminding us that she is not a performing monkey and she will not do what we want her to do when we want her to do it. The one smile we did get, was when we pulled a random 10 year old boy over to smile at her. She was ALL smiles for him. We have some work to do with this one...

Pictures from our day at the State Fair

Our Adventure to the State Fair

Well, we did it! We braved the State Fair with a 5 month old and actually had a wonderful time! Wren was a dream baby. She only got fussy a couple of time and other than that, she slept in her stroller, hung out on Daddy's shoulders, chilled in Mom's wrap, or watched everything going on around her (she did this the most.) I thought she would sleep the day way, but not my child! She only slept a total of 1 hour (a 45 minute nap around 2pm and a 15 min nap around 5:30). Meanwhile, Brance and I had a wonderful day snacking through the fair on corny dogs, a turkey legs, a caramel apple, potato twirls (with lots of ketchup- see picture), and, our adventure food, a fried grilled cheese sandwich. Unfortunately, I had a cold and could not taste anything except the turkey leg, but Brance said it was all pretty good. Brance and I also enjoyed seeing the domino man, the butterfly garden, the cars, and the bubbles at the science museum.

We proved to be shameless parents at the bird show. Before the show began, they were playing a song about what we will leave behind for our future generations and throughout it, they would pan out to the audience and flash cute kids up on the big screen. We were sitting right next to the platform that the birds fly to, so thinking our kid was pretty cute, Brance stood her up on it and we waited with the camera aimed and ready. Sure enough, a few minutes later, there was Wren on the big screen, looking mighty cute in her cowboy dress (thanks Mimi and Poppi!). Did I mention that we were shameless?

We walked a lot and rested every here and there. Wren was so tired by the end of the day that I thought she would fall asleep on the way home, but no, she was awake the whole time talking to her pacifier and trying to figure out the buckle on her car seat.

First Words!!!

Last night Wren was super tired but wanted to play with Dad. She was in the state of happy, sad, happy, sad- so tired she didn't know what she was. He was holding her and talking to her and she suddenly hit the brick wall of tired. She started crying and all of the sudden we heard, "Mama" clear as a bell. Brance handed her over and she stopped crying immediately. We count that as the official first word :). Now we have to work on Daddy!

Personality- Here it comes!!!

Wow! Brance and I are in for some fun times when it comes to parenting. Our sweet little almost 5 month old daughter showed her true colors the other night at dinner. Brance had on a name sticker from a training that morning. He gave it to Wren to play with. At first she just held it, touched it, tried to drop it (but it stuck to her hand :), etc. She was happily playing with it, perfectly content until it started to head for her mouth. Brance said, "No, no Wren" in a very sweet voice and took it away. The result- a shriek of anger and crying. Brance and I looked at each other and said, "Surely this is coincidence. Surely she isn't angry because we took away her toy. She is too young for that." So, as an experiment, we gave the sticker back to her. The crying stopped and she began to happily aim for her mouth. Once again, Brance took it away. The result, a shriek of anger and crying. Yep, we are going to have fun raising this one.