uncle christopher!

all our life my brother and i have joked about who the favorite child was. . . there are maybe just like two or three times that he could claim that role.

poor guy now has obviously been pushed to the backburner since andy and i brought into the world the very first grandchild for my parents.

that's right, we are the favorites.

but by the looks of this picture, i'd say it's a role he's pretty happy to accept.

our time in abilene was made sweeter by this guy for sure and it made for such fun lunch hours when christopher would come see us everyday. 

we both really did look forward to the twelve o'clock hour. . . and it was even better when shelby tagged along too.

it was nice to have an extra set of hands to hold the little bug while i scarffed down some lunch and changed out of my pajamas.

i loved showing june a little bit of what her uncle does in his day to day cool college life.

so we made a stop by his place of employment. . .

obviously working real hard.

:)

we also got to be in attendance to the bacon and eggs intramural football game one night.

sometimes when i'm rocking june i tell her stories of her uncle's great athletic feats.

we all wish she could have seen him in his glory days. . . such a stud.

wide awake little gecko girl, just taking in the action.

you've got lots of people that love you baby girl but none quite like your uncle christopher.

it's the sweetest love around.

scarf swap party!

remember this fun swap?

we all love meredith.

well julia and lucy decided to bring it to real life and it was such a fun and perfect night with the girls. 

my friend since kindergarten, callie morris was there too!

i was beyond excited she arrived in time to meet june before tootie came to pick her up so mama could have a fun night sans child.

look at all these fun girls and cute scarves to be swapped!

love the scarf i got, love this girl even more.

so great to see tori, she got my scarves!
marcus i heard you made an apperance right after i left. . . next time old pal!

and naturally, what party isn't complete without a little dancing!

such a perfect night.

what a week!

we have been a wee bit m.i.a lately. 

partly because i feel like we have not yet stepped out of this new baby fog we live in where there is no time for anything but nursing, diapers and napping and also because we spent over a week in abilene while andy was on his annual elk hunt.  it was about a year ago that i started this blog. . . remember this pathetic post?

a year later, those words still ring true, i just hate being away from my husband and this year there were two girls to miss him.

so we took our lonely selvves to abilene and had such a fun filled week!

 i love this picture, i feel like she's really working it for the camera.

it was super sweet  to wake up in papa and tootie's house every morning and goodness gracious they were so helpful. the things we got accomplished with three sets of hands.
andy, please let's hire a live in. . .
come on!

 we got to see aubrey and marcus again. sure love those guys. . . they are so sweet to love june even though she was a royal mess the night they came over.
i almost didn't claim her, sweet angel.

 she loves her papa!

 we finally got to meet mr. ty dubose!
aren't these two just so cute in thier matching carseats. . . let's start the wedding planning beth.

my dad always has a little sweet something written for june on my mom's fancy whiteboard.

we get a good kick out of it and him but all love it so much, sure can't wait for her to read them all one day.

she truly is the 'joy of our life.'



so fun!

i have so much to fill you in on but for now this is all you get!

we have been having lots of fun this week and i can't wait to tell you all about it.

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mamas out there you must add this gem to your bookshelf.

i'm not kidding, it is wonderful and has put our hearts and minds at ease a million times.

it has become my go-to for every single thing 'june'.

i know it will become your go-to as well.

go now to your nearest book store.

brittany, thank you again for this pediatrician on pages.

happy one month!

dear june,

today marks one month of life with you.

it has been so very sweet.

you are such a cutie pie and your daddy and i spend alot of time just staring at you, we think you are perfect in every sense of the word. 

you are still so tiny but compared to when you were born you have grown a ton.

you are trying so hard to be a good little girl and give mommy some sleep but we haven't gotten that down quite yet.  i know it's right around the corner though so i don't mind when you wake up at 2 a.m to eat and then again at 5 a.m.

speaking of eating. . . baby girl you love it!

you are just like your daddy in this way. 

you eat every three hours during the day and try really hard to eat every four hours at night.  so pretty much all mommy does is feed you, burp you and put you to sleep. 

it's a sweet time with you baby girl.

you make the funniest noises when you are falling asleep, we laugh at you alot because you sound kinda crazy. 

you love to be swaddled, rocked and held very close. . .sweet angel.

you also love your passy which drives mommy nuts.

i have finally stopped cringing when we give it to you.

you are ravenous when it comes time to eat and we laugh at that too. 

we have started to learn your cries and what it is you are trying to tell us.

you have a hungry cry that we know very well, a tired cry that is so pathetic and a cuddle cry that is my favorite. 

i love to cuddle you and usually spend a good amount of our day doing just that. 

daddy comes home sometimes to find us curled up on the couch just cuddling. . . sometimes by choice and other tmes because you just refuse to be put down.

i hope you will always love to cuddle.

it's been a great month!

we are so in love with you june and can't wait to see how you change and grow in the next month.

we are so glad you are here to stay!

spoiled rotten.

 it's official.

june is spoiled.

spoiled rotten.

she gets a custom rocking and soothing session every now and then in the cacoon daddy built for us.

you can have this custom cacoon too, have your husband wrap a cozy blanket completely around you and baby anad rock away.

 dinner on the kitchen table, she never wants to be left out of anything.

she screams as if we are torturing her during bathtime and absolutely hates her cute towels.

 but of course tootie's baths always seem to be better than mommys.

 see. . . screaming rabbit.

ha!

 chillin' with dad during nfl sunday.

 first gift from busch's.

her papa is creating a monster.

:)

he claims it's never too soon. . . meanwhile i am tempted to wear this beauty until june is old enough.

i may or may not have gotten a little jewel too from papa and tootie.

 are you serious?

all such cuties that i cannot wait for her to get to use/wear.

and here's the mama nut of the house trying to nurse in the first days home.

she's got us all wrapped around her little finger and we wouldn't have it any other way. 

we love you so much little june. . . even if you are kinda high maintenance.

prettiest town that i've ever seen.

june made her first roadtrip this past weekend!

she was a champ.

we headed out friday night for the big homecoming, i was so excited to take our baby girl to abilene.

thankfully she loves her carseat and would have slept the entire way home if her parents weren't such rookies who pulled over into a ghetto, scary gas station to wake up a sleeping baby and attempt to feed and change her in the car.

never again, never again.

so we rolled into town at midnight and were absolutely exhausted.

 first stop was to meet her gan-gan and pepaw.

it was such a sweet time and i am forever grateful to have my baby girl meet my grandparents.

i know that is so rare.

i have tried to engrave every second into my brain of their time with her. . . i want to always remember the way my grandparents have ooohed and awwwed over their great grandgirl.

so so sweet.

thank you Lord for these memories with them.

 we picked up lunch at the health food store and went to show her off some more at my other set of grandparents. 

it was so fun!

aunt jodi, emily and caleb came to meet her and brougth her the cutset little outfits!

i cannot wait for her to wear them, thank ya'll so much!

we were kinda shocked at our little show pony and how well behaved she was.

at one point there were 19 people at my parents house. . . all to see the munchie girl.

she's quite the hit!

we loved every single visitor and feel so loved by them all!

 poor marcus.

june still loves you and promises to never do that again.

 future babysitter, aunt lily.

the night ended perfectly, emily came to meet our baby munchie!

i was just so excited to have them together in one place.

it was a sweet weekend, exhausting but so sweet!

i hope the newness of our sweet lovey girl never wears off and that she always knows just how loved she is.