Where has the time gone?!

Where is the time going?! I cannot believe that 2008 is half over and my girls are getting so darn big! Rebecca has been crawling all over the place for at least a month now and she is also standing up and walking along the furniture! She has taught herself the wonderful new trick of fake coughing for attention and she is just learning how to wave. I cannot believe what a smart little bugger she is. Soon she will be upstairs playing with the other girls and I won't have my little baby anymore!
Michaela is swimming around without her floaty almost all of the time now and Alaina can go under the water like a little professional. They love to dive for the water rings and it is a huge accomplishment every time they come up with one.
I am really hoping to get Michaela a bike before the end of summer so that she can learn to ride a two-wheeler. I really think that she can do it!
Less than a month before school starts and my baby will be starting kindergarten! I don't know if I am ready for that yet. It seems like it was just yesterday I saw those two little lines on that HPT telling me that she was entering our lives. What a miracle she is and we just love her so so much!
Alaina got the cutest little haircut and her hair is as blonde as ever this summer. She is the "poster child for summer" like my cousin put it and everyone comments on how darn cute she is! She seems to get smarter by the minute and just loves her little sister to death. Too much at times because she is always trying to pick her up and play with her even though Rebecca doesn't want anything to do with it!
We will see what the rest of 2008 brings us!

The first six months

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Holding her bottle!

Can you believe it?! She is holding her own bottle now!!! Of course, she still drops it when things catch her eye because she is so darn nosy, but that's okay, she'll get better at it.Her favorite thing to stare at while she is eating is the dog. He loves to walk by and lick off all of the "extra" formula. She can't seem to get enough of him! Soon she will be holding that bottle while sitting up! Great job Rebecca!

Sweet Potatoes Anyone?!

Watching a baby eat from a spoon for the first time is amusing to almost anyone I know! Seeing Rebecca attempt sweet potatoes was no exception! It was a hoot! She ended up with most of it on her face, but she sure did enjoy it! She just kept trying to lean her head to the spoon instead of letting the spoon come to her. She also kept pushing the food back out with her tongue when she was trying to swallow it.
I can't wait to try all of the great fruits and veggies I have in the freezer for her!

Rolling Over

Well, the milestones just keep coming and coming!!! Rebecca rolled from her belly to her back the day she turned three months old, but then on April 26th, she decided that she wanted to roll the other direction, too!!

You can see that she is just thinking about her plan and then she tries to execute! It was so cute watching her try over and over again that first time. Of course when she finally did make it all of the way over, I was in the other room and didn't get the last picture! Oh well, just watching watching the attempt was exciting enough!

Our Anniversary

Marvin and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary and I am so proud to have made it! It seems like just yesterday we were getting married and we pregnant with Michaela. I can't believe how quickly time seems to have passed! We learn to love each other more with each passing year.
Marvin got me a dozen red roses and they are just beautiful!!

It is awesome that we have been together ten years and have three beautiful little girls, a home, and a great marriage to show for it! I am the happiest I have ever been!

God

We were driving in the car yesterday afternoon and out of the blue my 5 year old decides to start asking questions. She said just as seriously as can be, "Mommy, how can God make people if he doesn't have a wand?" I was so taken aback that I was trying to hold back the giggles when I answered her and said that God doesn't need a wand, if he wants something, he just says it and it happens.
Of course, my three year old has to jump in and she says to me, "Mommy, I want to go up in the sky and see God". Before I had a chance to answer my oldest says to her, "Nope, you gotta be dead to do that!"

Oh the joys of naive little minds!!!