First 24 hours of Port Aransas vacation

We had a rough start...Jenna threw up ALL over herself, the carseat, everywhere before we even got out of Sugarland. Amazingly, you would never believe she was sick the rest of the day - I really thought she just gagged on something, not sick. She was in a great mood, took a couple of naps, stayed up late at a restaurant and was an angel. Then she woke up covered in it again this morning - poor thing. Diarrhea, the whole bit. The picture below was at around 8:30 last night, at the restaurant. She didn't get to bed for over an hour after this, but stayed in a great mood.

But because she's a trooper, I thought I would still take them to the beach this morning as promised, while Daddy was doing some offshore fishing with the boys. Even though I knew we wouldn't be out there long, we hit the beach just after 8 am. It was perfect, except when she ate sand... :) This was a first for both of my kiddos and they loved it. I can't wait to take them again, when I have an extra set of hands to get more pictures.

While we were playing on the beach, Daddy was fishing his heart out. And low and behold, he caught a 5 ft 80 lb shark!!!

More later, but while Jenna was napping (over 2 hours so far), I thought I would document our first day. Oh, and Hunter apparently learned about silly bands at school, so he has also been an angel today (new reward system). He was an absolute terror yesterday, not doing anything we asked him to do....just really bad. Hopefully, we're on the mend and the rest of the weekend will be a blast.

Quick update

Jenna had a couple of doctors’ appointments this week.  The first was the dreaded eye doctor.  He told me it would be a good idea to bring her in at 12 months since her brother’s eyes are so bad.  Thankfully, her eyes are not as bad as Hunter’s.  All they can measure at this stage is astigmatism and she’s about a +2.5 in each eye (nearsighted).  Since it doesn’t seem to be affecting her development, no glasses at this point.  Yay!  He said some doctors might prescribe glasses, but he wants to wait. 

Her other appointment was her one year well baby visit.  She’s doing great, but still on the small side.  10th percentile on weight and height…no wonder it looks so weird for her to be walking already.  And she still has a monster head (97th percentile)…my kids and their big heads…they get it from me, I can’t deny it….

Jenna also started the bigger infant class this week and over night, she was walking all over the place.  Last week, she pretty much would walk a straight line from somewhere to mommy.  Monday, she was independently taking off from one place to another.  This continued throughout the week, so she is officially walking now.  I can’t believe how quickly this happens!!!  My baby is now a toddler!!!

And my toddler is a big kid…Hunter got his hair cut again this week and it makes him look ever older than he already looks.  He has a habit of twirling his hair, so he’s got a pretty bad bald spot, and I think he had started twirling just above his forehead because it was getting really difficult to “fix” and not look super thin.  So we chopped it off, hoping he won’t be able to catch it and pull it out while twirling.  Keep in mind that we NEVER actually see him twirling his hair.  He’s either doing it in his sleep, or after we put him to bed, or in the morning before we get upstairs. He’s very covert…

We are headed to Port Aransas on Thursday.  Everyone is very excited, especially Hunter because he wants to see where Nemo lives.  A much needed vacation.  Will post pictures once we are back.

Jenna’s 1st Birthday Party

Pictures say a thousand words…

    

I just realized I never got a full length picture of Jenna in her outfit and matching birthday hat.  And you can’t tell but she’s dancing in that next to last picture – dancing to the lamb-baby singing “Mary had a little lamb” from Grandmommy and Papa.

Thanks to everyone for coming to Jenna’s tea party and helping us celebrate!!

Happy Birthday to US!

And I thought my last birthday was special…little did I know that every birthday from now on, I get the greatest present…my baby girl, year after year, she’ll bring joy to my heart.  I’m the luckiest mommy in the world.

 

(Thank you Amanda for this beautiful dress.  I know you gave it to us a while back, but she is finally tall enough to wear it and I love it to pieces.)

Celebrating 90 Years with a GREAT Lady!!

We celebrated Great Grannie’s 90-year birthday yesterday in Round Top.  She, Jenna and I share a birthday, which makes this year so extra special.  Jenna turning 1 and Great Grannie turning 90.  I’m not quite in the middle of those two ages yet thankfully…a few years younger.  :)

I got a lot of great pictures and want to share them with the family.  Thank you Shayne, Shelley, Shelby and Susie for planning and executing a great party.

  

4 generations…Grannie, Mema, Brent & kids…Grannie, Stuart, Shelley and Brayden.

I love this one of Grannie with all her grandkids and great-grandkids.

 

Birthday girls…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Isn’t Jenna’s cupcake cake adorable???   Thank you Susie!!

   

I took that last one at home before we left – this dress was SO cute.  Thank you Rachel and Ava!!