Adam, Tonya, & Rachel: September 2009

Almost 6 Months Old

Rachel turns 6 months old this Friday! I can't believe it!!! This has been an awesome week with lots of things going on and next week is going to be even better! We're heading to St. Louis on Thursday, so stay tuned for pics from the trip when we get back!

Our main event this week was Laura's 1st birthday party. We had so much fun and Christy went all out with the lady bug theme. Everything was so cute!!!

Rachel has a new facination with...just about everything...including the TV remote. She's putting EVERYTHING into her mouth lately! Maybe it's because she now has her first tooth pushing through!!! We're so excited, but sad becuase our baby is already growing up!

This sitting up is the stuff!!

She loves that her boppy pillow catches her when she falls backwards from sitting up:o)

In her door jumper...

Her first time to sit in the shopping cart!...at Target of course!

She got a little pooped out by the time we finished shopping...

Playing at Nana's house over the weekend...she just loves the frog bouncer!

Laura's cute snacks at the birthday party...

Her birthday cake...made by Christy, no less...

The birthday girl...so precious!

Pa holding Rachel (in her ladybug outfit to match the party)...

The party favors for the adults...what a great idea...until you put liquid in them...then all the paint started coming off! Oops!! Sorry Christy!

It's cake time!!!

This stuff is messy...

Granny and Rachel...

Aunt Barbara and Rachel...

Nana helping Laura open presents...there were alot of presents!!! Rachel can't wait to go play with Laura now!!!

Rachel smiling at her Monkey Ball...thanks for the hand-me-down Aunt Christy!!! She loves it!!!

Just hangin' out...and smilin'...

Loungin' in her boppy pillow...

She's loving her apple teething ring...especially since she now has one tooth pushing through...

Rachel and her Dada...

Pooped out from the stroller ride...

5 3/4 Months!

This has been a much better week! We've all been healthy and Rachel met a huge milestone: sitting up by herself! She's been close for a week or so now, but she was able to successfully do it on her own this week. She's still VERY wobbly at times of course and spends alot of time simply doubled over, but her boppy pillow has provided a soft cushion for all the many times she's fallen...or mommy or daddy of course!

Here are some cute pics of Rachel playing this week...

Look at me...I can sit up!!!

I love my peas...

We went down to Mimi and Papa's on Thursday night for the season opener of the Titans...of course, we only got to stay 30 minutes into the game since it started so late...but dinner was great and the company was too!

Here's Mimi holding Rachel after she fell asleep...

The whole gang...during a commercial break of course...

Uncle Nate and Aunt Lalo...

Great Papa Charles with his hearing device in so he won't miss a second of the game!

Rachel and Adam in the cutest hand-me-down overalls ever!

Another pic of Rachel with her Dada...she was tired...

Bathtime is fun!!!

I can really do this (she looks like she's surprised herself!)...Rachel sitting up again...

Rachel and Fozzie...waiting on me to get ready to go to church on Sunday morning...

Rachel in her pretty dress, ready for church Sunday morning...she wasn't very cooperative for family pics though...

Chewing on her burp cloth...a new favorite pasttime...

5 1/2 Months

This has not been the best week in our house. Rachel got sick for the first time starting on Wednesday afternoon and we had several sleepless nights. She ran a fever from 3PM Wednesday until 6AM on Friday and would not let me put her down all day Thursday. Talk about a tiring day! Then I got sick on Sunday afternoon, perhaps due to pure exhaustion or perhaps the same thing that Rachel had and Nana had to come to our rescue to help with Rachel. Adam was also so worn out from no sleep that we just had to have some help! So, thank you NANA! You're the best!

Because we were all sick, we didn't get too many pics again this week. However, I managed to get a few on the days we were all well. Needless to say our Labor Day weekend was spent trying to catch up on sleep and then with me getting sick...so no happy fun times for us!...but we're heading to St. Louis in a couple of weeks so we're looking forward to that!

Here are just a few pics from the week...

Driving away on her steering wheel..she's 6 months going on 16 already!