Brittany is Babysitting :)

So last night Johnny and I got to spend a night singing and praising the Lord at a Worship service held at church! It was so much fun, but the times were way to late for little Joey to stay up and play in the nursery at church, so we called in our niece to watch her!

I met Brittany when she was 8 and never did I think that she would be watching my future kids, let alone my future kids with her uncle as my husband! This is a picture of her when she was 9 I think...She's the one in the front, hugging the trophy with a yellow bag on her hip (not looking at the camera)!

Anyway, Brittany has grown and is now a "responsible" 13 year old! She biked over from her house, played with Joey for a bit, put her to bed and basically fell asleep on our couch! Johnny threw her bike in the back of the truck and took her home! Get it Brit, and thanks for keeping Joes safe while we were gone!

Good Morning!

There once was a day where Joey would quietly wake up in her crib...she would coo and talk to herself as she waited patiently for one of us to come and get her out of bed.

That, my friends, is not the case anymore! Now she wakes up crying and screaming, and half of the time when you go to get her, all her blankets and stuffed animals are on the floor. I guess she stands up and takes out her frustration on her bedtime buddies :( When you walk in the room she stops crying, looks down at all her things on the floor and says super cutely "oops!". I will try and catch a picture or video of this fun daily event and will update you as soon as I add it to the post!

Nothing super fun today, just a "Joey thing" I don't want to forget when she is a teenager yelling at me because I'm trying to get her up before noon! I'll say "Remember when you would cry for us to come get you at 7am each morning? Oh you don't? Hold on, I think I wrote about it in my blog :)". Take that future Joey!

Joey is 14 months old!!

So now that Joey is 14 months old, she can do tons of fun stuff! She can walk, and loves to sit on the bottom stair to get a head start! She can say daddy, mommy, baby, hi, bye bye, thank you, and more! She's just growing up so fast :( Here are a few recent pics of our cutie patootie!

This is a pic of her morning hair :)

Joey loves all fruit, but she is especially loving the berries that we are giving her lately! They are messy, but she loves them!

This is Joey's pony tail....it's all the hair that will fit :)

She's walking!!

This is a cute bikini that her Nonny bought for her today! Super cute!

On a side note, Johnny took her to the heart doc on Monday and they said she is doing great! Her heart continues to heal! Praise God! On another note, she was apparently awful during the whole exam and screamed like people were trying to murder her. I guess I am glad I wasn't there?!?

Update-o-la

Hi Everyone, please bare with me, I am in the process of changing to a wordpress blog! I will let you know when it's ready :) Here are a few pics to hold you over!

Here's Joey in her big girl car seat! She looks so sweet sleeping!

Aunt Becky gave Joey her first Tattoo :)

Joey is quite the model :) It's not like this, it's like this!

This is at Aunt Amy's rehearsal! Now she is married :) We love you Aunt Amy and Uncle Stewie :)

She looks a little dazed in this picture, but Joey had the best time with this envelope! It's as if she's asking if you would like fries with that in this pic!

Joey's on the move!

She's finally catching on. She has been able to walk from me to Johnny for a while, but she just recently got brave enough for walking from me to the ottoman or anything else she can get to. Oh and she's crawling now finally! Joey does things in her own time, and we love her for that! Enjoy the video!

Who doesn't love a good photo shoot?

So when I get bored, I like to have impromto photo shoots with Joey...All the pics look similar, but I will share a few with you!  enjoy!

Some of these are old, some are new, each one is all around fun!

Joey's Party and 1 year Appointment Wrap Up

So Joey is officially 1 and as I said in the last post, it started off with her being sick :(  She was feeling better by night time and enjoyed her 1st cake ever!  We didn't even bother stripping her down, and turns out we didn't need to!  She eats so daintily (is that even a word?).  This is the messiest picture we have, and it's not that bad!  Yay Joey :)

Here is her 2nd cake experience at Eagle's Wings Athletics where we had her party...we thought we would go ahead and take her shirt off in case she decided to go crazy on the cake, and instead, we only had to wipe her hands and her face!  It was funny because everyone was watching and waiting for her to dive right in, and she didn't!  The cake that Miss Holli made was so yummy and it was cool that Joey had her very own cake!  She loved the frosting...I made the cut in the cake so that she would realize there was more to it then frosting!

When we were opening some gifts, she started playing a game with her Aunt Vicky (the set of hands in the picture below).  Joey would pull out a piece of tissue paper and hand it back to Vicky in a sort of "no look pass" kind of way.  Vicky would quickly take it from her and Joey would grab another piece!  It was pretty entertaining, and you maybe just had to be there :)

This is Joey right before we were making her do back rolls on the mat she is holding on to.  She would roll down then pop her head up to see who was watching!  Super cute :)

The party was great, and we thank everyone who was able to come!  She got lots of great toys, books and tons of cute summer clothes!  She has worn a new outfit every day this week :)

Yesterday we had Joey's 1 year appointment at the doctor.  They checked her weight and she is 17lbs 12oz which puts her in the 4th percentile for weight, 27 1/4 inches tall which puts her in the 5th percentile for height, and her head circumference is 17 1/2 inches which puts her in the 29th percentile!  All her percentages went down from her 9 month appointment which our doc said was normal.  She said if she continues on the same growth pattern then she should be about 4'11" or 5' when she is full grown :)  I may have to teach her the joys of being a shorty!  Anyway, she did great in the appointment even after getting 4 shots.  The doctor said she looks great, and is a thriving baby who is developing normally, so that's good to hear! We didn't have any doubt, it's just good to hear from a medical pro that you are raising a thriving child!!

Well, that's it for now I guess!  Joey and Johnny are having their first daddy daughter weekend this weekend!  I will be attending the Women's retreat for our church at Pine Cove in Tyler, TX!  I know they will have fun, and I am so lucky to have a husband who is willing and in fact loves to take care of our daughter!  So everyone have a good weekend, and I will update you on any fun stories when I get back!