Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Good Mornings

Well we are gearing up for another possible hurricane. I think we are as prepared as we can be after living thru Katrina's aftermath. I continue to thank the Lord for the blessings he has given us and trust Him in these situations.

This is a picture of what I like best while I get ready for work in the mornings.

Darcy loves to play on our bed while she watches me go from the closet to the bathroom; going in and out of doors she thinks I am playing a game with her. It is SOO cute in the mornings. I love it. {Don't think ill of Corey sleeping in...he got up with the baby earlier that morning and let me sleep a little longer before I had to get up and get ready for work}
Much love-

Thursday, August 14, 2008

6 months today

Today Darcy is 6 months old. She is keeping us laughing and well entertained. I think she is the most "laid-back" kid ever. She rolls with whatever is going on in our day. She is sitting up pretty well by herself these days...the occasional nosedive is to be expected. She rolls to everything she needs and is attempting to "scoot" or "swim" to things that she cannot reach. When she is laying on a blanket and would like a toy out of reach she just pulls the blanket closer to herself and then gets to the toys. Pretty bright!



Darcy loves to eat. In the morning I fix her a bowl of fruit and rice cereal and I think, there is no way she is going to eat all this. Then by the end of breakfast I am scraping everything in the bowl because she wants more. I have tried my hand at making her baby food. I just can't bring myself to by baby meat in a jar. YUCK. So I cook the meat she is going to eat and then just freeze it. It really is quite simple. I am trying to teach her sign language. They say babies start to recognize the signs about 6 months but they typically don't perform the signs until they are about 9 months. Either way...this is Darcy's sign for more!


She enjoys play time on the floor. Building with blocks and then knocking them over. She also likes to support the Yankees on game day!



Monday, August 4, 2008

Sugar Poured On Me.


10 Legs + 9 Arms = 1 Rockin British 80's Arena Band. Audri and I spent our Sunday evening celebrating our 5th Wedding Anniversary ( Thanks to Aunt Lulu and Cousin Lindsay for watching Darcy ). We started our evening with a delicious dinner at a fine steakhouse- then chased it with what had to be the greatest concert we have ever attended together ( ie. I saw MC Hammer as a kid so that does not qualify.) Def Leppard rocked the Biloxi crowed with leather bedazzled pants, 80's hair, topless guitar players and swweeet emotion. Our concert checklist includes... Radiohead, Wilco, Coldplay, Josh Rouse, John Mayer, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Damien Rice, and mannnnny others but none compared to the night that was Def Leppard. I honestly don't even remember what they opened with because it was something new that I've never heard but the list included Photograph, Rock of Ages, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Foolin', a song called Yeah!, and other classics. For the hour and thirty five minutes they played I felt like a seven year old in my present body, ala BIG. There was some dancing from old white folk that it was almost painful to not watch men and women tanked up on Coors Light to rock the night away. The walls of the Coliseum rocked as the crowd sang away to every song and the ground reverberated each time someone pounded their feet as they threw up the Rock N Roll sign. It was a great night all together and it truly commemorated our first five years together. Bring on some more Hysteria.