Christmas-Round 2

Melanie is Pawpaw's Christmas present
Daddy's new grill
Melanie is a softball player in waiting!
Mommy's new diamond earrings- Daddy was on top of Christmas this year!!!!
Melanie with a Grinch and book
Shelby checking out her new loot
Sleepy head starting to unwrap
Opening her stocking first thing Christmas morning
With my mom's parents the weekend before Christmas
My grandparents gave her a name puzzle...
and an "Ugly Doll" (that is what it is called) Melanie was so excited opening it!
Not liking the Santa at my work!

There are more pictures to come...a "round 3" I know ya'll can't wait :)

Christmas- Round 1

Reading a book Pops added to her stocking
What a fun picture!
With my dad's dad
With my dad's mom
Playing with a singing Christmas thing- she loved it!
Sitting in her new Elmo chair reading a new book- could her life be any better?
With her new bucket of transportation vehicles
Beginning the unwrapping chaos! (This was Christmas Eve at my parents' house)

Here are the first round of Christmas pictures. It was an amazing holiday! Melanie was very meticulous about opening presents so it took forever. She focused on every gift so we had to coax her into opening each new one. There were some definite favorites! She loved the ball pit from uncle TJ (soooo much that we can be downstairs and say do you want to get in your ball pit and she crawls to the stairs!), her Elmo chair from Mamaw and Pops, her baseball toy from Clint and myself, her jumping Tigger and new clothes (yes, she LOVED the clothes!) from Brian and Dawn, and an activity table from Nanna and Pawpaq.

It Must be Picture Season

Posing in her crib
Continuing to pose at my mom's ...
Loving to crawl- hating to try and walk!
With her new baby- she likes it until it cries...maybe a little taste of her own medicine?
Melanie with Santa

We had Melanie's picture taken withe the Santa at the Avenue at Webb Ginn and really liked him. He was quite authentic. However they do their pictures outside and the kids a free carriage ride along with the free picture and it was during artic weather so we moved very quickly. The picture we got from the folks was good (and free) however, we couldn't quite get a perfect one of Melanie looking at us with our camera but we did get a few good ones.

First Haircut

Showing off the final look with Aileen who accompanied us on the adventure
Showing off her new side ponytail
Sitting like a big girl
The "before" look

Melanie got her first haircut yesterday. She behaved extremely well! She enjoyed sitting in the fun chair with a steering wheel also. She no longer has a rat tail. Welcome to 2006! Anyway- here are the cute pictures. I took her to Chick-fil-A afterwards and let her have chicken nuggets and fries as a reward (as if she understood) and boy did she love it! She tried to bite my finger off to get more fries.

Christmas Tree Lot

We went to the Christmas tree lot this weekend and left with some great pictures and no tree. Oh well- they were really expensive- we'll keep looking!

Cute Pictures Mom Took

Mom took all of these the other day at her house.

Funny New Pictures

Her latest thug look...she pulled this old hat from her drawer...her new favorite game!

Mommy and Melanie after bath.

Showing off her chompers

She thinks her measuring cups are perfect size drinking cups!

She loves baby dolls all of a sudden. Right after this picture she pooped on the floor. Joy.

Daddy and Melanie after bath

She thinks watching the water come out of the faucet is amazing- she likes to stick her head under it and try to catch the water with her hands.

Her hair holds pigtail looks without rubberbands- much more body than my hair!

Thanksgiving

Melanie with Pops and Granny

Melanie with my cousin Caydie and Mommy- (it is her pirate look)

Melanie with my Uncle Ronnie and Cousin Caydie (I sound like we are really from the south with Uncle so and so and Cousin so and so....)

Melanie with Mamaw and Caydie

The family portrait

Melanie with Pops and her other Papa

Papa and Melanie

We went to Chattanooga for Thanksgiving this year and had a great time visiting with everyone. Melanie was an amazing little girl- she slept the whole way down there and the whole way back-wahoo! She also was quite social. I was scared that she might be leary of going to the family members she hadn't seen in a while but she was just a social butterfly going to anyone and playing with anything. She LOVED eating all of the yummy Thanksgiving food. There was not one thing she did not like. We really enjoyed our trip- here are all of the great pictures.