Well, last week ended great. The girls had their professional pictures taken on Friday and they were wonderful- I will have to post them later. I couldn't have been more pleased. The only ones that didn't turn out super where the ones of them together (but what do you expect...to get them both to smile at the same time?).

Then Sunday night Natalie tried rice cereal for the first time. It was quite uneventful. I will post the video of that later. She mostly just sucked on her fist.

Natalie went to the doctor on Tuesday. She got a perfect checkup. She now weighs a whopping 15lbs! Her height is in the 79th % her weight 74th% and her little head is not so little coming in the 71st% so my little munchkin is not so little. She showed off her skills rolling over (both ways) and being super alert for the doctor. She got 4 shots and an oral vaccine. Poor baby- but she braved them well. Melanie was a super big sister and won her prize (a wooden mouth stick for her doctor kit at home...yes she is weird and yes I think the nurse thought she was weird when she asked for it).

However, the drama began after the doctor's appointment. Before I left I was thinking the upstairs seemed really hot. Well, in my limited air condition knowledge part of my brain it seemed like I should turn it off (b/c I assumed it was probably frozen) let it "defrost" and then when I get home turn it back on and hopefully all would be good. WRONG! I came home and it was 79 upstairs...far too hot for me! Then when I turned it back on it jumped to 83. Well, there was no way I was going to stay and sweat. So I packed up the the girls and Clint and myself, got Shelby situated with the neighbors and headed down to my parents for the night. We dropped Melanie off with Clint's parents and kept Natalie with us. The air condition man came on Wednesday and we now know that our compressor is shot and we need a new one. WEll, thank goodness ours is under warrenty, however...it still will cost us almost $1,000 to cover labor and freeon (sp?). AHHHHHH! Not too fun for a stupid air conditioner. But the best part...the part won't get here for 3-5 days! So no air upstairs for 3-5 days. It is hard to stay away from our house so we set up "camping" in our den. Clint slept on the couch, me on the loveseat, we brought Melanie's mattress downstairs and threw it on the floor and put Natalie's pack and play downstairs. What cozy quarters for a while.

Then, last night in our cozy quarters I got a call I had been expecting for a LONG while. My grandfather finally passed away. He fought longer and harder than anyone thought possible. It was really hard on everyone (especially my dad and his brother's) right at the end b/c my grandfather was not himself...he was just a body that somehow was staying alive. So, though we are all terribly sad that he passed away we are all thankful we got to go and say our goodbyes and that he is not suffering anymore. He finally gets to go be with his wife (I guess the past 4 months are the longest they've been apart since they were in HS!) and tell her all about Natalie. It is going to be so different missing a whole side of my family especially around the holidays. It's also a little hard b/c Melanie a tiny bit knows what is going on b/c she knows that we keep going to the hospital to see Pops' daddy and that he is really sick b/c he is really old (that is the best explanation we could give her). I've tried to explain people go to the hospital for lots of different reasons (have babies, to have drs make them well, etc.) I'm not quite sure what I'm going to say for this one.