Once upon a Christmastime......

sweet baby girl

Christmas Dresses

My good friend Amber's Mom sent the girls these dresses when Taylor was born. They are just adorable and I have been waiting since them for them to be able to wear them! Thank you Mrs. Smith :).

Sista Love
Taylor is super happy
Cheese!

PS- I am SO glad I took these before church. While in the nursery at church, Taylor had a huge blowout and let us just say I have had to wash the dress several times for it to make it through. Why is it the kids get so, so, so dirty? Bailey had hers all sticky from some food?

Taylor 7 months ( a tad late)

On Taylor's 7 month birthday she got to celebrate it with most of the Cellon clan. We had a double celebration as it was cousin Alice's 10 month Birthday! How precious these baby girls are. We stayed in a cabin in Georgia for Thanksgiving and it was great to be able to read, relax, watch football, roast smores and hot dogs, color and overall just hang out with family. Thank you Papa and Grammie for inviting us!

Taylor: In one word, I would describe you as sweet. You are easy going and lovable. You smile at everyone!
At 7 months you:
-sleep from 7pm-6:30am. You still wake up 1-2x/night to eat. You are so busy and distracted during the day that you like to catch up on your nursing at night! Nurses 6-8x/day still.
- eat 1-2x/day baby food. You have eaten sweet potatoes, bananas, prunes, squash, pears, carrots and green beans. Your favorite is sweet potatoes!
- drink your water out of your sippy cup well, much better then your sister!
- can sit with a bunch of toys around you and play alone for a good 15 minutes.
-love it when you big sis pays attention to you.
-would watch Snickers (our cat) all day and talk to him if he would let you.
- wear 6-9 month clothes, but still fit in a handful of your 3-6 month ones
- your hair is starting to come in a little better, but it is so cold out we put a hat on you often!
-take 2 naps a day, a short morning and up to a 3 hour afternoon nap. PRAISE the LORD.
-roll, roll, roll No crawling yet though.
-jibber jabber all day. No intelligible words except maybe dada?
-still allergic to some things. We will visit with the Allergist after Christmas to see what exactly you are sensitive too.

Uncle Johnny with Holly, Aunt Linz with Cousin Alice, Mommy with Taylor (enamored with Alice), Daddy with Bales (who was d-o-n-e with the picture taking)
Papa and Grammie with their precious grandbabies

Living Nativity

On Friday night we met up with some good friends and went out to eat to Cracker Barrel and then went to our church to see the Living Nativity. It was literally freezing outside so we didn't linger long, but Bailey seemed to enjoy all the animals.

Bailey and Daddy checking out the camel.
Baby Jesus. Below Bailey and her friend Jonathan were dancing to music they had playing- it was so very cute, a celebration of Jesus's birth!
Blair and Bailey and Olivia and her Daddy, Tom (just got home from deployment)
The Shepards
Family of Four.
Sandy and I (Olivia's Mommy :))

Bailey LOVING Cracker Barrel. We shared some biscuits, ham, chicken and dumplins and carrots. Yummilicous!

Cute as a button.

My Mom gave these fleece's to the girls several months ago and I just love them together!


Taylor looking a little sly ;)
My cuties. Boy are they both getting bigger and bigger.

Go Gators- Beat Alabama.

We took these pics Saturday while the smiles were still on our faces......
Daddy love is the best!


Taylor joined us after her nap looking so precious!

Dress Up with Jace

We had the pleasure of having Jace over for a day, unfortunately because Sydney was in the hospital. Everyone is better now, but I am afraid I will be the one in the hospital after Jace's Daddy sees these pictures :). LOL.

Here is poor Taylor. Bailey kept putting the hat on her head.
Bailey with her Tutu, wings and hat. Jace with his kilt, lunchbox and writer's hat (isn't that a creative manly spin on his outfit!)
SO, so, so, so cute! No worries folks, Jace will surely be a linebacker. His voice already sounds like a 20 year old :)

Jace and Bailey Part 202?

Friends Forever


So, so cute.
No words.

Superwoman!

Children's Museum Fun

A couple weeks ago 3 of my girlfriend's and I all took our own 2 kids to the children's museum in Wilmington. That's right folks. 4 Moms and 8 Kids ranging from 7 weeks-5yr! Military women hear us conquer ;). Bailey had an absolute blast. The only downside was we went late morning, so by 1230 she was D-O-N-E. Nothing a little Sonic drive-thru and Nemo watching in the car home couldn't fix. We will go back I am sure (I think it would be fun to take Taylor to the mall with me and drop Daddy and Bailey off at the museum! Everyone is happy :)).

Jace and Bailey rolling down the road eating and giggling and watching some tunes.
Sweet Taylor and Sweet Sydney.
Bailey shopping away. These are the only types of eggs she will be getting her hands on anytime soon!
Taylor being such a good girl
Bailey and chalk, her new love
Bailey, Grace, Emma and Jace watercoloring. They literally could have stayed in the art section ALL day.
Mommy, look!
My artist concentrating hard
Emma and Bales
searching for some treasures

Learning to share...Part 2!

Success!

learning to share

We are trying to learn to share at the Cellon house. Not working so well at this point :)
Taylor says "will I ever be able to use that tablet?"

Thankful

On this rainy, dreary day I am so overwhelmed with thankfulness. My husband goes to work every day whether he is sick, tired, lonely, cold, wet, etc. He goes and provides not only for our family, but for our country. He has done and will do things that I can't even know about. He has gone days and weeks without showers. Days without food. He has been hotter then I have ever been and colder then I ever can imagine. He has seen things that my eyes will never know. He has been to war and back, war and back and now is preparing to go again. He gives all that he has to his God, his family and his country. He does this all, not expecting anything in return. Most people don't even realize (and some of it is of course "top secret" that I don't even know!) the sacrifices that he makes on a daily basis to defend our freedom. The sacrifices that sometimes our family endures together. I am proud to be able to support him and stand with him as he makes sure our country stays free and safe. Thank you Blair. Thank you all veterans and families. We know what you go through and the pain endured. THANK YOU!

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling...

Miss Taylor is very close to crawling and continues to roll all over. This is her rolling into the kitchen - Bailey and I were eating breakfast and I think she was just lonely!
Bailey excited to see Taylor join us. (She wanted to wear the hat on our 7:45am walk) :)

Mommy's Helper

Above is Miss Bailey looking like she is in trouble....because she was! She had been "helping" me in the kitchen EVERY time I go in there....and she has even started to "help" when I am not in there. I found her like this the other day. Please take note that these are GLASS spice jars and she was STACKING them. Oh boy oh boy.

How could you stay mad with this happy face though? We quickly replaced the glass jars with plastic ones and she played away.
My big girl Taylor loving sitting up and reaching for things.

Say CHEESE! The girls just love their daddy.