Penguin Bailey

Bailey had fun today playing with her Penguin. Enjoy :)

Orange Slice

I have been eating a lot of oranges (my favorite seem to be in season) and gave Bales a slice the other day. She really enjoyed it!

Sour Bailey?

Forward Facing

While in Montana, Bailey was able to ride forward facing for the first time. She enjoyed looking out the window and seeing everything.
Does that taste good Bales? Can you tell she has been teething?

Bailey's First Haircut

I have been wanting to cut Bailey's hair for a long time. Blair wished to wait until she was one.... While in Billings, we passed a "Kids Cutz" place and I knew it was the perfect time to make the first cut! Her hair had grown really long and very, very Mullet-ish. Nothing wrong with the mullet per sea, but this is 2008 :). I opted for a cute bowl cut without bangs. She still lets me put her hair up, so I will not cut bangs until that changes (that would require very frequent cuts!). She did really well while getting her hair done.
cute baby girl
getting a little antsy...the hairdresser let her chew on this :)
finished product. It normally doesn't flip out like that much now...more like it curves under. Still, very cute!

Go Gators!

Bailey ready to cheer on the gators, dressed in her cute outfit Grammie C. made her :). Notice the matching doll. Isn't that TOO cute?!?! Thank you Grammie. UF won BIG today. GO GATORS!!!
We went garage selling today with Allison and Jace. They were decked out in their Texas A & M gear. Unfortunately, the aggies didn't fare as well as UF. They lost to Miami :(.
Disregard the faces. Getting two 1year olds (or almost in Jace's case) to sit for a picture is impossible! Both kept wanting to crawl off the couch and this picture was a reaction to us not letting them :). Notice Bailey is much more dramatic then Jace. We have increasingly noticed her "drama" tendencies over Jace's.

Trip to Red Lodge, MT

Gorgeous Red Lodge. It is a "ski town" about an hour south of Billings. They have a good downtown area that we ended walking up and down and going to the ice cream shop.
Are you taking my picture again?
Bailey LOVED the moose :)
Yeah for Rebekah!
Mommy and me

Our trip to Montana

Bailey and I flew out to Billings, MT last week. We had a blast and enjoyed every minute with our friend Rebekah. Rebekah and Jeremy are soon moving to Arizona for a job with the Border Patrol.

Bailey did very well on the flights- much better then expected! Below are some pics on the plane. Will be updating with other pics this week of the trip.




We were lucky to have "2 seats" next to each other on some flights. That allowed Bailey to stand and roam around a bit. On those packed flights it was a little rougher.....we were blessed with a couple of wonderful guys on those flights that helped keep her entertained though! She became a hit on all the planes with her cuteness :).

Weekend fun

Just checked Allison's blog (see Schneider script on side bar) and she had several pics of Jace and Bailey up from this weekend. Bailey and I hunkered down with them for Tropical Storm Hanna. Thanks guys for letting us come visit for the day/night! The kiddos did very well.

Bailey's 12 month physical

Bailey had her 12 month physical today. We saw a very good doctor and received some good advice on how to further handle her food allergy issues. She checked out well! Her stats were:
Height: 29 1/2 inches (60%)
Weight: 22lbs (70%)
Head: 46 3/4 cm (75%)

She seems to be evening out (ie her body is growing into her head!!!). She has leaned out a lot since walking, down to only 1-2 thigh rolls :). Here are some cute pics:



Bailey outside (sorry for the graininess, I had to compress the file to post)

Happy Birthday Bailey!

It is hard to believe that 1 year ago at 8:13am I delivered a 6lb 10z baby girl. She is now somewhere around 22 pounds and full of life! We have been so blessed over the past year to have Bailey as our daughter. While we started out with some struggles (nursing, food allergies, deployment), the past 6 months have been a true blast. While her daddy has been gone a lot of her 1st year, she LOVES him and he LOVES her. They always have fun together, even if just over the phone.

Bales and all her presents. Check out the "daddy doll" that I got her :)

Bailey admiring her "allergen free" brownie cake. Yummm...(uh...not really-yuck!)
Daddy spent her birthday with her via the daddy doll. She calls it dada on command. so cute! She refused to eat the brownie though. I don't blame her, it was horrible! Hopefully next year we can have a real cake :)

Go Gators!

Bailey wearing her new dress from Aunt Lindsay and Uncle Jonathan and holding her gator doll from Grammie C.
Go Gators!
Grammie's gator doll. She also made Bailey a matching outfit! Too cute!
Thanks Allison for letting us use your house/tv to watch the game. We REALLY appreciated it....it was a good game ( we won 56-10). :)

Labor Day weekend visit

Thanks for coming to visit me Grammie and Papa Cellon and Uncle Johnny and Aunt Lindsay. We enjoyed having you!


Bales looking pretty and ready for church....but not in the mood for taking pics!

Bales walking some more

This is a short video of Bales. Enjoy! I have finally learned how to compress some of the videos so I will be able to post more.

Don't work too hard!

Happy Monday everyone! Just wanted to say don't work too hard.....be like me and play!

My friend Madelyn

I watched Madelyn for a few hours last night so her parents could go on a date. I love watching Bailey's friends. They are always so funny together. They both did very well and slept later then normal in the morning.

Bales with the camera case doing her rounds around the ottoman.
Bailey eyeing Madelyn's Paci. Madelyn is 10 weeks older then Bales and a proficient walker!

Garage Sale Saturday

Bailey and I have been trying to hit garage sales on Saturday morning for a couple of reasons. 1. you can get awesome stuff for pennies. 2. We are up by 7am anyway (uggggghhHH!!!) 3. It is fun!

We are still learning what neighborhoods yield the best deals, but we got all of this (2 toys, one Old Navey sweatsuit, one black turtleneck and a cute white sweater) for $2 even! Not bad. The clothes should all fit her for fall/winter. She already loves her new toys.

Olive Garden

Tonight there was a wife get together for 2nd Radio BN. We all met at Olive Garden and it was oh so delicious. Allison and I had a babysitter watch Jace and Bales at my house, so we were baby free for like the first time in a couple of weeks!!!! It was nice to have some adult conversation and a full meal uninterrupted. I ordered the tour of Italy, ate 1/3 of it and took home 2/3 of my meal, 3 breadsticks and a thing full of salad (we had a large group with lots of leftover salad/bread)....so, that should feed me for like 3 meals!! How awesome is that? No cooking, more Olive Garden and 4 meals for $15. I am in love.

My favorite things

My brain has been swirling around with ideas of new posts. One idea i had was to post our favorite things. So, here we go!

Bailey's Top 5 favorite things (besides mama and dada):
1. Kitty Cat- always an entertainment
2. Puffs finger food
3. walking while holding her Desitin diaper cream tube around ottoman over and over and over
4. watching daddy read to me on the TV
5. unloading the dishwasher with Mommy

Blair's Top 5 (well, what Sara thinks anyway)
1. Buying gear on Ebay
2. Working out
3. Playing with Bales
4. Dark chocolate and whipped cream
5. Military history books

Sara's Top 5 (besides blair and bailey)
1. Clothes shopping for Bailey and me
2. Reading christian fiction
3. walking
4. hanging out with friends
5. sleeping :)

Date night

Two good friends, Cecilia and Allison, came over with their boys for dinner. We have been getting together at least once/week so far to eat and talk. The kids play well together too, which is nice.

Cecilia's son, Gabe (2 yo) and Bales

Bales not wanting her pic taken
Gabe hammin it up. His daddy is deployed with Blair
It was past Jace's bedtime, he wasn't interested in getting his picture taken either.

Walking with my Gator

I put the Gator on the seat and Bales just started pushing it around! She would even take the Gator off and put him back on. So cute. (Who needs a doll when you have Albert?)

Pretty girl....don't I look big?

Table lickin' good!

Bailey is finally eating more like a normal baby. At around 10 1/2 months, her food intolerances/allergies seem to have basically disappeared. She hasn't had ecsema on her face for over a month now. Thank God! She is now expanding her diet in leaps and bounds. We are currently eating: pears, prunes, peach, apricot, carrots, sweet potatoes, avocado, rice, oatmeal, turkey, chicken, green beans, squash, apple (small amounts only), cinnamon, raisin, white potato, and......WHEAT!!!!!! Yes people, wheat. Oh my...I can so deal with Milk and Egg allergy (which she has), as long as we can have bread. Yipee for Bales.
Bales first bites of chicken
Notice the lines on her face? She slept on the teething ring of her "lovey" during naptime and this was the result!


Hilarious video of Bales...she though the chicken/sweet potato mixture was so good she needed to eat up every bite :) Must See to believe!! Also pay attention to snickers in the background and her saying "cat cat"