Valentines and Visits

We had a fabulous Valentines Day at the Slaughter household last week! Mayzie and I started by making some yummy cookies...she was much more interested in the cookie cutters than anything else. I can't wait until we can 'bake' together!!!

Mayzie also got a Valentines basket from Mommy and Daddy full of yummy baby food (which was somewhat anti-climactic) a teething necklace and some bows!! Needless to say she loved the filler paper at the bottom of the bucket the best...ha! Our sweet baby girl was showered with a ton of other fun gifts from Mimi and G'Daddy (some fun bath toys, a Valentines puppy, new pj's and a new sippy cup with handles!) and sweet cards and some money from Great Granbertha and Great Uncle Bill and Aunt Carol! She's surrounded by all her new sweet gifts in the picture to the left! Thanks for loving on our baby all of you!!!

As excited as we were to share this fun first holiday with our Mayzie my sweet husband didn't forget about me either! I told him I wanted an i-phone and NOTHING else but of course he went above and beyond; roses from my favorite flower place in Green Hills, a new Pandora charm, and some delicious Godiva chocolate!! Then he made us a delicious dinner at home: crab legs, filet mignon, lobster bisque, blue cheese and berry balsamic salad, and baked potatoes. It was FABULOUS!!! I am so blessed with such a thoughtful and giving husband!

We also had a wonderful weekend with MayJay, Pops and Great Granbertha!! Mayzie was so excited to see everyone and we had a fabulous relaxing weekend. We had big plans to go on walks and eat outside but the weather just didn't cooperate. Regardless we did go to a yummy new Hendersonville resturaunt, Nooni's, which we highly recommend! Pops wasn't feeling too well so he couldn't join us but Great Granbertha and MayJay had their hands full with our crazy Mayzie!

Our baby girl is eating all her fruits and veggies like a pro and sitting up now all by herself!!! (Which I am soooo excited about!) It's hard to believe she's almost 7 months old. Sure do wish I could slow time down!! Until next time!

6 months ALREADY!

I've been slacking on my blog posting because we've had an unwelcome visitor for the past two weeks...rsv. First Mayzie got it and then, of course, she shared. :) Needless to say we've been through quite a few tissues in this house! Thankfully we're both feeling better now and hopefully things will get back on track!

Our sweet baby girl turned 6 months old on January 27th! I know...it's completely ridiculous how these past three months have flown by. (Notice that I say past three months and not 6...the first three did NOT fly by...ha!)

We celebrated by setting up her 'Jenny Jump Up' thinking she would just love it. Now...it's not that she doesn't like it...obviously she's happy in the picture...but she doesn't jump like I thought she would. She really just swings and spins but we're hoping she'll get the hang of it soon.

We also went up to Great Grandaddy and Granny's church for family day recently and I got to get some wonderful pictures of all of us with Mayzie in 'the dress'. That's what we call it around here :) It's the dress that my Dad, Aunt Jenny, Uncle Todd, me, my sister, and ALL my cousins came home from the hospital in. Mayzie came home in it also but we wanted to get a picture of me, her, Dad and Granny while she was wearing it. They turned out great!

There's not much else going on around here. Our sweet girl has just about got the hang of sitting up by herself...she still tends to fall over to one side but I know she'll get it soon! Still working on that crawling...and I am in no rush for that to happen! She's cutting her two bottom teeth but really has been a trooper about it. She's been babbling a lot lately but unfortunately I can't seem to catch her doing it. By the time the video camera comes out she's so intrigued with it that she stops...it's a dilemma that I'm trying to solve :) But in the process of trying I got some cute video of her splashing in the bathtub!

We also had our first experience with fruit last week and I was so excited about it! I thought for sure she'd want to devour the fresh peaches I made for her...ha!! She was sick when we made the video so I thought that's why she didn't like them but she still won't eat them! She almost ate a whole bowl of green beans the other day but will have nothing to do with peaches!?! I'm gonna keep trying though...at least it made for a pretty funny video!