Our little fish....

Atalie started swim classes today...she LOVED it! She did very well with the "exercises", so hopefully by the end of this (8 weeks), she'll be a little swimmer (ok, as much as a 17 month old can be!). We both met some new friends and had a great time! Here are a few pics from the day.


Listening intently on instructions :)




Mommy, you're crazy, I'm not blowing bubbles like that!

And the winner is....

So look March 9th for her picture to be shown on Regis and Kelly....because she's definitely going to be in the top 10!!

Which picture should we use for the beautiful baby contest?

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None of them, try again!

She's a natural!

Of course! How couldn't she be with such a talented drummer for a daddy!

We really are boring people!

Ok, in now trying to keep up with this blog, I realize that we really are boring people. It's been more than a week and I still have nothing interesting to write about! Jason works 50 hours a week (at least), Atalie & I hang out at home, Jason gets home and we eat, play, give Atalie a bath, she goes to bed at 8, then we get in the bed and watch tv, an hour later, we're going to bed! And this is 7 days a week! BORING! Not that I (we) mind. We like this life, we enjoy it, but I have realized it doesn't make for very good reading! Of course, I could use it to completely brag on Atalie, cause I could do that all day everyday. She's constantly learning and doing new things, she's smart as a whip, and beautiful to boot! But, I'm sure that would get old to many (or all) of you eventually! So, as I keep you all up on our boring life, I hope you all stick around, cause you never know, one day we may get interesting!

Yes! A breakthrough!

As many of you know, Atalie is very....attached to me (and Jason). She definitely has that separation anxiety/stranger danger going on. I'm sure most of it has to do with me staying home with her, but I feel like it's fine, that one day, she'll be better. It's still worth it to us for me to be home with her. Anyway, our local library has story time once a week. The first time we went was last week. It didn't go so well. Not that it went bad, but she was TERRIFIED! I would say there were at least 30 kids and 15 adults. She had that I'm about to cry look on her face the entire hour, but only cried once. She would not get off my lap & did not want to participate in the craft.

So yesterday we went back and she did AWESOME! She never looked scared, walked around some, clapped along with the songs, and even sat at the table with the other kids and colored!

I was so happy in the change in just one week! We are going to keep going every week, and hopefully she starts opening up even more (she is shy around people).

Just wanted to share in my excitement!

WOW! 7 months ago?!

Ok, I haven't been very good at keeping up with this, obviously, it's been 7 months AND only 2 posts before that! Well, my baby IS a toddler now, and yes, the last 6 months went much faster than the first 6. This stage is SO fun though! She's talking, running, and so playful! I'm still at home with her, thanks to the wonderful blessing of a work at home job. We feel so blessed, in this economy, for Jason to have such a great job and for me to have found a job which I can work at home, and a legit one at that (I'm working for a local private investigating company). Atalie is now 13 months old, JUST got her first tooth, and very attached to mommy and daddy, but secretly, we love it! She's doing pretty good going into the church nursery though, which we are vey proud of, especially since we've been jumping around trying to find a church home. I think we have found one, and for a change, it's in our town, no more driving 30-45 minutes to church! So I'm going to post a few pics, and I will try my very hardest to post AT LEAST a few times a month!