Josie in her Mother's dress

This is my little yellow dress. My Memaw and Pepaw bought it for me to go home from the hospital. My Nana kept is safe for us all these years and Grandmother had it dry cleaned to get it ready for Josie.

I have been waiting...and waiting...and waiting...for Josie to weigh as much as I did at BIRTH! Just before three months Josie hit 8 lbs. 2 oz. I didn't get her picture that day, of course. But I did finally get her in the dress for a photo opp.

I can't believe how big Rider and Josie are getting and Jo showed off her neck strength for the camera.

Three Months Old

Rider and Josie were three months old on January 21st. I took them on the adventure of their short little lifetime. We went to Wal-Mart to the portrait studio. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING.

Grandmother and Grandaddy met me at Wal-Mart at 5:00. Our appointment was for 5:00 and I was just walking in the door. I won't go into all too much detail, but I will tell you we took so long that I let another little boy's mother cut in front of us before we finished taking pictures. They schedule 30 minute slots and we weren't done until we had taken up three. Jeff and I had birthday dinner plans with the Murtaughs and the Caughmans and were 30 minutes late.

We did get some cute pictures, but Josie looks grouchy in this one. :)

Rider weighed 11 lbs. 3 oz. and Josie weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz.

Turning 30

I turned 30 on January 15th. I usually start celebrating right after Christmas and continue through Valentine's Day. Saying that my priorities have changed might be the understatement of my thirtieth year. :) I always imagined I have a big party with everyone I know invited, but after we finally got pregnant and then Rider and Josie got here I barely remembered that I usually have a "birthday month".

We DID celebrate, and we had a few "birthday dinners". The first one was on my actual birthday which was also, at the time, the coldest day of the year. Mia stayed with Rider and Josie, and Jeff and I went to dinner and a movie.

Many of you have heard this story, but I feel like I need to record it for posterity. ;) Jeff made reservations a McGill's in Tulsa. I very rarely order appetizers at "nice restaurants" because I always eat so fast and drink so much pop that I don't really get to enjoy my entree. Since I am still nursing two babies, I have been eating like a man. We ordered an appetizer that we didn't completely finish, but it was outstanding. I did have two wonderful pieces of bread that slowed me down a little. I ordered the special--steak and lobster tail. The steak was wrapped in bacon, and it was served with new potatoes and asparagus. (I have to insert here that asparagus might be my least favorite vegetable.) I ATE EVERY SINGLE BITE OF FOOD except the bacon the steak was wrapped in! THEN I ordered a dessert! I only ate about 3/4 of my piece of cheesecake, I probably could have finished it, but I thought I would stop before it was too late.

I have never enjoyed food as much as I did on my 30th birthday. The food was wonderful, I was able to eat it all, AND I didn't at all over eat! I was so PUMPED, and I am sure you can tell in this post that I talked and talked and talked about that meal for the next two weeks. I couldn't tell that story without someone laughing at my enthusiasm.

I think Jeff enjoyed his meal too, but he didn't eat as much as I did. He had Alaskan crab legs and they were as thick as my arm. I had a couple of bites of his as well, but I was nice enough to trade a bite of lobster. ;) We had a wonderful time and actually got to visit with each other. We kept thinking we were missing something since there were no babies crying and we didn't have arms full of stuff or babies.

We didn't take any pictures of ourselves that day, but we should have because I had on real clothes and fixed my hair and put on make-up! The picture above was taken of Rider and Josie on my birthday. I hate posting another picture of an angry Josie, so I am going to explain. I had tried two other times to take their picture in their SUPER CUTE Nike outfits. (Thank you Emily and Scott!) Rider spit up all over his the first 5 minutes they had them on--NO picture. The second time they wore them Rider had a diaper leak as I was getting my camera--NO picture. This is the third time they had worn the outfit and Josie was sitting in her own poop and it was ALL OVER the back of her outfit! SO SAD, but I gave up and took the picture just so I could have one. I am going to continue to try to catch them both happy before Rider out grows it.