Happy Mother's Day and MORE...

First, let me say HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the mothers out there! A special happy mother's day to Ashley F. and Nicky who both had babies born this past Friday. CONGRATS! And another special happy mother's day to all of the mommies who were not mommies last year (Kimberly, Courtney, Alesa, Amanda, ....). We have now offically all joined the ranks of special ladies that get to celebrate this special day for the rest of our lives!

This past Sunday, Mother's Day, Antonio and I decided to get Tatum dedicated at our church. It was a special day for us and we pray that we will raise Tatum in the way that God would have us to. Here are some pictures...


This first picture is Antonio, me, Tatum, and Pastor Craig. Pastor Craig has been our pastor for about 5 years now. He knew us from the time we started dating. (He actually knew Antonio growing up.) Pastor Craig married us and did the dedication Sunday. He is very special to us and we are proud that he has been such an important person in our lives! (On a side note, we just started a new church and the church meets in a theater, so that would be the explanation for the movie posters in the background.)

The next few pictures are from the actual dedication. Unfortunately, the settings on my camera got changed, so these pictures did not turn out well at all. I will try to post some better pictures later because my sister said she took some.

We were lucky enough to have my grandmother (Tatum's great-grandmother, Gran), my mother, my father, Antonio's mom, and Antonio's dad all there to see and participate in the dedication.


Tatum was very well behaved during the whole thing. She didn't smile, but that was okay because she didn't cry either.

Below is a picture of my mother with Tatum.

Here is Antonio, Tatum, and me.
Below is FOUR generations!
Another set of FOUR generations.(my mom, Mckayla, Laurie, Mya, and my grandmother)
After church, we all went to eat at Rafferty's. Below is my mom, dad, Tatum, and Mya.(Tatum and Mya are 6 weeks apart)

Mya decided to try to take Tatum out of the picture when "no one" was looking...

Of course, Tatum wasn't having any of that, so she went for Mya's ear....

Tatum and Mya finally realized that they weren't doing well at hiding anything, so they stopped.
On to some other random pictures....

As I have posted before (I think), Tatum has been getting pretty crazy in her bed. We are always amused at the positions we find her in when we check on her or when she wakes up. Below are two new pictures.

We liked this first one because the pink bear she is hugging was put at the opposite end to where we layed her down, but when we went in to check on her, this is how she fell asleep.

A few days later, we found her like this....she had somehow managed to pull down her mobile that was dangling above her. How she did it, we still can't figure out because it is too high for her to reach (or so we thought).
Ever seen a baby pass out from drinking a bottle? Well after the next few pictures, you can say yes....


She was only out for about 2 minutes, but this is how we found her after her bottle.

FINALLY, below are two new videos. THis first one is of Tatum. The video is kind of long, but if you have time to watch it all, you will see how smart Tatum is. You will also see Tatum practicing her swimming on the blanket.

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And this last one is what Antonio looks like when he plays the Nintendo Wii! I think it is funnier to just watch him(or any body) play this thing!


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Tatum is 6 MONTHS!!!

Well, here are some pictures of Tatum. The first one is of Tatum in her bubble bath. She LOVES her little duck.




Tatum also LOVES to just lay in the water and kick around(as you can see below.)

Tatum has also started what I call PRE-CRAWLING. She is going backwards right now, but from what I understand, this is what babies do before they start going forwards. I guess we will see...

We also got some Gerber "Bitter Biscuits" at Target on Saturday and Tatum loves them. We haven't found a single food that Tatum DOESN'T like this far! She takes after her Daddy on that one.

These next pictures are from when I went in to Tatum's room to get her up the other morning. There is a little stain on her sheets to the left of her. This was the night she had the Bitter Biscuit before bed and that is a stain from where she started and drooled a little bit. As you may have guessed, she is all over the bed these days. We put her down on one end of the bed and she wakes up at the other end. We get a kick out of guessing what position we will find her in. I am not really sure what she was doing with the blanket, but I thought it was worth a picture.

I attempted to upload two videos tonight on here. This first one is from tonight. I found this other Gerber toast thing at the grocery store tonight and got them for Tatum. As you can see, she loved it. Listen closely and you can hear her two bottom teeth grinding on the toast thing.

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This second video is of Tatum being silly. She has become a huge WIGGLE WORM these days. She is also talking so much. Enjoy the video! I sure hope these work!


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Home Sweet Home

I am officially back from New Orleans! I got back yesterday (Friday) at 5pm. Antonio and Tatum were at the airport to pick me up when I got there and I was so glad to see them both. My 3 weeks of training FLEW by. On Friday, when I was getting ready to leave, I couldn't believe that I had really made it through three weeks of training. I made such great friends and it was kind of hard to leave them! However, we will all be together again at the end of June in Orlando for Phase II of training. And then in September I think we are going to Miami for a POA (Plan of Action = quarterly) meeting for the company.

When I got home last night, Antonio suprised me with a Nintendo Wii!! I asked for one for my birthday, but when I came home last weekend (on my birthday) I didn't get a present other than flowers because Antonio hadn't had time to go shopping. Well, the truth was he couldn't find anywhere that had one in stock, but Wednesday he finally found a store and went and got it. Anyway, we played it last night after Tatum went to bed and had so much fun! This morning I actually woke up a little sore from playing last night. Maybe I will have to play every night to burn some extra calories!

Today, Antonio, Tatum, and I got ready and went to Target and to lunch. It was good to do nothing really except spend time with the family. Tatum is growing so fast and I should have done a blog yesterday, but here it is a day late....

HAPPY 6 MONTHS TATUM!!!

Yesterday, Tatum had her 6 month birthday! WOW! 6 MONTHS?!?!? Where has the time gone? She is currently mastering sitting up and she has control of her little hands. She wants EVERYTHING in her mouth, but that is just part of it. She "talks" all the time and giggles when Antonio or I start acting crazy. She is rolling all over the place too. It is always so much fun to be able to get her out of her bed in the mornings because you never know what position she will be in or what end of the bed she will be at. Antonio said that one morning he went to get her up and she was holding on to the side of her bed trying to pull up on it. I think we are going to have to lower her bed some pretty soon. She is not crawling yet, but she has figured out how to roll and get closer to whatever she wants.

Tatum has not had her 6 month check up yet at the dr's office, but when she goes, I will post an update on her weight and length. Also, I don't have any new pics to post right now, but I will get some new ones up soon.

So I Lied....

I know I said I wasn't going to be able to post any pictures until I got back home, but Antonio sent me some new pictures yesterday to brighten my day, so I thought I would share them. I don't think they need much explaining, so here they are....