She Gave Us Ten!

For Ten Whole Months Now we've gotten to enjoy the best little baby bug!

And what a crazy 10 months its been!

Here are some fun lists of 10!

10 Things She Can Do!
:: Crawl Super Fast
:: Eat Real Food
:: STAND ALL BY HERSELF!
:: Communicate Feelings! Sometimes delighfully with a giggle or applause, sometimes very loudly with her new found talent of screaming or usual mighty wiggle.
:: Sleep for lots and lots of hours at night!
:: Say Da (Dad)
:: Say Ma (Mom)
:: Wave Bye Bye
:: Put her Paci in her mouth
:: Make anyone smile :)

Her 10 Favorite Things (or 10 things that keep her from screaming :)
:: School (how long do you think that will last?!)
:: Her reflection in a mirror
:: Rubber Duckies (their heads fit perfectly in her mouth)
:: Water Bottles (they make a fun crinkle sound?)
:: Sippy Cups
:: A Paci
:: Fisher Price Music (Thats a Spicy Pizza!)
:: Things that rattle when shaken
:: Outside
:: Lots of People!

10 Nicknames
:: Sweet Potato or Yam
:: Cute Potato
:: Honey Bunny
:: Pea Pie
:: Pumpkin
:: Pumpkin Pie
:: Cheezer
:: Pudding Pop
:: Edie Buggie
:: Little Mama
:: Little (thats Yiddle if you're in a Colby mood)
:: E
:: Baby Girl
:: Ed-ith (if you're her teacher, thats "Ed" like a man, then "ith")
:: Ede (what her Great Great Grandma was called)
:: EJ
:: Baby Bug
:: No No
:: No Ma'am
is that more than ten? oh well!

OK, gotta get back work... thats all for now!

Happy 10 Month Birthday Edith James!

Love love love you!

Dewberry Farm

a little something into the camera

10 minutes till weekend freedom - totally not interested in working - ready to get some serious stuff done around the house - ready to spend more than 10 weekend minutes with my husband!

and... Break!

Silver and Sugar

::Silver::

- Edie had her first boo boo. Got a little carried away wiggling around in Grandma Billie's dining room and I just didn't catch her before her little head knocked against the buffet. Sorry Edie Bug.

But like all great grandmothers do - E's had a remedy: A Silver Dollar

Hold it on the boo boo and it will clear it right up! Grandma Billie's sister had fallen down some attic stairs as a child and held a silver dollar to her face where she had hit - that was the only spot that didn't end up with a red mark!

Wouldn't you know it - there wasn't a mark to be a seen on Edie's face by the end of the day!

Thank you 1926! And Great Grandma Billie!



::SUGAR::

I've been meaning to share this for a while - one of my favorite things about being married to Robert, besides him of course, are my In Laws! I promise I mean this!

Both sides of his family are so warm and loving and inviting and fun and I have always felt included and like a real part of the family!

Not only did I get three more awesome parentals - but a sister and three brothers to boot!!! (I love you also - Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and Grandparents!) But along with the Sister and Brother in law - I became something that I would have never been able to accomplish on my own.

I get to be an Aunt! Not just a fun, close friend of the family Aunt (not that I don't adore being that as well, and if it wasn't for Colby I would never have been dubbed Aunt Missa :) But a real, honest to goodness Aunt!

::Our Nephew Logan!

- Lo is the coolest kid around and he's bound to be the next great musician of the family!

::Our Niece Gracie

Late in the morning on July 16th - My beautiful sister-in-law Kristen brought us a sweet little girl who I'm almost certain will be E's closest partner in crime (until we decide to give her siblings of course) :

Miss Grace Emerson Lounder! (G)

Aunt Missa & Uncle Bobby

::Other Fun Happenings!::

:: E's & G's first Astros Game in Celebration of Papa Wendel's Birthday - in a Suite no less! We knew the gals were going to be spoiled!

Gracie doing what week-old babies do best!



:: A Bucket-O-Fun. Have I mentioned that Edie can sit up on her own now, is starting crawl, eating solid foods and is holding her own bottle for real? Our little baby is becoming a little girl :)

Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

These days, most mornings are great mornings.

They typically start with my sweet smiley baby being toted around by her handsome, super helpful daddy to the tune of The Difference by The Wallflowers (the song for the month, hopefully just this month... )

The Special Ingredients that make these mornings a constant:

::Edie ALWAYS wakes up with a smile on her face. ALWAYS. Not sometimes, not just most days, EVERY SINGLE MORNING!!!

::Rob is a musician. And he perpetually has music going through his body. A song in his head, his fingers tapping out a beat, his mouth humming or singing a tune - usually all of the above going on at the same time.

Babies smiles are contagious. No matter how sore or exhaused or grumpy you might wake up thinking you are - once those big blue eyes open and those pink pouty lips break into a smile... your troubles melt away.

Edie smiles, Rob smiles, Rob sings, Edie laughs, Rob laughs... its a never ending happy cycle of happy :)

And I think its actually gotten to the point that we are even smiling before we wake her up - seeing that cute little face... that you know will be ear to ear with a smile as soon as she opens her eyes - the cycle starts again!

Good Morning from Edie

Splashy Mc- What did you call her?!

Splashy McGoo :)

Big Baby Steps!

Our little mama had some HUGE firsts this weekend!!

The tOMMY bOYS (the 90's alternative rock cover band her daddy moonlights in with Ryan Landrum and Doug Cook) had their first gig this weekend - which, thanks to our pal Crystal, was family friendly -which also means:

EDIE's FIRST CONCERT!!!
Don't worry, it was outside - her little ear drums are still fully intact!

After being passed around like a hot potato among all The Tommy Boy fans (E's grandparents and aunts and uncles and "aunts" and "uncles") and a brief costume (diaper) change - she passed out like any good little groupie would do!

Rock on little mama :)


PSA - the tommy boys can be found on facebook and heard here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZvXV9Ex5s

and THEN?!

After a spring cleaning lunch time break, we had a little tummy play time and Edie Bug just went ahead and ROLLED RIGHT OVER!!!




We knew it was coming any day - she's been close for about a week! And now you cant get her to stay on her tummy! She just rolls right on over! But she's not a big fan of laying on her back either - she's way more of a sit up and see whats going on type of gal. I promise she would run after Holly outside if she had the coordination to do it!

and THEN!!!

For the past month I've been saying its time to move E's bassinet to the nook and away from the bed. And I always find an excuse not to. Not any good ones though - she sleeps through the night, doesn't fuss, no problems at all - there aren't any excuses any more.

Sunday we spring cleaned. A little while after the rolling over, I get a shout from Rob: "Honey, Don't freak out" Ok, I'll take the bait, "What happened?" as I enter the bedroom. I didn't even notice that Rob was standing where E's bed usually is. Then he glanced towards the nook.



I pouted and left the room so he wouldn't see the tears. Surprisingly, we all slept just fine Sunday night... I guess she is a big girl now! Lord help me when she outgrows her bassinet and has to sleep in her nursery... ok, lets change the subject ... :)

- a little note about the nooks theme - we went with Pez! There is a pez girl tin sign on the right wall, and spaceman sign on the left wall you cant see. Her mobile is made of the fuzzy pez dispensers. The diaper stacker (made by her great grandma, grandma la and me) is made of pez print fabric (not pictured). Her Daddys obsession continues :) The painting above the nook is not pez related but was painted for me by her Aunt Amanda - However, there is a pez painting by Auntiemanda for Edie in her room :)

Stay tuned for the stories from the Skolaski Family's first Galveston Vacation (we leave Friday night)!

Life Twist Turned Upside Down!

Well Hi There!

Oh! Shhh - she's napping :)

So its been 5 months according to Blogger.

Edie Bug is 3 1/2 months old now! She's already smiling, reaching, grabbing, sitting, sleeping through the night, jabbering - and stealing hearts :)

Tomorrow morning when she wakes up we'll be getting her ready to attend her first Healthy Kids Day and Tommy Boys show!

She's already been to Chuck E Cheese, The Mall, Downtown, Brenham and Galveston to name a few.

She's been photographed no less than 1,099 times... by me alone... and that's the count from just one of the cameras.

I'd apologize for the delay in posts - but clearly its been quite a busy 5 months (don't forget those included thanksgiving, Christmas, new years and a literal birth day :)

January 4th at 7:25pm mine and Rob's lives changed forever. For the best. For the most amazing.

It isn't an exaggeration to say all three of us wake up with smiles on our faces every morning, every nap, every caught z of sleep!

I used to call us Lucky. Lucky Rob and I found each other again, Lucky we were able to get pregnant, Lucky I had an easy pregnancy, Lucky I had an easy delivery, Lucky we had a beautiful, healthy baby, Lucky she's good natured and happy, Lucky for the huge, supportive, loving family of village she'll be raised by...

A coworker mentioned to me after meeting E for the first time and hearing the word Luck come from my mouth for at least the third time - That's not Luck, that's Blessed.

Today we counted that blessing for the 103rd time!

In case you haven't had the chance to meet her yet - I happily introduce to you Miss Edith James Skolaski - our Edie Bug - E