9 Months

Well yesterday Audree turned 9 months old and of course I was sad in a way.

*9 months ago from yesterday we had so many thoughts racing through our heads.
*9 months ago I was an emotional wreck.
*9 months ago I didn't have a life outside of the NICU
*9 months ago I gave birth to our beautiful little girl.
*9 months ago we became a mother and a father.

I have to say that if you look at Audree there is no way anybody would believe that she was a preemie. I mean she is right on target for everything a 9 month old should be doing and even doing some things that a 10-11 month old baby would be doing. Remember Audree should really only be turning 7 months old.

* Trying to crawl... she looks like a wiggle worm
* Rolls from one side of the room to the other (we call her rollie pollie ollie)
* Will stand for a few seconds at a time
* Trying to pull up on things
* ♥ being tickled
* Talks from the moment she wakes up to the time she goes to sleep
* Her hair has had a growth spurt and she has TONS
* Reaches and grabs for EVERYTHING in sight
* Says Momma and we are working on dada
* ♥ our doggies- Daizee is her fave poor thing gets her ears pulled

We really are truely blessed for our baby girl. She is such a wonderful little girl. She is so content with whatever we are doing. Whether its laying in bed at night talking to each other, sitting on the couch, being outside, or driving in the car. She is just a happy go lucky little girl who just goes with the flow of things. I really didn't know how good we had it until Ive seen and heard from other parents house their babies were. I mean Audree very RARELY ever cries! She has always slept through the night, she has always been a good eater, burper, never really had the gas pains and cries, I mean she is PERFECT! Not sure what that means for our next kiddo though haha

Audree, I can't believe 9 months have passed by since we brought you into this world. You amaze me every single second of every single day. I love the way your eyes light up in the mornings when we wake you up, and I love the way my eyes light up when I get to see you. I love the way you rub my face at night when we lay in bed and have our nightly talks and prayers. I love the way you play with my hands and fingers when you are trying to go night night. I love the way you look at your daddy and the way your daddy looks at you. I love the way that you have made our little family dreams come true and how you have made our little family complete. You are a blessing from God and there isn't a day that goes by that I dont thank him for you. Im so proud of everything you have accomplished in your 9 months on Earth. I love you baby girl!!

Bye Red Ruby Hello Coal Camry

Well we made our decision last night to go back to the car dealer and see what kind of deal they would offer us on the camry i loved. So we go in, they look at my old car (red ruby) and come back and say okay we can offer 369 a month. HAHA I laughed and was like NOWAY!! Brett said Sorry we can't do that. He said what else can you offer us? He said well Im not sure what we can do. Brett said well if you can't get it under $330 its no deal. My heart just sunk because I really really wanted this car. He said if I can get it under $330 are you going to buy it? Brett said Im not going to committ to anything, he said you tell me what you can do for me. So we got in the car, drove it up to his parents for his dad to look at. Brett and I had a long talk about the car, if I was serious about it, etc. I said yes Im serious i love this car. So we went back and told the guy under $330 and we will take it. He went into the finance officer's office and they worked numbers came back and TADA payments are $328! I was so excited, I was jumping from the inside out! We signed our papers and off we went. As we were walking out the door I did get sad to leave my red ruby behind!!! I mean Ive had the car for 3.5 years. It was the first car Brett and I purchased together, it was basically my wedding gift from Brett and it was Audree's first car she rode in. Ahhh memories!!!

Brett and I were also talking about our credit score. I was so happy our credit score was 803!!!

Decisions Decisions...

Okay so im completly HATE my car with a passion so Brett said we can start looking for me a new car. At first I wanted a SUV, but then Brett brought up the point that we already have a SUV so I decided that is true lets go for a car. WE have looked at the Pontiac G6's which I really do like and then we have looked at Camry's. I really am in love with the camry. The one we looked at is a dark gray/silver and is all leather inside. Im hesitate about car buying though. I mean in less than 1 yr my car will be paid off and that is a good $300 that will be freed up. Im nervous, excited, and really just confused.

This is what happens....

WHEN DADDY IS LEFT HOME WITH THE BABY

All Gussied Up

I haven't had too much to talk about here in blog land so i decided I would post some cute cute pics of Audree before we went to church last Sunday. I got this dress at Target and I just thought she looked so cute in it

The Deed Is Done

Well most of you know I have been BEGGING Brett to let me get Audree's ears pierced. I just think its something that all little girls should have done. He has always told me no, but today I convinced him to let us do it. So we loaded up and off to Claire's we went. I wanted to get both ears done at the same time, but the lady said its better with babies that they do it one at a time that way they dont jerk and the holes get uneven. I had to hold her so we sat in the chair and held the Claire's bear, she even had her ears pierced. I was getting really nervous the closer and closer it got to doing it. Audree actually did good for the first hole, but the second one she did NOT like at all. She cried for about a minute and that was it. Once I showed her herself in the mirror she started laughing haha. Im very proud of you Audree you were such a BIG girl!! You look so pretty!!!

Halloween Night!!

Well we started out our night by going to see Carson and Courtney! Carson looking so cute in his little bear outfit. It was too hot so he made a costume change into a pirate, and I must say he is the cutest little pirate Ive ever seen! We got some really cute pictures with them. Next stop was Grandpa James and MiMi DD's house. After we visited them we were off to Nonna's and Grandad's house. My mom bought us pizza so we scarfed our food down and off we went to trick or treat. Kolby and Audree had so much fun together!! We put them in their strollers and they just kicked back and rode! After we got done trick or treating we went to Billy and Nikki's house, they had a SPOOKY haunted house that we really neat!!

We had a GREAT first Halloween with Audree and we can't wait for the next years to come!!