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Annabel’s 1st Birthday!

jennersmac — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:49:05 +0000

I cannot believe our little girl is 1 today! She was so excited about turning 1 she has been waking up early all week including today at 3am, thank goodness she went back to sleep and got up at a somewhat more reasonable hour of 6am. Our little girl is such a sweet character, she is full of smiles and giggles and yet sensitive in so many ways. She is very cautious when it comes to adventures, but with people she grabs hold (literally!) and gives so much love! This has been such an amazing year and what an adventure God has allowed us to be on having her in our lives. It only gets better everyday, (except when she’s teething!)
Sweet Annabel, we love you so much and can’t wait for the years to come!
Here are just a few pictures from the day, eating her cake, crying when daddy moved some of her cake and a big grin with teeth and all when she held the dolly Grandma and Grandpa gave her. I will try to get a video up after we get back from camping.

Annabel is on the move!

jennersmac — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:20:53 +0000

I’m sure we have a lot to update as lots has happened. We went on holiday only to get a phone call from our neighbors that our house had flooded and have since had to move out and are waiting for our house to dry out so they can then repair it… blah, blah, blah. In the meantime, Annabel has decided living in somewhere else is a good time to be on the move so here she is! She is helping us pass the time while we are out of the house by keeping us very busy!

I’ve been doing my time…

jennersmac — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:04:34 +0000

Well just one more thing to make it official that I am a mom, Annabel has had the tummy bug twice in the last month now – vomiting all over me! This was something I didn’t think I would be able to handle when I had children. When I worked on the airplane and people would throw up, I would walk through the cabin doing a little gagging dance just smelling it while trying to get one of the other flight attendants to clean it up before I started to throw up all over the other passengers. But times have moved on and I have managed to hold myself together and not back on her. Also, just to make things fun she has a bad cough with runny nose, possible teething (they always say it’s teething!), and conjunctivitis – which of course I now have. Luckily so far, I have escaped the tummy bug, although it would have done wonders for my after baby weight loss I’m certain. I am hoping and praying that if we have all this at once we can have a few weeks of nothing but health and happiness before it all starts again! Needless to say I don’t have any pictures from the last few weeks, but here are a few with her and her good friend Sam about a month ago.

Another milestone!

jennersmac — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:25:23 +0000

I know I haven’t been very good about marking Annabel’s milestones on here, but here is one to share… she has her first tooth! It came in the day after Easter and explains why she randomly cried at everyone that weekend and didn’t want her food for about a week or so before. Once it popped through everything was fine, but they say (I’m still not sure who ‘they’ are, but ‘they’ have an awful lot to say about babies!) the second one is not far behind and sure enough we are back to blowing rasberries at our food again this week with a bit of grumpyness. Another thing to share is how well her communication is coming along. She may look like her daddy, but apparently she is as chatty as her mommy! She started the ba ba ba’s not long ago, with a few da’s and then ma ma ma’s – I wish I could say they were for me, but she’s clever not a genious. This week though I can’t even begin to imitate what she is saying, but we are having some serious conversations her and I. I love it! She is such a joy, my heart is overwhelmed again by how blessed we are to have her – she is so precious!

jennersmac — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:38:31 +0000

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Time flies…
jennersmac — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:27:57 +0000
I can’t believe how quickly time goes when you have a child.  It seems like only yesterday she was a small lump in our arms not doing much and today she is wiggle lump in my arms squealing, giggling and talking in her own language!  I love it!  My mom tells me it gets better, but I can’t imagine how when I am enjoying this so much!  Although she is still very small, she is almost double the weight she was at birth.  She loves to chat to you and loves to giggle with her daddy.  We have lots of fun meeting up with other mums and toddlers for walks and play groups of course, she really enjoys watching other babies and kids.  Now that she can sit up, it really adds to the excitement of her world.  She has started playing peekaboo, it is so cute!  We have it on video, now we just have to figure out how to post it.  I enjoyed my first British Mother’s Day (it’s in March here rather than May) and I received the most wonderful present, a photo book of photos since she was born… of course I cried.  She went up her first real mountain yesterday and sang in daddy’s ear almost all the way til we stopped a bit too late for her lunch and then she lost the plot and we had to come back down.  The wind was pretty strong and cold and we think her little toes just got too cold, so we’ll have to try it again when the weather is better -(although that doesn’t happen very often here!)  Of course a few pics for fun!

       


Grandparents are wonderful!
jennersmac — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:12:39 +0000
Annabel is sleeping now, recovering from all the fun she had with Meemaw while she visited us.  We also had Pa to visit just after Christmas.  I am so thankful my parents are willing to make the long journey here to see us, especially now because it is so important to Annabel.  
Things have been very busy here and the days are finally getting lighter – yeah spring is on its way!  But not til after some more snow apparently this week.  I hear it is lovely and warm in Phoenix and am very jealous.  We have a camping trip planned for June and I am already praying for warm and dry weather, because you never can tell here.
We are also going through another transition with Annabel as she is starting to take bottles now and pretty soon I will be done nursing her.  I didn’t realize how difficult I would find this.  In one sense I am very excited for a little bit of freedom, our church has a women’s retreat this weekend and I am very much looking forward to going on my own – first time in almost 8 months.  But also a little sad, time seems to have gone so fast and I can’t believe she is almost 8 months old.  It is silly really, but it is a lovely feeling to be needed and I am so thankful to have been able to provide the milk she has needed til now.  I still find it amazing how God has created us this way.  I know I will enjoy the weekend, but I will miss this sweet little girl!


       


6 Months!
jennersmac — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:59:00 +0000
Our Christmas stocking!
[caption id="attachment_161" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Opening/Eating her first Christmas present!"][/caption]Her first snow!
[caption id="attachment_158" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="She is now officially a dual citizen.  God save the queen and bless America!"][/caption]Our baby girl is 6 months old!  I know all you seasoned parents will tell us it only gets faster, but I can’t believe how much she has grown and she is still really very small!  We have had a long journey from returning with jetlag from America and our first cold, to Christmas.  Then having Pa come to visit and leaving unexpectedly short due to the loss of my dear Grandfather – Wilford Gumm – who by the way we are rejoicing that he is now with our Heavenly Father!

We have then encounter a complete change of schedule and sleep patterns to say the least (or lack there of!) and a lot of loud screaming.  We have just now returned to some sort of normalacy, if that is possible with children, I’m still uncertain!  But nonetheless, still completely thrilled to have her and enjoying her everyday!  We are enjoying life and planning many adventures for Annabel to join us on.  So just some photos to catch up with Christmas, but hopefully more soon!

       


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Visiting America …Part 2
jennersmac — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:15:33 +0000
I couldn’t get all my pictures to post on the last one so I am finishing them here.
With the Arizona cousins.
 
Meemaw, Annabel, & I at the party.