Tatum

 I got home from Chicago and picked up the girls and hit the road 

again to go meet our newest cousin who decided to come on one of the 

three day's I was gone.  Georgia was so excited to 

go see  "Tater tot Tatum".  Georgia didn't get to meet her new cousins 

for a few day's cause she was in the nicu but we had a few very 

interesting days at the hospital.  I think the first day we went to visit 

G colored the whole table with a marker which we never got all the 

way off.  But we made sure to cover it so the staff couldn't see.  The 

next day I caught her coloring the key's on the computer. 

Finally the last day after all the waiting and visits to Paige and Bunk

She got to meet her new baby cousin.  She loves little Tatum and 

now thinks she has two babies to take care of.

 Millie and her Bestie I can not wait for these two to grow

up together.  They will be the best of friends

 And here we are with our babies.  Don't you think we should 

just keep her?  She's way to cute she needs to be ours.

I'm Back... Shall we start in Chicago?

ok so it's been awhile...or forever so much has happened and

so were going to go back a little.  October started out with a me leaving 

on a girls trip.  I left J.C. and the girls for 4 days of pure bliss. 

It was the first time I left Millie and it was hard, good but hard.

I had so much fun with my best friends.  This year we meet up for our 

  2nd annual girls weekend.  Last year we were all living in 

New York and so it only made since to go to the City but this year we all

live in different states.  So we decided to meet up in Chicago.  It was

so much fun we shopped, ate great food, got pedi's, talked, laughed, 

cried it was the best! I know I've said this before but I have the best friends.

I can't imagine my life with out one of these girls.  They make me a better

person, better mom, better wife and bring a lot of fun and happiness into my

life.  Thanks girls for the best weekend of the year can't wait till our 

next one.

My flight was delayed and so I got there way latter than 

the rest of the group

 Cindy made a sign for everyone.

 Chicago style pizza.

 Sprinkles cupcakes...yummy

I could not have picked a better group of friends.  Love you 

all and miss you so much.

Date Night

Last night we had family date night and went to the 

Lion King in 3D.  We told G that she had to wear 

glasses the whole time and she said she would but once

we got there she didn't want to wear them cause they

were to big for her.  After some modifacations were

made they would finally stay up and she wore them the 

whole time.  She loved the movie so much and it 

was so fun to go to a movie together with our little family.

Millie even liked the movie, she stayed awake through 

the whole thing and just watched  the screen like she

knew what was going on it was so funny.

4 Months

Millie had her 4 month appointment with Dr. Mike.  

she looks so cute in this little gown that I couldn't 

resist snapping some pictures. This little girl is growing 

and getting too big to fast.  

Stats:

Weight: 15.5 lbs 85%

Height: 25 inches 90%

One funny thing about Millie is that she is so 

tuff she has had 3 sets of shots in her life.  The first time

I was the only one that cried she did not.

  The second time Georgia cried

and and said "Mom I don't want Millie to get shots"

Millie let out one little cry and then was fine.

and for the 4 month set of shots she just got a sad look on

her face but not one little cry was ever let out.

Along with her Dr. Apt. here are some of the things

that she is doing.  Rolling like crazy, she is talking so

much.  I love to hear her coo and talk.  Millie loves her

sister.  Anytime Georgia is in the room or talking Millie is trying

to find her and talk to her.  She will smile and laugh at Georgia any

time.  She has started to eat and she seems to like everything we

gave her.  We love this little Millie and are so 

grateful for her in our life.

More Fun in NYC

So we went to NYC because Jace had to take a test.

The day that he was gone taking his test me and the girls hung

out around town.  We went shopping then went to lunch.  When we 

got back from lunch I decided to take the girls to swim at the 

hotel pool.  We had a good two hours of swimming.  Millie 

 got to swim for 20 minutes then she sleep in the stroller 

the rest of the time while G and I had some fun.  

When we got out of the pool G went to put her towel

in the bucket so we could go back to our room and and she 

slipped and hit the back of her head pretty hard.  I picked her

up and as she was crying and all the sudden she went limp aka she

passed out.  I freaked out started screaming help help.  There were
kids out in the hall way that heard me and went to get there parents.
But they told there parents someone was drowning so one guy 

ran in and actually jumped in the pool ( bless his heart).  Anyways

they had called 911 and so before I knew it we were surrounded

by a cop and 4 paramedics.  They told me since she passed

out they needed to take her to the hospital. I said I wanted to wait

till Jace got back and then we could take her but the cop told me

they would have to report me to CPS if I didn't take her

just because she did pass out.  So I keep trying to call Jace

I probably called him 10 times and he never answered and 

he should have been back but he wasn't in our room so 

someone went to my room and got Millies car seat and we meet

them at the ambulance.  As were getting in Jace finally

showed up shocked and scared that his family was all

getting into an ambulance.  With a shocked look on his face 

he asked what happened so I told him then we decided Jace would

take G in the ambulance and I would take Millie back to the 

room and get dressed and meet them up there.  So bottom line

we spent the night in the E.R. they decided to do a C.T scan

on G and checked her out and finally we got the green light

to go home. 

There is nothing like a night in the E.R. for some family

bonding time.

 G doing the C.T. scan.  At first she wouldn't do it and after

trying to get her to do it for 20 minutes they sent us back to our
room.  They said they would need to put her out to do it if she
wouldn't agree to.  So after about 30 minutes of  us trying to bribe her
she finally said she would do it.  What finally worked was we told her
she could have Millies Binkie while she did it.  (We took her binki
away a few months ago and still would take one if we would let her.)

Here she is getting the scan done she did so good

and held so still.  I was one proud Momma.

Then back to the hotel to relax and get some sleep

 

 So true to form our biggest priority was to get doughnuts

and boy were they good.  They never disappoint. My favorite

PB&J.

Proud to be an American

Last week we went to New York for the weekend.  

Jace had to take a test down in the city so the girls and 

I decided to tag along.  When I told Georgia we were going

I said what do you want to do when we go there, thinking she would 

say go to the park or the zoo or the toy store's but she quickly 

replied " Mom lets go to the statue of liberty."

She has learned about the statue from a few different things like 

books, puzzles, little Einstein's T.V.  show and when 

ever she see's a picture of it she gets so excited.  So I told her 

we would do that when we were there. Then every day
probably 3 or 4 times a day G would ask if we were going to
New York City today, and 

every time I would tell her no not today she would say

" ahhhhhhh MMMMOOOOMMMM"

She was so excited to go when we were packing the car to 

go down she said to me 

"Mom thanks so much for taking me to New York City I'm so 

excited to see the statue of liberty"

then the whole way down probably 50+ times she said to Jace 

and I  "I'm so excited to go to the statue of liberty."

So the day after we got there we went.  When G first saw it 

she started jumping up and down yelling "it's the statue of liberty."

We waited in the line for about 2 hours in the blistering 

heat and humidity.  We also had to listen to Millie cry for the last

hour of the line because she was so hot and miserable. But once we 

got on the ferry it cooled down with the wind and Millie finally fell 

asleep.   We got to the statue and walked around and took pictures.

I told J.C. every time I there I get teary because I think about what

that statue means to our country and it makes my heart happy.

Also I think about all the men and woman fighting for our 

freedom and I am always so grateful that we live in the USA. 

On the ferry ride out Georgia couldn't keep her 

eyes off the statue she was so excited to finally be getting there

 1st timers... Jace & Georgia had never been there so 

both were excited to see her up close.

 Family Pic with the statue

Lady liberty herself

 Millie and me in front of the new world trade center.

 Going to the statue was a dream come true for Georgia

she still hasn't stopped talking about it.  And she keeps saying to us 

" I have an idea next time we go to New York City 

we can go to the statue of liberty again, that would soooo be fun"

I love that my little girl loves the statue and can't wait for

her to really understand how much that means to our country.

Irene Comes To Visit

Hurricane Irene dropped by Albany.  We were lucky

to not get hit too hard, but it was a pretty big deal.

So they started warning about the storm in the middle of the 

week and on Friday our church got canceled and so we got ready 

for the big storm.  J.C. was supposed to be taking his boards 

during the storm and they didn't cancel it so he left at about

7:30 that morning and then showed up back at home around 8:00

and said they left a note on the door that said the test was 

canceled.  J.C. was not very happy about it but I'm just glad

that I wasn't home alone during this storm.   Anyways, it rained
hard and had strong winds.  We were with out power for 24 hours

and although I didn't like it, Georgia LOVED it.  

She had so much fun with the flash lights and daddy playing

hide and seek in the dark.  We put Georgia to bed and Jace 

and I played Rummikub by head lamp.  

We also just had fun talking and laughing together.

You don't realize how nice it was to have the t.v and 

computer taken away. we couldn't even use our phones 

because they were about to die and we couldn't charge them. 

  Jace said to me a few day's later I wish

we could have no power more often cause that was fun

just to talk and playing games and I agreed

Here G is hiding from Jace playing hide and seek.  Notice her

nice head lamp she loved it.

 We stayed in our P.J's all day and just hung out.

 

Millie didn't mind no power she still had her 

warm meals every 3 hours as usual.

 Playing Rummikub

 Here is the tree that fell down on our street.

It was a huge tree and fell on the house across the street.

 

 G and Jace at the tree

 

 And here is the tree in the day light

The next day we woke up early and it was a nice

day and we still didn't have power so we went to the park 

to go jogging and also so G could ride her bike.  We got

there and had a small problem 80% of the park was under water

I was able to jog but i came home with soaking wet socks

and pants and G got to ride her bike too which she loved.

This is the parking lot at the park

 We couldn't even make it to the playground cause to get there I 

would have had to wade through two feet of water.

We are just grateful that we didn't get hit to bad and 

happy that we were keep safe.

Movin' Millie

 

Millie is on the move.  She started rolling about two weeks ago 

and hasn't stopped since.  She now has learned if she rolls more than 

once she can actually get somewhere.   I love this little rolling girl

More Utah

 I know it seems like we were in Utah for ever

but we actually weren't there too long we just never stop 

doing fun stuff when we are there.   It actually gets exausting

and when I get back home to New York I always tell Jace 

I need a vacation because of my vacation.  So here are some

more of the fun stuff we did.

Millie went swimming for the first time.  She still doesn't 

know what to think about it.

 Nanny took Georgia to the fountians at the Gateway

and G loved it!

 After the fountians G needed a snow cone.  They

don't have snow cone places in NY so when ever 

we saw one we went to get a treat.

 The clarks were in Utah the same time as us.  We only got to spend

a few hours together but we will take all the time with our 

besties we can get. G and Hazel left didn't skip a beat they 

acted like they hadn't been apart which is so much fun for me 

to see her with Hazel  having so much fun. 

 Cam loved Millie

 Cindy also got some Millie action.

 Me and my girls. I want Hazel to be mine.

 This is the best pic we could get of all the kids. hahaha

 Me and Cind

Ben and Jace we hope that these two work together

some day.

Millie also got to meet her Great Grandparents and Linds. Grandma Kate is hard to please when it 
comes to naming your baby.  But we didn't have a hard time with
Millie she loves the name Millicent. 

Millie also got to meet Grandpa and Grandma Banker. Millie

was the only kid that got invited to Grandma's 80th birthday party.

And I'm happy to say she stayed true to form never making a peep.