Texas Ranger's baseball

Dave's favorite baseball team in the history of the world, the Texas Rangers, went to the World Series (again) this year! Unfortunately, they lost (again). But, the postseason did provide for a lot of fun for our family!

We took James to an ALDS game against the Rays, and he had so much fun! James got really into the Rangers during the playoffs, which was definitely a memorable time for Dave. I'm not sure if Dave has ever been prouder of our son! James has been known to break into the "Let's go Rangers" cheer in the middle of the grocery store, or in the middle of dinner, or while laying in bed trying to fall asleep. He also requests to watch baseball constantly, and it's hard to get him to go to bed if a game is on in the evening. We had to tell him a few times that the game was over and the Ranger's won when in reality the game was only half over.



We then got to take both kids to an ALCS game against the Tigers. We did not intend to take any kids to this game, but it was rescheduled due to rain, and our babysitter was no longer available. The kids had fun, and behaved fabulously especially considering that the game went into extra innings. The Ranger's won with a walk-off grand slam! What an amazing game, and great family fun!

Dave and I got to go (sans kids) to a World Series game against the Cardinals. We had a lot of fun watching the Rangers win again! Unfortunately, the Rangers couldn't hold on to their lead in St. Louis, and lost the World Series. There's always next year, right?

Blast from the past

I have a ton of pictures on my iPhone that I hadn't put on the blog because I didn't know how to get them on the computer. I also never asked, until yesterday. Dave does our iPhone updates, so it didn't even occur to me that transferring pictures to the computer would be so easy. So, here's a bunch of my favorite pictures of James from sometime just after his 1st birthday up to just before Audrey was born...

Standing and trains

About a week after Audrey turned 7 months old, I was going into her room to get her from a nap, and this is what I opened the door to:


I was definitely not expecting to find her standing in her crib! She was so proud of herself, and was smiling from ear to ear. Needless to say, Dave lowered her crib all the way down that evening. I looked back to see how old James was when he started doing this, and he was about a week older than Audrey, and I had posted a very similar picture of him standing in the crib for the first time.

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Our children have not been lacking when it comes to toys, and the main reason they have been so fortunate is because of The Attel family. Dave works with Ed, and his wife Monica has been kind enough to think of us when she is trying to purge toys that her kids, Shawn and Erin, have grown out of. They recently gave us an Imaginarium which is a table that kids can use for legos, trains, cars, etc. We decided to get James a Thomas the Train set for it, and he LOVES it. He's always asking us to go to his room with him to play "train tracks". We're planning to expand the tracks at Christmas (actually, we were originally planning to wait until Christmas to get any train pieces, but we got excited and bought some early- like, right after we got the table. I don't even think we had it a day before we were searching Amazon for Thomas the Train stuff).

Rewind 2 months: 5 year wedding anniversary

On September 2nd, Dave and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! What an eventful 5 years it has been! We got married (obviously), bought a house, had a baby, had another baby, and now here we are. Our life together has been absolutely amazing so far, but we're hoping the next 5 years are a little calmer, but equally or more wonderful.

We celebrated with a very nice dinner at Ruth Chris' Steakhouse. The steaks there are amazing! The restaurant decorated our table with little heart confetti, and our dessert plate was made in honor of our anniversary. We had a really nice evening. We are hoping to take a short trip to somewhere to celebrate this milestone, but it will most likely happen closer to our 6 year anniversary.

Happy anniversary Dave! Marrying you has been the best decision I've ever made! I love you!

Hello. We're still here.

I know I've written this a lot since Audrey was born, but time is absolutely flying by! I cannot believe it is already November! My Dad is having a knee replacement tomorrow, so I promised him I'd get the blog caught up so he'd have something to look at during his recovery. Here we go...

Catch Up

Life as a family of 4 is flying by!

Sweet Audrey is growing up so fast and meeting milestone after milestone. She is about 2 weeks away from being 6 months! Audrey is rolling all over the place. She can definitely get where she wants to go. She is eating rice cereal for 3 meals a day. She has also had the pleasure of tasting bananas, pears, peas, sweet potatoes, squash, and apples. So far, Audrey loves food! She's been fickle about how she prefers to get her breast milk; she's doing great with a bottle, but is off and on lately with nursing. I think she is at a point where she is easily distracted and increasingly social, so snuggling into mama to nurse is not a priority for her. Audrey is sleeping 8-9 hours without a feeding at night. Of course, there's an occasional night that she's crying for an extra feeding. She is super happy, and smiles all the time now. Audrey is definitely becoming more of a daddy's girl, and she loves to be close to James.

James is talking up a storm! He says new thing everyday that we didn't even know he knew. He can spell his name, and he recognizes quite a few letters of the alphabet. He can count to 6 with no problems, and if we help him with 7, he can keep counting up to 13 or 14. It's amazing what a little sponge he is! James is such a happy and silly little boy!

We love James and Audrey so much, and we try to enjoy each moment we have with them. It seems like each time we blink they're older and doing something new.

These two love to snuggle!


And wrestle!



James looks so old in this picture.


Audrey loves to play and eat!



Audrey at 5 months.


This could not be comfortable!


Good morning sunshine! Love the bed head!


Such a ham!

Audrey is 4 months old!

Audrey is growing up so fast! At her 4 month check-up, she weighed in at 14 lbs. 6 oz. She is about a pound bigger than James at this age. Our pediatrician thinks she will walk early like James... Audrey is already rolling both ways, and can roll across the room very quickly. She loves to be standing (with help, of course), and she loves the doorway jumper. We recently started to feed her rice cereal, and she seems to prefer it over just mama's milk. She has become increasingly social. Audrey cracks up whenever James gets really close to her, and she smiles so big when he lays on her (in a gentle way). We already don't remember life without our sweet baby girl. Audrey has been such a joy and blessing to our family.