Happy Spring everyone!

Thank goodness the cold weather is going away. We are ready for fun in the sun and learning how to swim!!

Calah is growing up so fast. She is sitting up all by herself now and saying DaDa like a champ. Hasn't quite mastered MaMa yet, but she knows who I am that is for sure!! We are getting ready to take our first camping trip in a couple of weeks so we will definately be posting some pictures of that! Just wanted to update some pics on here and hope everyone enjoys!

Calah got christened on February 8th and we had alot of family and friends join us for the special occassion. After church we all gathered at Nanie and PopPop's for some great food and company!!

Calah's January

First I want to apologize for not updating this as often as I would like, but life is just BUSY!!!

Calah had a very busy January just because she got really sick! We ended up in the hospital for 3 days with bronchilitis and a double ear infection. You would have never known that she was not feeling well because she was just as cheerful as always but she had a fever and was going hoarse. Poor little girl! She had to be a a nebulizer for a couple of weeks but is 100% better now! Her Nanie came out and stayed with us for a week to get her back in tip top shape.

Calah's 1st Christmas

We spent Christmas with my parents and brother. It was so exciting to share this special holiday with Calah. My mom and I took her to Christmas Eve candlelight service and everyone had to come up and say hello to the pretty little baby that was up so late!!

Calah got a Bumbo chair from Santa Claus which was a HUGE hit!! She sat and watched everyone open their gifts and was perfectly content in that little chair. Next year should be a blast!!

My brother gave me a video camera so once I figure out how to upload a video on here I will share with everyone!

Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday with their families also! Oh yeah, I almost forgot my dad, Calah's PopPop, held her for the first time over the holiday!! It's about time, right??

Thanksgiving 2008

Calah's 1st Thanksgiving was spent with Steve's family. We got to meet Aunt Jolie and Uncle Brian and their new baby, Anna. There was plenty of great food and great fun. We drove to Winchester for the holiday and spent the night and then had a full day of shopping to follow! Cousin Anna was so interested in Calah. She wanted to give Calah kisses all day and I actually got a couple of photos of it. Hope everyone else had a nice Thanksgiving!!

November 15, 2008

This week Calah has been trying to roll over and has accomplished it a couple of times to her own surprise. I got so excited that I kept rolling her back onto her stomach until she got so fed up with me that she just started fussing loudly! She is becoming so much more aware of EVERYTHING!! I can no longer have the TV on while she is nursing because she has become totally obsessed with that box that has pictures coming out of it. It just amazes me daily that little person I am responsible for is a little sponge looking for knowledge and I am the one she is looking for to give it to her.....SCARY!!!

Chip's old roommate from college, Nate, and his girlfriend, Carrie came to meet Calah last weekend. And leave it to Nate to put a durag on my daughter's head! It was hilarious! She looks like a gangster baby!

The Beginning

To start at the beginning would mean to tell the back story of how Calah got here. I have always wanted to be a mom, but always have thought I would do it the old fashioned way, marry the man of my dreams and start a family. But obviously that is not the way it happened. Steve and I had just met and I ended up pregnant so we decided to stop dating and just figure out how to be great friends and raise Calah together. So far, we are still working on the friends part, but we have a beautiful little girl!
Calah was born on August 2, 2008 at 1:01 pm in Fredericksburg, VA.
She weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces and was 19 inches long.
It is almost impossible to wrap my head around how much I love this little person. It amazes me everytime I look into her eyes that she is a part of me. I really can not believe that I waited so long to become a mother and experience this part of my life. I can not wait to share in all of her experiences!!

Halloween 2008

Calah's 1st Halloween was spent on the Eastern Shore. She went trick or treating with Walt, Justin, and Corbin. She was dressed as a little kitty cat, but mommy did not let anyone give her any candy because mommy knew who would eat it all!!
She did great! She stayed awake the whole time we were out. She was busy checking out all the other little trick or treaters! But as soon as I put her in her car seat, she was out! Then it was off to her Nanie and PopPop's for dinner and a visit from Aunt Barbara. She had a BIG day!!