Thursday, September 20, 2012

On the Move

Callie Grace is a very busy little short person who is constantly on the move!  Almost every day, we go to the park.  She loves to be outside and she loves to swing.


On her sleepover party at Mama D and PawPaw's house last week, they took her to breakfast and then to the huge park in Sea Pines.  She loved it!


Last Thursday (September 13), Callie finally decided it was time to walk.  She has been pushing her walker around for a few months...


But she decided she was ready to take off on her own.  She loves to hold your hand while she is walking, but now when you let go she keeps going (instead of sitting down and crying).  Here is Callie showing off her walking skills in Auntie Em's apartment.


She is still a great eater and loves pretty much anything you feed her.  And she has great faces - full of expression!


Callie started going to gymnastics a few weeks ago and it is always interesting.  She can actually hang on the bar all by herself.  She is a little gymnast already!


She also likes to climb on the mats, but she is very cautious.  She likes to watch someone else do it first, and then she will try it as long as I am standing nearby.



It was a big day when I finally got her to crawl through the little tunnel.  Fun times at gymnastics!



We also spend a lot of time playing in her room with all of her toys and books.  She loves to get everything out of her closet and throw it all on the floor.  Callie has several little chairs that she likes to sit it, but her new tailgating chair from Aunt Jamie is a big hit!


Love this little munchkin!


Wednesday, September 5, 2012

One Year Pictures

Love all of these pictures!
Thank you to Carrie Friesen for sharing her incredible talent.  
(http://cfriesen.blogspot.com)








ATL

Summer Vacation 4 of 4
Atlanta

Callie has been quite the traveler this summer!  This time we made a short weekend trip to Atlanta and slammed a lot of things into two and a half days.

We visited Aunt Lauren at Atlantic Station for "Food Truck Fridays".


We got to see where Lauren works, meet some of the people she works with, and of course, eat frozen yogurt, which Callie loves!


While Aunt Lauren worked on Friday afternoon, Mama D, Callie, and I went to visit Mama Betty.  Callie had so much fun playing with Mama Betty.  She crawled around her apartment, read books, sat on her lap and played "this little piggy", and had a great time.  I'm so glad Mama got to spend some time with Callie!


Atlanta has such good food and we had a delicious dinner both nights we were there.  Thursday night we got take out from Houstons so Callie could go to bed on time.  On Friday night, went to a great burger place called Kaleidoscope where I had the best pimento cheeseburger ever.




Saturday morning we met Carrie and her mom for brunch at West Egg - again, delicious food!


Callie ate a big breakfast and then had fun playing with her toys while we chatted.


We squeezed in some pool time while waiting to go to the airport.  Callie still loves the water!


Finally it was time to pick up Auntie Em at the airport!  Emi had been at Kanakuk for eight weeks and we were so ready for her to come home!


Callie was very excited to see her Auntie Em.



We were so happy to have all of the sisters together again.


After a fun-filled weekend, it was time to head home.  Callie was so wound up from all of the excitement she did not go to sleep, but instead talked the whole way home and played games with her Nuk with Auntie Em.


A few weeks at home and then football season kicks off.  Clemson here we come... Go Tigers!












Monday, September 3, 2012

Charleston Vacation

Summer Vacation 3 of 4
Isle of Palms



Aunt Lauren here on behalf of Tiff (and Callie.) 
Back in July (apologies for the delayed post) we went on vacation to Charleston, SC.  I, of course, was thrilled to spend 6 days and nights with my precious niece.


Lots of swimming, (sand) eating, napping and sand-castle building took place.


By the end of the week, Callie was so tan she had to wear long sleeves.  She didn't need any more sun - she was tanner than me!


But that didn't stop her from swimming in the ocean.



We went to the Charleston Children's Museum one afternoon and Callie wanted to play with everything! She was so cute (when isn't she so cute??).

SS CALLIE

Callie went to the grocery store...


Played with a few boats...


and even let Mom have some R&R (you will have to ask Tiff why that is an oxymoron).


Bryan had a few days of good wind and got to kiteboard.  Callie knows that is her Daddy and she loves to wave at the kite.


One night we went to dinner at P.F. Changs (delicious, by the way), and Callie read her book (upside-down) while we waited for our food.


We got to spend some quality time with PawPaw and Mama D.  Thanks for everything!


It was an overall great week with the fam!