Mother's Day

I had a wonderful first Mother's Day!  I know Mother's Day is a special day to honor your mom and I definitely thought about how thankful I am to have such a great mom, a mother-in-law who is like a mom, and many special grandmothers in my life.  However, I have to say that I spent most of the day thinking about how grateful I am to be a mom!  Being Jolie's mommy is the best job in the world and I thank God daily for my sweet girl.  Last year on Mother's Day I so badly wanted to be a mom, and little did I know, that just a few weeks later we would discover that Jolie was on her way!  From this time last year until now has been the best year ever....the excitement and anticipation throughout my pregnancy and then the fun of getting to spend every day with Jolie. 

We celebrated with my mom the evening before Mother's Day.  Nina and Jolie

We also celebrated my dad's birthday that night.

Then Papa pinched Jolie...

On Mother's Day morning Cole took some picture of me and my girl.

After church we had lunch with the Fords.  Mimi and Jolie

It was a special day for Jolie because she got to meet Grandmother Ford for the first time!

She also got to spend time with Grandmom!

I hope everyone else had a great Mother's Day too!  I hope to be back soon with lots of other recent pictures :)

Three Months

Yesterday, on Papa's birthday, Jolie turned three months! 

It's amazing to me how much she's grown in the last three months!

These are some of the other pictures we took of Jolie yesterday.  I love how they show her little personality. (There is slight variation in her hair accessories throughout the pictures.  Jolie can wiggle out of a headband pretty quickly!)

Sweet smiles

When wearing a skirt or dress Jolie almost always holds onto the bottom of it. Please excuse her...I told her it wasn't very ladylike.

Wild hair during tummy time

This is what I see most these days.  She always has her fingers in her mouth!  It is not easy to get a picture of Jolie without her chewing on her hand.

Three-Month-Old-Jolie is so much fun!  She smiles all day long and has even laughed a couple of times.  She just gets more beautiful all the time and still has the best hair I have ever seen on a baby.  It is pretty unruly but, except for the crown of her head, is starting to lay down a little better.  Jolie holds her head up really well these days which has helped her to enjoy tummy time a little more than she did.  She can even sit in her bumbo seat for short amounts of time and seems to really like it.  Jolie is starting to really enjoy playing on the floor, especially kicking at the toys that dangle from her play gym.  She is also able to roll over now, both from tummy to back and back to tummy, and will always work her way off of the blanket I lay down for her to play on.  One of my favorite things about Jolie right now is how vocal she is.  She "talks" to us constantly.  She has also started fake coughing and thinks that it is pretty funny.  The thing Jolie dislikes the most right now is riding in the car.  She doesn't really mind being in her car seat when at church or in the stroller just in the car.  I am pretty sure it's just because she's alone back there! Jolie is still a great sleeper!  She moved to her own room a few weeks ago.  She's been ready for a while, but mommy and daddy weren't.  Jolie has been doing great in her room and is sleeping from around 10:30 pm until about 6:30ish. 

We just adore our little girl and can't believe how quickly she is growing.  We are looking forward to lots of fun times this summer when Cole gets a break from school. Only 18 more school days!