Briley Is Walking!

The Beach for my birthday!

We went to the beach at Dauphin Island for my birthday. It was a beautiful day, and we had a great time! Briley LOVED it! This was her first real time at the beach.
The first thing she wanted to do was climb all over the beach chairs. She is such a monkey! When we tried to eat lunch, she ended up eating more sand than sandwich! She was absolutely wild, which made it not so relaxing for us!

She had a hard time walking on the sand. She would take 2 or 3 steps, then plop down on her bottom. I bet she did that 100 times!
Maddox was easy. He was content to dig in the sand. He could do that for hours!
We took a stroll down to a little tide pool to cool off.
Well, when Miss Briley saw the big water, she made a run for it!

She belly-laughed every time the waves would crash on her feet. She loves water!

After an hour or so, she finally chilled out in her daddy's lap for a few minutes!

This is how they looked before we even got out of the parking-lot!

11 Months Old!

The birthday party invitations are in the mail, and I can hardly believe it! This year has been a blur! I really wish it hadn't gone by so fast, but then again, those first few months were hard! Briley is really getting to be a fun age. Her little personality is really coming out. She has already started pitching little fits when she doesn't get her way. Not fun!
She still isn't saying a word, but she can meow, moo, and quack. She also yells really loud sometimes, so I taught her to say "shhh". She also likes to try to imitate her brother. Today, Maddox was pretending that one of his toys was a water hose. He gave the toy to Briley and she did the exact same thing. She idolizes him!!
After my excitement at Kindermusik a couple of weeks ago, Briley is still crawling about 85% of the time! She does like to walk if she's holding someone's hand. She was whining tonight for her daddy to hold her hand and walk her around the house. He was trying to encourage her to walk on her own. Well, guess who won!!
Briley now has 7 teeth with at least one more coming any day now. She has been a very fussy teether! I'll be glad when she has all her teeth!!
She is still taking 2 good naps every day and is still drinking 5 bottles a day, some 6 oz., but mostly 4 oz. I don't think she'll be too hard to wean from the bottle. She LOVES finger foods! She would sit in her highchair for an hour eating, if I would let her!

This girl is a daredevil! She loves to climb!

She was loving this corn-on-the-cob!


Climbing again!



She loves her pink Woo-Woo. Britt says he wouldn't have it any other way.
What a ham!

Easter fun!

Maddox was invited to an egg hunt at his friend Joseph's house.

We also went to an egg hunt at Matthew's house on Fowl River.

The sweetest little easter bunny!
This butterfly net was Maddox's favorite gift from the Easter bunny! He didn't care that much about his chocolate bunny this year (thankfully!)



We had a wonderful church service and got some great pictures afterwards!



Maddox had ANOTHER egg hunt after lunch (Briley was napping). He had a blast! Briley will be right there with him next year, I'm sure!