Lily Gives Santa Her Wish List

Oh, maybe not, but she did sit on Santa's lap! Anson and I refused to pay the mall's ridiculous $20+ photo cost, so we took her to the local middle school this past Saturday and spent $5 to get her photo taken. Plus, I got to take my own photos. We were surprised but she wasn't afraid of him at all.

Something Silly

You guys have to watch this. A girl at my work created one of these today with some of my co-workers so I of course had to do this for our family. Try it out and create one of your family to. It does take about a minute to completely load before it will play.

Have fun watching..it is hysterical.

Anson

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9630717768

6 Month Check-Up

No pictures tonight, just a quick update that Lily had her 6 month check up today. Mae and I took guesses to how much our little one weighed before her weigh in today. Mae said 18 lbs, my mom said 18.5 lbs, and I said 19 lbs. We were all wrong. Our little one weighs 16.2 lbs. That put her only in the 50th percentile in weight. Her length is 26 1/4 inches long which is in the 65th percentile. And lastly, we are apparently going to have a very intelligent daughter because she has a ton of brains as her head is coming in the 90th percentile. We do tell her often and she hears it from just about everyone how beautiful she is and that she is a good baby, so I am sure that is adding to her inflated head.

Mom (Grandma Cross) said goodbye tonight as she heads back to South Carolina tomorrow afternoon. Christmas will be here in just a few weeks, so it will not be long before she is back again for another visit. It was amazing how fast the last 2 weeks went by while she was here, but we sure did have a great time while she was here.

Well that is all for tonight. Tamara is upstairs attempting to persuade Lily that going to bed before 10 is a great idea and to stay asleep the whole night. She has been having issues the last few weeks sleeping through the night again. Hopefully last night was the last night, but somehow I doubt it.

G'Night!

Anson

Lily looks more like her Daddy

Cross Side of the Family

Today Anson, me, Lily and Ann went to see Aunt Faye. She's in a nursing home because she lost her stomach last year. She is supposed to have surgery next week to have her stomach repaired. She looked and sounded good considering everything she's been through. She was so happy to see us, especially Lily Anna.





Then, we met Uncle Larry and Aunt Margaret along with Cousin Kim and her husband and their kids at Parasson's. It was really nice to see them too.

Aunt Margaret and Mason

Uncle Larry and Terry
Kim and Hailey
Ann and Margaret
Ann, Margaret and the kids (Carmen, Hailey and Mason)
Jeremy, Anson and Uncle Larry
Me and Margaret
All the kids
Kim and Terry
Me and Babe

Rockne's

Last night my parents took us out for my birthday. My b-day isn't until Thursday, but my parents wanted Anson's mom and brother to be able to come too. We had a really nice time.

Me and Anson

My parents with their grandbaby
Grandma Cross
Lillers all bundled up
Lily playing with a straw. She put it in her mouth as if she knew exactly what she was supposed to do with it.
Earlier in the day, Lily was holding her bottle all by herself.

Great Grandma's House

On Friday evening, we went over to Grandma's house to see Uncle Dennis, Aunt Jeanne and their 7 children. We were excited to see them because it's been almost a year since we saw them last. And they have a new addition to their family, Michael. Unfortunately, we didn't get a photo of Adam or Jeanne and the photo of Dennis wasn't very good. We're sorry about that!

Great Grandma herself

"Aunt Ann" to Michael and "Grandma Cross" to Lily Anna

Rachel and Sarah with Lily. Rachel is playing peek-a-boo with Lily.

Rachel is holding Lily. Sarah is holding Michael and Emily is standing in the back.
Aunt Ann reading to Lydia and Rebekah.
Anson holding his cousin Michael and Lillers.
Rachel and Lily
Me and Michael
Lydia, Rebekah and Lily

Grandma Cross holding her "sugar'
Rachel, Emily and Anson being silly
Cousin Jeremy and Michael

Lily's Christmas Photos

Yesterday we took our little princess to Sears to get her Christmas/6 month photos taken. I dressed her up in this precious poofy dress with her little tights and black dress shoes. She did incredibly well considering how cramped she was in a jacket and her car seat. I will post the link to Sears.com when they are available to see. Probably tomorrow. They turned out really well. We ordered Christmas cards =)

We were going to get her photo with Santa too, but man he's expensive! The cheapest package was $20. I just wanted one photo with her and Santa. Does anyone know of a cheaper Santa or a place that will let you take your own photo?