Trimming the Tree

Lily and her Daddy hanging her "Baby's First Christmas" ornament on the Christmas tree.

Random photo of Lily and Peeve. Peeve is so silly sitting in that basket. Lily always gets very excited when she sees the cats, and Sampson too!

A Day at Tower City

Yesterday, we met Jen, Ken and Zachary up in Cleveland at Tower City. We had such a nice day. Here are photos from our day...

I took this picture. Lily was too amazed by all the decorations and

commotion to pay attention to the camera.
Right in the middle of the mall (by the fountains) they had a play every couple of hours. It was really cute. We decided that we want to take Lily and Zack up there every year. There is so much to do for the kids. They had a train that went around the mall. And there was a workshop where the kids could build toys and get their photos taken with Santa. It will be even more fun in the years to come.

After the show, some of the characters danced around the fountain saying hello to the audience. Anson got close enough to give Lily to the toy soldier!

Zachary and his "Dada." Zack can say Dada now. Poor Jen!

Lily and Zachary saying hello to each other.
Baby Girl and Jen

Photo with Rudolph and the Prince. Lily wasn't impressed.

In the Family Bathroom, I grabbed these photos of the babies in their strollers. Aren't they the cutest kids ever? Well, maybe I'm biased.

Watching the dancing fountains. The babies loved that. I told Jen we both need one of these at home. It sure did keep them entertained for awhile.
The Waybrights watching the fountains

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.