Melody @ 5 Months

Melody is such a sweetie pie. She loves attention and being talked to. If she knows she has your undivided attention she will talk and coo to you. If she feels like she has been ignored to long, she will scream and scream.

She also likes to be walked around. If you try to sit in one spot to long she gets fussy because she wants something new to look at. One of her favorite things to watch is our baby chicks.

Melody took her first over night and out of state trip. We went to Louisville, KY. She has know been to Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. I was really worried she was going to be very fussy during the long drive, but she actually did quit well. She loved all the new places and things to see.

During the trip, I got her to start taking a plug. I had tried to give it to when she was a newborn, but she would just gag on it. I decided to take one along for the trip just in case. She decided she really likes it to go to sleep.

Melody has start rolling over from her tummy to her back now. She doesn't do it very often, but I have started having to be more careful where I lay her.

Swimming is her new favorite activity. She is defiently a water baby.

Louisville Trip

We decided to take a family trip to Louisville, KY because Isaiah has a few shops he contracts work through there that he wanted to visit. We spent a few nights in St. Louis having fun. Jeannie and her kids also came with us.

In St. Louis we went to the zoo. There they had an exhibit were you could pet stingrays. Benjamin's favorite animal is the stingray, so we had to go. He absolutely loved it. Here are some pictures of our zoo trip,

Amita and Carter were a little more timid about petting the rays.
The boys got to pet a bearded dragon. They thought it was so cool to touch a real dragon.

This is how Melody got to cruise around the zoo.

Just some cutie pies.

Amita is a little scared of the elephants.

After St. Louis, we drove to Louisville. The first place we went was ChurchHill Downs where the Kentucky Derby is held. It wasn't open, but we talked to security guard into letting us walk around.

Here is Melody and me at the entrance.

Downtown there was some fountains and a canal to play in. The canal wasn't very deep, so the little kids really enjoyed it. It was so hot and humid there that was really enjoyed getting wet.

Jeannie helping Amita get wet. She needed a lot of encouragement to touch the water.

Isaiah trying to talk Carter into getting in the canal. Once he got in, he loved it.

Michael and Benjamin having fun in the canal.

We also went to the Louisville Zoo. The zoo even had a little water park to play in, which we enjoyed. The highlights of this zoo trip was Benjamin getting to see his second favorite animal the Kamoto Dragon and seeing a silver back gorilla.

The kids riding the dragon.

Melody by the Gorilla. It was so amazing to watch him.

After Louisville, we drove down to Ft. Campbell to visit Monte. We got to take him out for breakfast and spend a few hours visiting before we had to head for home. It was nice to see him and where is is staying.

We had a really fun trip and the kids were very good, but we were all ready to come back home.

Happy Anniversary

Today Isaiah and I are celebrating 8 wonderful years of marriage. I can't hardly believe it has been that long. In a lot of ways I still feel like we are newlyweds.

For my present, Isaiah got me a beautiful new bedset. As you can see from the picture he has very good taste, and I love it. He surprised me by making up the bed before we went to sleep for the night last night, then told me I had to go to bed at 9:30.

Happy Birthday Isaiah

Isaiah turned 30 on Sunday. For his birthday, we had a small party with cake and presents then went to his mom's for a nice dinner. Carter got his dad some gum, and Benjamin made him a nice book. He also got a GPS.

Here are some fun facts about Isaiah:

1)He was born in Utah

2)He moved to Missouri when he was eight

3)He is the fourth child out of twenty

4)He hates the movie Wizard of OZ

5)His favorite food is sushi