My Piano!

Santa found me at the Ross house and brought me this cool little laptop piano. It's Riley-sized and it does all sorts of neat stuff. Mommy and daddy were so proud when I started reaching for the lights and keys on it. I think at first they were enjoying it more than I was... but then I figured it out! I was playing it all by myself! Who knows what I'll grow up to be someday.

Christmas at the Ross House!

I hung out in my swing for a while and talked to Uncle Collin. He also takes pictures like daddy does, but Uncle Collin takes them underwater when he's diving all over the world. I'm not sure how he does that. Maybe he's magic...I talked Meme, Mom and Nana into getting this picture made. It's all four generations of the Collins girls. Pretty cool, huh?
After all the talking and opening presents and pictures I was pretty worn out, so I decided to take a nap with Meme. I didn't want do miss anything, but sometimes a little girl just needs a nap.
This is me and my Papa Ross, just hanging out in the kitchen.

Christmas at the Carlton House!

Papa Joe helped me open this Sonic gift card. In case you can't see, it says, "Tot you would like this." he hee. I've never eaten anything at Sonic yet because my arms aren't long enough to reach that magic red button where you push it and the food magically appears at your car window. But it won't be long. Then on Sunday afternoon we took family pictures. I slept through them because I was all tired from meeting and greeting everybody at church that morning. Then we got a picture of everybody! That's my Uncle Rich, Aunt Jen, Abbie and baby Rex. We had tons of fun playing with all our new toys. Abbie wanted to hold Easter eggs in this picture. I guess she's ahead for Spring.

I got bling!

When we finally got to Texarkana we went to the mall and I got my ears pierced! It hurt for just a second, but they did both ears at once and got it over real quick like. I was really hungry when they did it, so it was bottle time as soon as they got done. It's hard being a little girl, but both Nana and Granna were there for moral support.
You can see them really well here on Christmas morning when I was opening my presents. Personally, I think they look fabulous.

Over the river and through the woods...

It's Christmas! And it's a long way from Searcy to DeQueen and Texarkana. First we stopped in Little Rock at Children's Hospital to see all our friends where mommy used to work. They've got a great new play room there and I give it two thumbs up.

Next we stopped in Bryant so we could see my Rachel. This was at Starbucks, where I hear they have really good coffee. But as you can see I had my usual. I told them to make mine extra foamy with a hint of nutmeg, but I don't think they understood. When we finally made it to DeQueen, we went to Granna's school. I didn't even know I was going to get to meet the Grinch that day. I was kinda bored by him. We had a good time with Granna's class. I read them some stories and then they wanted to take their picture with me. I think I'm gonna like school someday, but I've got a while to wait before I'm big enough.

My Busy, Busy Day!

Here's what I did today:

Took a bath, which I loved...


...and hated!
Then I went for a walk in my snugglie with Mommy and Daddy, which I loved...and hated!

And, finally, me and all my friends (Braxton, Jaylen, Naomi, Lauren and Mason, whew!) got our pictures made by Daddy-O! This one is Mommy's favorite!

Here are some other things I can do: sleep through the night sometimes, sit up for a while in my Bumbo, hold my little quilted ornament that Uncle Stan gave me, "talk" and SMILE!

Bah, Humbug!

I really do know how to smile, but this was gettting really close to my bedtime and, you know what? I didn't care to smile. Humph!

Christmas Carols and Egg Nog

So here I am, just minding my own business and looking as cute as I wanna be...

And then daddy started singing Christmas carols in my face. I thought it was really funny at first. But then I got bored and tried to get mommy to rescue me. After I finally got daddy to stop singing, he decided to drink some egg nog. I'm not sure what that is exactly but it sounds positively nasty.
But as you can see, Cheney thought it was marvelous. She didn't so much share it with daddy, but he did let her clean up the glass for him.
I've been the center of attention lately, so I let Cheney pose for a Christmas picture. I didn't want her to get jealous or forget how to model.

My Hair!

Mommy put lotion on my face yesterday and she thought it would be really funny to put some in my hair. I'm not sure if it was Fop or Dapper Dan, but daddy says that he's a Dapper Dan man, whatever that means.
Then me and Daddy had a staring contest. Oh yeah, I won. I rock.

Christmas Picture Shoot!

This weekend the whole Carlton family came to my house for an early Thanksgiving. My cousin Abbie is two and a half and she's big enough to talk a lot and she kept saying "Happy Thanks" to us. All of us grandkids put on our Christmas outfits and daddy took our pictures. The lights were nice and warm and I kinda fell asleep a little in Papa Joe's arms.

Even Cheney put on her Christmas outfit and got in a picture with me. I even got these nice new shiny shoes!

QUACK!

Mommy told me that Daddy hasn't had much luck shooting duck-birds in the past couple of years, so we decided to try to help him out. First, I showed him the proper way to blow a duck call, then we showed him how to wear his waders! I hope he learned something!

Princess Face

Mom calls me Princess Face, and now I really am! Mrs. Roseanne came from Bryant to see me last week and brought me my very first tiara...and it's a Disney one! If you look really closely, you can see Cinderella's pumpkin coach in the center of it. It's really an ornament for our tree, but I'd rather wear it on my head! Thanks, Mrs. Roseanne!

This next picture is just of me sleeping. When I relax, I REALLY relax!

Oh, and here's an update! I gave Daddy my first real smile this morning. I smiled at him once and then he had to leave the room for a minute, then when he came back, I gave him another one! Mom says she's not, but I think she might be jealous!

The Old Mill

Last Saturday mommy and daddy took me to Little Rock (they said it was the north one, whatever that means) and we went to the mall. We did a little shopping for me at Gymboree and then we ate at mommy's favorite place, Chick-Fil-A. It was all the same to me though. For some reason, Enfamil tastes the same no matter where you eat it. Then we went to the Old Mill and took pictures. I decided to let them be in this picture with me.

Boo to You!

We had Halloween and Grammy's birthday at our house. Here are pictures from all of our fun! Happy Birthday, Grammy!


Um, did I say "all of our fun"? I meant most of our fun and some of our drama.

Keely and Carson stopped by on their way home from trick or treating. Carson was plenty ready to get out of his Spiderman suit, but the first thing Keely said to my daddy was, "Mr. Jason, do I look pretty in my costume?" We all thought she did...and we all thought Carson looked even stronger than the real Spiderman!

Nap Buddies

I've had some buddies come to visit recently...I just napped with them all the day long! First with my Amelia and then with my Rachel. Anybody else feel sleepy?

I Like to Go to Church!

This is what I did. I took my first big girl bath (and as you can tell from the pic, I'm still not sure how I feel about that), then I got up this morning and went to big church in the first newborn outfit that hasn't been too big! Thanks, Aunt Jenn! I slept through Daddy's sermon, and for the very first time, Mommy almost went to sleep during his sermon. I think that had more to do with the fact that I decided to sleep during church instead of during the night last night. Oh, and when she wasn't fighting sleep, she was trying not to laugh at me because I kept making funny faces. I think we're gonna get each other in trouble if we keep hanging out together!

Also this weekend, my Nana, PawPaw, Uncle Daniel and Aunt Lissa came to visit me. Ben was there, too, but he still hasn't come out to play. We had a big lunch Saturday and lots of fun together! Thanks for coming to see me!

Tomorrow, my Amelia is coming up to hang out with me. I think we might go to Wal-Mart to take some cheap pictures, just for the fun of it!

My First Doctor Visit and My Day of Fun with Aunt Denise!

Nana gave me this outfit in the hospital before I was born. I'm still very dainty, so it's still a little big, but I'm trying to make it work!
Here's me and my Aunt Denise. We had so much fun today!
Daddy picked me up last night and look at how smushed my face got! Mommy thought I looked TOO FUNNY!

Ok, so today we went to see my very own doctor, Dr. Ben Wilkins. He is so nice and he says I'm just the right size (I weighed 7 lbs, 7 oz when I was born and now I'm up to 7 lbs, 15 oz!). I won't go back to see him for 6 more weeks, and then I've got to get shots! Ick!

Aunt Denise went to the doctor with us, and then we went on my first shopping trip to Wal-Mart and Tangerine Turtle where Aunt Denise got me some cute stuff! She and Uncle Shawn spoil me!

That's all for now! Love you all!