becoming a southerner

when do you get to call yourself a southern gal? is it when your baby has a little "joe dirt" mullet you can't bring yourself to trim? is it when you don't mind humidity? or is when, you just love to go to crawfish boils?
answer-all of the above.
our neighborhood had their annual crawfish boil. it was a nice way of getting out and meeting our neighbors, since we are still fairly new to the neighborhood. the HOA board members put brought out pounds and pounds of crawfish. it had to have been at least 300 lbs. now, that's a lot of crawfish. chris is not a big fan of eating crawfish, but i on the othe hand, love it! oh, and i love the potatoes and corn that come along with it. guess, this okie may be turning cajun.
miles and his first crawfish

yummy!

mj & mommy at our neighborhood park

tia lally visits!

tia "lally" is miles' aunt areil-my sister. we were happy to have her visit us for 9 days, and would you believe that wasn't enough :) it was so nice to have her here, and love, play, laugh, shop, eat, drink wine, and play some more. we did several projects, but the main goal i wanted her to do was spend time with miles, and that we happily accomplished.


aunt areil & miles at the boardwalk

our own miles "phelps"

miles just loves his waterbaby class. we go twice a week to class, and can only stay between 30-45 minutes at a time. right now at this stage is all about getting miles comfortable with the water. he does kick and splash, but for the most part just loves to be in the water. one of miles' swimming buddies is three, and is an awesome swimmer, he can swim the length of the pool, and play "rescue" with the frogs and retrieves from the bottom of the 4 foot pool. awesome!
this week i was able to bring areil (my sis) along with us, and she got some great pics of miles and i in the pool.


waterbaby


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bad bad blogger.

i've been on the naughty blogger list. little baby boys don't let their mommies have computer time. so, here's a few events that have taken place...we were busy these past two months!

february~we took miles on his first road trip of many to ardmore. my parents were just thrilled to have us visit for valentine's weekend. how much sweeter can it get with a cutie pie like miles? the following weekend, was mardi gras weekend, and what better time to have our dear friends visit from ok & tx. it was the perfect occassion to introduce miles as an inductee into the "party boys" crew. at the end of the month, we took another trip, and this time we ventured out to good old columbus afb, ms! huh? you read that right. we went back for dave & elizabeth's assignment night, and for an extra treat sarah & bret drove out to meet miles! columbus, turns out to be a perfect halfway point for the both of us to drive. i can just see the hitchin' post & la fiesta reunions that lie ahead.

march~this month turned out to be a month with many highlights. i celebrated my 4th anniversary of my 25th birthday on the 9th. it was my first birthday as mommy. miles got me a very delicious and adorable cake...he ordered a photo cake of himself (thoughtful, isn't he?), and for his gift he made a ceramic handprint. my birthday gift this year was a choice between several items...a knife block set, a tree for the backyard (2nd choice), new bedding for our bedroom, or a laptop. i couldn't pass up the chance for a laptop! now, hopefully with the laptop, i can be more of a blogger! we took a long trip out to kansas city in hopes to welcome my brother in law from iraq. he was scheduled to return to the states for his r&r 2 week break. we jumped at the chance to in hopes that miles could meet his uncle ryan. we did in fact got to see ryan and visit for several days before we had to come back to shreveport. i am pretty sure that miles left an impression on his uncle ryan's heart.

and, that updates you to where we are now...i promise to try to be a better blogger, and keep this updated. we have another site that is available for pictures. let me know if you'd like the website.