Birthday Cake

Alaina got to eat her first birthday cake tonight. We celebrated our next door neighbor Brynn's 3rd birthday. Brynn also has a sister, Bailey, who demolished her cake. Alaina ate some, but most of it ended up all over her. When she was done, I took my shirt off, grabbed her and brought her straight over to our place and into the tub. Alaina had a lot of fun though. She has also been pulling herself to standing a lot more. She found out today that she can pull herself up on the couch, so she is amusing herself more and more. She also got in another bottom tooth this week. Wendy put in the baby book that all Alaina wants for christmas is her two front teeth. She is still missing the top ones. Things in Texas are very good and warm, unlike what some of you are experiencing up in the north.

Love you all,
Dave, Wendy, and Alaina

Family Picture

Grandma Johnston is here right now and she took some family pictures of us. After about 10 tries this is the good picture. We are having a great time right now with Mom, Laura and Josh here. Alaina is loving all of them

She Can Stand!!!

Alaina was able to grab onto our new humidifier and pull herself up for the first time without any help. Here's the video.

One more cute picture

Here are 2 more cute pictures that didn't fit on the last post. Alaina loves her Daddy so much and told him so today! Well actually she just said dada, but we know what she meant. She said it when it was only her and him twice this morning and later when I was holding her and "dada" walked out of the room. Too cute!!!

Hey all! Here are some pictures of Alaina today and tonight. We just put up baby gates and Alaina loves to stand and look out at what she can't get to. Daddy and her have had a lot of fun tonight. Dave also got up with her this morning and fed her a bottle so I could sleep in. So nice! Miss you all!
Love,
Dave, Wendy, & Alaina

6 more years

So, I re-enlisted for 6 more years in the Army Reserves today. It was something that both of us talked about and I wanted to do it. I had the ceremony out at the railshop where I work in front of one of the locomotives. My NCOIC (non commisioned officer in charge) went out and got a cake for the occasion. Seeing as we are planning on hopefully staying here for an extra year, it really made a lot of sense to re-enlist because I will have less than 5 years left on my newest contract when we move back to wisconsin. It feels really good to know that I am going to continue serving our great nation for at least another 6 years.

She has her eggs and is kinda eating them too...

More playing than eating with her scrambled egg yolks, but she enjoyed them regardless. She also found Daddy's football which she loves playing with. The picture of her asleep on me is with her cuddled up with the blanket that my cousins Grace, Sophie, and Emily, made for her. It is such a soft blanket. She is doing really well. She is getting into everything now. I swear that if there is a fuzz ball in my living room she will find it and try to put it into her mouth. She still loves everyone. We just had new neighbors move in. They have an eleven month old daughter and a daughter who is almost three. She loves playing with them. They all crawled around on our front porch for about 45 minutes today.