This is the life for me....

Tonight Simms and I went with Dru while he roped...something that usually takes a lot of begging on his part, but tonight was nice and cool, so we went with him to "watch." Dru has been talking about getting Simms on a horse since before she was born, and of course, I have always said, "Yes, when she is older. And she will wear a helmet." And then Dru has always obviously laughed at me and said she absolutely wasn't wearing a helmet on a horse! (She will when she rides more often!) Anyway, tonight Dru thought he would try his luck by asking me if Simms could get on his horse Preacher with him so that I could take a picture! I reluctantly agreed, and said only for a moment ( I am sooo nervous myself around horses). Well, we put her up, took the picture, and Dru was handing her back to me, when she developed the saddest, most pitiful look either of us had ever seen. Once in my arms she started crying BIG tears and had her lip poked out a mile. Dru and I were both feeling so sorry for her, so I agreed to put her back up. As soon as she was back on Preacher, she started grinning from ear to ear and LAUGHING!! Needless to say I believe she is going to be a natural! She rode around with Dru for about 20 minutes! She was thrilled! As was Dru! This made his night! He was so happy he said he may not be able to sleep! (A true horse and Simms lover!) I am so happy they had this special time together!

Daddy's Girl

This adorable picture is of Simms riding on a gator with her Daddy at the farm. We had gone to feed the horses and calves and were going on a little ride when I looked over at Simms and realized her hair was blowing out like a little troll doll! It was so cute. The funniest thing happened while we were there. Dru had Simms over petting his horse Preacher and she just laughed and laughed, smiling the entire time. Rewind a week. In my presence she is terrified of 2 toy horses she has. Sissy gave Simms a stuffed horse the day she was born, and my mom bought her a plastic one the other day; (both of these gestures were to honor Dru's obsession/love for horses). Anyway, Simms is terrified of these 2 toys. She will barely even touch them. She reaches out very hesitantly and touches them with like one finger, kind-of crying the whole time. My point: she feels so safe in Dru's arms that the huge version of this animal makes her happy just like they make her Daddy happy. It is so sweet. She is truly a Daddy's girl!
**Simms' 9 month post is below**

9 months old!!!

**I have tried and tried to figure this picture thing out. FYI~ these are from today, but are obviously out of order, with no captions, and out of place. Bear with me. Be sure you pay close attention to sweet Bennett hugging Simms after her foot prick. And check out that boy's white keds!!**Our sweet baby turned 9 months old today! I just cannot believe it! It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital with all of Simms' grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, you name it, they were there, waiting on her to be born. It was such an exciting day, and I was so happy all day, but no one could have told me how happy, thankful and excited Dru and I would be at 6:31 p.m. when we saw Simms' sweet face for the first time! It seems like we blinked and now she is 9 months old! Our lives are filled with tons of excitement now and so much love for this little baby! She isn't crawling yet, but at her dr.'s appointment today her peditrician said she thought Simms would walk before she crawled. She has been standing on her own now for about 15-20 secs! It is so much fun to watch! She is eating solids of course and we've been told we can introduce some table foods to her (with only 1 tooth:-) ).
We started our day off by loading up both babies (Sissy and Bennett) and me and Simms, and headed to Columbus for Simms' appointment. She is weighing in at 19.5 lbs. (60 percentile) and she is 27 in. long (35 percentile) so she is KIND OF getting a little longer and leaner. We love her being as chunky as she can be! The dr. said she looked wonderful (of course!) and was as healthy as can be! She had a foot prick for her hemoglobin test and those numbers were great too! We can switch out one feeding a day now with real milk, but I think I want to wait for that! It seems too grown-up! She goes back in November, and tear, tear, she will be 1 year by that point! I cannot believe it! I took her to babies r' us after the dr. and got her a walker and a toy piano for being such a big girl! (Not really, she sqwaled the entire visit, but I can't blame her)! She thinks she is so growny in her walker!
Daddy and I love you so much Simms! We are so blessed by you in our lives and love you more and more each day!!! Happy 9 months!!

Where have my pictures gone?

I am still trying to figure this blogging thing out..I have just posted a new blog about Simms' first tooth (it should be after this one) but all of my pictures from my last post get bumped to the bottom. Can someone please explain to me how to upload pictures within a posting so those pictures will be a part of my latest posting? As of now I have to upload the pictures and write my posting as the caption...Any help would be great!

We have....

Oh my goodness! Simms has a tooth, finally! It has just broken the skin and is the bottom left, in the middle! It is so cute and I am probably more excited than anyone in this world to see it! You see, she is going on 9 months old and most babies I know have at least 1 tooth by 6 months. Not to mention anytime she is cranky we tell people, "Oh she is teething!" (We have been doing this since February!) It makes me sad too though! Has time gone by this fast? It is crazy to me that I have just scheduled her 9 month photo session and her 9 month peditrician's appointment is next week! I am interested to see how much our chunky bunny is weighing now. Last time, she was in the 79% for weight and only the 35% for height! How adorable! I will post pictures soon of that tooth when she'll let me get a shot of it!

A Relaxing Week at the Lake

We have had a wonderful week at Lake Martin with Dru and his entire extended family (almost!)! I do believe there are like 45 people here but at least there is room! We have had a great time with Simms! She loves the lake!We did not take her to see the fireworks though! I was pretty sure they would frighten her! You could hear the fireworks from the lakehouse but she slept through that! Little monkey girl is a great sleeper! We sure have had fun dressing her up in her cute little outfits! Dru PROMISES to upload all of the pictures we have taken so that I can put them on the blog TODAY!! We have had fun meeting up with friends that are here also and hanging out with them! I hope Dru has enjoyed a week off from work! He deserves it! We have gotten way too much sun and eaten great food all week! I will hopefully have pictures up by tonight!

The most wonderful 8 months of our life!

Today Simms is 8 months old! Wow! (I will post a picture later; Dru is having to help me with our camera). The past 8 months have been incredible! Simms is such a blessing to Dru and me, and our family and friends! She is such a sweet, calm baby and each day has been filled with excitment! No one could have prepared me for the love I feel for Simms and it has been such a special time in our lives! At 8 months she is full of energy! We are eating lots of baby food, and hoping to get off soy milk soon! Simms STILL has no teeth! She is continuing to "teeth" and we are waiting everyday to see a tooth! She laughs all the time now; that wonderful baby belly laugh and she is so observant of everything especially her daddy! Thank you for changing our lives in the best way possible Simms! We are so in love with you and thank God numerous times day and night for you!