Bye, Bye Paci

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving week! We went to Mississippi last week and returned home to have Thanksgiving here at home this year! We enjoyed not traveling for once on a holiday- it was kinda nice!!

The main event in our house this week is MV saying goodbye to her paci. She only used it when she was sleeping, but we gave them to the "pacifier fairy" yesterday. I got this idea from the show "Super Nanny". The way it works is you get a bag and let them decorate the bag, and then you go around and collect all the pacis in the bag. After you collect them all, you put the bag in the mailbox (or some other location), and the pacifier fairy comes and gets them to take to all the new babies that need them. In return for giving up the pacis, the fairy leaves a prize in the bag that the pacis were in. O.K., I know you are thinking that this is a crazy idea, but it WORKED!!!! MV was very excited throughout the decorating, finding, and even putting them in the mailbox stage of the event. She did have a hard time at nap yesterday (crying alot), but last night she went right to sleep without a peep and slept until 6:45 this morning(her normal time)!!! The pacifier fairy left her a Tinkerbell doll as her prize and she LOVES it and even slept with it last night. Here are some pictures from our farewell ceremony yesterday. I am sooo proud of her and this really makes me realize how big she is getting!!

Decorating her bag



Hunting for pacis





Taking them to the mailbox





Showing off her Tinkerbell doll

4th and 4th game

Elizabeth tagged me on the 4th and 4th game! The way this works is to 1. open your picture folder 2. go to the 4th folder, and 3. open the 4th picture and explain what is going on in this picture and why it is important to you. O.K. so here I go...




This is a picture of MV with Jim playing on our bed which they do almost every night before bath! I love seeing the two of them playing together and MV LOVES her daddy!! He is a wonderful daddy!!

I tag : Rena, Erika, and Nikki

Sweet conversations...

Last night when I was putting MV to bed, we sang "Jesus loves me" just like we have every night since she was born, and after we finished the song the conversation went like this:
MV looking up at me: "Mommy, you Jesus?"
Me: NO!, I am not Jesus. Jesus is in heaven with God.
MV: "Me go see him too?"
Me: "You will see him one day if you believe in Him"
MV: "Noah and the ark too?"
Me: "Yes, Noah and the ark will be there too."
MV: " You hold my hand Mommy"
Me: "Of course I will hold your hand."

I still have a smile on my face as I remember this precious conversation and many more as my little girl is growing up!!

Baby's first photos

Here is our 2nd little princess! I love the one where she has both arms up- it remind me of how MV used to sleep when she was a newborn with both arms up above her head! Sorry for the quality (we do not have a scanner).

"For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:13

The results are in....

We are having a GIRL!!! That's right Mary Varner is going to have a little sister to grow up with! The ultrasound was great and also showed that the blood around the baby was completely gone!!! Thanks for all the prayers, and we thank God for this wonderful gift.

My growing belly!

Here is a picture of my ever so growing belly! I am 16 weeks today, and go for my next dr. appt. on Thurs. I hope to start posting more belly pics in the future as it gets bigger and bigger!!!

Fall Fun!

We had a fun weekend this weekend! Jim's parents, Grandaddy and Nana, came to visit us for the weekend. We went to the Pumpkin Patch on Saturday, and had a great time! Mary Varner picked out her pumpkin which was one of the smallest ones there, but that is the one she wanted (yes, she stayed dry all week). They had a bouncy house, face painting, and a small scale petting zoo also. As you can see in the pictures it was a really fun time for all of us!

Ultrasound results

We had an ultrasound done today and it did show that the bleeding around the baby is the same which is good (not getting any bigger)! The baby would not cooperate at all with trying to see if it is a boy or girl. Its legs were crossed the entire time and we even tried having me drink cold water to try and get the baby to move. Anyway, my regular dr. appt is next Thurs., and they are going to try again then! This is a very stubborn child. We may have our hands full!!!

Did someone say cupcakes?

Well, I bribed my child with cupcakes. Yes, I told MV on Tuesday that if she stayed dry and did not have any accidents for 3 full days then I would take her to get a cupcake. I did not really believe that she would actually remember from day to day or even hold me to it, but boy was I wrong!! Almost every time she went to the bathroom for those three days she would say that she was going to get a cupcake. At first she wanted a purple cupcake (which I did not know how I was going to pull that off), but thankfully by Thursday (the 2nd day) she changed it to an orange cupcake which was perfect with Halloween stuff around right now. So yes, she did it!! She went 3 full days (and continues today) to be accident free!! I took her to the bakery to pick out her cupcake on Friday after nap, and of course they did not have just one orange cupcake all by itself. The only ones that they had were the mini cupcake package with about 3 orange and 3 brown ones. So, we ended up with more cupcakes than I originally planned on, but she ate one orange and one brown and was VERY excited the entire time. She even sang the phrase "cupcake party" over and over the whole time we were in the store and while she was eating the cupcakes. Anyway, this week I told her if she goes 5 full days then we will get a real pumpkin for her to have at the house. I took the easy way out because we plan on getting one anyway. I just hope she does it or else we may not be able to get one this year. I have faith that she will! I am SO proud of her. Here are some pictures and a little video from the bakery and the actual "cupcake party" at home.
Looking at all the yummy choices
Picking out the perfect ones
Ahhh.. so good