Symphony

I am a bit behind on the blogging for December and through the holidays, so I am going to try and get caught up.

The first week of December, we went to see the Atlanta Symphony play the Christmas portion of Messiah. We had a wonderful time! Here are a few pictures. (This was a kid free night. Nana stayed with Eden. )

Family Pictures

The week after Thanksgiving we took some family pictures with my friend, Shannon. She did a wonderful job! Eden is 14 weeks old here.

Catching up - Thanksgiving Week

Thanksgiving week is always filled with a lot of family and fun! Most of John's extended family comes to stay in the Flowery Branch area every year and we have a fun filled week planned.

Wednesday we had a soup dinner at out home, for which I made nothing! All of the food was made and brought by other family and it was wonderful. I forgot to take pictures while everyone was here.

Thursday was the Thanksgiving feast at the church. So yummy! Here are a few pictures from that:

Cousin Matt holding tired little Eden.
Sweet Lucy, holding Eden. Lucy was so sweet to spend a lot of time holding our little one!
Great-Aunt Ann, holding Eden.

5 of the 6 wonderful McNutt sisters. John's mom, Joan/Nana is the one in the purple sweater in the middle.

John, Andrew, Melissa (& baby girl), Jacob, Eden, Me and John.
Quick family picture. Eden was tired and ready for her nap!

We spent Friday with my family. We had a chili dinner at our home and we made s'mores over the fire for dessert and decorated the Christmas tree. Eden received her first set of Christmas PJ's, which was always a tradition for me and my sister when we were growing up. I will have to get a picture of her in them to post.

Saturday morning we had our 3rd annual girls brunch at my home. I love having women in my house. It helps balance all the testosterone I live with when the boys are here!

We had a great week! We missed all of you that couldn't be here this year and we are already looking forward to next year!

Week Twelve - Eden Singing(video)

Eden has been so much more verbal in the past 2-3 days and we just love hearing her sweet little voice! It's so fun to talk to her or sing to her and have her "talk" and "sing" with us! John was singing to her here and she started singing along. We have tried to capture her doing this on video before today, but she usually sees the camera and becomes distracted and stops. Today I caught her without her knowing, but you will see she notices the camera near the end of the video!

(This is my first attempt at loading a video on the blog. If this works well I am planning to add more in the future!)

Week Eleven - cousins

Eden continues to grow and get more active and verbal daily! It's so fun to hear her testing out her voice by trying to make new sounds. Sometimes she surprises herself with the sounds she makes! It's so fun and sweet to see her personality developing. She has been sleeping longer stretches at night, some nights she will sleep 9 hours and then go back to sleep for another 4!

Aunt Lauren and Cousin Benjamin came to babysit Eden so John and I could go out for a real date. We hardly knew what to do with ourselves, but it was a much needed outing! We are so grateful to our family and friends for being such an awesome support!

Here are a couple pictures of Eden with Benjamin and Lauren.

Benjamin loves Eden! He likes to "pet it" (touch her) and "hold it"(hold her) and he even asked if he could help Lauren "slap it" (burp her). Such a sweet relationship these two little cousins are going to have!

Shout out to Mary

I wanted to share a couple photos of Eden in the adorable onesie that our friend Mary Hanks sent. She has an Etsy store and also sent Eden a precious embroidered burp cloth and bib that I love!! Thank you Mary! You can check out her online store here.

Baby Blues - 10.5 weeks

John and I have come to the conclusion that Eden will NOT have brown eyes. If for some crazy reason she does, we will be VERY surprised! Right now her eyes are a beautiful dark blue with a light ring around her pupil and I really hope they stay blue.

We are loving her little coos, smiles and laughs that seem to increase daily. It's so fun to see her little personality taking shape. Right now she loves trying to get her hands to her mouth, and I am afraid to say she will probably be a thumb-sucker. We have tried again and again to get her to take a pacifier instead, but she will not!

We love this sweet little girl - she's such a blessing from the Lord!