Nathan and Charlotte meet Baby Pearce!

Ashley, Nathan, and Charlotte came for a visit this past Wednesday and stayed through the weekend.  Wayne came after work on Friday.  I was soooo excited for Nathan and Charlotte to meet Baby Pearce.  Ashley told me that Nathan practiced how to hold a baby using Charlotte's dolls.  He also told Ashley he wanted to give Pearce a bottle :)  Charlotte is OBSESSED with babies and baby dolls.  Whenever she sees a stroller or a real baby, she gets so excited and says "Baby!"  I was so excited for her to have a real live baby to love on!

They both immediately wanted to hold Pearce.  Nathan was so gentle and loving with Pearce. 

Auntie Ashy with Pearce....see the hands grabbing for the baby?  Ha! 

We had another visitor stop by.  This is Abbey and her mom Kathleen.  I taught Abbey last year.   

Abbey was so good with Pearce! 

Ashley kept Pearce and I took N and C to Mc Donald's for lunch and then Jumpstreet to play.  He was worn out! 

N and C both wanted to help change the baby.  Nathan was especially helpful.  He would hold Pearce's paci in his mouth while I changed him, he would get a diaper for me, he constantly wanted to hold Pearce.  If I needed a burp cloth, Nathan would get it for me.  He was seriously sooo helpful!!! 

Charlotte feeding the baby :) 

Nathan and his little buddy! 

My baby boy :)  I still can't believe this baby is mine.  More on that in another post.  

Ashley, Wayne, Nathan, and Charlotte, I had so much fun with you this past weekend!!!  I can't wait to see you again soon.  We love you!!!!

My new camera!! Thank you Mom!!!

First of all, did you notice my new title to the blog?  It used to be "This Crazy Thing Called LIFE."  Now it's "This AMAZING Thing Called LIFE."  I think that's an appropriate title now that we have our little miracle :)

When my mom was here, she decided to get us a new camera so that we could take lots of really good pics of Pearce.  I had gotten a new one not too long ago, but it's a smaller digital one.  Mom said we needed a really nice one to take pics and the smaller digital one to just have with me in my diaper bag.  I really thought it was too much, but she insisted and we went to Best Buy and looked at the cameras.  She got us the Canon EOS Rebel T3i model.  We have had so much fun practicing with it!  Ashley is coming tomorrow and she has a similar camera so she can show me more about it.  It really is amazing the difference in picture quality with this camera and my smaller camera.  Here are some pics we took with the new camera.  The bath pics are really funny...you can see how relaxed he gets when we wash his hair.  Not bad, huh?

Ahhhh....bliss :)

These were taken in the guest room with just natural light coming in from the window.  My sister Jen took them.  I thought they turned out so cute! 

Margarita time!!  We had Andy and Nandini over for dinner and Chris made fajitas and margaritas! 

Mommy of the Year picture right here! 

I got this shirt in Fredericksburg when a few friends and I did the wine tasting tour.  I was pregnant at the time, so I could not partake in the tasting, but I did get this shirt for after baby.  It says "Mommy's Sippy Cup."  HA!! 

Andy and Pearce 

Nandini and Pearce 

Where's Fatty?   

I just LOVE my new camera!!!!  Thank you so much Mom!!!!  I can't wait to learn how to use it better.  Grandparents, you can expect a lot of pictures of Pearce with this new camera!!