Dahlia's Family

I can't believe that Mahala is three days shy of 6 months. She is sitting up now and wanting to crawl so bad. "E" for effort! She is till so smiley...as long as you're holding her. I think she'll be much happier when she is mobile. Like Dahlia, she is loving solid food. Her favorite, so far, is apple sauce, of course. I still seems unreal that I am a mother of two. Dahlia is saying more and more every day and she will repeat anything. Sometimes funny, sometimes not so much. At dinner, quite often, she will toast to the Razorbacks clinking our glasses together. When someone is leaving she will holler after them "See you laer allelaler! Cocidile! Soon baboon!" Hopefully within the next month she will be potty trained. Wish me luck! She loves her new room and her "big girl bed". It's her "pink". Right now, everything is hers. "My mommy! My sissy! Dahlia's snacks!" So until next time, here are a few pictures of Dahlia's family.

April: ~We played outside a lot and just enjoyed being a family of four. We have been blessed with two very enjoyable girls. Mahala is sleeping through the night already and eating well. Her last Dr. Appointment she weighed 12 pounds 13 ounces and was 23 3/4 inches long. Sooooo BIG! She is such a happy baby; you just have to look at her and she'll smile. Dahlia is loving being a big sister. She want's to be with Mahala all the time and includes her in everything including putting Dahlia to bed. It's very sweet to see Dahlia loving her sissy so much.

Welcome Mahala (sounds like Mikayla without the "k") Rose. She was born March 26, 2009 at 5:59pm. It was a very long day ending in an emergency C-section. I went through the whole night with contractions and by morning they stopped. So my Dr. came in and helped them start again by breaking my water and cranking the pitosin (spelling?). Then with the help of an epidural I was ready to push by 5:30. First push everything looked good. Second push Mahala's heart beat went from 140 beats to 40 and 15 minutes later she was born via C-section. It was very scary but we were both healthy and my recovery was very smooth. The day after she was born we had my friend Annie come in and take some pictures of the four of us. You can check out her website and blog at www.yourlifedocumented.com for more of her work.

Sorry again for the long delay. As you can tell our lives have been very busy. Here is a quick rundown of almost everything.
October: ~We trick-or-treated with Auntie Anna and Auntie Amanda
November: ~We celebrated Thankssgiving with Grammy and Pops at their new house
December: ~Dahlia had her first trip to the ER.
~Record snowfall which made for great forts and snowmen
~We spent Christmas with Paul's family.
~My parents were able to make it to our house through the snow and
bad roads for the Selby family Christmas.
January ~We got ready for the baby coming in March
and ~Tea party at Nana's house
February: