Birthday weekend with best friends!

This weekend 2 of my best friends ever came to visit - Kara and Tracy. Kara's birthday was Saturday and mine was Sunday. We had a great time celebrating! Kara has a great camera and took these first few pictures.Tasting an apple

Kara taught Brody how to give a "high five"! He was so proud of himself!

Giving Tracy high five

I love squash!

I love my baby!
Kara and Tracy hanging out Saturday morning with Brody

Eating lunch at Salsaritas

Flowers and birthday cake from Jay, wine glasses from Tracy

Enjoying the nice weather on Saturday

Kissing on Daddy!

Tracy, me and Kara about to go out to dinner - we had such a great time and I am so thankful you girls came to visit!!

On Sunday, Jay and I both ran, and then we just hung out at the house with the baby - it was a nice relaxing way to spend a birthday!

Sitting up playing

Visit from Grandma, Papa, and Jennifer

This weekend we had a great visit from Grandma and Papa and then Aunt Jennifer. Brody loved having them around, and is now just a little spoiled! It was a nice visit, and thanks to Aunt Jennifer for keeping Brody for me while I was sick one day!

Wednesday night Cara came over for dinner while the boys studied - Brody loves girl talk!

Brody loves Cara!

Of course, he loves his Daddy!

Papa and Grandma playing with Brody - thanks for all your help!

They gave Brody a bath

We went out to eat at LaPaz on Friday night

Saturday morning before the race - Jay and I ran in the Village to Village 10K race - it was a hard race but we had fun

Feeding Brody is a big event!

Aunt Jennifer got here on Saturday

Watching football on Sunday

Skyping with Aunt Christie and the girls

On Monday, we went shopping - Jennifer got some maternity clothes!

He is getting so much better at eating! We are going to start veggies soon!

On Thursday morning, the WASH mommy and me group came over to play - lots of babies and fun!

Baby Abigail Stephens

Andrea and Abigail came to the play group too - she is almost 1 month old now!

Rice cereal

Brody will be 5 months old on Wednesday! We had a check up this past week, and everything was going well with him. He is 14lbs, 3 oz! He is in about the 60th percentile for height and head circ and the 30th for weight. The pediatrician said we can go ahead and start him on rice cereal, so that was the big event this weekend! He isn't too good with the whole "eating off a spoon" yet, but he will get there! He is also doing so well with sitting up - he gets better every day. He can do it for a little while before he topples over! He also rolled over a few more times, so he is working on becoming mobile!

We had about 2 inches of ice last Sunday, so the whole city of Birmingham shut down! It was nice because Jay got off early on Monday and Tuesday.

Playing with Daddy

Sitting up is so fun!

Brody was sitting up with Jay and fell asleep this way!

About to eat his first rice cereal!

There was more on him than in his belly!

I like this!

Bathtime - he enjoys it more and more each time!

Vamsi, an ortho resident in Erie came to Birmingham for a fellowship interview, so he stayed with us, and we hung out on Saturday and went to dinner on Saturday night - we had a very nice time!

More cereal!

I just rolled over!