It's Been A While

It has been several months since we have posted!. Our excuses are that there are just not enough hours in the day and that we have a computer with a mind of its own! Mary Gibson has changed so much since our last post. She has grown more hair, and started walking right at 11 months. She toddled around for a month or so and now she and Grayson chase each other around the house squealing with excitement. It is so cute to watch them play together now that she is older! Grayson's name for her is "MiMi." He can say Mary Gibson but just chooses not to. Grayson is our little parrot. He repeats everything we say, so we are having to be extra careful these days to watch what we say :) The following are pictures from several months ago until now. Some are random and some are from our vacation to Florida, Mary Gibson's 1st birthday party, and Mary Gibson's one year doctor's check-up. Mary Gibson loves to eat, but we are not sure where she puts it given that she is 20 pounds (30th percentile) and 30 inches tall (75th percentile). I guess she burns it all off by trying to keep up with Grayson!

Easter, Birthday Party, & Vegetable Garden

These first few pics were taken Good Friday in Lake Charles. We had a great time celebrating that part of the Easter weekend with the Greenes. We are late in posting Easter pics because Mary Gibson came home with a stomach virus and had us very busy for several days. This was her first sickness and she handled it like a big girl! This was Eric's tractor as a little boy.These next few pics were taken Easter Sunday in Centreville and Baton Rouge.The next section are pictures from Grayson's 2nd birthday party. He and his cousin Harrison had a joint Sesame Street party. Grayson loved his Cookie Monster cake and Harrison loved his Elmo cake! It was a great time had by all...yes, even Mary Gibson who does not look like she is enjoying herself in the picture below. Mee Maw's idea was to get a quick picture before the party started and Mary Gibson didn't agree. She saw her bottle and wanted it NOW! Daddy and Mary Gibson after church.Our vegetable garden is starting to produce!! We are so excited to see the fruits of our labor :)
Grayson is tasting our first cherry tomato. Tomatoes are one of his very favorite things to eat!

Grayson is 2 years old today!!!

Our 4th Wedding Anniversary!!

Four years ago today Eric and I walked down the isle of First Presbyterian Church in Baton Rouge and then celebrated our union downtown at The Camelot Club. It was an amazing day! Eric and I can remember floating on rafts in the pool on our honeymoon discussing where in the world God was going to place us and what our lives would be like. Eric had sent out resumes all over the U.S. and we were so delighted that just a few months after we returned home from our honeymoon Thomson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Mississippi contacted him. It is all history from that point on!

March 19, 2005
Six months later we moved to Centreville, Mississippi

Two years and one month later the Lord blessed us with Grayson

17 months after Grayson was born the Lord surprised us with Mary Gibson

These are the beautiful flowers Eric sent me today! They are so happy looking and have helped to make the day very special.

We have had a wonderful 5 1/2years together (4 married, 1 1/2 dating/engaged) filled with many adventures and a few surprises :) We look forward to what the Lord has in store for our future!

Happy 6 month BIrthday Mary Gibson!!!

Our sweet baby girl is six months old today! It is hard to believe a half a year has gone by already since she was born. This picture was taken yesterday. We had our Missions Conference this weekend at church, so my mom came to help me with the children while I played hostess and attended the meetings. It was so nice to have her here! She brought Grayson and Mary Gibson each a treat and we were able to capture Mary Gibson opening hers and loving it!! Her 6 month Birthday also marks the day that we saw her first tooth coming in! She has been drooling and chewing on everything for months. I felt something sharp as she was chewing on my finger tonight and looked and saw the top of one of her bottom teeth peeking through her gum.

Spring is coming!

Here's our happy girl just waking up from a nap. She loves to look at herself in the mirror and have lots of conversations. She is a VERY verbal (and loud) little girl ! We will put Mary Gibson down on the living room floor to play and when we come back into the room she will have moved from one side of the room to the other! It is amazing how fast she can get around by just being able to roll.

We have decided to plant a vegetable/herb garden this Spring. Grayson & daddy worked very hard tilling and planting seeds this past weekend. Grayson is so funny. He got this push toy that we had bought for him when he was learning to walk and insisted on bringing it outside. I couldn't figure out what he wanted to do with it at first. I then realized when he took it over to the garden that he was using it as his tiller just like daddy had done the day before. Of course, Grayson thought his tiller could do the same job.

Grayson is enjoying watering the garden daily but we are having a little difficulty trying to make him understand that he is not supposed to dig up the seeds and replant them everyday!

I was tending to Mary Gibson and I think in an effort to get my attention, Grayson decided to take a handful of mud and put it all in his mouth. He was delighted that it worked!!!

Poochie (Great-Grandma Ferrell) came up for a visit and enjoyed time with the kids. Mary Gibson cannot take her eyes off of Grayson. She thinks he is the funniest thing in the world. It is so neat to see how children (especially babies) are so drawn to other children.

This was Mary Gibson's first time in the rock box. Grayson is giving her lessons in the proper rock box etiquette :-)

Here Grayson and Daddy are going out for another fishing adventure. Of course, Teddy had to go on the fishing trip also. Poor Teddy had an unfortunate experience as he fell into the pond! Eric says that he doesn't think it was an accident. He thinks Grayson wanted to see Teddy fall off the warf and go for a swim in the pond. Gotta love little boys!!!!