The long awaited walking video

Bella has been practicing and practicing for her video shoot. And here it is!!! She has been taking steps here and there for the past couple of weeks, but just in the past couple of days she has started walking farther distances. Check it out!!

She has been showing off for Grandma Cindy today and is loving the attention. I should have some good pics of the visit by the end of the week.

Daddy at Seminary

I couldn't resist posting these amazing pictures of my beautiful little girl. Jill took these to send to me while I have been at the Seminary this week and I wanted to share them with you all. May God richly bless your family this week.

scott

This is what we do when Daddy is away

This week Scott is taking a week long class in Louisville from 8-5 every day. He wakes up at 5am then gets home late, has to study, or goes to bed. He is wiped out! Actually he has been reading 1000+ pages for this class the past couple weeks and then has several big papers to write after the class. Can't complain terribly much because he gets 3 credit hours for all of this during the summer.

Anyway, so Bella and I have been on our own this week. We've made two trips to the library, once to the gym, several times out shopping, playing in the baby pool in the backyard, reading books, and so forth. Then in the evenings we've been going to a back yard bible club that our church is doing in a local apartment complex. I've been leading the kids in music. Very fun indeed!

Here's us playing on the bed...

Normally, when Scott is home working, Libby (the dog) sits at his feet or in his lap. She has been very out of sorts this week. Bella thinks it is fun though because she has a new playmate. They have been after each other all week and then today.. they are actually playing with each other! haha, very funny, see the video!!

And I thought I'd add this awesome news to this posting.. we have a new beautiful niece! Joslyn Michelle Atkinson. My brother, Mike, and his wife, Amy, brought this little doll into the world this past Saturday. She weighed 9lbs 2oz!!! Way to go Amy! This is their second baby and I hear everything is going very well so far! Congrats!!

First steps

I have no pics or videos - but I just wanted to announce Bella's entry into the walking world - she has been standing with no assistance for several weeks now and today took her first steps. With a large grin she took 1 - 2 - 3 -4 steps toward mommy, then plopped down to her crawl position. Good job Bella!