So I'm not a real awards show kind of person and the Emmys this year, for the most part, were no exception. There were a few comedians who were quite funny (Ricky Jervais, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and, OF COURSE, Steve Martin) and I enjoyed the bit about the Smothers Brothers. But the one gem from the show is something we all can enjoy! Josh Groban did a medley of TV theme songs and it is FABULOUS!!! Even if you don't know all of the shows, most of them are very familiar, and all of them are made funny simply by the fact that it's Josh Groban singing them. :-) Enjoy!!!



L&S,
Lesie

Rockettes, Here I Come!

I realize that for most babies, this is old hat by now, but for my sweet baby, kicking and pushing with those sweet little feet is a new adventure. :-) Hooray for harness-free life!

L&S,

Drew, Leslie, & Tucker

Three of My Favorites

Sleeping Beauty

*This picture is just SO Tucker.*

Bathing Cutie

Pure Joy

L&S,

Leslie

Harness-free -- Way to be!!!

First pair of pants :-D

L&S,

L

*Hiccup*

So this video has two purposes. The first is for you to see the HUGE hiccups my daughter gets regularly (so funny). The second is for you to see the cute baby feet we have all been without for over 3 months now. :-) yipee!!







L&S,
Drew, Leslie, and Tucker

OOOOH, TOES....for some people...

*For those of you who recognize this quote, I apologize for how insanely inappropriate it is for this moment, but you get my point...*
DRUMROLL, PLEASE!!! We got the harness off today! Yipee!!! I get to see baby toes anytime I dang well please now. :-) How fabulous is that?!? Here's some pics from the day.

Sleeping on Daddy during our hour plus wait for the doctor.

with Dr. Schrader, her Ortho

in her first set of bloomers (that were almost too small) ha!

with Daddy in front of the children's pictures in the lobby

with Mommy outside the doctor's office

As we expected, she has had a couple of small panicked moments, but most of our day has been spent happy and kicking. We are having SO MUCH FUN. We're having to re-learn some things, and holding her is completely different ~ in such a delightful way!!! What a joy!!!

L&S,

Drew, Leslie, and Tucker

Has it really been 3 months?!?

L&S,

Leslie

It is beyond comprehension...

...how CUTE this child is!!! Three months pics at Target. SO CUTE!!!

** Any guesses where Daddy is in the above picture?**

L&S,

Leslie

Prepare to smile

This is my favorite one so far!!! After bathtime tonight, Drew started playing peek-a-boo with Tucker and she began giggling so loudly that I heard her from downstairs (where I was locating her comb). SO STINKING CUTE!!!

L&S,

Leslie

A Step Back In Time

So for a brief moment today, I thought I'd step back in time to a simpler time -- back when I was constantly sharing videos of my CAT rather than my BABY. ;) tee-hee. All I'll say about this video is my cat is a total goober!

L&S,

Leslie

A random spattering...

Keelin holding Tucker and posing. *please note the toes flexed in concentration*

Tucker during her first Bama game with Uncle Scott and Aunt Brittany (and receiving a back massage from Carly).

"Enjoying" her first Bama game asleep on Mama.

What Brittany has dubbed "Tucker eating Carly" -- Tucker was so happy wrapped around Carly. :-)

Daddy helping Tucker show off her "oooh" - something a choral Daddy can be SOOO proud of.

L&S,

Leslie

Thoughts...

Two thoughts:

1.) As I watch the video in the previous post ("Eating Ellie") I see SO MUCH Mama in her (Sheri, that is). She's such a meshing of all of our traits that there are times when she looks JUST like me or JUST like Drew and when she's mad, JUST like Scott. But in just her everyday inquisitiveness, I see Sheri ALL OVER that face. :-)

2.) Just got off the phone with the Ortho office. We have her next appointment made for September 22nd. Let's start praying now for a healthy hip and a harness removal. :-)

L&S,

Les

Eating Ellie

A new Tucker video -- Sorry it's been so long, but I was out of town this weekend for Scott and Britt's shower. Tucker has begun developing hand/eye coordination. She can consistently get her hand in her mouth and keep it there (and sounds like she's trying to eat it when this happens). She has also begun grabbing Ellie's ** feet and getting them into her mouth. (Everything goes to the mouth now.)

**I tried to name the elephant "Little Al" but I got THE LOOK from D about that, so he named her Ellie instead. :-) Ah well. Can't blame a girl for trying. :-)

L&S,

Leslie

What I miss the most...

Just waiting on freedom from the harness.

L&S,

Leslie

Highlights

A few highlights from the weekend and week's beginning...

Nana's magic trick for a fussy baby :-)

She is now a drool-producing machine!!!

Roll Tide, baby!!!

A cute pic after a bath - no harness (momentarily) :-)

L&S,

Leslie

Oops!

So I just realized that the last "talking" video I put up wasn't the one where she did all of the talking. haha! Let me try it again (and I'll put two to make up for my mistake). :-D

*Stick with this one to the end. It's worth it.*

*In this one, Tucker demostrates her new knowledge that the sound she makes when crying is more effective at attention-getting than normal sounds, so she has already learned the "fake cry". haha!*

Love & Shipoopies!

Leslie

This COULD be a problem when she's a teenager...

Hmmm... She's decided that it's more fun to grab her dress and pull it to her face than it is to do the same with a burp cloth. :-D ha!

L&S,

Leslie

Blatant Momming

So here's my regular mom collage of cuteness!

**Disclaimer: In some of my Tucker videos, she is not centered in the shot and may move in and out of the center of the shot. The reason for this is I have to hold the camera out of her focus or she stops whatever she's doing and stares at the camera. I have to hold it to the side and get her to look at me. I apologize. :-)

Tucker is starting to "talk" more and more. This video is from earlier this week. Today (Friday), she came home and "talked" almost constantly for more than an hour. It was SO CUTE, but I didn't get any of it on video. (The camera says, "Be quiet" to her regularly, apparently.)

Poor little thing got so congested this past weekend that her voice was quite hoarse. Her "talking" got even cuter! (Who knew that was even possible?!?)

Everyone says that babies look like angels when they sleep and mine is no exception. However, what's even better than her "looking like an angel" sleep mode is her "making faces" sleep mode. She smiles, opens her eyes with eyes rolled back so you only see the whites, and sometimes even chuckles. VERY CUTE!!!

L&S,

Leslie

When it's this small, do we call it a half-half?

Our friends Jeff and Lisa sent us a gift for Tucker. It is the CUTEST, fluffiest, tiniest tutu I have EVER seen. Now, this is not a cheap, Dollar Store tutu. This thing is a million tiny little two inch wide strips of tulle stacked on top of each other with a big satin bow. It is ADORABLE!!! I can't wait to put it on her. (It'll have to wait until the harness comes off.)

The tutu also came with a cute little flower headband. I just HAD to put it on the girl to see. I'm sorry, but she looks like a baby doll in this picture! (no bias displayed here at all)

L&S,

Leslie

Free at last... if only for 15 minutes

I wanted to share with you some of the delightful moments of Tucker sans harness pre bathtime. She wiggles and squirms like it's nobody's business! SO CUTE!!! I can't wait until we get to have her this way all the time. We're hoping the harness will come off on August 26th when we get our next ultrasound. Yipee!!!

You might have noticed that she doesn't ever straighten her legs straight down (they're turned out and to the side when she straightens them). Contrary to what you might think, this isn't really a result of the harness (though that might make it more pronounced). Look closely at her legs in this picture and you will see that she doesn't straighten them down because they are TOO FAT!!! They actually won't come any closer to center because of all of those cute little rolls! **Insert conversation with Nan and Betty discussing how no one ever comes up to adults and says, "Those fat rolls are SO CUTE!!!" here. :-)

L, S, and fat rolls!

Leslie ;)