And We're Back...

We know ... you haven't heard from us in a while.

It has been very busy.

We are sure you are as shocked as Ali is in the picture below.

I finished my mini semester this week (a semester's worth of material crammed into 3 weeks).

I was busy studying most nights.

We have also been very involved in helping with clean up from the recent storms.

There were crews from Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina that came to help with clean up in the Shoal Creek Valley area.

They were a big help, especially since there were about 400 of them. We totaled 9,000 man hours from all of the work that has been done over the past 3 weeks!

Here are some before and after shots of work sites this past weekend.

Before

After

Before

After

Now, updates on Ali.

First, here are some pictures of Ali in her blessing dress.
We finally got them to the blog for you to see her show it off.

That was her white dress...

Check out her black one...

Ali continues to surprise us. Just a few days ago she rolled over without us even noticing.

We were sad that we missed it. She rolled from her back to her tummy.

We have been watching her closely since then and we have caught her rolling to her side, but not all the way to her belly. We just noticed today that she has started to reach for things.

One thing we are enjoying is how well she sleeps.

She sleeps about 10-12 hours every night ... without waking up. 

She had only been home for 2 months when she started sleeping through the night.

Once we put her down after falling asleep on Jodi's shoulder ... 

she had some marks on her face to show for it.

She smiles more and more.

And we smile more and more. We are sure you will smile at these pictures too.

This is Ali getting up in the morning.

Ali has also started learning to eat rice cereal and other baby foods.

- Sweet Potatoes & Corn ... Win

- Peas ... Fail

She is learning to eat off of a spoon slowly but surely.