I thought we could also post some new pictures of growing Violet.  These are some that I took today. Click here to check them out.  Last week at her 2 month old doctor’s visit, she weighed almost 13 lbs, and was in the 95 percentile for weight and height.  I brag all the time that she is such an easy baby.  She loves to go out with Amelia and I to run our errands, and she loves to sleep–averaging about 10 1/2 hours at night.  When she is awake, she enjoys watching her sister play and kicking her long little legs.  Amelia is even growing more fond of “baby Violet.”  She always notices when the baby is not around and likes to give her kisses, yet she is quick to tell me to “put the baby down” when she wants something.  All things considered, I love my life.

It’s good to be two.  That’s what Mia thinks.  Ever since her birthday parties, she asks all the time to have another “birthday party.”  Sometimes I catch her singing “happy birthday to you…” to herself while dancing around in circles.  She really surprised me how serious she was about all this birthday business.  On the actual day of her birthday,  we were in Arkansas and had to reschedule her party.  I had told her that morning that it was her birthday, but I didn’t think she understood what it meant.  We did not do anything special for her that day because Craig was still in Texas.  That night when I tucked her in bed, after we said our goodnight prayers, she looked up at me and said, “Birthday?” using a tone, like, “what happened Mom, did you forget it was my birthday??”  I felt terrible, but told her that we would celebrate her birthday tomorrow.  We made it up to her with two parties!

To see the joy in her face at her two parties was so great, so without further delay we are sharing the pics from her Birthday celebrations.  The first party was at Preston & Brandyn’s home (Carrie’s brother) celebrated with her beautiful cousin, Paige.  We also enjoyed several trips to the park during that stay.  The second party was at home celebrated with friends and family, and little guests, Xavier, Ali, Alexis, Eva, and Lauren.  Thanks everyone for making Mia’s birthday so special.  She loves all her gifts and toys, and her little sister loves watching her play with them too.  Click here for the pics.

A Few more pictures from Violet’s first month have been added to the gallery here.

- craig

Well Violet is 4 weeks old today. The time has flown by. I know everyone reading is thinking to themselves “Just Wait, it gets faster”.

Well sorry we have had little time to keep everyone updated with new pictures. Don’t worry, we’ve been taking them, we just hadn’t had time to go through all of them. I finally decided to quickly pick out some good ones that we have taken from the time she got home from the hospital until recently. They are of course in the gallery.

For those who have tried to view the web page or possibly tried to send an email to <anything>@craigandcarrie.net, you may have experienced some problems.  For the past two years, this site has been hosted at a professional web hosting company called Site5.  Well, the two years I paid for have run up.  (or is about to.)  So I have been in te process of migrating everything to a new server… MINE.

That’s right, if you are reading this, you have connected to an OLD COMPAQ workstation that my dad gave me several years ago.  It was my desktop machine for some time, but it was replaced by some much better hardware.  So what do you do with an OLD computer? If you’re geeky enough, you make a server out of it.  I know I keep referring to it as an OLD computer, and you might just wonder, How old is it?  Well here are the specs:

In any case, there was a bit of difficulty in the transition, but I believe it’s mostly worked out now.

-craig

Violet Joy Manning entered the world yesterday at 8:01 pm.  Mommy and Baby are doing GREAT.  She came in at a whopping 9 lbs 4 oz. and 21 inches long.

Well I’m sure you would rather read what I have to say than look at pictures of our new blessing… yeah right.  Here’s the gallery.

-craig

The Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base held the 2010 Air Power Expo this weekend.  Amelia, Carrie, and I had a great time looking at all the planes on the ground as well as watching some great air shows.  We only stayed for a couple of hours, but saw a lot in that short time.  Of course we took the camera and got some great aircraft pictures.  (And a few good ones with Amelia.)

Needless to say, Amelia, our little airplane lover, had a great time.

This picture was a completely lucky shot.  With the high winds, I thought I would take a picture of the American Flag.  Right as I hit the shutter, the plane flew in the frame.  If I had planned it appropriately, I would have closed the aperture down a bit hoping the airplane would have been more in focus.  In any case, check out the gallery.