Aunt Amanda!!!!!!!!!

My sister, Karen, is having a baby!!!!!!!!! We are soooo excited! She found out Thursday (7/19)! It looks like the baby will be due March 27, 2008. I am thrilled that Jax will have cousins to grow up with. It will be so fun for him because I remember how fun it was for me! I remember how she cried when she found out I was pregnant, and I was no different!! I got to spend a lot of time with her this weekend (filling her full of all my pregnancy tips)! I hope she'll have an easy pregnancy! I can't believe my little sis is going to be a MOM!!!!!!

Whewww, it has been a busy weekend. It started on Thursday night with the big consignment sale in Memphis. Karen, Corrie, and I were there for about 3 hours! John had Jax sound asleep when I got home.

  • Then Friday we didn't get dinner until almost 10:00! I don't even remember what we were doing - just working around the house.
  • Saturday, I was supposed to get out of the house early and buy a crib. Of course nothing worked out. My battery in my car was dead and would not charge. John had to go to town and buy a new one. It was so late by the time he got it in, and I could finally leave. Then to top it all off, I wrote down directions to get us to Woodland Furniture. I suppose I searched for the shortest distance instead of shortest time because it took us almost 3 hours to get there winding through a bunch of back roads!!! I have been borrowing Corrie's crib, and she's ready to get her room decorated for her new baby!!! So it absolutely had to be done - even with bad car batteries and bad directions! It was 6:30 by the time I got home, but we got a crib!!! I'll post a picture of the nursery once I get everything on the walls moved around. John had to help a friend move to his new house on Saturday and he didn't get home until 9:00!! Of course, Corrie and her family had been waiting for us at our house since 5:30!! They came to watch the fight which started at 8:00. I was so exhausted that I fell asleep in the chair with John and never saw the first round of the big fight.
  • Sunday was just as busy with us trying to get Corrie's crib taken apart, put my crib up, get ready for a cookout, take care of my fussy boy who has his 6th tooth coming in, and keep him out of everything because he is now crawling!!! When Corrie, John, and Alexa left, I finally got Jax to take a nap!! Karen & Brandon, Kelly & Jason over for a cookout and to swim. It was fun!

But poor Jax had another bad night. He woke up crying in the middle of the night and this morning too. I gave him some Tylenol. I know he was hurting because he kept grinding his teeth! I hope he does okay for his Mimi (that's what he calls his sitter, Mrs. Bobbie) today!!

Here are some pics from the weekend:







Kelly & Jason are really good friends of ours that have become "Aunt Kelly & Uncle Jason" since Jax was born! Kelly brought Jax a bib back from her trip home to Pittsburgh!


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April S. said…
Congrats on becoming an aunt! Also, love the pictures of Jax and so does Tatum. She is talking to him as I speak. And I am not sure if she is trying to get to the screen to kiss him or taste him too.
July 27, 2007 at 4:54 PM
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