cruise!!!

Attention family (and friends, if you're interested)! We booked a cruise and expect a few of you to follow suit. We're booked on the Carnival Legend leaving out of Tampa on December 14, 2008 stopping at Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize City, and Roatan, Honduras.

We're coming into Tampa on December 13 (I would highly recommend coming in a day early). The cruise is 7 nights and gets back to Tampa on Sunday, December 21. We will be extending our stay at The Villages to visit Rich & Mary over Christmas and returning home on December 26. Please let me know if anyone has questions. We booked a balcony room but there are cheaper options that will run around $650/person including all taxes. Airfare is currently around $320/person.

first fit

This blog is full of firsts...first smile, first roll over, first foods, etc. Well, we have another first. Meredith had her first fit. There really is a little bit of mommy in her after all.

She was playing with an empty package of wipes. It made the most wonderful crinkly sound. Daddy thought it wasn't appropriate to play with so he kept taking it away and each and every time, she started screaming until we gave it back to her. Then she would drop it and start screaming again. Fortunately, she's completely forgotten about it and we can go back to her 'real' toys.

big girl food

We gave Meredith her first taste of 'big girl' food. The meal of choice was rice cereal with a side of formula. She LOVED it. As you can see, her mouth shot open like a little bird. We're going to try vegetables next weekend!


What's this mom?!?

Mmmmmm....yummy!

Fingers taste better.

ben's birthday

It was Ben's birthday on Thursday, so following tradition, we had a family get together at Red Lobster. The wee one behaved herself while we waited for a table but as soon as we sat down, following yet another tradition, she started to scream. She proceeded to scream the rest of the night. And it wasn't just crying...it was screaming. A friendly patron even commented to me on the way out that he "hopes she sleeps well" that night. I'm starting to wonder if she's too sheltered?!? She never screams like that at home. She's made a liar out of me. **sigh**

new friend

When I was pregnant with Meredith, Greg and I wondered all the time about how our cat, Tabitha, would react to having a baby around. Tabs was the baby so I knew she would have to get used to not getting as much attention.


I think she's taken well to having a baby around. Meredith's toys are to a cat what Disney World was to us as kids. Tabs thinks Meredith's flailing arms are an open invitation to be pet. Tabs is still none the wiser even though she has lost a couple good size chunks of fur.


They're buddies...for now.