Giulianna keeps telling me that she guesses we are going to keep Millsy...  

Alright, that sounds Good to me.

Lazy Sunday

Another Weekend gone by and I have both girls in bed...  it's 8:30 on Sunday night.   Mills is now 13 months old and she is getting VERY opinionated.  It has been great watching the changes in her over the past few weeks.  She has become vocal about her likes and dislikes, she has started to realize when Giulianna takes toys away from her,  she knows what we are talking about when we are talking to her.  It is amazing how much they take in in their first year.   I can see her personality starting to blossom and how she wants to participate in the family "games".    Today we took the girls to Shelby Park to go to the fountain that is there for kids to play in and run through.  Giulianna thinks it is Shelby's park, who is our babysitter Jordyn's sister,  (well, actually Shelby is a babysitter too, she fills in when Jordyn can't come).  She kept asking "When are we going to Shelby's park?"  Ha!   Giulianna is definitely getting braver this year.  She kept running through the fountain spray, even the strongest ones, which she wouldn't have done last year.   Mills was pretty brave herself...  Matt was capping one of the spouts and directing its spray on Mills, she didn't mind at all.   Just bobbed and weaved her way around the park.  Matt says she walks like Fred Sanford, and lovingly started calling her "Sanford".  We ended the day with Ice Cream.  Giulianna had "Cotton Candy" flavor, it's nice and BLUE.   Everyone else shared an Oreo Cream Filling... Mills ending up eating both,  clutching a spoon in her chubby little hand.  Perfect Ending to a Lazy Sunday. 

So I say that I am writing about the things that are said in my house because you really  just can't make this stuff up.  Kids say the darndest things.  Literally. And Giulianna is no exception.  I sometimes wonder where does she get this stuff?  This morning Giulianna comes and gets in my bed, as usual, but make no bones about it, she isn't coming to sleep.  It takes less than 10 seconds for her to start talking non stop and hitting me in the face with her head, arms, legs, etc... as she IS moving constantly.   We finally get into the Big Room, as we call it in our house, and everyone is up in a matter of a few minutes.  Giulianna starts crying for warm milk, which she does every morning, even though I ask her to use her real voice and stop crying when she asks. As I am making her milk, she is standing underneath me, whining to make sure that I am hurrying with her drink.  All of a sudden she stops crying and starts bouncing with her booty stuck out and says

"My Booty is calling Mills".

I  said  "Your Booty is, What?" not quite sure what I just heard...

Then she says "See.  My Booty is calling Mills"  as she bounces on her back foot with her hiney pointed over to Mills, who is obliviously playing in the floor.  Giulianna just laughs, gets her milk, and heads to the couch.

Vacation Bible School

Last week was VBS at Capstone Church here in Tuscaloosa.  We don't go to church there, but it is a church near and dear to our hearts because we have family and friends who attend there and our babysitter Jordyn and her family go there.  Giulianna, who is now 3, went every day last week and had so much fun.  She would come home and sing the VBS songs and do the dances that went along with them.   She even tried to show me how to play a game called "Peter, Peter, Angel"  which I am guessing from her demonstration is just the evangelical's version of "Duck, Duck, Goose".  I am always amazed by how much she is growing and how much she takes in these days, especially from church.  I don't think I could have been prouder though, than I was last Thursday when I got there to pick her up early and saw her say the closing prayer.  She held the mic, on her own of course, and said:

"Dear God,
Thank you for today,
Keep us safe.
In Jesus Name we Pray,
Amen."

WOW.   She does listen every night when I pray.  

Giulianna now names everything that she sees as someone she knows.

Yesterday she said that these two were her cousins

Rick & Eli.

(Rick is 18) ....  but I can see it.

My beautiful Baby Girls... 

Giulianna & Mills

Welcome to InSouthernStyle

After thinking about creating this blog for a long, long time, I have finally decide to go ahead and do it.  I know absolutely nothing about blogging, but I want to have a way to document all the crazy things that are said and done in my house and to share it with the people who care the most.  With my two girls growing so quickly I want to remember all of these moments forever... and hopefully this will be my way to do it.   So join me in this trip called life and remember... Happiness is a Journey, not a Destination.