Safe at Home

Well, Ava's first Labor Day ended with howling (from the wind that is!!). We spent the weekend in south Mississippi with my parents and kept a watchful eye on the weather channel for Hurricane Gustav updates. As parents now, we decided that it was best to not chance it - we left a day early to come home. Turns out that we left just before the first bands of rain came...lucky for us! I had called ahead to get a hotel reservation...the lady almost didn't let us have the room because we weren't truly "evacuees". I quickly told her that I was in south Mississippi, had a 6 month old and didn't want to get stuck here...that should count as evacuee enough. We got the room and made our way north with all the Louisiana residents. Thankfully we didn't have too much traffic and were blessed to have a decent night of rest. We made the second half of our journey home today!! I am especially glad though that this storm came in with less power than originally expected.

Ava was a great traveler. She has a new "big girl" car seat (she was too long for her infant carrier) and she seemed to like it. It took mom and dad some getting used to - it is taller than the old one. Ava loved seeing all the cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents! We took her to a barrel run on Saturday and she loved watching the horses. It wore her out, she fell asleep in the car-we even moved her in the house without waking her. And she loves to go to church...she watches the preacher with great concentration, must be taking it all in.

At grandma and grandpa's house this weekend she pulled up on the bar stool, she started saying "mama" and "dada" more frequently, although she doesn't know what she's saying :) and she is learning how to adjust to a different environment. I loved watching her adapt to all the people and places. She continues to amaze me! We are thankful to everyone for the love they show our little lady!

Now home again and getting ready for the weekly routine. It's past bedtime now so she's had her last bottle, she smells fresh from her bath and she is in her bed - sleeping I hope:) Now it's time for mom and dad to get ready for work tomorrow!! That's the most dreaded part of the vacation. We hope that ya'll had a fabulous weekend, maybe a little less eventful in some aspects but just as exciting.