first and foremost, lilly jane culpepper has arrived and is now actually two and a half months old! her delivery went very well. we arrived at winnie palmer hospital in orlando at 6:30 pm on may 10 and lilly made her debut at 8:56 pm. she weighed in at 6 lbs even and was 19 1/2 inches in length. she has been a great baby since day one! she doesn't cry very much and she is already sleeping through the night.
mary claire just loves being a big sister. she likes to check on lilly during her naps, help change her diapers, give her kisses on the head, tickle her tummy and toes, help read her books, etc. it is absolutely adorable! it is strange how i can hardly remember life before lilly jane now.
we have had another major change since i last posted...we now live back in my hometown of hartselle, al. shortly before lilly was born, dan was laid off from his job in orlando due to lack of work for his company. we looked at it as a blessing in disguise because as a result we decided to move back here. it just so happened that my parents still owned a home here that was not occupied so we could move right in. also, we are close to huntsville, which is a great area for mechanical engineers to find work. best of all, we are much closer to our families and many of our friends! however, it was extremely difficult to leave our best friends in orlando (dusty, leah, carissa, and brian) as well as our family (patrick and jason) and we still miss them very much! ( i'm still hoping they will eventually end up in alabama too!!!!!) anyway, we moved here two weeks after lilly was born so you can imagine how hectic life has been for us lately.
here are some, but not all, of the things we have been doing since the move:
fishing for the first time.
swimming and playing in sprinklers.
going to huntsville stars' baseball games.
boating with doc and nana.
amanda, matt, and baby luke came to visit.
meeting the great-grandparents for the first time, both memaw and pawpaw and grandmother and howard (pictured is the grandmother that lilly jane was named after).
hiking at hurricane creek park with the caves.
celebrating emily anne's birthday/4th of july complete with grill out, fireworks, and fire pit to make s'mores....and yes i dressed mary claire to match emily anne and we made then wear the bandanas meant for the dogs.
visiting the tennessee aquarium to see all pop-pop's fish.
lilly has now met all of dan's immediate family and all of mine with the exception of keith (i called you out...come visit us!). on top of all of this we have been able to spend time with many of our friends (austin & tawnie bryant, aly & pat clemons and their girls, lori scott, lisa taylor, matt willette, and david evans, just to name a few). we are finally getting settled in around here so hopefully i will do a better job of keeping this thing up to date!
