Berry Family

Sunday, August 28, 2011

8/26-28/11--Navarre Beach Weekend, Gymnastics

Thursday, August 25, 2011

8/12-25/11

They saw a whale while they were off-shore 90 miles from Panama City Beach!

Doing part of her "homework". Jesus was a "fisher of men" was the Bible Story for this week.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

8/1-7/11--Time for our Dental Visit!

It's time for our 6 month check-up for Lauren's teeth! Usually we would still be doing a lap exam with Dr. Daddy, but Lauren has gotten so used to going to his office that she wants to be in the big girl chair.

She watched TV with Dada counted her princess teeth

Then she got fluoride painted on each tooth. She was so good and let Mrs. Jenny "touch" each tooth with the cleaning tool.

All done!

Lauren with her favorite Dentist. :-)

With Mrs. Jenny. Lauren likes getting her golden coin or "dablumb" (after Jake and the Neverland Pirates...she loves that show)

We have also started speech therapy. After many months of waiting to see if she would progress on her own, we (along with Dr. Rachesky) decided to go ahead and start to get a formal evaluation. It couldn't hurt, right? We've been evaluated by the "First Words Project" and are average or below average in her speech articulation. Eric and I just don't want to delay treatment if she needs it. Mrs. Kathy is wonderful and works really well with Lauren during her 30 minute session once a week. I feel like it's more for me as I sit there and watch Kathy's technique and then use her activities to work with Lauren during the rest of the week. We'll continue to go for a couple of months and see how she progresses and then make a long-term plan.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

7/25-31/11--Tea Party, Christmas Party, and Shell Island

One day this week, we were running errands downtown and passed Willow's Tea Room. I'm constantly hungry right now, so we stopped in for a quick snack and pot of tea! I don't know what LEB loved the most: playing dress-up or eating desserts.

On Saturday, we went to The Gingerbread House in Chipley to celebrate with Kaitlin, Miss Washington County. It was a tea that she and the other queens in the county organized for other queens from the surrounding area who are going to the Miss and Little Miss Peanut Pageats this Fall. "Kay's" tree and table were so cute!

Kaitlin found this cute little Christmas dress for Lauren and it was a perfect fit!

Us 4 girls...plus this little baby boy growing in my belly. :-)

Lauren loved seeing all of the girls dressed up, especially the Little Misses. She wasn't a huge fan of Santa (didn't want to sit in his lap) but didn't mind waving to him in the distance.

Kaitlin's Little Miss, Keagan. She is Little Miss Washington County.

They played a game with all of the other queens and Lauren jumped right in the circle with everyone else...no hesitation.

On Sunday, we went out to Shell Island to celebrate Kenny's birthday! It was a beautiful day and he got to spend it with his 3 favorite little girls...Kendall, Kali, and Lauren.

Kay and "Bebe" (Lauren's new nickname for Mitchell. We have no idea how she came up with it, but that is all she calls him now! It's hilarious!)

25 1/2 weeks!

Gigi and Pops with their girls

Lauren had a fun time being with Kendall and Kali. And I had a fun time being on the boat enjoying beautiful weather in one of the prettiest places on Earth. We even got to see a dolphin with her baby not too far away from the boat. Mitchell jumped in and touched one of them! So cool.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

7/18-24/11

Today was the last day of the 2nd two week session of swim lessons with Mr. Bill. We've spent the past two weeks at The Averett's home learning how to use our arms and feet together and how to pull our head out of the water for a breath of air and then go back down to swim some more. Lauren really started to make great progress towards the end of the class with using her arms in long strokes while kicking. Mr. Bill found the right phrase that she finally understood: "Reach...and pull". His nickname for her was "Mermaid".