Here are the highlights of May, June and July for our family:
May
- We traveled to West Tennessee for my sister’s college graduation, to visit family and introduce everyone to Cecilia.
- We traveled to East Tennessee the next weekend to visit family and introduce Cecilia to family.
- We got our house ready to sell and showed it a few times.
- We started watching This Old House (it’s now a family favorite!)
- We celebrated 8 years of marriage on the 27th.
- John David turned 28 on the 31st.


Cecilia was 2 months on May 20.
Milestones:
- Weighs about 11 pounds.
- Wearing 3 month clothes.
- Exclusively cloth diapered – bumGenius One Size on smallest setting with regular insert
- Nursing every 3 hours during the day. Waking once at night.
- Started smiling and cooing
June
- Boys started participating in the summer reading program at our local library.
- We started praying hard about whether or not to sell our home.
- John David traveled to Ethiopia for 10 days with our church.
- The little ones and I went to West Tennessee and stayed with my parents while John David was gone.
- Daddy came home on the 28th!


Cecilia was 3 months on June 20.
Milestones :
- 11 pounds 12 ounces.
- Wearing 3-6 month clothes.
- Exclusively cloth diapered – bumGenius One Size on smallest setting with regular insert.
- Nursing every 3 hours during the day, waking once at night.
- Working on complete head control.
- Loves watching big brothers.
July
- Decided that staying in our home was the best decision for our family.
- Began working on some home improvement projects since we’re staying in our current home (plus, the boys are into home improvement thanks to This Old House so they’re having a blast!)
- Weston went to visit Mimi and Papaw for a few days while Paxton stayed behind with us. We enjoyed our time with Paxton and Cecilia.
- Our family participated in Chick-fil-a’s cow appreciation day for the 5th year in a row!
- My sister and her family visited. We enjoyed their visit!
- We visited family in East Tennessee.
- Paxton stayed in East Tennessee with Mimi and Papaw for a few days. We enjoyed our days with our two littlest ones.
- We sold our Ford Escape (my first vehicle, it took me to college, us on our honeymoon and brought our 2 boys home from the hospital!)
- John David bought a new (to us, of course!) truck.



Cecilia was 4 months on July 20
Milestones:
- Rolling over.
- Complete head control.
- Wearing 3-6 month clothes.
- Exclusively cloth diapered – bumGenius One Size on medium setting with regular insert and doubler.
- Nursing every 3 hours during the day.
- Starts the night in her crib and when she wakes to nurse, I bring her to our bed.
- Starting to ‘talk’ to us.
Those are the highlights of May, June and July. Written mostly so I can look back and remember!
Both my husband and I enjoy your updates! This Old House is an absolute favorite here, too. Our first baby is one month older than Ceclia and we spend much of our evenings after she is in bed watching. 🙂 We'd much rather learn to do things ourselves than pay someone to do it for us; even if they aren't doing projects we want to do, it's still fascinating!
Thanks for the update! Your baby is precious!