Updates

Here are a few updates from us:

1. No decision on the new name for the blog. We appreciate all the input and great ideas. But I guess for now we will stick with our non original, plain ol Baby Ludlow.

2. My baby has SEVEN teeth! Can you believe it? 7!!!!!!

3. Guess what Gianna can do now. Click on the Picture link to find out!

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving. Lots of food and football. It is the perfect American holiday. We have so many great pictures for all to see. Click on the web albums link on the right hand side. Or if you are feeling super lazy you can click on the last pic below. Gianna already knows the secret to a great Thanksgiving.

First you eat a very big meal of turkey, potatoes, peas, and Great Gramma's homemade bread.


A few minutes after her first Thanksgiving meal she was falling asleep in her Grandfather's arms....

Thankful Day 2

Here are 5 more things I'm Thankful for:

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2. I have a good friend- JENNY- who lives around the corner and we get to go walking every single day. Our girls are only 8 months apart and it's so much fun to have a little mommy conversation every day.

3. I feel really blessed to be crafty. I enjoy it and really have a good time creating things. I'm Thankful that God has given that to me and allowed me to start a business doing it.

4. My dog, Scooter. No, he has not got the same amount of attention as he did this time last year. But he is overall a good dog and still only lets me rub his ears.

5. A car that runs. I never have to wonder if this car will start. I am SO Thankful for it!

Season of Thanksgiving

Our pastor challenged us to write down 5 things that we are thankful for and each day add 5 more things to it. I really enjoy this idea so I'm taking it to the Blog and inviting you to participate too. You don't have to leave it in the comments section (but Holly and Sarah- consider this a Thankful tag), but reflect and think about something that you are thankful for. Our pastor also said that thankfulness is the opposite of what we want. We are wired for selfishness and the only way to combat that is to be thankful. So to start to combat the "I wants" for the Christmas season here is my list:

1. My dear sweet husband. Who really loves me as much as he does? Only Jesus! He shows me how to be a better person, and we grow closer to the Lord with each other. I appreciate his ability to support our family, while I stay home with Gianna, and I love his inability to find any thing in the refrigerator. He makes me smile like no other and we just enjoy each other's company.

2. Gianna Joy. What a privilege it is to be her mom. I have been there for each day, each smile and each diaper change. (oh wait- another reason I'm thankful for John- he does the stinky's!!!!!) She has changed my life in amazing ways. I have come to see God as the Father and how he loves me so much more than I love Gianna- AMAZING. She delights in small things. I strive to do that.

3. Being able to be a stay at home mom. There are sacrifices that John and I have made, but it is so worth it. I delight in cleaning my house (mom did you ever think you would see that in print from me?!?!?!?). I enjoy being good friends with new mommies, and I get to focus on one thing, and she is a JOY.

4. I'm also thankful for our struggle with infertility. Really?!??! Yes. Because I think that it has made me a more thankful person in general. I know that if we had Gianna 3 years ago- I would be a different person and life would be different and I know I would not have the same friends that I do now. God in His timing is perfect.

5. I'm thankful for this blog. What a great way to keep in touch with so many dear friend's and family who can't be here in College Station with us, and see Gianna every day.


Drop a comment and let me know what you are Thankful for!

International Fest

Yesterday we went to International Fest. We got to go with our friends who live around the corner from us, Kyle, Jenny and their daughter, Kylynn. Gianna and I go for a walk with Jenny and Kylynn every morning (Scooter goes too!). We enjoy a good festival and so do Kyle and Jenny. And we got to enjoy a glimpse of it. We enjoyed gyros, and pakdokas from India, and water from Polish Springs! :)

International Fest 2007- Where the "World Comes to Us."

And she'll have fun, fun, fun...

till her daddy takes the T-bird away!

10 Months

10 months can you believe it? Each month seems to go by faster than the last one. She just keeps growing and growing.
John and I were reflecting that it really does go by fast. So we have been trying to enjoy each and every little thing. This blog helps and the fact that I do think that she is one of the most photographed babies ever! Already we have put away her small preemie clothes, and she no longer wants to be rocked to sleep in our arms. She prefers her bed and her lovie. She is crawling and crawling fast. She has got LOTS of teeth. And we love her more and more each day.