We had a busy week this last week! Lara turned 3 months old and we had 2 playdates! We had lots of fun and are trying to do as many things as possible before I have to go back to work in just one more month!

Our first playdate was at my friend Caroline's. We had a great time and had lots of friends to play with! Lara's friends Lydia, Charlie, Savannah, Libby and Jace all came to play!

Savannah looking at my upside-down

Besties - Lara & Lydia! So fun to watch these two grow up together!

Cuties!

Both being tickled and grinning a little

Jace and Charlie - Fighting over the keys... boys!

Two cuties... there's going to be some competition among the girls when they get a little older. There are definitely a lot more girls than boys at church!

The older kiddies sitting and playing

Cute little Jace

Deana & Libby (She is 1 month older than Lara)

Silly Boy

Savannah, Lara & Lydia chillin' on the blanket My sweet baby :-) Look how big she is!!

On Thursday we had a Tea Party for the Mom's and a playdate for the kids! We had even more friends this day, Lydia, Charlie, Savannah, Libby, Sarina and a new friend Hayden.

It was a beautiful day, so I decided to dress Lara up in one of her new dresses! It had a cute sweater that matches, but of course she spit up on it... typical :-)

Danielle & Sarina

Stacey & Lydia in her cute headband

Cute little grin from Sarina

Sweet sleeping Libby

Lara in her new dress!

Lara & Lydia

Hopefully we'll have time for a few more playdates before work starts back! We always have such a good time!

One of my oldest and best friends, Randa, came all the way from Huntsville, TX to come visit Lara, Lucas and I! It was so good to see her and get to meet her boyfriend Matt!

"Aunt" Randa & Lara - She's going to be such a fun "Aunt" when Lara gets a little older!

Randa & Matt playing with Lara - Right before she spit up all over Randa... yikes!

Thanks for coming to see us Randa & Matt! We had a great time visiting and catching up with you!

Lara is still on the mend, but we are starting to see those cute smiles again! She is getting so big!

Cute onsie that Granna bought when she was here! Still kind of big and of course we spit up all over it, but SO cute! :-)

Me - "Lara how old are you?"
Lara - "Almost 3 months, Mommy!"
She's a genius!

Happy girl! So good to see this smile again!

Lara's new favorite way to sit in her bumbo... I have a feeling we're not going to be able to sit in this for long... She's so wiggly!

Love it! Cute baby hugging her Pooh while she takes a nap :-)

Love this baby!

Cute shirt - "Yes, I'm cute, it's OK to look!"

Loves to stick out her tongue...

Lara started feeling better, so Mom and Dad decided it was time to head back home! We are so appreciative that they stayed to help while Lara was so sick! We love you both! Can't wait until you come back in April! :-)

Granna & Lara

Love this picture of Granna, Granpa & Lara - Look at that cute smile! She is learning what to do for the camera already ;-)

I haven't been taking quite as many pictures of Lara lately since she has been sick and my parents have been here, but here a few cute ones from the last week!

Lara just LOVES her Pooh Bear! Look at that bit smile!!

Big Hug for Pooh! - She is really starting to grab her toys and hold onto them. It is so fun watching her master this new skill! She still has to work on her hand-eye coordination, but she's getting better at getting her hands to do what she wants more every day!

"I love you Pooh - Now, let me eat your ear!"

Pretty Girl posing in her Bumbo while we were cooking

Love this one!

"Stop taking pictures Mom! Can't you see that I am much more interested in eating my hands than looking at the camera?!"

Well, I knew it had to happen sometime... But I was hoping that we would make it a little longer than 12 weeks before she got sick!

On Friday night I noticed that Lara had a little cough, but didn't think much of it, then Saturday she started coughing a little more, but wasn't acting like she was feeling bad, and wasn't running and fever, so Mom and I decided to go shopping at Bridgestreet here in town and got Lara a couple of really cute outfits for our trip to Brazil and the Summer. On Sunday Lara started acting a little more like she wasn't feeling good and was running a low fever so we decided that if she wasn't better in the morning we would head to the doctor.

Well, she was worse on Monday and I could feel her "purring" when she was breathing so I knew it was definitely time to go in. Well, as I had feared she tested positive for RSV and also had brochiolitis (between bronchitis and pneumonia.) Thankfully they were able to do a breathing treatment in the office which seemed to make a big difference. We were told to do breathing treatments at home every 6 hours for 4 days, then we cut it down to 2x a day for the rest of the week and then 1x per day for the week after... I feel like she is a newborn again! We do a treatment at midnight, then we have to get up and try to do the treatment again at 6am - she has actually slept through it every day so far except one! I find that amazing since the machine we borrowed from the doctor is VERY loud!

Sick Lara = Sad Mommy!

She has been such a trooper! Even though I can tell that she is not quite herself, she has still be smiling and not very fussy at all! We are so blessed to have such a good baby, even when she's sick!

One of MANY breathing treatments! She doesn't seem to mind - Here she is giving me a little grin!

Please keep us in your prayers! We are hoping that the treatments continue working and that she will be back to herself as soon as possible!

My parents made their first trip to come see Lara since she was born! She has changed so much since then... I can't believe how quickly she is growing and changing! We had a great time with them, and I know that Lara really enjoyed getting to spend some time with Granna & Granpa. And, Hailey was DEFINITELY excited that Granpa was here so that she could get a little extra attention! :-)

Mom and Lara right after they arrived! My parents were both so amazed at how big she has gotten!

Granna, Lara & Pooh

Granpa & Hailey - Hailey was so glad to have Granpa there!!

Playtime!

My parents watched Lara for one evening so that Lucas and I could go out for "Valentine's Day!" Only a couple of weeks late, buy hey, better late than never!

We went to dinner at Chili's - Thanks to my Granparents for the gift certificate!! Then we went to see Valentine's Day at the theater. I can't even remember the last time we went to the movie! Anyways, it was fun to get out just the two of us!

Here is Granna feeding Lara her bottle - Lara wanted to help!

Granpa playing with Lara!

My big girl sitting up!

Granpa, Lara, hailey, and of course Hailey's Rabbit had to join in the picture. :-)

It was cold most of the time that my parents were here, but we took advantage of this nice day to take Lara on her first hike! We had been out to places where we could use the stroller, but we decided to try out the carrier. It worked pretty good for the most part, although I was pretty sore the next day after carrying Lara like this for a couple of hours!

Dad, Mom, Me & Lara sleeping away in her carrier!

Me and Sleepy Lara

Family picture - We realized that we don't have very many pictures of all three of us! Lara decided that she wanted to be awake for part of the hike.

Cute baby girl with BLUE eyes! Love it! :-)

Lucas & Hailey - Her tongue cracks me up!

Hailey the rock climbing dog!!

Mom & Dad - Boy do I was we were retired! :-)