Lily in March

 This girl just turned 7!

 Lily is all about Frozen and My Little Pony, so of course that's what her birthday was full of! She wanted a Frozen vanilla cake and raspberry sherbet.

 Lily had fun celebrating with her cousins and has had a blast with all of the fun presents that she got.

 

So, if you can't tell, I like to take pictures! Of course I had to take Lily's 7 year old pictures! She wanted Elsa hair and it's a little crazy because she had her hair like that all day!

 Lily is one of the coolest girls that I know. She's funny and she can take a joke too. Depending on her mood, of course, like a true girl.

 She pretends to be shy, but this little lady is probably one of the spunkiest girls you'll meet. She loves jewelry, pink, and getting her nails done, but then she also likes exercising her awesome muscles and shooting guns in the backyard. With Lily, it makes sense!

 Lily is also a wonderful chef. She loves to help out in the kitchen and loves to try new foods. Lily has also become the best big sister ever! She is definitely a little mom and she enjoys it. I know that to her nothing is more important than Jane. Lily always makes time for her and hasn't lost patience with her yet!

 Lily also started playing for the Lady Rapids in March. They had their first game on Murfreesboro against a team that is 2 years older than theirs!

 It was the first time their team had a goalie and Lily was chosen to play that position for a quarter. For the first time playing goalie, she did pretty well! Since then, they've had some goalie training and played a "defending the goal"(not a goalie) position added to the rec team. Lily has quickly become one of the best goal defenders! She's awesome at charging the people coming to score.

 With playing a team that has had more experience... yeah... they got creamed their first game. But, overall, the girls had a lot of fun playing and they were good sports.

Lily is such a wonderful little soul. We love this girl so much!

Jane in March

 Jane turned 7 months in March! I seems like she's grown up over night. Just in the blink of an eye she started rolling over and scooting all over the place, she started eating snacks, talking more (in a jabbering kind of way), she gives kisses, and started to sit up! What?

 Oh yeah, and she started making this super silly grin. And I'm pretty sure you're crazy if you don't smile right back at this face!

 Jane had her first curler! I did Lily's hair like this all the time when she was a baby and I've just now tried it on Jane.

 She's pretty cute!

 Some of Jane's favorite toys are bead necklaces and a bath toy that's a turtle. She likes to bite his head!

Jane is still just a fun baby to have! She is the sweetest little girl and still has everyone, even William and Lily, wrapped around her little dimpled fingers!

7 Years Old!

Happy 7th Birthday to our Lily Ava!

Life sure would be dull without this girl.

Rah Rah Ree!

 At the end of January we signed Lily up for a Cheer Camp at Cane Ridge High School. Keaven gave me the heads up about it and she signed Taylor and Maddie up for it as well so Lily had a lot of fun. They were there for a Saturday and then performed at the next Friday night's basketball halftime. Oh my goodness. It was adorable.

Lily, of course, has already made plans to go next year!

Half Birthday

 Um.. Jane is six months today. What? And honestly we spent her half birthday hanging out. She pretty much did what she does every day. Eat, play, diaper change, sleep, repeat. I definitely snuck cuddles and kisses in there too.

 What can I say about this little girl that I haven't already? Our whole family is still just as smitten with her as the day she was born. Jane has just brought a whole new element to our family. Now, I'm not going to say that I don't remember what life was like before we had her because we loved being the awesome Townsend Family of Four. But since we had Jane, somehow I feel like we have rounder edges than we used to. Does that even make sense?

 Jane spreads so much joy to us. She makes us smile and laugh and love even more! It's been so great to see William and Lily love and serve and sacrifice more than I have ever seen. They're amazing siblings and have stepped up more than I could have ever imagined.

 This month Jane has been progressing. We got her a bouncy chair that she loves and we all have learned the little tune it plays. I switched the music and William commented that it was different.

 I started making baby food and she seems to like it. She eats like a champ, which makes feeding her more pleasurable. I have to say that fruits win by a landslide.

 Jane is still not a big fan of rolling over, but she is a pro at rocking on all fours! Crawling will be soon upon us. She's almost sitting up by herself also. I think she'll be a lot happier when that's accomplished.

 Jane still "talks" and makes all kinds of noises. She's especially chatty in the mornings.

 

Jane is a beautiful little soul. I feel lucky that I get to squeeze her little body and kiss her cheeks every day.

Next six months, you have my permission to slow down a bit. 

If William was 100

So, last week the kid's school celebrated their 100th day of the school year. William told me that he didn't want me to see a picture of him that his teacher sent home. I didn't really think about it until I went through his folder that night and found this gem..

 

 What William will look like when he's 100. Thank you Ms. Byrd for this awesomeness. I'm not going to lie, I laughed until I cried. I got it all out before I talked to him before school the next day and told him that his picture was silly. He then told me that it wasn't anything compared to another boy's in class. I wonder what that one looked like!

 

Speaking of my dear William Rigdon, he started basketball this season! He's on the Ragin' Cajuns team and he's absolutely loving it. His team has won 4 games and lost 4, I believe. He was excited because his friend from his first grade class is also on his team.

 Isaac is also playing in the same league but for the sharks. Our games ended up being back to back one Saturday. It was awesome and I totally stole Krystin's cute picture of them both.

Christmas

 Our Christmas seemed like it came and went too quickly! It was full of our traditions. Red came to visit. We picked out our ornaments for the year and made our tree look even more trinket-y than ever. I think we might have to upgrade our tree this year! I love picking out our new ornaments and looking through all of the ornaments we've picked out through the years. We still have some existing from our first Christmas together.  

On Christmas Eve, my kids got to open their new pajama pants that I made for them. They also put out reindeer food and saw Rudolph's nose in the backyard. He did a back flip this year when the kids sang "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" at the top of their lungs.

Our three kids were the only ones at Grandma and Grandpa's house Christmas morning. We did the stair line-up, but it was mostly a grouping. An adorable grouping!

 The highlight for William and Lily were definitely the Santa gifts! They both got a Nintendo 3Ds. I've had a hard time getting them to do something else since!

 It was Jane's first Christmas! What do you get a 4 month old for Christmas? Well, clothes and spoons and rattle toys, of course!

Christmas was amazing in 2013! I can't believe how fast it went and it will be around here again before you know it!