The downhill slide...

During our stay at the Hannan Home, we were so excited to have my good friends Patchi and Lei come and visit. It was Lei's first time to meet Vel, so of course, we got pictures : )

































Vel and Drew had some GREAT Dad-Daughter time. I so love watching them play. There is definitely something special about Daddies - and it just happens. There's no practicing or awkward moments - just pure fun. Velvie's smile says it all...
































Just the other day we were playing and for some reason Velvet thought that when I started to breathe in it was just too funny...so I got this very fun clip. We are so excited to share with you our very favorite sound in the whole wide world:

CRAZY times...

Well, it's been crazy in the Wight house here lately. We are actually camping out at the Hannan's for the week. I (Christy) finally decided to go ahead and have my gallbladder removed after three very painful attacks and an attempt to change my diet (thanks to Vel, it pooped out). That happened yesterday. I'm feeling ok and everything went really well. Turns out that in the 25 years that my doctor has been doing this surgery he'd never seen anything like mine. Instead of just being attached to one side of my liver, it was attached to both sides. I have some really awesome pictures that they took during the surgery, but I'll spare you all the details : )

The other craziness that has been going on is that a 'neighbor' of ours ran into our gas meter/pipe at the end of our driveway. That is getting fixed now (luckily covered on homeowners insurance) but we won't have hot water until probably Friday at the earliest. This happened last week - right before the rains of hurricane Ike blew through Dallas which did not help fix the situation. We don't know who did it - it was a 'hit and run'. Now they've found some crazy broken terracotta looking pipe under our driveway. So we have to wait for the city to come and check it out - hopefully that results in a great big NOTHING :)

Drew has been playing the role of 'Mr. Mom' and doing a fabulous job : )

We're pretty sure Vel is in the middle of a growth spurt. She is sleeping just as much in the day as she is at night! We've hardly seen her the past two days :( When we take some more pictures of her, she's going to be HUGE - as if she wasn't before!! haha...

And a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY goes out to my beautiful sister Gennie (SWEET 16!) and our good friend Mikey-T. Hope your days are fabulous :)

Love to All

The First Lady

Hello Family and Friends!

We have decided to try to keep a blog since we have a lot of out-of-Dallas friends and family. We'll try our best to update with new photos (especially of Vel!) to keep everyone who wants to know, in the know.

Baby Velvet arrived on June 9, 2008. We call her 'Lady' a lot. This might be because we didn't know if she was a boy or girl before she came, so once she did, we've been making up for some lost time :)

Here are some fun facts about her:

*She really likes Classic Rock. In fact for the first couple of months Christy couldn't even listen to praise music in the car! She wanted Led and that was that. Drew was totally stoked that his little girl was SO COOL!

*She is already a pretty serious kid. She does have her happy times too...but only when she wants too.

*She really likes her puppies Mars and Lily - they can get her to smile every time!

*She likes baths, but hates getting out.

*She is not fond of lotions or getting dressed.

*She has a great belly laugh.

*She likes to sleep. Yay for us! :)

*She does NOT enjoy cold hands.

*She is VERY social and loves to talk. She talkes a lot. She even talks while she eats - a true girl already! We can't wait to hear what she really has to say.

Here are some recent pictures of our first Lady:

































Love to All!