Trip to Mississippi

This past weekend we (Andrew, Alexis and I) all went to Mississippi to visit Andrew's family. Most of his aunts and uncles live there, as well as both sets of grandparents. Andrew's mom (Granny) drove us over there and Uncle Sean came too!

This picture is from the trip over there. Obviously we spent a lot of time in the car. She spent more than 1/2 the time sleeping and when she wasn't sleeping, she was either crying for a bottle (very, very little... she did so good!) or staring at the frog that is on her carseat. She loves that thing!

We stayed at great-granny's house Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. This picture was taken before we left Friday afternoon to visit the Gentry side of the family. It's 4 generations :) I know you can't see the writing on Alexis's onesie, but it's vegas style design and says "What Happens at Grandma's, Stays at Grandma's" it's so cute!

That day we went to see Andrew's grandfather Gentry at his nursing home. We were glad he was able to meet his great granddaughter. I didn't get a good picture while we were there, but Grandmother Gentry did take a group shot of everyone, so he should be able to have one to put up in his room. Later that day we went over to the Gentry's house and ate lunch with Grandmother Gentry and a couple Aunts, Uncles and cousins of Andrew's.
This picture is of Rowan and Alexis. Rowan is Andrew's cousin and I thought it was so funny that Alexis looks HUGE when Rowan is holding her! Little kids (maybe not boys, so far all the little kids that Alexis has met have been girls) just love babies. It's really cute, but of course they want to hold the baby. Fortunately Alexis is getting big enough so she's not quite as "breakable" as she used to be. I know Madison (my niece) will be excited about that since last time she saw Alexis she had to hold her while I was still holding her head up to make sure she had enough support.

Over the weekend Alexis started using her teething ring a little bit. She's chewing on her tongue, hands and shirt a lot lately, so I've been trying to get her to hold onto the teething ring so she can chew on that instead of her shirts (she likes to flash everyone so she can eat her shirt, hehe). She was also funny this weekend because she was always trying to watch tv! It's lots of movement, lights and colors so that's why she likes it. But from everything I've read it's really bad for baby's eyes to watch TV until they're like 2 or something. So I kept turning her away from the tv, and she would streeeeeetch to see it. So cute. You can also see her cute shirt better in this picture :)

In this picture she was having tummy time and I thought I could get a cute picture with her. I actually managed to get a really cute one, but I thought this one was funnier, because there she is... watching tv! But on the plus side she's getting great at lifting her head up and holding it steady, she's even propping herself up on her arms. Woohoo, go Alexis!
I've also got a picture of Superbaby... we've started doing this and Alexis loves it! Sometimes we can get a laugh out of her, but most of the time, she just flies around looking at everything. It's cute either way!

She's got her 4 month check up in a week and I'm not at all looking forward to it :( She has to get 4 more shots. I hate that. I am looking forward to seeing how much she's grown though. I'm also going to ask about starting solids, and that's something new and exciting. We'll see what she says. Most of the books and websites say between 4-6 months.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention Alexis's loot... Saturday we went shopping and Alexis got a bunch of loot :) She got a couple really cute bows and an adorable Christmas outfit. Uncle Sean bought her a baby's first christmas ornament and got her name put on it. I'm excited about taking her Christmas pictures soon. We'll definitely take some in the outfit Granny bought for her, it's adorable! She also got some toys that her second cousins (is that what they are?) aren't using any more. And Andrew's aunt bought her some books. I think "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" is going to be read a lot!
Alright... one more picture so that everyone can see what I was talking about. Alexis is putting everything she can reach in her mouth. It's so cute, and she usually ends up looking like this-