Wow - Leave your kid for ONE night, and she grows up!

I have officially spent my first night apart from my baby! I survived, and it was not TOO bad. My brother and his wife's family were on vacation in Gulf Shores and invited me down for a day or two so I left Carly Jane with Mama early Tuesday morning and headed out for a mini vacation. I planned to go down Tuesday morning and come back Wednesday night. James was working down in Pearl River County and would be spending the night with Paula so he didn't have to drive all the way back home. I thought this would be as good a time as any to leave her for her first overnight adventure at Nanna and Granddaddy's house. I did and had a great time visiting with Wesley, Lindsay, Brayden, and the rest of the Hazelwood family. I did miss "Tootie" (Carly) awfully bad though.

After getting home on Wednesday night, Mama and Daddy report that Carly has learned to roll over and laugh out loud while I was gone. She rolled over from stomach to back about 15 minutes after I left her with Mama on Tuesday morning, and of course she hasn't done it since. She gets part of the way, but never all the way while I am watching. Then she apparently found Granddaddy and his shaving cream face hysterical. She laughed and laughed until she lost her breath. She laughed a little for me when I got home that night, but James has still not heard her laugh out loud. Oh well, she will do things as she gets ready. I am in NO hurry for her to grow up. She is already growing up too fast! I weighed with her today, and she was 14 lbs. at 12 weeks old! I have a sneaking suspiscion that going back to school in August will not be an easy thing for Mommy to do!

Brayden playing in the sand at LuLu's

This after I got home with her on Wednesday night. She was watching LSU play baseball on TV. I think she likes baseball b/c this is not the first time she has attentively watched a college world series game. She watched the USM game in her swing for like an hour without going to sleep or fussing!