Idlewood Drive

As excited as we were to move to Greenville, there are some things we really miss about Atlanta.  Mostly we miss our wonderful, amazing, godly friends here.  And we really miss our church, which was such a blessing to us.  I miss teaching some precious little violinists, though I wouldn't trade anything for staying home with Susanna!

For posterity's sake, I wanted to document our first house, which we bought after we had been married for six months.  It's crazy how many life experiences you can have in a house in three years.  After the first six months of our marriage with Mark job searching and then moving to Atlanta, I think our marriage was really forged and solidified while we lived here.  We had so much fun hosting friends and family in our house in Marietta.  I taught violin here.  I will always remember the amazed disbelief of finding out I was pregnant here, then lovingly decorating Susanna's nursery, and bringing her home from the hospital.  Her first little smiles.  Late nights rocking her in the living room, walking her to sleep, singing to her in her nursery.  Taking her on walks in the neighborhood.  Coos and squeals in the bathtub.  Her sweet delighted grin picking her up from her naps.  Her first six months...all in this house.

*Sniffle*

I really want to remember all this--so while these pictures are not very interesting I'll  be glad for them someday, and I can also show Susanna her first home!

Kitchen

Dining Room

Den

Master Bedroom

Master/Upper Level Bathroom

Susanna's Nursery (sniffle, sniffle...yes we tried to just transplant this room to Greenville)

Guest Room

Guest Room/Sewing Room

Main Level Bathroom

Lower Level Bathroom

Back Deck

Back of House (we will NOT miss this yard...)

Swinging

To say that I am way behind in blogging would be an understatement, since I've been "way behind' ever since Susanna was born!  When I get way behind, it seems such a monumental task to catch up that I don't even try.  It's a vicious cycle.  So now I'm just going to acknowledge that I can't ever catch up--my baby is growing up too fast for that!--and keep on going.

Speaking of growing up too fast, I can't believe Susanna is 9 months old today!  Seriously, where has time gone?!  Mark and I watched some videos of her as a newborn last night and it made me all sappy.  I love watching my baby girl grow, but goodness I wish like crazy she would slow down a little!  More on S at 9 months later...

For now, I'll just jump right into the source of great excitement in our lives right now--Susanna's new swing!  That's right, folks, when you have a 9 month old, nothing is more thrilling than a new swing and swingset!  The swingset is Emily and Jon's--err, Lydda Grace and Wade's--but the renters of their house wanted it taken down.  Dad and two of Jon and Em's friends dismantled it this past weekend and then Dad and Mark rebuilt it in our yard.  It's very sad for it to be gone from Em's house, but Susanna certainly loves it.  Thank you, Lydda Grace and Wade, for sharing your swingset with your cousin!  

It didn't have a baby swing because Wade had outgrown it and passed it along to Isaac.  When S's red swing came in the mail yesterday I ran outside asap to install it during her nap, and when she woke up we did this...

...for over half an hour!!!

There's not much (anything?!) that will occupy Susanna for half an hour.  The girl LOVES to swing.  She would probably do it for hours.  I'm not exaggerating.  

  

I loved capturing some of her signature expressions in these photos.  These little looks are so Susanna!

Serious thumb-sucking.

Happy thumb-sucking.

Carefully considering the strap

 Must taste pretty good?

Wide flat smile--she gets this look from her daddy!

Sadly it's raining and is supposed to rain all weekend...so no swinging.  (If it was warmer, we would go swing in the rain...S would love that...but it's too chilly for that today!)