4 1/2 Months!!!

I know I know - I've been terrible about updating! The little man sleeps less and less, so I find myself without any time to even take pictures, let alone blog about them! But here I am, and here are some new delights for your viewing pleasure!

The biggest news is that Oliver starting sitting this week! He started out sort of slumped over his knees and then has gradually been learning how to keep himself straight!! The moments never last long, but Papa Jim was able to catch it a few days ago!


Speaking of Papa Jim - he and Nana Lynn came down for a visit because Uncle Jim and Aunt Dani came all the way from California to meet our little man! Oliver was quite taken with both of them - they got many more laughs out of him than I ever do!

Here are all of the Bird men together - quite a handsome bunch, I'd say! (of course, Oliver is the cutest of them all!)

Here he is, laughing the night away and charming us all!
He has also finally started to enjoy spending some time on his fat little belly (he used to scream every time I laid him like that), so I tried to catch some pictures of him talking and smiling at Mama! Unfortunately, I discovered how creepy the faces I make at him are... he seems to find it all very amusing though, so I'm sure I won't stop! :)


And of course, a parting gift of Oliver's beautiful sleeping face... sigh.

I just love that little man!

Nashville Flood Relief!

To start off, apparently there hasn't been very much National coverage of the flood, but things are incredibly bad here. We are safe and everyone we know is safe, but all around us are families and businesses that have lost absolutely everything from this disaster. It is the most incredible (in the true sense of the word) thing I have ever seen. Staggering is probably the best way to describe it... but so is the response from people in our community, reaching out to help each other in an incredible (in the "awesome" sense of the word) way!


So, yesterday morning our longtime partners from Cool People Care contacted us about printing a shirt to raise money for the Community Foundation's flood relief program. We were very excited to get on board, and hoped that together we could raise some money to help Middle Tennessee get through this disaster... little did we know what was about to happen!

Within the first hour we had sold 100... within the first 8 hours we had sold over 700... then, last night, we got a phone call from the mighty Sam Davidson. He was going to try to get the shirt on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and needed us to print one right then! So, Andy rushed out, printed the shirt in record time, and drove it over to Sam, without knowing if it would actually make it onto the show or not.

It did. (click on "it did" to watch the video)

Since then, we have sold over 1,500 shirts (that's over $30,000 raised)! And now, this morning, local Fox 17 News will be featuring the shirt in their morning broadcast! AND, this coming Monday (when we are running around like maniacs trying to print all of these shirts), local Channel 5 News is coming by the shop (yes, that would be our HOUSE) to do a short clip of the shirts actually being printed!! Suffice it to say, it's going to be a BUSY weekend of trying to make our house and garage look more like a business than... well, a house and a garage!

We are SO overwhelmed by the response this shirt has gotten, and are so excited about all of the money that has been raised to help Nashville families recover from this catastrophe!

If you haven't bought one already, please do so now! The more we can raise, the more families we can help! Thanks!

Oh yeah, and Andy is now the face for the project. Him and his burly beard. It's pretty awesome.




Oh, and Andy just called me and said he was pretty sure he just saw Morgan Freeman. What a weird few days...

The flood!

This is the road directly next to ours - literally only a few hundred feet away!!

Notice the car in the background - water is up past the tires!!

This is the craziest thing I've ever seen!!

oh yeah - and I chopped my hair off!