brown-eyed girl.

Last but definitely not least for this Christmas visit?

We got to meet our new beautiful niece, Shayla Jane.

Shay is the sweetest.

She is so calm and quiet.

She seems to only put up a fight when her bottle gets taken away for burping time.

And she does the cutest diva cry when that happens.

~

She has these big brown eyes.

You would look over at her and she would just be chilling on someone's lap.

Just looking around with wide eyes.

She reminded me of the cutest little owl.

~

We love her lots.

{snuggling with Uncle Jason}

{brown-eyed beauty}

{hanging out with Uncle Chris}

{this gave me flashbacks to when Chris would make Carly fall asleep}

Carly loved Shay.

Well, at least she was really interested in Shay.

She would point to her and say,

"Bebe! Hiiii!"

She would pat her really gently.

And she only kicked her in the stomach once.

(Shay handled it like a champ.)

It will be fun to see these cousins grow up together.

{in her pretty tutu dress for church}

My daddy sure loves his granddaughters.

He does this hold we call "the grandpa tree".

I saw him holding Shay that way and remembered him holding Carly the exact same way at the exact some age. We joked Carly looked like a little leopard hanging out in a tree.

But it makes those girls fall asleep like you wouldn't believe.

Grandpas know best.