Friday, September 14, 2012

Adventures through my iPhone


McWane with Sweet Maci and Ami

Pump it Up with Mommy and Daddy 
 Baking - turned into a sorting, colors and counting activity 
 Sweet friends watching the Alabama game!
 Sweet Love!
 Jenna and I took our big boys to the 1$ movie! 
 Daddy took Beckett to Chuck E Cheese! 
 Stores love it when we come in ;)
 Sunday School Social at the Splash Pad!

 Sweet Charlotte turned 2 years old!  
 The boys 1st Krispy Kreme! They LOVED it! 
 Walk to "See E'ybody"
 Zoo with sweet friends! 
 Giraffe Feedings! P loved it! B did not :(

 The boys and I have viruses :( 
 You know they are not feeling good :(
 Sweet Daddy came to the Doctor to help me. Sweet Parker :(
 We met baby Ashley for the 1st time! Sweet baby! 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Boys 1st Day of School

 Both boys are going to school this year!  They go to different schools and Parker goes two days a week and Beckett is going one day a week each for four hours.  For Beckett, going to school was a last minute decision - but our little wild man is ready!  I am so excited that we are able to send them and for what they are going to learn from the experience.  I am also excited that our school routine is back in place...  but I do miss them when they are there!  I am also really excited to have one on one time with each boy! I think that is SO SO important.  I know all of you moms out there know about "mom guilt" and that is something I struggle with daily.  I always want to try and keep everything equal with my boys, so I'm excited about our time together! 

Something else that I think is important are CUTE, matching outfits and lunch boxes ;) I took both boys to pick out their very own lunch box and sweet Ana made these shirts for me last minute - they were perfect! How cute are these sweet boys!! I love them and I am so proud of them for both having great first days!!  

Our sweet boys! 

 LOVE these TWO!!!!!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Our Growing Parker

Two new (and long) blog posts tonight! 

Parker is becoming this little person and we are loving it! He is so sweet, talkative, imaginative, silly, happy, cute, witty, smart and protective and we just cannot get enough of him!! He is such a joy!!  He still has his moments of breakdowns during the day and some are so bad they make me want to cry but I think that is still normal :)

His communicating skills were starting to worry me because he was behind some of his friends. But, now he is really communicating and comprehending so well - it has changed our world. We are able to ask him questions and he responds like such a big boy and he can tell you things he remembers, things he did, etc. He can also tell you most all of his needs and wants - which is so nice, or sometimes overwhelming when he repeats it a 100 times :)

HUGE news! My child potty trained himself!! I think he knew that I was never going to do it ;) and so a few weeks ago he said "Mommy I pee pee in potty." It is still a work in progress. He would hold his pee all day long if I let him and he is scared to go poop now...  but, the only time he wears a diaper is at night. He has not had any accidents this week!!

Things I really want to remember:

- He is starting to really play pretend and he thinks he is a Doctor and will give you a "Check up" with his doctor kit and say "Feel better?" and He will say "Mommy tummy hurt? Need check up?" "Mommy, need band aid?" - warms my heart!

- He loves going to Mommy and Me Bootcamp - he says "I go workout."  What is so funny about this is when Colt (and Papaw) go to work he says "Daddy and Papaw workout" - Colt says that Parker thinks all he and his dad do all day is run and lift weights :) When I ask him during the day if he wants to call daddy - he says "Daddy not answer" before we even call him :( he already knows he is busy.

- Pawpaw drove his red sports car to our house and I told Parker that one day when he got bigger Pawpaw would let him ride in it and Parker said "Yea, and go to Chuck E Cheese" - he remembers Colt's dad promising to take him there a week or so before.

- My grandmother Bonnie has really been pushing me to potty train Parker and so when he started going on the potty I would have him call and tell her. Now every time he talks to her he is saying "Granmuda, I go Pee Pee ALLLL by myself"

- Getting into the car, he said, "I not crying mommy so I watch show" - 1st time Colt and I knew he understood what we were saying!! You should have seen how excited we were!!

- Driving by any playground he sees from the car "Mommy I play there" - sometimes is followed by tears if we do not stop.

- He thinks all birthday parties and birthday cakes are called "Happy Days" - Makes my heart smile

- "One more time" about everything he wants to keep doing...

- When a toy is broken he says "It boken, Daddy fix"

- He is protective over Beckett - he tries to help him but sometimes it does not look like help.. For example: If Beckett is getting too close to the stairs he will say "No no Beck, dangous" while he pulls at the back of his shirt pulling Beckett to the ground... that is just one of many throughout the day.

 "Too Youd" (too loud), "Too bright", "I not do that anymore"

-Talks about himself in the third person "Parker wakeup from long nap", "Parker go pee pee"...etc.

And my favorites:
"Mommy Mommy watch me!"
"Mommy, I love you!" - When I am sitting he runs up from behind and will hug my neck and kiss me.... I cannot even handle this!! LOVE this boy!!!!!! We are so thankful to God for our sweet Parker!!!!!
This is his special hug he gives me - LOVE LOVE LOVE
 This boy loves popcorn! 
 Still loves this at the zoo :)
 He LOVES cookies too!
 He asks to "Get sugar cookie" several times during the week and he insists to sit down at bakery and eat at the table! I love that he wants to sit down and eat his cookie with me - special times, I know:)
 Mommy and Me bootcamp - he decided it was time I advance to weighted pushups!  
 Cool Dude! 
 My silly guys in Walmart 
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Last Rambling Moving Thoughts...

So... in 7 years, Colt and I acquired a lot of stuff... I am so embarrassed!  I will tell you that my almost perfect husband is secretly a hoarder!!! He hid a lot stuff in the attic, his closet, his vanity and on the side of the house:) Love him... but I am hoping we change some of these habits before we move into the new house.  However, I am also to blame!  I have kept every baby toy, piece of clothing, equipment and gifts that people have given us...

Anyways, we were able to clean a lot out and have a yard sale. A little rant about yard sales (please feel free to skip.)  I am not a fan of yard sales - because I feel SO awkward and when you have something priced at $2 that is $50 new and someone walks up and says "will you take 25 cents for this?".... I always just say "Yes" because I do not want to be rude and also because I just feel uncomfortable... I know you guys are surprised by this because normally I am very social and will talk to anyone :) So, my main job for the yard sale was "advertising" on craigslist and newspaper and I literally price EVERY single item. I like it to be organized and I think the 'customers' like it too! It took several nights but I got it done! Colt, then has to organize it outside and sits outside taking money... Overall, it was a major success!! We were able to donate money and clothing to Dawson's Kids Connection. If you have not heard about Dawson's Kids Connection - it is a great ministry that you should checkout if you know a family in need.

Colt and I are so excited and feel so blessed that we sold our house and for our new adventure but we learned that we do not like moving... I have so much respect for all of you who have moved a lot. There were a few moments when I was trying to pack with two little boys and starting to question if we were making the right decision. After a week or more with no sleep we finally got packed, moved and mostly unpacked. We are thankfully in a really nice rental house with a basement so we are leaving most everything in boxes and we are not hanging anything on the walls. Something else that is so great about the our rental house is it is on the same street as the house we are going to build!! We still have to finalized our plans before we can start but we are getting excited!!

The boys have adjusted so well! Beckett, had a few nights where it took him a while to fall asleep but other than that they love the new house! Tyson loves this house too because he gets to stay out in the house all day. We have had a few issues with the house so far - water heater, the air conditioning going out and bugs... but we have gotten all of those taken care of now!

Parker had to say goodbye to his friend, Mrs. Frances, our sweet neighbor. We went and visited her yesterday! I think both boys were excited and confused... they kept running into our old yard and Parker was asking for his water toys and was telling Mrs. Frances "Old House, Mommy's House" :(
 Colt's mom and I found Parker sitting like this in his new room... On moving day
 This park backs up to our rental house! The boys love walking there!
 Toy from Aunt Cay from France - entertained forever!  
While I was trying to get our rental house organized.
 I love babies with just diapers on! 
 Sliders - our 1st meal in the rental house
 Movies on labtop when you have no cable - Parker LOVED it! 


Friday, August 31, 2012

Saying Goodbye...

Of course, you know me we had to leave our house with a party :) And what better way than to celebrate Ganny's birthday and have our "goodbye to the house" party! It was so nice having everyone over  (even Casey and Austin were there.)  It was so fun just listening to all of the laughter in the house and the kiddos running around! I had Concina Superior cater and it was delicious!!  

A few days after the party we had to officially move out :(

The Birthday Girl! 
 Family - see Casey and Austin?
 Family Picture 
 Ana let Bentley come say goodbye too!! 
Moving Day
Colt doing his last pull-up on our tree!  
Our Attic never looked so good! 



Tyson was the last to leave!