13 months

Wild Man,
You turned 13 months on your first out of state trip. Duke and Grandma took all of us (Mommy, Daddy, you, Uncle Trey, Aunt Mindy, Turner, Cole, Uncle Paul, Aunt Kelley and Nathan) to Pigeon Forge, TN for a long weekend. This was the second year they decided to do this and we were so glad this was your first "road trip". You did not like the car ride there but did much better on the way home. The weather didn't really cooperate for the activities that were planned for Friday but we adjusted. Saturday Mommy, Daddy, Duke, Uncle Trey, Aunt Mindy, Turner, Uncle Paul and Aunt Kelley went to see the gamecocks whoop some TN, Vols while you got to hang out with Cole, Nathan and Grandma. You haven't gotten the hang of Mommy or Grandma holding another baby but love giving him sugar. You def know how to melt our hearts.
This month your vocabulary grew. You love saying HEY! and BYE! and say it just like that. You love to say Arghhhh (scaring people) and love it even more when people scare you. You get so tickled.
You've had an ear infection almost all month long.
You started watching a little bit of tv this month and have fallen to sleep numerous times watching shrek. You try your hardest to watch it though. You are still opening birthday gifts (we decided not to take everything out of the boxes at once) and love your toys but you really like playing with random things that you're not supposed to. One of your favorite toys is a ride on 4wheeler you think it's funny to watch mommy jump when you're standing on it instead of sitting. It get's her every time!
You no longer get bottles during the night and only have one bottle per day before bedtime.
You still love fruit and would eat it for meals if we would let you.
You are going to be a monkey for Halloween so Grandma decided that Izzie (her new dog) should be a banana for the pet contest. She did good because yall won Most Creative. Lil' stinker you.
You love saying the blessing and get all excited when we say make pretty hands... Your blessing is abcdefg thank you God for feeding me, AMEN! and of course you clap at the end.
Davis, Mommy and Daddy couldn't love you more!
(Will add pictures tomorrow, hopefully :)

Our Little Gamecock Turns 1!

I know it was a few weeks ago but I wanted to post about Davis' first birthday party. After many months of planning and preparing the day was finally here to celebrate our sweet boy.

11 months

Wild Man, With only one month until the big "1" you are into EVERYTHING! We (I) am preparing daily for your big party and can't wait to celebrate YOU! It's been so much fun picking things out and I can't wait to see it all together. You went from barely taking steps to practically running around the house. Yes, I said it, you are a walking machine! You fall numerous times a day but always get right back up and keep on. You are wearing size 12 and 18 month clothes and size 4 diapers. You have 7 teeth, 4 on the top and 3 on the bottom. You normally wake up around 8, eat breakfast and have a bottle, play some more, have lunch, have a bottle, nap anywhere from 1-21/2 hours, play, snack, play, supper, play, bath, bottle, bed and wake up once during the night for a bottle. (Snuggling with your turtle)You are still eating pretty much everything we give you. You can say, Mama, DaDa, Duck, Quack (you're kind of obsessed with ducks) and every now and then you make sounds that sound like words that we say (repeating us) but won't say them again. When we say where's mama's/dada's/etcs nose you point to it but haven't conquered showing us your nose. When we look at pictures you always point to Dada and say "DaDa" or point to Roxie and get excited. (Helping Daddy give Roxie a bath)You continue to wave bye bye and love saying the blessing your favorite part is AMEN. You get really excited. We continue to read books but you are more interested in turning the pages and don't want to hear what we're reading. Your favorite toys this month were a dog collar (that is new and hasn't been used) and tupperware. There are toys all over this house yet you are most happy with these silly things. We started putting some hand-me-down nike shoes on you and first you were constantly trying to get them off...slowly you're getting used to them. I also bought you an adorable gamecock pair of squeaky shoes that I can't wait to put on you Saturday for the first football game of the season :) You have started throwing fits where you lay on the floor face down. It's quite humorous although don't tell daddy but I'm admitting that you got your temper from me...sorry charlie! (Sitting inside the cabinet helping mama) You had your first night away from mama and daddy and barely slept. The funny thing is...mama was the same way! We must have been having separation anxiety :)Davis, You continue to melt everyone's hearts. Everywhere we go people are constantly commenting on your preciousness (I mean what did they expect with a mom like yours??) and we couldn't love you more. Slow down baby, you're growing too fast!

Bring on another...or 50 ;)

As previously stated we decided to celebrate our anniversary last weekend with a little getaway to Savannah. [Insert basket case mama here!] When deciding to take said getaway we decided that it would only be for one night being that this would be our first night away from babykins. Saturday morning we got up and ready and headed to my parent's house (who better to leave your kid with for the first time, right??) to drop D off. [Insert major crocodile tears here.] As soon as I started getting his stuff out of the car I lost it. I tried to dry it up but as soon as I handed him over to my dad the tears just started rolling down my face. I hugged him tight, kissed him bye and told BJ we needed to go right then. I cried for almost an hour. I'm serious, it was quite ridiculous. I told BJ that he just wouldn't understand b/c he hadn't been with him everyday for the past 20 months ( yes, I added in my pregnancy time). On the way we stopped by the outlets for some shopping. Of course we spent more on our munchkin than we did on ourselves but come on, baby gap little boy jeans SO.STINKIN.CUTE! When we finally made it to Savannah we decided to walk around downtown and see all of the neat little shops and restaurants. We ate, had drinks, talked, laughed, oohed and ahhed at all of the kids/babies that we saw and talked about our little man. We headed to check into the hotel and make dinner reservations, which never happened b/c a "little nap" turned into two hours and it was dinner time. We ended up eating at Chart House on River Street. We sat and talked for hours. It was so nice. After dinner we went to Savannah Smiles, the dueling piano bar. It was so much fun. It was really neat watching all of the bachelorette parties seeing how 3 years ago I was there celebrating my last "single" weekend. Sunday we took our time getting ready and headed to Bass Pro Shop and Target then made our way home to our sweet boy.
Today is our actual anniversary. Hubster cooked dinner and I made peach cobbler for dessert. It's been great!
Love Muffin if you are reading this I just want to tell you how much I enjoyed our anniversary trip. Even though it was really hard for me to leave Davis it was so nice to have that alone time with you. Now, we had quite the eventful year but it has been amazing. We were given the best gift ever..we became parents to the most adorable, sweetest little boy. I would be lying if I said it wasn't trying/crazy/etc. sometimes but you're always there when I'm having a "moment" and know when to step in. I always knew you would be a great dad but you have definitely exceeded my expectations! We've both grown so much this past year. We were both offered new jobs and after lots of prayer, took them. I can't wait to see what next year brings for our family. I could not be more grateful that God gave me you to share my life with.
I love you to the moon and back...(and yes I'll remember writing you this in the morning...HA)

**Will add pictures later :)

Mama's a basket case

We finally got Davis on video walking (please excuse the nakedness). He hasn't really walked any more other than here and there. Well tonight he decided he was ready and kept on. As I was uploading the video it hit me. Our baby is no longer a baby but a toddler. As happy as I am to watch him learn new things I'm hating this growing up thing. I mean, I feel like a crazy person being this silly. A whole year has almost flown by, what a year it's been, but can we please freeze time for a little while?!?!

Another thing, we've also been working on looking at pictures and saying who they are and he has mama and dada down. When he sees a picture of Roxie he just squeals.

I can't thank God enough for giving us this sweet baby boy!

10 months

Sweet boy,
As the plans for your birthday bash are in full force and I am so excited for the big day to be here, I am slightly sad that my baby is growing so fast! You change daily and Daddy and I just love to "watch" you as you figure out new things. Here's what you've been up to...
You went on your first vacation this month and loved it. You ate up all of the attention and loved hanging out with your big cousins Turner and Cole.
You took your first steps unassisted. However, you took two steps the week before we went on vacation and have not done so since then. You practically run behind your toys but aren't ready to let go. You get everywhere that you want to go and FAST, I tell ya. We have to keep all of the doors to the bedrooms, bathroom and laundry room closed b/c you are into EVERYTHING!
You had another ear infection this month, in fact it was a double ear infection. You still acted like your normal self but we could def tell that something was up.
You weighed 22 lbs 14 1/2 ozs at your last appointment. You're such a big boy.
You love to eat and we really haven't found anything that you don't like. Of course your favorites are still anything with pasta...mac&cheese, ravioli, spaghetti, etc. I've repeatedly said that you love Roxie but it only show more each month. She really likes that you get to eat all of this yummy food now b/c you are constantly feeding her.
You have started giving "love nibbles" as some have said. You don't actually bite down but nibble on our clothes. I'm so nervous that this will turn into a bad habit...please, please, please don't be a biter. I don't want to be "that mom" at daycare whose child bites everyone.
Uncle Trey swears that you said Duke one day and daddy and I are pretty sure you said "nigh-night" one night as we were trying to put you down for the night. Of course it melted our hearts. (but what's new, right?)
You have developed quite the temper. Lately when you are told "no" you lose your ish. You will throw your self down and cause a scene I tell ya. I'm sure you're learning this at daycare although Daddy may say that you've seen Mommy do this before.
You still love to clap and get excited very easily. If you see someone clap you get a big grin and do the same.
Your gums have been swollen so we are sure that you are getting some more toofies.
You're still wearing all 12 month clothes, size 3&4 diapers (we have both so we are using them...Mommy likes the size 4 dipies at night) and currently have no shoes that fit. Daddy says you don't need shoes but I have a feeling you will be getting some very soon..since we all know you'll be walking :)
You mostly wake up once a night for a bottle. After very few attempts to kick the during the night bottle we have decided that it's better on mommy and you when we just give it to you b/c you go back to sleep immediately.

You can wave, give "5", and make a clicking sound with your mouth...and you do it constantly.
Babylove, you bring so much joy to our lives and we can't wait to see what the future holds for you. We love you bunches.