Sunday, September 29, 2013

4 Months and the Rest of Our September

Stats at 4 Months and 1 Day:
Weight:  15lb 10oz (63%)
Height:  25in (51%)
Head:  43.2cm (73)
What W's upto at 4 months:
-eating 5 times a day
-averages about 11 hours of sleep at night
-still smiling all the time
-hands are always in his mouth
-has moved from the pack'n'play in the office to the crib in the room with AR for nighttime
-talking a lot and discovering new noises he can make


 Other festivities during this past month are below:

A couple weekends ago we went up to Lovey and Grand Daddy's for a night and went to a bluegrass and bbq festival.  Heather and Benjamin were able to join us too!
Not much longer until we meet W's bff!




This past weekend we went to Clemson so that AR could see the homecoming floats.  We had a fun day of walking around, visiting, having a picnic, eating ice cream, and more!
W enjoying his stroll!





Met up with some of William's friends and their families!
 

Right before W rolled off... JK! 

William and his buddy, Hank, with their girls






What Bowman field looks like during the game!

There's Dabo!

The two-headed Dabo


Go Tigers!


Other pics from this past month (oh and Heather and Benjamin, you'll be glad to know that we still don't wear pants around here!):
AR has really been into reading to her babies lately

Her baby is having mat time with W

I came around the corner the other day to find AR changing W's diaper... she was really going to do it!  And apparently she was ready for the next 5 changes too!

We got out the jumpy seat and he's been loving it!

Bath time!
Thanks for the help AR!
We've been staying very, very busy around here with a 2 1/2 year old and a 4m old!  We've finally moved W into the room with AR for nights and so far it's going pretty good.  I started my weekly bible study at church and am enjoying learning and growing spiritually as well as having a bit of a break and girl time.  AR loves the play time as well, which I'm glad of.  October is looking busy as well, but lots of fun to come with it.  We are especially looking forward to meeting our new niece who is already arrived!!

Monday, September 9, 2013

Beach Trip 2013

We just got back from a nice vacation at the beach with all of the Trammell family!  AR had a blast being with her Mimi and Papa and cousins for a WHOLE week!  She also loves being with her aunts and uncles too!  Here is a look back at our week at the beach:

AR was giving lots of love one night:


Grayson joined in!
 The cousins had a blast playing with one another.  The girls are finally getting to the point where they can converse and interact with each other:

Lots of fun was had on the beach:
W all ready to play in the sun... though he was actually out on the beach very little!

Shark tooth hunting with Uncle Willie

Trying to catch some bait

Papa showing the grandchildren the bait

AR holding a fish
 W was a sport and put up with everybody passing him around... even the little ones!

 Trying to get all four in one pics looks a bit like this:

 Our house for the week:

She carried this baby around most of the time while out on the beach

Chad and Andrew took Grayson for a ride on the kayak

AR's version of riding the kayak!

These two got into Grayson's bucket of toys without him knowing about it... well that is until AR left the crime scene and went over to Grayson saying "Grayson, look at Caroline" while pointing at her playing with his stuff.  These two girls are going to be something!
 The girls played with strollers and babies the entire week:


Each couple takes a night to cook for everybody else and we had some great meals:  Low Country Boil, hamburgers and hotdogs, fish tacos, and a roast.  Two nights we got fried chicken and pizza and we all went out to eat one time as well.  The night we went out we tried Litchfield Fish House for the first time and enjoyed it!  Pictures below are from there (playground ones too):






Wish I had some pics from the night we cooked b/c my good friends Stephanie and Russell came to eat with us as well as their little boy.  We had a great time catching up with them and introducing W to them!  Hate they live so far away but if they have to I'm glad it's at a place we go to about once a year or so!

Then of course there was family photo night.  Our daughter was the difficult one that evening!

So blessed to be a part of this family!  We can't wait to welcome Miss Anna Claire any day now!

The Hayes

Uncle Andrew posing with Grayson

Our little family!

That isn't a happy face AR has but it's the best we got here!

Andrew and Sarah

Mimi and Papa
With the grandbabies... once again, the best of AR we got.
Sporting their hats:

Is it just me or does she look so grown up with her hair pulled back and a hat on!?
 Daddy shark tooth hunting while carrying a baby.  I wish you all could have seen him get up from a beach chair while wearing W... he looked just like any 9 month preggo trying to get up!

Photo night #2:  the cousins.  I'm so thankful that my two have cousins so close in age... they are very lucky!


A typical daddy with spit up on him!  :)



Grayson was sooo good with W this week!



Mimi's lap just won't hold them all:

AR would listen to her mimi read a book and then repeat the last few words as if she was reading them from her book.

Thanks Mimi and Papa for a great week!  We look forward to the next family get together with 5 grandbabies!!