Birthday Boy!

Hayden is 3 today. I really can't believe he's 3! He's getting so big. For the most part, I really enjoy this stage. He's beginning to be more independent and it's easier to take him places. I'm sad he's growing up, but it's fun to watch him now and see his personality developing. The only thing that I don't like about this stage is the non stop talking!! I mean really...it's NON STOP! What really gets me though is that his teachers at day care say they can't get him to talk. We always tell them they need to come home with us, but then maybe he wouldn't talk then either. It's just funny because as soon as we leave he talks until he goes to bed! Now Josh and I wonder why we ever wanted him to talk. Haha! But it really is amazing to hear him and watch him. He is just learning new stuff every day and sometimes he says thing and I don't even know where he learned that. Anyways, here are some pictures of my birthday boy!


His daddy just had to give him a gift on his birthday...even though his party is tomorrow. So unwrapped and everything he got some baseball stuff. Excuse his hair...he had just woken up.


So excited!

Just in case you noticed...his crocs are on the wrong feet. Josh and I stopped arguing with him because he insists on wearing them like that.

7 Months!

Today my baby is 7 months old.

Things he is doing now.

1. He has started eating yogurt. We give him vanilla flavored and he LOVES it!!
2. He can get up on his hands and knees at the same time. He even pushed himself into a sitting position twice now. I really think he will start crawling any day now. He's so close! I'm not sure if I'm excited about this phase or not, because now I won't be able to keep him still.
3. He still doesn't have any teeth. I know Hayden had teeth before this...he got his first tooth around 4 months so hopefully he will get some soon.
4. Smiling and laughing all the time.
5. He likes to watch Hayden's cartoons and loves to watch his big brother. I'm just sure he's watching all the things Hayden is doing now that he shouldn't be and can't wait to test my patience too! :)
6. Tries to grab the spoon away from me while I'm feeding him.


Here's a couple of pictures of him trying to sit up. (I think my wonderful husband deleted my Adobe photo shop off my laptop and I just now realized it... so these pictures don't look great because I couldn't edit them.)


Hey mom...what you doing?



He's starting to get angry here. This was right before he gave up and toppled over!

Our Weekend!

Josh, the boys and I went to my parents this weekend so we could go to a wedding. My best friend growing up got married and it was a beautiful wedding. We were best friends for years. Then I moved schools and we kind of lost touch, but it was so wonderful being able to see her get married, and yet kind of weird too. I have so many memories of us a little girls and it truly seems like just yesterday. Anyways, we had a good time! We didn't get to stay for the entire reception, because we had to get home to our boys who my grandparents were watching since my parents went to the wedding with us.

Here are some pictures... Josh and me at the reception
My mom and me at the reception. (I know she looks kind of tired...she's been sick for the past week) Me and the Bride, Anna. My mom had to get this picture. She has a picture of us,when we were little, that Anna gave me when we were younger playing in leaves and she wanted a picture of us to put beside it.
Josh and me before we left the reception.

6 months!

My little man turned 6 months old Sunday, March 3rd. He's getting so big!

What he's doing:

Rolling around everywhere! I think he wants to start crawling too. He can get up on his knees and his hands. He just hasn't figured out how to do both at the same time yet. So, I'm thinking maybe by next month he will have mastered this.

We had to go to the doctor 2 weeks ago for an ear infection and he weighed 17 pounds 1 ounce. Oops! This reminds me, he has a doctor's appointment coming up really soon and I have no idea when it is. We may have missed it...off to call! Update: We went to the doctor today and he weight 18 lbs! He's in the 59th percentile!

He's a big eater. He's eating oatmeal in the morning, 2 things of baby food at lunch and 2 things of baby food at dinner. He's also drinking three 8 ounce bottles of formula.

We introduced juice to him this month. I dilute it heavily, but he seems to like it.

Here are some recent pictures!


I love his chunky little legs!!

Our weekend 04/25-04/26 and lots of pictures!

I have been meaning to post this for several days, but have been busy studying for finals. Anyways, this was our weekend. We had a great one! It's going to start with Sunday though, since I downloaded the pictures backwards and I'm too lazy to fix them.

Sunday we went to the park. We have a really nice one about 2 minutes away from our house and Hayden loves it! We are going to start going every Sunday, after church. Though, we didn't go the past weekend due to the swine or H1N1 flu going around. I'm really trying to limit their exposure to another people right now as much as I can, but once it settles down, we will start going every Sunday.














Saturday, we had a festival type thing in the city we live in. We missed the parade, but we went to the festival and walked around. It was pretty neat. Their were lots of businesses set up advertising their business. Josh said he's going to try and do that next year. But they had lots of food and activities set up for children. It was fun.

Here's Hayden on the pony. I was telling him to smile at daddy, but I think he was a little nervous about riding. He had fun though.
Here's Cayson watching his brother. He was great the whole time. He's like his brother and loves to be outside.
Hayden was showing me what pony he wanted to ride.
This is so funny! They had a little place set up where you could go and pet the animals. Hayden had so much fun doing this. He likes to terrorize the animals though. He was chasing them instead of petting them.



Here's Hayden sliding on the big inflatable slide thing they had. He loved this!

Time Out!

Hayden has now started putting us in time-out for things that he doesn't like. It's too funny. Yesterday, Josh said something to me(I don't even remember now) and for some reason Hayden didn't like it. I don't know if he was trying to talk to me or get my attention or what now. But, he looked at Josh and said, "Don't talk to mommy, daddy! You need to go to time-out." Haha! It was so funny. So, Josh went and sat in the corner like Hayden told him to. Hayden's nice though and only made him sit there for about 5 seconds before he told him he could get up and grabbed his hand to help him. I guess it was just on his mind because while he was at his school yesterday a little girl bit him on the finger. I think they were trying to play with the same toy. I was so proud of him for not biting her back. The teachers said that he just kind of looked her with this face of shock...like why did you just do that to me. But she had to sit in time-out. So that was all the could talk about yesterday...the girl biting him and her having to sit in time-out. But I just thought it was so funny that he told his daddy he needed to sit in time out.

Our Weekend and lots of pictures!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a wonderful Easter. I know it's a little late, but anyways...we had a good Easter weekend. We spent the weekend with my parents. Saturday, we gave my uncle's fiance a wedding shower. They got lots of great stuff. Most of it was pink...Becky (his fiance) is obsessed with pink so now just about everything in their kitchen will be pink. It was fun though and we had good food...and strawberry cake...my favorite!!! On Sunday, we went to my parents church (although I'm thinking some maybe wished we hadn't...I'll tell that in a minute) and then had lunch with all my family at my parents house. Josh and I completely missed the service because we took Hayden and Cayson in with us instead of taking them to the nursery because it's not our regular church and I didn't want to leave them somewhere unfamiliar and then during the service Hayden got sick. He had gotten sick earlier in the morning and while we were slightly concerned he acted fine and didn't get sick for like 2 hours and both times it was after he drank Sunny D. We kind of began to wonder if it was the juice. We are 99.9% sure he didn't have a stomach virus because if my mom or I come anywhere near someone with it we both catch it and neither one of us got anything...so I don't know what was wrong with him. After he got sick he kept saying he wanted fries so we stopped at McDonalds and got him hash browns since it was too early for fries. After he ate them he was fine the rest of the day. But other than that we had a good day. We got to spend the day eating yummy food and Josh got to go to a Clemson game with my aunt,uncle, cousin and brother. He had fun...even though he isn't a Clemson fan and told the guy sitting beside him he was rooting for the other team.
Here are lots of pictures from our weekend! I wanted a family picture so bad, but we didn't have time before church and when we got back Hayden had sunny d all over his shirt and by the time I washed and dried them we had all changed.
His daddy loved this picture...ha! (He is not a Clemson fan!)


The next pictures our of Hayden's Easter Egg Hunt.
Haha! I think he's too cute!
I thought this was sweet!