Monkey See, Monkey Do

For those that are wondering, that is my eyeshadow all over my son's face. His daddy was not happy! If there is any question about his "masculinity", he immediately went and got his cars and began crashing them all over the house!

A BUSY Day!!!

What a busy day we had today! God has really blessed me with some amazing friends and today I got to see several of them. At about 8:00 this morning we headed to McDonough to catch up with some friends that we haven't seen in months. Kora, Erica, Jana and I all taught together at Ola for a year. Well, Jana and I taught together for 4 years (and I'm really not sure how I'm going to teach without her in the fall) but Kora and Erica were there with us for one year. The four of us have always enjoyed just hanging out together. The funny thing is how our conversations have changed over the last three years from talking about "our kids" in the classroom to "our kids" biologically. Erica had Ella last July and Kora had Kate the week before Makinley was born. Jana has two teenage daughters that we always love hearing stories about! Anyway, it's so much fun now to get together and watch the kids play and today we had our own little pool party at Kora's house. Kora and Erica were sweet enough to put on their bathing suits and entertain Tripp while I watched from the sidelines. Mak is always content to just float. Although I now live an hour away from them, I pray we continue to find reasons to get together in the years to come. It's just so cool to watch our kids grow up together!

One group shot: Ella, Kate, Tripp, Mak and Kora

I can just hear her thinking "This is the life!"

The sun was a little too bright for Miss Ella

Kate is saying, "Party at your crib or mine?"Tripp had double protection against drowning!

Before going to Kora's, we also had a playdate at Holly's house. Holly and I have been friends for 13 years and for the last 4 we lived about 5 houses apart. I spent at least one afternoon a week at her house. I have definitely missed our weekly (and sometimes daily) get togethers since moving. Her daughter Gracy was born the December before Tripp and her oldest son Dylan is 6. We hung out over there this morning for a couple of hours. Tripp and Gracy have always fought like brother and sister and today was no exception!

Cowboy Tripp

Makinley is playing with new toys!

Gracy protecting her ball from Tripp

Can't believe it's been five years!

It has been five years since I graduated from UGA. That is so hard for me to believe because it really does feel like it was just yesterday. Once I entered into my major of Early Childhood Education, I had every class with the same 23 girls. We grew really close during our last two years at Georgia together. Yesterday, we had a five year reunion at my best friend Carrie Beth's house. It was so much fun! Not everyone was able to make it (and we missed those of you that couldn't) but it was great to catch up with those that could. We all brought our families, so there were six kids running around and 2 pregnant girls! It's amazing how much changes in such a short amount of time.

From left to right: Kristin, Katie (my roomate at UGA), Jennifer, Carrie Beth, and me

I took a lot more pictures of the kids running around having a good time but it was basically the same pictures over and over again! :-) However, out of the five of us pictured above, 4 of us have blogs (everyone but Jennifer, and we are working on her). So, you can see The Wyatt Clan, The Jones Family, and The Poseners from my blog!

Just because....

she is so stinkin' cute that I had to share!

Teething Stinks

Teething makes a bad sleeping baby a horrible sleeping baby. It has been pretty miserable around our house for the past week. Makinley is NEVER fussy (and I mean NEVER) but for the past few days, she has been pretty irritable. She hasn't been napping very well and the nights are extremely long. Last night she woke up at 10:30, 2 and 5:15. I've been nursing her back to sleep more for comfort than for nutrition b/c I know she isn't hungry but she is hurting. And I am desperate to get back to sleep as fast as I can and nursing her is the surest way to make that happen. I know it is creating and enforcing a bad habit. She has been a late teether. Tripp had his first teeth at 5 months. She didn't cut her first 2 until 8 months. She'll be 10 months on Sunday and is now cutting her 3rd. It's funny though because she is cutting another one on the bottom instead of her top two. The order is messed up! She is going to have a mouth full on the bottom and none on the top. If anyone knows some magic solution for pain at night, I'm all ears. We are doing the alternating Tylenol/Motrin at night. Any other suggestions?

Also, just because I am throwing myself a pity party....it has now been 10 months since I've slept through the night at all and it's been 28 months since I've slept through the night on a consistent basis. Oh, the joys of motherhood!

No more bed head!

Before haircut.....notice the color of his paci! We show no favortism towards things that are blue yet...especially when it comes to a pacifier!






After haircut! I love it that when he wakes up his hair looks great!

My little fish

First let me just say, I love this picture! It definitely captures how much fun he is having this week at swim lessons. He can't stop smiling and saying, "Mommy, look at me! I'm sfimming" at the top of his lungs. There was also the time that he jumped out of the pool ran over to me and said "High Five, Mom". That got a good laugh out of everyone!





You can see how intently he is watching "Coach Chris" in this picture. He wants to make sure he isn't going to let go!










These are the other two little boys taking lessons with him; Chase and Blake. They are both 3 1/2 and I can tell a big difference in their developmental abilities vs. Tripp's. But he is still doing awesome! He's learned to kick, blow bubbles in the water, and he's sort of learned how to move his arms.






Look at his face! This was when he finally kicked outside of the water for the first time and he is so proud of himself. It's been hard to get him to understand how to kick out of the water instead of like he's trying to walk under the water.








If I may say so myself, this is one pretty girl! She has been content to just sit in her stroller and watch all the action at the pool!










Kicked back!