Four Months Old

Jake got a great report at his four month check up. He weighed 15 pounds 5 ounces and was 25 inches long. I started feeding him cereal and vegies at four months. He LOVES to EAT!!! Evidence is in the first picture below. Ha! He can roll from his back to his side. He got an exersaucer from Santa Claus and is doing better at holding his head up on his own. He turned four months old on Christmas day. On Christmas morning last year, we found out we were expecting him. So thankful that God watched over us during my pregnancy and now we have a healthy, 15 pound four month old!




And here is Miss Ava when she was four months old

Better Late than Never I guess....

It seems like I am pretty terrible about blogging this time of year. I remember doing this last year, then playing catch up, then trying to do better. So hopefully the bad blogging is behind me. Now I am playing catch up. And MAYBE I will get better! I am finding it to be much harder to get things done with two kiddos. I got some really good pictures over Christmas that I didn't want to just leave off the blog. My hope is that I will soon get my blog turned into a book for our family to keep and I don't want pieces to be missing. So, here goes the catching up...Merry Christmas!!!!! First stop was Mamaw and Papaw's house!





We came home on Christmas Eve and SANTA CAME!!!!!!! My kids were GOOD this year!


We went to Nana and Pop's on Christmas day. My mom's sister, my Aunt Jayne, and all of her family came that night. It was so fun for us to all be together.

Ava turns 4!!!!!

Ava had such a fun birthday this year...TWO big celebrations!!! One at Larry's Pizza and one at her Aunt Alice and Uncle Brandy's house. Here are LOTS of pictures from both parties!!!

The Birthday girl at her Tangled party

She LOVED her big Rapunzel tower cake!!!!!

Party favors for her friends

Some pretty special guests

Baby brother likes to party, too!

Ava and her friend Emerson

All her special friends

Blowing out her candles

Fun times!

Nana and Pop with the birthday girl

Birthday girl with Aunt Alice and Uncle Brandy

We can't believe she is FOUR!!!

Birthday girl with Mamaw, Papaw and brother

Baby brother was partied out!

More sweet friends that came to celebrate

Uncle Brandy took the kids on a hay ride! Awesome!!!

Daddy's little girl

Three Months Old

Jake is three months old!!!! He is wearing six months clothes and growing way too fast! He is still the BEST baby!!! He smiles and laughs all the time! He sleeps through the night...eight hours on average. I told you he is GOOD! He is getting stronger and holding his head up on his own. He doesn't love his car seat. His favorite thing is still to swing and be talked to. Oh yes, and his THUMB! The boy LOVES his thumb. He LOVES his Sissy, too.

Loves his thumb!

And his Sissy!

Is he not the CUTEST little man you have EVER seen?!?!

Three Months old

Ava Jayne at three months old

Halloween 2011

We had a FUN-filled, CANDY-filled Halloween!!! I had to share this outfit I made Miss Priss. I also made Jake's ghost shirt :)

Daddy and Ava carved her pumpkin. Blake was thankful she didn't request a Dora pumpkin this year!

Here is our little friendly ghost!

And our pretty Rapunzel with her pumpkin that she LOVED!



Both my precious babies

We had friends to our house for chili, hot dogs and cupcakes.

Then we went trick or treating of course!!

Sweet Boy

I guess this is video week on my blog! I need to be putting Halloween pictures on here, but I wanted to share videos instead. This sweet boy makes my heart smile. I am just in love :) Halloween pictures coming soon...hopefully! These videos are better than Halloween pictures anyway.

Ava is learning to READ!

Ava is becoming VERY interested in letters, sounds, words, etc. She started preschool this year and we have been doing LOTS of reading at home as well. She LOVES books and one of her favorite things to do is listen to a story. Here she is reading her first book. I am so proud of her!