Swings....weeeee!

Tooth

Hayes is getting a tooth! We can't see it yet but we can feel it - bottom left one ;)

Best Friends

Happy Birthday, Beth!

Happy Birthday to Aunt Beth!

We had a rough start to our friendship as kids, but I am ecstatic to be able to say that my sister is one of my best friends in this world!

Happy Birthday and I can't wait for your birthday celebration next weekend! I am counting down the hours :)

Asheville

The weekend of April 19-21 Joey, Hayes and I went to meet Jennifer H. and Jennifer M. for a "girls" weekend (Hayes was a fun addition and Joey was safety and babysitting!). We had a great weekend and it makes me realize how much I miss ALL my friends!! We shopped, we ate, we explored, we drank some beer (the three girls went on a beer tour in Asheville!). It was so fun and I only wish it could have lasted longer. Love you two!!

First lemon, courtesy of Aunt Jenn Munn....he would suck on it for a while and shake his head when the sour hit him! Then he would dive back at it for more :)

Munn has an awesome camera and Hayes is always willing to be a photo subject -

He's definitely up to something :)

7 MONTHS OLD!

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby boy!

Things that Hayes is into now:

- playing with toys

- "kissing" - this is actually very painful because he grabs the sides of your face and bites but he gets so excited!

- babbling - I am pretty sure that every once in a while I hear both Mama and Dadda

- sucking on his toes

- crying when I leave the room - he loves his Mommy!!

- getting down to just his diaper

- bathing in the big tub with his toys

- drinking out of a sippy cup and he LOVES drinking out of a real cup....I have pictures that I will upload of his "party" with red crystal light (also one of his favorites!)

- EATING - he is eating carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, peaches, bananas, and apples (thanks for the Beaba, Mom!!)...we're about to try sweet corn, YUM!

- squirming everywhere - it's not actually crawling, it's more akin to "the worm"

- being tickled...and oh, boy, he is ticklish!!

- sleeping through the night....WOO HOO!

I can't believe he's already 7 months old! What happened to my tiny baby that I brought home from the hospital?!

What does one do?

Normal business hours: 9am-5pm, M-F

My business hours: 7:30am-5pm, M-F

My husband's business hours: 8am-5:30pm, M-F

When do I get to go pick out my tile and have my kitchen come out of the time warp?!

Sweet Happy Baby

Hayes was so good on the trip home! He had two big naps and we played
for a little while in between. Now we'll see if he sleeps tonight ;)

Sleepy Boy

We're headed home from Asheville. It was a great weekend with Jenn and
Jenn!! I think we wore Hayes out though ;)

FIRST WORD???

I was getting ready yesterday morning and I was told by my son that, in fact, that was not what he wanted me to be doing at that moment (he told the rooms beside us too!). So I was coming out of the bathroom to talk to him but was quickly going back in to finish my hair and make-up....this made him angry since, of course, I was supposed to drop everything and come running when he said so!

Anyway, Joey was trying to entertain him, but I am the "milk truck" and Joey just doesn't have the goods that Hayes really seeks in life right now. So Hayes was calling for me and Joey and I swear he was trying to say "Momma"!!! He definitely was saying "mmmmm"s and then occasionally he would let out a "momma" - maybe by accident but he did it several times!!

WOO HOO...he said momma before dadda!!!

Asheville

We are in Asheville, NC this weekend where we met up with two of my best friends in the world! This girls' get-away is LONG overdue! The weekends are always too short and this one is no exception but I am so glad we are getting to see each other...and maybe now that "spades" are broken, we can do this more often :)

Maybe we'll let the hubbies participate next time (Joey came as my driver but he hasn't been out of our hotel room much because he doesn't feel very good).

Love my girls!!

Joey's Surprise!

No, his surprise was NOT the girls in this picture!!

Joey has gotten into watching UFC/MMA fights on tv and I have an attending who covers these fights both locally and at a national level (he's sits on the MMA council or something). So when I found out there was going to be a fight in Richmond I begged him to let me come and bring Joey!

He let us and we got to do the pre-fight physicals and then watch all of the fights and check out the guys after they fought to make sure they knew their mother's name and that good stuff :)

These two lovely upstanding young women are the rung girls. I hope you can appreciate how micro those minis really are....I had a great/awful view of just how tiny they were when they were walking up and down the stairs that were right next to me (you know, to carry the signs around the ring announcing what round it is). Let me just tell you this....I knew for a fact that they were wearing THONGS under those tissues that they are using as skirts!! Ugh...if H ever brings somebody like this home (or Jackson either...you aren't exempt by any means!!)...we'll have to have a major CTJ meeting!!!

Happy Birthday, Uncle Jack!

So it begins...

I have started the process to update my b-e-a-u-tiful kitchen!! I know it's hard to imagine ANYTHING being prettier than it is right now...but, I'm going to try!

Our first step in investigating was a bummer to say the least...for our tee-tiny little kitchen, the guy wanted 12K and we wouldn't even have a new floor nor a backsplash!!!! What was he thinking?! AND he wasn't even going to tear out the cabinets...just reface them (for 12K I want gold-dust in this tiny area....or a wall knocked down or something!)

Since I have helped paint a large set of cabinets and I know that the Brittney R. was successful painting her cabinets, I am going to do that instead....and of course, get new cabinet doors/drawers.

I have already talked to the granite guy (who by-the-by came in less than HALF of what the home depot guy did on the countertops!) and was very pleased. I met the tile guy yesterday to talk about the floor and backsplash - should get a quote from him soon. And I am going to meet with a cabinet guy tomorrow.

I cannot tell you how excited I am about this transformation...but still not 12K excited!!!

6 month pictures

I have already been scolded for taking H to a "fast-food" photo shop to have his pictures made instead of a photographic artist but when you're this stinkin' cute does it matter who pushes the shutter button?!?!

He was SO good! He was flirting with the girl taking the pictures and it was very hard to get a picture without a huge cheesy grin because he was so incredibly happy and hamming it up for the camera!

My Sweet Baby!

Dad brought Grandmother and Granddaddy up last weekend for a visit and we LOVED it! These are some of the pictures of Hayes hanging out with his THREE nannies! Can you even imagine how spoiled he is now?!?

One his very favorite pillows...I mean people :)

Giving Grandmother sloppy kisses!!

This was after we went through the nature conservatory at Maymont park

Wayne kisses!! We still don't have a name for Daddy :(

6 month birthday cake!! I think he ate a thimble amount of cake :) But ended up sitting in it when I tried to get him up!

Unfortunately Granddaddy did not feel good at all during this trip so we didn't make him participate in pictures. It just means he'll have to come back and see us soon!!