Kitchen Progress?

Here's where we are right now:

Cuties of my Cutie!!

Some random pics from the last month:

Hayes can now climb onto the foot rest of the recliner....and onto chairs (including dining room chairs....and then onto the TABLE!! Ugh, this is not fun :) Exciting but not fun!

Joey says that sometimes I smile so big that I squint my eyes and he calls it "cheesing it up"...this absolutely qualifies!

Hayes is now feeding himself but he wants to run away with the fork after he uses it...accident prone little boy with sharp, metal fork, running in footie pajamas??? I think not!

Here's our big boy in a big chair! Joey tried to sit in the chair with him after this and Hayes was pushing him out of the chair! Too funny :)

One thing I haven't gotten a picture of yet are his woobies....when he gets up in the morning he will stand by his crib and try to pull out one of his fuzzy blankets and his puppy (that we call Gussie because his Aunt Beth and Uncle Billy gave him the puppy and they have a dog named Gussie). Then he carries them around "Linus"-style (Charlie Brown). It is so cute!

This also qualifies...

For "party in the back" ;). His curls are so cute!

Party in the back!

Business up front...

Stinkin' Cute

Hayes got his winter cap this week! Yes, it has turned chilly here in VA!

Pumpkin Patch!

Happy October!

We packed up the kiddos this past weekend and headed out to the pumpkin patch. Turns out that it's only about 30min north of the city and it is a huge farm! The Ashland Berry Farm has fields and fields of pumpkins and they start by taking you on a hay ride which Hayes and Amelia liked but they were far more interested in the tractor pulling us!

He's looking at the tractor :)

Both kids walked all over the place and most of the time were more interested in playing in the dirt than picking out pumpkins! Did you know that the stems of pumpkins are prickly??? I learned that piece of trivia the hard way! Thankfully B (Amelia's dad) came prepared with a knife otherwise we would have to gnaw our way to getting a pumpkin.

To top it all off, they run a special for $20 you can take all the pumpkins that you can carry taking 3 steps. Joey got nominated for this task and B was the strategic pumpkin-loader. Turns out that it doesn't really matter, we took home 8 pumpkins but about 4 of them fell during those 3 short steps...they don't really want to keep you from taking the pumpkins home, they just want your $20 :)

Hayes is carting away our loot :)

He did what?!

Yep, Hayes BROKE A TOOTH! This is not late-breaking news or anything. It happened a day or so before his one-year (read 13-month) check-up. I noticed that his b-e-a-u-tiful right top front tooth was the victim of trauma! Thankfully, it was not jagged and he never acted as if this bothered him.

So we went to our scheduled MD appointment and she recommended that he start seeing a dentist regularly anyway (at 1-year?!). So we made an appointment with a pediodontist who was as sweet and bubbly as she could be. Hayes, however, does not trust anyone trying to pry his lips open for any reason! Fortunately, on their first visit, the dentist said that she just likes to look and not try to do anything major because she wants the babies to start feeling comfortable with the dentist office.

She said that the break in the tooth is just through the enamel and so shouldn't bother him when he drinks etc. She also said that she doesn't recommend any intervention and that we can discuss cosmesis when he's 3-4 (I don't see that happening!). I'll try to take a picture but he doesn't really smile a toothy-grin on command :)

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry

I know that I have been noticeably absent. I just hope that my grandparents are still diligently checking the blog nightly and are able to see this apology as well as the fun videos I just posted.

I don't know how people such as my friends C&C juggle as much as they do - two very busy full time jobs, two beautiful and happy and smart children, family, friends, studying, church, not to mention time with each other, house work, etc - because we are struggling just with the ONE baby!

He is wonderful, he does get cranky but I think it's because when we're home, we're boring! And we bore him and he gets cranky. But when Joey and I finally make it home at the same time, we're worn out. My husband is also wonderful, but he works longer hours than I do so the secretarial work of the house falls to me because I typically get about 30min of daylight before "close of business" at 5p.

I'm not complaining...just making excuses for why I have been gone from blogging so long! Either way, great post, right?!

What we're up to:

- One year check-up: 31", 26#, healthy and perfect!! They did give him THREE shots (boo) and PRICKED his finger (which I still have nightmares about from childhood) and took what felt like a LITER of blood from that one prick

- Redoing the kitchen (yeah, I felt that I didn't have enough to do :)) - the tile and granite are done and they are coming to pick up the new kitchen doors on Monday to start painting them

- I recently finished my first Grand Rounds and it went well and I am so happy that I don't have to do another until the end of next year!!

- Joey passed his physics test!!! WHOO HOO

- Hayes has a new nanny (our former nanny up and moved to MEXICO!) and he is really doing well

- He recently had a roseola virus...that was a fun weekend. BUT that was his first fever EVER.

- We went over to Williamsburg recently to see Grandmother Ames. Mom and Dad were up here too and it was a fun weekend together!

- We are planning for our Thanksgiving visitors and hoping that the kitchen will be completely done by then! My Grandparents are coming up with their entourage and we are going to go see the WWII memorial in DC among other things. I am SO excited about the trip!! AND I am hoping that we see Joey's parents up here that week too since my whole family will have to leave to make sure the AU-UA game is well staffed :)

I LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU LOTS!

Dancing

My little boy loves to dance! It is SO stinkin' cute I can barely stand it!! JoLynn gave H another singing card (he slap wore out the first one she gave us!) and this is him dancing to the song.

Walking

So, I know this is a little old. This is uploaded by request of Meredith who has not been able to see him walk in person! So this is for all the people who love Hayes but can't see him every day!

Roll Tide!!

Yep...he's wearing my necklace :)