happy 1st birthday nash!

Happy Birthday to our sweet Nash!! 

We love you so much!!

We love you to the moon and back!!

We can't wait to see what this year brings!!

pearson {3 years 8 months}

• You have been such a delight lately! I think we are rounding out the "Awful Threes" and moving closer to the "Magical Fours".  
• We have had some nice days lately and you love to ride your bike. 
• If I take Nash's pictures, you automatically ask me to take yours. 
• You talk a lot about when your going to be FOUR.
• Naps are officially a thing of the past.  I make you rest with nothing in your bed for an hour and then you can read books until Nash wakes up.  I would say one out of every ten days you fall asleep for a nap, but it's a rare occasion now.  
• You have PJ's that have Grizzly bears on them and you call them Grizzle Bears.
• When I am eating something, you way of asking if you can have a bite, is "Do I like that?".  I always tell you no, and you respond with.  "Is it spicy?".
• If we answer one of your questions with Maybe or I Don't Know, you always say "Yes or No".  You need a definite answer!
• You ask "How many minutes is it?" for "What time is it?"
• You can completely tell time by yourself on a digital clock.  
• You can read so well.  I am amazed at what you can read.  You are definitely a sight word reader.  If we tell you what a word says, you remember it the next time you see it.  Such a good memory!!
• You got to go to a Valentine's Day party at Lolly's house.  One of your favorite things was the "hot chalk" or hop scotch. 

meal planning monday

Monday: Cheesy Vegetable Chowder & French Bread

Tuesday: Rootbeer Pulled Pork Sandwiches & Broccoli Salad

Wednesday: Leftover Soup

Thursday: Spaghetti Meatsauce, Caesar Salad, & Garlic Knots

Friday: Me: Girl's Night Out Boys: Steak Fingers, Mashed Potatoes, & Green Beans

Saturday Breakfast: Lemon Poppyseed Bread

Saturday Lunch: Biscuit Pizzas

Saturday Dinner: King Ranch Casserole

Sunday Lunch: Chicken Tender Salad

Sunday Dinner: Shrimp Scampi & Roasted Green Beans

meal planning monday

Monday: Brisket Tacos & Black Beans

Tuesday: Matt: Mtg Me & Boys: Out with Pops

Wednesday: Boys: Leftover Tortilla Soup Me: MOPS Mom's Night Out

Thursday: Goulash, Okra, & Cornbread

Friday: Stromboli

Saturday Breakfast: Biscuits & Sausage Gravy

Saturday Lunch: Leftover Stromboli

Saturday Dinner: Chinese Take Out

Sunday Breakfast: Donuts for ABF

Sunday Lunch: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches & Tomato Basil Soup

Sunday Dinner: Chicken Pot Pie

nash {12 months}

Dear Sweet Nash-

Where, oh where did my little 6lb 10oz baby go?  This year has absolutely flown by.  While it's probably been the hardest year of my life, it's also been the most rewarding and filled with so much joy.     I refuse to call you a toddler just because you are one.  You will always be my baby boy.  

 

Sleeping: 
Once again, we had another month of inconsistent sleep.  It's been a year and we still can't seem to figure your sleeping  out.  One thing I know, you go to bed so easily at 7pm on the dot and when you are ready for a nap you fall right asleep.  You are still a tummy sleeper and at night you sleep in your sleep sack.  As for how long you sleep at night and how long your naps are, we can never tell.  Most nights you sleep about 10 hrs and thankfully I don't think you woke up at all during the night this month.  You wake up anywhere from 5:30-7:00am.  There is absolutely no rhyme or reason as to when you wake up, but when you are awake, you are awake.  There is no falling back asleep after I nurse you.  Naps are anywhere from 30 minutes to and hour and half.  Rarely do you sleep longer than that……except for right now while I am typing this.  I'm starting to wonder what's wrong!!

Eating:
We officially dropped your mid-morning nursing.  You take a 4-6oz bottle of formula instead.  You get so excited when you see your bottle! Since you don't get bottle often, it's taken you a long time to finally feed yourself your bottle.  You will happily sit in my lap and let me feed you, but you really like to hold it yourself now.  You eat three meals a day and have a couple snacks throughout the day.  If we put food in front of you, you will always eat.  We still haven't found a thing that you don't like.  Most meals I have to cut you off.  You would eat all day long if I let you.  

New Tricks/Activities/Accomplishments: 
You started cruising around furniture this month.  You aren't very fast but you can definitely get around.  You are kind of getting brave enough to transfer from the couch to the coffee table.  Just today you have taken more interest in your walk.  You can walk pretty good with it. Before today, your little legs where like lead.  You would barely even pick them up.  You love to repeat after us and try to say what we say especially things Pearson says.  If Pearson starts to make noises in the car, it gets really loud because they just start going back and forth  You can say "da-da", "ma-ma", "buh-buh", "bye-bye" and "hiiiiii".  You can wave too.  Sometimes I think you know what they mean but sometimes I think you just say them not knowing.  You started playing peek-a boo, with us but you usually put your hands over your ears.  If we ask you where your eyes are, sometimes you will blink.  You love moving to music and dancing to the beat.   

Likes:
Opening and closing doors, remotes, phones, iPad, baby goldfish, playing with cars in the hall, spashing in the tub, praise baby videos, playing with tupperware, playing with Pearson's toys, digging in the trashcan, trying to get into the toilet, walking to us with your walker, playing catch.

Dislikes:
Diaper changes, pulling clothes over your head, hats, hoods or anything on your head, when you run out of food, getting your nose wiped, getting in the carseat, when brother pushes you, when we take things away from you that you shouldn't have. 

Other Random Facts:

• You hate getting in your carseat all the sudden.  You throw a big fit and we have to push you down in there, but once you are in, you are completely fine.  
• Every single time I pick you up from the nursery, the ladies always comment on what a sweet and happy baby you are.  You always have the biggest smile and are so happy to see us when we pick you up.  
• You have discovered the potties this month so we have to always keep them closed and even keep the doors closed because you are figuring out how to open the potty.  
• You have the cutest little wave when we say bye or hi.  
• You can sign more when you want more food.  
• We have gone to Golden Grip Gymnastics a couple of times and you love to crawl around a play there.  
• Everywhere we go you always smile at strangers and they always comment on how cute you are.  We think you are pretty cute too!!
• Still now new teeth, but I am beginning to wonder if some are coming in because of your sleep being so inconsistent.  
• You continue to have a very sensitive bottom.  I have to put the purple desitin on your bottom after every poopy to keep it from breaking out.
• We have had some issues with your cheeks lately.  They will break out and turn red but we can't figure out what causes it.  Your exema cream that we used on your scalp when you were a baby seems to clear it up best.  
• You hair cracks us up because it's growing in like a skunk.  You have lots of hair straight down the middle and it won't part to either side so it just comes down to a point.  You also have hair in the back that always sticks up because your two little cowlicks collide.  

Happy 12 months baby boy!!

Love-

Your Mommy

{12 month Stats}

Weight:    24 pounds 10 ounces

Length:  30.5 inches

Eating: nursing 3 times a day (around 6:00am, 2:30pm, & 7:00pm) along with 3 meals a day (around 8:00, noon, & 5:30) 

Bedtime: around 7:00pm

Awake: around 5:30-7:00am

Naps: usually 2 45 minute-1 hr 30 minute naps around 9am and 2pm

Diapers: size 4's

Clothes: mostly 18 months and 18-24 month hand-me-downs, 18 months pants and even a few 2T shirts

Teeth: No new teeth (4 total: two bottom & 2 top)

Here is Pearson at 12 months and Nash at 12 months.

Look how you've changed.

meal planning monday

Monday: Pork Fried Rice & Egg Rolls

Tuesday: Meatballs, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, French Bread

Wednesday: Lasagna Soup

Thursday: Chicken Poppyseed Casserole & Green Beans

Friday: Parent's Night Out

Saturday Breakfast: Homemade Pancakes & Bacon

Saturday Lunch: Grimaldi's for Nash's Birthday

Saturday Dinner: Leftover Soup

Sunday Lunch: Roast Beef Sanwiches & Chips

Sunday Dinner: Tortilla Soup

meal planning monday

I'm late getting around to posting this so I went ahead and planned for the following week too!

Monday: Pork Chops, Swiss Potatoes, Roasted Brussel Sprouts

Tuesday: Flying Fish w/ My Parents

Wednesday: Skillet Chicken Lasagna

Thursday: Chicken Rice Soup & French Bread

Friday: Pork Fried Rice & Egg Rolls

Saturday Breakfast: Sausage & Cream Cheese Twirls

Saturday Lunch: Steak Fingers & Tator Tots

Saturday Dinner: Leftovers

Sunday Lunch: Frito Pie

Sunday Dinner: Planning Mtg @ Church

Monday: BBQ Chicken, Roasted Potatoes, & Broccoli

Tuesday: Sausage, Red Beans & Rice

Wednesday: Small Group Potluck

Thursday: Taco Bueno 49¢ Tacos

Friday: CAMPING

Saturday: CAMPING

Sunday Lunch: Out after church

Sunday Dinner: Super Bowl Party @ The LeBlancs

pearson {3 years 7 months}

• You always request to wear comfy clothes….AKA not jeans or jeams as you still call them. 
• Before we go out somewhere you remind me that you need your spikes! You love to have your hair spiked up!
• You have a bladder of steel.  I think most days you only go 3 times a day.  
• One morning when you woke up and I asked you to go potty, you told me "But I went yesterday!"
• You love to go to Wal-Mart and Target with me to get a cookie!
• One time I put on red lipstick and you looked at me when the funniest look and said "Did you put wips (lips) on your mouth?"
• We finally moved you to a big boy bed and you are doing awesome!! You took a nap the first couple days but every since it's kind of been a battle.  
• You call girls….."gores".
• You love to do puzzles on the iPad on an app called Jigsaw Puzzles.  It amazes me how quickly you can do the 25 piece puzzles.  They are pretty hard.  
• Nash and I had the flu so everyone was on Tamiflu.  Every morning when we made you take your medicine, you would ask, "Am I sick?" You were so confused!

#thelinkhomeeveryday2015 {week 2}

{Day 8}

The best smiles are the ones where your eyes disappear!

{Day 9}

Date night with my handsome man at Geisha! So good!!

{Day 10}

The boys actually let us "sleep in" a little bit on Saturday!!

{Day 11}

I moved this piece of furniture into the living room from Pearson's room to give him a little more play space in his room.  I think I'm really going to enjoy the toy storage in our living room.  I should have done this a long time ago. 

{Day 12}

MOPS Mondays are our favorite.  It's always so refreshing to hang out with other moms for 3 hrs without kids!!

{Day 13}

Black beans and avocados always equal bathe night!!

{Day 14}

We earned this bundt cake after dealing massive fit by Pearson.  Whew!!

fall at the arboretum

Taking it back a little further day, back to when my Mom and I took the boys to the Aboretum.  I really really really wanted some super cute picture of my boys in all the pumpkins.  But we all know taking picture of two little boys in quite impossible, so I set the bar pretty low.  I don't think I got a single picture of them both looking at the camera but I love them all!!  

If you haven't seen the pumpkin display at the Arboretum, you've gotta go see it!! (next fall that is) It's amazing!! Enjoy these pictures of my sweet boys!!

I'll be back tomorrow with our family trip to the Arboretum last month!!