Picture Overload

Once again I have WAY too many beach pictures-here are some of my favorites!!

Beach Trip

We were so sad about leaving the beach yesterday. We have had a great time on vacation. 9 days went by way too fast (as it always does when you are away!) It started off a little hectic with us having to go grocery shopping for the week and getting EVERYTHING unpacked and organized. You forget how much you need for a baby. Someone Josh forgot the top part to our tent-so we only had the frame.  So we also had to make a Walmart run to get a new tent. We have learned that is something you must have with a baby. Thankfully they had a smaller one that was only $49 and it worked great. I guess next time we come we can use both of them together!


We had a really low key week/weekend and it was great!! We stayed up too late, slept a little later, took some naps, ate dinner at home, played on the beach, played at the pool, walked to get ice cream, watched the Olympics, and walked to the park. We also wanted to do some fun things with Wade while we were there. Josh and Wade played Putt Putt three times, we went to Barefoot landing twice (I Love that it is right across the street from the condo), went to Tanger once, went to Alligator Adventure twice (wade loved it so much) and went out to eat a couple of times. We mostly cooked at home and it was so much easier-that way we could stay out and play on the beach longer. I only wore makeup one night which was wonderful.

Wade slept in Nana & Poppy’s room almost every night and watched TV while falling asleep. He has never gotten to do this and he stayed up WAY too late every night. He was a little lot whinny at times but he loved it so we said “why not It’s his vacation too!” I told him he couldn’t do this when we go home and his response was “I don’t even have a TV in my room?” Oh he makes us laugh. He also said he was “zero tired” every day at nap time and each night. His “tummy was grumbling” every night around 930p too? He is swimming like a big boy and I can’t even believe it. It all started when I got him some goggles at the dollar store that covered his nose. I accidently cracked them and he got a really “cool” new pair at the beach. He is swimming under water in the pool and the ocean. He loved diving under the waves and he even learned how to do a front flip under water in the pool. We are so proud of him.

Westin Kate turned 6 months while we were there and started getting her first little tooth all in the same week. Her little front bottom tooth is coming in. She also had fruit for the first time this past week and seems to really like it. She has tried about three different fruits and vegetables now. She is at a hard age this year because I hate having her in the sun a lot but I think for the most part she really enjoyed the beach and pool. Next summer she will be running everywhere and I am sure I will look back and think this summer was a breeze!! She started getting a runny nose on Friday and I can’t tell if she has a cold or if all this is coming from her teething? She has only been fussy at night so I am thinking it’s her teeth.

Thanks Nana and Poppy for letting us stay all week at the condo. We are so thankful that they have such a great place for us to go and take the kids. We can’t wait to go back for Labor Day Weekend in three weeks. Wade was so sad to leave but he said he was so excited to go see his playroom-I think he missed his toys a little. I always hate leaving but I am excited to get back into our normal routine again. It is crazy to me that we only have a three more weeks of summer vacation before preschool starts back again. This summer has flown by-I really have to get organized and get things in gear for getting up three days a week and getting out of the house by 9am. I can’t believe he starts on Sept 5th. I took a TON of pictures and I think I will just do a couple of picture post over the next few days.

6 Months Old!!

How is this even possible??? Westin Kate has been here half a year already!! Wade grew up fast and I think she is growing up even faster if that's possible. I think she has enjoyed her 6 month birthday...we spent most of the day on the beach. I feel like I am going to blink my eyes and I am going to be writing her one year post. I really love this age; she is so much fun to have around. She is still the easiest baby I have ever been around. She never cries-the last time she cried was last Wed night when I left her at my parents house :)  We can just lay her down for naps and bed time and she puts herself right to sleep. I think that's why we travel pretty much every other weekend-because she will sleep anywhere. Here is what she is up to:

• weighs somewhere between 17-18lbs (we go next week to the doctors)
• wears mostly 6 month clothes but can wear some 9 month outfits
• wears size 3 diapers
• has a short but very chubby foot-she wears size 1 (but we hardly ever put shoes on her)
• takes a one hr morning nap, a 2-3hr afternoon nap, and a 30 min catnap around 5-6pm
• sleeps ok at night (not great but ok)-goes down around 8-830p(most nights she wakes up to eat around 11p-12a), eats again around 5-6am, then goes back to sleep until 9-930am. Occasionally she will sleep from 8p-5am and will not wake up to eat.
• Nurses every 3-4 hours
• Has just started eating two solid meals this week (oatmeal for breakfast-with a little fruit and a veggie for dinner)
• LOVES her brother the best
• will squeal if we are not paying attention to her
• loves to play in her exersaucer
• has found her feet and grabs them all the time when she is on her back
• GRABS everything-I can no longer eat or do anything without her grabbing things
• loves water-she loves to swim and take a bath
• smiles all the time and laughs out loud-usually at Wade (I have got to get this on video)
• is so close to sitting up-she is doing the tripod sit
• has one little bottom tooth that has just started coming in-one little corner has poked through
• can take her paci out and put it back in

Westin Kate,
We are so thankful that you joined our family 6 months ago. We love watching you grow but please stop growing up so fast. You are the sweetest little baby ever. You are so cute and chubby and so fun to be around. We take you everywhere because we know you will be so good. As long as you have people to look at you are happy. Everyone stops and talks to you and you just eat up all the attention you get. You smile so big when people tell you how cute you are!! We love you so much!

Solid Foods!!

I think I am finally caught up on posts!! Here are some pictures of Westin Kate eating carrots for the first time!! She seems to really like them. I think I am going to try peas next.

Look at all that blond hair coming in!! I can't wait to see what she looks like with hair. Josh does some work in Mebane at the outlets and came home with two really cute Polo outfits for her. I think she looks so sweet in the stripped one. We have used the Bumbo so much more this time around. Wade didn't like it but I am so glad I saved it. She does great in it.



She likes to hold things in her hand when she is falling asleep. She either wants another paci, her lovey or your finger.





Random's

Of course I am behind on blogging again so I figured I would do a little catch up post of what we have been up to...

• Last week we met some friends in Rocky Mount at the Children's Museum and we had a great day
• Wade finished up bible school a couple of weeks ago and has asked almost every day if he can go back!!
• We had some work done to our house (which we love!!)-pictures coming soon
• I finally cleaned up our room and my closet which was horrendous
• We had a tree in our backyard split (it was a huge branch) and it took 2 nights to get it down
• WK tried carrots for the first time on 7/28/12 (one week shy of 6 months)
• WK is not sleeping well and is driving me a little crazy-not sure if its a growth spurt or teething or what??
• Wade has always been a "daddy's boy" but these past two weeks it has been out of control-he cries if Josh tries to do anything without him
• He has been extra sensitive lately and will say "I don't want you to be mad at me" when he gets in trouble.
• I have been doing some meal planning and have actually been cooking some!
• I am trying to get WK on a new schedule now that I have added a vegetable for dinner but we haven't quite figured it out yet. She used to get oatmeal for dinner, I am getting ready to try oatmeal for breakfast and a veggie for dinner. Wade was already eating 3 meals at this point but she is no where near that and it is ok with me.
• I am going to attempt to make some baby food soon-it was much easier with one child :)
• WK is trying to sit for short periods of time by herself
• She started rolling from stomach to back about 2 weeks ago and I forgot to blog about it!! She has been rolling the other way for months now
• She loves to lift her legs in the air now and try to grab her feet. She is so silly.

Here are some pictures from Wade at Bible school. He was just too cute during his performance.

Here are the kids looking in the water at the animals at the Children's Museum. The lady brought a snake out and the kids got to go up and touch it. Erin got to meet WK for the first time too!!

Wade said something last week that really scared us. Thankfully nothing happened to him but it did alarm us and made us worry a little. I put him in his room for nap and about 10 minutes later he started really crying so I went in there and he said "I don't want to go to Heaven" of course I said "what did you say?" He said "God told me I was going to Heaven," "God was on a cloud." I tried not to freak out and tried to ask him questions but he was upset. He said that he was going "tomorrow" and then he said he was going when he was "9." Great so now I just have to worry for the next 6 years!! It made me feel better the other day because he said "daddy told me I am going to heaven." I am hoping that he is just really starting to understand about heaven and maybe it scared him a little? I am hoping and praying he isn't going anytime soon. He also told me "I don't want to leave mommy and daddy" and he said "I don't want to get old and go to Heaven." So I am just not sure what to think. Now he says "I don't want to talk about it" so I have just left it alone for now. Later when he is ready to talk about it I am going to try to explain to him that Heaven is a good place and not a scary place. Now for happy thoughts...here are some more pictures!!

This big tree branch took up almost our entire back yard. Here are the pictures of the work we did in our house. We FINALLY got our wainscoting up in the dinning room and foyer, we changed out the white rails in the banister, and we added board and batten in the downstairs bathroom....now we just need to paint it all!! I had him add a little molding around this cabinet because I am going to paint it with chalkboard paint for the kids to play on!!

Sweet Summertime

I took a little unexpected blog break. We have been enjoying this summer so much. I do not love hot weather but I love all the fun things about Summer. We have been at the pool quite a bit and enjoyed playing outside until almost dark. Two weekends ago we went to the lake and Winston and I completely forgot to blog about that. We spend all day Saturday at the lake and had a great and relaxing day. Sunday we headed to Winston and spent all day at Josh's parents pool. Wade had a BLAST and started swimming better under water and even jumped off the side (without someone catching him!!) and the diving board. He jumped in over and over again. One time he scared us and jumped in without his puddle jumper. Thankfully we were sitting right there and Josh jumped in and grabbed him. I am sure he would have come back up but we didn't want to take any chances! He did great holding his breath. I took some pictures on Saturday of WK and they may be my favorite one's that I have of her. I just love the one's with her in this sweet outfit. We put WK in a float for the first time but she didn't love it for too long Wade also got to do a sparkler and hold a frog for the first time. Warning this is picture overload!!