Sand and FUN!

 

Don't you know how to drink wine with your toes?!

 

Mr. Curious

 

 

Our favorite dinner date keeps us entertained!

 

Love having the beach to ourselves!

 

 

 

So happy!!

11 months?!

Goodness this past month has gone by fast! In 30 days we'll have a 1 year old!

 

This dude had a lot happen this month. He started school and loves it (when he gets to go!), he survived a week long respiratory virus, and defeated a stomach virus. Haha, Colin is definitely feeling the wrath of starting school. Better than when he's 5 though! He also went to the beach again!

 

 

He is __lbs now, wearing 12-18 month clothes, and size 4 diapers. He has 5 teeth and 1 about to pop out! He's slowly getting sick of his bottle and likes water and oj in his silly cup. He hasn't had baby food in over a month! He likes eating what we have and his favorites are yogurt, fruit breakfast bars,  mac n cheese, grilled cheese, daddy's cereals, and chicken nuggets.

 

 

He's still crawling and cruising all over and occasionally lets go to stand alone. He is starting to climb on things this month. He says momma, dadda, up, stop, bye bye. He waves bye, can high five, point with 1 finger, and signal touchdown. He still likes clapping for himself. He's becoming more silly and likes to smile and fake laugh at himself :)
 

 

He doesn't like to be left by us, but will be held by anyone and loves attention! I'm glad he's not a super shy baby. He is a good traveler and likes to eat out and watch people!
 

 

He's such a sweet thing and I love spending my days with my nugget! We are so blessed and thank God for our healthy baby!
 

 

Sunshine

 

 

 

 

  

 

See ya stomach virus, hello beach!

Well Colin shared his lovely germies with us :) Stomach conditions are probably the most common thing Derek and I see/treat at work, but totally different when it hits your house at the SAME time! We couldn't get out to get anything we needed! It hit Derek and I at 2am Monday am. It was a miserable morning (and Derek was at work).

 

 Colin was a sweet boy and let me lay on the couch all day while Derek slept. Thankfully Donna came to help that evening and brought food. We got to sleep 12 hours and woke up feeling much better. After more resting yesterday we all feel almost 100% today! Poor Jess got it too and had to miss school :(

 

 

Survival Food ;) Thanks again Donna! Colin misses you already!

 

 

This morning we left for Gulf Shores! Derek had to work last night, so the boys slept in the back during the drive. The beach is our most favorite place ever. So wish we could move here!

 

 

Lambert's stop for lunch! Colin loved it and was even given a balloon-his favorite!

 

Dude ate good today, munched on crab legs for dinner at The Steamer! 

 

My favorites!! CTP was way more interested this time in the sand and ocean! Already had a mouthful...

 

 

Big waves today! Colin is all about hi fives! Allll day long ;)

 

 

Our condo was the site of 87 sea turtles hatching! We walked up on the turtle workers digging out the eggs to make sure they all made it! It was so neat to see all the open eggs. There were 3 eggs still intact that didn't hatch. They opened one to show us the embryo, it was so neat!! They apparently hatch, crawl to the ocean, then swim 800+ miles straight to meet with other baby turtles where they stay together for 5-10 years. So interesting, they were so informative!

 

Must add this one, I can never get him on camera. He constantly gives flirty faces to himself in his car mirror. So cute. So happy he feels better! Mommy can fix most things, but not so much when she is sick too!

 

Happy Birthday Mom!! Hope you had a wonderful day and hate that we couldn't come spend it with you! You look younger each year but also make me feel older each year too! Time slow down :) So happy you were born just a short 54 years ago!!

Girls day!

 Yesterday I met these ladies in Atlanta for a day of shopping! We went to Lenox Mall for the 1st time and it was so nice (and way over our budgets). I walked away with 2 candles :) We took Colin to Seth and Jess's Friday night to stay. They took him to the Zoo, lunch, and on walking trails. He got a good report from the day :) It was so sweet of them to keep him all day so I could go to Atl while Derek worked. D has 3 nights and then we're off to the beach for a week!

 

 

Colin was acting a little off Friday and threw up at Jess's that night. Well, this morning I woke up to a diarrhea baby with a fever. He is good at getting out of school ;) Guess he'll miss Tuesday this week too. He doesn't seem to care to much that I pay for that school...haha. More cuddles and clinginess in our future. We've gone trough 3 outfits from his explosive diapers...poor bud. He's enjoying his 'sick smoothies' though and still playing. We've got to kick this stomach bug before vacation!

 

 

Happy Birhday Chelsea!

 Wednesday was Chelsea's birthday! We met up for cupcakes in the afternoon and then Noah took her on a dinner date. We got to keep Mason overnight to give them a night out alone! So glad we got to do that, the boys had fun! Happy birthday week Chelsea :)



Mom came down Thursday for the day and we got our hair done. I've been wanting to do a keratin treatment for a long time and so far I love it! Derek worked hard on yard work all day which is like therapy to him ;) Colin had a great day at school too!

We had lunch at the next door burger place and finished our day off with fried oreos...weird and so different. First and last time eating those :) 

Resume playing!

Yay for no more yucky snot! It was a long 7 days, but Colin's feeling better and we're all happier ;) We had a good weekend and are happy Derek's been off this week!

 

Bath boy!

 

My favorite 2!

 

Falling asleep from sitting position lately...strange one ;)

 

I went to my first MOPS group meeting Tues. It was a big group and nice to meet girls in the area! There is a craft each time and this week was making a picture frame.

 

We've been working on Colin's bathroom. Coat 1 of 2 up and dry!

 

Little Mason is growing fast and trying to keep up with CTP! 

 

Unfortunately, we've had 2 storms lately that have caused water leaks in our house... Thankfully we had a roofer come today and will be fixing the roof Friday. Hopefully we won't have to worry about fixing anything in the crawl space or garage! Derek's been working hard this week getting all of that fixed! 7 days until our beach vacation:)