In our house we were just counting down the days until we reached October. Each of us had different reasons for the countdown, but all nonetheless could wait for October.
Oak-because he has been so into spooky could not wait for Halloween in all its spookiness to be here.
Krista-because October might be my favorite month with all the leaves changing and cooler weather, pumpkin farms, and I was hoping against all hope that Halloween just might have been the climax to Oak's "fooky" face.
Well, with Halloween come and gone, I can assure you that we are not out of our "fooky" phase quite yet. In fact, just yesterday we made a turkey craft and Oak said it is a vampire turkey! Man! I really thought that it would end! Our little Tim Burton!
October really was an incredible month and continues to be one of my favorite months! One great thing about October is that since Oak is so into spooky that I could get him to do a number of different crafts with me. We made pumpkins, skeletons, spiderwebs, bat cookies, bat costumes and frankenstein cups.
Oak, Lawson and I went to a pumpkin farm with some good friends, including a stop at Starbucks before for some Hot apple cider for mommy and Hot Chocolate for Oak, a spooky corn maze and a spooky hayride. This was all right up Oak's alley.
Brian and opted to leave Lawson at home and take just Oak to the NC State fair, which lately has bitten us in the butt. Oak now asks if we can leave Lawson at home whenever we are going somewhere fun. Oak had a blast again this year at the fair! His favorite thing to do was this pirate obstacle course, and chose cotton candy as his fair snack. He was however, extrememly disappointed in that there was not a haunted house!
We also went to a spooky story time at the Library, which was a blast!
Ahhh! The climax of October has definetly has been Halloween. Oak invited about 6 friends over to our house for a Halloween party the Friday before Halloween! It was so fun to have his friends over in all their costumes and just play and have a good time. Oak picked out all of our food, mummy dogs, sandwitches, frankenstein cups, and spider web cookies. We also had a punch that he was very insistent about putting a frozen hand in, but I nixed that plan.
Finally, Halloween! Wow! Oak picked that this year he wanted to be a vampire and a vampire he was! I couldn't believe that we actually found a vampire costume in his size. Seriously, do other kids his age want to be vampires? Where are you moms? Let's maybe start a support group! Brian completed the look with some fabulous make up and some great hair!
Here are the pictures....if you picture Oak as a sweet innocent little one, please don't look, your eyes might be scarred forever!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Beach Bums
Okay, so this one is way behind! Sorry!
We took a family vacation this summer to the Outer Banks with Brian's family. It was so great to be able to spend the week with his brother and wife and their sweet little girl, Ava. Ava is just a little bit older than Lawson and super, super sweet. Next year they will just be running around together! Crazy!
Oak might be the biggest beach bum that I know! Seriously, he loved the ocean and the beach and even took a nap one day on the beach. What!?!? Anyone who knows Oak, knows how amazing this is for him. You can't get the kid to sit still.
Lawson was a little too young to really appreciate the beach, but I think that she loved it. She took some of her best naps while we were down by the ocean. I think that she is going to be a water baby too.
I am kind of weird and don't really love to go out of town. The days leading up to going out of town really stress me out and the thought of all the unpacking and laundry ugh! Brian really has to convince me that we need vacations otherwise I think we would never go anywhere. I am so glad that we went on this trip and have such sweet memories of our kids and with family at the beach!
Enjoy the pics!
We took a family vacation this summer to the Outer Banks with Brian's family. It was so great to be able to spend the week with his brother and wife and their sweet little girl, Ava. Ava is just a little bit older than Lawson and super, super sweet. Next year they will just be running around together! Crazy!
Oak might be the biggest beach bum that I know! Seriously, he loved the ocean and the beach and even took a nap one day on the beach. What!?!? Anyone who knows Oak, knows how amazing this is for him. You can't get the kid to sit still.
Lawson was a little too young to really appreciate the beach, but I think that she loved it. She took some of her best naps while we were down by the ocean. I think that she is going to be a water baby too.
I am kind of weird and don't really love to go out of town. The days leading up to going out of town really stress me out and the thought of all the unpacking and laundry ugh! Brian really has to convince me that we need vacations otherwise I think we would never go anywhere. I am so glad that we went on this trip and have such sweet memories of our kids and with family at the beach!
Enjoy the pics!
Baby Proofing
LaLa, LaLa bean, bean, sweet girl, Law, Law-son (said in a very annoyed 3 year tone), whatever we call her she has just been an amazing addition to our family.
She is now 8 months old and will be 9 months on the 21st. Time goes much faster the second time around! She continues to delight and amaze us each day and she just might be the best baby I have ever been around. Seriously.
I really believe that I have not heard her cry more than about 30 seconds and that is only if she is hurt or super tired.
She is on the go! Man, this is a girl that knows what she wants and goes after it! She began "zombie" crawling between 6 and 7 months. She would drag one of her arms and her body along the floor to get where she needed to be. She has just recently in the past few days began to crawl on all fours. She is into everything. Seriously, the other day I left for maybe 1/2 a second and she had found her way into my laundry basket pulling out all the clean (and folded) laundry. She is pulling up on everything and trying to stand on her own. Wow! I had know idea that having a crawler would be so much work. She is sort of like a little vacuum and finds even the tiniest little things for us. She is just becoming her own little person and we love it!
She got her two bottom teeth right after she turned 6 months old and her top 2 teeth have just popped through this week! I love the teeth, but miss that gummy grin! She is all sorts of baby food too! She is a huge fan of the fruits and orange veggies, but not so much the green ones. But I mean, who really is a fan of green veggies??
She also makes all kinds of new sounds like dada and mama! So fun to hear those words even though she has know idea what they mean.
To say she loves Oak would be the biggest understatement of the century. She adores him and could spend all day laughing at him. He just gives her a little attention, but she loves it. Sometimes he gets her all riled up right before her nap and she refuses to sleep, but I love when he plays with her.
She sleeps 12 hours at night and takes 2 naps each day. Her naps are not too consistent one day they can be 2 hours and the next 20 minutes. Just can't figure her out on her naps.
She LOVES being outside. She cries anytime I walk close to the door or window and we don't go out. Once we are out we see the biggest grin and she claps her hands together! So sweet!
She is also a daddy's girl! Brian usually comes home when we are just sitting down for dinner and the other night he was running late. She was turned around the entire time looking at the door, in what I can only imagine as anticipation for daddy to come home. So sweet!
We Love our La La and are so thankful for all the sweet joy she gives us each day!
She is now 8 months old and will be 9 months on the 21st. Time goes much faster the second time around! She continues to delight and amaze us each day and she just might be the best baby I have ever been around. Seriously.
I really believe that I have not heard her cry more than about 30 seconds and that is only if she is hurt or super tired.
She is on the go! Man, this is a girl that knows what she wants and goes after it! She began "zombie" crawling between 6 and 7 months. She would drag one of her arms and her body along the floor to get where she needed to be. She has just recently in the past few days began to crawl on all fours. She is into everything. Seriously, the other day I left for maybe 1/2 a second and she had found her way into my laundry basket pulling out all the clean (and folded) laundry. She is pulling up on everything and trying to stand on her own. Wow! I had know idea that having a crawler would be so much work. She is sort of like a little vacuum and finds even the tiniest little things for us. She is just becoming her own little person and we love it!
She got her two bottom teeth right after she turned 6 months old and her top 2 teeth have just popped through this week! I love the teeth, but miss that gummy grin! She is all sorts of baby food too! She is a huge fan of the fruits and orange veggies, but not so much the green ones. But I mean, who really is a fan of green veggies??
She also makes all kinds of new sounds like dada and mama! So fun to hear those words even though she has know idea what they mean.
To say she loves Oak would be the biggest understatement of the century. She adores him and could spend all day laughing at him. He just gives her a little attention, but she loves it. Sometimes he gets her all riled up right before her nap and she refuses to sleep, but I love when he plays with her.
She sleeps 12 hours at night and takes 2 naps each day. Her naps are not too consistent one day they can be 2 hours and the next 20 minutes. Just can't figure her out on her naps.
She LOVES being outside. She cries anytime I walk close to the door or window and we don't go out. Once we are out we see the biggest grin and she claps her hands together! So sweet!
She is also a daddy's girl! Brian usually comes home when we are just sitting down for dinner and the other night he was running late. She was turned around the entire time looking at the door, in what I can only imagine as anticipation for daddy to come home. So sweet!
We Love our La La and are so thankful for all the sweet joy she gives us each day!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Oakdate
Alright so here is my quarterly ambush of blog posts to catch everyone up on the last 4 months of our life! I really do want to be a blogger, but it is one of those things that I need to come to grips with that a blogger I am not.
Here is the "oakdate" (a.k.a. update on Oak)
Oak is now almost a 3 and 1/2 year old! Can you believe that? Not only is he a 3 and 1/2 year old, but one of the most amazing 3 and 1/2 year olds that I know!
We named Oak after a verse in Isaiah 61. It says "They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord, for the display of his splendor."
That has been our prayer for him that he will "display the splendor of the Lord." We see it often in him. I think that God has wired him for a love for people and for friends and will use that in his life as he gets older. Everywhere we go he wonders if there are going to be new friends there and is always inviting strangers to our house to play. I love this about him!
I guess the biggest thing that is going on in is that he has started preschool! It has been so good for him! He loves it and even referred to his teacher as his best friend. He comes home so excited about what he has created at school. He writes his letters now and will sit and do crafts with me. Believe me, I thought this day would never come! He just does not like to sit still.
We love preschool and are so thankful for his teachers and for what he is learning about the Bible, academically and socially. His best friends are three little girls in his class.
One of my favorite things is the way Oak plays with Lawson now. He sometimes doesn't like her being around now that she is mobile, but when he does play with her it is so fun. He can get her so riled up! She just loves him so much.
Oak is still into spooky, however, we are trying to get him to take a break. It is kind of creeping me out a little bit. This is the song that he was singing last night:
You better not cry, you better not pout I am telling you why, spooky things will come tonight.
Ahhh! Creepy!!
We are trying to get him into other things!! You'll see his Halloween costume on another post.
He loves life and just making people laugh! I think he is a lot like his daddy! He also loves Young Life and the Young Life leaders! It has been a fun part of our week to have weekly visits from the Holly Springs YL team! They have been so good to him and he asked me the other day if they were his Young Life leaders! So sweet!
Believe me, this kid is not 100% sweet and he has his temper moments and spends quite a bit of the day in the naughty step for having a bad attitude, but he is pretty awesome and we feel so blessed to be a part of his life.
We love this little 3 and 1/2 year old to the moon and back!
Here is the "oakdate" (a.k.a. update on Oak)
Oak is now almost a 3 and 1/2 year old! Can you believe that? Not only is he a 3 and 1/2 year old, but one of the most amazing 3 and 1/2 year olds that I know!
We named Oak after a verse in Isaiah 61. It says "They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord, for the display of his splendor."
That has been our prayer for him that he will "display the splendor of the Lord." We see it often in him. I think that God has wired him for a love for people and for friends and will use that in his life as he gets older. Everywhere we go he wonders if there are going to be new friends there and is always inviting strangers to our house to play. I love this about him!
I guess the biggest thing that is going on in is that he has started preschool! It has been so good for him! He loves it and even referred to his teacher as his best friend. He comes home so excited about what he has created at school. He writes his letters now and will sit and do crafts with me. Believe me, I thought this day would never come! He just does not like to sit still.
We love preschool and are so thankful for his teachers and for what he is learning about the Bible, academically and socially. His best friends are three little girls in his class.
One of my favorite things is the way Oak plays with Lawson now. He sometimes doesn't like her being around now that she is mobile, but when he does play with her it is so fun. He can get her so riled up! She just loves him so much.
Oak is still into spooky, however, we are trying to get him to take a break. It is kind of creeping me out a little bit. This is the song that he was singing last night:
You better not cry, you better not pout I am telling you why, spooky things will come tonight.
Ahhh! Creepy!!
We are trying to get him into other things!! You'll see his Halloween costume on another post.
He loves life and just making people laugh! I think he is a lot like his daddy! He also loves Young Life and the Young Life leaders! It has been a fun part of our week to have weekly visits from the Holly Springs YL team! They have been so good to him and he asked me the other day if they were his Young Life leaders! So sweet!
Believe me, this kid is not 100% sweet and he has his temper moments and spends quite a bit of the day in the naughty step for having a bad attitude, but he is pretty awesome and we feel so blessed to be a part of his life.
We love this little 3 and 1/2 year old to the moon and back!
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