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| It seems as though it is getting harder and harder to post updates on our blog but I'm thinking it's just the holiday season and I have thankfully been really busy with photography sessions and editing :-) We had a wonderful October and November with Parker's 1st birthday and Ella's 3rd birthday. They both had so much fun visiting with all their family and friends! They are growing up way to fast...it's hard to even keep up! They are both doing lots of new cool things and some not so cool...lol Ella knows all her colors with no help. She has been helping me cook quite a bit and loves to "stir" things. She's got a bit of an attitude lately with me more than anyone else. She has been "paci-free" for the past 2 weeks which could be a big part of the reason she's been so whinny and fussy. We never really cared too much about her having her paci despite other people's comments about it not being good and such...I mean good Lord, I sucked my thumb until I was 8 years old, who am I to try and take something away from my baby girl if it soothed her at night only. But, we agreed that once it became a problem that it was time to get rid of it. For a couple days in a row she was crying for it during the day which was unlike her as she only had it at night. So, I told her that I had to give her paci's to the newborn babies because they needed them. With that said, she hasn't taken a nap since the paci went bye bye. She hasn't had much of a hard time at night but she pretty much falls asleep with us out in the living room and then we bring her to our bed or to her bed. She finally is able to reach the pedals on her tricycle, loves the park, loves to go outside with Daddy as soon as he gets home from work every day and always has a cup of ice to chew on! Ella and Parker go on adventures together every day and chase eachother. Of course Ella laps him many times. She tells us, "I'm not younger yet," when she doesn't understand something that we are telling her. Ella says, "good girl," when I do something she likes, she loves Ben Harper's song, "Better Way" and sings it loudly every time we are in the car. Oh and she swung on he big swings for the first time in October! As for Peanut, he is doing so many new things! He seems to always know what to do when I tell him to do something. Like go get... or pick up your.... or go lay down. He does "peek-a-boo" gives high fives walked a couple days before his first birthday gives awesome kissses and hugs waves goodbye, says "uh oh," when he finds a napkin or tissue on the ground, he picks it up and starts wiping the ground with it..."cleaning up" for mommy! holds my face with both of his hands on my cheeks... He still does not like the sippie cup much...every now and then I'll get him to drink some water out of it but milk...no way. Bottle all the way still with warm milk. He is now successfully and completely weaned. :-( :-) I have mixed feelings about this only because I know this was most likely the last time I would get to nurse my baby since we don't plan on having any more babies (or at least that is the plan). But, I am glad to let him grow in his independence (reluctantly - lol). He is sleeping through the night most nights but at least once a week gives me a loud screaming cry in the middle of the night and continues with this for 30 mins. to an hour (like last night). Now a week later(it took me a week to get back to this post) he is waking up at all hours of the night I'm guessing because his little toofies are bothering him. Now to get going on the tons of pictures below... I love Ella Bear's hands so I make sure to take a couple pictures of them because I wanted to remember how sweet and cute they are! |
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| love her little sausage toes! |
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| Parker is now drinking his milk in the early morning (between 6am and 7am), sometime around lunch time, between 5 and 6 and then again before bedtime (around 9pm). He still takes pretty good mid-day naps. He eats good sometimes and then sometimes not so good. He does like apples though and mangoes and sweet taters. |
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| Just playing around with the camera... |
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| Um, yeah, you are really looking at Chris sitting on the toilet bare butt out on the curb...on our street! OK, here's the story behind this hilarious picture... We got 3 new toilets while we were doing our home repair this summer and our main man, Jose encouraged Chris to sit on it and with his pants pull down! And yes, people were driving by and I am sure we are known as the THAT house now with THOSE people who had a toilet out on the curb for the trash guys to pick up. |
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| Fun in the sun on Labor day at The Mahan's house. |
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| Loved these sweet pics of Daddy & Peanut. |
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| Peanut and his buddy Georgie. |
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| Love this picture of Ella Bear and Big Easy! |
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| Parker's 1st birthday party was a blast! The food was fabulous, the company was wonderful as always and Parker had fun too! |
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| Big sister enjoyed his party too! |
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| His first sweets ever! I think he liked it. |
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| And so did Ella! |
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| Just like at Ella's 1st birthday party, we had to take Parker upstairs and hose him down in the bathtub after cake time! |
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| Me and my daddy! |
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| The BEST Mom in the world and the BEST Mother-in-law in the world! |
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| Yep, I see this face a lot! |
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| and this one too! |
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| Parker spent a good 10 minutes looking at this book...it was really cute! |
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| The birthday boy on his actual birthday...all smiles! |
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| The night of his birthday we took the balloons from his pictures in the forest and released them...Ella helped him... |
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| Of course I had to get Ella a pink balloon of her very own. :-) |
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| Momma's babies! |
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| LOVE this pic and the ones above! |
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| The day after Peanut's birthday, I showcased my photography at The Gypsy Market with The Bake Shoppe & Cafe. I actually had a blast with Melissa and got some business from it! |
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| Back in October (I know...I am so far behind :-)) We went to Avery's 3rd birthday party at Dewberry Farm and had a great time! |
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| I think Ella enjoyed the chocolate cupcake...what do you think? |
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| Love this picture of Leah & Big Easy! |
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| Love this one too! |
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| Parker gives the best kisses! Speaking of kisses, he usually wakes up between 6 and 7pm to drink a bottle of milk and then lays back in the bed with me for a little while until Chris gets up. This morning was the second morning that he woke Chris up by giving him multiple kisses without Chris even asking for them...it's the sweetest thing ever! |
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| Poppa and Peanut |
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| The day after Avery's birthday party Ella & I went back to Dew Berry Farm for Zoe's birthday. |
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| Love these two pictures of Peanut |
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| Ella told us she wanted her party to be pink and green so we got her pink roses and green little flowers...she loved them! |
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| Parker points all the time...love it! |
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| Ella and all her friends and cousins at her birthday party. |
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| Ella's friend Zoe (3 weeks older than Ella and a foot taller!) lol |
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| the boys |
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| These pics of Peanut and Elin crack me up! They are 6 months apart and Elin is the same size! |
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| the birthday girl! my baby! |
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| love this picture of me and my ella bear! |
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| Parker was cracking up a lot that night! |
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| Ella loves her shopping cart. |
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| Over the thanksgiving break we went to Piney Shores in Lake Conroe to stay at our time share. On the way there we stopped off at he lone star trail and had a picnic and hiked a good couple steps and back :-) |
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| Oh yeah, and Parker got his first tooth at 13 months and now has 3! The 3rd one is not quite all the way up yet...you can barely see it. |
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| This is how Ella goes peepee in the woods, at the park when there is no bathroom, etc...lol |
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| There were a lot of cut down trees out in Conroe because of the drought...it was really sad! |
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| Got a future tree hugger??? lol |
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| Daddy the lumberjack |
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| Our short hike... |
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| see those toofies... |
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| We played on the hill for a while and then shot the bow and arrow. |
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| Chris hit the bullseye twice! |
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| We played puttputt golf. |
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| Thanksgiving at Nanas in Navasota |
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| Stella loves giving Parker hugs |
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| Classic Chris faces |
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| Thanksgiving at Granny & Poppa's the next day. |
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| Ella and Ethan love to sit in granny's lap and read. |
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| Aunt Darla feeding Peanut |
Alrighty, that's it for now...hope everyone has a beautiful
Christmas and a happy and blessed new year.
I might post another once before then but just in case
God Bless!
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