A bunch of pictures

We have been crazy busy lately! We are buying a new house so the last few weeks we have been busy trying to sell our house (done) and get things together for the new house. Not to mention packing too. We close on both houses on Aug. 6th! We are so very excited! Our house now is getting pretty snug. We found a bigger house with an amazing backyard. The house needs some work, especially on the inside, think 80's wallpaper in every room, but we are all set to get started with some renovations!
The boys have been great! Maddox has been enjoying going to Mothers Day Out. His last day is next Thursday, it has been a great time for everyone and we will be sad when it is over!



Maddox is a blast to be around and we are learning 2 is a very challenging but fun age. We have been having a lot of success with potty training! Hopefully we can have that done and over with very soon! He is very active and always want to be on the go and playing outside.



Harris is great! He is such a happy baby all of the time. He'll be 4 months on the 11th of Aug. He has started laughing and rolling over. Maddox is the best at making him laugh, Harris loves his big brother!


We won't be posting a new blog for a while. We are busy packing right now, then we move into the new house and then we are leaving for a beach vacation 3 days after we close on the house. We have a busy few weeks ahead. A week at the beach will be the perfect end to all the house buying stress!


We hope you enjoy all the pictures!

A big fish and a little fish...

We decided to put Maddox in swimming lessons this summer because we thought he would really like it and that he really needed it. Well we are so glad we did. Apparently we are parents to a part human part fish. Maddox is crazy in the pool. He LOVES to swim and is very good at it. His teacher was blown away by what he would do in the water. And, we are very pleased with how well he can hold his breath underwater and come up for air when needed. He can hold it well enough to dive for quarters at the bottom of the pool. He really enjoyed jumping off the diving board and the popsicles he would get after every lesson. We learned a lot of ways to help him with his swimming and his technique. After his swimming lessons we went to Jamie's parents for the weekend and he got to swim around some more and practice his new skills.


Harris go to go swimming for the first time while we were at Jamie's parent's. He seemed to really like it and was very content in the water. So now we have a big fish and a little fish.

He went straight to sleep after swimming!

It seems like we have been so busy this summer. We have Maddox in Mothers Day Out right now and that is a huge help to Jamie. She is now able to get more things done around the house and run errands with just one little one in tow. She hopes to get started on some new sewing projects soon.

Here are some more pictures that we have taken the last few weeks:


Happy 50th Birthday PawPaw!!

Quick Post

This is just a quick post with a few pictures.
We are headed to Houston this weekend for Jamie's Dad's 50th birthday!

This will be the second time this month that Jamie and the boys have traveled to Houston. About two weeks ago Jamie went to say goodbye to a very special person, Liz. Liz was Jamie's long time babysitter and basically a member of the family. She lost a very courageous battle with cancer on Monday June 9th. Thankfully Jamie got to have a very nice visit with her before she passed. The service is tomorrow so we will be attending that while we are there.

The boys are doing great! Maddox is in swimming lessons right now, more on that next post. Harris went for his 2 month check up yesterday. He weighs 10lbs 11oz and is 22 1/4 inches long.

Here are a few pictures to hold you over until the next post

Time for an Update

Summer is definitely here....it is so HOT!! To beat the heat lately we have been playing in the water a lot. And last night we decided we needed a bigger kiddie pool so that we could join Maddox in it! Our backyard now looks like a kids playland or something!


On Memorial day weekend we decided to take the boys on a little hike so we drove over to Driskill Mountian, highest point in Louisiana! They both had a good time, Harris slept and Maddox had fun picking dewberries along the path. We captures a few pictures along the hike.




The boys are doing great! We all finally feel settled in since having Harris and feel like we have a good routine down. Maddox has become accustomed to having Harris around and the days are going a whole lot smoother.



Maddox is getting so big! He is such a little boy now and he sure is ALL boy too! He has such a fun personality and makes us laugh all the time. He is putting lots of sentences together and repeats a lot of what he hears, which can be very funny especially when he uses it in the right context. He heard Jamie say the word weird the other day so now he says when things are weird!

He loves to help "make" in the kitchen. This means he feels the need to help with every meal breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack!
He no longer says his name "Makeek" it has now turned into "Maddock." So everything is now "No, Maddock do it." Everything is always all about them when they are two! Gotta love that egocentricity!
We signed him up for swimming lessons next week. He is such a fish that we decided some formal instruction would be good for all of us. He has no fear of the water which can be a good and bad thing.




Harris is doing great too! He is so cute and such a sweet little guy. He is very content and happy all day long. This is new for us since Maddox was a little( insert sarcasm) high needs.


Last time we went to the doctor (last week) Harris weighed 8lbs 12oz. He is definitely eating well, gaining over a pound a week!
This week he has been going to Vacation Bible School with Jamie and just peacefully hanging out with her, like we said he is a very content baby.
He smiles a lot now and has started cooing at us when we talk to him. Last night he slept for 7 hours!! That was a first and may be a last but we sure did enjoy it!


The blueberry farm is now open so stay tuned for pictures of blueberry picking!

Fun in the Sun!

The weather is HOT, so Maddox has been spending a lot of time outside playing in the water. Here are a few pictures.




Harris is doing great. Last week he started smiling and the other day he smiled SO big. It was adorable! The smiles don't come very often, and are hard to catch with a camera, but we promise to post a smile picture as soon as we can. He will be six weeks tomorrow and is oh so cute!

Lots Going On....

This post is going to be a little lengthy. We have done a lot of fun things the past week so we have a lot to blog about!

This past weekend we took Maddox to his first Air Show!! He LOVED it, we knew he would! The boy loves airplanes and helicopters! He also got to see police cars and motorcycles there, more things he loves. It was a rather warm day to be out but we had a great time.





Mother's Day was a really special day. Brian and Maddox cooked Jamie a great breakfast and made her a yummy cake! Then, at church we had Harris dedicated! What a special day! The rest of the afternoon was spent taking naps, something Jamie rarely gets to do! Here are the pictures from the dedication. It was our first time to bring Harris to church, we kept him with us the whole time and he did great!

Picture in the church bulletin:




Yesterday, Jamie Maddox and Harris, went to the zoo with some friends. It was a beautiful day! Maddox really enjoyed seeing all the animals. He was most fascinated with the geese, turtles, and the peacock, go figure! Forget that there were giraffes, a hippo, lions and many more exotics. All the kids had a great time. It was a fun way to get out of the house for a while.



Trying to take this picture was like hearding cats!


Today Maddox and Harris both had checkups. Here are the details:

Maddox
At 2 years old he weighs 25lbs and is 33in tall. For those wondering, it puts him in the 15th-20th percentile, right where he has always been. He is right on schedule for everything!


Harris
At one month old he weighs 7lbs 9oz and is 20.5 inches long! He is in the 25th percentile. He is doing great and the Dr. said everything looks wonderful. We can definitely tell he is getting bigger and becoming more baby-ish and not so newborn.

Happy Birthday Maddox!!

Maddox had a great birthday! He is obviously of the age where he knows the day is all about him.
Friday, after Brian got off of work, we took Maddox to the Fire Station. He LOVES fire trucks! He got to see the fire engines and the ambulance. The firemen were very sweet to show him around and they gave him a special fireman's hat! After we went to the fire station we took him to the toy store to spend some of his birthday money. He picked out some great motorized cars to build (thanks mawmaw and pawpaw!) Brian tried to convince Maddox he needed a marshmallow gun too, but Jamie informed him that the guns were for ages 8 and up. He had a great birthday day!


Saturday we had his birthday party. We had it out at the park and Maddox got to celebrate with lots of his friends. Of course he had a fire truck cake (Jamie made it) that he loved, and he got lots of fun gifts. He was a very tired little boy that afternoon after all the excitement.



Sunday morning he had to get up at 5:30 to play with all of his new toys and he informed us it was still his birthday!

Of course we have to include some pictures of sweet Harris too!