This past month...

Wow it's February already!! January seems to have flown by.
The new year is getting off to a great start for us. We have been enjoying the boys so much lately!
The boys have had their fair share of sickness over the past month. They both had RSV in early Jan. and Maddox narrowly escaped a hospital stay because of it. Thankfully, the wonderful doctor allowed us to do all treatment at home. Here is a picture of Maddox taking one of his breathing treatments. At one point during the sickness both boys were having breathing treatments every 2 hours around the clock, it was miserable. All we could say was "this to shall pass.." It eventually did pass and the boys are doing great now.


We took a wonderful little trip down to Lafayette the other weekend to do some visiting. We got to spend some time with MawMaw and PawPaw, visited family, and went to a birthday party. We all had a great time and Maddox is still talking about riding on PawPaw's tractor! That was the highlight of his trip!





Harris is crawling!!! Ahhhh....we knew the day would come but we don't know if we were ever really ready for it. He is into everything!! He pulls up on everything too so that adds a whole other aspect to it all. He and Maddox make the perfect team too. They really enjoy getting into a lot together. Harris is very eager to go everywhere and freely explores the whole house.
He went for his 9 month check up at the end of January. He weighs 17lbs and is 26.5 inches long.


Harris is such a sweetheart and is a very content baby. He's a charmer too and can easily melt your heart with his sweet sweet smile!

Maddox is great. What can we say, he is a typical 2 1/2 year old. It is hard to get decent pictures of him because he is always on the move so the picture is never in focus. He talks non stop and asks questions about everything. VeggieTales (a kids video series) has become a recent obsession and he can sing the whole theme song. He loves signing it to Harris when Harris is sad or upset. He has also become the mother to Harris and tells him when he can or cannot do anything and loves to change Harris' diaper too. Speaking of diapers, Maddox has been potty trained for a few months now, we are so thankful for that!
Maddox is a sweetheart too, he gives great hugs and is never shy around anyone. He likes to meet new people and will stick his hand out for a handshake and say "nice to meet you!"


Stay tuned for more ridiculously cute boys in the next post.....

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

So we are a little, ok a lot, behind on this blog. We must have gotten caught up in the busyness of the holiday season.
Lots has been going on including some remodeling on the house.
We had a great Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We spent Christmas at home and Jamie's parents and sister and brother came in for Christmas day.

The boys had a great time. Maddox was really into Christmas this year and especially opening gifts.

We also enjoyed teaching him about the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus' birthday. This was an easy concept for him to understand because he is all about birthdays and birthday parties!
The boys have been doing great. They are both growing great and are such a joy! They have been passing colds back and forth for about 2 months now and that is no fun. Hopefully cold season will be over soon!


Harris got his first tooth! It has just popped out (bottom left) and can barely be seen but it can definitely be felt! We first noticed it the week before Christmas.

He isn't crawling yet but he makes his way around in his own way. He likes to scoot backwards and he also does a good job of moving around in a circle. Jamie has mixed feelings on his not crawling yet. While she really wants him to crawl she has started to realize that the longer he waits to crawl the longer she has before she has to start chasing little boys around!

He loves to babble and "talk." He and Maddox talk back and forth to each other every night while they are going to bed. It is so cute!


Maddox makes us laugh everyday. He is so smart and picks up on everything going on very quickly. He listens to everything we say and often interrupts our conversations with "mommy, what did you say to daddy?" and vise versa.

He talks non stop, literally! And everything is very understandable. He has to know about everything and has tons of questions. He has entered the "why?" stage too! This gets annoying especially once you get to the end of the why and the answer is just "because." Apparently, because is not a suitable answer for a 2 year old.

The boys are really starting to interact with each other and we love watching them together. The other night we were in the kitchen and thought it got a little too quiet in the living room, we checked on them and found this:



Maddox had gotten into some baby food that a friend had given us and decided that Harris needed to eat some. We just laughed so hard it was so cute!
We can't say enough how much joy the boys bring us. It is the crazy moments like these that keep us going!

We wish everyone a Happy New Year!


Thanks to Crystal for taking our wonderful Christmas card pictures and allowing us to put some of them on this blog! You're the best!

We bleed bulldog blue!!

Recently, we have been attending the Tech home games! Maddox loves to go and really enjoys watching football and getting to see Champ the mascot. There are usually lots of other kids around for Maddox to play with so he stays well entertained. We have gotten some really cute pictures of us all in our blue and thought we would share.





We had a great time at Halloween. Maddox was dressed as a fireman and Harris was the dalmatian! They were absolutely adorable, but we are kind of biased! ;) Maddox really got into the whole trick-or-treating thing and really got into the candy. He talked about and asked for candy for a whole week!








We have been busy at work with our house. Once we are finished remodeling we will have experience with all sorts of projects! Our current project is remodeling the bathrooms. Hopefully, we will have them done by Thanksgiving, we have company coming!

The boys are doing great. They have really started to play with each other and the sibling rivalry has started too. No one told us it would start so soon. Recently, we have been in the car and heard "no look at me Harris!" And Maddox can't stand it when Harris is touching him or plays with his toys. Maddox is really going to get an eye opener when Harris starts crawling soon!
Harris is getting big! He weighs around 16lbs now and will be 7 months old tomorrow! He is on the verge of crawling but hasn't quite figured it out yet. He is great at pulling himself up and we have to really watch him because he is not super steady on his feet.

We are all ready for the holiday season and excited about getting to visit with lots of family. And it is really fun to decorate our new house with fall and soon christmas decor!

Rub a dub dub 2 cuties in a tub......

We are in awe of what an amazing blessing these boys are! They are so much fun! Our days are pretty wild and crazy, the laundry is always piled up, dishes are always in the sink, and we are always tripping over toys. We get frustrated and down sometimes but then we look at the smiles on these two boys faces and we just laugh and forget about everything else. They are such a joy!

So what is new:
We went camping last weekend and had a blast!


We went up to Arkansas with some friends and stayed right on the lake. The weather could have been better but we had a good time anyway. And yes, we do tent camp, is there any other way to do it??
Maddox LOVED it! He really loved all the attention he got from everyone and he especially loved his "catchin pole" aka fishing pole! We even let him reel in some fish which he thought was so neat. It took a few fish before he finally decided to touch one.



The boys are doing great! We are all enjoying this fall weather and spending lots of time outside.

Maddox keeps us busy and has been really talking up a storm lately, as if he didn't already! He is now telling complete stories and has an amazing memory. He is always busy doing something and he also has a crazy fascination with firetrucks that doesn't seem to be going away.

Harris is a super cutie and he is always smiling. He'll be 6 months on Sat! He sits up really well and reaches and grabs anything in his sight. He is acting like he wants to start crawling too. He is totally fascinated with our drinks and food, every time he sees a cup or anything else he wants he makes this face:
The boys are really starting to enjoy each other. Maddox loves to call Harris his baby. Maddox does not like to share with Harris and of course Harris is completely fascinated with everything Maddox does.


Enjoy all the pictures!

Hurricanes, sitting up, and new carpet oh my!

Things have been a whirlwind around here! We have found ourselves so busy lately.
2 weeks ago we had some great (and our 1st) house guests come for a visit!

Jamie's MawMaw and PawPaw evacuated Hurricane Gustav and came to stay with us a few days! We had a great time and they were a huge help with a bunch of things around the house. Thankfully they had no damage.



We did get a lot of painting accomplished while they were here in preparation for the new carpet! They were a wonderful help and it was a blessing to have them come. They also got to meet Harris for the first time and got to hang out with the wonderful Maddox. Maddox of course followed pawpaw around like a shadow and was constantly asking him what he was doing. Maddox had a great time with company and so did Harris. I think Harris got a little spoiled by being held all the time ;) He's not used to such luxuries.
Thanks, MawMaw and Pawpaw for a great visit and all the help!

As mentioned earlier we got new carpet! Yay, it was definitely needed and has made a huge improvement to the house. We wanted to paint all the rooms before the carpet and we had to take up some wood flooring. The wood floor was a pain and has gone on our list of things to never do again! It was mismatching parquet wood flooring, for those of you wondering why in the world we would take up wood floors. Plus it was randomly laid in the hallway and only one bedroom. The other bedrooms had nasty stinky carpet. It was a lot of work to get things ready but it definitely paid off.
Here are a few before and afters for you to see.
Our room:
Before


After


Hallway:
Before


After

Please realize that we still have no decorations on the walls yet and there is still painters tape in the hallway.
We'll post more before and afters next time.

The boys have both been sick with colds this last week. Thankfully they both seem to be on the better end of the cold and we should be done with runny noses soon.


Maddox has been thoroughly enjoying the beautiful weather the past few days. He loves to play outside.

He is doing great and has been keeping us on our toes with all of his climbing adventures, exploring, and non stop talking.

Harris turned 5 months on the 11th. He weighs 14lbs. He has been sitting up really well by himself lately. He loves to sit on the floor with Maddox and play with toys. Maddox is learning what little brothers are like and he's not too sure he likes the whole sharing thing.

Harris is in awe of his older brother and loves to laugh and smile at him. Harris also encourages Maddox's not so great behavior by laughing when Maddox hits him, or jumps off of things, or spits his water etc, etc.
Harris is a super sweet little guy and he definitely puts up with a lot from Maddox. One day he will be big enough to get Maddox back.

Here is a picture of our new stroller too! Jamie took it to the mall last week and she loved it! The people who invented it are geniuses! It can be a single or double stroller. It's called a Phil and Teds Sport Buggy.





Thanks to all of you who stick with this blog even though we are sometimes very slow to update! Our house feels like a zoo sometimes but, that's what having kids is all about right!