November...

November is always one of my favorite months.  Beautiful weather, holiday season, lots of family time...all of my favorite things!

Watson is loving some dress-up these days.  His current favorite: Chase from Rescue Bots

Two cool cats at Samford's Homecoming

Emma found Watson's old cowboy boots and she LOVES wearing them!

Game time with Mana

Their favorite place on earth: Chuck E Cheese...

Watson had a great soccer season that wrapped up this month!

Cousins and best friends :)

I had a rare and welcomed girls night this month!  Several of us from Life Group made door signs and had so much fun for the night!

Pretty Ballerina :)

Thanksgiving Feast with my big man.  LOVE this boy SO MUCH!!

Emma...this girl...she sleeps with TWENTY ONE stuffed animals at night.  And if ONE is missing...she knows.  Oh how she keeps us laughing!!

Emma loves wearing Mary's wig...and it always bring some very welcomed laughs to all of us!

A quick day trip to Atlanta for a Passion meeting means a quick stop by the Varsity for dinner.  What'llyahave?

Thanksgiving!

Our attempt at a family photo...

I love my family so much!

 Thanksgiving Feast with Emma Lou!

Seven months...

Seven months in, and Mason Hill you continue to bring us joy every single day.  You smile constantly, you laugh at everything, you are calm, laid back and always go with the flow!  

 

Clothes: 9 and 12 month clothes

Diaper: Size 3 diapers
Eating: Eating baby food twice a day (fruit in the am ad veggie in the pm.  About every other night I will add oatmeal cereal to your veggie).  So far you like all foods! You nurse anywhere from 5-7 times a day (including a middle of the night feeding almost every night).  You get a sippy cup of water when you eat, but you are still trying to figure out just how it works.

Sleeping: Sleeps about 11 hours at night (typically 8pm-7am) usually waking once to nurse.  Sometimes you make it all night and will wake up closer to 6:30am.

You are sitting up like a champ these days - getting stronger by the day!

For your first Halloween, you were a dalmatian.  The cutest little dalmatian around, I might add!  This costume went along with Watson (Firefighter) and Emma (Fire).

 Hillary can get you to laugh and smile every time you see her!  She may be your first crush :)

You babble and talk all day long.  My favorite thing you do right now is talk and sing yourself to sleep...it is the sweetest thing int he world.  It's typically when we are in the car and you are falling asleep..it makes us laugh so much :)  You make the same little sound when you have a dirty diaper...so if you don't fall asleep then we know what you're trying to tell us!

I have decided that your cheeks are the most kissable baby cheeks in the world.  There is no telling how many kisses you get every hour!

Samford's Homecoming was so much fun this year!  You wore a sticker that said "Future Bulldog" and Poppa proudly paraded you around :)

Don't be fooled by this picture, you never...ever...take a paci!  I have tried to get you to take one and you practically gag every single time.  For whatever reason, this one moment you decided you liked it so I had to take a picture!

Chunky Monkey.  My goodness I could eat you up!

The best feeling is to see how much you light up and get excited when I walk into the room that you are in.  It fills me with so much joy!

I love watching you interact with Emma and Watson - your love for your sister is growing each day :)

Feeling you asleep on me is the best feeling in the world.  I am trying to soak up every single moment like this!

Halloween...

Fireman

Fire

Dalmation

Cutest little Trick-or-Treaters there ever were!

October...

October has been full of soccer games, Halloween parties, pumpkin patches, and just lots of time spent outside!  Here are some pictures to recap the month...

The past few years we have gone to a pumpkin patch here in Vestavia that supports several local families going through adoption.  The kids love choosing their pumpkins and this year they had some fun dressing up :)

Emma had a Halloween party at dance this month.  She wanted to dress up as a ballerina - easy enough!

Both kids had "Community Helper" day at school.  Watson was a fireman and Emma was a Librarian.  These kiddos LOVE a good excuse to play dress up!

Abby and Emma are good sports to sit through their brothers' soccer games each week.  So thankful these two have each other!

Raising a three year old little girl is not for the faint at heart!  It's a good thing she makes us laugh a lot to make up for all those tears :)....both hers and mine!

Our front yard is the hub for activity for kids on our street...and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Lots of time outside means this....

Daddy-Watson day was a success!  Some good quality time is for sure this boy's love language.  A trip to Vulcan was what he wanted...and what he got :)  As is typical for Watson, the maps around the park were his favorite part!