HAPPY BIRTHDAY NASH-Warning picture overload-but you're only 1 once right!

crazy boy has had this backpack since he was born and just randomly decided to wear it this day! He was so proud

and he is done with the backpack! haha. he's made because he can't figure out how to get it off!

38 + weeks!

sharing some cake with Grandma

Nash with the papparazzi-this is what happens when you're the first grandchild on both sides!

playing with the balloons again with Great Grandaddy

peek-a-boo

look at my cool shirt!

checking out the cool playhouse uncle Jake and Paul got me!

cupcake time!

Nash's smash cake with his sock monkey theme

checking out the balloons with Grandpa

all his gifts!

Mommy and Nash with his backpack on

Nash's wall of monthly birthday pics

Poppy and Nash sacked out on the couch. This is pretty much the only way he sleeps at my parents house

checking out the new baby gate on the stairs

sitting at the table like a big boy!

crazy boy somehow found one of my bras and carried it around for about an hour one day!

Today is Nash's 1st birthday! wow! this year has flown by. It seems like just yesterday I was telling the story of my marathon labor. ha. We had his birthday party this past Saturday and he did great! He had so much fun visiting with all of his family and friends. Thank you so much to all who came. I know that a 1 year olds party isn't the most fun you've ever had, but we appreciate it so much.

Nash-you are a doll! I adore you and so does your Daddy. I can't tell you how many times a day that we say how lucky and grateful we are to have you as our son and oldest child. You are really developing a little personality right now. You know when we are laughing and laugh right along. Sometimes you even figure out what we are laughing at and do it again just so we can laugh some more. You are so fun and love to play and go outside. You love the outside and cry everytime we have to come back inside. You wear yourself out playing so much that you are taking LONG naps right now, which is ok by us!
-You are still taking a morning and an afternoon nap and continue to sleep through the night! pretty much a perfect kiddo!
-You eat three good meals a day and take a bottle of whole milk in the morning and sometimes before you go to bed. You're really into juice right now and suck it down every chance you get.
-You have 8 teeth in and are working on a couple of molars right now, they are poking their heads through, but haven't completely broken through yet. You wouldn't know it though, you act like they aren't bothering you at all!
-You had your second ear infection this month, you got it after struggling with a cold for a few days, but got over it quickly.
-You babble/talk like crazy. We don't quite understand a lot of what you say, but you look at us like we are having a deep conversation and say it over and over like we are the ones that don't understand you and something is wrong with us.
-You like your bath time right now and stay in there until you are so pruney I have to drag you out. You love water in general and are constantly playing in any liquid you can find.
You have light brown hair that has some curl at the ends. It probably could use a haircut, but I don't have it in my heart yet to get the scissors out! big brown eyes that everyone always comments on when they see you! You are a big boy and weigh somewhere around 28 pounds. We haven't found a birthmark on you yet, but maybe soon.


I could go on and on and on, but just know that we love you so very much and are so proud of you!


In other news, we are having Miss Laine on Wednesday! We are so ready for her to be here and for her to meet all of her family and her big brother! I will post some pics of our new little family soon!

this little piggy

Nash doesn't even do this anymore, but since it is still so cute, I thought I would post it anyway!

37 weeks prego and less than 2 weeks until we are a family of 4!!

how handsome is this little man!

outside-his favorite place to be

Grandma getting the leaves out of his mouth-we do this frequently

This was the only pic I got of Halloween-he decided to skip his afternoon nap, so we were down for the count around 5:30! no trick or treating for us this year.

I have to say that this pregnancy has flown by! I can't believe in less than 2 weeks we will be parents of two babies! crazy! I must say that I am very ready for her to be here. My body is TIRED and hurts all the time. We have set a tentative delivery date for Dec. 1 if she hasn't made her debut before then. Dr F. tried to get me to induce her sometime in late Nov, to which I quickly replied "no way" I've got way to much going on during that time, she will just have to wait! haha. He looked at me like I was crazy and I'm sure with me being so set on her being a Dec baby, she will decide to come before then.I've got Nash's birthday party, his real birthday and a one year check up to get done.
She seems to like to do her own thing whenever she feels like it. It's so bizarre how different of a baby she is inside of me than Nash was. I thought he moved a lot and now I know he was relatively quiet. This little maniac makes it look like an alien is going to burst through my stomach at any moment. Eric can see her going crazy from across the room and he just gives me his best-we are in for it with this one- look! I think he's probably right! she is a crazy busy girl.

The pregnancy is going well. I am already dilated 2 cm, so that is way far ahead of what I was with Nash at this point. yay! hopefully no marathon labor this time! She is measuring on the big side as well, which is why we are inducing about a week early.

I know it sounds crazy, but my type A personality just really needs her to have a Dec birthday. I know it's only 2 days apart from him, but to me it keeps them separate enough that it will make things a little bit easier when they get old enough to care about having or not having their birthdays together. I don't know why I care, but I do!

Nash is battling a cold and an ear infection right now. He's being a champ about it though. You wouldn't really even know he was sick if he wasn't constantly tugging on his ear. He occasionally has been a little cranky too, which was our first indication that something was wrong-because he is never cranky!

Going back to the not sleeping well thing-I think I'll try going to bed now! wish me luck. I just pray I don't have to get up to go to the bathroom more than 4 times! haha

11 Months old!

look who I caught in the cheerio cup!

destroying the paper...as usual

trying to run away

doesn't he look happy that we are making him sit still?? ha

just reading some mail in the yard

action shot

hanging out and reading his favorite book--I love his leg propped up there

muah! those eyes melt me. Watch out girls!

my boys!

hanging out in the swing

Wow. 11 Months. It almost hurts me to type that. My little man is growing up so fast. I can't believe it sometimes, but then I see him practically running across a room to get away from me so that I can't change his diaper, or throwing a fit because we won't let him near the fireplace, it definitely sinks in! haha.

Nash-little man-here is what you are up to these days.

You are walking so well. Just today, your daddy commented that you are practically running across rooms now. It is so amazing to see your daily progress. Just two weeks ago we were excited about 2-3 steps and now you walk from room to room like it's no big deal at all.

You LOVE being outside. And you get really upset when we make you come back in. You are also pretty obsessed with Sosie-tink tink. One of your favorite things right now is sharing your cup of cheerios with her. You giggle and laugh then entire time and she lets you touch her now, which is a big improvement from practically running the other direction when she saw you!

You are down to about 2 bottles a day. You take a big bottle in the morning and then a smaller one before bedtime. Sometimes we give you a little one after you wake up from a nap, but you aren't really interested in them anymore. I think we will start trying some milk out this week to see how you like it.

You take a morning and afternoon nap and 99% of the time you sleep through the night. If you do wake up, you quickly go back to sleep after a quick soothing. It makes me wonder if you had a bad dream.

You are starting to snuggle!!! yay! You come up to us now and lay your head on us and it melts my heart! You were born into a snuggling family, so this makes us very happy.

You have slowed down quite a bit on your eating. You still eat very well, but just not as much as you were a month or so ago. You are still very big for your age, so we aren't worried any.

You say Dada, All done, bye bye, tink tink, thank you, ball, bottle. Not everyone may understand it, but your Daddy and I do!

You are going to be the best big brother. I know that you and your little sister will love each other very much and hopefully will be the best of friends.


34+ weeks with the pregnancy and all is going well. I had an appt today and we are both perfectly healthy. The only problem right now is she seems to be perfectly content laying sideways in my stomach, and we really need her to turn head down in the next couple of weeks. The doctor is having me get a sono with our next visit so we can pinpoint exactly what position she is in and make sure everything still looks good. Be sending good vibes our way and pray that she is head down so we don't have to go down the road of potentially turning her ourselves.

He walks!

Nash recently started walking! yay! I knew that we wanted him to be walking, and walking well, before Laine got here and we got our wish! I didn't want him to be tumbling around all over the place taking some nasty falls, when I knew I couldn't catch him quickly enough with a newborn in my hands. He has progressed so much already. This video is of the first day of him walking out in free space. He had been walking from wall to wall or pieces of furniture for a while, but Eric said he just took off for the wild blue yonder one day while I was at work. This broke my heart of course, and I cried, but he sent me some video immediately and it made the situation a little bit better. He gets more steady everyday and now he walks more than he crawls.

Coming soon! Halloween and 11 month old pics



Eating and talking

3rd wedding anniversary

my cutie pie on his way to the zoo!

LOVE this pic of my two guys!

Mommy and Nash checking out the giraffes

my big boy with his sippy cup

swinging on the swing at the park

These last few days we have been celebrating our 3rd anniversary! 3 years and 1 3/4 kids sounds crazy! And we still like each other...even better! We headed down to Grandma and Grandpa Tomlinson and spent a day with them and then headed out to our destination and left Nash to hang out with them for the night. He did great and had a good time with them. Eric and I stayed at a dude ranch/bed and breakfast for the night and went to Fossil Rim the next day before heading back to pick up our little dude. We both missed him very much and he greeted us with a "dada" loud and clear when we pulled up to the house. He says Dada a lot now and I think maybe at this point he thinks both of us are "dada", but it is still the sweetest little thing to hear right now.

The ranch we stayed at is beautiful and we had a nice relaxing time. We were in bed and asleep by 9 that night and slept until 8 the next morning! I actually wasn't really tired the whole next day and I can't remember the last time that happened! We hiked some trails while we were there and hung out in the hottub(with the belly out most of the time!) It was so quiet that it was almost creepy at times. I guess I just didn't realize how much noise Nash and all his toys make, and how used to that I had gotten. I'm glad we got to get away, because I'm sure it will be the last time for a while we are by ourselves.

Fossil Rim was a lot of fun. I had never been before, but Eric had. He still had a great time too. His bow was in the back seat the entire time and he mentioned more than once that he sure would like to use it on some of the animals.

Hope you all are having a good week as well! Enjoy this weather..it sure doesn't last long enough.

cute little video of Nash playing around when he's naked

10 months old and 30 weeks prego!

stinking cutest thing ever!

hi big brown eyes

standing all by himself!

30 weeks!

My baby is 10 months old! I told him the morning of his "birthday" that he was in double digits now! It goes by so quickly its crazy and sad at the same time. He is such and amazing little boy and we feel so blessed every single day to be his parents. He really is a dream baby, which makes me soooo stinkin nervous about this little firecracker I have in my belly.

I had an appt this last week and everything was perfect. My blood pressure was great. I had only gained 5 lbs in the last month...which I was the most excited about! I passed by diabetic screen!!! yay! Dr F confirmed what I was thinking and said he thinks this little baby is lying sideways across my belly with her head on my left-with her face up. (picture her sunbathing) that is how she has been lying for weeks! crazy girl.. she has a lot of moving to do before the next few months are up. She is still technically measuring a week small, but he said it's probably just because of her position. Shes stretched out sideways instead of up and down.

Nash-little man-here is what you are up to.

You said Dada just a few days ago! We were super surprised and excited. you just looked right at your daddy and said Dada first thing in the morning...it was super sweet. You can also say bye bye, bite and juice. I think you understand way more than that, it's just not coming out of your mouth quite right yet.

You are standing alone and will take a few "walk-fall" steps. meaning that you will take some steps, but only if you have something that you can basically fall into. You are very graceful when you do need to fall and basically fall on your booty every time, or you just crouch down and put a hand down. You have managed to have no major falls/spills yet!

You still take two naps a day-morning and afternoon. You go to bed between 7-8 at night and sleep until around 8 in the morning. whoo hoo

You have 8 teeth and are working like crazy on cutting those mean eye teeth.

You take your bottle in the morning very well, but aren't really interested in it throughout the rest of the day. I manage to get you to take around 15 ounces a day of formula, but you LOVE your water and watered down juice out of a sippy cup. You drink 2-3 cup fulls a day.

You are eating only solid food and like to feed yourself. Your current faves are bananas, grapes, beef hotdogs, cheese, diced fruit, goldfish crackers and puffs. No baby food at all! You are not interested at all in any kind of baby food, so we have given it all away.

The weather has been perfect the last week and we have taken advantage of it. We went to the zoo one day and visited a local park and had lunch at took a nice walk another day. I will post pics from the zoo soon.


love you all.