My Big Boy!

Wow how things change so quickly!!!  Henry will be 18 months on Thursday and he is such a toddler now and definitely not a baby!  Since he will be 18 months, he will now have been walking for half of his life....which I think is pretty crazy.  Since he is such a good walker/runner, he has had to find some new hobbies.  Climbing is one of his latest "things" he likes to do.  Yes, he has already fallen off the couches, chairs, etc...and has, I hope, learned his lesson, however, when he climbs up on the couch or chair and starts reading and talking to himself, I want to melt!!!  He LOVES books!  Especially truck, car, train, etc books!  He will look at them for hours and he has started imitating the things I say when we read them because we I read all the time.  I found him in the den twice in the last week reading to himself....pretty sweet!

Henry also has this tongue thing going on????  When he is focusing, laughing, and reading he sticks out his tongue.  Who knows who taught him this?

These last group of pictures are from this past weekend.  My brother, Collin, his girlfriend, Brigit, Henry, Beau and I all piled into Uncle CA CA's (Collin's) jeep (Henry was in heaven, and I got the ok from his grandmother to do this), took the top off, and cruised around the Forest Acres Green Festival.  Henry was extremely excited about the jeep and just admired the outside the whole time.  It was pretty funny!

If you know my mom and dad, you will know them to be the biggest recyclers in the world!!!  They were sort of in charge of the recycling at their church.  My mom is in the orange vest.....Henry is playing with a yogurt container that they made into some kind of game???  He seemed to like it!

My parents also have a compost pile, which I am not going to get into, but my dad set up a tent to give tutorials for composting.  This is Henry with my parents learning how to compost!

Here are dad and Henry riding the space ship in the church playground.  Henry loved it and I think Beau did too.....notice Beau's mouth.  He is making space ship sounds!

I promise I watch my child during the day....however, I had accidentally left out a 100 foot spool of Christmas ribbon that Henry found in the guest bedroom.  He managed to get it all in knots around him and walked into the den like this.....needless to say I had glitter allllllllll over!  It was pretty funny!

Cinema Saturday

I have taken a few videos over the past few weeks and I wanted to share them. Enjoy!

In this first one I am actually using it for my humor.  Beau lets Henry open and close the blinds everyday and now he is obsessed with it....as you can see!

I took this video today of Henry talking.....right now he knows about 30 words, but is really trying to repeat things we say.  If you listen closely you can hear him say "no" and "cold."  I love his little voice!

This is Carlisle and Henry on the slide.  I just thought this one was cute!

All About Me!!!

Last Wednesday I turned 31....yes, I am actually in my 30's now!  Even though I am aging at a quick rate, I have heard from numerous people that your 30's are the best years of your life.  The good thing about that is that I have had a great life thus far and so now I can look forward to it getting even better!  For my birthday, my sweet hubby, my brother and Brigit and my brother and sister in law, my mom, dad, mother and father in law, and my friends helped me celebrate for days and days! It started off Wednesday with presents, cards, free time and a birthday dinner with 15 of my closest friends.  Then Thursday I got a pedicure with Sarah and we had our parents over for the family birthday dinner.  On Friday Beau took me on a shopping spree AND rented a beautiful house in the mountains near Clemson for us, Collin, Brigit, Brent and Jess to stay.  Friday night Beau treated us to a wonderful dinner at Calhoun Corners and Saturday we all went to Clemson to pull for the tigers!  It was a perfect week and weekend.  Thanks to everyone for helping me celebrate!!!  Here are some pictures from the weekend.....

WE ARE FINALLY BACK!!!

I can't believe it has been a month since my last post!!!  We have been soooo busy, that I not taken many pictures and definitely did not have time to update my blog!  Let me start at the beginning....Henry's first birthday was wonderful....except the night in between the birthday parties, our new air conditioning unit (we had to replace the whole thing in our attic) started leaking through Henry's ceiling.  To make a long story short, the company who installed it along with the new insulation throughout the attic came back 4 or 5 times after that to fix more leaks.  Come to find out we had a pinhole leak in one of the tubes and it was spraying water all over the attic, our unit was put in crooked and the drip pan was leaning.  All in all that meant that we had a TON of water damage in our attic and the ceilings, and not just in the upstairs, but the downstairs as well.  The week before the wedding, we had our new insulation sucked out, mold testings, and 4 industrial size heaters in the upstairs of our house drying the ceilings at a fast rate.  That made it extremely hot in our house and it was unbearable to sleep here.  The next thing that happened was we had to hire movers, move out furniture in 5 of the 8 rooms in our house so all of the work could be done.  SO, we moved to the lake, which was beautiful, but far from home.  We had a nice "vacation," at the lake, but with 2 dogs, Beau, Henry and I it was a little much at the time.  We were told we could be out of the house for 3 weeks.  The good news was we were only out 2 weeks and our house is finally back to normal. 
We have been back home for about a week and a half and I have already hosted my fall Just Ducky Children's clothing show, we have had friends come over with their kids to play and we have had our girls fantasy football draft.  Now that we are done with everything, I can focus on getting my life organized again....and Clemson football!!! 
As far as Henry goes, he is growing and moving and really, really starting to talk.  Here is a list of the words sort of in order of him learning and using them:
truck, car, dada, go, uh oh, rock, hey, mama, shoe, cool, bye bye, poop, choo choo, pool, Lucy, up, copter, chip chip, what's that, ball, blankey (bacey), ruff, tree, a choo, tweet tweet, sit, doggies

That is all I can think of and have documented lately.  I know there are a few more, but I am proud of my little man.  He is starting to put 2 and 3 words together (mostly 2), but it is definitely a start!!!

Here are Carlisle and Henry eating dinner together at a group function....pretty cute!

We had a big group of kiddos here this weekend....TSOBP (Carlisle) and  DFB (Kate and Wright).  We tried to get a group shot, but everyone wanted to get down, so this is what we got....

Then we tried with just boys, and not so good again.....

Here is sweet Wright in the swing...he LOVED it and laughed the whole time!

My little monkey!

Kate, Alycia and Wright...only missing dad.

Carlisle liked sitting on top of the slide, watching Henry go down the slide, but was not sure of going down himself.  He looked very worried once he got to the bottom. 

Here is Kate trying out the slide.

How beautiful!  Look at those eyes, she is going to be a  heart breaker!

Then my little man waving at us....saying "heeeeey!"

OH, and one more thing....you have to check out Henry and Carlisle pushing each other in the wagon at Carlisle's house.  It was hilarious....just visit Carlisle's blog: The Story of Baby Pants!