Belly Pictures

Here are my belly shots so far. I kind of planned on going into more detail than just putting up a picture but I think I will just do it for the big weeks or ever so often.

10 Weeks

11 Weeks

12 Weeks

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There is no 13 weeks for some reason.4

14 Weeks

15 Weeks...........

I think that I will be coming off this morning sickness pretty soon. I have been starting to feel better, if our house can only get rid of the cold we keep passing around. Well now that I am 16 weeks maybe I will have a another post soon. :)

Sweet Boy & Painting

Loving on sweet little Aubrey, she is our friends baby and is just to cute!!

Frankie loves her so much. He was just talking and smiling at her the whole time.

Giving kisses to Mo Mouse in the bath.

Painting time....

Just getting started.

Getting into it.

Look at that face. I could look at him all night long.

Tumbling

The begining of January, we started Frankie in this Parent/Tot class at Athlete's Plus. The first week he hated it and cried the entire time. Each week I think he liked it more and more. My dad has been going with us to help!! These are from the past Monday, Frankie did pretty good but wasn't as in to listening as he should be. Haha but I guess what amost 2 year old would be.

Frankie 18 & 19 Months

Playing with letters, get smart.............

Give Mr. Pig & Mo Mouse a ride on his car.

Frankie's fake fussing.....

This is hard work.

Just painting away!!

More painting, he really seemed to like it.

I think that it is safe to say you are now acting like a toddler and less like a baby. You will always be our little baby though. I love to snuggle you and hug you so tight, you really don't care for it either. Haha! You do like to snuggle when you are tired or when you first get up which I love and cherish every second of. It is our routine that when you get up in the morning that we sit on the couch for just a little bit and watch Mo Mouse (Mickey Mouse) and it is by your request when I come in to get you every morning. You continue to amaze us everyday with new things that you are saying and doing. Not to mention I am not sure there is a day that goes by that I don't say that we are so lucky to have the cutest little boy in the world. Your eyes and your smile melt my heart daily. You are big on throwing your toys right nowso we have started to try time out with you. You are not a fan, we will put you in time out (usually after you have thrown something) and you will sit there and cry and cry. Sometimes you manage to produce real tears but most of the time you are faking it (we can tell because you will yell out and then look at us for our reaction). We will say that tiem out is a work in progress right now and I can say that you have only gotten it for throwing toys and hitting so far. For your age you are pretty good at sharing and really don't mine if others play with your toys unless it is something that you are playing with and someone takes it away from you. You have gotten much better with Sissy and she will even let you come near her now and doesn't run off in fear anytime you are in arms reach. We had our first PAT meeting with our new Jackson PAT teacher, she was very impressed with your problem solving skills, but you wouldn't really show her any of your other tricks. During the meeting we made our own "Your Baby Can Read" book, so we have been working on those and we are trying to also work on numbers and colors. Also it seems like you are really interested in books now. You love to be read to, sometimes you still get antsy and want to turn the page before we are done reading but I know that will get better in time.

• Funny things you do: You can do fishy lip kisses, blow kisses (which they are usually long and drawn out but oh so cute), rock your babies, singing random song but most recently singing to Mo Mouse after bath time while I am getting you ready for bed, singing Rock-A-Bye Baby, dancing to any song that has a girl singing, driving your Hotwheels all over our arms and legs, youare really into bellies and belly buttons and have started pointing to your belly and saying baby, you fart and burp (real & fake)- thank you Papa! You think that farting and burping are really funny and crack up anytime you hear one. I am sure there are a ton more cute things you do but I just can't think of them right now.
• New words you say: Pop tart (which comes out poc tart), pancake, cold, dance, fast, Ho Ho, rock, baby, belly, eyes, nose, mouth, nite nite, I love you & yogurt. You can also recite the sounds of the following animals: cow, horse, duck, sheep, monkey, dog & cat. We are working on frog, bird & chicken which you almost have down pat. Plus you will repeat any word that you hear.
• Eating Habits: The big news on this end is thta as of Monday November 14th you were no longer getting a bottle at bedtime. You did really well with this and only asked for it the frist 2 nights but never cried for it and it didn't even effect your sleep at all. praisse the Lord!! We still offer you a sippy cup of milk before bed but you have never taken but a few drinks of it. For breakfast we are giving you options. I will aks you if you want something like a banana and you say no, then I will aks if you want cereal you say no, then I ask if you want a pancake and you will repeat pancake and smile so I know that is what you want, you will also show me if I am not giving you the correct option. It really has made breakfast easier because we don't always have time to try a few things to get you to eat. Also if you want cereal you like to pick which on you eat and it has to have milk in it (which we help you eat). You have a snack mid morning and then lunch around 11 or 11:30. You will have an afternoon snack and then a snack on the way home from the babysitter, which you request as soon as you see the car. Then we eat dinner around 5:45 or 6 and then you will have a snack sometime before bed. Some of your favorite foods are: chicken nuggets, green beans, peas, corn, broccoli & ice cream. You will pretty much eat anything and like almost every kind of bean.
• Sleeping Habits: You are sleeping great. You sleep through the night every night for the most part. We put you to bed around 8:30 or 8:45 and I get you out of bed around 7:10. We give you a bath around 8:15 and then daddy reads you a bed time book and then he lays you down, you talk for a few minutes and then we don't hear anything else from you until morning. You usually wake up about 6:45 but you just stay in there and talk and sing to your self so I use that time to finish getting myself ready. You still take one nap a day and it usually last anywhere from 2 1/2 to 4 hours.

Words can not even explain how much we love you and how big of a joy you have made our lives and everyone around you. We love you so much!!!!

Christmas Day

Since moving back to Cape last year (after Christmas) we were able to fit 3 amazing Christmas's into one day!! Trey and I find it very importmant to start Christmas morning at home, from there we don't care if we have to leave right after opening presents we just want to wake up in our own home if at all possible. We started off the day at home as a family of 3!! Fair warning of the picture overload you are about to see.

Santa was very good to us this year, we must have been on our best behavior or something. Santa even used the stocking we left out for him to fill! :)

Frankie woke up about 6:45 and Trey and I jumped out of bed to turn the lights on and get the camera ready to go. We go into get him and he is sitting in his bed saying "Ho Ho Ho", I said why yes Santa did come to visit you last night. He ran out of his room, down the hallway and into the living room. He went straight to the 4 wheeler......haha true boy!

Testing his new ride out.

Opening his stocking.

Daddy, really.

Yummy M&Ms

Appearently just what he always wanted.

Getting pretty good at opening.

A stuffed deer rug, SWEET!!

Daddy, check out this awesome new cars!

Then we were off to Mimi & Papa's house.

This was our entertainment while Papa finished cooking breakfast. We had a huge yummy breakfast before round 2 of presents started.

and slide!!!

Testing the wagon's wheels to make sure Mimi picked out a good one. I think it pasted the test! :)

Now we are at Gammie and Papa's house. *Side note, I had fully planned on changing his clothes to his Christmas outfit but decided that this was to cute to change.

He was so excited that he took the bows off and that he was getting more presents.

I think he was saying snowman if I remember correctly.

Let the opening begain.

Loving on the new money.............SO SWEET!!

After opening we opened all the toys. This is his super serious face. He was cracking all of us up.

The tables were set and ready to go.

Kids table.

Playing with Grammie's new iPad!!

The drums..........he was also making some pretty funny faces with this too.

A little better family photo! :)

Frankie with Aunt Laura and Uncle Jeremy and also Frankie's future couisn!!!

Mom, Ashley, Me & Frankie, Jennifer and Annie

We took this same picture last year, love looking at the differences and Frankie was so tiny last year this time. :)

Well I am sad that I didn't get any family photos with my parents, Trey's parents, any of the grandparents or any big family shots. Hopefully we can do better on that next year. We are so thankful to all of our family and friend and loved spending Christmas with everyone. We are so blessed to have each and every one of you in our lives.