Quick Update

Okay, I plan to come back VERY soon with a full update on Julie Beth's 2 month check-up and our Christmas holidays. We have been in Memphis for 6 days (5 nights away from home!) so I have to settle back in and get things sort-of back to normal first. But here is a quick picture of all the cousins at Mimi and Poppa's house (Stephen's parents). They have 9 grandchildren that are 11 and under, and it is rare that we are all together at the same time.

Checking In

I wanted to check in real fast and touch base. I am feeling a little under the weather today. The past few days have been very busy. I will be back as soon as I can to update about it all. Check back because Julie Beth's 2 month check-up and my dad's family Christmas will be featured. Stay warm in this snowy weather!

"T" for Tuesday

Well, Will is napping, and Julie Beth is swinging in her swing... at least for now. Tuesdays are one of the days that Will goes to preschool at Miss Kim's. One thing I find so special about Miss Kim's is that I went to Miss Kim's when I was Will's age. She is such a patient and loving woman. She has to be to deal with like 15 2-and-3-year-olds by herself. So Will goes to school from 8-12 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. When he gets home from school, we eat lunch. Here he is enjoying a PBJ and some chips for lunch today.

After he ate his lunch, we played for a little while. He ran right in the door and ran upstairs to his room to grab a paci or two and his Mickey and Minnie. As I have stated before, all 3 stay with him at all times (except school and church). He's watching Mickey Mouse in the first picture.

While this little angel was at school, I soaked up some cuddle time with my princess. We took a short nap together. I am so glad Julie Beth was blessed with my love for sleep. She slept for 14 hours with 3 feedings last night. Us Davis girls, we love and need our beauty rest! :) Here's the princess talking to Mommy after our nap together. The pictures may not show it, but this girl is starting to have auburn hair. Her brother was born with strawberry blonde hair, and then at one point it got really red. Now he's pretty much just blonde. She was born with dark hair which lightens every time I wash it... just kidding. Although I do feel like that's true. But now out in the sun, it's definitely auburn colored.

Tuesdays equal Stephen driving a few hours at Domino's so it's usually just me and the kiddos. Tonight Memphis plays Kansas, which is a really big game, for those non-basketball fans out there. So after Stephen gets off, we will watch that and hang out. We have 3 different left-over options for dinner, so it will be nice not to have to prepare a meal. Well, my little girl is talking up a storm, and I want to go chat with her. Stay warm!

Baby It's Cold Outside

Brrrrrrr, can we say it's cold outside? The wind here is what's the killer. It really makes it feel much colder. My babies have stayed inside all day where it's warm. We haven't really been up to much today. In fact, it's 4:00 and I just now jumped through the shower. Will has just played and played and watched some Mickey Mouse. Then he napped and played in the bathtub after I showered while I got dressed and stuff. That's something we do often to pass a little time is to let him play in the bathtub. He gets his real bath at night before bed, but sometimes we just fill the tub with water and give him some toys and let him play until he's tired of it.

What am I excited about today? Returning to regular meals as a family. Julie Beth is finally to a stage where she is happy long enough in her bouncy seat to let us all eat at the same time around the table. For the past two months, we have eaten in shifts... and usually in the den in front of the television or Will would eat in his playroom in front of his television as well. But we ate dinner and breakfast all around the table, and I loved it. We are trying to get Will back used to sitting at the table to eat.

What else am I excited about? The upcoming season finale of Dexter. We watched the next to last episode today. We got into this show from a friend in Nashville we used to spend a lot of time with when we both lived there. It's a very intense show and has been since the start. But this season, oh my, is very intense. I can't wait to see what happens. I really hope it's not the last season but have heard rumors that it is.

Today is a pretty boring day, so I won't bore you... Hope you are staying warm on this cold, cold day and that you take time to enjoy a meal with your family!

Photos of the Kids

Since my last post didn't have any pictures, I decided to post a few from this evening...

Will in a Memphis outfit a family friend made him. Isn't it cute? We have matching blankets that my grandmother made us.

This picture is priceless. As we have entered the "Terrible 2's" we see this often...

He's watching Mickey here. This is before we changed him to his Memphis outfit so that we could send the family friend a picture of him in it.
Julie Beth practicing tummy time and holding her head up. She's getting pretty good at it for a few minutes at a time. It's hard to believe she's going to be 8 weeks tomorrow, 2 months on Thursday. Where does time go??

As I think I mentioned on Saturday, she has started talking (cooing) and smiling a lot. This is her almost smile. Isn't she just adorable? Maybe we are just bias... nah! :)

Well, it's time to bathe the kids. I'll be back tomorrow!

Sunday Solutions

So for those of you close to us, you know that we have struggled with Sunday afternoons since Stephen took on the youth ministry job in Decatur. At first, it was a real struggle with Will, mainly due to his age and the fact that cold weather approached at the time Stephen started (Sept '09). Then when spring came and Will was a little older, things got easier. Will got to that real fun, easy on-the-go age. But then fall 2010 came, and with it came Julie Beth and cool weather again. Since Julie Beth has been born, Sunday afternoons have been very tiring and very stressful. Will is tired of the church building by the time church is out, but yet, I'm supposed to keep him there another 2.5-3 hours.... and get him to take a decent nap. Just wasn't happening with the addition of Julie Beth. She needed to eat, and he wouldn't nap and would scream. It was just a major headache. So we decided today to try driving separately, and the kids and I leave after church. It worked like a charm. Both kids napped on the way home. We came home and ate. Then we just hung out and played and watched TV until Stephen got home. So I think for now about 3 Sundays a month Stephen and I will both drive to Decatur, and the kids and I come home right after church. Hooray for a Sunday Solution!!

Saturday Morning Laziness

We are having a lazy but productive Saturday morning around the Davis household today. Maybe relaxed is a better word to use than lazy. We are all still in our PJs taking it easy. We have done the dishes and put away 3 loads of laundry. I have Will's sheets drying. Basketball is on the television... Stephen's favorite time of the year. Housework with two is endless. So we plan to continue to do a little housework, enjoy basketball (NC and KY right now), Auburn later, and then tonight Memphis plays. GO TIGERS! Here's some pictures of the kids...

This was last Sunday. Stephen and the kids relaxing after a Memphis win. Stephen is always exhausted on Sunday afternoons so this is usually how you find him. See the Mickey figures in the picture? They are ALWAYS with Will these days. He's come to really love Mickey.

This picture and the one below it is Will this morning. He got this "hat" as he calls it yesterday. Stephen has one similar. Will loves to wear it. See that blue paci? We are starting 2011 without it. It's that time. He goes to school without it. He knows what his sissy's pacis look like. So we are saying goodbye after the holidays. (Please ignore the bed in the below picture. As I said, I am washing his sheets.)

Julie Beth this morning doing what she does best, sleep. We have spoiled this girl rotten. We hold her all.the.time. But I am eating it up as I know these days pass quickly. I have been pushing her to spend time not in our arms though. Right now she's stretched out on a blanket on the floor. She had her best night yet last night. She slept for 7 hours in her bassinet, 7.5 total, and went 8 hours without eating. For those who have asked, yes, nursing is going well. Thank goodness! And no, opposite of her brother completely, Julie Beth does not like to be rocked to sleep. It keeps her awake. If you try rocking her, she will stay wide-eyed, and as soon as you stop, her eyes will start to close. Just one of the many ways she is oh-so different from her brother.

My sweet princess with her lovey. Don't you just love all the purple? I do! But believe me, she has worn way more pink than I would have thought she would have.

That's all for now. Hope you have a relaxing Saturday too!!