Chilly Saturday Morning

Wow, is it a chilly Saturday morning or what? We turned the heat on low when we woke up. It's going to be hard to know if I'm for sure keeping Will warm enough these days. I mean, he runs around all day therefore keeping his body temp up I would imagine. And then Stephen and I are complete opposites. I freeze all the time, and he's always burning up.... so I'm not sure what Will is going to be like. I sit and cover up with a blanket a lot, but obviously I can't keep my busy boy under covers all day. I've been dressing him in socks, pants, and a long-sleeved shirt for now. Any suggestions would be welcomed!

The picture yesterday with the mascot didn't happen. We left right before the pep-rally ended, and the mascot was no where to be found. But we are about to get ready and go get his professional portraits made. Woohoo!! I don't know if I'll come back with proofs or not, so stay tuned.

Hope you stay warm on this chilly day!!

Ready for the Weekend

Well, let me just tell y'all... you are in for a huge treat come Halloween. We put Will's costume on him the other morning because we were so excited, and it was the cutest thing I have ever seen. And much to my surprise, he didn't try to pull the hood off or anything. So I'm very eager to show off pictures... but I'll wait until the big day to keep you curious and coming back for more!

Today is Homecoming for the high school. I had hoped to take Will to the parade, but instead of having it on Friday afternoons like they normally do, they moved it to Thursday evening, and I would have had to take him alone... so no thanks. And I was going to try to brave the football game, but with the very cool weather, we are going to sit it out as well. We went to one game and I thought Will would be super interested in the band and all... but he wasn't. We are going to go to the pep-rally at the high school this afternoon though. I'm going to try to get Will's picture made with the mascot. I'll let you know if that happens or not.

Tomorrow we are getting Will's 1-year portraits made... a little late, but hey, we've been busy. So I'll have those to post soon hopefully.

I think we have finally transitioned to one nap a day. He goes to bed a little earlier with that one nap so if we need to stay out past 8ish then I'll have to let him have another one during the day. But when we're home, I love having some down time just Stephen and myself.

Jonathan and Danielle (my little brother and his serious girlfriend) are coming home this weekend too! I'm excited to see them. It's been like a month. I saw them just a little the weekend of Will's birthday, and then they came home last weekend, but Will was sick and housebound, and we weren't really supposed to have visitors. So I am excited to see them!!

Anyways, I'll be back with some pictures and a weekend recap soon!

Our Little Monkey

Will's Halloween costume just came... and I am so excited. It is soooooo cute! I definitely love it more in person... and I already loved it online. I can't wait to put him in it!! I think the candy pail is just adorable too!!

Will's First Birthday Pictures

Will's birthday cake. My grandmother always homemade from scratch icing and all all of our birthday cakes growing up. She made his too. It was very special. His favorite stuffed animal that he sleeps with at night is this blue dog. We call him "Blue" for obvious reasons. So we decided to put Blue from Blue's Clues on his cake.

Will's individual cake to tear into!

The table

The presents

Us with the birthday boy

Mommy and Will. I stripped him down to a birthday bib for the cake eating part.

Will eating his cake... although the pictures are deceiving. He really didn't like it that much. Sad.

Will playing with some of his toys. He loved the ball Uncle Jon gave him. He LOVED having Casie and Ryan (his god parents) visiting. Ryan could lift him and let him touch things Mommy & Daddy couldn't reach.

Grandma (Stephen's parternal grandmother) and his sister Kristin gave him these shakers and an outfit to wear to the Memphis Tigers games this year. The outfit is adoreable. It will be pictured on him at some point I'm sure. :) In case you are new, we are HUGE Memphis Tigers basketball fans. But the shakers are a daily play toy... he LOVES them!!

Happy, happy birthday boy!! I think he had a blast. Of course, we have a ton more pictures and videos, but these sum up the party for the most part.

Will's Sick

Sorry, I come without pictures.... again. Stephen has successfully downloaded them to his computer, but he hasn't had the time to upload them. The files are unrecognizable on my computer, since the pictures are on the big, nice, expensive camera.

Anyways, the real reason for the post is to ask for prayers. Will started running a temp of 101 on Wednesday night. I didn't really pay much attention to it, but we did give him medicine. The fever lasted all through the day Thursday. So this morning I decided to take him to the doctor. And what would you know, the flu test showed a faint line. :( They are treating him as if the line was stronger because of his age. We started on Tamiflu.

We think he got it from one of Stephen's youth at church. He loves Will to death and last Sunday he was all over Will as normal, and they announced Wednesday night that he has Swine Flu.

But we think we caught it super early enough... since he doesn't have a super high fever and he still has some energy and he isn't throwing up and all that mess. So please remember us over the next 5 days. We are housebound.. and it will be hard on Will and me. Be back soon with an update.

Will's the big 1!

Okay, it happened. I survived it. Will turned one. There were many tears shed by this mama over her baby turning one. But we laughed and we played and we had a good day. Stephen is so busy these days with balancing Domino's and the church job that he hasn't had time to download the pictures and videos yet but we will be back soon to post those, PROMISE. It was a great party all around. Will was loved on and played with by numerous people who loved him.

We went for his one-year check-up. It was great! He weighed 22 pounds, 4 ounces (39th percentile). He was 30 inches long (51st percentile). I was so happy he had grew a good bit since at his 9 month appointment he was only in the 8th percentile for height. I don't remember his head circumference but it was in the 90th percentile so he has a big head! Haha.

He's to the point of running now. And he is a climber. If you turn your back for second, he's onto something. It's unbelievable. He eats solely table food now, and I love it. He's only on whole milk as well. He doesn't miss his bottle at all! Life is so much easier now. He still sleeps great at night and naps totally depend on the day and what's going on. He's a very happy baby. He's very ticklish. He absolutely LOVES being outside. He fusses to go outside all the time.

Anyways, we will be back with pictures soon.

PS- He didn't really love the cake, in case you were wondering.

11 Months Old

It is so hard to believe but Will is already 11 months old! I don't have any new pictures to post right now. We have tons, but they aren't on my computer so I can't upload them. I will get some on here as soon as I can though.
Knowing that his birthday is nearing constantly makes me tear up. I cannot believe my baby is about to be 1. It just blows my mind. At the beginning, in those rough times between 3 months and 6 months, I wished for this time... now I want to be back at those rough times.
But boy, this is such a fun age. I just love this age. My favorite new thing: Will gives hugs... and means it!! It makes my day when he walks (Yes, I said WALKS!) over to me and gives me a hug. Right after Will turned 10 months he started walking. And boy has life changed since. He gets everywhere so fast. We have to keep our bedroom and the hallway bathroom door closed. He loves to play in the trash and with the toilet paper in the bathroom. And he finds such joy in pulling everything (clock, laptop, picture frame) off Stephen's night stand. So we've just started closing the doors.
Will has 8 teeth! He didn't get his first till 9 months but boy they just keep coming. He has 4 on bottom and 4 on top. And it makes for such a cute smile! Will loves to read books.... all the time! He never gets enough of them.
OH, another big change, Will is completely off baby food. Still on formula for just a bit longer, but he eats table food. This is so fun. I like cooking for all of us or going out to eat and him being able to eat off my plate. And he's a good little eater at that! I can't wait to go for his 1 year check-up to see how much he's grown. I don't know that he's much taller but I do think he's slimmed out a little in his legs from walking.
Well, I will be back as soon as I can with pictures. Thanks for checking in on us!