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!!

Julie Beth Is Here

So it happened... and I'm just now getting around to blogging about it. Life with two is tiring and busy and hectic. But anyways, Julie Beth was born October 11th at 7:44 a.m. by a planned repeat C-Section. She was 7 lbs, 6 oz and 19 3/4 inches. She had a head full of dark hair. Will absolutely positively adores her. Here's a few pictures:

What We've Been Up To

So it's been a couple months since I last posted. Shame on me, shame on me. But things have been SUPER busy around here lately. Living even closer to my mom now somehow keeps us even busier. So let's just get the update started!So this is Julie Beth's bedding. This is NOT her actual room. Her furniture will be the same as Will's was which is lighter wood. But the decor is what her bedding will look like. I have to still take pictures of the finished nursery... which, by the way, I think looks better than this!

We also have dealt with a broken arm. Will fell out of the kitchen chair after eating lunch one day and broke his elbow. It was quite the traumatic experience. He ended up having to have surgery to have pins put it to allow it to heal correctly. We wore the hard cast for 4 weeks and then had surgery again to have the pins removed. Everyone, both doctors and nurses, that dealt with Will agreed that this would not be our last broken bone with him. He's enjoying a Twizzler in this picture in case you are wondering.

We are just 10 days away from having Miss Julie Beth so I plan to get everything brought up-to-date before then so be looking for multiple posts!

It's A....

GIRL!!!!

That's right. We went back at the beginning of June right after our beach trip, and it was confirmed that indeed Baby Davis is a GIRL! If you recall, we were told back at the beginning of May that they thought it was a girl, but I was very hesitant to believe. But it was very obvious this time that it was indeed a female.

Her name is going to be Julie Beth Davis. We plan to actually call her Julie Beth. I'm sure once she starts school and has to learn to write her name she will hate us but oh well. All kids have to hate their parents for something; right?

Anyways, we are very excited! We will be using mostly purple for both nursery and clothes. I'm just not a very pink person. Once I make a final decision on the bedding I will post what it looks like. But I will tell you this, the one I'm leaning towards is very PURPLE! YAY!!