Happy 9 Months!!

So my little boy turned 9 months yesterday! I took him today for his 9 month check up and the doctor said he looked great! He is 28 1/4 in long and weighs 18.1 lbs. He is a little on the lean side as far as weight goes but the doctor said he was just fine! He got two shots and was such a big boy because he only cried for a second and then started laughing at the nurse. Such a trooper!

Still no crawling yet...which I think may be a blessing! And to be honest, he really has no interest in trying. You put him on his belly and he pushes up but does not stay like that for long until he rolls all over the floor. We have not given up yet but he may be a walker before he is a crawler because if he gets a hold of something or someone he pulls himself up to stand.

He has two bottom teeth and you can see the outline of his top two teeth. He has started to eat some of our table food that is easy to gum down. He likes to eat puffs, well mainly to play with them but he puts them in his mouth and chews them. He also LOVES pickes, which should not come as a surprise to those who know me.

He plays on the floor with his toys and wants whatever you have at the moment. He has started to pitch little fits when you take something away from him. He pouts those lips and starts with the crying and tears until you distract him with something else. It is so hard not to just give in but I know he needs to learn.

He says "da-da" like a champ, and just started saying "ma-ma", and other words that we can not make out. He loves to give me kisses and has started to wave "bye-bye". All these things I am not sure if he knows what he is doing but they sure do make us feel special!

I know I say this every month, but he is such a blessing in our lives! I love the sound of his voice when he talks to himself, I love his laugh and I even love his cry. It is music to my ears! I thank God every day for giving us such a special gift!

Happy 9 months Lawson!!! I love you!!

Memorial Day Weekend and Upcoming Cruise

So my sister, Lawson and I headed down early to the beach for memorial day weekend. We left Wednesday afternoon and Mitch came down Friday after work.

It was a great weekend spent on the beach, getting in the oil-free ocean and being with my family! Thursday was my sister's birthday so we all went out to eat at Guy Harvey's, Friday we went shopping at the Wharf and outlet mall to get somethings for my sister's birthday and to finish up last minute shopping for our upcoming cruise, on the 19th.

I am so glad that we were able to get Lawson in the ocean and let him experience that because now that the oil spill is starting to reach the beaches...who knows if he will be able to experience that for a while!

Saturday, we hung out at the beach and that night we went to eat at Cobalt's, and Sunday was spent in and out from under the tent because of the showers that kept coming. All in all it was great even with the rain!

Now on our cruise! We are scheduled to leave on the 19th out of Mobile. Things are kind of up in the air because of the latest on the oil spill! We are going to Progresso and Cozumel. I am really sad because we will be on our cruise on Father's Day and Lawson will be with my in-laws. I think I am more upset about it than Mitch is. My in laws will be watching him from our beach house so I will get to see him on Saturday before we leave and we get back on Thursday at 8am. This is my first time to be away from him for this long and I am getting a knot in my stomach thinking about it. I know he will be fine and well taken care of, but I am with him day in and day out. I don't know what I am going to do with myself without having to take care of anybody.... oh wait I will still have Mitch!!! I am looking forward to the time I will have with my hubby but I sure am going to miss our little guy!

I found out yesterday that the boat has WIFI and you can bring your own laptop so we can at least SKYPE and I can call on the days I get to an island. I know I will cry but hopefully I can drown my sorrows with a mai-tai while sitting in the sun!!

our little beach baby

he just woke up from his nap...i love this pic!


my sweet family!

me and my boy


Lawson and Daddy in the ocean!

Lawson's First Beach Trip

So this past Thursday, Mitch was going to Dauphin Island for an inshore fishing trip with some work people. So we decided to make a long weekend out of it! Lawson and I headed down on Thursday to the beach house and Mitch joined us Friday afternoon!

Friday we went and met Laney, an old friend from high school, in Foley and then Lawson and I headed to outlet mall. After Mitch got home on Friday we went to eat at Guy Harvey's for dinner and called it a night fairly early.

Saturday we got up, fed Lawson and loaded up the car with all the stuff we had to take! I wish I would have taken a picture because you would have thought we were moving to the beach. We took the tent, beach chairs including Lawson's, 2 beach bags, cooler and Lawson's float. I carried Lawson and the float, and Mitch had the rest!

We put everything up and got situated and sat Lawson on a blanket...and he crashed! It was time for his AM nap anyways! Then after he woke up, he ate his lunch and bottle and then proceeded to eat the sand for dessert! He LOVED the sand! He LOVED the beach! He just was so taken in by everything and trying to figure everything out. We then took him to the water and he just squealed when the waves would come up to him. We attempted to take him in the ocean but the waves were a little too big and we didn't want to traumatize him. So we took him back up to the tent where he played in the sand, threw the sand and of course ate the sand! He then took nap #2 and when he woke up...we loaded back up and went to the pool!

Today, my sister, Lawson and I are heading back down there for memorial day weekend! This is what I love most about summer....trips to the beach!

I remember last year in July...being at the beach, 7 months preggers and miserable, and Mitch saying to me "this is our last year at the beach...just us"! And I wouldn't have it any other way!!

eating the sand

chillin' at the beach

playing in the water

worn out!

Sick Boy!

So Lawson started running a fever on Thursday of last week. I called the doctor and they said it was probably because he was cutting his teeth so if he wasn't better by the next day to come in. When I got him up the next morning his fever had broken and he seemed to be acting fine. We just kept giving him tylenol and motrin because he still ran a low grade fever....again we contributed that to teething.

Sunday night he started coughing really bad. As Monday progressed his nose became a faucet and the cough got worse. He also was acting really whiney and not even holding him was enough to get him to stop crying. All this is TOTALLY out of character for him. So again, I call the doctor and get an appointment for the next morning.

I took him to the doctor and turns out the poor baby has an ear infection in each ear :(. The cough and runny nose can be somewhat contributed to the infection but he said it was probably viral and to give him some children's mucinex. So we got an antibiotic, ear drops and some new cream for his face where he has eczema. The cream we were first prescibed was $250 after insurance! The new bottle $4. Much better!

So after a full day on the antibiotics he acts a little bit better. So hopefully he will be better by this weekend because we are going up to Decatur to see Mitch's family.

I have to say that I do feel very fortunate that he is 8 months old and this is the first illness we have had. So I can not complain too much.

Happy 8 Months to my sweet Lawson!!

Lawson is 8 months old today! He eats 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and still takes 4 bottles a day! He luckily is still taking 2 naps and boy when you miss one of those naps it is no fun for ANYONE!! He is sleeping 11 1/2-12 hours a night and I love it when he wakes up in the morning because he is so happy to see you and gives me a big hug!!

He has gotten his first tooth (still trying to get that pic) and is doing a lot of babbling. He is rolling everywhere. He has not quite figured out the crawling thing (which I am not rushing). His Nonna and Granddeddy got him a walker and he loves it...but can only go backwards and gets really mad when he runs into something and can not go further. He loves to give me kisses...he grabs my face and pulls me right to him and slobbers all over me...and I LOVE it!!

He just experienced his first time in the pool and we are looking forward to taking him to the beach (if the oil is not there) at the end of this month!

Happy 8 months to my big boy!!

Mother's Day Weekend

On Saturday, we went to my mom's house to take Lawson swimming for the first time (pics to come later)! He did so good! He just chilled out in his floaty and splashed in the water with daddy! Then on Sunday, we went to church and then went back over to my mom's house to celebrate Mother's Day with my family and Mitch's family! It was such a nice day! We grilled hamburgers and lounged by the pool!

I got a gift card to go shopping for our cruise in June, Mitch and Lawson got me a new bedspread and my mom got me the cookbooks I had been wanting to make Lawson's food and some storage containers. All in all, it was a GREAT weekend!!

God has blessed me in so many ways! I have a wonderful family, the most wonderful husband in the world and a healthy and beautiful boy who is the center of our world! I am so fortunate to be able to stay at home with him and watch him grow everyday!

I have a frame in his bathroom that some dear friends of mine got me when I had Lawson. It says "We loved you before we knew you-even when it was just the hope of you-we loved you." We tried for 3 years to have this little boy and I have to say looking back on it....it was worth the wait! How lucky I am to be Lawson's mommy! He has brought more joy to my life than I could have ever imagined!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day!!

minutes after he was born!

Our first Mother's Day!!

A Tooth and a Word!

So Lawson has FINALLY gotten his first tooth! I swear he has been teething for the past 3 months! Everyday as the drool would drip down his face I would look in his mouth (which he didn't like) and no tooth! On Saturday, Mitch was feeding him and said " I think the spoon just hit something that was not his gum." So I went over to him and opened his mouth...and there it was beneath the gum...a tooth! So this morning we looked again and it is almost through the skin..and now we have the one next to it coming in!!!! I should have know it was coming because his dirty diapers have been EXTREMELY DIRTY!!

He also said his first word, "da-da", for the first time! He says the "mmm" sound all the time and I have been really practicing with him on saying "ma-ma" so of course his first word would be "da-da". I heard it first and then Mitch heard! He said he is really not going to count it until he looks at him and says it! I count it so it is going in the baby book!!

Everyday he amazes me with all the new things he can do!