Friday, December 11, 2009

Seth’s mini 11 month photo session :)

 

Our little monkey turned 11 months on Nov. 23rd and these are a few pictures we took a few days after.  He is still crawling like crazy and getting close to walking….I’m betting that will be a birthday surprise for everyone…Seth will take his first steps!

I can’t believe how fast he is growing!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Tis the Season….

Last weekend we got out all the decorations and Gabe was excited to say the least! :) OH I that it was fun last year with him, BUT this year WOW even more fun! He was ready to get Tigger & Pooh up in the yard…

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Gabe and I went to a Birthday Party for Jesus…we had so much fun…

 

Seth enjoying all the decorations…

Our plan was to cut a tree in Elgin this year and one of our friends from church was going to use our fake one…but she ended getting one from someone else and we decided to save money and go with our fake one this year….it is still pretty, just missed going to Elgin…hopefully next year will make it! Gabe thought it was so cool when he got to get on daddy’s shoulders to be the star on and then he wanted to use his stool to put the ornaments on. Gabe also enjoyed his first Hot Coco! :) while watching Charlie Brown Christmas!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Thanksgiving

We headed for Conroe last Tuesday after Gabe’s Thanksgiving Feast. Todd left around 3:00am Monday morning for Fl to see Jacob, Zach, and some of his family. That drive would be too much for Gabe & Seth…18 hours in a car!?!

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It was hard to be away from him and I really wanted to see the boys, but they will be here in a few weeks! :)

We did get to SKYPE and that was fun!!!!

Our first stop was at My Aunt & UNcles for dinner and then we headed to my mom & dads. Matthew’s girlfriend Lindsey got in on Wednesday…she was a really sweet and fun girl! We just hung out around the house and Gabe got his ride on the tractor, we went to the park, had a quick trip to Kohl's, played a came of Cootie and mom cooked some for the big day!

We had Thanksgiving at My Aunt & Uncles, the food was fabulous and the layout was like something out of Martha Stewart..lovely! So So so Yummy!! What a wonderful day after we ate we went for a walk then had a taste of ALL the pies that they made and then headed to the Park! That was fun…..some of us were playing horseshoes, a little hitting the baseball, swinging, sliding, walking and Gabe enjoyed the sand pit UNTIL HE RUBBED HIS EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POOR BABY!! I ran to him picked him up and ran to the nearest water fountain…there was a beautiful garden and luckily there was a water hose right there, we flushed his eyes out and you could just see all the sand! Once we made it to the car we got a water bottle and leaned him back and OH BOY He did NOT like that! But it was clean! When we got back to the house I got the boys in their PJ’s and Gabe had a little snack outside watching and listening to the music on my Aunt & uncles house! Seth enjoyed his first Thanksgiving, he LOVED the green Bean Casserole and the whip cream on the pies! He also enjoyed being pushed around in his ride! :)

That evening the boys went down fast and I enjoyed some wine on the back porch with my brother and Lindsey. It was chilly but we bundled up and I even played a little guitar and sang! It was fun!

We headed back to Austin on Saturday since Rain was in the forecast I did not want to be driving in the rain!

We had a great time, BUT I sure was wishing I had leftovers..BIG TIME!!!! Oh well I got some Big Beautiful and very JUICY lemons from my Aunts tree! I am enjoying lemon in my water and will be making some lemonade, plus I won’t have to buy any for cleaning for awhile now!

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So thankful for my family and my friends, God has blessed us so much! I hope everyone had a beautiful day. 

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Brothers

It seems funny sometime to hear myself say…”C’mon Boys” Awww wow God has blessed me so!

Seth already looks up to Gabe and can Light up his face in a second as well as get a laugh from him!

Gabe is enjoying that Seth can now follow him and he wants so bad to have him truly play with him. He has being saying lately..”C’mon Sethy lets go play in the playroom”, I’m trying to get him to understand that he just can’t go with him just yet by himself!

Today when I took them to the doctor to try and stop this cold from setting in, I saw Gabe be protective of his little brother for the first time…After the Dr. checked Gabe’s breathing and was then checking Seth, Gabe leaned in very gently with the sweetest smile and put his arm around him and then started to pat his little head as if to say, “I’m here Seth it’s ok!” awwwwww

Seth is standing on his own for seconds upon seconds and can now hold one hand and walk a bit, he likes holding Gabe’s hand and mine while walking too! 

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My little Blue eyed ;)

Seth has grown so much in the last few months and is doing so much more!  10 Months now and will be 11 months in just a few days!

He cruises all over the place and wants to walk, but I think he has figured out that he can follow bubba much faster by crawling, and let me tell you he would win a baby crawl! HA HA

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He has his bottom right tooth half way in as well as his top left! Super cute and the top right is peeking thru as of yesterday!

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He said mama first :) (probably because he hears Gabe say it ALL DAY LONG!) and says dada and now he has the cutest little wave and says bye bye!

He is still my smiley baby and so patient…he is totally a mama’s boy! Gabe, well he did love being in my arms, but was so much the child to go to anyone very easily (whuch was actually scarey sometimes)……NOT my Seth or Sethy as Gabe calls him! He will tuck his head in my shoulder and smile back at you, as if to say, “No thank you, I am just fine in my mommy's arms…I can see you just fine from here!” LOL

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Excited!!!!!

I have started my classes to become a Kindermusik teacher!

Kindermusik is a wonderful way of learning and enhances the overall development of children thru music.  Music is POWERFUL in so many ways!!!! How awesome… ..my two passions, Children & Music!!

I will be taking the class online and will complete it in 15 weeks and then receive my license. ;)

I will be teaching a class to the 1 1/2 yr-3 yr olds accompanied with a parent and my friend Amy will have the 3-5 yr olds, and then my friend Sheri will be teaching sign language! The classes will be held at my church and we are looking at starting in January!

So when I have more details as to when the class will begin and what day and time, I will let you know. We would love to see your little one! :)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

FALL & HALLOWEEN

Fall has been in the air and we are loving the weather! Absolutely beautiful!!!!

We took the boys to the Elgin Pumpkin patch with some friends of ours and I must say we were disappointed in the amount of pumpkins they had…they had more at our corner nursery!  The kids did have fun though with the hayride and sitting on the tractor and running around…..Oct 2009 051

                      SWEET

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Vroom Vroom

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Our Dear Friends Deena, Mario and Mia

 

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The kids did have fun, but when we got back home, Todd and I headed to the Red Barn nursery for some Pumpkin pictures….

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I love this time of year! Hope everyone is having a beautiful Fall!

 

PUMPKIN CARVING

Gabe seeing the inside of a pumpkin for the first time was priceless!!

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What FUN we had! Gabe has gone went back & fourth with what he wanted to be, but one day he looked at a party city magazine and pointed to the DR costume and said I want to be that! :) COOL!

He made the cutest DR ever!

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Seth was a monkey and OOOOOOOH what a cute little monkey was he!

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We went to a Halloween Party and Gabe had a blast playing with his friends, eating hotdogs, and having some sweets! Then it was off to go trick or treating in our neighborhood.

It was so neat to hear Gabe say Trick or Treat and to see his little face light up! He has changed so much in a year. It was so cute, because every time we got to a house, he would say you gonna come with me…he was a little hesitant, but had so much FUN!