Right Size, Wrong Color

Having kids 14 months apart means you always have a larger size in a drawer if needed!

Yes Daddy, your little girl is wearing camo tonight!

A November Kind of Day

This is how we roll on a beautiful and sunny November day in the lowcountry....

We wake up happy!

We cheer on our little sissy who is drinking out of a sippy cup for the first time!

We look up to our big brother and enjoy our morning drink!

We head to Old Town Bluffton!

We wear cute bows and cardigans!

We get excited seeing a boat on the May River!

We get a little sad when Daddy wants to leave!

We get an adorable picture of our little girl and her chubby cheeks!

And get another one!

We push the limits and try to get a picture of brother & sister!

And with no such luck with a duo photo we leave but had fun anyway!

Elmo!!!

Cannon's buddies, Wesley and Landrum celebrated their 2nd birthday with the best big red character there is....ELMO!!

At first almost every child was petrified of Elmo but as he danced around and let the kids warm up to him, they were then sad to see him go.  Cannon clung on to me for his life then we begged him to get one last picture with him before Elmo left.

Happy Birthday to two very sweet and adorable 2 year-olds, Wesley & Landrum!

From Bottle to Bed

Caroline LOVES her night time bottle.  I know it will be hard on both of us to give this routine up but hopefully when that day comes I will have a change of heart.  Having Caroline on the bottle is easy breezy but since there have been bottles in my house for over two years I think I might enjoy having my counterspace back.  

I remember this same phase with Cannon where I would dread having to say goodnight to my baby who had fallen asleep in my arms.  There's just something a mom feels when we hold our sleeping babies.  

 

Night-Night Caroline!  Sweet Dreams!!

My Sweet Girl!

Our neighbor, Laura, gave Caroline this sweet onesie and I have waited patiently for her to finally be able to wear it.

Her big brother must have some attention too!

I love this!!

A Trip to Charleston

We took a day trip to Charleston to see our friends, the Snider's.  They moved there a couple of months ago and it has been a little lonely for us.  We have done so much with them over the past couple of years.

The road trip went as good as could be with two little ones.  We tried to head out of town as soon after breakfast but it was closer to 10:00am (momma didn't prepare the night before) which put us in Charleston right at lunch and nap time.  This was the part of the trip that was the worse!  Both kids pretty much screamed when I tried to put them down for their naps.  I really don't blame them.  They don't have a lot of change in scenery when it comes to nap time so being in someone else's bed AND room didn't make them too happy.  Once they screamed and got really, really tired, they sleep just fine.

So after naps we headed to the Children's  Museum downtown.  I think all the kids had fun and us parents had some fun too.  It was very cold though.....and of course I did not come prepared so I felt so sorry for Miss Caroline who didn't have a hat or gloves to keep warm.  

Once we said our goodbyes to Ben, Danielle, Maddie and Isabella we went to eat at our favorite chicken place in Charleston.....Bojangles!  Yummy but oh so not good for the waistline!  And after our bellies were stuffed, we headed back to Bluffton for the night.

Thank you Snider's for having us visit! 

Translator Needed

There are a lot of words being said and a lot of conversations going on in our house lately with Cannon.  Unfortunately, we don't know 99% of what he is saying.  Aaron thinks he is speaking Chinese and I sometimes think it could be Japanese.  All we know is that Cannon has his own language right now and we are just going to have to wait until he can learn ours a little bit better. 

What we do know clearly though is that Cannon has a sweet little 'ol southern accent.  And as Paula Deen says.....bless his heart!

Oh My!

Enjoying a moment as brother & sister.

Caroline Rae!!!!......don't take your brother's sippy cup away!

Birthdays & Halloween

Cannon got invited to celebrate Ian & Emma's 3rd birthday.  Ian and Emma are two very sweet children and adorable twins who make me smile every time I see them. They were born on mine and Aaron's 1st wedding anniversary so of course I will never forget their birthday! Ha!  I worked with their daddy, Taylor, at DR Horton and while there we got to talking one day about having babies.  Taylor said during one conversation, "you should call my wife, Allison."  Well I did and the rest is history.  They are wonderful people and have become great friends.

Birthday Boy, Ian!

Birthday Girl, Emma!

Halloween came this year and it was so much fun.  We loaded up the wagon with Caroline and headed out with the neighbors to do some trick or treating.  Of course it was still a muggy, October night in South Carolina so we didn't get to stay out long before the bugs got us.  I actually headed back early with Caroline while Aaron took Cannon down a couple more streets before coming home. 

Daddy battled the bugs and stayed out on the porch handing out the last of our candy because

I didn't want ONE PIECE coming back into the house for me to eat!

Cannon sporadically checked on daddy!