Weekend Review

It's been a while since I documented a weekend in our life, so here we go!  

On Friday morning, the kids and I kicked off the weekend by going to the park, having a picnic lunch, and feeding the ducks!

My parents invited Georgia Kate over for a sleepover on Friday night.  She was SO excited about it all day.  When they came to pick her up, she actually squealed and ran to their car!  It was PRECIOUS.  They went to eat at Fudruckers and then she stayed up really late because she was having so much fun!    My mom said she didn't stop talking the whole time.  She also got a special pink donut for breakfast. :)

Chris, Reid, Rhett and I went to eat dinner and then we played some games with Reid once Rhett went to bed.  We also told him he could sleep in our bed since Georgia wasn't home and he loved that!  

Saturday morning, Reid had Tball.  He had all four grandparents, as well as Alli, John, and Thomas there to watch!

Love this picture of Emery and Georgia Kate reading books while the boys played. 

After the game, Chris and the big kids went to Rudy's for lunch with my family, while Rhett and I went home so he could take a nap.  That afternoon, my parents watched Rhett, while Chris and I each took the big kids to birthday parties.  

This morning, we ended up skipping church because Georgia Kate had a super runny nose and everyone was exhausted from yesterday.  Chris and the big kids went to the grocery store and then we did some cleaning up around the house.  This afternoon I took Reid to ANOTHER birthday party!  

To keep it real, our evening ended with a gigantic meltdown from the oldest and everyone went to bed early.  Overall, it was a busy and fun weekend! :)

Rub a dub dub

Three babies in a tub!  A couple of weeks ago we let all three kids take a bath together!  Georgia Kate thought it was so fun and Reid thought it was too crowded. :) We don't do it every night, but it's nice to take care of all three baths at once when we can! 

Rhett is 6 months!

Rhett Michael is 6 months old!!! It has flown by, but it also feels like he's been part of our family forever.  This is when I really want to hit the pause button.  This is my favorite baby age!  

I love seeing Rhett's personality come through.  He's easy going in some ways and not at all in others.  He can be SO happy or SO mad.  He's very sensitive, but also already a little bit silly!  He's so uniquely him and we just love him to pieces!  

Rhett has a new "cheesy" smile (see below) and he also has a tiny and sweet "shy" smile.  I love his little baby gurgles.  He has really discovered his voice and loves to scream just to hear what he sounds like. :) Georgia Kate and Daddy seem to be his favorite people at the moment.  He lights up when he sees Chris and nobody can make him laugh quite like his sister!  He is grabbing everything and putting everything in his mouth.  While he's not sitting on his own quite yet, he has started doing push ups when he's on his tummy.  He is really strong!  We put him in the swing in the backyard this month and he seems to love it!  

Rhett usually takes three 45 minute naps a day and occasionally four naps depending on how much we are in the car.  He loves his carseat and if he's fussy before we need to go somewhere, I will often put him in his carseat early and he will hang out in it happily for a while before we leave.  He's still working on soothing himself to sleep at nap time, but it's getting better.  He wakes up every 2-3 hours throughout the night (and often it's more like every hour and a half), but I'm really getting used to it.  He needs me and I know it won't be like this forever.  We started some baby food around 5 1/2 months.  I try to give him something most days around dinner time, but we skip some days.  So far he's had oatmeal, prunes, peas, pears and today we celebrated his 6 month birthday with avocado!  He seems to like pears the best so far.  Rhett is a BIG growing boy!  He wears size 3 diapers and is squeezing into 9-12 month clothes.  

The last six months have been such a joy!  We love you SO much, baby Rhett!

6 month stats:

Weight - 20 lbs, 12 oz (94%)

Height - 28.75 in (99%)

Head Circumference - 18 in (97%)

Rhett's Baby Dedication and Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day and it was also the day that we dedicated Rhett at our church!  It was such a special morning.  Our families came over after the dedication for Mother's Day lunch at our house.  

My precious Rhett Michael, I love you so much!

My babies… I am so very thankful that God chose me to be their mom!

Little love.

Mumsie made his beautiful bubble!

Our wonderful friends, the Browns...

Family -

Mumsie, Popsie, Alli, John, Thomas, Pete

Grandma, Grandpa, Jeff & Gina

We are so blessed to have such amazing moms and grandmothers to our children!  

Swings!

Rhett is big enough to get in a swing now and it's so fun to have a new activity for him to do in the backyard or at the park!  

This face cracks me up…

He wasn't quite sure what to think at first. ;)

My babies.

Little lump of sugar.

My Ballerina

My friend Lindsey from Cade and Kate Photography took some precious photos of my little ballerina and I absolutely love every one!  I will treasure them forever!  

I am so glad she encouraged me to be in some pictures too.  I love my girl so much.