The Good Life

Thursday, July 10, 2014

4th of July Long Weekend

We had a most wonderful holiday weekend! We saw all of our favorite people in the world and spent quality time with them which is just SO nice. The only downer was poor Walker had pinkeye and an ear infection. But he's such a good baby and such a trooper you couldn't even tell. Friday we hung out all day with Anna and Aaron in downtown LR, going to the Clinton Library, browsing the Rivermarket, then to the Traveler's baseball game and watched the fireworks over the river. Saturday we drove up to Searcy to spend the day poolside and just relax with my parents. Savannah got her first swim lesson from Anna and Walker did too! (Walker is going to be such a little fish-he was so brave in the water!) We had the super tasty new pizza from the Club, and drove home after 9 with two sleeping babies. Sunday we went to church and enjoyed the big Celebrate America service and lunch with our church friends and then went to the PV pool with Nana and Gran. Stopped at home for naps and then went back over for steak dinners! It wrapped up the weekend nicely! I wish it was always a 3 day weekend!!

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I wish I could share all the videos of the long weekend. They are so great! Hope you all had as much fun as we did!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Just Savannah

Now I've got some pictures of just my Savannah girl.

We spent much of Monday afternoon at ACH ER. Savannah started limping pretty badly and refused to walk on her right leg at all so we had to go get it checked out. No break, we are hoping it's a bad sprain and not an infection in her joint.

Savannah loves to chalk!

At the zoo!

Savannah loves to exercise with her Daddy! He was running sprints up our hill in front of our house and she was begging to go! Of course he had her come along. :)

And she loves to nap with mama. Hah!

Sweet girl giving her best 'cheese!' faces.

I love my Savannah Sunshine. :)

Just Walker

Some pics of my big little boy!

Eating real green beans!

Toms. Adorbs.

Seriously I could squish those chunky legs all day!!

Love his smirk!

Naked boy.

And these are just cause his noggin is so cute. With such great hair!

I love my Walker baby!

Monday, June 30, 2014

Walker at 9 Months

I cannot believe I need to start planning a first birthday party! Where has my baby gone?!?! Well, anyway, Walker is 9 months. He's a big hunk of love weighing in at around 21, 22 pounds maybe. We'll find out at his appointment. He's around 26 or 27 inches long if I'm guessing. He's wearing 9-12 month clothing. He's even wearing some 18 month onesies that were Savannah's (for instance these plain white ones in the pics below) He wears size 4 diapers. (yep, you read that right!). He is smiling, laughing, cooing and babbling, and can say dada, baba, bye-bye, hot, cat, and a W sound. Still no mama, but I'm waiting for the day. He started clicking his tongue in two different ways last week. He can clap, sort of, and he can play peekaboo. He uses his walker to walk around the house in, by doing this hilarious bouncy movement thing to move himself forward. He's a great sitter. He is not crawling yet but he is pushing himself around backwards on his belly and rolling all over the place. Walker's favorite things are: Savannah, eating, bottles, Mama, Daddy, Caddo and Cadence, anything he can chew on (preferably fabric which then turns in to feeling like a dog chew toy which is so gross but whatever my baby loves, right?) He likes banging toys on tables and on his belly, laughing the whole time. He likes to be tickled and has this little laugh that is so relaxed, like he's never gonna get out of breath or tired of laughing. Walker loves to bounce and jump in his jumparoo and he loves his Gloworm that he had in the NICU. He has been on only Soy formula for the past 3 1/2 weeks and I've been freezing breastmilk and not giving him the regular formula. With the tummy virus he had a month ago, we could not shake the loose poops. It was like a blowout every time he ate and Birc and I just could not keep up with the laundry, plus we mainly didn't want him feeling badly. He feels a ton better, and this week we plan to reintroduce breastmilk and regular formula so we can get off the soy again. We even omitted oatmeal and fruit/veggies for a week or two. He is back to eating oatmeal mixed with water and baby food. He seems to like the oatmeal with his food better than eating plain baby food. He's had apples, bananas (they're a NO) apricots, pears, raspberries, peaches, green beans, asparagus (it was a NO), green peas (they came out a little to recognizable for me), sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, cherries, and he's even tried a few bites of our rolls at dinner and some green beans. Walker also loves those MumMum crackers but is not a fan of puffs yet.