Last Day of Summer Session

While my program continues through Friday, Savannah and Walker's program ended Tuesday. We celebrated with pictures and a trip to get a donut on the way to school! The whole time at Shipley, Walker was like, "where. is. my. donut." with a very pitiful face. 

I absolutely could not get Walker to look at me and smile, he was too thrilled with his sister sitting beside him laughing.  

They really love each other!!

Our Weekend

We had a pretty good weekend and got quite a bit done around the house that we'd been putting off. We got the garage cleaned out, returned some long-ago purchases that we kept meaning to return, about a thousand loads of laundry washed and put away, (Isn't that the hardest part?!) and spent lots of good quality time with Nana and Gran and some church friends. Birc and even squeezed a dinner date in on Friday night! Woohoo!

However. It wasn't all roses and sunshine. We had some seriously cranky and crazy kids on Sunday. Y'all it was insane, at least one was always crying. 

(That's food-not blood-on his face)

We managed to end on a happy note. Praise The Lord. 

I also hung up some ribbon in Savannah's room for her extreme artwork collection from school. They do art apparently 80 times daily I think because we get SO much sent home. Anyway our fridge and little message board are completely full so I hung this so she can be proud of what she's done and I don't have to feel bad when it ends up in the trash after falling off the fridge 22 times after dinner. :) win-win. 

My only other comment for the day is that I have noticed in my postings that I have a lot more pictures of Walker right now. 2 reasons: Walker is at the perfectly adorable stage where he isn't running full-speed everywhere and he LOVES to cheese for my camera, and also Savannah is just so so funny right now so I take a lot of videos of her which I cannot post on here. 

Happy Tuesday!

Pictures to Share

Just pictures I've been enjoying and want you to too!

Weekend Excitement

We had an extremely exciting and eventful weekend in our house! 

1. Savannah is potty trained! (Still working out some kinks but she hasn't worn a diaper since last Wednesday and had very few accidents!) 

2. Walker is pulling up and standing alone (who needs crawling anyway?)

3. Walker said Mama. Praise The Lord I am so happy to hear him say my name! And he totally says it to me and about me. I love it!

4. We went to our go-to consignment sale in Searcy and got TONs of great deals for the fall/winter. 

5. We went to a wedding and had a great time!

That all made for a very full weekend, not even mentioning all of our normal weekend stuff. Hope y'all had a great one too!

Walker at 10 Months

Seriously I have never met a happier baby than Walker. He is so happy and loves to laugh and smile and giggle at everything. At 10 months (where is time going?!?) he is just almost into everything. (He's consumed 2 straw wrappers, half a napkin, and choked on a tag from a teddy bear-y'all he puts everything in his mouth-I have to stay on my toes) He is scooting and pushing himself around and even pulling up on everything. He's still not too motivated to crawl but he might. We will see! He's eating about 30-35 oz of soy formula every day and eating 2 jars of baby food and 1 baby yogurt, along with puffs and yogurt melts and other small table food items we give him to try. He's not really great at eating solid things still, he gags on a lot of stuff and has actually thrown up a few times in order to get a puff or something out of his mouth. It's odd but hopefully he gets the hang of it soon. Walker is great at baby food and yogurt but the things he has to chew he struggles with. 

He weighs in at a whopping 22.7 pounds and is 27 inches long with a head measuring 19.5. He's actually on the growth chart as of now which we are over the moon about!! He's clearly up in weight a bit and his head is huge but at least his length is moving in the right direction. He's wearing size 4 diapers, and 12 and 18 month clothes. His torso is just so long than nothing buttons otherwise!

Walker loves to play with Savannah and he loves to babble with her. He can say dada, byebye, baba (for bottle), hot, lala, and some other random sounds. He definitely associates baba for bottle and dada for Birc (he actually calls me that too sometimes) but I'm waiting to hear a "mama"!! When I say, 'Walker, say mama!' He just grins and giggles before he gives me a big hug. I'll take it for now ;). He is a big hugger, laying his head on shoulders and grabbing around necks. It is so sweet. 

Right now his schedule is waking up around 8 and napping once around noon for 2 hours or more and then another catnap around 4:00 for under an hour. He goes to bed around 8:15 and wakes up once to eat around 4:30 which we are currently trying to get him to stop doing. (Which is SO hard btw). If we have to wake him up earlier than 8 then he takes a little morning catnap too. I would call him overall an excellent sleeper, I feel very lucky and thankful. 

Now for pictures of my sweet baby boy!!