Family Fun Fourth

Well....actually it was a family, fun, fourth after the fourth. Frank and I scooped up Cash and headed to Atlanta to visit my brother and sis-in-law for the weekend. My sister and bestie; Nicole, met us there. We had such a good weekend being all together. We don't see my brother and his wife nearly enough. They just moved into a beautiful home. We broke it in for them for sure. We got to my brothers Thursday evening around 6. Cash was pretty ancy from being in the car for five hours. We let him play for a bit while we got settled then gave him his bath/bottle. Nicole and Taylor got there just in time to see him before he went down for the night. We ate a yummy dinner in and just hung out and chatted that night. On Friday; Nicole, Taylor, and I headed to H&M and Ikea! System overload is an understatement. Cash did great, but it it ALOT to go to both those crazy stores in one day. We had never been to an Ikea and wanted to check it out. It was more like a museum than a store! That place is for sure an all day event. The guys played golf while we shopped; and unfortuntely, Christina had to work. Everyone wanted to go to dinner, but we weren't too sure how Cash would do after shopping all day. We came home and gave him his evening bath and decided to brave keeping him up WAY passed his bedtime! He luckily did great. We kept him entertained by feeding him extra and he eventually fell asleep in his careat around 9. When we got home, Frank lifted him up out of the carseat hoping to just change his clothes and put him down for the night without waking him too much! That is NOT how things went down! Frank wasn't upstairs five minutes when I heard.."BRITTNEY, can you please come up here?" I headed up to see what he needed and he was standing in the bedroom holding screaming Cash with one hand and yelling that he had poop on him and on the bed! I took Cash to the bathroom and tried to see if I could clean him, but it was EVERYWHERE! He was mad as fire too! He was swinging his hands everywhere. He put his hand right in the poop...then.....straight to his mouth!!!! YIKES!!! I had no choice but to get in the shower with him. Poor boy must have thought he was having a nightmare! I cleaned him as quickly as I could and dressed him. As soon as I put him to bed he was out. Frank and I started to clean the mess up. I went downstairs to ask for some cleaning products and tell everyone what happened. Frank followed. We were standing on the stairs talking to everyone and I noticed POOP ON THE STAIRS!!! Gross! It was everywhere. Frank had to retrace his steps to make sure he got everything while I took the carseat apart (once again!) to be washed. We seriously have the poopiest child in the WORLD! We can't go anywhere! We felt like the Clampets destroying my brother's beautiful/child-free home! Ha!

Can't wait for these two to have a babe!

she told me I had long nose hairs!

The ladies

LOVE it!

Early morning hanging with the family!

Uncle Ben was showing Cash how to play with his new toy!

Can't wait to meet baby boy Cole

She seriously looked like the princess in Aladin..and she loved her some baby Cash..love how she is fixing his shirt like a little momma

The next day we all went to my brother's friends neighborhood pool. It had a HUGE curly waterslide all of us adults had a blast going down. Cash LOVED being in the pool and being passed around all day! He was the life of the party. We couldn't have had a better day. He was out like a light that night and slept until 8:30 Sunday! Christina cooked us a delicious breakfast and we headed home. Taylor came with us and will stay for the week. It is so nice having her here. I wish so badly that we lived closer. We miss all of our family so much. These next two days kind of stink because I have to work so I can't spend much time with Tay. She gets all the time she can get with Cash though because she is keeping him while I sleep after my shifts. What a great Aunt she is!

We will get to have some fun starting Wednesday. Then Friday, Leandra will get in town for Cash's baby dedication at church. We are going to have so much fun all together! Even though we are far from eachother, we are blessed that all our family loves Cash (and us) enought to come visit regularly.

Cash is doing great and so close to crawling! He is such a nosey rosey! He is always grabbing everything and anything he can get his hands on! We just love that happy little fellar!

Baby Mine..7 months!

I cannot believe that I am actually going to finish Cash's 7 month post before he is 8 months. I am slowly improving. I decided the other day to look back on this blog because I couldn't remember how long I have had it. I was shocked when I saw that I started it last June. Ha! I sure don't blog very much considering I think I have twenty posts in a year. It is just hard for me to sit down and do it. I wish I would because I do enjoy looking back on just a year ago. I know in twenty I will cherish this thing; but I have life to live. It sometimes goes by too fast to sit at the computer typing about it. I want to live it and be in it. So what if my blog posts are few and far between. I will try to remember all the really fun things, and post those. Some memories will just have to reside in my ole trusty noggin'. Here is to hoping I can remember what I don't write down.

So, seven months came and has gone just like the rest of them! Time just won't stop no matter how much I beg. Your Grammie and Pawpaw Marvin were here visiting you right before you turned 7 months. You were spoiled with tons of family the months of May and June. Now it is just us again! You don't like not having someone to hold you all the time, but are doing better. We had fun with your Grammie and Pawpaw. We spent Father's Day together on a boat tour around Charleston. We went to the beach and ate at yummy restaurants downtown. You were a good boy the entire time too.

You just FINALLY have gotten over a cold/cough/runny nose that I think has made you a tad fussy the past few weeks. You never ran a fever, but I could tell you didn't feel well some days because you would be a little more clingy at times. Last Wednesday, mommy noticed you would let out a little cry everytime I put your shorts on after changing you. Then, after changing you at one point, you started crying out of no where, and it seemed like your left leg was really hurting. You just held it in a floppy position and wouldn't put any weight on it. I was pretty worried because we had to get an ultrasound of that hip when you were a newborn because the doctors thought you may have had some hip displasia. The ultrasound was negative, but I was still worried. I decided to put you down for your afternoon nap and see what you were like when you woke up. I called and made an appontment ayway because I really did think we needed an xray (at least for my sanity). When you woke up, you were still acting like it was hurting so we went in. They thought because you have had the cold, but otherwise seem so healthy/happy; it is this virus called toxic synovitus. Of course something mommy has never heard of! It is actually a common thing that happens more to boys than girls. It is where fluid builds up behind the hip joint usually following a cold. It makes it sore and stiff. The only treatment is Motrin and rest. The doctor said it should go aways in 7-9 days. We went ahead and got the xrays. Luckily, they were negative. Mommy even looked at them herself at work the next night. It was so weird to see your little bones on the screen. We are still kind of worried because you will randomly cry out during a diaper change. Yesterday morning, before church, you acted like it was really bothering you. I guess it comes and goes and we will just continue the Motrin and watch it. I sure hope it is nothing else. We hate seeing you hurting.  

Otherwise, you are happy as a clam! We feel like you are finally feeling better this weekend. You were our happy/playful boy again.

What You Are Up To at Seven Months

• Weighing in at 20.6!!! Big boy!
• Still loving to eat..every four hour nursing plus extra bottles sometimes. You take 8 ounces when you are at the sitter and a 10 ounce bottle at night.
• Drinking out of a sippy cup pretty well. You sometimes want your bottle instead if you aren't feeling well.
• Mommy gives you Coconut water as your juice. It has nothing in it except coconut water/mango puree and peach puree. You and mommy both love it.
• You still have NO TEETH! You chew on EVERYTHING and drool, drool. Who knows! I like no teeffies so I am ok with that.
• You are a rolling and reaching machine. You are trying to crawl. You have gotten the stance down. Knees in and arms in pushup position so it is coming.
• You prefer to sit instead of be on your tummy. You will get mad when you fall over and end up on your tummy. Hopfully that will change once you learn to crawl. For now, mommy and daddy just sit with you to play. Whenever you topple over and get mad we are there to sit you back up! Ha!
• You are still eating us out of house and home! Mommy can't keep up with making your food! Ha! You usually take 4 cubes for lunch of veggies and meat and 4 cubes plus rice for breakfast and dinner. You love puffs and mum mums as your snacks too!
• Poop, poop and more poop
• Skin rashes are much better. You will get a diaper rash if too many disposable wipes have been used on you, but otherwise are good to go!
• You are starting to "talk" again. You were not making much noise for a while, but have now started back up! We love it! You get so loud sometimes!
• Your hair came back!! It is growing fast now! It is a blonde/dark blonde. Fuzzy little noggin!
• You love your bath. You have so many toys in there. We put you on your tummy then flip you to your back to wash you. You don't care as long as you have a toy to play with.
• You are starting to have to learn the word NO. You like to grab hair/faces/earrings. You are super strong so we have to tell you No when you are hurting us.
• You grab EVERYTHING! You think everything is for you!
• You love for us to read to you and to sing you songs. You will just watch us and sit so still.
• We miss Nana and try to skype every Sunday at least.

Too big!

Of course I can't pick just one!

Starting to love your football

That sweet, sweet smile!

beach day with Grammie

Of course you liked watermelon

Father's Day boat ride with my loves!

You are the BEST! We LOVE you to the moon and back "stinky butt boy"

A weekend of NORMAL

My boy..playdate with Miller a few weeks ago

He was mad when Mommy had to go to work

Funny face...the flash made him make the silliest face

Happy July!!!  Things have slowed to a steady pace around here and we feel like we can breathe again. I actually had my first Saturday and Sunday off in forever (maybe since I've been back) yesterday. We enjoyed our half Saturday and Sunday together. We went on a family date to lunch Saturday at this cute little restaurant here in Summerville called the Icehouse. Then we went and walked around Target and World Market. Cash took a little nap in his carrier while we looked at all the goodies we wish we could buy. We did get some fun things. Frank always likes to try different beers from World Market; and he loves collecting different beer glasses. I got an umbrella to put up in the backyard when Cash is playing. I was looking for a little kiddie pool too, but didn't find one. It is funny how we ended up spending $200 between lunch and the two places. Oops! That is why it is bad news to go to Target. We had fun though, and got a couple things we needed. Sunday we went to church for the SECOND week in a row! SCORE! Cash went to the nursery. The couple that works in there seems to really like him. They are super nice and we trust them. We are so lucky he does well with new faces. He is just a little friendly feller. They were shocked at how much he eats. I told them last week if he gets fussy he had food pouches in his bag. They said they gave him one and he got mad, so they gave him the second. What a piggie we have on our hands! Love it. It is nice to go into church and really get to hear the message because I don't have to worry about if he is ok. I know he is with them.

Sunday evening I got a girls night out to see Magic MIKE!!! Ha! Church in the AM, raunchy movie in the PM! Weird! The movie was actually pretty awful. Acting/storyline was bad, the actress that played Channing Tatum's love interest was awful! I didn't expect it to be Oscar worthy, but it was pretty bad. I think they could have for sure found a prettier/better actress for the female part. She seriously looked like her mouth was hurting from dental surgery most of the movie! Ha! Maybe they didn't want to put a really pretty actress in that role becuase they want all of us suckers to think we still have a chance with Channing. The stripper scenes were hilarious and Magic Mike sure has some dance moves that are pretty awesome sauce! Also, this goes without saying....Mathew, oh Mathew!!! You are a God! Ha! The company was good, and us girls had alot of fun being silly. It was good for me and my momma friend Anna to get out for a night. I missed my boys though. I came home and told Frank all about how bad it was and showed him some of the moves (not like that..in a "I have no rhythm/silly/fully clothed kind of way")

So, all in all it was wonderfully fun/relaxed weekend spent mostly just being a family. Just us. It was super nice. Today, I sent Cash off to Ines house even though I am not working so I could sleep in/workout/clean/and pack for our trip Thursday to Atlanta. We are super excited to be going to visit my brother and sis-in-law in there new house. Even more great is that my bestie and her baby belly and sister will be there. Sister Tay will be heading back to Charleston with us to spend the week! YIPPEE!! Then...Aunt Lee will be here next Friday for Cash's baby dedication at church! Super YIPPEE!!! We have a fun filled few weeks ahead. Can't wait!