Our July!

Why is July going by so quickly??? Only 2 more weeks left off of my 12 week maternity leave. That's really hard to believe...which means that my newest addition, baby Cole is 10 weeks old this week...it has truly been such an incredible few weeks! At his 2 month old check up, he was only measuring in the 8th percentile, so although we truly believe he will be just fine, the doctors are still watching the little man! I am just overly cautious and I know they are too! A few things happening in July...well first we decided to add onto the house, so we have a gigantic mudpit in our backyard! We are building a beautiful carpport/storage room and covered patio and its so exciting. Problem is, it rains nearly everyday so they haven't been able to pour the concrete, which means hugh moshpit of mud right out the back door...but I know it will all be worth it in the end. Parker man is taking after his daddy more and more each day and fights me tooth and nail to be outside...he wants to be doing something outside whether its playing in the mud in his John Deere, mowing like daddy with his plastic push mower or whatever he can find. I guess he also managed to find the fireants...he had to get a shot, antibiotic and some 40$ cream to cure these bites, don't they look horrible, poor little man...I also turned 28 on the 16th and after a few tries of getting everyone together, we finally managed to make it to Painting with a Twist! This was my first time to do it and it was such a blast, I think we are all planning/hoping to go back soon! I guess that's it for now! Don't forget to buy your ticket to the Baron's Ball for the American Cancer Society on August 21st at Fox Creek Farms! check it out at baronsballshreveport.org!

Almost 2 months old!

Wow, it's hard to believe that Cole man will be 8 weeks old on Monday! It's been quite an adventure. I don't get much sleep at night so I try to sleep during the day...I decided to take 12 weeks off from work so now I won't be going back until mid-August. Since our last post, we have had such a great time-we went to Baton Rouge to show baby Cole off to my family, then left the kids with my mom and went to New Orleans to have a mommy and daddy night in the French Quarter. We got to stay at the beautiful Hotel Monteleone and we had a blast! We ate lunch at Cafe Maspero, dinner at Deanie's, and went to at least every bar on Bourbon Street starting at 9am Saturday morning. We saw somethings I won't share here, and drank a little more than we probably should have but it was just what the doctor ordered! Here are a few pics of us from NOLA!

We also had some family pictures taken a few weeks ago by Nicole Spikes to document baby Cole's first few weeks of life! If you want to see a preview, they are available on her blog at nicolespikesphotography.com....she did an incredible job with a cranky baby...they turned our so good and I just placed my order today so I am eagerly anticipating their arrival!

We finally got Cole's stomach issues in check...after formula change number 3 from Similac, to Soy to Enfamil Gentlease, which Parker was also on, its like we have a new baby. He still gets uncomfortable everynow and then but for 6 weeks, he would go for an entire week without pooping! Can you imagine the pain in that! I sure can't :)

And last but not least, the fourth of July! We didn't do much over the weekend last weekend but we did go next door to the in laws and BBQ and pop fireworks! Here are a few pics from that!